E8 - Friend (Hirumi)

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    Tell me, Brother, what kind of
    ability do you think Level 6 will be?
[00:04] ---
    That's something I don't know, either, mm-mm.
[00:07] ---
    Huh? Even though you're
    telling me I should become one?
[00:11] ---
    Hirumi, you know about the Level 5s, right?
[00:13] ---
    Hmm, you mean like the standalone third-ranked,
[00:16] ---
    who's as powerful as a battle cruiser?
[00:18] ---
    Or the first-ranked, who you
    couldn't even hurt with a nuke?
[00:22] ---
    They all sound like urban legends.
[00:25] ---
    That's because the stage you're
    seeing them at, at least, looks blurred.
[00:31] ---
    And a monster who's at Level 6? Mm-hmm...
[00:33] ---
    Even higher than the first-ranked,
    who won't die no matter what.
[00:38] ---
    Hirumi?
[00:41] ---
    Today, I was introduced to my hope--
[00:44] ---
    the dream of my brother and me.
    The hope that would lead to Level 6--
[00:50] ---
    the necromancer Esther.
[00:55] ---
    "#08 Friend (Hirumi)"
[00:56] ---
    Wow. Now we're using
    necromancers? Or -cy?
[01:03] ---
    Oh yeah? So now we're going in that direction?
[01:07] ---
    Hirumi, I think that's enough for today.
[01:14] ---
    I was picturing someone in
    a musty, old-fashioned lab coat.
[01:18] ---
    Hey, come on, go home already.
[01:21] ---
    I'm musty?
[01:23] ---
    You speak Japanese!
[01:26] ---
    I was requested to come here.
[01:28] ---
    But what is this place?
[01:30] ---
    "Sarcophagus of Palenque"
[01:30] ---
    Oh, these are your forerunners, mm-hmm.
[01:32] ---
    "Baghdad Battery"
[01:33] ---
    Relics of when our research hit a dead end,
    and we looked for outside hints.
[01:34] ---
    "Jade mask"
[01:36] ---
    "Stone spheres of Costa Rica"
[01:38] ---
    "Sakafune-ishi"
[01:38] ---
    We brought in some OOPArts
    and extracts from cryptids,
[01:43] ---
    but now, we've brought in a person.
[01:44] ---
    What happened with that
    legendary metal, orichalcum, again?
[01:49] ---
    I forget what number we were on.
[01:51] ---
    That was our third sample.
[01:53] ---
    "Orichalcum, third sample"
[01:53] ---
    Although, it was just a
    simple alloy of iron and brass.
[01:57] ---
    That's my forerunner?
[01:59] ---
    I am not made of metal.
[02:01] ---
    Oh, mm-hmm, nor are you
    a carboxylic acid ester.
[02:06] ---
    Brother, she won't get that.
[02:08] ---
    Conversely, I'd like to ask,
    how am I supposed to see eye-to-eye
[02:12] ---
    with someone who doesn't
    even know about polyester?
[02:15] ---
    I apologize. Brother likes
    to flaunt his useless knowledge,
[02:18] ---
    and can't maintain his composure
    unless he has the upper hand.
[02:21] ---
    He's a real pain in the butt.
[02:24] ---
    Okay, fine, just get on out of here, Hirumi.
[02:27] ---
    What I'm saying is,
    we'd like you to work with us, Esther.
[02:31] ---
    O-On what?
[02:50] ---
    Are you okay?
[02:52] ---
    To our brother-and-sister dream--
[02:54] ---
    of achieving the world's first Level 6.
[03:01] ---
    "Physical Possibility Testing Station"
[03:02] ---
    Just to confirm, I use necromancy.
[03:05] ---
    This is a systemic technique
    to load and control a pseudo-soul
[03:08] ---
    into a dead body that
    was prepared ahead of time.
[03:11] ---
    For that purpose, I even brought
    my precious Si-xiong charms.
[03:13] ---
    "Qiongqi"
[03:15] ---
    Qiongqi...
[03:16] ---
    "Hundun"
[03:16] ---
    ...Hundun...
[03:18] ---
    "Taotie"
[03:18] ---
    ...Taotie...
[03:19] ---
    ...and Taowu.
[03:20] ---
    "Taowu"
[03:22] ---
    You're free to believe in those
    powers if you want to, mm-hmm.
[03:28] ---
    Then what do you call that?
[03:29] ---
    "Lab equipment, L-Type"
[03:29] ---
    I can't work those machines.
    What is it you're after?
[03:33] ---
    I'm researching the hypothesis that
    abilities reside within the body, mm-hmm.
[03:41] ---
    "Anatomical model #3"
[03:45] ---
    "Cerebrum"
[03:45] ---
    Specifically, I'm using injections
    to numb the cerebellum, the brainstem,
[03:47] ---
    "Heart"
[03:48] ---
    "Stomach"
[03:48] ---
    and other internal organs, one at a time.
[03:49] ---
    "Liver"
[03:52] ---
    If they can still use their
    abilities in that state, they pass;
[03:55] ---
    if they can't, it raises a red flag.
[03:57] ---
    And...?
[03:58] ---
    I can't exactly conduct experiments
    with the spinal cord or the heart stopped
[04:02] ---
    when they're directly
    related to life support, can I?
[04:04] ---
    So I needed something else
    that can step in to do so.
[04:08] ---
    And now, thanks to this over-the-top front end,
[04:10] ---
    I'm starting to lose sight of my prototype.
[04:14] ---
    All right, let's call it a day.
[04:17] ---
    That's not what I meant.
[04:18] ---
    Hmm?
[04:19] ---
    I'm asking how knowing where an ability resides
[04:22] ---
    relates to being able to elevate
    a person to this "Level 6" thing?!
[04:27] ---
    Hmm, it doesn't really relate at all, mm-mm.
[04:31] ---
    "The next day"
[04:34] ---
    "School District 14, Children's Park 5"
[04:37] ---
    Why exactly did they call me in?
[04:41] ---
    For whom?
[04:43] ---
    Here!
[04:44] ---
    To do what?
[04:48] ---
    Ah, jeez!
[04:54] ---
    Why did you bounce it there?!
[05:01] ---
    Oh, no! Don't tell me she's...
[05:05] ---
    Esther!!
[05:09] ---
    Slow down, Esther! What are you doing?!
[05:12] ---
    Are you the legendary "Undresstress"?!
[05:16] ---
    I was just going to go
    for a dip to calm my mind.
[05:19] ---
    This is not the sort of place to do that!
[05:23] ---
    Huh?
[05:25] ---
    Come on, with me!
[05:26] ---
    H-Hold on...
[05:29] ---
    I knew it. She's not the legendary
    "Undresstress" after all.
[05:32] ---
    Oh, Yo...
[05:33] ---
    Man, what a letdown. Let's go, let's go.
[05:37] ---
    "TOPAZ GYM Shower Room 2"
[05:40] ---
    If you want to go bathing,
    you can knock yourself out here.
[05:44] ---
    I have a change of clothes for you.
    I'll leave them in the dressing room.
[05:53] ---
    "Cold water"
[05:59] ---
    "TOPAZ GYM Boxing Room"
[06:04] ---
    It's a distressing country
    if I can't even go bathing.
[06:07] ---
    You look pretty good in that outfit.
[06:09] ---
    What do you think of my coordinating skills?
    The size is perfect, too, right?
[06:13] ---
    Those clothes are a present for you.
    Take good care of them.
[06:17] ---
    Also, you'd usually get arrested
    for doing that outside.
[06:21] ---
    But then, if anything happened,
    Brother would get it swept under the rug.
[06:25] ---
    Is that right?
[06:27] ---
    You should be grateful.
    He seems to really appreciate you, Esther.
[06:37] ---
    She doesn't look very good at this.
[06:40] ---
    This is my training for the day.
[06:44] ---
    What you like and what you're good
    at aren't always necessarily the same.
[06:52] ---
    I understand that, too.
[06:54] ---
    "Choking"
[06:59] ---
    "Physical Possibility Testing Station,
    control room"
[07:02] ---
    Well, you're not Hirumi.
[07:04] ---
    She said she didn't have anything today.
[07:07] ---
    I sent her home. I checked her vitals,
    and her waveforms are unsteady.
[07:12] ---
    The fatigue must be
    catching up to her, mm-hmm.
[07:15] ---
    Hey, Hishigata, that may be so,
[07:17] ---
    but we can't proceed
    with the research without a subject.
[07:20] ---
    It's more unusual that we gave Hirumi
    a regular account in the first place.
[07:25] ---
    I know we had other subjects.
    Someone somewhere messed them up, though.
[07:30] ---
    Should we recruit additional volunteers?
[07:33] ---
    Name-brand bags and fur coats.
    I'm not sure if they're photo-worthy or not,
[07:38] ---
    but are you telling me that we found
    more than enough teenage girls
[07:41] ---
    who have gotten themselves into debt
    and will do whatever they're told?
[07:45] ---
    So, what do we do?
[07:47] ---
    Search me. Maybe scout out some habitual
    shoplifters this time? Mm-hmm.
[07:51] ---
    Aw, I was afraid of that.
[07:53] ---
    Just because they were a little broken,
    we shouldn't have let them go.
[07:58] ---
    The research equipment
    tuning has been finished,
[08:00] ---
    and Esther is here as our safety.
[08:02] ---
    We were finally going to produce some results.
[08:06] ---
    You sure are calm, Esther.
[08:08] ---
    I am a necromancer,
    and I'm used to a certain amount of tragedy.
[08:12] ---
    Hmm, well, I guess
    that's not really too irregular.
[08:16] ---
    It's just that they may
    never use their abilities again,
[08:19] ---
    or they might not ever escape
    the dream world, is all, mm-hmm.
[08:22] ---
    That reminds me, we talked about
    where the abilities reside, remember?
[08:27] ---
    In the course of that research,
[08:29] ---
    a separate bit of
    fascinating data came up, mm-hmm.
[08:33] ---
    We started discovering
    that during the experiment,
[08:36] ---
    the output of the subject's ability
    was much greater than it usually was.
[08:40] ---
    At first we thought that
    by shutting down a specific organ,
[08:42] ---
    it was like unplugging a stopper,
    but we were wrong.
[08:46] ---
    "Gekota Biscuits, S, M, & L"
[08:46] ---
    The bigger the equipment
    that served as the subjects' bodies was,
[08:49] ---
    the more they were able
    to draw out their ability, mm-hmm.
[08:53] ---
    Making the equipment larger
[08:55] ---
    to let the subjects feel like
    their bodies had gotten bigger
[08:58] ---
    elevated their abilities.
[09:00] ---
    But when we make the equipment
    bigger to elevate their abilities,
[09:04] ---
    if we make them too big,
    it destroys the girls' sense of self, mm-hmm.
[09:07] ---
    The reasons are unclear.
    Maybe it's diluting them--
[09:11] ---
    having too small a mind inside too big a body.
[09:15] ---
    Mind?
[09:16] ---
    The mind and the soul are things,
[09:18] ---
    as a scientist, I have to turn
    a blind eye to dealing with,
[09:21] ---
    but you do deal with these things, right?
[09:24] ---
    Well...
[09:26] ---
    If we can just keep the
    dilution of the mind under control,
[09:28] ---
    we'll be able to hook up external
    expansion equipment as large as we like.
[09:33] ---
    Theoretically, there will be
    no limit on our room for growth.
[09:36] ---
    In other words, the time will come
    when anyone can reach Level 6 easily.
[09:41] ---
    You mean you've been doing
    these experiments on Hirumi, too?
[09:44] ---
    I made it look like we were,
[09:46] ---
    but then I fed her a
    separate diversionary program.
[09:50] ---
    You have no idea how much
    my nerves fray each time,
[09:53] ---
    making sure she doesn't become aware of it.
[09:58] ---
    Hirumi is too fixated on Level 6, mm-hmm.
[10:02] ---
    Even though, before long, the time will
    come when anyone can easily achieve it.
[10:08] ---
    "School District 14, Café Mimosa"
[10:13] ---
    What? You look like you're going to say
[10:15] ---
    that eating so much after
    exercising makes it pointless.
[10:18] ---
    No, just questioning where you're
    going to fit all of that inside your body.
[10:23] ---
    Well, it's not like I'm working out
    so I can lose weight.
[10:24] ---
    "Mimosa Parfait 'Friendship'
    (in floral language)"
[10:28] ---
    Besides, at this point...
[10:31] ---
    Unless you want to eat it together?
    Esther, you're like family to me.
[10:36] ---
    Here, once we finish it,
    we'll go back to the lab.
[10:39] ---
    You're our secret weapon, right?
[10:42] ---
    Brother says you use a power
    they've never seen before.
[10:45] ---
    I'm looking forward to it.
[10:47] ---
    Secret weapon, huh? I just hope that's true.
[10:52] ---
    Hmm?
[10:53] ---
    I've been thinking a lot about
    what kind of power necromancy
[10:57] ---
    and the Rosenthal style
    of techniques really are.
[11:01] ---
    Even after being requested to come here,
    I still haven't found an answer.
[11:06] ---
    Hmm, so what you're saying is, you want
    to be useful to someone, right, Esther?
[11:11] ---
    Huh?
[11:13] ---
    I'm the same way.
[11:14] ---
    I want to help Brother out.
    That's why my goal is to reach Level 6.
[11:19] ---
    That's great for you, Hirumi. But as for me...
[11:22] ---
    Okay, you can help me out!
[11:25] ---
    Huh?
[11:25] ---
    If I ever need anything, you can do it for me!
[11:29] ---
    When you say "do it," what does that mean?
[11:32] ---
    Promise me, Esther!
[11:34] ---
    Promise you?
[11:35] ---
    Yep.
[11:36] ---
    A promise, made between me and Esther.
[11:40] ---
    Just you and me.
[11:42] ---
    Huh? Okay...
[11:50] ---
    "Choking"
[11:52] ---
    See? That's what you get
    for trying to eat that giant thing.
[11:55] ---
    No way, no way!
[11:57] ---
    I am not letting you take part
    in experiments with the equipment
[12:00] ---
    until I give the say-so!
[12:01] ---
    --But...
    --I won't have you talking back to me, either!
[12:03] ---
    Hishigata, Hirumi is doing this for you--
[12:05] ---
    You keep quiet. Mm-hmm.
    This is a matter between brother and sister.
[12:10] ---
    Now that Esther is here, we can clear
    all the problems we've had so far, right?
[12:14] ---
    You think I'd rely on a safety device
    whose logic I don't understand
[12:17] ---
    and give the go signal
    to a full-blown experiment
[12:20] ---
    that could put my sister's life at risk?
[12:22] ---
    We haven't even seen this
    "necromancy" at work yet, mm-mm.
[12:26] ---
    "Lab equipment, L-Type"
[12:27] ---
    Okay then, once the safety device is finished?
[12:29] ---
    Yeah, after I have plenty of data
    and make certain it's highly reproducible,
[12:33] ---
    and acknowledge an incontrovertible pathway
[12:35] ---
    linking to this experiment, mm-hmm.
[12:38] ---
    How long is that going to take, exactly?!
[12:40] ---
    Well, let's see. At the earliest, a year.
    Doing it right, maybe two, mm-hmm.
[12:51] ---
    Hirumi!
[12:52] ---
    Let her go.
[12:54] ---
    But...
[12:55] ---
    I'll admit that two years
    seems like a long time.
[12:58] ---
    But Level 6 isn't something
    you risk your life attempting to reach.
[13:03] ---
    Not when, soon enough, the time will
    come when anyone can easily attain it,
[13:07] ---
    mm-hmm.
[13:12] ---
    "School District 14, PRICESTORE"
[13:21] ---
    All that's left...
[13:23] ---
    ...is to use this special tool to
    delete the purchase history, and...
[13:27] ---
    That should about do it.
[13:32] ---
    This is it! It may be Antiskill surplus,
    but it was pretty easy to come by.
[13:50] ---
    A promise is a promise, Esther.
[14:05] ---
    Ahem! Hey there, Esther and Brother!
[14:10] ---
    Recording a special message
    like this for you is a bit embarrassing.
[14:15] ---
    So anyway, um, as it happens...
[14:20] ---
    ...I'm dead.
[14:34] ---
    You should probably have found me by now.
    It's a cleaning tank for preservative,
[14:39] ---
    so I doubt I'll be rotting, but I'm pretty
    close to naked, which is embarrassing,
[14:44] ---
    so I'd appreciate it
    if you retrieved me right away.
[14:47] ---
    "Positive"
[14:47] ---
    I'm sorry for keeping my medical report
    in my bag hidden from you.
[14:51] ---
    It was really hard keeping
    the doctor from saying anything,
[14:53] ---
    but it looks like I'm done for.
[14:56] ---
    --Hishigata... Hey! Hishigata!
[14:56] ---
    --Getting to Level 6,
    --Hishigata... Hey! Hishigata!
[14:58] ---
    which is beyond even the first-ranked,
    who can't even be killed by a nuke...
[15:01] ---
    I thought it would give me
    the power of immortality, too, but...
[15:07] ---
    Two years is too far away. Too far away.
[15:11] ---
    So now I'm going to turn this into a real race.
[15:15] ---
    Brother, Esther, make me a Level 6.
[15:20] ---
    I'm already dead.
[15:22] ---
    At this point, any talk about
    safety devices and whatnot won't matter.
[15:26] ---
    So if there's even a 1% chance
    of it working then please, do it.
[15:31] ---
    I'd appreciate it if my death wasn't in vain.
[15:35] ---
    I'm counting on you, Esther.
    And you too, Brother.
[15:38] ---
    Why?! How did this happen?!
[15:41] ---
    "Positive"
    "Please come immediately
    with your guardian to be re-tested"
[15:41] ---
    I always kept an eye on Hirumi's vitals.
[15:43] ---
    If I'd been thinking straight,
    I would have realized it.
[15:46] ---
    But I deliberately chose to look away...
[15:49] ---
    Hishigata, that's not what's important here.
[15:51] ---
    What's more important than that?!
[15:54] ---
    My little sister... My only other
    family has committed suicide!
[15:58] ---
    Yes, but how many minutes
    have passed since she died?
[16:01] ---
    Isn't there anything we can do?
[16:03] ---
    I promised Hirumi that
    if anything happened, I'd help her!
[16:07] ---
    Isn't there anything I can do?!
[16:10] ---
    Let me ask you something first.
    Tell me more about your necromancy.
[16:14] ---
    The Rosenthal techniques place an
    outside pseudo-soul into the dead body,
[16:17] ---
    possessing it and controlling it.
[16:19] ---
    It will keep her from decaying, but that's all.
[16:21] ---
    Then it's hopeless. If Hirumi is
    no longer Hirumi, it means nothing!
[16:27] ---
    Then...
[16:32] ---
    You said that while the organs were
    shut down, the machine would take over.
[16:35] ---
    How about it?
[16:36] ---
    We've never started all body functions
    from total shutdown before.
[16:40] ---
    There's no telling what will happen!
[16:51] ---
    Hmm... What's this?
    Am I successfully integrated?
[16:55] ---
    Hirumi!
[16:57] ---
    Thank goodness...
[16:59] ---
    But this means that everything
    has gone the way Hirumi wanted it.
[17:03] ---
    Are you sure about that?
    Right now, she's just inside the equipment.
[17:07] ---
    I still haven't used any necromancy.
[17:09] ---
    And it was never going to capture
    her live soul and put it back to work.
[17:15] ---
    I'll put the ability development mode on freeze.
[17:18] ---
    If Hirumi's mind and soul
    become diluted and damaged,
[17:21] ---
    then all of this is for nothing.
[17:23] ---
    Hishigata!
[17:25] ---
    What is this? What's going on?
[17:27] ---
    Ah, I've managed to latch on to Hirumi.
[17:31] ---
    That's incredible!
[17:32] ---
    So, you've finally made up your mind
    to do the experiment on Hirumi!
[17:36] ---
    What?
[17:37] ---
    Now the path to Level 6 is right in front of us.
[17:41] ---
    You're an even bigger idiot than I realized.
[17:44] ---
    You've fallen behind Esther,
    and she didn't even know about carboxylic acid.
[17:48] ---
    Hey, come on, what are you talking about?
    We all share in success, right?
[17:55] ---
    If it sounds like I'm messing around,
    this is your wakeup call!
[17:58] ---
    I will preserve Hirumi's life.
[18:00] ---
    I will by no means be made
    your toy and have my life taken!
[18:04] ---
    Hey, what's come over you?
[18:06] ---
    I'm telling you that I'm taking Hirumi
    and we're getting out of here!
[18:09] ---
    I'm exiting this facility--
[18:11] ---
    no, the very walls of Academy City,
    and going into the outside world!
[18:14] ---
    Hishigata, something's wrong!
[18:17] ---
    Oh, no!
[18:18] ---
    Hirumi's heart isn't beating!
[18:20] ---
    Oh, I thought that since Hirumi is dead,
    we were working together on her.
[18:25] ---
    No... That can't be. I mean, Hirumi--
[18:28] ---
    Hi there! Brother,
    you just have to get me to Level 6.
[18:33] ---
    Don't turn your eyes down any side paths.
[18:35] ---
    Can you do that for your poor little sister?
[18:38] ---
    Hirumi?!
[18:39] ---
    Huh? I thought Hirumi was dead.
[18:41] ---
    Don't tell me this is feedback
    from the equipment!
[18:43] ---
    You there!
[18:46] ---
    You're emotionally unstable
    and not as smart as Brother.
[18:50] ---
    There's only room for one researcher,
    so we're done with you.
[18:56] ---
    If that's your defensive capability,
    I don't want you.
[19:02] ---
    Oh, was that not hard enough?
    Well, let me finish the job.
[19:07] ---
    Stop!
[19:08] ---
    Huh?
[19:09] ---
    I'm not about to. For a necromancer,
    the more corpses the better, right?
[19:14] ---
    Show us those special pseudo-souls of yours.
[19:17] ---
    What?
[19:18] ---
    If you're not going to help me here,
    I may have no more use for you.
[19:22] ---
    You couldn't be...
[19:24] ---
    Hmm? Say it.
[19:26] ---
    I never told Hirumi how I handle bodies,
    or about pseudo-souls.
[19:31] ---
    Which can only mean that
    you've taken my control away.
[19:35] ---
    For a secret weapon,
    your crisis mentality may be a bit shaky.
[19:38] ---
    When you changed your clothes,
    did you count your charms?
[19:46] ---
    Qiongqi, Hundun, Taotie...
    No, there's one missing!
[19:51] ---
    I was pretty scared to turn my life over
    to a technique I'd never seen before.
[19:55] ---
    But if it's a power not even
    Brother knows about,
[19:58] ---
    I thought the outcome
    might be different this time.
[20:01] ---
    That charm really is amazing.
    The moment I touched it, I felt swallowed up,
[20:05] ---
    and the feeling that it was
    the real deal gave me tingles.
[20:09] ---
    But that would mean...
[20:10] ---
    Hmm?
[20:10] ---
    You're not Hirumi--
[20:13] ---
    Ah, that's a pretty big taboo,
    so keep it quiet, okay?
[20:17] ---
    It's easier for me to be Hishigata Hirumi
    for a while, so I can control Brother.
[20:23] ---
    You're... Taowu...
[20:25] ---
    Don't talk about the person inside me.
[20:28] ---
    Look, we're going to be
    with each other for a long while,
[20:30] ---
    so I look forward to working
    with you and Brother.
[20:32] ---
    Here, for you.
[20:34] ---
    They're for subjects who lose control
    from the load of the experiment,
[20:37] ---
    to keep them safely restrained.
    You can work those, right?
[20:41] ---
    Or should I use the other
    three charms on these other corpses?
[20:45] ---
    Miss Heir of the Rosenthal Style?
[20:50] ---
    Qi--
[20:52] ---
    Gotcha! You realize that's
    not going to work, right?
[20:57] ---
    I can say it outright if you want,
    but that's instant death.
[20:59] ---
    Death in an instant!
[21:01] ---
    Okay, Esther, choose.
[21:03] ---
    You can put those cuffs on yourself,
    or you can continue resisting.
[21:06] ---
    But every time you fail,
    another victim will pay the price.
[21:10] ---
    That coward hiding under
    the body of his friend? I'll crush him.
[21:14] ---
    So, what will it be?
[21:17] ---
    You can't do it, can you?
[21:20] ---
    You can control a corpse,
    but it's not the same as returning its soul.
[21:24] ---
    That's why you can't be
    responsible for people's lives.
[21:28] ---
    It's a sad fact, but that's
    what it is to be a necromancer.
[21:32] ---
    I'm sorry.
[21:34] ---
    It's okay.
[21:36] ---
    Good.
[21:37] ---
    What are you planning to do now?
[21:39] ---
    Hmm, first thing to do
    is to go missing, I suppose.
[21:43] ---
    But it'll be okay. You still have
    your equipment, your subjects,
[21:46] ---
    your researcher, and your necromancer together.
[21:49] ---
    You can pick up your experiments
    however you like.
[21:52] ---
    Let me give you some hope, Esther.
[21:55] ---
    Sure, me being alive would be strange.
    Taowu's charm is gone, too.
[22:00] ---
    But at what point did the charm even get used?
[22:03] ---
    Was it before I died?
[22:05] ---
    Or was it after?
[22:07] ---
    Si-xiong talismans can
    only be used on dead bodies.
[22:10] ---
    Which means that if I'm being sustained
    by this life support system, I'm alive,
[22:14] ---
    but if the Si-xiong charm
    is controlling me, I'm dead.
[22:17] ---
    So, which one is it?
[22:19] ---
    It's like Schrödinger's cat, Esther.
[22:22] ---
    Can you tell which one I am right now?
[22:26] ---
    There, you see? You have
    a reason to stick with me now.
[22:32] ---
    So, are you going to help me out?
[22:35] ---
    Do it for my sake.
[22:38] ---
    The truth is, I knew.
[22:40] ---
    That this was nothing more
    than a mental leash to make me act.
[22:45] ---
    That there were no such
    self-serving possibilities.
[22:48] ---
    Still, even so...
[22:51] ---
    I'd appreciate it if my death wasn't in vain.
[22:54] ---
    I'm counting on you, Esther.
    And you too, Brother.
[22:58] ---
    Even so, it was too painful
    to give up... without making sure.
[23:12] ---
    --Esther!
    --Esther!
[23:13] ---
    If I ever need anything,
    you can do it for me! Promise, Esther?
[23:19] ---
    Once I use Emperor Shun's Blade, Hirumi will...
[23:24] ---
    Hirumi will...
[23:27] ---
    Are you crying, Adonai?
[23:30] ---
    No. Why would I be doing that?
[23:35] ---
    "Next time"
[23:37] ---
    "Memory of Death"