# 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.
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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.
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He says it's the satellite control center.
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Makes sense. I can see it happening.
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The satellite *Hikoboshi II* is equipped
with a high-caliber surface-attack laser.
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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.
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Those who voluntarily
leap into the framework.
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Their motives cross, provoking a new battle.
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Next time, "Dark Matter"
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When science and magic cross paths,
the story begins.
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