4 - The Dark Side of Academy City

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    Getting Last Order back and demolishing
    that Kihara bastard was fine and all,
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    but now I've ended up involved
    in an organization called GROUP.
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    We take on the riffraff that lurks
    in the dark corners of Academy City.
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    Damn, what a hassle.
    What do I care about orders?
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    I'm going to do things however I want to.
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    "A Certain Magical Index III"
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    "#04 The Dark Side of Academy City"
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    Come on in!
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    Lately, most of my orders
    have come in via the net or email,
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    "Janitorial"
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    so I don't get too many customers
    like you who come in person.
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    Right now, lock picking
    sensor blockers are your best deal.
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    Yeah, these things spell
    trouble for money launderers.
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    So, what are you in the market for?
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    Sorry, but that's not what I'm here for,
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    Mr. spells-his-name "Temporary Staffing"
    but-pronounces-it "Management."
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    I'm not a customer; I'm a capturer.
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    You bastard!
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    Damn!
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    He's empty.
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    "Solvent thinner"
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    Huh?
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    H-Hold on! Hold on, hold on! I won't resist!
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    D-Damn you... I said I wouldn't resist...
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    I've got a retrieval.
    Contact the subsidiary organization.
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    No, no ambulance; a transport van will do.
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    Now, where's Accelerator?
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    Not there?
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    Tch, oh well.
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    I'll send Unabara to Management's base.
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    Musujime, you keep providing backup.
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    Copy.
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    Jeez, where is our newest member
    off goofing around?
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    Back from Avignon already?
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    Tch, where the hell did you
    manage to hear about that?
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    This is a fine how-do-you-do.
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    I want some information.
    The schematics for my electrode.
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    If your choker isn't working right,
    do you want me to fix it?
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    I have no intention of letting anyone else
    hold the on-off switch to my lifeline.
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    Neither the higher-ups nor you.
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    I see.
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    Well, aren't you prepared?
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    Having what my patients need ready is my job.
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    By the way, Last Order was hoping to see you.
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    I wish you could have
    shown up a little sooner.
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    "It seems like we're going the wrong way,"
    Misaka Misaka protests.
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    No, this is correct.
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    "I'd like to go to the
    School District 6 amusement park,"
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    says Misaka Misaka,
    once again expressing her fond wish.
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    And I'm paying no attention to you
    repeating yourself and taking you home.
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    I'm under orders from your doctor.
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    Ah, damn...
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    Oh, it's you? Sorry, I screwed up.
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    Could you cut through
    these handcuffs for me, too?
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    I have to wonder, what kind of job
    assistance did Management provide?
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    A few dozen hours ago, he set up
    some kind of criminal organization.
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    One to make up for a lack of manpower.
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    One that deliberately paid money
    for ready muscle from the outside.
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    They're definitely going
    to create a scene sometime soon.
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    It's our job to look into them
    and put a stop to them first.
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    Since when did GROUP become
    heroes of justice? Hmm...?
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    Listen, collect any bit of data
    that might give us any leads.
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    Copy that.
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    Okay, what do I do now?
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    I wish people would take care
    of their own jobs by themselves.
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    So this is the place where
    that idiot Unabara went missing?
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    Look at this.
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    This is Aztec magic.
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    Huh?
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    Unabara has a special technique
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    that allows him to change into
    other people using human skin.
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    I don't know anything about that,
    but you're saying he's this guy now?
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    Yeah. He's probably blended in with the guys
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    who attacked this place to destroy
    any leads, waiting for the right moment.
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    Found something. Call it a gift from Unabara.
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    As I remember, Japanese yen
    issued by Academy City's mint
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    have IC chips embedded in them.
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    There it is.
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    It looks like a list of wares from
    Management. He traded them to...
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    ...a professional sniper.
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    His name is Sunazara Chimitsu.
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    Uh-oh. This data is a
    contract for a shooting.
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    The location is School District 7
    at an open-air concert venue.
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    The target is...
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    Huh? What's wrong?
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    The target is Oyafune Monaka,
    member of the governing board.
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    This says the topic of her speech
    is voting rights for the students
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    who make up 80 percent
    of the city's population.
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    Oh, this isn't good.
    The speech is about to begin.
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    Musujime, Move Point time.
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    Huh?
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    Hold on, we don't even know
    where the sniper's nest is--
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    Hmph, you're putting me to sleep!
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    What was that?!
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    An explosion!
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    Get out of here!
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    Heh-heh, breaking up the speech
    with one of those is all it takes. Right?
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    You're pulling out.
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    Not yet. The job isn't over.
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    You're pulling out.
    Don't make me repeat myself, Sunazara.
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    Ugh, that was uneventful. Is it over already?
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    I found out the name of
    the group that hired Sunazara.
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    SCHOOL. They're probably a
    small-scale informal outfit, much like us.
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    An organization lurking in
    the underworld of Academy City.
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    SCHOOL?
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    There's more, too.
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    Huh?
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    I'm not sure yet how they
    figure into this case,
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    but while investigating, several other
    similar organization names came up.
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    MEMBER, BLOCK,
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    as well as ITEM.
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    Huh?
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    Today's salmon lunch tastes different
    from yesterday's salmon lunch.
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    Huh?
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    All told, I'm getting
    tired of canned mackerel.
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    Curry though--curry is the best!
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    "Hong Kong Red Dragon Movie Co."
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    The ultra-troubled C-grade
    movie being put out
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    by the Hong Kong Red Dragon
    Movie Company... ultra-has my attention.
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    Takitsubo, what do you think about it?
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    Incoming signal from the south-southwest.
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    So, there was that incident this
    afternoon where Oyafune Monaka,
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    member of the governing board,
    was shot at, right?
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    Not even a single thank-you?
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    Hamazura, forward the details
    of the incident to everyone's cell.
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    Okay, okay.
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    N-No! Wait! Let me re-send it!
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    That was some kind of mistake!
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    --Let's see, now...
    --Hamazura...
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    All told, Hamazura, you're just disgusting.
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    So in Hamazura's world,
    bunny girls are an ultra-hit?
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    It's all right, Hamazura. If that's how
    you are, I'm behind you all the way.
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    Oh, this is that thing that
    SCHOOL bunch was ultra-planning.
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    But I seem to remember getting rid
    of the sniper in their outfit three days ago.
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    They probably hired a new one.
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    Well, I guess that just means
    they ignored our little "warning."
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    Oyafune is a member of the governing board,
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    but all told, she isn't good for much.
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    She has hardly any influence,
    so she's not even worth killing.
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    And yet...
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    SCHOOL still carried out the operation.
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    The question is, why?
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    Go ahead, Hamazura!
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    Huh?! Oh, uh, let's see...
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    Just a moment. It's right on the tip
    of my tongue. I'll have it in a second!
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    Yeah, Hamazura...
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    All told, the way you
    get flustered is just gross.
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    "Gross" comes in so ultra-many types, though.
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    In Hamazura's case,
    it's the worst kind of gross.
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    It's all right, Hamazura.
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    I'm behind you all the way,
    after being called "gross" so many times.
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    Damn it! I was a leader
    of over 100 men in Skill Out!
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    Uh-huh. So what?
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    Hamazura, get the check.
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    Huh? Hey, where are you going?
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    To go kill off all of the scumbags in SCHOOL.
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    After a VIP assassination,
    or even a near assassination,
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    what do you think will happen?
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    Outside personnel are called in
    to cover the treatment facilities,
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    and all the specialized
    researchers and materials,
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    and whatever else they
    need are all rounded up.
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    Oh, yeah. It throws the
    security arrangements into upheaval.
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    That's what SCHOOL is after.
    They're using the chaos to pull something.
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    Oyafune was chosen as a
    low-security VIP.
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    That's the answer.
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    The only place that got thrown into
    disarray over the Oyafune commotion
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    is the particle engineering laboratory.
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    Meaning that SCHOOL
    is going to show up there.
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    Whoa...
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    Mugino really is awesome.
    She's always the full-blast Level 5.
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    Hamazura?
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    Huh? It is you, Hamazura!
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    I'd heard you got taken into custody.
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    Wh-What are you doing here, you old bag?!
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    I could ask you the same question.
    I must be mistaken,
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    because you wouldn't be
    mixed up in that, right?
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    So, tell me about this truck. Is it stolen?
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    I-I bought it on a loan! A loan!
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    And a license?
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    Yeah, I have one!
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    Hey, watch it!
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    That car was...
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    Hamazura!
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    Don't just stand there
    striking out with her, start driving!
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    I-I wasn't flirting!
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    We're going after that wagon! Hurry!
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    Hey! What's going on here?!
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    Jeez, I'm getting it from all sides.
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    Hamazura, speed up!
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    Damn it!
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    What happened to Kinuhata and Frenda?
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    It will take more than that to kill them.
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    How did things end up like this?
    You're ranked fourth, right?
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    They had a Level 5, too.
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    Kakine Teitoku--
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    Academy City's number-two son of a bitch.
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    Hmph. Still, I got my licks in, too.
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    What's that?! Huh?!
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    Be that as it may, if they get away
    with the truck's cargo, we lose.
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    We can't afford to let them escape.
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    It's all right. My AIM Stalker
    will carefully track the bearer
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    of any AIM diffusion field,
    once I've got it logged.
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    Even if they were to go
    outside of the solar system,
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    I can still search and
    acquire them at any time.
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    Damn it!
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    Takitsubo!
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    Tch, split up!
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    We're not going to fight?
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    The cargo is what I'm after.
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    Besides,
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    that woman's power is damn pesky.
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    Damn it!
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    You're after me?!
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    Take that!
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    Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!
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    Yikes!
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    H-Here's to the losers!
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    Are you hungry?
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    U-Um...
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    I'm a heroine that swoops
    down out of the sky!
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    This area is dangerous.
    Please get away from here at once!
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    Ow...
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    I've lost sight of the target.
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    Do you think it's possible that
    the man could have disguised himself
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    as either a young mother or a baby?
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    Die, you idiot.
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    Laying all of the groundwork was a real pain,
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    but I have the nanoparticle object
    interference adsorption manipulator,
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    better known as the tweezers.
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    The breakthrough that
    will get me to Aleister.
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    Kakine...!
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    Someone is cracking the 5th School
    District Computer Virus Archive Center.
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    In addition to storing unanalyzed viruses,
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    the facility also houses
    multiple experimental viruses
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    deliberately created by
    Academy City's research institutes.
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    If they get to the outside,
    their infrastructure will collapse.
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    You know, there'll be a huge panic.
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    Just how far outside might that "outside" be?
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    Ha, they say that Academy City's
    security's safeguarding priorities
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    are more directed "inside-outward"
    than "outside-inward," don't they?
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    If true, they must be equipped for this.
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    An externally-connected terminal?
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    Commencing emergency shutdown
    of externally-connected terminals.
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    3rd School District north terminal shut down.
[20:14] ---
    2nd School District south terminal shut down.
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    What is it?
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    The 13th School District's
    west terminal isn't responding.
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    I can't confirm shutdown.
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    Ha-ha, yet another transparent scheme.
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    More than likely,
    they're trying to lure us there.
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    I don't know who they are, but it
    sounds like they want to get scrapped.
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    What do we do about
    Oyafune Monaka's attempted assassination?
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    We'll come back to that.
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    Then, what about Mr. Unabara?
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    I was never planning
    to rescue him in the first place.
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    This is Unabara.
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    Where are you off goofing around?
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    SCHOOL?
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    No, BLOCK.
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    As I'm sure you're aware,
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    the hacking from the
    externally-connected terminal
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    is a decoy--a diversion.
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    What they're really after
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    is the aerospace engineering
    research institute's
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    auxiliary satellite control center.
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    I'll let you deal with that. Goodbye.
[21:17] ---
    He says it's the satellite control center.
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    Makes sense. I can see it happening.
[21:22] ---
    The satellite Hikoboshi II is equipped
    with a high-caliber surface-attack laser.
[21:28] ---
    That being said, we can't just
    disregard the virus leak, either--
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    Playing along with those scumbags'
    decoy goes against my nature.
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    Wh-Who are you?
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    The satellite control center.
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    R-Right.
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    "Preview"
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    Those struggling to escape control.
[23:28] ---
    Those who voluntarily
    leap into the framework.
[23:30] ---
    Their motives cross, provoking a new battle.
[23:34] ---
    Next time, "Dark Matter"
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    When science and magic cross paths,
    the story begins.
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