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40 - Rosary of the Appointed Time

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    "A Certain Magical Index II"
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    I gazed at the coin I had flipped
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    If it's heads I go, tails I stay
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    Let me know your answer first
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    "Please, won't you tell me?"
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    But the angel continued
    to smile in discernment

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    Wander on! There's nobody
    to lead you by the hand

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    The answer handed down
    from God is one of woe

[01:32] ---
    Yes, that is what your gift from God is
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    Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
    (Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)

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    No buts!
[02:01] ---
    Come forth,
    one of the 12 Apostles--
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    Look out!
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    Sister Angelene!
[02:15] ---
    Sister Angelene!
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    Sheesh...
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    Don't go showing the depths
    of your heart to be so worthless!
[02:25] ---
    Here, use this.
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    What is it?
[02:29] ---
    It's a getaway dive boat.
[02:31] ---
    It beats being right in the
    middle of enemy territory, right?
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    Sister Lucia...
    your hand is trembling...
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    Well of course it is.
[02:43] ---
    Oh, no... There's no way
    I'm going to die here...
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    We're all going
    back together, right...?
[02:50] ---
    With Sister Agnese... and
    the people over there fighting...
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    We're all together,
    in the true sense...
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    And so, I will not die...
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    So please...
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    ...will you fight together with
    them, to protect everyone...?
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    Say something to her, Lucia.
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    If I can be of help,
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    I'll smash any number of these
    damned two-bit illusions for you.
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    So go ahead and tell
    her whatever will assure her
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    that she ought
    to have been here!
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    Whatever will make her believe
    that it was worth gritting her teeth!
[03:36] ---
    Right.
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    I swear,
    I will protect the others.
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    So please,
    you fight with yourself.
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    "A Certain Magical Index II"
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    #16 Rosary of the Appointed Time
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    They still haven't sunk them yet?
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    For Heaven's sake,
    we can reduce a whole city to rubble,
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    and they're giving
    us this much trouble?
[04:10] ---
    Hmph, that face...
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    I can't take it. After everything
    that's happened,
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    you still have the impudent look
    of one who is expecting another.
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    What did you
    say I was relying on?!
[04:21] ---
    Ha. I'm about
    to shatter your hopes.
[04:26] ---
    There's no need for
    spare parts to have feelings.
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    Go!
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    No matter what happens,
    bring that girl back here!
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    Let's go, Index and Orsola!
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    There does not seem
    to be anyone here.
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    This ship is probably the
    magical centralized control
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    for all of the other ships.
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    Is that why the other
    Sisters aren't pursuing us?
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    Hold on a minute.
    I'm going to try to unlock it.
[05:01] ---
    I'm starting to feel like thinking
    about everything is becoming a pain!
[05:08] ---
    What is this?
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    It's constructed in blocks.
    Maybe, unlike the escort craft,
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    it's possible that the whole
    ship has magical significance.
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    Those suits of
    armor from before.
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    Damn!
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    Inside!
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    Huh? H-Hey, hold on!
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    You two go on ahead!
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    Toma!
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    Sister Angelene, are you okay?
[05:43] ---
    Yes, I am all right.
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    Now, how do I get past them?
[05:50] ---
    Sheesh!
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    How petty!
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    Don't go messing
    around with the wounded.
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    Damn, a dead end?!
[06:09] ---
    What is this place?
[06:13] ---
    Whoa, here they come again!
[06:23] ---
    Is that all of them?
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    I have gotten through!
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    Orsola?
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    Toma, is it true that
    one of the conditions
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    to activate the Queen of the
    Adriatic Sea is that another spell,
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    called the Rosary of the
    Appointed Time, is required?
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    That's what they said.
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    There isn't a single description in
    any of my 103,000 volumes
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    that says it's necessary.
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    Then, just what
    kind of spell is it?
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    I think it's the
    name of an operation
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    used only within the
    Roman Orthodox Church.
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    That right hand of yours...
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    Ha, are you jealous of it?
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    It is unacceptable.
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    It rejects the Lord's blessings.
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    And even more than its nature,
    the way you brandish it like a weapon
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    is beyond the pale.
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    If you have even
    once heard the good word,
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    you would make the
    effort to receive His blessings,
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    even if it meant tearing off
    that arm forthwith,
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    but then, I guess my words will
    not get through to a heathen monkey.
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    In which case, I, Biagio Buzoni,
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    will bring the final word
    to this enemy of the Lord.
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    You're Biagio, are you? Then you
    know where Agnese is, don't you?
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    Knowing and telling you are
    two completely different things.
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    The cross demonstrates
    the denial of the evil nature.
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    Oof...
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    Abolishing outward enemies, and
    creating an inner safe zone,
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    is the purpose
    held by the cross.
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    Kind of like this.
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    On the other hand,
    it is the nature of the cross,
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    via the weight thereof,
    that corrects one's haughtiness.
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    Once again, kind of like this.
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    What is this place?
[08:40] ---
    Hey, now, stop
    destroying things so much.
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    It affects the degree of
    completion on the other end.
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    The other end?
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    The Rosary of
    the Appointed Time.
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    At this point, you can't tell
    me you don't know about it.
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    In any case, once I crush you
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    and pull Agnese
    out of here, it's all over.
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    Demonstrating the will to
    defy the intentions of the Lord
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    are words of evil. And my
    crosses deny your evil nature!
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    Damn it all!
[09:12] ---
    Do you really think
    you have the authority
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    to do anything to Venice?
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    That is not what I am after.
[09:20] ---
    What was that?
[09:21] ---
    It is far more interesting than
    whatever you are thinking, at least.
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    To the church of the cross, what do
    you think is the most important,
[09:30] ---
    oldest application there is?
[09:33] ---
    Huh?
[09:35] ---
    The instrument of execution.
[09:38] ---
    Simon bears the
    cross of the Son of God.
[09:43] ---
    What the...?
[09:45] ---
    The cross demonstrates
    the denial of the evil nature.
[10:00] ---
    What is this?
[10:02] ---
    There is a defensive
    spell set up here.
[10:11] ---
    CAH.
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    You go find Agnese.
[10:16] ---
    I'll lead them away from here!
[10:18] ---
    Miss Index!
[10:33] ---
    Orsola Aquinas?
[10:35] ---
    Thank goodness you are all right.
[10:37] ---
    But why?!
[10:38] ---
    You wanted so badly to get away
    from the Queen's Fleet, didn't you?!
[10:42] ---
    You know all about what the
    current situation is, don't you?!
[10:47] ---
    Once we did find out, no one
    said that they wanted to run away.
[10:52] ---
    They refused
    to leave you behind,
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    when you held your tongue to
    allow them to be rescued.
[10:58] ---
    It's not right.
[10:59] ---
    You remember what I did concerning
    the Book of the Law, right?
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    As badly as they were hurt, how can
    it all be water under the bridge?!
[11:07] ---
    I do not have the answer to that.
[11:10] ---
    However, at the very least,
[11:12] ---
    Sisters Lucia and Angelene
    declared that they wanted to rescue you.
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    No matter how desperate
    a situation they would face,
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    or the countless blades
    that would be thrust their way,
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    when they said that they wanted
    to all smile together once again,
[11:29] ---
    do you still think it is not enough?
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    We cannot have this, Sister Agnese.
[11:38] ---
    Even if you were to die here,
    the project will not be interrupted.
[11:42] ---
    However, finding another suitable
    candidate would be such a nuisance.
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    And I do so hate nuisances.
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    "A Certain Magical Index II"
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    "A Certain Magical Index II"
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    That blood...
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    I did say I hated nuisances, didn't I?
[12:02] ---
    So I crushed one
    of them with all haste.
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    I hope we can avoid that here.
[12:10] ---
    We cannot have you
    being injured so easily, you see.
[12:14] ---
    This large-scale
    anti-Venetian spell of yours--
[12:17] ---
    why make use of it now?
[12:19] ---
    What we are about to perform here
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    is not the use of an attack
    spell against a state.
[12:25] ---
    It is what comes next.
[12:28] ---
    The Queen of the
    Adriatic Sea is a spell
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    created solely
    for use against Venice.
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    However charming the
    power it may boast, it is moot,
[12:36] ---
    so as long as the targeting
    restrictions are in place.
[12:40] ---
    Then why--
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    Yes, you've figured it out.
[12:45] ---
    Freeing the Queen of the
    Adriatic Sea's targeting restrictions--
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    That is what the Rosary
    of the Appointed Time is for.
[12:52] ---
    Are you telling me
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    that you are going to destroy
    a city that you feel is in your way?
[12:58] ---
    The Queen of the
    Adriatic Sea will destroy
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    everything that involves that city!
[13:04] ---
    If we unleashed the same thing
    against a city that controls
[13:08] ---
    a whole world that is hostile to us,
    what do you think will happen?
[13:11] ---
    You don't mean Academy City!
[13:14] ---
    All science and technology
    are influenced by Academy City.
[13:19] ---
    If all of that were destroyed,
    then damnable though it might be,
[13:24] ---
    we could root out the
    side that encompasses
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    half of the world, overnight.
[13:31] ---
    And you think that will bring
    happiness to everyone?
[13:34] ---
    I do not! There are those who
    do harm on the magical side, as well.
[13:39] ---
    However, they may continue.
    In time, the impure will be purged.
[13:43] ---
    You are saying...!
[13:44] ---
    Such is the earnest wish
    of the Roman Orthodox Church.
[13:49] ---
    The cross demonstrates
    the denial of the evil nature!
[13:57] ---
    Ha-ha, give it up, Sister Orsola.
[14:00] ---
    The cross, via the weight thereof,
    corrects one's haughtiness!
[14:08] ---
    Now then, it is a little early,
    but let's begin, Sister Agnese.
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    Rejoice! You will receive the honor
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    of killing the greatest number of enemies
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    in the history of the church of the cross!
[14:22] ---
    Among these... enemies that you speak of,
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    Sister Agnese is included, is she not?
[14:29] ---
    You truly are a member of the
    English Puritan Church now, huh?
[14:33] ---
    That's why you are panicking.
[14:35] ---
    You really do only act according
    to your skepticism, don't you?
[14:40] ---
    You cannot understand
    people acting on their feelings.
[14:44] ---
    No--you can understand it,
    but you cannot believe it.
[14:47] ---
    Please, stand aside.
[14:49] ---
    Whatever you do, you cannot stop Biagio.
[14:53] ---
    As long as you do not resist,
    I'm sure you will make it through alive.
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    There is no way I could do that, you know!
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    It's over, Sister Orsola.
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    Smile, Sister Agnese.
    Watch on as your dream is shattered.
[15:15] ---
    What are you trying to pull?
[15:17] ---
    All things in harmony.
    Fifth of the Five Elements,
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    symbolizing peace
    and order, deploy this crosier!
[15:25] ---
    Sister Agnese! I asked
    you what you're trying to pull!
[15:30] ---
    Ha! It's just as you suspected!
[15:33] ---
    If you believe that
    I still think I'd like to look after
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    Sister Lucia and Sister Angelene,
    then you're mistaken.
[15:42] ---
    When I think about you
    sending those Sisters off to fight
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    with your grimy orders,
    it enrages me!
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    Don't you mouth
    off to me, you sinner!
[15:55] ---
    Simon bears the
    cross of the Son of God!
[16:12] ---
    As I recall, the Son of God...
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    ...did not have enough physical
    strength left to bear the cross.
[16:17] ---
    Instead, Simon carried his cross
    to the hill where he was crucified.
[16:22] ---
    Am I wrong?
[16:24] ---
    You noticed that?
[16:25] ---
    Making someone else shoulder
    the weight of the equipment...
[16:29] ---
    That's what this attack really is!
[16:32] ---
    Most likely, you collected
    the weight of the equipment
[16:34] ---
    of everyone working here,
    and turned it into an attack.
[16:39] ---
    Is that about the size of it?
[16:42] ---
    Your hands are so weak.
[16:44] ---
    If you're going to go against me,
    you'll need more sturdy arms.
[16:48] ---
    Is that right?
[16:51] ---
    Then, will my right hand do?
[16:55] ---
    Why, you... You heathen monkey!
[17:00] ---
    At least check the body, you idiot.
[17:03] ---
    My right hand is not as
    feeble as you seem to think!
[17:11] ---
    Too slow!
[17:15] ---
    I won't fall for that again!
[17:27] ---
    Agnese...
[17:28] ---
    Y-Yes?
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    Thanks.
[17:33] ---
    If you hadn't protected Orsola for me,
[17:35] ---
    I'm sure something terrible
    would have happened.
[17:39] ---
    Aw, geez...
[17:43] ---
    So...
[17:45] ---
    ...what do I have to do to destroy
    the whole Queen of the Adriatic Sea?
[17:49] ---
    Well, he said that this room,
    at least, was irreplaceable.
[17:53] ---
    If you completely demolish
    the function of this place,
[17:55] ---
    they can never again--
[17:58] ---
    Agnese!
[18:05] ---
    Agnese! What's the matter?!
[18:11] ---
    The Rosary of the Appointed Time!
[18:13] ---
    You mean, this is it?!
[18:14] ---
    You are doing something
    to Agnese through that charm!
[18:19] ---
    No, I can't. Not until
    it has been adjusted.
[18:23] ---
    But as far as power goes,
    I already have it right here.
[18:27] ---
    The Roman Orthodox Church
    feared that someone would steal this
[18:30] ---
    and turn it back against them,
    so they took all sorts of measures.
[18:36] ---
    And so, what do you think
    they prepared as a final measure,
[18:40] ---
    in case it were to fall into enemy hands?
[18:43] ---
    A self-destruct?!
[18:57] ---
    This is a large-scale magical device,
[19:01] ---
    supplied hermetically
    by the sinners among the fleet.
[19:06] ---
    Don't go thinking you can stop
    it by breaking the walls or the floor.
[19:11] ---
    Once the spell is activated,
    the explosive force alone
[19:13] ---
    will devastate anything
    within a 10-kilometer radius!
[19:15] ---
    If that happens, there will
    be casualties beyond the lagoon!
[19:19] ---
    Agnese!
[19:23] ---
    Orsola, take Agnese and go on without me.
[19:26] ---
    Take the Amakusa group
    and withdraw from here.
[19:28] ---
    But what about you?
[19:30] ---
    I've got to stop him, right?
[19:32] ---
    I'll be sure to join up with
    you later. So get going, Orsola!
[19:36] ---
    But...!
[19:42] ---
    You make sure.
[19:43] ---
    You make absolutely sure!
[19:49] ---
    Those bastards...
[19:51] ---
    A noble cause that will go down
    in Roman Orthodox history, they said.
[19:55] ---
    I told them, it was too soon for this.
[20:00] ---
    I'm done for now.
[20:02] ---
    Is that why you're dragging
    everyone else down with you?
[20:05] ---
    Ultimately, you're just
    seeking solace, aren't you?
[20:08] ---
    Nobody gets into things this deep
    and doesn't feel a sense of doom.
[20:12] ---
    This is the menace of
    the Roman Orthodox Church.
[20:15] ---
    Anyone would go along with my decision.
[20:19] ---
    This is just the final icing on the cake.
[20:22] ---
    To this end, they can have the Adriatic Sea.
[20:26] ---
    Biagio...!
[20:27] ---
    That's the face! It's that
    tenacity that is our menace!
[20:31] ---
    Which is why I must be
    sure to stamp it out right here!
[20:35] ---
    Such is the final attack that
    I offer the Roman Orthodox Church!
[20:40] ---
    Biagio!
[20:43] ---
    The cross demonstrates
    the denial of the evil nature!
[20:49] ---
    The cross, via the weight thereof,
    corrects one's haughtiness!
[20:55] ---
    The cross demonstrates
    the denial of the evil nature!
[21:02] ---
    Is Sister Agnese by herself
    really that meaningful a reward to you?
[21:07] ---
    There is no longer any place
    around that will welcome her.
[21:11] ---
    Why can't you understand that,
    you heathen monkey?!
[21:16] ---
    Like I could understand that!
[21:18] ---
    You dirty bastard!
[21:19] ---
    The cross demonstrates
    the denial of the evil nature!
[21:22] ---
    Biagio!
[21:26] ---
    Your left hand?!
[21:29] ---
    You're using my attack against me!
[21:39] ---
    I'll fight you.
[21:42] ---
    If you come after
    Agnese and the others again,
[21:46] ---
    then I'll stand against you,
    again and again.
[22:21] ---
    Toma! Toma!
[22:22] ---
    Huh?
[22:23] ---
    Are you coming around?
    The Adriatic Sea isn't that cold, huh?
[22:29] ---
    What are you so happy about?
[22:32] ---
    Don't tell me it's because I didn't
    leave you behind this time.
[22:36] ---
    I-I'm not in that great a mood!
[22:40] ---
    Toma, you have a phone call.
[22:43] ---
    Hey there, come back
    to Academy City at once.
[22:47] ---
    Huh?
[22:48] ---
    Having an outside hospital
    checking over that body of yours
[22:50] ---
    may not be a good idea, you know.
[22:52] ---
    There should be an Academy City-built
[22:54] ---
    supersonic passenger
    plane at the airport there.
[22:57] ---
    I-I haven't even been
    in Italy for a whole day yet--
[22:59] ---
    Oh, yes...
[23:00] ---
    I have a message from
    a girl who asked to see you
[23:03] ---
    that she wanted
    very much for me to pass on.
[23:06] ---
    She said "Make sure
    you're ready for the penalty game
[23:08] ---
    from the Daihasei
    Festival when you get back."
[23:11] ---
    Misaka Mikoto?!
[23:13] ---
    Hey, let me go!
    I don't want to go back!
[23:17] ---
    I see. Good work.
[23:20] ---
    Yeah, you know, if you
    wanted a debriefing report,
[23:23] ---
    At a certain world's center,
[23:23] ---
    you should ask the Amakusa.
[23:25] ---
    I'm not a member of the Amakusa anymore.
[23:25] ---
    I whispered that it was okay to be alone
    

[23:29] ---
    Be that as it may, you once again
    caused Kami a lot of trouble, yeah?
[23:29] ---
    I bent back the hands on the clock
    

[23:31] ---
    and kept my eyes closed
    

[23:34] ---
    You're at the point now
    where even a whole day
[23:36] ---
    waiting on him in a maid outfit
    still wouldn't cover it.
[23:39] ---
    but on that day, you showed me
    

[23:39] ---
    I know! I could lend you the fallen
    angel maid set that I have!
[23:43] ---
    You could go all-out in that!
[23:44] ---
    that that's how it should be
    

[23:45] ---
    H-How far are you going
    to carry this nonsense?!
[23:47] ---
    And do you really own something like that?!
[23:48] ---
    The miracle of you being there as the seasons roll around
    

[23:50] ---
    Huh? Even as someone who is one of
    less than twenty saints in the world,
[23:52] ---
    makes even the broken clock start up again
[23:55] ---
    you still have to be
    ready to meet your fate--
[23:58] ---
    Right now, yeah, I may be
    a helpless piece of junk

[24:04] ---
    but it's funny how I feel
    like I can change that

[24:09] ---
    All because your voice is still here
[24:14] ---
    ...and that's that, Toma.
[24:15] ---
    for me, even now
[24:21] ---
    I-I am home now.
[24:24] ---
    Uh-huh...
[24:25] ---
    As it happens, I picked up some
    extra baggage along the way.
[24:37] ---
    I must say,
    that was a little too hasty.
[24:41] ---
    Who do you think you're talking to?
[24:44] ---
    And you--are you aware of
    with whom you are taking that tone?
[24:49] ---
    The Roman pope, right?
    So what if you are?
[24:53] ---
    If you direct any
    ill will at me, you will die!
[24:57] ---
    The Right Seat of God...
    Not even a pope rattles you, huh?
[25:03] ---
    Look this over and sign it.
[25:05] ---
    Are you giving me an order?
[25:09] ---
    Wait, this document is...
[25:10] ---
    You were thinking of ordering
    it yourself, in time, right?
[25:25] ---
    "Preview"
[25:26] ---
    Academy City calmly enters autumn.
[25:28] ---
    But one promise tears through
    the otherwise peaceful days.
[25:31] ---
    Just what is about to happen?
[25:34] ---
    Next time, "Penalty Game."
[25:35] ---
    When science and magic
    cross paths, the story begins.