5 - Dark Matter

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    "A Certain Magical Index III"
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    "#05 Dark Matter"
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    "Jeez,
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    I asked you to let me out here,
    so why won't you let me go?"
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    asks Misaka Misaka, hands on her hips,
    protesting as hard as she can.
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    I have already been paid to take you
    to your destination, so no stopping off.
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    Misaka steals this chance to run away!
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    M-Miss!
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    Excuse me, are you having
    some sort of trouble?
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    Let's see, what was her name again?
[02:15] ---
    Crazy-haired girl!
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    "Hey! Misaka's alias is 'Last Order'!"
    says Misaka Misaka--
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    "Lost child?
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    I think there's one over there,"
    says Misaka Misaka, making a prediction.
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    "I feel a kind of tickle
    in this part of my head,"
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    says Misaka Misaka,
    adding some sensory information.
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    So, um, who might this lost child be?
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    End of the line, huh?
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    Good enough. Get lost.
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    It's still a few more kilometers to
    the satellite antenna. From here on, I'll--
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    Well, now...
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    This is your weakness. If I keep you
    from your switch, you can't use your ability.
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    Who are you, BLOCK?
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    No.
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    I'm MEMBER.
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    It would be a shame
    if we lost one of our Level 5s.
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    Heh, GROUP? Or are you ITEM?
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    I'm MEMBER.
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    Kakine Teitoku and Accelerator, both.
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    Two Level 5s at once!
    MEMBER is quite possibly the greatest!
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    So you're a teleportation-type esper,
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    but you can only move behind your target?
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    What a piss-ant ability to have.
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    You have to augment your arithmetic
    based on the positions of others,
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    or you can't activate your ability.
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    It's outrageous that you have such power.
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    You're a fine one to talk,
    having to rely on your electrode.
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    Hey, what are you doing?
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    You're sorely lacking.
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    Sorely lacking in the aesthetic of evil.
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    The precision of my power is
    a far cry better than the sights on a gun.
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    No matter where you run, my next move
    will obliterate you, no matter what.
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    Go ahead and run, swine.
    Take that to heart and tremble in fear.
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    You don't have the aesthetic,
    so I'm gonna show you
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    that this is how you act like a
    super-world-class villain, you son of a bitch.
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    I call this modest little invention "mimosa."
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    They're ultra-tiny-sized
    grains of reflective alloy
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    that react to specific frequencies.
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    By manipulating this,
    it's possible to slice through concrete,
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    or I could even pluck out
    human cells, one at a time.
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    When I was 12, during the winter,
    I gave up hope on art.
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    I had a yen for European architecture.
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    But it was hard to simultaneously
    wrap my head around
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    the scale it took to erect
    one of them, and their beauty.
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    I much prefer mathematical formulas.
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    They are truly functional, without any waste.
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    They have the poetic beauty of a haiku--
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    Go ahead and give up hope here again.
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    D-Damn it!
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    What's the matter?
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    The Doctor and Saraku have locked me in!
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    What am I supposed to do?!
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    I'm going after my opponent.
    I don't have time to clean up your mess.
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    Hold on!
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    What is this?! Hey! Let me out!
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    Hey! Help me!
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    So,
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    all I really need to do
    is destroy that computer.
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    It looks like there's been some
    activity in the 23rd School District.
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    Several Antiskill officers
    at the site have been taken down.
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    The subject appears to be headed
    for the ground antenna. What do we do?
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    Heh, just hope that they're successful.
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    These guys aren't after...
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    ...control of the optical
    weapon mounted on Hikoboshi II.
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    They want to paralyze
    Academy City's surveillance capability?
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    Let's go.
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    There are 5,000 mercenaries outside
    the wall waiting for the order to charge in.
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    It's pretty heavily guarded.
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    Can't we just muscle our way in?
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    No. If anything happens,
    unmanned attack helicopters move in quickly.
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    The latest six-wing model.
    If they spot us, we'll be up a creek.
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    In another ten minutes,
    the patrol rotation switches.
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    Now, while the aerial surveillance
    is suspended, is a critical gap time.
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    What is it, Yamate? Worried?
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    5,000 mercenaries.
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    Where exactly are they planning to attack?
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    There's no point in holding back now.
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    What?!
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    Yamate!
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    Damn!
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    Scatter!
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    We have to pick the mercenaries up
    and get away from here.
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    We brought in 5,000 of them,
    and it still wasn't enough?!
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    I guess it wasn't possible
    to stop all of them.
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    The angle of Venus and
    my obsidian knife is perfectly aligned.
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    Accelerator!
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    You let the intruders just waltz right on in.
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    You're a completely useless bastard.
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    I did manage to use my
    Spear of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
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    to hold the number of intruders
    down to about 100, though.
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    There's an expression
    I'm going to leave with you--
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    "A miss is as good as a mile."
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    After all this, we can't stop the operation.
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    Now then, a question.
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    Where is BLOCK headed?
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    A juvie hall in the 10th School District.
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    Why were you going to attack there?!
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    Our objective is Move Point.
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    We got some intelligence that some
    of her friends were being held there.
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    We're supposed to grab them up
    and use them to bargain with Move Point.
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    To lead you into the
    building without windows.
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    Yes. BLOCK came upon the secret
    that Move Point was the guide.
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    We're supposed to learn the
    building's supply entrance from her,
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    then blow it up from the inside
    with synchronous composite bombs.
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    Is that right? Do you even know
    who's standing in front of you?
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    Y-You can't be--
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    Let's go. We have work to do.
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    This is the world's one and
    only esper internment facility.
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    There are wall-to-wall
    AIM jammers installed in there.
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    Which means we won't
    be able to use our abilities.
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    It's not that you can't use them,
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    but there's the possibility
    of them going out of control.
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    Well, sounds like it's best
    to refrain from using ability mode.
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    So that's the deal.
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    It's no wonder things seemed so quiet.
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    These guys all killed themselves
    with their own weapons.
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    Found you.
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    If you're here,
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    that makes you BLOCK.
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    No. I'm MEMBER. Though I was just using them.
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    Etzali!
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    I did it to find out where you are.
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    This is Xóchitl. She's an Aztecan sorceress,
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    who is in the same organization I once was.
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    A sorceress?
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    You traitor. I abandoned everything
    to come here and dispose of you.
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    I'll take care of this.
    The rest of you, please go on ahead.
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    Tch, while we're here caught up
    in this, BLOCK is inside...
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    You guys hurry up and get going.
    I'm the slowest; I'll hold them here.
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    Tsuchimikado, you've got Musujime's back.
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    Let's go.
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    Are we going to get ourselves
    hurt in the blast?
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    Not to worry.
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    It's rigged so the blast
    is directed into the door.
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    There are 38 of them.
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    Losing one or two of them
    won't make a difference.
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    You never said anything about that!
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    Ha! What, you have a soft
    spot for these kids?
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    Tch, what a useless bunch.
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    Hmph, stop! Thanks to your interference,
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    I'm not finished packing this.
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    I can't guarantee the kids' safety.
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    Don't touch that detonator.
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    Musujime Awaki, "Move Point," right?
    This saves us some trouble.
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    Tell me, GROUP,
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    what have you learned after going
    through the September 30th Incident?
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    What was that?
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    I thought that Aleister was
    in control of the whole world,
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    but the truth is, there's
    a way to escape his control,
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    and places where his control does not reach.
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    So you're traveling to the
    new world on the backs of others?
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    That's not something I would brag about.
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    Hoping for a heaven or
    a paradise not immediately available
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    --is something all humanity has in common--
    --Enough.
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    Huh?
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    Don't move!
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    What are you trying to pull?
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    I have my own reasons for killing Aleister.
    But I don't take hostages!
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    I will keep roughing you up personally,
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    until I have the information I need!
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    A pro doesn't need fancy abilities
    or little one-liners to operate.
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    It just takes years of
    building up fundamental tactics
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    to rationally take down her enemy.
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    Etzali, what is it you've
    been looking at all this time?
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    She possesses the weapon,
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    and uses its deadliness to keep from
    dirtying her own hands killing her enemy.
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    A suicide spell, I guess you'd call it.
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    You dropped something.
    Aren't you going to pick it up?
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    How? You shouldn't know a spell like this.
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    And I thought you took the
    position of never doing any dirty work.
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    What has happened?! No, what is
    happening in the organization right now?!
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    A macuahuitl?
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    A weapon like that does not become you.
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    Then what about you?
    Does this become you?
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    You, who slipped away from the organization,
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    and are now hiding your
    face to undermine the peace?!
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    Crap!
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    You're through!
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    Wha--?!
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    You lured me in...
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    Aztecs don't have the technical process
    to make weapons made of metal,
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    so your sword isn't too terribly sharp.
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    Which means that if I'm willing
    to take one to the bone, I can stop it.
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    Like I said, weapons do not become you.
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    I do not wish to take your life.
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    Please disappear somewhere.
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    Are you ready to tell me the service route
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    for the building without windows yet?
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    Why are you so intent
    on going after Aleister's head?
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    Because I've experienced
    a serious enough tragedy in this city.
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    I wanted to ask Aleister
    if he was involved in it.
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    That's all.
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    I've been fixated
    on finding the "truth," myself.
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    But even chasing it down
    doesn't restore peace of mind.
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    Really? So what are you doing about it?
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    The trauma I've sustained is
    keeping me from transporting myself.
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    I can't shoot her or
    fight her hand to hand, either.
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    Right. It's because I always think this way
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    that I'll never be able to protect anyone.
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    You're planning to use yours?
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    Yeah. You'll have to excuse me,
    but I'm going all-out.
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    I'll overcome...
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    I can overcome...
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    everything about these damnable scars!
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    Pretty bold of you...
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    Unfortunately, this is the
    kind of leadership expected of me.
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    Xóchitl, what on earth...?
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    When one tries to make up
    for a lack of abilities using grimoires,
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    it leads to this sort of outcome.
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    Have you learned anything?
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    You read one?
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    No, worse than that.
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    Y-You don't mean...!
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    You've fused with the original grimoire text?
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    Rather, you tried to gain more
    power by making it a part of you?
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    Trying something like
    that will break down in no time!
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    You had to know that much!
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    As long as I could kill you
    while it was consuming me...
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    ...the organization's objectives
    would be accomplished...
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    The organization that I
    know was awful enough,
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    but what the hell has been
    happening while I've been away?
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    I'm not going to let you die.
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    The original text displays
    its knowledge to those who desire it.
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    By assuming it onto myself,
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    I should be able to draw
    the original text out of her.
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    There is no precedent.
    If I fail, it will kill me.
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    I believed in you.
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    I knew trusting you was the right call.
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    Thanks for coming.
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    That's enough by itself.
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    Okay, go on.
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    Get going.
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    You're sure about this?
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    Yeah.
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    It's for the best.
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    Damn you're slow.
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    Well then, back into the darkness.
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    Come on.
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    You're pretty tight-lipped for
    someone with nothing to do here.
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    I might just have to clean a little house.
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    All right, I'll tell you everything.
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    Wow...
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    Pretty cushy base you've got, isn't it?
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    "Preview"
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    Those who have power survive.
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    White wings spit upon
    conventional principles,
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    and sneer at common knowledge.
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    Next time, "Super-espers."
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    When science and magic cross paths,
    the story begins.
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