# Season 3 - Railgun T
# E1 - Super-powered (Level 5)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR0X55G4Y/super-powered-level-5)
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"A Certain Magical Index"
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"Side Story"
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Aw, what are you doing?
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Oh, jeez...
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Wah!
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It's not working anymore!
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Maybe the battery is run down.
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We just barely charged it.
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Here, let me see it.
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Hmm, maybe it really is broken.
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What are you talking about, dummy?
Let me see it.
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My telekinesis just isn't enough.
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Okay, I'll use *my* ability now!
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You dummy! You'll just burn it!
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Can I see it?
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What was that?!
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She shocked it!
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So that's it. It's
disconnected on the inside.
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Here, let me handle this.
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Okay, use your telekinesis to hold
that wire down to the base plate.
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Like this?
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Mm-hmm. Now, use the heat of
your pyrokinesis to melt this solder.
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Am I doing it right?
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Yes, that's it.
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Awesome!
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It's fixed!
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Thank you, miss--
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Huh?
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She was there just a moment ago.
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Hey, she had on a
Tokiwadai Middle School uniform, right?
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--That super-prestigious
school for young ladies?
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--Thank you, shorts-wearing lady.
--That super-prestigious school for young ladies?
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--Thank you, shorts-wearing lady.
--So that's what that was?
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--Thank you, shorts-wearing lady.
--That's right.
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I really do make too many pit-stops!
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Academy City--
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It occupies a whopping one-third of Tokyo,
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with a total population of 2.3 million.
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The students, who make up
roughly 80 percent of that figure,
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devote themselves to nurturing
and improving their abilities daily.
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The pinnacle of which are the Level 5s.
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As expansive as Academy City is,
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only seven people are recognized
to have met that qualification.
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And they are the ones
who are our current targets!
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Are you serious, sir?
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We're talking about a bunch of pretty
conspicuously morally bankrupt people!
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I hear that some are
members of dark side outfits,
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"Second-ranked: Kakine Teitoku"
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whose hands are dirty
with illegal activities.
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"Fourth-ranked: Mugino Shizuri"
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Do you think we can really win them over?
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Then again, this will be transmitted to not
just Academy City, but the entire world,
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so to put on a real demonstration,
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the higher-ups have instructed us
to use the top-class espers.
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Yeah, but still...
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If the decision comes from above,
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"Steering Committee"
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we have no other choice.
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We need at least two Level 5s
to take the athlete's pledge.
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Make use of all your connections
to negotiate with them!
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Wow...
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"Daihasei Festival"
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So they're holding this event now.
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Wow, I can't wait for the Daihasei Festival.
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All of Academy City's schools come together,
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"Site for the three-legged race"
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for seven days, at that,
and hold a sports festival.
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There's nothing like it anywhere else.
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Yes, indeed...
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Uiharu?
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Oh, uh, during the Daihasei Festival,
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a lot of people will be coming into
Academy City from the outside, right?
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As a member of Judgment,
I have to remain focused.
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Besides...
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if something else were to happen
because I make a mistake...
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U-i-ha-ru!!
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Oh, polka-dots!
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Mm-hmm, the standards never go out of style.
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What did you do that for, Saten?!
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When you're off-duty from Judgment, at least,
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you could stand to relax a little.
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Everyone knows that you always do your best.
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Oh, Miss Saten...
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Hey!
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Miss Uiharu! Miss Saten!
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Sorry to keep you.
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--Sissy!
--Hello!
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How are you doing, Shirai?
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We came to check up on you.
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--Oh, okay, okay, thank you very--
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--How are you, Kuroko?
--Oh, okay, okay, thank you very--
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Feeling any better?
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"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
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Sissy!!
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Huh? The athlete's pledge
at the opening ceremonies?
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You mean, for the Daihasei Festival?!
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They want you, Sissy?
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Mm-hmm.
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One of the teachers grabbed me
while I was leaving.
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Miss Misaka,
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you've had experience
doing demonstrations in Russia,
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and there are some who think
you would be a fitting representative
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of Tokiwadai Middle School.
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Oh...
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The final decision is yours.
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Yep.
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Isn't that incredible, Misaka?
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The Daihasei Festival opening ceremony
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is supposed to be broadcast
to the entire world, right?
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Miss Misaka, you'll be going worldwide!
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Of course Sissy would be.
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Actually, that sort of thing
isn't really my style.
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Then again,
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I'm sure your parents
will be delighted, won't they?
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Hmm, I'm not so sure.
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I suppose no longer having
Sissy all to myself
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is something that I will lament.
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Kuroko?
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We'll all be rooting for you together.
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Huh? Shirai, can you make it
to the opening ceremony?
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Yes.
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I am scheduled to be discharged by then.
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Though I will not be able to compete.
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Pity that all that training
I did with you will be for nothing.
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Yeah, "training."
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--Easy! Kuroko! Enough...
--Sissy! Tighter! Hold me tighter!
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...already!
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Hmm, well, nothing anyone can do about that.
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Oh, no. I will not leave you
in the lurch, Sissy.
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You just let old Kuroko take care of this!
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Ah, then let's all go there together
that day to show our support!
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While I appreciate the invitation,
I have my work with Judgment.
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Huh? Miss Shirai,
you're returning to work already?
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Of course I am.
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Once I am out of the hospital,
there are any number of things I can do.
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It sure is great that Shirai
is in good spirits, huh?
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Oh, mm-hmm.
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It sure is.
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Yeah, but still,
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she seemed like she was only acting happy.
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Acting happy?
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Yep. To keep from worrying us.
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You're right. That's just like Kuroko.
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Oh. All right,
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I'm going to try hard, too,
so Miss Shirai doesn't worry about me!
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Yeah, but you always try hard, Uiharu.
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Even harder!
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Well, maybe I will, too--
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Oh, no.
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As long as Miss Shirai has you,
she doesn't need anything else.
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Does she really not need
anything else, though?
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Miss Misaka?
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Miss Kongo, and Miss Wannai
and Miss Awatsuki, too.
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Good afternoon, Miss Misaka.
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Good afternoon.
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Oh, mm-hmm.
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Is something the matter?
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Huh? Oh, no, not really.
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If there is something troubling you,
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by all means, turn to me,
your best partner, Kongo Mitsuko!
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Partner?
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Miss Kongo!
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You aren't supposed to talk about that.
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Huh? Ah! H-How could I do such a thing?!
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Kuroko did?
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Yes. Yesterday, when we went to visit her.
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We must have just missed
each other, Miss Misaka.
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So anyhow, Miss Shirai
said that she wanted me
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to pair up with you during the competition.
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Miss Shirai said that she would
tell you directly, but look what I did.
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Is that what she meant
when she said she'd take care of it?
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Miss Misaka?
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Mm-mm, thanks. I second
that request for help.
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I'm looking forward to it, Miss Kongo.
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R-Right! I-I, um... look
forward to it as well.
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I'll have to go and thank Kuroko, too.
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Ah, in that case...
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Huh... there are a lot of shops
I'm unfamiliar with.
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This looks yummy.
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Queen?
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Oh, Miss Misaka!
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Ugh.
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It's against the rules to read
something like that at school.
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For someone important enough to be
chosen for the Daihasei athlete's pledge
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that's a pretty brash attitude.
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It's not as though I've been chosen yet.
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I mean, I'm sure you've
gotten an offer, too, right,
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Miss Shokuho Misaki, Level 5?
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Oh, is that right, Queen?
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Keep quiet.
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Something like that would be
nothing but a bother for me.
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That is why I stepped
aside for you, Miss Misaka.
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Listen, you!
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That EM barrier of yours is such a nuisance.
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It keeps my Mental Out tampering
powers from working on you.
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"Shokuho Misaki"
"Fifth Ranked"
"Mental Out"
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Oh, I know!
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Perhaps some endorsements would be useful.
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Well, everyone?
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We think that Miss Misaka would be
fitting for the athlete's pledge.
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Just kidding.
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Oh, Miss Misaka, good afternoon.
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Wait, when did I stand up?
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You know what?
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There's something the matter with you.
All that, just to knock me?
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Say whatever you will, it's who I am.
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Anyhow, stop harassing me.
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I am well aware of how much you dislike me.
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It may be more than just simple "dislike."
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"#1: Super-powered (Level 5)"
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Huh?!
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Hmm?
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The Daihasei Festival athlete's pledge?
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"Mugino Shizuri"
"Fourth Ranked"
"Meltdowner"
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That's right.
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What possible benefit is there for me,
who works on the dark side,
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to have my face publicly revealed?
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What is it?
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Who cares? Your public face
could be that of an idol,
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and your other face can be
that of a hunter in the darkness.
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Your face is pretty, at least.
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You're really enjoying yourself, aren't you?
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I'm not doing it.
And stop asking me for things like this.
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It's always like this with you.
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I could say the same about you.
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Hello! Say, I wouldn't mind
doing it in her place.
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You! Work! On! The! Dark! Side! Too!
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'Sup? Sorry I'm late--
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What happened here?! An enemy attack?!
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No, no.
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He just went a little crazy.
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He very nearly dragged me in, too.
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Who, Kakine?
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We got a call from our usual agent, see?
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Asking if he'd take the
Daihasei Festival athlete's pledge.
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For real?
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And, of course, he refused,
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but they wouldn't take no for an answer.
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And when the annoyance built up...
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Don't give me that! The Daihasei Festival
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is a game for kids who still believe
in things like "effort" and "hope."
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--Then they came back with "But visually,
you appeal to those kinds of kids."
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--Come along, children!
--Then they came back with "But visually,
you appeal to those kinds of kids."
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Did you just laugh?
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"Kakine Teitoku"
"Second Ranked"
"Dark Matter"
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Looking good, there,
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Accelerator.
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"Accelerator"
"First Ranked"
"Accelerator"
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It's been awhile.
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Not since Project Level
6 Shift got derailed--
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What do you want from me *now*?
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You want to have me
kill some more clones for you?
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N-No!
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--Hear me out!
--Get lost.
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Just let me finish!
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I'm here about the Daiha--
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I'm too busy babysitting.
Never speak to me again.
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And there you have it.
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Negotiating with the fourth-,
second-, and first-ranked was a bust.
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Word is that the negotiator
we assigned to the first-ranked
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was discovered gravely injured
and clinging to life.
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Is this request really
that disagreeable to them?
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Sir,
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what about the sixth-ranked?
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The thing is, we have intel on so
many people who he's supposed to be.
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Should we just start
negotiating with all of them?
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No, that's okay. I get the feeling
we're better off not even going there.
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Which means,
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"3rd-ranked: Misaka Mikoto"
"5th-ranked: Shokuho Misaki"
"6th-ranked: Aihana Etsu"
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the only remaining Level 5s are...
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Ugh, a line?
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Must have something to do with this.
**[12:39] ---**
Huh?
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What's wrong?
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Seems like I just saw
that girl inside the store.
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What do you mean, like a doppelgänger?
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Gah!
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So?
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You're supposed to be in the hospital.
What are you doing here?
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"What is Misaka doing?
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Does it look like something
other than purchasing cake?"
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asks Misaka, presenting a question.
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No, I mean...
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"We heard a rumor about some delicious cake.
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Owing to the contest that followed,
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this Misaka came here
as the delegate to buy one,"
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says Misaka, remembering the fierce
competition and wiping away her sweat.
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Pretty independent, huh?
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Oh, how cute!
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Twins?
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Must be middle-schoolers.
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Sure is neat, being twins
with matching uniforms.
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"However, as your clones, Big Sister,
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when we are occasionally spotted
in your sphere of activity,
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it must be an inconvenience for you.
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--From here on--"
--It sure is.
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It gets to be a pain explaining it,
but that's okay.
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I did promise that I would
help you all find a meaning in life.
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Big Sister...
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Okay, so I'm going to start
by buying myself a cake--
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"By the way...
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...to purchase any items in that store,
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you will need a numbered ticket,
which have already all been distributed.
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Do you have one of those?" inquires Misaka.
**[14:06] ---**
Ugh, you have to have one?
Aw, man, that means...
**[14:10] ---**
There are four cakes in here for the
Misakas who are waiting at the hospital.
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Also, for this Misaka, who was to
have had a cake for coming to buy them,
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is an extra one.
**[14:26] ---**
Wow, things are sure getting festive, huh?
**[14:29] ---**
They are doing a lot of
dry runs today all over.
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Miss Konori said that we need to be careful,
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since there will be more people getting
carried away and causing disturbances.
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Hey! Fight! Fight! There's a fight
in the plaza where the stage is!
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I told you, we were here first!
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Don't even try to pull that!
**[14:48] ---**
We were clearly here first!
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
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We've been waiting here since yesterday!
**[14:54] ---**
--We were here two days ago!
**[14:54] ---**
--Wow, they're really going at it.
--We were here two days ago!
**[14:55] ---**
--Wow, they're really going at it.
--Yeah, screw you!
**[14:57] ---**
--Is this getting out of hand?
--No, screw *you*!
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Maybe we should contact Antiskill.
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Ah, this is going nowhere!
**[15:02] ---**
I could say the same!
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The stronger side wins!
That's the rule here in Academy City!
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Bring it on!
**[15:08] ---**
Can you wave *this* big of a squad flag?!
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Your strength is only
because of your ability!
**[15:23] ---**
However, it comes with
the condition of being unable to move!
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Don't underestimate
our aptitude for surveillance!
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Is that...?
**[15:30] ---**
And my ability is one that lets me
briefly cause a gust of wind!
**[15:36] ---**
Can you make this many flags flutter?!
**[15:41] ---**
They both have fairly
niche abilities. Right, Uiharu--
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Excuse me!
**[15:50] ---**
Y-You are bothering everyone
else, so please stop fighting!
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Huh? Who the hell are you?!
**[15:57] ---**
For what reason are you
trying to rein in our activities?!
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I-I am with Judgment!
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--Uiharu! Come on!
--Judgment? So what?
**[16:07] ---**
According to accepted convention,
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it is clear that you have no right
to stop a quarrel among men!
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In other words,
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you keep out of this, girly!
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Uiharu!
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I-It doesn't have anything to do
with being boys or girls!
**[16:28] ---**
Indeed not!
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You are correct.
**[16:37] ---**
What's important isn't
whether you're a boy or a girl.
**[16:41] ---**
Huh?
**[16:42] ---**
It's guts!
**[16:44] ---**
What?
**[16:45] ---**
Huh?
**[16:45] ---**
He hasn't been to school?
**[16:47] ---**
No, not for two or three days now.
**[16:49] ---**
Are you sure he's all right?
**[16:51] ---**
Yeah, at times like this,
he's usually off helping someone.
**[16:57] ---**
Oh, but everything is all right.
**[16:59] ---**
He accepts your request.
**[17:02] ---**
Huh? I need to hear it from him.
**[17:04] ---**
He's someone who can never turn down a favor.
**[17:08] ---**
That's just the sort of boy Sogiita Gunha is.
**[17:13] ---**
"Sogiita Gunha"
"Seventh Ranked"
**[17:15] ---**
Wh-Why, you...!
**[17:17] ---**
How dare you kick
a cheer squad's precious flag!
**[17:20] ---**
That's a challenge to those
of us on the cheer squads!
**[17:23] ---**
Sounds good.
**[17:25] ---**
Wh-What?!
**[17:26] ---**
Go on, show me the kind of guts you've got!
**[17:33] ---**
Amazing...
**[17:38] ---**
...Punch!
**[17:43] ---**
Huh? Did you hear something?
**[17:46] ---**
An explosion?
**[17:47] ---**
Fireworks?
**[17:48] ---**
We really did hear something, huh?
**[17:49] ---**
Mm-hmm, that's about right.
**[17:53] ---**
Wh--
**[17:54] ---**
What are you doing?!
P-People shouldn't hit people...!
**[17:56] ---**
Hmm? Oh, it's okay.
I made sure to pull my punch.
**[18:01] ---**
No matter how gutless they are,
**[18:03] ---**
it will take more than this to kill them.
**[18:05] ---**
More than *this*?
**[18:06] ---**
Compared to them,
**[18:08] ---**
you've got some considerable guts, miss.
**[18:10] ---**
Huh?
**[18:12] ---**
See you around!
**[18:16] ---**
Uiharu!
**[18:20] ---**
Hold on! I'm coming, too!
**[18:23] ---**
What was that just now?
**[18:24] ---**
An explosion, right?
**[18:25] ---**
--Amazing...
--He just flew away!
**[18:26] ---**
--Hey, that's bad, isn't it?
--What kind of ability was that?
**[18:28] ---**
That Judgment girl is still in there!
**[18:33] ---**
Huh? Watch out, Uiharu!
**[18:36] ---**
I've already contacted Antiskill!
**[18:38] ---**
Miss Saten, you should get to safety!
**[18:40] ---**
Never mind about me! Come on, let's hurry!
**[18:44] ---**
R-Right!
**[18:46] ---**
Look out!
**[18:49] ---**
Get down!
**[19:04] ---**
Amazing!
**[19:06] ---**
That girl...
**[19:08] ---**
Wearing a Tokiwadai uniform...
with that ability...
**[19:17] ---**
That's...
**[19:18] ---**
...the third-ranked... Railgun of Tokiwadai!
**[19:20] ---**
"Misaka Mikoto"
"Third Ranked"
"Railgun"
**[19:24] ---**
If she takes the athlete's pledge,
the Daihasei Festival will be...
**[19:27] ---**
On that subject...
**[19:30] ---**
Ms. Watanabe?
**[19:31] ---**
While she is a good student,
but perhaps due to her notoriety,
**[19:35] ---**
she often gets caught up in trouble.
**[19:38] ---**
I was thinking of leaving it
up to her to decide,
**[19:42] ---**
but given the possibility
of it creating more problems,
**[19:46] ---**
I think we should forget
we ever said anything.
**[19:48] ---**
Huh?!
**[19:50] ---**
Ah, it looks like Antiskill has arrived.
**[19:53] ---**
I'm going to go report
to them. See you later!
**[19:56] ---**
Mm-hmm, thanks!
**[19:58] ---**
Well, we should get going, too.
**[20:01] ---**
Are you going to go see Shirai again today?
**[20:03] ---**
Mm-hmm, and I have a gift
to deliver to her...
**[20:07] ---**
Oh...
**[20:10] ---**
"Tokiwadai Middle School"
**[20:10] ---**
Whoo.
**[20:12] ---**
At last, our Queen has a proper offer.
**[20:15] ---**
Hmm,
**[20:17] ---**
after what I said to Miss Misaka,
it just doesn't feel like a challenge.
**[20:22] ---**
Why not accept the offer?
**[20:25] ---**
Having you in the public notice
**[20:28] ---**
makes my job easier, as well.
**[20:32] ---**
Excuse me, but who are you?
**[20:36] ---**
Jeez, I can't have you
talking to me out of nowhere.
**[20:40] ---**
It makes more work for me
having to alter memories.
**[20:44] ---**
So, have you found out
anything about that matter?
**[20:48] ---**
Yes.
**[20:49] ---**
Then go ahead and tell me...
**[20:52] ---**
...about Misaka Mikoto's clones--
**[20:54] ---**
the Sisters.
**[20:57] ---**
Huh? You're no longer
taking the athlete's pledge?
**[21:01] ---**
Mm-mm. They said they
settled on someone else.
**[21:04] ---**
My word, there is no one
more suitable than you, Sissy.
**[21:09] ---**
Well, that's okay. Never mind that... Here!
**[21:14] ---**
Apparently, it's quite the hot item.
**[21:16] ---**
Sissy...
**[21:18] ---**
Yeah, this is nice once in a while.
**[21:22] ---**
Sissy--
**[21:28] ---**
We did it!
**[21:29] ---**
Yeah!
**[21:30] ---**
We made it.
**[21:31] ---**
You've done well, everyone.
**[21:34] ---**
Still,
**[21:36] ---**
why do I have an awfully
bad feeling about this?
**[21:40] ---**
Sorry I'm late. It took a while
to explain everything... Huh?
**[21:46] ---**
Um, Sissy? I can explain...
**[21:49] ---**
Ku-ro-ko!!
**[23:25] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
Wow, the Daihasei Festival is beginning!
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#2 The Daihasei Festival"
**[23:28] ---**
It sure is.
**[23:30] ---**
Shirai, is something the matter?
**[23:31] ---**
It looks like the frustration
of not being able to compete
**[23:34] ---**
together with Miss Misaka
is finally getting to her.
**[23:36] ---**
But wasn't she the one who asked Kongo?
**[23:38] ---**
Sissy!!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E2 - The Daihasei Festival
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR5P775ER/the-daihasei-festival)
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**[00:03] ---**
Honestly,
**[00:05] ---**
that's quite the favor you're asking.
**[00:07] ---**
I am terribly sorry, Miss Konori.
**[00:10] ---**
Using only what is here in the hospital
**[00:12] ---**
is a little inadequate
to perform my Judgment duties.
**[00:16] ---**
Sheesh, your wounds aren't
even completely healed yet.
**[00:20] ---**
Wow, those look painful.
**[00:21] ---**
C-Could you please not use
your clairvoyance ability in here?!
**[00:29] ---**
Still, I'm serious.
**[00:31] ---**
Don't push yourself too hard.
Miss Uiharu is worried about you.
**[00:36] ---**
Uiharu...
**[00:38] ---**
...must feel somewhat
responsible for me getting hurt.
**[00:42] ---**
She was the one who helped
steer me into this situation.
**[00:46] ---**
That's true.
**[00:48] ---**
Which is exactly why I must
get better as soon as possible.
**[00:53] ---**
To keep her from taking more
upon herself than is necessary.
**[00:59] ---**
It turns out you two are cut
from the same cloth, huh?
**[01:02] ---**
Huh?
**[01:03] ---**
Mm-mm, nothing.
**[01:08] ---**
We did it!
**[01:09] ---**
Yeah!
**[01:10] ---**
We made it.
**[01:12] ---**
You've done well, everyone.
**[01:15] ---**
Still,
**[01:17] ---**
why do I have an awfully bad feeling about this?
**[01:24] ---**
The Daihasei Festival is about to begin!
**[01:27] ---**
"Daihasei Festival"
**[01:28] ---**
Here in the main stadium,
during one of the few times
**[01:30] ---**
that Academy City opens
its doors to the outside world,
**[01:34] ---**
the parents of the students,
as well as many others, have come to visit.
**[01:38] ---**
Ms. Watanabe!
**[01:41] ---**
Long time no see!
Another year's festival is starting.
**[01:47] ---**
Ms. Tsukuyomi,
**[01:49] ---**
why are you dressed like that?
**[01:52] ---**
I have cheerleading to do.
**[01:55] ---**
I understand that you're all worked up, but...
**[01:59] ---**
Ah, that's right, Shokuho is taking
the athlete's pledge this year.
**[02:05] ---**
Yes. The plan was to have Level 5s
carry out demonstrations this year.
**[02:12] ---**
However...
**[02:15] ---**
--The athlete's pledge!
--The athlete's pledge!
**[02:17] ---**
We will...
**[02:18] ---**
We will...
**[02:20] ---**
...adhere to the ideals of sportsmanship
**[02:22] ---**
as we undertake this year's Daihasei Festival...
**[02:24] ---**
...use our youthful dreams
and fervent wills as our strength...
**[02:28] ---**
...and forge undying bonds with... bonds with...
**[02:32] ---**
Aw, what was it again?
**[02:35] ---**
Whatever! Do something or other
with undying bonds and overflowing guts...
**[02:41] ---**
--demonstrating what we learn daily,
--showing off our daily training and guts,
**[02:44] ---**
--showing our gratitude to our families...
--displaying our bravery and guts
**[02:47] ---**
--by showing the growth we've made...
--to those who are rotten to the core,
**[02:49] ---**
and ensuring that this event
creates fantastic gutsy memories,
**[02:53] ---**
we pledge to overcome
all obstacles and hardships,
**[02:56] ---**
getting back on our feet every time we stumble,
**[02:59] ---**
and surmounting everything we must with guts!
**[03:04] ---**
What was that?
**[03:06] ---**
Looks like that got botched, huh?
**[03:08] ---**
Yes...
**[03:10] ---**
Um, this concludes our opening ceremonies.
**[03:15] ---**
He upstaged me.
**[03:33] ---**
"A Certain Magical Railgun T"
**[04:50] ---**
The Daihasei Festival.
An event that spans seven days,
**[04:53] ---**
that gets held in Academy City every year--
**[04:56] ---**
kind of like a large-scale field day!
**[04:59] ---**
Unlike conventional athletic festivals,
**[05:01] ---**
the Daihasei Festival has all
of Academy City's students
**[05:04] ---**
compete with their schools.
**[05:06] ---**
The TV stations broadcast what's
happening to the whole world!
**[05:11] ---**
And the biggest difference
**[05:13] ---**
is that all of the events
have espers competing in them!
**[05:18] ---**
And you know what?
**[05:19] ---**
The result of all those
espers' fierce competition
**[05:21] ---**
is said to create a phenomenon
that can't be seen anywhere else!
**[05:26] ---**
You bean dat urban wegend aboud
dat whadeber-ids-cawwed metal?
**[05:30] ---**
Non, non! Shadow metal! Shadow metal!
**[05:34] ---**
When dozens, even hundreds
of esper abilities clash together,
**[05:37] ---**
they say a new metal,
one not found in nature, is created!
**[05:42] ---**
The only chance of that happening
is during the Daihasei Festival!
**[05:46] ---**
What's more, it's so rare that it
fetches an incredibly high price.
**[05:51] ---**
--There's no choice but to look for it--
--Saten!!
**[05:57] ---**
Are you taking those rumors seriously again?!
**[06:02] ---**
O-Oh, no. I was just kidding.
Rumors are rumors. Even I know that.
**[06:09] ---**
--One strawberry *yakisoba*, please.
--Oh, no! You always say that,
then get yourself into trouble!
**[06:11] ---**
--Coming up.
--Oh, no! You always say that,
then get yourself into trouble!
**[06:12] ---**
Being curious is fine, but please take
a moment to consider the consequences!
**[06:16] ---**
Ah!
**[06:18] ---**
Misaka in her gym uniform, up on the monitor!
**[06:20] ---**
Sissy?!
**[06:23] ---**
In Lane 4 is this pair,
**[06:25] ---**
from Tokiwadai Middle School,
Misaka Mikoto and Kongo Mitsuko!
**[06:30] ---**
"Block 7, Event 3"
"Three-legged Race"
**[06:30] ---**
And that is the lineup for the third
event of Block 7, the three-legged race!
**[06:35] ---**
Now to explain the rules.
**[06:37] ---**
If the band around their ankles
comes off, they are disqualified.
**[06:40] ---**
Use of their abilities to directly
harm other competitors is prohibited.
**[06:44] ---**
Further, as a restriction
on higher-level espers,
**[06:47] ---**
Misaka is not permitted
to use her electric shock ability.
**[06:50] ---**
In other words, any non-electrical
abilities are still okay, right?
**[06:54] ---**
On your marks!
**[06:57] ---**
So, is it fair to say that
Tokiwadai is the favorite for this race?
**[07:02] ---**
If they were simply
throwing their abilities around
**[07:03] ---**
until the others are knocked out, maybe,
**[07:05] ---**
but within the framework of winning a race,
**[07:08] ---**
depending on the tactics used,
this could be quite eventful.
**[07:11] ---**
Ha-ha-ha, thinking the others
can do anything with their tricks?
**[07:15] ---**
You *do* realize that we are Tokiwadai's
Gods of Thunder when you say that, yes?
**[07:21] ---**
We practiced a whole lot, too.
**[07:23] ---**
And we fell down just as much.
By the way, what's with that nickname?
**[07:30] ---**
Incidentally, providing your play-by-play
will be your usual pirate radio DJ, and...
**[07:33] ---**
...your belly-button-baring Katyusha.
**[07:36] ---**
And here comes the starting gun!
**[07:38] ---**
Get set!
**[07:47] ---**
Wh-What is this?!
**[07:50] ---**
See you later!
**[07:51] ---**
Ah! Right from the start,
**[07:53] ---**
the wrappings from the
Airin Girls' High School contestants
**[07:56] ---**
are clinging to the other like snakes!
**[07:57] ---**
And now they are dashing off!
What is happening?
**[08:00] ---**
According to my data, she is a telekinesist.
**[08:04] ---**
She can control anything she is in contact with.
**[08:06] ---**
Her partner is an esper who can reduce
anything she touches into raw materials.
**[08:10] ---**
It appears that she broke
down the track's pavement.
**[08:13] ---**
That explains it. So the black
on the wrappings is asphalt.
**[08:16] ---**
It's sticky and starting to harden.
**[08:19] ---**
It's not a bad move
using it right out of the gate.
**[08:22] ---**
How do you mean?
**[08:23] ---**
With a few exceptions,
most abilities have a limited range.
**[08:27] ---**
Once they leave that range
after first slowing the others down,
**[08:30] ---**
they can leave the competition in the dust.
**[08:32] ---**
That follows. Now,
**[08:34] ---**
the other teams are starting
to break their bonds.
**[08:37] ---**
Damn it, my clothes are sticky and heavy now.
**[08:39] ---**
It's a straight shot to
the finish line for us now!
**[08:47] ---**
Oh, there's been a development!
**[08:50] ---**
What's this now?
**[08:51] ---**
A-A hamster! But why?
**[08:55] ---**
It's likely that Ninoude
Affiliated Middle School
**[08:57] ---**
set this up before the race.
**[08:59] ---**
Those two are both rodent-specific telepaths.
**[09:03] ---**
But won't it take more
than that to slow them down?
**[09:05] ---**
You sneaky little...!
**[09:07] ---**
I believe the target is
the band around their ankles.
**[09:10] ---**
So that's it! The goal is to have
the hamsters cut that, and disqualify them!
**[09:15] ---**
Oh no you don't--
**[09:17] ---**
Huh?!
**[09:18] ---**
H-Hey, where are you--?
**[09:23] ---**
Hmm, they chewed through
their underwear straps by mistake.
**[09:26] ---**
Hold it!
**[09:27] ---**
They've slumped down unable to move!
Good job, hamsters!
**[09:31] ---**
Now, coming up from behind
are Habatobi High and Tokiwadai.
**[09:35] ---**
And here come the tiny assassins!
**[09:38] ---**
Well, that seems about right.
**[09:39] ---**
Hey! What are you doing
to my cute little Kotaro?!
**[09:43] ---**
Cram it! You don't like it,
don't send them after us!
**[09:47] ---**
What's this? Contestant Misaka is on her knees.
**[09:50] ---**
Her EM field must be
keeping the assassins at bay,
**[09:54] ---**
and she appears to be in shock because of it.
**[09:56] ---**
"100m dash contestant rendezvous point"
**[09:58] ---**
Oh, my, the strength of
everyone's youth is on display,
**[10:02] ---**
and things are a confused mess.
**[10:04] ---**
Well, if it were me, I would control the
contestants and judges with Mental Out,
**[10:10] ---**
and walk away as the winner
without breaking a sweat.
**[10:13] ---**
Oh, using it on those not
in the race is against the rules.
**[10:18] ---**
I'll take this.
**[10:23] ---**
"#2 The Daihasei Festival"
**[10:23] ---**
Huh?
**[10:27] ---**
Okay, the third event of Block 7,
**[10:29] ---**
the three-legged race,
is entering the home stretch!
**[10:31] ---**
Once they round this last corner,
it's a straight shot to the finish line!
**[10:36] ---**
The Habatobi High team,
which has been pouring it on thus far,
**[10:39] ---**
is now in the lead as they turn the last corner!
**[10:45] ---**
Tokiwadai and Ninoude are close behind!
**[10:48] ---**
This isn't over yet!
I'm sure we can overtake them!
**[10:52] ---**
S-Suits us just fine--
**[10:54] ---**
Ah, what just happened?!
Both teams have inexplicably slipped!
**[10:58] ---**
Tokiwadai has stayed upright, thanks
to Contestant Misaka's magnetism!
**[11:02] ---**
Contestant Amime from Habatobi High's ability
**[11:05] ---**
allows him to control the frictional
coefficient of anything he touches.
**[11:09] ---**
As we were rounding the corner,
I touched the inside track!
**[11:13] ---**
It only lasts a short time though,
which can sometimes be a drag.
**[11:15] ---**
Tokiwadai uses the
centrifugal force to close the gap!
**[11:19] ---**
Sure enough, it wasn't that easy.
**[11:22] ---**
But still...!
**[11:24] ---**
Oh! Contestant Amime has used his ability
**[11:27] ---**
allowing them to speed up by skating!
**[11:29] ---**
I can collect the moisture form the air,
break it down, and ignite it!
**[11:34] ---**
Harnessing the blast creates a rocket boost!
**[11:36] ---**
We just have to make a break
for the finish line! This is in the bag!
**[11:42] ---**
Ow, that's hot!
**[11:45] ---**
Uh-oh! Habatobi High has
gone off course and out of bounds!
**[11:52] ---**
Oh, no!
**[11:56] ---**
What's this?! A gym mat has flown
through the air, catching the pair!
**[12:03] ---**
This dramatic rescue was
of course performed by this team!
**[12:07] ---**
Contestant Misaka pulled up
the gym mat with her magnetism,
**[12:10] ---**
and Contestant Kongo launched it
toward them with her Aero Hand!
**[12:14] ---**
One false step would have spelled a disaster,
**[12:17] ---**
but that was an outstanding combination!
**[12:21] ---**
Damn. If we hadn't screwed
that up, we would have won.
**[12:26] ---**
What is this?
**[12:27] ---**
Huh?
**[12:29] ---**
Iron filings?
**[12:30] ---**
Back from when we were
wrapped up in those bandages.
**[12:33] ---**
I mixed iron into the
asphalt before it hardened.
**[12:37] ---**
I was planning to stop you
**[12:39] ---**
if it looked like you were
crossing the finish line first.
**[12:41] ---**
But you saved me the trouble.
**[12:43] ---**
Forgive me.
**[12:46] ---**
She doesn't miss a trick.
**[12:48] ---**
Is that something someone from
such a prestigious school would do?
**[12:50] ---**
Turns out we wouldn't
have won no matter what we did.
**[12:54] ---**
And now...
**[12:56] ---**
The Tokiwadai team crosses the finish line!
**[13:00] ---**
Such is the way things ended up,
**[13:03] ---**
but if all the other schools
had teamed up against Tokiwadai...
**[13:07] ---**
Oh, amazing!
**[13:09] ---**
Leabe id do dose dwo.
**[13:11] ---**
If it were not for my injuries,
I would be the one standing next to her!
**[13:16] ---**
Ah! Kongo Mitsuko!
I cannot see Sissy if you stand there!
**[13:21] ---**
Damn it, how do I talk on this?
**[13:24] ---**
Must be the latest model. I wish
they hadn't given me this crazy phone.
**[13:28] ---**
I can use a regular cell phone...
**[13:32] ---**
If you pull that out on the side,
the screen appears,
**[13:36] ---**
and you can call them back
from your call history.
**[13:39] ---**
Oh, you're right. That was extremely helpful...
**[13:44] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[13:46] ---**
Oh, er, no...
**[13:49] ---**
Mish Shaden, we're weabing!
**[13:52] ---**
Oh, mm-hmm, okay!
**[14:00] ---**
I-Is something wrong?
**[14:02] ---**
Have we met somewhere before?
**[14:06] ---**
No...
**[14:07] ---**
...you must be imagining it.
**[14:11] ---**
Ha-ha-ha, I guess so!
**[14:13] ---**
Mish Shaden!
**[14:15] ---**
Mm-hmm, coming!
**[14:26] ---**
Is something the matter?
Have you run into any trouble?
**[14:29] ---**
No, I was just unreachable for a bit.
**[14:32] ---**
You've safely managed
to get into Academy City, then?
**[14:35] ---**
Yeah.
**[14:36] ---**
This is your first mission for MEMBER.
**[14:40] ---**
You need to fulfill your duty,
my Aztecan young lady.
**[14:44] ---**
I know.
**[14:45] ---**
Oh! Nagatenjouki Academy
breaks ahead of the pack
**[14:50] ---**
and is first across the finish line!
**[14:52] ---**
They have not lost an event yet!
**[14:53] ---**
The Daihasei Festival...
**[14:55] ---**
Misaka does not go to any school
and is not allowed to participate.
**[15:02] ---**
Time to go back to the hospital.
**[15:05] ---**
Misaka!
**[15:08] ---**
We saw you in the three-legged race!
**[15:10] ---**
As impressive as always.
**[15:13] ---**
I'm glad we won, but we got awfully dirty, too.
**[15:16] ---**
We saw before that, too.
Misaka, you're pretty fast, huh?
**[15:20] ---**
It was so cool how you passed
those boys in the same year at school.
**[15:24] ---**
Oh, you really think so?
Ever since I was little, I've been pretty--
**[15:27] ---**
Mikoto has been fast ever
since she was in kindergarten.
**[15:32] ---**
Oh, Mama!
**[15:33] ---**
Yoo-hoo!
**[15:34] ---**
What's up? I thought we were meeting up later--
**[15:36] ---**
--Mama?!
--Mama?!
**[15:38] ---**
Ah... "Mama" is what I used to call
her as a child, and it just slipped out.
**[15:43] ---**
It's not like I'm not independent of her--
**[15:44] ---**
"Mama," as in her mother?!
Not her older sister, but her *mother*?!
**[15:49] ---**
You like you're only around 20!
**[15:51] ---**
Oh, *that's* what you meant.
**[15:52] ---**
Ah, are you two Mikoto's friends?
What a kind thing for you to say.
**[15:57] ---**
Ah, but no w that I'm looking,
I can see parts of Misaka here and there.
**[16:03] ---**
Bustline excepted.
**[16:04] ---**
Okay, Miss Saten,
let's have a nice long chat later.
**[16:08] ---**
Just the two of us.
**[16:09] ---**
Ah-ha-ha, I'm kidding! I'm kidding, okay?
**[16:13] ---**
Sheesh.
**[16:14] ---**
Oh, come to think of it, where's Kuroko?
**[16:16] ---**
Miss Shirai went out on Judgment patrol.
**[16:19] ---**
If you need her for something, I can call her.
**[16:22] ---**
Oh, no, that's okay. I was just
thinking that if I asked Kuroko,
**[16:25] ---**
she could teleport me back to Tokiwadai
and I could change out of this.
**[16:30] ---**
Yes, I can see why you would want to change.
**[16:34] ---**
But as late as it is...
**[16:36] ---**
I don't think I can make it
back in time for the next race.
**[16:40] ---**
What if you asked someone
to fill in for you in the meantime?
**[16:44] ---**
Yeah, maybe.
**[16:45] ---**
I do have my showdown
with that idiot coming up, though.
**[16:48] ---**
I don't know if letting someone else--
**[16:49] ---**
Which "that idiot" is that? Mama is curious!
**[16:52] ---**
--Huh? D-D-Don't make too much of it. H-H-He...
**[16:56] ---**
--Oh, you mean *that* guy?
--Huh? D-D-Don't make too much of it. H-H-He...
**[16:58] ---**
Huh? What's this, now?
**[17:00] ---**
Oh, he's someone who
Misaka apparently owes a lot to.
**[17:04] ---**
Ho-ho, tell me more, tell me more.
**[17:06] ---**
Ah, I was watching the
scavenger hunt coverage earlier,
**[17:10] ---**
and Miss Misaka was with a spiky-haired boy.
**[17:12] ---**
Spiky-haired? Ah, *that* boy!
**[17:15] ---**
You know who he is?
**[17:16] ---**
I happened to see them this morning.
**[17:19] ---**
She was talking to a high-school-aged boy,
**[17:21] ---**
and said that if he beat her, she
would do anything he said, or something.
**[17:24] ---**
--Th-There are three of them against me now...?
--Oh? You don't say!
**[17:26] ---**
--Th-There are three of them against me now...?
--Anything he says?!
**[17:34] ---**
My...
**[17:36] ---**
You might say this is gruesome.
What incredible force!
**[17:47] ---**
Miss Awatsuki...
**[17:48] ---**
Yes?
**[17:49] ---**
Have you ever been in a fight before?
**[17:51] ---**
Huh?!
**[17:54] ---**
We've been taught all this time
that the enemy is within us,
**[17:59] ---**
and that we are not training ourselves
**[18:02] ---**
to prove that we are better than others.
**[18:05] ---**
But looking at the other schools' students,
**[18:07] ---**
I wonder if our competitive psyches
are not somewhat lacking.
**[18:12] ---**
It's true, we may not be able
to duplicate that kind of
**[18:17] ---**
force and power in the pursuit of victory.
**[18:19] ---**
I know that it isn't right to
hurt others or look down on them.
**[18:25] ---**
However, I do wonder if we
shouldn't learn the skills we need
**[18:29] ---**
in order to fight competitively.
**[18:31] ---**
I've never even gotten angry,
let alone gotten into a fight.
**[18:35] ---**
So that's why you asked me about that earlier.
**[18:38] ---**
In that case, I was thinking the same--
**[18:39] ---**
I have it!
**[18:40] ---**
Miss Awatsuki, would you
mind trying to get angry with me?
**[18:44] ---**
Huh?!
**[18:47] ---**
U-Um...
**[18:49] ---**
H-H--
**[18:52] ---**
Hey, you!
**[18:55] ---**
--Down with Tokiwadai Middle School!
--Down with Tokiwadai Middle School!
**[18:57] ---**
Elite school my eye! They're all girls,
and middle-schoolers, at that!
**[19:01] ---**
We can't let ourselves be outdone by them!
**[19:03] ---**
--Yeah!
--Yeah!
**[19:05] ---**
Oh, goodness.
**[19:07] ---**
It is nice that you have so much spirit.
**[19:10] ---**
However, we are one
of the five fingers competing
**[19:14] ---**
for Daihasei supremacy.
**[19:16] ---**
We are not going to roll over
and be beaten that easily.
**[19:19] ---**
You'll be telling your grandchildren how
fearsome Tokiwadai Middle School is.
**[19:25] ---**
Oh, wow, Miss Kongo!
**[19:27] ---**
Such grand poise in the face of
those gentlemen! How impressive!
**[19:31] ---**
Time for us to cheer, as well! Tokiwadai, yeah!
**[19:36] ---**
--Y-Yeah...
--Y-Yeah...
**[19:37] ---**
I cannot hear you! One more time!
**[19:40] ---**
--Yeah!
--Yeah!
**[19:41] ---**
One more!
**[19:42] ---**
--Yeah!
--Yeah!
**[19:43] ---**
Oh dear, what are we going to do?
**[19:46] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[19:49] ---**
Well, the contest is about to start,
but I don't see Miss Misaka anywhere.
**[19:54] ---**
Oh...
**[19:57] ---**
"Once again, Misaka is
here to watch the games.
**[20:01] ---**
N-Not that she is depressed about
being unable to compete, you understand,"
**[20:05] ---**
says Misaka, offering a *tsundere* rationale.
**[20:10] ---**
Well, she cannot deny that there
is some feeling of alienation.
**[20:15] ---**
Ah, Miss Misaka!
**[20:17] ---**
Huh?
**[20:18] ---**
Oh? Why aren't you wearing your gym uniform?
**[20:23] ---**
Now that you mention it,
**[20:24] ---**
your gym uniform got pretty dirty
in that three-legged race earlier.
**[20:30] ---**
Oh, and you have nothing else
to change into, right?
**[20:32] ---**
In that case, you may borrow mine.
**[20:38] ---**
Oh, man!
**[20:39] ---**
I thought that if I used my ability,
I could dash there and back in time,
**[20:42] ---**
but this is pushing it!
**[20:46] ---**
Sorry I'm late--
**[20:49] ---**
It's not too small, is it?
**[20:51] ---**
Nothing that will obstruct any movement.
**[20:53] ---**
In fact, it is extra roomy across the chest.
**[20:56] ---**
I will hold on to your cat for you.
**[20:59] ---**
Huh?
**[21:00] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[21:02] ---**
No, I just thought I saw someone over there...
**[21:04] ---**
Wh-What is she doing?!
**[21:08] ---**
How is the matter coming along?
**[21:11] ---**
Everything is in place.
There will be no problem at all.
**[21:14] ---**
We will render her powerless,
just like you want.
**[21:18] ---**
Baba, we're getting started.
**[21:20] ---**
Yeah, sorry. I'm on my way.
**[21:22] ---**
Well, well, he sure sounds sure of things.
**[21:26] ---**
I guess I should expect as much
from someone from MEMBER,
**[21:28] ---**
the dark side outfit under the
direct thumb of the governing board.
**[21:32] ---**
Let's see what he's actually capable of.
**[23:25] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
"Oh dear. Misaka has
been mistaken for Big Sister,
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#3 Balloon Hunter"
**[23:28] ---**
and ends up having to compete in the games,
**[23:30] ---**
but she must do her best for the others,"
**[23:32] ---**
enthuses Misaka, in the style
of a morning anime show preview.
**[23:36] ---**
Mm-hmm, well, at least
you sounded determined.
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E3 - Balloon Hunter
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRW4W7XMY/balloon-hunter)
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**[00:02] ---**
Okay, the next competition is...
**[00:04] ---**
"Balloon Hunter"
**[00:04] ---**
...the Balloon Hunter!
**[00:06] ---**
"Hazamaya Kana, Class 1-3"
**[00:07] ---**
In this contest, 30 students
chosen from each school
**[00:10] ---**
will compete to break the paper balloons
attached to their opponents' heads
**[00:13] ---**
using the designated beanbags!
**[00:15] ---**
Contestants whose balloons
are popped are disqualified,
**[00:18] ---**
and the team with the most
students remaining at the end wins.
**[00:22] ---**
The game area is spread out,
but going onto roads open to the public
**[00:25] ---**
and going indoors is prohibited!
**[00:28] ---**
--Also, as with the other games,
direct attacks with one's ability are off-limits!
**[00:28] ---**
--All right, let's get going. Miss Misaka...?
--Also, as with the other games,
direct attacks with one's ability are off-limits!
**[00:32] ---**
--Miss Kongo, we're getting started!
--All right, are all of the school teams ready?
**[00:38] ---**
I'll give you points for not
tucking your tail and running away.
**[00:41] ---**
Ha! *You* might be laughing on the
other side of your face when this is over!
**[00:46] ---**
Okay,
**[00:47] ---**
ready...!
**[00:49] ---**
Huh?
**[00:50] ---**
**[00:50] ---**
Just keep running as far as you can!
**[00:54] ---**
If we all make it through
this, it'll be a tie!
**[00:57] ---**
H-How negative!
**[00:59] ---**
Let's go after them!
**[01:02] ---**
"Pursuing them individually is dangerous.
We should act in three-man teams,"
**[01:07] ---**
proposes Misaka...
**[01:11] ---**
Oh well, then.
**[01:14] ---**
How in the world did this end up happening?
**[01:18] ---**
Actually, I can pretty well imagine.
**[01:22] ---**
On the other hand, the fact
that no one could tell she isn't me
**[01:26] ---**
is kind of lucky, but
kind of dejecting, too...
**[01:30] ---**
Well, there's no helping what's already done.
**[01:34] ---**
You're competing in my place,
so go ahead and tear it up.
**[01:54] ---**
"A Certain Magical Railgun T"
**[03:10] ---**
Uiharu, are you sure you
don't have to patrol?
**[03:12] ---**
I'm about to go, but it will be over the net.
**[03:17] ---**
In a large-scale event like this,
they anticipate a number of cyberattacks.
**[03:23] ---**
Ah, and that's right up your alley, isn't it?
**[03:27] ---**
Okay, three minutes have passed
since the start of the balloon hunter game,
**[03:30] ---**
and there is still no one
out from either team.
**[03:32] ---**
Who will be the one to break this tie?
**[03:35] ---**
Isn't that the event that Misaka
said she was competing in next?
**[03:38] ---**
It probably is. I wonder if
she changed her clothes in time.
**[03:43] ---**
Oh, this is Misaka we're
talking about. I think she's fine.
**[03:47] ---**
Ah, Kongo!
**[03:49] ---**
We have to split up, everyone.
**[03:51] ---**
--Right!
--Right!
**[03:53] ---**
A competition to break the
balloons on each other's heads, huh?
**[03:56] ---**
Tokiwadai has lots of other espers
besides Misaka who are amazing, right?
**[04:01] ---**
They're going to win
with no trouble, aren't they?
**[04:03] ---**
Hmm... good question.
**[04:11] ---**
Why don't you give up already?
**[04:16] ---**
A telekinesist...
**[04:18] ---**
Let me guess, you lured me here?
**[04:21] ---**
Heh-heh, it seems pretty
juvenile to do this against a girl,
**[04:24] ---**
but don't worry, I'm not
going to hit you in your face!
**[04:29] ---**
If that's your best,
you're not even a Level 3, are you?
**[04:34] ---**
I, too, am a telekinesist.
**[04:37] ---**
One who is in a class way
above yours, to boot.
**[04:42] ---**
Damn!
**[04:44] ---**
Do you think you can keep dodging them all?
**[04:53] ---**
Contestant Omoshi is out!
**[04:55] ---**
At this rate,
**[04:57] ---**
I could take all of you on,
and still have change left over.
**[05:02] ---**
Your schoolmates will soon be--
**[05:07] ---**
Contestant Kirifu is out!
**[05:09] ---**
Huh?!
**[05:10] ---**
But didn't that attack happen
after he was disqualified?
**[05:12] ---**
It was completely invalid!
**[05:15] ---**
It *would* be, if I had done it.
**[05:20] ---**
H-Hi, there.
**[05:23] ---**
She's the one who
telekinetically threw it at you.
**[05:26] ---**
You dropped your guard, thinking it was over,
**[05:29] ---**
Level 4 telekinesist Kirifu Megumi.
**[05:33] ---**
Why do you know my full name?
**[05:35] ---**
Because we're all weak.
We checked out everything to know about you,
**[05:40] ---**
and came up with some strategies.
**[05:45] ---**
Is everyone in position?
**[05:49] ---**
I can confirm that moments ago,
at least five members of the other team
**[05:54] ---**
came into this alleyway.
**[05:56] ---**
We are in control of all three
exits leading out of it.
**[06:01] ---**
I will telepathically give
the signal to move in.
**[06:06] ---**
All right then, three... two...
**[06:10] ---**
...one...?
**[06:19] ---**
M-Miss Kobayashi, take it easy...
**[06:23] ---**
Screams that are delivered
telepathically echo directly within the brain.
**[06:27] ---**
It amounts to a sonic weapon
that can't be blocked out.
**[06:32] ---**
Oh, and that's just a toy, so relax.
**[06:34] ---**
"Kobayashi Satori: LV3 telepath"
"Weaknesses: bugs (especially spiders)"
**[06:38] ---**
They just keep scampering away.
**[06:39] ---**
They don't know when to quit!
**[06:45] ---**
M-Mud?
**[06:46] ---**
We have to go through there?
**[06:48] ---**
Our shoes are going to get dirty.
**[06:52] ---**
How about we go around?
**[06:54] ---**
Y-Yes, let's do that.
**[06:58] ---**
There they go.
**[07:00] ---**
They don't even realize
they're being led around.
**[07:02] ---**
Incredible. We're playing
Tokiwadai like a violin.
**[07:07] ---**
Just like you said we would, Baba.
**[07:09] ---**
Oh, I just collected some
data and made some suggestions.
**[07:13] ---**
But how did you get such
detailed information?
**[07:17] ---**
Including personalities and weaknesses?
**[07:19] ---**
I have a friend over at
the Garden of Learning.
**[07:22] ---**
That's how.
**[07:23] ---**
Hey, what do we do next?
**[07:24] ---**
Oh, hold on a second.
**[07:26] ---**
--Sure enough, wars are won
by detailed intelligence
--Let's see... Next, we move.
**[07:29] ---**
--and a leader who can make effective use of it.
--Let's see... Next, we move.
**[07:29] ---**
--and a leader who can make effective use of it.
--We rendezvous with Nomura and the others at Point 5A.
**[07:32] ---**
--and a leader who can make effective use of it.
--Where is Point 5A again?
**[07:32] ---**
--Know the enemy and know yourself,
--Where is Point 5A again?
**[07:33] ---**
--Know the enemy and know yourself,
--That would be...
**[07:34] ---**
--and even these knuckle-draggers
will make good pawns.
--That would be...
**[07:36] ---**
--and even these knuckle-draggers
will make good pawns.
--...the stockyard over on Block 2.
**[07:38] ---**
Over there, huh?
**[07:39] ---**
Okay, let's get going...
**[07:41] ---**
Baba?
**[07:42] ---**
Hmm? Okay, let's get going.
**[07:48] ---**
Things are going pretty smoothly so far.
We're way in the lead.
**[07:52] ---**
Stay on your toes, though.
They have Misaka Mikoto on their team.
**[07:57] ---**
That radar warning thing she does
means sneak attacks won't work.
**[07:59] ---**
She's like her own fortress.
**[08:03] ---**
Still,
**[08:04] ---**
there's no need to eliminate
*all* of them, is there?
**[08:06] ---**
Yeah. No reason to go out on a limb.
**[08:10] ---**
We should spread the word to not go near her.
**[08:13] ---**
Isn't that the way?
**[08:15] ---**
If we didn't have enough numbers,
we couldn't move the plan forward,
**[08:18] ---**
so I intervened here and there,
**[08:21] ---**
but now that we're overwhelming them,
the real goal is getting left behind.
**[08:25] ---**
What a pain.
**[08:27] ---**
Well, let's see what shakes out.
**[08:33] ---**
No way! No way!
**[08:35] ---**
Why did I have to run into the Level 5?!
**[08:51] ---**
I-Is she gone?
**[09:03] ---**
There was an incident in
this alleyway previously,
**[09:08] ---**
so the layout, not to mention
the locations to hide
**[09:11] ---**
and from which to attack are all familiar.
**[09:13] ---**
Damn, that was a stretch, all right!
**[09:15] ---**
Ah, that way is dangerous.
**[09:19] ---**
"There, you see?" says Misaka with a sigh.
**[09:24] ---**
Contestant Misaka defeats
her second opponent!
**[09:27] ---**
Can Tokiwadai bounce back
in the time remaining?!
**[09:31] ---**
Did you see that, kitty?
**[09:35] ---**
Miss Misaka is amazing.
**[09:39] ---**
That really is an adorable cat, huh?
**[09:47] ---**
It looks as though this is
the end of the line for me...
**[09:51] ---**
Ecaterina, limit yourself
to only one rat per day...
**[09:57] ---**
That's fine and all, but please
hurry along to the sidelines, okay?
**[10:00] ---**
Huh? Oh, really?
**[10:02] ---**
You were awesome. There
were seven of us, too.
**[10:06] ---**
Given the power of Kongo Mitsuko,
it is no surprise!
**[10:10] ---**
--She apparently just transferred in,
so there was hardly any data on her.
--You should be proud that you managed to beat me at all!
**[10:14] ---**
Just transferred in, and
she's still that pompous?
**[10:18] ---**
Bad news! Nomura and the
others were wiped out!
**[10:20] ---**
For real?!
**[10:21] ---**
This is bad. Our lead has
been nearly eliminated.
**[10:25] ---**
What's worse, so is our precious Level 3.
**[10:27] ---**
Nice!
**[10:29] ---**
Maybe we should go after
Misaka Mikoto after all.
**[10:32] ---**
Huh?
**[10:34] ---**
Right now, the other team
isn't acting cohesively,
**[10:36] ---**
but with the time limit
approaching and no time to spare,
**[10:39] ---**
they might start working together.
**[10:40] ---**
If they team up against us,
it will be hard to maintain our slim lead.
**[10:45] ---**
But if we take out their head right now,
**[10:47] ---**
we can shake them up,
and their leadership will get muddled.
**[10:50] ---**
Yeah, we get that, but...
**[10:52] ---**
...there's no way to beat her.
**[10:54] ---**
Don't you worry.
**[10:56] ---**
There's a stunningly simple way...
**[10:58] ---**
"#3 Balloon Hunter"
**[10:59] ---**
...to bring her down.
**[11:07] ---**
Heh-heh, looks like I got away clean!
**[11:12] ---**
Judgment!
**[11:14] ---**
You are under arrest for
flagrant snatch and grab-- Huh?
**[11:18] ---**
You would be better off not
making this harder for both of us.
**[11:21] ---**
I am in an especially poor mood right now!
**[11:25] ---**
After all, so far today...
**[11:29] ---**
--...I have not seen Sissy even once.
--What is this?! Damn it! Pull them out!
**[11:35] ---**
Sissy must be competing right about now.
**[11:38] ---**
Where is the largest street
monitor around here again?
**[11:49] ---**
"Strange," says Misaka, tilting her head.
**[11:53] ---**
That girl does not appear
to have any desire to fight,
**[11:57] ---**
but she also does not seem to
be running away in any random direction.
**[12:01] ---**
Rather, perhaps the reason she came
to an area with open vantage points
**[12:04] ---**
may have something to do with her ability,
**[12:07] ---**
or perhaps...
**[12:08] ---**
...this is a trap.
**[12:13] ---**
If you can't hit your opponent
by throwing at them,
**[12:15] ---**
then don't throw anything.
**[12:18] ---**
Huh?
**[12:19] ---**
The rules of the competition
**[12:21] ---**
state that you have to break the paper
balloons using the designated beanbags,
**[12:24] ---**
and that's all they say.
**[12:26] ---**
In other words, you can break them
by holding the beanbag in your hand.
**[12:30] ---**
If Misaka Mikoto tries to use
her electric shocks against the beanbags,
**[12:35] ---**
it counts as attacking an opponent
with her ability, and she'll be disqualified.
**[12:39] ---**
By simply holding the beanbags in
our hands, we can lock down her shocks.
**[12:43] ---**
If she can't use her ability,
then the playing field is level!
**[12:47] ---**
In that case...
**[12:48] ---**
You're mine!
**[12:54] ---**
"Misaka has engaged in combat
over 10,000 times with someone
**[12:57] ---**
who could take her life with a single touch.
**[13:00] ---**
It will not be a simple matter
to catch her," warns Misaka.
**[13:07] ---**
Don't let up! Everyone charge her together!
**[13:11] ---**
Oh! Contestant Misaka,
faced with a flurry of hands,
**[13:15] ---**
dodges, dodges, and dodges!
This is incredible!
**[13:30] ---**
Good grief,
**[13:31] ---**
it took a lot of work
to set up those conditions.
**[13:36] ---**
Typically, Misaka Mikoto
emits faint EM waves around her,
**[13:41] ---**
which can serve as a kind of radar
if she pays attention to them.
**[13:45] ---**
And it's nearly impossible
for an electronic device,
**[13:49] ---**
--even a small one, to get near her undetected.
--Everybody, close the gap!
**[13:51] ---**
--even a small one, to get near her undetected.
--Don't give her any room to dodge!
**[13:53] ---**
However, under these circumstances,
with her focus distracted by the contestants closing in,
**[13:58] ---**
and the rules of the game preventing
her from using her ability...
**[14:02] ---**
Listen!
**[14:04] ---**
Everybody, together--
**[14:06] ---**
A hole in the wall has opened up.
**[14:09] ---**
Now is the chance to--
**[14:14] ---**
Contestant Misaka is eliminated!
**[14:17] ---**
Huh? No way! We did it!
**[14:19] ---**
We beat her!
**[14:22] ---**
Misaka is...
**[14:23] ---**
...defeated.
**[14:26] ---**
Mission accomplished.
**[14:29] ---**
Man, that was an unusual mission, though.
**[14:31] ---**
I mean, incapacitate Misaka Mikoto?
**[14:35] ---**
The Balloon Hunter competition is now over!
**[14:39] ---**
Tokiwadai Middle School,
which was favored to win,
**[14:41] ---**
has been beaten by a razor-thin margin!
**[14:44] ---**
Their first black mark in the tournament.
**[14:47] ---**
One might say this is the greatest takeaway
**[14:49] ---**
from competing in the Daihasei Festival.
**[14:51] ---**
Yes. There is much that
can be learned from defeat.
**[14:56] ---**
For those who are conceited
because of their Level or status,
**[14:59] ---**
it's just what the doctor ordered.
**[15:01] ---**
It won't do to have them worrying
about soiling their clothes over winning.
**[15:06] ---**
Yes, indeed.
**[15:09] ---**
Shall I add scrubbing toilets
to their dorm chore rotation?
**[15:12] ---**
That is a good idea.
**[15:16] ---**
"Misaka did not remain vigilant,
and fell for the opposing team's plan,"
**[15:21] ---**
says Misaka, reflecting on her own mistake.
**[15:25] ---**
She was unable to fulfil
her role as your substitute.
**[15:27] ---**
Did you have fun?
**[15:30] ---**
Did you have fun competing?
**[15:33] ---**
Y-Yes.
**[15:35] ---**
Then there's nothing to feel down about.
**[15:38] ---**
The switch itself wasn't fair play,
**[15:40] ---**
but you couldn't help it
that you got mistaken for me,
**[15:42] ---**
and it's also my own fault for being late.
**[15:45] ---**
Besides, there at the end,
I think you held out longer than I would have.
**[15:52] ---**
I'm impressed.
**[15:55] ---**
It's just about lunchtime.
**[15:57] ---**
Have you had anything to eat?
**[15:59] ---**
No.
**[16:00] ---**
Here.
**[16:01] ---**
These are street stall vouchers
that they gave out to the students.
**[16:04] ---**
I have a date to eat lunch with my mama,
so you can use them if you like.
**[16:09] ---**
Street stalls, you say?
**[16:11] ---**
The festival is going on anyway,
**[16:13] ---**
so let's both enjoy ourselves.
**[16:16] ---**
Oh, you still have the gym clothes
on that you borrowed from Miss Wannai.
**[16:21] ---**
Get them back to her as soon as you can.
**[16:26] ---**
I know it's okay to bring your own food in,
**[16:29] ---**
but I'm not so sure that includes
cheese fondue with your own pot.
**[16:33] ---**
Oh, now, mother and daughter,
**[16:36] ---**
sitting around a pot during
the sports festival is pretty nice, isn't it?
**[16:39] ---**
How so?
**[16:40] ---**
Aw, but it's gonna take a
while before the cheese is melted.
**[16:44] ---**
I should have cut these up smaller first.
**[16:47] ---**
Okay, I'll go buy us something to drink.
**[16:49] ---**
I'd sure like some wine.
**[16:52] ---**
There's no way they have that here.
**[16:56] ---**
Ah, man...
**[16:58] ---**
It sure is crowded, huh?
**[17:03] ---**
You, too, huh?
**[17:05] ---**
You, too? This is aggravating, huh?
There are lines everywhere you go.
**[17:10] ---**
Yeah. Ol' Kamijo here very nearly
wet himself, even as old as he is.
**[17:15] ---**
What are you talking about?!
**[17:16] ---**
How the restrooms are so crowded,
you nearly whiz in your pants, right?
**[17:19] ---**
I just came here to buy some drinks!
**[17:22] ---**
Oh, *that*.
**[17:24] ---**
You really do have no delicacy...
**[17:26] ---**
In that case,
I'll go buy enough for you all, too.
**[17:29] ---**
What my old lady prepared
for us probably won't be enough.
**[17:33] ---**
Just sit tight for a bit, okay?
**[17:36] ---**
Plus, he's an unusually nice guy...
**[17:39] ---**
See? Just like I told you, right?
**[17:42] ---**
Yes, indeed.
**[17:44] ---**
Still, I'm surprised you could
tell from the video footage.
**[17:48] ---**
Mental Out can be used many different ways.
**[17:51] ---**
I'm not telling, though.
**[17:53] ---**
Okay, then. I guess I should
expect as much from a Level 5.
**[17:57] ---**
You can skip the brown-nosing.
**[17:59] ---**
Just keep up your fine powers of observation.
**[18:07] ---**
Well, well...
**[18:09] ---**
Miss Misaka, enjoying a relaxed lunchtime?
**[18:13] ---**
Relaxed?
**[18:14] ---**
What, are you training somewhere
out of sight during the lunch break?
**[18:18] ---**
Don't be silly.
**[18:19] ---**
I had all my afternoon
competitions cancelled.
**[18:23] ---**
Huh?!
**[18:24] ---**
After everything this morning, I'm exhausted.
**[18:26] ---**
Listen to you.
**[18:28] ---**
Do you think this will be enough for lunch?
**[18:31] ---**
It's mostly tea, though...
**[18:34] ---**
Um, and who is this lady here?
**[18:37] ---**
My classmate.
**[18:39] ---**
Sort of.
**[18:40] ---**
She's in your... class...?
**[18:44] ---**
O-Oh, she's your classmate, huh? Okay, okay.
**[18:47] ---**
I detected his gaze dropping 30 cm just now!
**[18:52] ---**
Nice to meet you,
**[18:53] ---**
Mr. Kamijo.
**[18:55] ---**
I am Miss Misaka's friend, Shokuho Misaki.
**[19:01] ---**
It's a pleasure.
**[19:03] ---**
Wh-Who are you calling a friend?!
**[19:05] ---**
Ooh, how scary!
**[19:07] ---**
Miss Misaka doesn't seem to like me.
She's always so bristly with me.
**[19:12] ---**
Y-Yeah, she's always prickly with me, too...
**[19:16] ---**
Oh, yeah? So she's bristly
and prickly, huh? How funny!
**[19:21] ---**
Stop describing me...
**[19:25] ---**
like I was a sound effect,
and hitting it off after just meeting!
**[19:28] ---**
See you later, Miss Misaka.
Compete hard enough for the both of us!
**[19:40] ---**
Hmm...
**[19:42] ---**
Is something the matter?
You look unusually lost in thought.
**[19:47] ---**
Uiharu, how's work going?
**[19:49] ---**
There were three fairly
large-scale server attacks,
**[19:53] ---**
but they were only slightly
worse than amateur level,
**[19:55] ---**
so I dealt with them in no time at all.
**[19:57] ---**
O-Oh, yeah?
**[19:59] ---**
What about you, Miss Saten?
**[20:05] ---**
Tell me,
**[20:06] ---**
where would Shadow Metal be lying around?
**[20:09] ---**
Are we still talking about that?
**[20:12] ---**
If it's created wherever esper
powers engage with each other,
**[20:16] ---**
it would probably be on the grounds
where powerhouse schools competed.
**[20:19] ---**
Didn't Miss Shirai warn you about this?
**[20:23] ---**
You're not having financial trouble, are you?
**[20:26] ---**
Uh-uh.
**[20:28] ---**
I mean, I'm not exactly well-to-do, either.
**[20:31] ---**
How can I put this?
It's the adventure, you know?
**[20:34] ---**
Of obtaining something that
isn't conventionally recognized,
**[20:36] ---**
and which you'd otherwise
never find in your day-to-day life.
**[20:40] ---**
Just like being a Level 5.
**[20:48] ---**
Ah, what the hey.
**[20:51] ---**
I'll follow your lead on this.
"Shadow Metal," did you call it?
**[20:56] ---**
I'll check around for
whatever information I can find.
**[21:00] ---**
There's my Uiharu!
**[21:04] ---**
How come you're wearing
gym shorts under here?
**[21:06] ---**
So I can go out and compete right away.
**[21:09] ---**
Um, please don't tug.
**[21:14] ---**
Cotton candy...
**[21:15] ---**
...and candy apples...
What must they taste like?
**[21:19] ---**
The *yakisoba* might
have egg in it, so rule that out.
**[21:25] ---**
"Ah, cats are able to eat
*ikayaki*," says Misaka...
**[21:39] ---**
Oh...
**[21:41] ---**
...no... These clothes...
are borrowed, too...
**[21:48] ---**
Now they're dirty...
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
Sissy, at last, the two
of us are alone together!
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#4 Tampering"
**[23:28] ---**
It's not that big a deal.
**[23:30] ---**
Oh, no! It has been 23 episodes
since the two of us did a preview together!
**[23:33] ---**
So, Sissy, go ahead and lay one
of your usual passionate kisses on--
**[23:37] ---**
I do not even get to make a quip?!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E4 - Tampering
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G64P5250R/tampering)
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**[00:09] ---**
What are you sighing about?
**[00:11] ---**
You would sigh, too.
Here I am, finally out of the hospital,
**[00:16] ---**
but when I think of how I must again
**[00:18] ---**
spend the next several
nights without you, Sissy...
**[00:21] ---**
What can I say? Tokiwadai's
custom during the Daihasei Festival
**[00:25] ---**
is for their students to stay
with their families at a hotel.
**[00:28] ---**
Yes, I realize that.
**[00:30] ---**
I will suffer through the nights of loneliness.
**[00:34] ---**
But in exchange,
**[00:35] ---**
as soon as the Daihasei Festival is over,
**[00:37] ---**
we will share a hot, passionate night...
**[00:41] ---**
Come on, what are you talking about?
**[00:44] ---**
Hey, mister...
**[00:46] ---**
...one extra-large, please.
**[00:47] ---**
You got it! One extra-large,
coming up. Just a moment.
**[00:52] ---**
I wonder...
**[00:54] ---**
...what she decided to get.
**[00:56] ---**
Sissy?
**[00:58] ---**
Oh, sorry. Listen, Kuroko,
is there anything you'd like to eat?
**[01:03] ---**
This time it's my treat.
**[01:05] ---**
Maybe I should get something
for Miss Uiharu and Miss Saten, too.
**[01:08] ---**
--Something light to snack on...
**[01:09] ---**
--I-If it is coming from you,
Sissy, anything will be fine...
--Something light to snack on...
**[01:14] ---**
But then, if you are offering anything...
**[01:17] ---**
I would like some of your half-eaten--
**[01:22] ---**
I'm here...!
**[01:25] ---**
Ooh, it almost looks like there was a war here.
**[01:30] ---**
Yeah, Uiharu?
**[01:32] ---**
This field isn't scheduled to be used again today.
**[01:35] ---**
I can search it all I want.
I'm waiting on you for more information.
**[01:38] ---**
Okay, okay, I'm way ahead of you.
**[01:41] ---**
You know, I wonder what it looks like.
**[01:44] ---**
Maybe it's in tiny grains, like gold dust.
**[01:47] ---**
Is there any information on the color or shape?
**[01:50] ---**
Hmm, about that--
**[01:53] ---**
My searches are returning
an unusually large number of hits,
**[01:57] ---**
and yet there's nothing but vague
nonsense written in any of them.
**[02:01] ---**
Yeah, but like they say,
where there's smoke, there's fire.
**[02:05] ---**
If you have that many hits,
**[02:06] ---**
it must mean there's something to it, right?
**[02:08] ---**
That's certainly positive thinking.
**[02:10] ---**
All righty!
**[02:11] ---**
Time to find some Shadow Metal!
**[02:18] ---**
This is a little bit weird, huh?
**[02:37] ---**
"A Certain Magical Railgun T"
**[03:54] ---**
I'm not finding anything here that's metallic.
**[03:57] ---**
I doubt this scorched stone
here is Shadow Metal, either.
**[04:01] ---**
Nothing new on my end, either.
**[04:04] ---**
For that matter, I can't find the site
that you said you browsed earlier.
**[04:09] ---**
Well, that's strange.
I just looked at it a week ago.
**[04:15] ---**
This is it, Kazari! A conspiracy! A conspiracy!
**[04:19] ---**
A conspiracy?
**[04:20] ---**
If you go after Shadow Metal,
**[04:21] ---**
some people say you'll get
targeted by a mysterious organization!
**[04:24] ---**
If those stories are true,
we may be closer than we think!
**[04:28] ---**
Oh, are you working?
**[04:29] ---**
I'm here dropping off Kuroko.
**[04:32] ---**
Good. While I'm at it,
I'll kill some time before my next competition.
**[04:36] ---**
Mm-hmm, any way you look at it, that must be it!
**[04:39] ---**
If we don't get a move on,
the organization will snatch it all away!
**[04:42] ---**
That makes sense. But Miss Saten,
if these people actually exist,
**[04:46] ---**
--doesn't that put you in
considerable danger right now?
**[04:49] ---**
--It sounds like you are up
to more funny business.
--doesn't that put you in considerable danger right now?
**[04:53] ---**
Huh? Danger?
**[04:54] ---**
If any organization that would manipulate
data to monopolize Shadow Metal
**[04:59] ---**
were to find you there now...
**[05:01] ---**
H-Hold on, Uiharu...?
**[05:03] ---**
Don't say that; you're scaring me.
**[05:05] ---**
I'm joking, I'm joking.
**[05:08] ---**
That's what you get
for always flipping up my skirt.
**[05:11] ---**
Oh, brother...
**[05:13] ---**
Huh?! Who are--?! Hey! Wait--
**[05:15] ---**
Miss Saten?!
**[05:17] ---**
Miss Saten, what's the matter?!
**[05:19] ---**
Has something happened?
**[05:20] ---**
I-It sounded like Miss Saten
was attacked by someone!
**[05:22] ---**
Uiharu, where is she?
**[05:24] ---**
The grounds at Kirigaoka, in School District 18!
**[05:27] ---**
Sissy, we are off!
**[05:29] ---**
--I'm coming, too--
--Uiharu, you stay here to back us up.
**[05:31] ---**
Depending on what we find,
we might need you to contact Antiskill.
**[05:36] ---**
--But--
--Miss Uiharu...
**[05:38] ---**
We've got this.
**[05:48] ---**
Ow...!
**[05:49] ---**
All right! All right, already, just let me go!
**[05:54] ---**
You're hurting me! You're hurting me!
**[05:59] ---**
Those look like...
**[06:00] ---**
What do you think...
**[06:01] ---**
S-Sissy,
**[06:02] ---**
--...you're doing?!
--just a moment!
**[06:05] ---**
--We're sorry!
--We're sorry!
**[06:09] ---**
Our job is securing the
school grounds and prep rooms,
**[06:13] ---**
"Contestant Locker Room"
**[06:14] ---**
and thoroughly cleaning them.
**[06:15] ---**
You never know; somebody might show
up trying to collect high-level esper DNA.
**[06:22] ---**
In fact, there have been many
unsuccessful attempts in the past.
**[06:26] ---**
Given all that, it's only natural that
we'd take in a prowler if we found one.
**[06:30] ---**
And then you go and attack us, to boot.
**[06:33] ---**
You're absolutely right.
**[06:34] ---**
We are terribly sorry!
**[06:36] ---**
If you've learned your lesson,
I'm willing to let you off today--
**[06:39] ---**
Excuse me...
**[06:41] ---**
On a side note, have you
ever heard of Shadow Metal?
**[06:44] ---**
Huh?
**[06:44] ---**
Saten...
**[06:47] ---**
So not even those people
have ever seen Shadow Metal.
**[06:51] ---**
Idle gossip springing
from people who were suspicious
**[06:54] ---**
of the tight security around school grounds,
**[06:56] ---**
meant to prevent the leaking of DNA maps--
**[06:59] ---**
that appears to be the
true story behind Shadow Metal.
**[07:03] ---**
This is why I cautioned you about
not getting caught up in baseless stories.
**[07:08] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[07:09] ---**
You, too, Sissy!
**[07:10] ---**
I've learned my lesson.
**[07:12] ---**
Listen to me.
**[07:13] ---**
--If you will pay attention to what I say every day...
**[07:14] ---**
--Ugh, this is going to be a long one.
--Ugh, this is going to be a long one.
--If you will pay attention to what I say every day...
**[07:18] ---**
Thank goodness they're safe, anyway.
**[07:21] ---**
Miss Saten really is a handful.
**[07:26] ---**
Still...
**[07:29] ---**
These results really are abnormal, aren't they?
**[07:33] ---**
Is it possible that someone
spammed all of this dummy data
**[07:37] ---**
to keep anyone from finding
the site that she said she looked at?
**[07:41] ---**
To conceal some embarrassing
information that was on it?
**[07:44] ---**
Oh, please. Maybe Miss Saten
is starting to rub off on me.
**[07:50] ---**
But if this dummy data is something
that was automatically generated,
**[07:55] ---**
then by analyzing its pattern,
I may be able to recreate the original site.
**[08:01] ---**
That's a tall order, though...
**[08:04] ---**
"Boom."
**[08:07] ---**
Well, well, what have we here?
**[08:10] ---**
Mm-hmm, this is exactly the
kind of site Miss Saten told me about.
**[08:14] ---**
However, the strange thing about this is...
**[08:17] ---**
the information it has on
Shadow Metal is roughly the same
**[08:20] ---**
as what she was saying.
**[08:22] ---**
"A very precious orange color."
**[08:24] ---**
"Disciplinary Guides."
"A DNA computer that produces abilities"?
**[08:32] ---**
Huh? Isn't the person in that picture...?
**[08:38] ---**
We're back.
**[08:39] ---**
Ah, welcome back!
**[08:41] ---**
Ugh, I'm sorry, Misaka.
**[08:44] ---**
Hey, I acted without thinking, too.
We're both to blame.
**[08:49] ---**
Uiharu, I'm sorry to drag you into this, too.
**[08:52] ---**
Oh, I'm just glad you're all right.
**[08:54] ---**
So, have you found out anything new since we--
**[08:56] ---**
--Hey!
--Hey!
**[08:57] ---**
Have you *really* learned your lesson?!
**[08:59] ---**
Well, uh...
**[09:01] ---**
Well, I did check into it my own
way after everything happened,
**[09:05] ---**
but I didn't find anything special.
**[09:06] ---**
"File has been deleted"
**[09:08] ---**
But never mind that, I did find some good news.
**[09:11] ---**
There's a secret spot among secret spots
**[09:13] ---**
where we can watch
the night parade fireworks up close.
**[09:16] ---**
Huh? For real?
**[09:17] ---**
Is this someplace we can legally get to?
**[09:20] ---**
It's all right. I confirmed everything.
**[09:23] ---**
Oh, yeah? Doesn't that sound nice? Let's go see.
**[09:54] ---**
They are so pretty.
**[09:56] ---**
They do this every night during
the Daihasei Festival, right?
**[10:00] ---**
Yes, they do.
**[10:02] ---**
Well, let's all meet up here again, okay?
**[10:05] ---**
--Okay.
--Okay.
**[10:14] ---**
It just isn't the same not
sleeping on your own pillow.
**[10:18] ---**
So where is the Queen?
**[10:19] ---**
No one has seen her since last night.
**[10:22] ---**
Oh, Miss Misaka, good morning.
**[10:25] ---**
Yeah, good morning.
**[10:28] ---**
--You mean, she wasn't at the hotel?
**[10:30] ---**
--Members of Shokuho's clique, huh?
--You mean, she wasn't at the hotel?
**[10:32] ---**
--Members of Shokuho's clique, huh?
--No.
**[10:32] ---**
Miss Misaka!
**[10:34] ---**
Miss Wannai, morning.
**[10:36] ---**
Good morning. Um,
if I may be bold enough to ask,
**[10:41] ---**
when can I expect my gym clothes back?
**[10:44] ---**
Your gym clothes...?
**[10:47] ---**
Huh? She hasn't come to return them yet?
**[10:50] ---**
Pardon?
**[10:50] ---**
Oh, I mean... sorry... I, uh...
**[10:54] ---**
Coffee! I spilled coffee on them,
**[10:57] ---**
and even having them cleaned,
there will still be a stain,
**[10:59] ---**
so let me buy you new ones.
I'll order another set to be delivered.
**[11:03] ---**
No, no, you needn't go to that much trouble.
**[11:07] ---**
Mmm... Oh, Tabikake...
**[11:10] ---**
A whole night has passed,
and she hasn't returned the clothes yet?
**[11:14] ---**
Has she not had enough fun
and is trying to pass herself off as me?
**[11:17] ---**
No, she isn't like that.
**[11:21] ---**
I'm getting...
**[11:22] ---**
"#4 Tampering"
**[11:22] ---**
...a bad feeling about this.
**[11:28] ---**
These are the surveillance cameras
near where we parted ways yesterday.
**[11:34] ---**
If I look through the recordings,
I should be able to pick up her trail.
**[11:40] ---**
Nothing here. Next.
**[11:43] ---**
I have more free time in my schedule today.
**[11:48] ---**
Maybe I'm worried over nothing.
**[11:51] ---**
But those girls' bodies need
regular maintenance, and all.
**[11:57] ---**
If something has happened to her...
**[12:05] ---**
An ambulance?
**[12:09] ---**
There she is. It's her!
**[12:12] ---**
She's passed out. Is she hurt? Sick?
**[12:14] ---**
Mm-mm, this is no time
to let emotions take over.
**[12:19] ---**
Which jurisdiction is this?
**[12:23] ---**
"School District 7 Fire Station 3"
**[12:26] ---**
Found it.
**[12:27] ---**
It has the same number as the one on the camera.
**[12:30] ---**
Excuse me!
**[12:33] ---**
Who was driving this yesterday?
**[12:36] ---**
Yesterday? Me and him.
**[12:39] ---**
Did you transport a girl
with shoulder-length brownish hair
**[12:43] ---**
a little before noon?
**[12:44] ---**
Oh, that girl?
**[12:46] ---**
Mm-hmm, we took her.
**[12:49] ---**
That girl is a friend of mine.
**[12:52] ---**
Would you please be able to tell me
which hospital you transported her to?
**[12:56] ---**
It's the one right over there. You see it?
**[12:59] ---**
That one...
**[13:01] ---**
is the real-life Gekota doctor's hospital.
**[13:03] ---**
He knows the situation with the Sisters.
**[13:07] ---**
Thank you very much!
**[13:11] ---**
If she was taken there, then I'm sure...
**[13:13] ---**
"Reception"
**[13:15] ---**
Huh? She wasn't brought here?
**[13:18] ---**
No. There are no records of
any emergency cases at that time.
**[13:22] ---**
But the ambulance crew
told me they brought her here.
**[13:25] ---**
Perhaps they confused us with another hospital?
**[13:30] ---**
No, there's no mistake. Right?
**[13:33] ---**
Yeah. We definitely took her to that hospital.
**[13:36] ---**
But they don't have any record--
**[13:39] ---**
Wait, something's wrong.
**[13:41] ---**
She was wearing gym clothes from Tokiwadai.
**[13:44] ---**
--If they took her, then regardless of the hospital,
--We got the call, and drove to the scene...
**[13:47] ---**
--they would have also contacted the school.
--We got the call, and drove to the scene...
**[13:47] ---**
--they would have also contacted the school.
--Right, and we picked up the girl, who was unconscious.
**[13:49] ---**
--It's strange that a whole night has
gone by with no action from the school!
--Right, and we picked up the girl, who was unconscious.
**[13:50] ---**
--It's strange that a whole night has
gone by with no action from the school!
--We contacted base, like we always do...
**[13:54] ---**
Excuse me,
**[13:54] ---**
but are you telling the truth?
**[13:56] ---**
Huh?
**[13:56] ---**
Okay, can you tell me the name of
the hospital staff you turned her over to,
**[13:59] ---**
or tell me what else happened when you did so?
**[14:01] ---**
Of course we can. You see...
**[14:05] ---**
Huh?
**[14:06] ---**
Hey, you going addle-brained?
Remember, we... Huh?
**[14:10] ---**
Ah, hey!
**[14:11] ---**
If I check the ambulance's route history...
**[14:15] ---**
I knew it. They didn't go to the hospital.
**[14:18] ---**
They went to an underground
parking garage, then came back!
**[14:21] ---**
Hey, come down out of there!
**[14:22] ---**
She was taken there in this ambulance and
moved to another car in the parking garage?
**[14:27] ---**
--Then, where is she now--
--That's enough, already!
**[14:29] ---**
What's going on here?!
**[14:31] ---**
From what I see on your route history,
you never went to the hospital!
**[14:35] ---**
Would you explain that, if you can?!
**[14:38] ---**
That can't be right.
**[14:39] ---**
I have conclusive proof!
You can't talk your way out of this!
**[14:42] ---**
Huh? You're the girl from yesterday...?
**[14:46] ---**
What's going on?
**[14:47] ---**
Why would the same girl we transported
be faking like she went nowhere?
**[14:52] ---**
Y-You're wrong! I'm...
**[14:54] ---**
Hold on.
**[14:56] ---**
I knew I'd seen you before somewhere.
**[14:59] ---**
You're that Level 5 girl, right?
The one that controls electricity or whatever.
**[15:03] ---**
You sure you didn't use your ability
to tamper with the route history?
**[15:07] ---**
Wha-- There's no way I'd do that!
**[15:11] ---**
I apologize for keeping my identity a secret.
**[15:13] ---**
--But don't lie to me! Tell me the truth!
--Hey! What are you doing?!
**[15:16] ---**
--I-I'm not lying to you!
--S-Somebody! Somebody, come here!
**[15:18] ---**
If you're not lying,
then what's wrong with your memories?!
**[15:21] ---**
Everything you told me is untrue--
**[15:24] ---**
Memories...? Tampering...?
**[15:27] ---**
It couldn't be...
**[15:30] ---**
You there! Take your hands off of him!
**[15:35] ---**
There just isn't any spark
of life in her face, you know?
**[15:39] ---**
She said that the thought of
five more nights away from Miss Misaka
**[15:43] ---**
is sapping her will to live.
**[15:46] ---**
Ah, that explains it.
**[15:50] ---**
Huh? Uiharu?
**[15:53] ---**
This street is not on our patrol route.
**[15:56] ---**
Huh? That can't be true. I remember this was...
**[16:00] ---**
See for yourself.
**[16:02] ---**
Huh? You're right.
**[16:04] ---**
Honestly, before you second-guess others,
please pull yourself together.
**[16:10] ---**
How could I have made that mistake?
**[16:12] ---**
Now, now, it's no problem to circle back around.
**[16:16] ---**
Do you have a moment?
**[16:17] ---**
Are you ladies with Judgment?
**[16:20] ---**
Uh, y-yes.
**[16:21] ---**
I am a spectator from the outside,
**[16:25] ---**
and I just got robbed right over there.
**[16:27] ---**
Oh, that's awful!
**[16:29] ---**
What did they steal from you?
**[16:31] ---**
--Also, please tell me whatever you
can about what the culprit looked like,
**[16:32] ---**
--It turns out that taking the
wrong route worked out all right.
--Also, please tell me whatever you can about what the culprit looked like,
**[16:35] ---**
--Hey! Watch what you say.
--Also, please tell me whatever you
can about what the culprit looked like,
**[16:35] ---**
--Hey! Watch what you say.
--and which way they ran.
**[16:42] ---**
I can't...
**[16:43] ---**
...move...
**[16:45] ---**
...or teleport...
**[16:47] ---**
What was taken was... let's see...
**[16:50] ---**
...your memories of Misaka Mikoto, let's say.
**[16:55] ---**
I really am terribly sorry about this!
**[16:59] ---**
Come on, let's go.
**[17:02] ---**
For heaven's sake, what were you thinking?
**[17:05] ---**
Very nearly committing assault
while pranking a public agency?
**[17:10] ---**
It's lucky for us that they
were accommodating enough
**[17:13] ---**
to not let this become a big incident.
**[17:15] ---**
What exactly brought this on?
**[17:18] ---**
While waiting for Miss Watanabe to arrive,
**[17:21] ---**
I tried asking all kinds of trick questions,
**[17:23] ---**
but they didn't seem to be lying.
**[17:26] ---**
Which means that sure enough...
**[17:28] ---**
I suspect that Shokuho Misaki
is misusing her ability
**[17:31] ---**
to cover up her committing crimes.
**[17:33] ---**
If that is true, it is a serious matter.
**[17:37] ---**
Do you have any evidence
that forces you to that conclusion?
**[17:40] ---**
Well, I...
**[17:42] ---**
It's no use. Any way I explain this,
I have to mention the Sisters.
**[17:49] ---**
I can't say what is going on, specifically...
**[17:52] ---**
Then that makes it difficult
for me to do anything.
**[17:57] ---**
Miss Misaka,
**[17:59] ---**
the Daihasei Festival is currently underway.
**[18:02] ---**
The attention of the world
is focused on Academy City.
**[18:05] ---**
As a Level 5, you must conduct yourself
**[18:08] ---**
not only as a representative of our school,
but of all of Academy City.
**[18:12] ---**
I do realize the tremendous
pressure this places upon you,
**[18:16] ---**
but please refrain from thoughtless
behavior even more than usual.
**[18:20] ---**
You can understand that, right?
**[18:22] ---**
Yes.
**[18:25] ---**
I don't get it. Assuming Shokuho
manipulated the ambulance crew
**[18:28] ---**
to turn them into traffickers,
what is her objective?
**[18:32] ---**
Mm-mm, right now, that doesn't matter.
**[18:35] ---**
Whatever the case, once the
competition gets started, I'll slip out.
**[18:38] ---**
The underground parking garage where
the ambulance went is my only lead.
**[18:43] ---**
Oh, this works out perfectly. Ladies,
**[18:47] ---**
could I ask you for a favor?
**[18:49] ---**
Miss Misaka here is feeling a
little emotionally unstable right now,
**[18:54] ---**
so I'd like for you to keep your eyes on her.
**[18:56] ---**
Sure, we don't mind.
**[18:58] ---**
Guards? And of all people,
**[19:01] ---**
members of Shokuho Misaki's clique?
**[19:04] ---**
My, Miss Misaka,
**[19:06] ---**
I have long wanted to
have a nice long chat with you.
**[19:11] ---**
I will be looking forward to it.
**[19:13] ---**
Y-Yeah...
**[19:15] ---**
We shouldn't be causing
trouble for our teachers.
**[19:19] ---**
Miss Misaka, you're such a mischievous girl.
**[19:21] ---**
What is this? I can't take it.
**[19:24] ---**
Miss Misaka?
**[19:26] ---**
Was that telepathy?
**[19:28] ---**
Since I'm going to be watching you,
**[19:30] ---**
I've connected a line to you.
**[19:33] ---**
--While this line is connected,
I will be aware of your general whereabouts.
**[19:37] ---**
--Miss Misaka?
--While this line is connected,
I will be aware of your general whereabouts.
**[19:40] ---**
If you run away,
**[19:41] ---**
we will come after you at full force.
**[19:46] ---**
Please start driving.
**[19:48] ---**
Yes, ma'am.
**[19:50] ---**
I am sorry, Miss Misaka.
**[19:53] ---**
It was not my hope to throw
a wet blanket over this nice festival...
**[19:59] ---**
but Miss Shokuho's "Optimization" is absolute.
**[20:04] ---**
I can shake them off if I really try...
**[20:07] ---**
At least I think so...
**[20:10] ---**
But collecting more information
while on the run will be really hard.
**[20:17] ---**
I don't sense any open hostility
from the clique members.
**[20:21] ---**
Does that mean that Shokuho
hasn't told them anything?
**[20:25] ---**
Is that...
**[20:27] ---**
Kuroko! And Miss Uiharu and Miss Saten, too!
**[20:30] ---**
Uh, could I go and talk
to my friends really quick?
**[20:33] ---**
I won't run away.
**[20:34] ---**
Huh? Okay.
**[20:35] ---**
I can't say too much about this.
**[20:37] ---**
I'll get them to help me
without causing them any trouble.
**[20:41] ---**
Kuroko! I need a little fa--
**[20:45] ---**
--vor...
**[20:46] ---**
What is this?
**[20:47] ---**
Can I ask you to not
call out my name so casually?
**[20:51] ---**
How overly familiar.
**[20:52] ---**
Miss Shirai, is she a friend of yours?
**[20:55] ---**
No.
**[20:56] ---**
This is Misaka Mikoto,
an upperclassman at my school.
**[21:00] ---**
Oh, you're famous! They call you "Railgun,"
if I remember correctly!
**[21:05] ---**
K-Kuroko,
**[21:07] ---**
you aren't all collectively
pulling my leg, are you?
**[21:11] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[21:13] ---**
Miss Uiharu... and Miss Saten...
**[21:16] ---**
How does she know our names?
**[21:18] ---**
Miss Shirai, did you tell her?
**[21:21] ---**
No. We are not even acquainted.
**[21:24] ---**
I do not know where you heard about us,
**[21:28] ---**
but if you are in some trouble,
I will hear what you have to say,
**[21:31] ---**
as a member of Judgment.
**[21:34] ---**
No...
**[21:36] ---**
...that's okay.
**[21:40] ---**
You've really done it now...
**[21:42] ---**
Shokuho!
**[21:44] ---**
Now you're messing with my friends, too. This...
**[21:51] ---**
...has gone way beyond just horsing around!
**[23:25] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:26] ---**
Shokuho, what do you think you're doing,
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#5 Trust"
**[23:28] ---**
tampering with Kuroko and the others' memories?
**[23:30] ---**
Not to mention having
your clique stand guard over me,
**[23:32] ---**
and keeping me from looking for her!
I have to do something...
**[23:35] ---**
Miss Misaka, please let me,
Kongo Mitsuko, deal with this!
**[23:40] ---**
Huh?
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E5 - Trust
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRW43EJ3Y/trust)
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**[00:01] ---**
K-Kuroko,
**[00:04] ---**
you aren't all collectively
pulling my leg, are you?
**[00:07] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[00:09] ---**
Miss Uiharu... and Miss Saten...
**[00:12] ---**
How does she know our names?
**[00:15] ---**
Miss Shirai, did you tell her?
**[00:17] ---**
No. We are not even acquainted.
**[00:20] ---**
I do not know where you heard about us,
**[00:25] ---**
but if you are in some trouble,
I will hear what you have to say,
**[00:28] ---**
as a member of Judgment.
**[00:30] ---**
No...
**[00:32] ---**
...that's okay.
**[00:36] ---**
You've really done it now...
**[00:38] ---**
Shokuho!
**[00:40] ---**
Now you're messing with my friends, too. This...
**[00:46] ---**
...has gone way beyond just horsing around!
**[00:52] ---**
If I show Kuroko and the others
our dorm room or some photo albums,
**[00:56] ---**
I'll be able to explain to them that
their memories are being manipulated.
**[01:00] ---**
But...
**[01:02] ---**
...will they even cooperate with me
when they see me as a total stranger?
**[01:10] ---**
I don't want to drag them into it like this.
**[01:14] ---**
Miss Misaka?
**[01:16] ---**
We need to start getting
ready for the next competition.
**[01:20] ---**
What is her objective
if she's taking things this far?
**[01:23] ---**
Now that she has me immobilized like this,
**[01:25] ---**
what can I even do?
**[01:43] ---**
"A Certain Magical Railgun T"
**[02:59] ---**
You are in top form, Miss Kongo.
**[03:01] ---**
Yes. Even the color commentary
person complimented you.
**[03:06] ---**
It sounds like the color commentary
person has a keen eye.
**[03:10] ---**
What was that all about?
**[03:12] ---**
I wanted to talk to her a little longer.
**[03:15] ---**
You were just infatuated
by meeting someone famous.
**[03:19] ---**
Still, it seemed to me like
she wanted to say something.
**[03:23] ---**
Miss Shirai? And Miss Saten
and Miss Uiharu, too...
**[03:26] ---**
Ah, Kongo, hi there.
**[03:29] ---**
Miss Shirai, how are you feeling?
**[03:31] ---**
As the one who took over
in the competition for you,
**[03:34] ---**
I have made sure to take first place.
**[03:39] ---**
Huh? Why are you acting so sullen?
**[03:42] ---**
There is a girl they call
"Railgun" at our school, right?
**[03:46] ---**
She just lashed out at us a moment ago.
**[03:50] ---**
*She* came up to *us*
and asked if we were pulling her leg.
**[03:55] ---**
Ah, would you please continue
taking my place in the competition?
**[03:59] ---**
S-Sure...
**[04:01] ---**
Uiharu!
**[04:02] ---**
Okay, bye.
**[04:03] ---**
Yeah...
**[04:04] ---**
Take care.
**[04:07] ---**
Could Miss Shirai be having
a fight with Miss Misaka or something?
**[04:13] ---**
They usually seem to get along
so well with each other.
**[04:18] ---**
Miss Shirai, you sure were signed up
to compete in a lot of events.
**[04:23] ---**
Hmm? Yeah, you're right.
And they're all pairs events, too.
**[04:27] ---**
Hmm? Pairs?
**[04:29] ---**
Our next pairs event is the Balloon Sandwich!
**[04:33] ---**
Each team of two holds a balloon
between them without using their hands,
**[04:36] ---**
and races to carry it to the goal line!
**[04:38] ---**
--As soon as the balloon breaks,
the team is disqualified!
**[04:40] ---**
As soon as the balloon breaks,
the team is disqualified!
**[04:40] ---**
--Now really isn't the time to be doing this.
**[04:43] ---**
I have to get out of this somehow
and go looking for her.
**[04:46] ---**
Miss Misaka?
**[04:49] ---**
Is it all right if I blow up our balloon?
**[04:52] ---**
Oh, mm-hmm.
**[04:56] ---**
Go ahead, Sissy!
**[04:58] ---**
Please embrace me!
**[05:01] ---**
Hey, if the balloon breaks, we're out, you know!
**[05:05] ---**
Kuroko couldn't control herself,
and we didn't get any practice done.
**[05:09] ---**
Can I ask you to not
call out my name so casually?
**[05:15] ---**
By the way, Miss Misaka,
I was not aware you had a twin sister.
**[05:19] ---**
Huh?
**[05:20] ---**
Yesterday, during the Balloon Hunter,
**[05:22] ---**
that was your sister who entered, was it not?
**[05:25] ---**
Miss Kongo,
**[05:27] ---**
you could tell that wasn't me?
**[05:29] ---**
Oh, I have quite the eye
when it comes to sizing people up.
**[05:33] ---**
Let us just say that there is a
subtle difference in the air about her.
**[05:38] ---**
Listen, Miss Kongo,
**[05:40] ---**
I need to ask you for a favor.
**[05:43] ---**
--Tokiwadai sure is a powerhouse, huh?
--They're one of the five fingers, and all.
**[05:46] ---**
Congratulations.
**[05:47] ---**
Yeah, thanks.
**[05:49] ---**
Y--
**[05:51] ---**
You take sneaky cruelty to
a whole new level, Shokuho Misaki!
**[05:54] ---**
Miss Kongo, keep it down, keep it down!
**[05:58] ---**
To kidnap your sister,
**[06:00] ---**
to say nothing of manipulating
Miss Shirai and the others' memories?
**[06:04] ---**
She is not fit to be a student at Tokiwadai.
**[06:09] ---**
I understand what you are telling me.
**[06:11] ---**
I will look into what happened with your sister,
**[06:14] ---**
so Miss Misaka, please keep
the Shokuho clique's attention off of me.
**[06:18] ---**
I'm sorry for getting you involved
in my personal business.
**[06:22] ---**
But whatever you do,
don't get in over your head.
**[06:25] ---**
The scary thing about her is that
we don't know what she's thinking.
**[06:29] ---**
If only I had a lead,
I could do something about this myself.
**[06:35] ---**
No...
**[06:36] ---**
Miss Misaka, you should not
trust any information I give you.
**[06:41] ---**
Huh? Why not?
**[06:44] ---**
Because I may have already
been brainwashed by Shokuho Misaki.
**[06:49] ---**
Any and all information
I give you will be false.
**[06:54] ---**
You should consider that possibility.
**[06:57] ---**
Oh, man...
**[06:58] ---**
Yes. No one would trust me
after I said something like that, right?
**[07:03] ---**
So I will bring you not information,
but your sister herself.
**[07:09] ---**
I hate to do this after
telling you not to trust me,
**[07:12] ---**
but please believe me and wait for me to return.
**[07:16] ---**
Miss Kongo...
**[07:17] ---**
Way to win first place.
**[07:19] ---**
As impressive as always.
**[07:21] ---**
Oh, thanks.
**[07:26] ---**
The reason she did not turn Miss Shirai
and the others against Miss Misaka
**[07:30] ---**
was probably because she did
not feel it was necessary to go that far.
**[07:34] ---**
If her objective is the sister,
**[07:36] ---**
then the whole course of events
was simply meant to buy some time.
**[07:39] ---**
And at best, all she needed
was a stopgap measure, at that.
**[07:44] ---**
I think I had better hurry this up.
**[08:04] ---**
Don't do anything crazy, Miss Kongo.
**[08:07] ---**
If you put yourself in danger,
even to help her...
**[08:11] ---**
Miss Misaka?
**[08:14] ---**
Your cell phone...
**[08:15] ---**
Oh no, has she gotten suspicious?
**[08:17] ---**
...is the Lovely Mitten Gekota model, isn't it?
**[08:20] ---**
Huh? Why yes, it is.
**[08:24] ---**
As it happens, I have one, too.
**[08:25] ---**
Pyonko?!
**[08:27] ---**
I saw the Gekota strap on your bag
and wondered if you were into them.
**[08:32] ---**
Oh, so that's why...
**[08:34] ---**
Miss Misaka, I have long wanted
to have a nice long chat with you.
**[08:39] ---**
I sure do wish that they weren't labeled
as being for children, you know?
**[08:44] ---**
I always get funny looks from mothers
who have their children with them.
**[08:47] ---**
Yeah, I know what you mean.
**[08:48] ---**
My dorm rules keep me from lining up
early on the day the new ones come out.
**[08:53] ---**
Speaking of new releases, you know
the regional series that just went on sale?
**[08:57] ---**
Don't you think they're thumbing
their noses at us Gekoers?
**[08:59] ---**
They aren't paying enough
respect to the original story!
**[09:02] ---**
--They're really getting into it over there.
**[09:02] ---**
--I wish they'd learn from this year's
M-Fest mail-order limited editions.
**[09:06] ---**
Aw, I still haven't gotten my hands on one.
**[09:09] ---**
They haven't come up
on any net auctions, either.
**[09:11] ---**
Oh, in that case, I have two of
them--one to enjoy, and one to save.
**[09:17] ---**
You have *two*?!
**[09:18] ---**
Tell you what. If you do
your best in today's events,
**[09:22] ---**
I'll give you the one I'm saving.
**[09:25] ---**
Huh? Really--
**[09:28] ---**
What a sophisticated trap!
**[09:33] ---**
I'm telling you, Misaka Mikoto
has definitely been neutralized.
**[09:38] ---**
I injected her with that nanodevice,
so there's no way she can move.
**[09:43] ---**
Besides, securing her is *your* job, isn't it?
**[09:46] ---**
Are you sure she wasn't taken
to some hospital somewhere?
**[09:50] ---**
Well, I guess that's good enough for now.
**[09:53] ---**
Baba, I have another job for you to do.
**[09:56] ---**
Another?
**[09:58] ---**
Your target...
**[09:59] ---**
...will be Misaka Mikoto's clones...
**[10:02] ---**
"#5 Trust"
**[10:02] ---**
...the Sisters.
**[10:06] ---**
According to what Miss Misaka said,
**[10:08] ---**
this is the location where she and
her sister last saw each other. Which means,
**[10:13] ---**
it is also likely that this is where she
came into contact with Shokuho Misaki.
**[10:17] ---**
There is something not quite right about this.
**[10:19] ---**
Is Miss Misaka's sister not at a
high enough Level to avoid Mental Out?
**[10:25] ---**
She could have simply used her ability
**[10:27] ---**
to order her to go someplace
where she would not be seen.
**[10:31] ---**
Why would she have gone to the
extra steps of capturing and relocating her?
**[10:36] ---**
What if it was not her ability
that incapacitated her sister,
**[10:39] ---**
but some other circumstance,
unforeseen to Shokuho Misaki, as well?
**[10:45] ---**
If that is true,
**[10:47] ---**
then there may be a clue around here.
**[10:51] ---**
Is that...
**[10:53] ---**
...the character Miss Misaka
likes so much--Kerozo, was it?
**[10:59] ---**
Isn't that...?
**[11:02] ---**
H-Hey, you!
**[11:04] ---**
You should not pick on those weaker than you!
**[11:08] ---**
You are all right now.
**[11:13] ---**
Look, I know you must still
be uneasy, but right now,
**[11:17] ---**
I do not have a moment to spare.
**[11:25] ---**
I really do not have time for this.
**[11:28] ---**
For now, I will take you to Judgment.
**[11:31] ---**
Oh? Miss Kongo!
You seem to be in a hurry. What is happen--
**[11:34] ---**
Perfect timing! I hate to do this to you,
**[11:37] ---**
--but could you hang on to--
--Oh?
**[11:40] ---**
Does this kitty cat belong to Miss Misaka?
**[11:43] ---**
Huh?
**[11:43] ---**
It does?
**[11:45] ---**
I am not 100% sure, myself,
**[11:49] ---**
but it looks like the cat I looked after
during the Balloon Hunter competition.
**[11:53] ---**
Balloon Hunter?
Then this is Miss Misaka's sister's...
**[11:58] ---**
Miss Misaka has a sister?
**[12:01] ---**
Er, um, I do not have time
to go into detail right now,
**[12:06] ---**
but Miss Misaka asked me to help look
for her sister, who has gone missing.
**[12:12] ---**
Missing?
**[12:13] ---**
This cat was where I believe
her sister got into some trouble.
**[12:18] ---**
Well, I am not sure what
all the circumstances are,
**[12:22] ---**
but I know a psychometrist on
the swim team who can mediate with animals.
**[12:26] ---**
Knowing her, she may be able
to make contact with this cat.
**[12:31] ---**
Oh, my!
**[12:35] ---**
Mama, look!
**[12:37] ---**
A robot dog!
**[12:38] ---**
Wow, you're right.
**[12:40] ---**
That's Academy City for you.
**[12:40] ---**
--Nagatenjouki is running away with this.
--Whoa, look at all these people!
**[12:43] ---**
--Wow, who's going to have this strawberry *yakisoba*?
--Are they doing the night parade again tonight?
**[12:46] ---**
--That girl in pink is so cute!
**[12:46] ---**
--Then it might provide a clue
to finding Miss Misaka's sister!
**[12:52] ---**
A Tokiwadai student... Misaka... sister?
**[12:56] ---**
I'm going to go call her.
Please wait here a moment.
**[13:01] ---**
All right, then.
**[13:05] ---**
Imagine, this little kitty being a clue.
**[13:08] ---**
A girl who possesses psychometry
would be too far removed from Miss Misaka,
**[13:12] ---**
and Shokuho Misaki's reach
would not have extended to her.
**[13:15] ---**
I brought your sister back, just as I promised!
**[13:19] ---**
Thank you, Miss Kongo! You saved the day!
**[13:22] ---**
--Oh yeah! Oh yeah!
--Excuse me...
**[13:25] ---**
Yes?
**[13:26] ---**
What can I do for you?
**[13:27] ---**
I was hoping to have a word with you.
**[13:30] ---**
Um, I am afraid I have little time right now--
**[13:32] ---**
It concerns Misaka Mikoto's sister.
**[13:37] ---**
There are so many people around here.
**[13:40] ---**
Why don't we go somewhere else?
**[13:43] ---**
Huh...
**[13:44] ---**
A Daihasei Festival limited edition.
I'm sure it's already been checked off,
**[13:50] ---**
but I'd better ask, just to be sure.
**[13:54] ---**
Ask *who*...?
**[13:59] ---**
Miss Kongo? With...
**[14:02] ---**
...who is that?
**[14:06] ---**
When you say her "sister," does
that come from the "Sisters" nickname?
**[14:12] ---**
Or were you introduced
to her as being her actual sister?
**[14:17] ---**
Well, I guess it doesn't matter either way.
**[14:19] ---**
You see, I, too, was asked
to safeguard this "sister" of hers.
**[14:26] ---**
If you wouldn't mind,
**[14:27] ---**
could we compare our notes on what we each know?
**[14:30] ---**
While I appreciate your offer,
**[14:33] ---**
I am afraid that I will first need you
to explain to me who you are,
**[14:39] ---**
and for what purpose
you are looking for her sister.
**[14:43] ---**
Yes, I suppose you would. However,
**[14:46] ---**
perhaps you'd rather just
blindly tell me what your "lead" is.
**[14:51] ---**
Because if you don't...
**[14:56] ---**
A robot?!
**[14:58] ---**
...I will end up using drugs
to force it out of you.
**[15:02] ---**
You just keep your distance, please!
**[15:04] ---**
My suspicions exploded from the very start,
**[15:07] ---**
so I figured he was working with Shokuho Misaki,
**[15:10] ---**
but if he really is looking for her sister,
is he with a different interest?
**[15:15] ---**
I tagged along, thinking that maybe
I could get some information out of *him*,
**[15:18] ---**
but whatever the case,
it does not change the fact...
**[15:23] ---**
...that he is Miss Misaka's enemy.
**[15:28] ---**
Look! Look!
**[15:29] ---**
--I need to find a way to get away from here.
**[15:29] ---**
--All right, while we wait for the
next competition to start, we should--
**[15:35] ---**
Wah! My balloon!
**[15:37] ---**
This is it!
**[15:47] ---**
--Thanks, miss!
--Miss Misaka, look out!
**[15:51] ---**
Whoa. I accidentally jumped aboard.
**[15:55] ---**
Now I can't get down.
**[15:57] ---**
There, that was just an unfortunate accident,
so it's not my fault, right?
**[16:00] ---**
Miss Misaka...
**[16:02] ---**
...you should wait for us at the next stop...
**[16:04] ---**
I'm outside of her effective
telepathic range. Now...
**[16:08] ---**
Are you hurt, Miss Misaka?
**[16:11] ---**
Yes, we caught up to her. She's safe.
We'll get off at the next station,
**[16:15] ---**
--and if we can't catch a train back,
we'll call a taxi.
**[16:15] ---**
--So you can easily catch up to a
train running away from you, can you?
**[16:15] ---**
--and if we can't catch a train back, we'll call a taxi.
**[16:19] ---**
--So you can easily catch up to a
train running away from you, can you?
**[16:19] ---**
--Yes, we will.
**[16:20] ---**
I am so sorry about this...
**[16:29] ---**
You aren't getting away.
I researched your ability after your race.
**[16:34] ---**
Your ability involves creating air jets
on objects and launching them.
**[16:38] ---**
But then,
**[16:39] ---**
there is nothing here
for you to use your ability on.
**[16:43] ---**
That's the reason I brought you here.
**[16:46] ---**
If you'll just give in and talk to me,
you won't have to get hurt here.
**[16:50] ---**
And if you don't...!
**[16:54] ---**
Wh-What?!
**[16:59] ---**
You have made two mistakes
concerning Aero Hand, my ability!
**[17:05] ---**
First,
**[17:06] ---**
there is no restriction on
where I can place my jets.
**[17:10] ---**
You created a jet on the ground?
**[17:13] ---**
And secondly...
**[17:20] ---**
Th-The parabolic antenna?!
**[17:23] ---**
...if I bundle my jets together,
**[17:25] ---**
I can produce enough output to launch
**[17:27] ---**
even heavy equipment into the stratosphere!
**[17:30] ---**
There is nothing that I cannot send flying!
**[17:37] ---**
I can just pay for whatever I destroy!
**[17:40] ---**
It looks like *you* are
the one who will be giving in!
**[17:44] ---**
I had no idea she possessed this much power!
**[17:49] ---**
The Great Dane Types don't pack enough punch.
**[17:52] ---**
If I can just create a brief opening...
**[18:01] ---**
Hmm, Miss Kongo is not here, is she?
**[18:05] ---**
Are you sure this is the right place?
**[18:08] ---**
Y-Yes. This is where I told her to wait for us.
**[18:13] ---**
I'm sorry for making you come all the way here.
**[18:16] ---**
That's okay. If you find her,
please feel free to call me again.
**[18:21] ---**
Bye, now.
**[18:24] ---**
Where could she have gone?
**[18:26] ---**
Huh?
**[18:27] ---**
Miss Saten?
**[18:28] ---**
Oh, we keep running into each other.
**[18:31] ---**
Did you happen to see Miss Kongo?
**[18:41] ---**
Suddenly... I'm feeling faint...
**[18:46] ---**
I'm surprised.
**[18:47] ---**
I went for the cat,
and you actually leapt in to defend it.
**[18:54] ---**
That won't help.
I just injected you with a nanodevice
**[18:57] ---**
that deprives you of control over your body.
**[19:00] ---**
They're quite valuable,
so I was hoping I wouldn't have to use it.
**[19:04] ---**
At least... let the cat...
**[19:09] ---**
...find its way... back to Miss Misaka...
**[19:13] ---**
By any chance, are you doing this
because Misaka Mikoto asked you to?
**[19:17] ---**
For nothing in return? All for someone else?
**[19:21] ---**
It's hilarious that you ended up
having this happen to you as a result.
**[19:25] ---**
I mean, what a terrible girl she is.
**[19:28] ---**
To snow-job you into this,
when it has nothing to do with you.
**[19:32] ---**
Those Level 5s really are all the same...
**[19:42] ---**
You take...
**[19:45] ---**
...that back...
**[19:47] ---**
She is not... Miss Misaka is not
someone who uses other people... This is...
**[19:56] ---**
...something I decided to do all on my own...
**[19:59] ---**
Someone like you... might not understand that...
**[20:07] ---**
Buzz off, will you?!
**[20:09] ---**
Don't you talk down to me! You ended up...
**[20:12] ---**
...not being able...
**[20:13] ---**
...to do anything, did you?! Huh?!
**[20:17] ---**
You're completely useless, you know that?!
**[20:21] ---**
The fact that Misaka Mikoto
can only use trash like you
**[20:25] ---**
proves she's a complete disaster--
**[20:28] ---**
Whoa, that was a close one.
**[20:31] ---**
I'd be screwed if she dies before
I get any information out of her.
**[20:35] ---**
Aw, what a drag. The lower the life form,
**[20:37] ---**
the easier it is for them to piss someone off.
**[20:40] ---**
Great Dane Types, carry this girl away--
**[20:43] ---**
Miss Kongo?!
**[20:48] ---**
How awful. How did...?
**[20:54] ---**
*You* did this to her?
**[20:55] ---**
So what if I did? It doesn't matter
how human debris ends up, does it?
**[21:01] ---**
Wha--?!
**[21:02] ---**
The girl said she was here acting
on behalf of Misaka Mikoto.
**[21:06] ---**
The fact that she yielded her will
to someone else makes her second-class.
**[21:10] ---**
And since she wasn't able
to carry out the role she was given,
**[21:13] ---**
that makes her worse than third-class!
**[21:15] ---**
Truly human debris.
**[21:16] ---**
Why, you...!
**[21:21] ---**
Miss Saten,
**[21:23] ---**
I hate to ask this, but could
you take Miss Kongo and the cat...
**[21:27] ---**
...and move them someplace safe for me?
**[21:31] ---**
But...
**[21:34] ---**
If we do not keep that cat safe,
**[21:37] ---**
all of Miss Kongo's effort
will have been for nothing.
**[21:42] ---**
Besides...
**[21:46] ---**
...you are not the only one...
**[21:49] ---**
...who is having trouble
controlling their anger...
**[21:52] ---**
...at having one of their friends being insulted.
**[23:25] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:26] ---**
Miss Awatsuki, I have never felt
such a strong impulse as this before.
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#6 The Battle Begins"
**[23:30] ---**
Neither have I. Miss Wannai,
we need to have a word with that gentleman
**[23:33] ---**
who insulted Miss Kongo like that!
**[23:34] ---**
Yes!
**[23:35] ---**
For a high-schooler, you have the
verbal skills of someone in middle school!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E6 - The Battle Begins
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6ME78GPR/the-battle-begins)
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**[00:01] ---**
Besides...
**[00:05] ---**
...you are not the only one...
**[00:07] ---**
...who is having trouble
controlling their anger...
**[00:10] ---**
...at having one of
their friends being insulted.
**[00:16] ---**
Anger at having your friend insulted?
**[00:19] ---**
Is psychological dependence on
others becoming a trend or something?
**[00:30] ---**
You try to look like a hero,
doing something for someone else,
**[00:32] ---**
but when you find yourself stuck
in a situation you can't get out of,
**[00:36] ---**
you just blame it on them and wish you hadn't.
**[00:40] ---**
It looks like people
with no sense of imagination
**[00:43] ---**
can't understand that unless
they experience it for themselves.
**[00:51] ---**
Water?
**[01:00] ---**
I've always heard that
unconscious people were heavy, but...
**[01:04] ---**
She's gotten lighter...?
**[01:06] ---**
Is this your ability, Awatsuki?
**[01:09] ---**
It won't last very long.
**[01:11] ---**
Please hurry off, while you have the chance.
**[01:13] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[01:16] ---**
Whoa, there!
**[01:17] ---**
Do you think I'm just going
to let you walk away from this?
**[01:23] ---**
Whoo!
**[01:26] ---**
If that's all you've got,
my Great Dane Types can leap over them!
**[01:41] ---**
The only lead I have...!
**[01:44] ---**
Yeah, right.
**[01:46] ---**
Even after injecting its nanodevice,
**[01:49] ---**
the Mosquito Type can still come
in handy for its GPS transmitter.
**[01:52] ---**
As long as I have her trail,
I can do whatever I have to once I finish here.
**[01:56] ---**
But for right now...
**[01:59] ---**
...I'll have to take care of these two.
**[02:18] ---**
"A Certain Magical Railgun T"
**[03:38] ---**
I need to call an ambulance and Antiskill.
**[03:41] ---**
I hope Wannai and Awatsuki are all right.
**[03:51] ---**
Yes?
**[03:51] ---**
Well, Baba? Is everything moving along smoothly?
**[03:54] ---**
Yes, without a hitch.
**[03:59] ---**
Great Dane Types, you've gotta get in there!
**[04:02] ---**
What's this, now?
**[04:03] ---**
Baba, are you in the middle of a fight?
**[04:05] ---**
It just sort of happened.
So this might take a little more time.
**[04:09] ---**
Are you okay? Should I send in reinforcements?
**[04:12] ---**
No, there's no need.
**[04:14] ---**
You sure?
**[04:15] ---**
I'm so worried about you,
I can't do anything else.
**[04:19] ---**
She's such a liar.
**[04:20] ---**
Okay, how about I just retrieve your leads?
**[04:24] ---**
Unfortunately, I still don't
have any helpful intel yet.
**[04:28] ---**
So tweak the data to delay
Antiskill's arrival, if you would.
**[04:32] ---**
You idiot. You think I'm going
to let you steal all my credit?
**[04:36] ---**
Now, those two didn't
compete in the Balloon Hunter,
**[04:40] ---**
so I haven't checked out their abilities,
**[04:43] ---**
but the chestnut-haired
one's ability is Hydro Hand.
**[04:45] ---**
If the Great Dane Types get drawn into
the water, even they could be in danger,
**[04:49] ---**
but she's not so strong that she can
land a fatal blow while fighting on land.
**[04:55] ---**
The braided-hair one uses telekinesis, is it?
**[04:59] ---**
But seeing as how she
can't pin down a Great Dane Type,
**[05:03] ---**
she doesn't have all that much power.
**[05:07] ---**
Their abilities put them both around Level 3.
**[05:09] ---**
I doubt they've had much combat experience,
**[05:12] ---**
but they seem to be making
do pretty well by attacking in sync.
**[05:15] ---**
I have a limited number of pawns to use, myself.
**[05:21] ---**
Wow, not too shabby at all.
**[05:25] ---**
I am looking for Misaka Mikoto's Sis--
er, her twin, you see.
**[05:31] ---**
You there, with the chestnut hair--
**[05:33] ---**
you called that girl earlier
Kongo Mitsuko, right?
**[05:36] ---**
You were discussing something
about a lead on her sister, weren't you?
**[05:39] ---**
Would you mind telling me what that lead is?
**[05:43] ---**
I'm not asking you to give it
to me for free, of course.
**[05:46] ---**
There is a nanodevice inside here.
**[05:49] ---**
A real high-caliber model,
which can immobilize whoever it's used on.
**[05:53] ---**
I injected one of these
into Kongo Mitsuko earlier.
**[05:56] ---**
It's the truth. Using a mosquito-shaped
robot, with just a little "pfft."
**[06:01] ---**
When I touched Miss Kongo,
she had a pretty high fever.
**[06:05] ---**
I think there's probably at least
some truth to what he is saying.
**[06:08] ---**
It's tricky to remove a
nanodevice once it's been injected.
**[06:12] ---**
But if you had this, you may be
able to find a shutdown command.
**[06:17] ---**
Would you like to exchange
your information for it?
**[06:20] ---**
You want to help your friend, don't you?
**[06:25] ---**
We cannot tell what it is to someone like you.
**[06:29] ---**
However, we *will* be taking that nanodevice.
**[06:32] ---**
--Even if we have to take it by force!
--Even if we have to take it by force!
**[06:36] ---**
Well, well, negotiations
have broken down. Oh, well...
**[06:41] ---**
One of these two has already
been used and is empty.
**[06:45] ---**
The other one has the nanodevice inside it.
**[06:50] ---**
Which one is the right one?
**[06:52] ---**
Miss Awatsuki!
**[06:53] ---**
Right!
**[06:59] ---**
They know it's a trap, and still they split up.
**[07:01] ---**
These girls are a couple of pushovers.
**[07:05] ---**
Stop right there! Where are you--?
**[07:09] ---**
Come on, now! You have
to start chasing me, or I'll get away!
**[07:18] ---**
In the Balloon Sandwich,
**[07:19] ---**
"Daihasei Festival News"
**[07:20] ---**
it looks like Miss Kongo and
Miss Misaka competed together.
**[07:23] ---**
I wonder if those two are good friends.
**[07:27] ---**
Railgun...
**[07:31] ---**
Whenever I think about that girl,
**[07:33] ---**
I get an uneasy feeling across my chest!
**[07:36] ---**
I do not even want to think about that
conceited girl, who is just a pretty face!
**[07:42] ---**
If you're that mindful of her, then
that must have been one fateful encounter.
**[07:48] ---**
The two of you may make
a surprisingly good pair.
**[07:51] ---**
Huh? M-Me, and *that* girl?!
There is absolutely no way!
**[07:58] ---**
Oh...? Ah, just a moment, please!
**[08:02] ---**
I will be fine on my own now!
**[08:04] ---**
Let us split up now
and start patrolling separately!
**[08:10] ---**
That sure was a long line to get a taxi.
**[08:13] ---**
The place is packed with
spectators wherever you go.
**[08:16] ---**
Let's just wait for the next bus.
**[08:18] ---**
I can't leave all of this in Miss Kongo's lap.
I have to get out of here...
**[08:23] ---**
Huh? I wonder what that's about.
**[08:25] ---**
I hear there has been an
upswing in cases of heatstroke.
**[08:29] ---**
We should be careful, as well.
**[08:31] ---**
Hydration and electrolytes are key.
**[08:34] ---**
Is that...?
**[08:36] ---**
Miss Saten!
**[08:37] ---**
--Miss Misaka, wait up!
--Ah, um, Miss Misaka...?
**[08:41] ---**
What happened?
**[08:42] ---**
Why are you in an ambulance--
**[08:49] ---**
Stop right there!
**[08:56] ---**
Huh... Even away from the pond,
she can control a decent amount of water.
**[09:03] ---**
The Great Dane Type that took
in the water chestnut-hair controlled
**[09:06] ---**
was destroyed from the inside.
**[09:08] ---**
I guess that once the water
is under her command,
**[09:11] ---**
she can control it without even seeing it.
**[09:13] ---**
I pretty much have her analyzed.
**[09:16] ---**
For one thing, there's an upper limit
to the weight and effective range
**[09:19] ---**
that those with powers like hers can control,
depending on their power level.
**[09:23] ---**
If I get her far enough away from the pond,
**[09:25] ---**
she can no longer replenish her water supply.
**[09:28] ---**
Then, once I pretend to leave myself
open within her effective range...
**[09:38] ---**
What a shame.
**[09:40] ---**
Sure enough, she loses control
over water that becomes detached.
**[09:44] ---**
One other limitation
that espers with Hydro Hand have
**[09:47] ---**
is the count of the water
that they can control at once!
**[09:59] ---**
Physical attacks against water
may look futile at first glance,
**[10:02] ---**
but every time she deflects,
her watery armor gets ablated away.
**[10:07] ---**
I think I'll watch and enjoy as this young girl,
**[10:09] ---**
who only knows how to fight head-on,
is overcome with despair!
**[10:15] ---**
"Critical Care Center"
**[10:19] ---**
When I got to the park,
Kongo was lying on the ground,
**[10:22] ---**
and Wannai and Awatsuki confronted
an icky guy who was controlling robot dogs.
**[10:29] ---**
This is my fault.
**[10:31] ---**
I was naive.
**[10:33] ---**
I thought it was an extension
of the usual rivalry between cliques.
**[10:37] ---**
I thought she was just messing
with me because she doesn't like me.
**[10:41] ---**
I thought that not even she would do anything
**[10:44] ---**
to hurt someone who went to the same school.
**[10:50] ---**
We're ready. Those of you who
are her friends, please wait over here.
**[10:54] ---**
Oh, sure.
**[10:56] ---**
Huh...?
**[11:00] ---**
Um, Miss Misaka?
**[11:03] ---**
Something appears to have happened here--
**[11:05] ---**
Move.
**[11:06] ---**
We need to wait for other
members of the clique to arrive--
**[11:09] ---**
Move.
**[11:12] ---**
Unless you're prepared
to kill me to stop me, then move.
**[11:27] ---**
"#6 The Battle Begins"
**[11:28] ---**
Miss Misaka...
**[11:43] ---**
By my reckoning,
**[11:45] ---**
you should have run out of water
with two of them still remaining.
**[11:49] ---**
I'm impressed that you beat them all,
even if you did use up your water.
**[11:52] ---**
But you have no more water to protect
yourself with. Now what will you do?
**[11:56] ---**
As part of my studies as a Tokiwadai student,
**[11:59] ---**
I have learned a few self-defense techniques.
**[12:02] ---**
If you are unarmed, then I will take
you on without my abilities, too!
**[12:06] ---**
Heh, how courageous of you.
**[12:09] ---**
But I dislike the barbarity of duking it out.
**[12:16] ---**
Instead, I'll put these reserve forces
I'd been saving to work.
**[12:22] ---**
It's basic strategy to always have
a move ready to make in any situation.
**[12:29] ---**
It's not getting clean away,
**[12:31] ---**
but it's also maintaining a
certain distance from me as it runs.
**[12:34] ---**
It's trying to buy time by
keeping me separated from Miss Wannai.
**[12:38] ---**
I have to hurry.
**[12:42] ---**
This should work.
**[13:04] ---**
That was a successful shortcut.
**[13:07] ---**
This is all...
**[13:08] ---**
the aftermath of where
Miss Kongo used her ability.
**[13:11] ---**
I did a complete lap without even realizing it.
**[13:19] ---**
You know what?
**[13:21] ---**
I'm actually surprisingly strong.
**[13:25] ---**
Or am I?
**[13:28] ---**
If you had any water left,
**[13:30] ---**
I'm guessing this line
would be the limit of your range.
**[13:36] ---**
When you're someone as
exceptionally perceptive as I am,
**[13:39] ---**
it isn't too hard to figure out
that your effective range is 18 meters.
**[13:44] ---**
And that's not all.
**[13:46] ---**
I can tell that the maximum volume
you can control is 300 liters,
**[13:49] ---**
and that the number of streams of
water you can control at once is three.
**[13:55] ---**
So what will you do now?
Fight me hand to hand and go out a hero?
**[13:58] ---**
Bow down and beg for your life?
**[14:00] ---**
Or here, under these clear skies,
pray to God for a sudden cloudburst?
**[14:07] ---**
It's hopeless. The only option
you have is to curse yourself
**[14:10] ---**
for thoughtlessly sticking your neck
out where it doesn't belong.
**[14:14] ---**
You're going to meet
the same fate as your friend.
**[14:18] ---**
Rain...
**[14:19] ---**
Huh?
**[14:20] ---**
Have you noticed?
**[14:22] ---**
This park has a network
of drains buried underneath it,
**[14:26] ---**
so that when it rains heavily,
the water will flow into the pond.
**[14:30] ---**
Huh?
**[14:30] ---**
Your finesse in analyzing
my ability was quite skillful,
**[14:35] ---**
but you should have paid more
attention to things you can't see, too!
**[14:45] ---**
W-Water?! Where is it coming from?!
**[14:48] ---**
Is that a water drain?!
**[14:51] ---**
Don't tell me she had that water
hidden down there all the way from the pond!
**[14:55] ---**
My limit for controlling
water streams is *four*at once.
**[14:59] ---**
Always having a move ready
to make in any situation--
**[15:03] ---**
even *I'm* crafty enough to know that.
**[15:06] ---**
My fingers! They're doing nothing! I'm drowning!
**[15:09] ---**
If this keeps up, I'm gonna drown!
**[15:11] ---**
Great Dane Types, suck up this water!
Suck up all this water!
**[15:28] ---**
O-Oh, crap!
**[15:30] ---**
Is that all of your robots, then?
**[15:34] ---**
This is bad! This is bad!
This is bad! This is bad!
**[15:36] ---**
I have zero Great Dane Types left!
**[15:38] ---**
There's no other choice!
**[15:40] ---**
It means using the last one of
these that I got from the Doctor, but...
**[15:44] ---**
Do you give up yet?
**[15:47] ---**
I said I didn't like duking it out,
**[15:50] ---**
but that doesn't mean
I'm not good at it, either.
**[15:53] ---**
I've been trained in specialized
assassin skills since I was a child.
**[15:56] ---**
Family situation, you see.
**[15:58] ---**
These are taboo moves whose use is forbidden,
**[16:01] ---**
but I see no other choice but to use them
against someone as strong as you.
**[16:05] ---**
I'll bluff my way through keeping her attention,
**[16:07] ---**
and use the Mosquito Type
to inject her with a nanodevice!
**[16:11] ---**
Almost there...! Almost there...!
**[16:14] ---**
It dropped?!
**[16:15] ---**
A dead battery? Impossible! I just activated it!
**[16:19] ---**
No, but wait, the way it's moving...
**[16:21] ---**
It looks like you're safe.
**[16:23] ---**
Miss Awatsuki!
**[16:25] ---**
The case I went after was empty,
**[16:28] ---**
and I figured that if you got the upper hand,
**[16:30] ---**
he would use his nanodevice on you,
**[16:33] ---**
so I reduced the buoyancy force
around you down to zero.
**[16:36] ---**
It looks like that was the right decision.
**[16:37] ---**
Buoyancy? The braided-hair
girl's ability isn't telekinesis?
**[16:41] ---**
It's buoyancy manipulation?!
**[16:44] ---**
H-Hold on a minute!
**[16:46] ---**
Are you two espers planning
to both hit an unarmed man?!
**[16:49] ---**
I-I was just hired to do a job!
**[16:51] ---**
The Mosquito Type with the
nanodevice is lying right over there!
**[16:56] ---**
Sure, I may have been
a little too rough on your friend,
**[16:58] ---**
but can we just agree
to call it quits for today--
**[17:03] ---**
If I may be presumptuous enough to say so,
**[17:06] ---**
the reason you disdain the trust and
connections people have for each other
**[17:10] ---**
is because you don't have
anyone worthy of your trust.
**[17:13] ---**
But that is a result of
you looking down on others
**[17:16] ---**
and not letting anyone else in.
**[17:19] ---**
Unless you acknowledge the people you know
**[17:21] ---**
and show that you are willing
to meet them halfway,
**[17:24] ---**
no one is ever going to help you.
**[17:34] ---**
There I go, a novice, sounding
like she knows what she is saying.
**[17:37] ---**
No, I think it was something that
had to be said, for his sake, as well.
**[17:44] ---**
I hope he takes advantage of
the opportunity to rethink his ways.
**[17:53] ---**
Damn them!
**[17:55] ---**
Damn those girls!
They looked down their noses at me!
**[18:03] ---**
It's intel, all right.
**[18:05] ---**
If I'd only known what
their abilities were from the start,
**[18:08] ---**
there was no way I could
have been beaten by them!
**[18:12] ---**
Mantis Type!
**[18:14] ---**
I was reluctant to use you, since you stand out,
**[18:16] ---**
but your power is in a whole other league
**[18:19] ---**
from those Great Dane Types meant for searching!
**[18:21] ---**
Now that I know the specs of
their abilities, I can't possibly lose!
**[18:26] ---**
Go, Mantis Type!
**[18:33] ---**
For the humiliation they put me through,
merely killing them isn't good enough!
**[18:37] ---**
I'll tear them up, then capture them!
**[18:39] ---**
I'll make them sorry they were ever born female!
**[18:42] ---**
I'll stream their indignity
to the world over the Internet,
**[18:45] ---**
and not only shatter them
both mentally and physically;
**[18:48] ---**
I'll destroy them socially, as well!
**[18:50] ---**
They'll beg me in tears, "Please kill me"--
**[18:55] ---**
The GPS signal from the Mosquito Type
I affixed to Kongo Mitsuko?
**[18:59] ---**
What's it doing here? If it keeps
going that direction, then pretty soon...
**[19:08] ---**
Wh-Why?!
**[19:12] ---**
Why is Misaka Mikoto here?!
**[19:18] ---**
Impossible!
**[19:19] ---**
She shouldn't be able to move,
thanks to the nanodevice injected into her!
**[19:23] ---**
So that's it! She just looks like Misaka Mikoto!
**[19:26] ---**
That's one of the Sisters!
**[19:29] ---**
I'm in luck! As long as I capture her,
I'll redeem myself!
**[19:33] ---**
I can deal with those
other girls afterward! Mantis Type,
**[19:37] ---**
seize that girl!
**[19:55] ---**
It's...
**[19:57] ---**
It's really her...?
**[20:00] ---**
S-Stay back!
**[20:24] ---**
You can hear me, right?
**[20:26] ---**
I avoided the communications system
when I smashed this thing.
**[20:29] ---**
I pinpointed your location
by following your comm signal.
**[20:36] ---**
I-It won't open! Don't tell me she's
already taken over all the systems!
**[20:42] ---**
I'll be there shortly to do
the same thing to you as I did to this.
**[20:48] ---**
At least I'd like to,
**[20:50] ---**
but taking into account that you
might be under that girl's control,
**[20:53] ---**
I'm going to let you off
this one time. However...
**[20:57] ---**
...from here on, if I ever see one of these,
**[21:01] ---**
or one goes near one of my friends,
**[21:04] ---**
even for an instant,
**[21:07] ---**
then no matter where you are,
I swear I will find you...
**[21:13] ---**
...and crush you.
**[21:20] ---**
Uh-oh...
**[21:21] ---**
What's wrong?
**[21:22] ---**
Oh, man. Baba is out of the picture.
**[21:26] ---**
Out of the picture?
**[21:27] ---**
All of his mechanical pawns are wiped out.
**[21:29] ---**
He says he's looking
for a shelter to hide out in.
**[21:32] ---**
This is cryptic. He says he failed
to neutralize Misaka Mikoto.
**[21:37] ---**
I guess this means I'll have to get involved.
**[21:40] ---**
She's formidable.
**[21:41] ---**
What's this, now? You know her?
**[21:44] ---**
Once before,
**[21:45] ---**
I got to see her fighting close-up.
**[21:47] ---**
Well, now, it's not like
I have to pound her to death.
**[21:51] ---**
We can manage as long as this
gets settled by the end of the day.
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
The key to unlocking this mystery is
"Auribus oculi fideliores sunt."
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#7 Auribus oculi fideliores sunt
(The eyes are more trustworthy than the ears)"
**[23:29] ---**
"Auribus oculi fideliores sunt."
**[23:31] ---**
"Auribus oculi fideliores sunt."
**[23:33] ---**
Okay, everyone, all together, now!
**[23:35] ---**
--"Auribus oculi fideliores sunt."
--"Auribus oculi fideliores sunt."
--"Auribus oculi fideliores conto."
**[23:38] ---**
Did one of us say something different?
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E7 - Auribus oculi fideliores sunt
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**[00:10] ---**
You can hear me, right?
**[00:12] ---**
I avoided the communications system
when I smashed this thing.
**[00:15] ---**
From here on, if I ever see one of these
**[00:18] ---**
or one goes near one of my friends,
**[00:21] ---**
even for an instant,
**[00:24] ---**
then no matter where you are,
I swear I will find you...
**[00:30] ---**
...and crush you.
**[00:46] ---**
He ran away.
**[00:48] ---**
Well, any memories linked to Shokuho
are either erased or overwritten,
**[00:53] ---**
so it wouldn't matter.
**[00:58] ---**
There isn't much information
to speak of in the truck, either.
**[01:01] ---**
They are careful, anyway.
**[01:04] ---**
I could tell as soon
as they sent that robot out,
**[01:07] ---**
but this isn't the work of amateurs.
**[01:11] ---**
A vehicle this big would have
no choice but to take the main roads.
**[01:15] ---**
There are only so many
routes it could have taken.
**[01:17] ---**
If I trace back where it came
from using the security cameras,
**[01:21] ---**
I should be able to find
where they're holding her.
**[01:40] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[02:57] ---**
Have you still not picked
up Miss Misaka's trail?
**[02:59] ---**
No.
**[03:00] ---**
I guess that's that. Well, let's go
in teams of three again and search--
**[03:05] ---**
Sorry, but we have a
competition that's about to start.
**[03:08] ---**
And we can't really have
this many of us skip out.
**[03:11] ---**
Aw, man!
**[03:13] ---**
Well, those of us who are
left will start looking!
**[03:16] ---**
If only our Queen were here right now.
Has anyone been in contact with her?
**[03:21] ---**
Not since last night.
**[03:22] ---**
--Um, who's the "Queen"?
--Where could she be?
**[03:24] ---**
They mean Miss Shokuho
Misaki, from our school.
**[03:28] ---**
The girls in her clique
refer to her as their Queen.
**[03:32] ---**
Oh, yeah? Queen, huh?
**[03:35] ---**
Wasn't Shokuho Misaki someone
who could manipulate memories?
**[03:39] ---**
Those blue-blood girls really are unusual.
**[03:44] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[03:48] ---**
Miss Wannai, what is Miss Kongo's condition?
**[03:50] ---**
According to what the doctor said,
**[03:52] ---**
luckily, none of her trauma
should leave any permanent scars.
**[03:56] ---**
As for the nanodevice, they are sending it
to an agency that specializes in them.
**[04:00] ---**
So it's safe for us to breathe easy, then?
**[04:03] ---**
I believe so. There is one
other thing we can do...
**[04:11] ---**
I hate to keep troubling you about this.
**[04:13] ---**
Not at all.
**[04:14] ---**
So then, um,
**[04:16] ---**
are you able to speak to cats?
**[04:19] ---**
No. My ability is psychometry.
**[04:22] ---**
That's a completely
different class than telepathy,
**[04:25] ---**
so it's not as though
I can communicate with them.
**[04:28] ---**
All I can do is read the
fragments of an animal's qualia--
**[04:31] ---**
meaning their sensory experiences,
but it does have the benefit
**[04:34] ---**
of being able to pick up on information
that the cat itself may not be able to understand.
**[04:39] ---**
Oh...
**[04:43] ---**
You said yesterday around noon, right?
**[04:45] ---**
Yes, that is what we heard.
**[04:47] ---**
All right...
**[04:54] ---**
It was... at a construction
site or a stockyard.
**[04:55] ---**
"Development Permit Notice"
**[04:58] ---**
There was a tall man there.
Oh, and someone else--a girl, it looks like.
**[05:05] ---**
They started talking.
**[05:07] ---**
"One way or another, we have the initiative."
**[05:11] ---**
"We don't have time to bother with that now."
**[05:14] ---**
"What's happening with
*Auribus oculi fideliores sunt*?"
**[05:18] ---**
That's Latin. "The eyes are
more trustworthy than the ears."
**[05:23] ---**
Could that be some kind of cipher?
**[05:25] ---**
Um...
**[05:26] ---**
Hmm, I think anything beyond
that might be difficult.
**[05:30] ---**
The kitty seems to have
been pretty shaken up.
**[05:33] ---**
Oh, no, thank you very much.
While it might not mean anything to us,
**[05:38] ---**
it could prove to be useful
information to Miss Misaka.
**[05:41] ---**
Miss Saten, do you have your cell phone?
**[05:44] ---**
Oh, yes, right here.
**[05:47] ---**
The situation being what it is,
**[05:49] ---**
I think it's best if we
contact Miss Misaka right away.
**[05:53] ---**
Could we ask you to call her for us?
**[05:56] ---**
You bet.
**[05:58] ---**
All right, thanks for your assistance.
**[06:01] ---**
We will be in Miss Kongo's
hospital room if anything comes up.
**[06:05] ---**
Roger that! Now then...
**[06:10] ---**
Wait, I don't know Misaka's phone...
**[06:13] ---**
...num... ber...?
**[06:13] ---**
"Misaka Mikoto"
**[06:16] ---**
I have her saved?
**[06:23] ---**
It's taking too much time checking
the cameras at all key intersections.
**[06:27] ---**
They could make a run for it
before I even find them.
**[06:33] ---**
"Tokiwadai Middle School
takes 1st in Balloon Sandwich"
**[06:34] ---**
It looks like Mikoto is
doing pretty well. Nice, nice.
**[06:38] ---**
There, there, everything will be okay.
**[06:40] ---**
--You don't need to worry.
I'll stay with you.
**[06:42] ---**
--I know that head.
--You don't need to worry. I'll stay with you.
**[06:43] ---**
Uiharu!
**[06:46] ---**
Ms. Misuzu!
**[06:48] ---**
Who is that?
**[06:50] ---**
A lost boy.
**[06:51] ---**
Huh? In this crowd? That's a big deal.
Do you want some help?
**[06:55] ---**
Oh, no, I've already asked
his father to come to us.
**[06:59] ---**
You have?
**[07:00] ---**
Yes. Everyone's entrance pass is
equipped with GPS, including your own,
**[07:05] ---**
so our headquarters can
look up the location of any visitor.
**[07:10] ---**
It's Papa! Papa!
**[07:14] ---**
Please be careful, okay?
**[07:15] ---**
"Entrance pass"
"Misaka Misuzu"
**[07:16] ---**
You don't say.
**[07:18] ---**
I was wondering how you were able
to manage this many spectators.
**[07:22] ---**
You have everything under control, don't you?
**[07:24] ---**
Yes, but, if you hack into that system,
**[07:28] ---**
it makes it easy to locate
specific visitors...
**[07:32] ---**
Misaka Mikoto's mother.
**[07:35] ---**
I thought one hostage would be enough,
**[07:39] ---**
but this *is* the third-ranked
Level 5 I'm dealing with.
**[07:42] ---**
I think having one
other would be more reassuring.
**[07:46] ---**
So what is this urgent matter
you wanted to talk to me about?
**[07:49] ---**
Well, um...
**[07:51] ---**
I have many things to do.
Please make this quick.
**[07:56] ---**
Mm-hmm...
**[08:00] ---**
The thing is...
**[08:02] ---**
So what is her condition?
**[08:04] ---**
Her life isn't in any danger,
**[08:06] ---**
and Wannai and Awatsuki are watching her,
so I think she'll be okay.
**[08:09] ---**
I see. All of that happened
to Kongo Mitsuko...
**[08:14] ---**
Mm-hmm. Misaka seemed awfully angry about it.
**[08:17] ---**
I think maybe she feels responsible.
**[08:20] ---**
Once again with Misaka Mikoto.
**[08:22] ---**
I think I have a handle on the situation.
**[08:24] ---**
But the part about Misaka Mikoto
possibly being one of our friends
**[08:29] ---**
is a bit of a leap, is it not?
**[08:32] ---**
"Misaka Mikoto"
**[08:32] ---**
Yeah, I'm just saying, "possibly."
**[08:35] ---**
There's an esper at Tokiwadai
who can manipulate memories, right?
**[08:39] ---**
You think that Shokuho Misaki
tampered with our memories?
**[08:42] ---**
For what reason?
**[08:44] ---**
Moreover, if you believe that,
why did you not contact Uiharu?
**[08:50] ---**
Because if my guess is correct,
**[08:53] ---**
telling Uiharu about it might not be...
**[08:56] ---**
I-In any case,
**[08:57] ---**
I have a message for Misaka,
so why don't we ask her directly?
**[09:01] ---**
Well, I suppose you leave me no choice.
As a member of Judgment,
**[09:05] ---**
this does not appear to be
a situation I can ignore.
**[09:09] ---**
Who would be calling me now?
**[09:11] ---**
Miss Saten?
**[09:13] ---**
H-Hello?
**[09:14] ---**
Oh, um,
**[09:15] ---**
is this Miss Misaka? My name is Saten Ruiko.
**[09:19] ---**
Oh, mm-hmm. Thanks for
everything at the hospital.
**[09:22] ---**
I appreciate you telling me what happened.
**[09:24] ---**
--Oh, well, um, I heard from Wannai...
--Why is she so nervous?
**[09:28] ---**
...that you're looking
for your sister, right?
**[09:30] ---**
Anyhow, we had someone who can
do psychometry check out her cat.
**[09:35] ---**
I see.
**[09:37] ---**
Still, I'm sorry. I appreciate
you investigating,
**[09:40] ---**
but I have no idea what
this girl who could be Shokuho
**[09:43] ---**
and the man who was with
her were talking about.
**[09:45] ---**
Yeah, well, about that, they did mention
a name I'm quite familiar with.
**[09:51] ---**
Huh? Really?
**[09:52] ---**
I'd like to find out more about
our relationship with you, too.
**[09:56] ---**
Is there someplace where we could meet up?
**[09:58] ---**
Mm-hmm, all right.
**[10:00] ---**
Where are you right now?
**[10:02] ---**
The plaza in front of the terminal station
building in School District 15,
**[10:05] ---**
on the upper level.
**[10:07] ---**
Oh, we're pretty close to there.
**[10:09] ---**
Okay, you wait there, and I'll have
Shirai pick you up and bring you here.
**[10:13] ---**
Hey, I am not a taxi!
**[10:17] ---**
Kuroko is there with you?!
**[10:19] ---**
I-I told you, please do not
use my name so casually!
**[10:22] ---**
Miss Misaka?
**[10:24] ---**
There is a little something
I was hoping you might tell me.
**[10:30] ---**
I'm a little busy right now.
**[10:32] ---**
I don't have time to be
chatting with strangers.
**[10:36] ---**
However, if you have something to do
with the people who hurt my friend,
**[10:41] ---**
then that's another matter.
**[10:42] ---**
Whoa, just like that,
you're in combat mode. But then,
**[10:47] ---**
what do you say to *this*?
**[10:50] ---**
"#7 Auribus oculi fideliores sunt.
(The eyes are more trustworthy than the ears)"
**[10:50] ---**
Miss Uiharu?!
**[10:54] ---**
Now, now, let's start with having you
hang up the phone you're holding
**[10:58] ---**
and getting rid of it.
**[11:05] ---**
Good, good.
**[11:06] ---**
I don't need to introduce myself, do I?
**[11:09] ---**
I mean, you attacked so many of
our villas and made off with our data.
**[11:14] ---**
Villas? Attacked?
**[11:16] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[11:17] ---**
Non, non, you can't play dumb.
You've been sniffing around,
**[11:22] ---**
so you know what I'm about to ask, don't you?
**[11:26] ---**
The clones of you that
are known as "Sisters"--
**[11:29] ---**
where exactly are they hiding?
I've done a thorough investigation
**[11:33] ---**
into how you interfered
with Project Level 6 Shift.
**[11:37] ---**
It's not like you wouldn't know
what happened to your "Sisters"
**[11:40] ---**
once the project went belly up.
**[11:42] ---**
Where are the clones who are
still in Academy City being kept?
**[11:47] ---**
What's going on here?
**[11:48] ---**
Is she not working together with Shokuho?
**[11:51] ---**
We're scouring dark side
intelligence networks in high gear,
**[11:54] ---**
but whenever we search for "Sisters,"
our leads always come up empty.
**[11:59] ---**
Which organization has
the souped-up security to keep them?
**[12:03] ---**
I don't know who you people are,
**[12:06] ---**
but what is it you want to do
so badly that you'd assault my friends?
**[12:09] ---**
Oh, dear, after everything else,
you can ask something like *that*?
**[12:12] ---**
If you ask me, you're the one who's messed up
**[12:16] ---**
if you can just blithely
live here in the city like this.
**[12:20] ---**
I mean, you know, after
everything you've seen.
**[12:23] ---**
The inhuman atrocities that
were carried out to achieve Level 6;
**[12:27] ---**
the human experimentation
that went on using Child Errors;
**[12:31] ---**
using negotiators to swindle
people out of their DNA maps--
**[12:34] ---**
It's not like activities such as these
were carried on by only one organization.
**[12:41] ---**
If you trace them backward,
they all lead back to Academy City's higher-ups.
**[12:46] ---**
You are aware that this whole city
is one big proving ground.
**[12:51] ---**
No, you aren't like the other
students who know nothing about this.
**[12:55] ---**
And yet you turn a blind eye to the truth
and live your non-committal life here.
**[13:00] ---**
I'm impressed that you
could be so nonchalant.
**[13:05] ---**
You know, I...
**[13:10] ---**
Never mind.
**[13:12] ---**
That has nothing to do with this.
**[13:15] ---**
It's unrelated to the fact that
you brought harm upon my friends.
**[13:20] ---**
I have nothing to tell you.
**[13:23] ---**
Now let Miss Uiharu go.
**[13:26] ---**
My shocks will go through
you much faster than that knife.
**[13:30] ---**
"Miss Uiharu," huh?
**[13:32] ---**
So you do know her!
She was pretty chummy with your mother,
**[13:38] ---**
so I suspected as much.
**[13:40] ---**
My mother...?
**[13:46] ---**
Is that...? Mama!
**[13:48] ---**
A second hostage!
**[13:49] ---**
Not even you can take out
two people at once, can you?
**[13:53] ---**
The lives of these two far outweigh
the location of the clones, right?
**[13:58] ---**
So I'll ask you again, where are the Sisters?
**[14:03] ---**
And I'll say this one more time, too.
I have nothing to tell you.
**[14:08] ---**
Oh, my, you don't think I'm bluffing, do you?
**[14:11] ---**
Or are you willing to abandon both of them?
**[14:15] ---**
I...
**[14:17] ---**
...am going to save Miss Uiharu.
**[14:20] ---**
Even if it costs me my life.
**[14:22] ---**
I swear it.
**[14:24] ---**
Does that mean you don't
need your mother? How mean--
**[14:31] ---**
Oh, seriously?
**[14:33] ---**
Oh, dear, negotiations have broken down.
Sorry about this, Mom.
**[14:38] ---**
I hate to have to end this
with her taking me so lightly,
**[14:41] ---**
so if you must blame someone,
blame Mikoto for letting you die--
**[14:46] ---**
She had a friend lurking nearby?!
**[14:51] ---**
Her breathing, pulse,
and body temperature are normal.
**[14:53] ---**
From what I can see, she is not injured.
**[14:56] ---**
She ran away.
**[14:58] ---**
I would like to go after her,
but the safety of the hostage comes first.
**[15:02] ---**
Besides, I can ask *her* what happened.
**[15:07] ---**
Miss Uiharu is all right.
She doesn't appear to be hurt.
**[15:12] ---**
Please back away!
**[15:13] ---**
Huh? Hold on...
**[15:17] ---**
Judgment!
**[15:19] ---**
You are under arrest
for kidnapping and assault--
**[15:22] ---**
Kuroko! Get away from her!
**[15:31] ---**
That girl... isn't human?!
**[15:39] ---**
My bolts have no effect.
**[15:40] ---**
Kuroko, teleport these two someplace safe.
**[15:50] ---**
My shocks didn't work, either.
**[15:52] ---**
Can I blow her away with my railgun?
**[16:07] ---**
Huh?
**[16:09] ---**
She melted?
**[16:14] ---**
Is that...
**[16:16] ---**
some kind of liquid metal?
**[16:18] ---**
It looked like she was controlling
it remotely like a puppet.
**[16:23] ---**
So why did she suddenly stop?
**[16:26] ---**
I don't know.
**[16:27] ---**
If this is that girl's ability,
then maybe she fled out of range.
**[16:37] ---**
Well, having Mikoto die
wouldn't work for us anyhow.
**[16:42] ---**
I have to admit,
**[16:44] ---**
negotiating with her head-on is difficult.
**[16:47] ---**
Can't help it, though. She can do lots
of stuff on the other end of the camera.
**[16:52] ---**
Still, I should be glad
I got anything at all out of this.
**[16:56] ---**
Villas? Attacked?
**[16:59] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[17:01] ---**
I brushed it off back there,
but she would gain nothing by denying it.
**[17:06] ---**
Eyewitness reports had me
convinced that it was Mikoto,
**[17:09] ---**
but maybe it's possible that
the testimony was false. Meaning...
**[17:14] ---**
it's also possible that the
witnesses' memories were altered.
**[17:19] ---**
Maybe I'd better reconsider this. Besides...
**[17:24] ---**
You know, I...
**[17:26] ---**
...there may still be some hope for her.
**[17:30] ---**
So, would you mind explaining
to me what happened here?
**[17:35] ---**
Sorry, but I don't know
who that was, either--
**[17:39] ---**
I am bothered by that, as well,
**[17:41] ---**
but first, tell me about what just happened.
**[17:43] ---**
You were acting as though
you were sure I would be there.
**[17:47] ---**
When you said that you were going
to save Uiharu and not your mother.
**[17:53] ---**
That was a declaration to me, was it not?
**[17:57] ---**
Well, um, after I hung up on our call,
**[18:01] ---**
I could sense the EM signal of
an incoming call to Miss Uiharu's cell,
**[18:05] ---**
and figured that Miss Saten was calling
her to check on what was happening.
**[18:09] ---**
I had already told you where I was,
**[18:12] ---**
and knowing you, you could
be here in less than ten seconds,
**[18:15] ---**
so I assumed you were
hiding somewhere nearby...
**[18:20] ---**
Thank you...
**[18:21] ---**
...for letting me take care
of rescuing your friend.
**[18:26] ---**
Uiharu is with Judgment.
It is only natural to give priority
**[18:29] ---**
to a civilian over a colleague.
**[18:32] ---**
How could *you* leave your
own mother's life up to a stranger?
**[18:39] ---**
If I *had* put Mama ahead of a friend,
that would have made her angry at me.
**[18:44] ---**
Besides...
**[18:46] ---**
...I had faith in you, Kuroko,
and was sure that you would save her.
**[18:54] ---**
W-Well, that *is* my job,
after all, so naturally--
**[18:59] ---**
Are you okay?!
**[19:02] ---**
I'm sorry. I must have overexerted
you when you're still injured.
**[19:06] ---**
Huh? I-I am all right!
I do not require your unwelcome concern!
**[19:12] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[19:14] ---**
Come on, hold on to me tight.
**[19:18] ---**
L-Let go of me, please!
**[19:21] ---**
My tastes do not run that way!
**[19:28] ---**
It sounds like neither of them were hurt.
**[19:30] ---**
They said they should
both wake up in no time.
**[19:33] ---**
Thank goodness.
**[19:34] ---**
So? You said you needed to speak with us?
**[19:37] ---**
Oh, mm-hmm.
**[19:41] ---**
Um, the person who kidnapped your
sister--the girl in that kitten's memory...
**[19:48] ---**
You're sure it's Shokuho Misaki, then?
**[19:51] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[19:52] ---**
I don't think there can be any question.
**[19:55] ---**
So anyway,
**[19:56] ---**
that *Auribus*-whatever-it-was Latin
that we heard from the psychometry
**[20:01] ---**
is the same name as the
urban legend site that I browsed.
**[20:05] ---**
Urban legend site?
**[20:07] ---**
Why would Shokuho Misaki be
concerned with something like that?
**[20:11] ---**
The site doesn't just
collect different rumors;
**[20:15] ---**
its lure is that it actually goes
around validating their details.
**[20:18] ---**
And yesterday, when I was off
trying to find Shadow Metal,
**[20:22] ---**
Uiharu was searching that site for me,
**[20:25] ---**
but said she couldn't find it.
**[20:29] ---**
So a little earlier, I tried
searching for it again,
**[20:33] ---**
and sure enough, the results
are plastered with similar pages,
**[20:36] ---**
but I can't find the
original site in there anywhere.
**[20:40] ---**
It's impossible to completely erase
any data once it's uploaded on the net.
**[20:44] ---**
So I was thinking that
somebody must have distributed
**[20:47] ---**
a bunch of dummy data
with much higher search rankings
**[20:51] ---**
to keep people from actually
reaching the site.
**[20:54] ---**
Or put another way,
**[20:56] ---**
there was something on that site
that this somebody considers problematic.
**[21:00] ---**
Right.
**[21:01] ---**
Knowing Uiharu, she would
sense something out of place
**[21:04] ---**
and try to hunt down the cause of it.
**[21:07] ---**
She also has the skill to find it.
**[21:10] ---**
But this somebody detected
Miss Uiharu's actions on this end
**[21:14] ---**
and attacked her.
**[21:16] ---**
Assuming it was Shokuho,
she would have had Uiharu erase the data,
**[21:20] ---**
and then, after searching her memories,
**[21:22] ---**
she would also learn that she is my friend.
**[21:26] ---**
It all fits together.
**[21:28] ---**
This sounds like a crazy conclusion
to draw from connecting the dots,
**[21:32] ---**
but if it is true, then that computer...
**[21:37] ---**
...is worth checking out, isn't it?
**[21:45] ---**
The erased data has been reconstructed!
**[21:48] ---**
There it is!
**[21:49] ---**
"A secret technique lying behind fortified lines?!
Track down the cutting-edge
DNA computer that generates abilities!"
**[21:52] ---**
Shokuho...!
**[23:25] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
The Railgun of Tokiwadai,
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#8 Railgun âś• Mental Out"
**[23:27] ---**
the disagreeable girl who
brags about being a Level 5!
**[23:30] ---**
Or so I thought, but what
is the deal with her smile?!
**[23:34] ---**
Why is my heart churning so much inside me?!
**[23:38] ---**
Maybe because you're a degenerate?
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E8 - Railgun âś• Mental Out
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6XJPV38R/railgun--mental-out)
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**[00:05] ---**
The erased data has been reconstructed!
**[00:09] ---**
There it is!
**[00:12] ---**
Shokuho...!
**[00:14] ---**
A DNA computer that generates abilities?
**[00:18] ---**
Does that mean this Shokuho person
is involved in that research?
**[00:21] ---**
I couldn't tell you that much, but it is likely
**[00:25] ---**
that Shokuho didn't want it known
that she was at this place.
**[00:29] ---**
Which also means that it's
highly likely that it's her hideout.
**[00:32] ---**
And I'm sure *she's* there, too.
**[00:35] ---**
Kuroko...
**[00:37] ---**
...can you tell from the building
on the screen where this is?
**[00:41] ---**
Huh? I mean, why do you keep using
my name so casually? This building here?
**[00:47] ---**
It looks a lot like the
Judgment branch in School District 2.
**[00:51] ---**
School District 2, you say? I'll go have a look.
**[00:54] ---**
I hate to ask, but when my mama wakes up...
**[00:56] ---**
Yes, I will explain to her that
she collapsed from heat exhaustion
**[01:00] ---**
and keep her here under the excuse
that we need to reissue her entrance pass.
**[01:05] ---**
I know how to handle this.
**[01:06] ---**
Thanks. Miss Saten,
thanks for the information, too.
**[01:10] ---**
Oh, sure...
**[01:12] ---**
U-Um, Miss Misaka?
**[01:15] ---**
Have our memories really been manipulated?
**[01:18] ---**
And that's why we don't know you?
**[01:22] ---**
Don't worry. Once this is all over,
I'll grab Shokuho by the scruff of her neck
**[01:27] ---**
and bring her back here.
So just sit tight for a bit.
**[01:55] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[03:21] ---**
This is really turning into a hassle.
**[03:22] ---**
"September 19th"
**[03:27] ---**
What is this all about, now?
**[03:30] ---**
It looks like she fell victim
to a military nanodevice.
**[03:34] ---**
I'm not sure that vaccine software
alone will be able to treat her,
**[03:38] ---**
since her electrical abilities
might interfere with it.
**[03:42] ---**
However, I think we should still take her in.
**[03:46] ---**
One might say this situation
provides us with an opportunity.
**[03:49] ---**
One way or another, we have the initiative.
**[03:53] ---**
If her life is at risk,
I'll raise the white flag to Miss Misaka.
**[03:57] ---**
Are you sure?
**[03:58] ---**
It would be an annoyance, but by then,
there's nothing more we can do.
**[04:02] ---**
For now, could you call her an ambulance?
**[04:05] ---**
I'll mind control them and
have them take us part of the way.
**[04:09] ---**
Sure.
**[04:13] ---**
Does the cat belong to her?
**[04:18] ---**
Uh-oh.
**[04:19] ---**
It didn't have a collar. Could just be a stray.
**[04:22] ---**
We don't have time to bother
with that now. Leave it be.
**[04:26] ---**
I guess you're right.
**[04:28] ---**
Hello?
**[04:32] ---**
Well?
**[04:33] ---**
What's happening with
Auribus oculi fideliores sunt?
**[04:37] ---**
Oh, that urban legends site?
**[04:40] ---**
For crying out loud,
**[04:42] ---**
I had our security turned all the way up
**[04:44] ---**
so I couldn't be followed or detected, too.
**[04:47] ---**
Then to be captured from a distance
by a psychic photography esper
**[04:51] ---**
who can use a drop of water as a lens...
**[04:52] ---**
How does the administrator
of an urban legend leisure site
**[04:55] ---**
have that kind of power?
Espers really are the worst, huh?
**[05:00] ---**
Look who's talking.
**[05:02] ---**
Did you say something?
**[05:03] ---**
Look, don't worry about that.
**[05:05] ---**
I have a program running that is
automatically generating dummy sites.
**[05:10] ---**
That site will never see the light of day again.
**[05:13] ---**
"September 20th"
**[05:16] ---**
Well, well, what have we here?
**[05:18] ---**
It looks like we have someone
analyzing the dummy data generator,
**[05:22] ---**
trying to trace down the original site.
**[05:24] ---**
Listen, you! Didn't you say
there was nothing to worry about?!
**[05:30] ---**
H-Hold on a second, please.
**[05:32] ---**
I set up the means to do a trace
if we had an intruder, just in case.
**[05:36] ---**
There they are.
**[05:38] ---**
Judgment Branch 177?
**[05:41] ---**
Learning that the Judgment girl
I found when I got there
**[05:44] ---**
was a friend of yours was probably the point
**[05:47] ---**
when my expectations starting going astray.
**[05:50] ---**
But then, at the time, there wasn't
anything else I could have done.
**[05:53] ---**
Perhaps this situation was simply unavoidable.
**[05:57] ---**
Right, Miss Misaka?
**[06:00] ---**
Well, fancy meeting *you* here.
**[06:03] ---**
Pretty audacious of you to
blatantly show yourself off like that
**[06:06] ---**
to every security camera in sight.
**[06:09] ---**
Where is she?
**[06:11] ---**
As I'm sure you're aware,
she's in the building on the website.
**[06:15] ---**
That's the most reliable hiding place I have.
**[06:20] ---**
She's safe, then?
**[06:21] ---**
Torturing people isn't my thing,
no matter how much they look like you.
**[06:26] ---**
There, are you happy now?
**[06:29] ---**
Not at all. I have a whole
ton of questions I want to ask you.
**[06:34] ---**
Well, we can't have that, can we?
**[06:36] ---**
But you see, I'm pressed for time, too,
so if you want to talk, come with me.
**[06:52] ---**
I wonder if there's anything
I could be doing, too.
**[06:56] ---**
She said herself to wait here for her,
**[06:59] ---**
so I do not think you need to stress about it.
**[07:02] ---**
Honestly, I am only 50% sure
that my memories were manipulated.
**[07:07] ---**
But what if it is true? Having your friends
forget you would be miserable.
**[07:13] ---**
So you'd be cool if
Uiharu and I forgot about you
**[07:17] ---**
and treated you like a perfect stranger?
**[07:19] ---**
Well, I...
**[07:21] ---**
I would hate it.
**[07:29] ---**
What is that you've been looking at?
**[07:30] ---**
A Bank list.
**[07:32] ---**
The person who took Uiharu hostage earlier--
**[07:35] ---**
I only saw her face, and do not
even know in which school she is enrolled,
**[07:39] ---**
but I can surmise what her ability must be.
**[07:43] ---**
Her ability allowed her
to remotely control a liquid metal,
**[07:45] ---**
and create a likeness of herself out of it.
**[07:48] ---**
Also, if she is either a Level 3 or a Level 4,
**[07:51] ---**
that should narrow it down considerably.
**[07:54] ---**
Oh, yeah. That could prove helpful to Misaka.
**[07:57] ---**
I am only acting as a member of Judgment
**[08:00] ---**
pursuing a criminal wanted for attempted murder.
**[08:03] ---**
Cavalierly telling a civilian
about investigative information
**[08:05] ---**
is not something that I would do.
**[08:07] ---**
Oh?
**[08:08] ---**
However!
**[08:10] ---**
If I determine the situation to be urgent,
**[08:11] ---**
or if sharing the information
would be beneficial,
**[08:15] ---**
that may not necessarily be true.
**[08:18] ---**
Huh?! Why are you looking at me like that?!
**[08:21] ---**
All right! I'll help you
dig through that material!
**[08:24] ---**
Hey! Would you please not ignore me?!
**[08:31] ---**
We seem to be moving away
from the place in the photo.
**[08:34] ---**
I told you, I'm pressed for time.
If you want to talk, then don't complain.
**[08:40] ---**
Besides, I don't want
anyone going near that place.
**[08:45] ---**
You don't have to worry.
Once this is over, I'll give her back to you.
**[08:50] ---**
It looks like she got
injected with a nanodevice,
**[08:52] ---**
so I'm a little concerned
about her immune system,
**[08:56] ---**
but her life is in no danger.
**[08:58] ---**
The people who injected this "nanodevice" thing
**[09:01] ---**
are the ones who are
looking for the Sisters, right?
**[09:04] ---**
What's the story with them?
**[09:06] ---**
I thought they were operating
under your orders at first,
**[09:09] ---**
but they've kept on looking,
even after her disappearance
**[09:12] ---**
and they're poking around,
asking about things *you* wouldn't have to.
**[09:16] ---**
In fact, I'm guessing you
two are on opposite sides.
**[09:20] ---**
Yep. And right now,
we're headed to where their boss is.
**[09:25] ---**
It started when I heard
about Project Level 6 Shift,
**[09:29] ---**
the experiment that I know
you're quite familiar with.
**[09:34] ---**
Some of the researchers at the facility
I was with were whispering about it.
**[09:39] ---**
Apparently, the project was at a standstill,
**[09:40] ---**
--and its data had leaked
into the underworld community.
--Did you hear about the Level 6 Shift project?
**[09:43] ---**
I want you...
**[09:46] ---**
...to tell me all about it.
**[09:48] ---**
Word is that they were trying
to elevate the first-ranked, Accelerator,
**[09:52] ---**
to Level 6 using mass-produced clones
of the third-ranked, Misaka Mikoto.
**[09:57] ---**
But the project seems to
have stalled midway through.
**[10:01] ---**
So what happened to the clones they've made?
**[10:03] ---**
I don't know.
**[10:04] ---**
I'm guessing they were disposed of?
**[10:08] ---**
So, have you found out what's
become of the post-experiment Sisters?
**[10:12] ---**
I'm sorry, not yet.
**[10:14] ---**
What gives? You were involved
in the experiment, right?
**[10:18] ---**
That's part of the reason why I hired you.
**[10:21] ---**
I was merely in charge of stepping up security.
**[10:24] ---**
And after the project was suspended,
**[10:26] ---**
the Sisters were taken in
by some other institution. But,
**[10:31] ---**
I will check with my contacts
and see what I can find.
**[10:33] ---**
I would appreciate it if you did so quickly.
**[10:36] ---**
There is one thing that's bothering me, though.
**[10:40] ---**
There's another organization that
is also trying to track down the Sisters.
**[10:44] ---**
There is? Then do a concurrent
investigation of them, too.
**[10:50] ---**
And what turned up from that...
**[10:52] ---**
...were these other guys.
**[10:54] ---**
The one you came in contact
with was just a hired hand.
**[10:57] ---**
It looks as though their directive
was to get rid of you
**[11:00] ---**
and to search for the Sisters.
**[11:02] ---**
Get rid of me?
**[11:04] ---**
You have your record of throwing
a monkey wrench into the Sisters project,
**[11:09] ---**
so you're on their radar.
**[11:11] ---**
And now she's paying the price instead of me...
**[11:15] ---**
I'm wondering why they only tried
to immobilize you with a nanodevice.
**[11:19] ---**
You can guess the reason
why they want the Sisters, can't you?
**[11:24] ---**
Their objective is almost certainly...
**[11:26] ---**
...the Misaka Network.
**[11:28] ---**
Yep. The network formed
by the Sisters' brainwave link.
**[11:33] ---**
If the extent of that processing
power were to be misused,
**[11:36] ---**
*bad* things could happen.
**[11:39] ---**
That's why I've taken steps
to prevent individual Sisters
**[11:42] ---**
from infecting others with electrical viruses
by collapsing those pathways.
**[11:46] ---**
Using my powers of ingenuity.
**[11:49] ---**
Now, even if one of the other Sisters
were to fall into their hands,
**[11:52] ---**
they won't be able to meddle
with the Misaka Network.
**[11:55] ---**
That's what you meant by having the initiative.
**[11:58] ---**
What are they planning
to use the Misaka Network for?
**[12:02] ---**
All I can say for sure is
that it won't be anything good.
**[12:07] ---**
After all, we're dealing with the
advocate for Project Level 6 Shift,
**[12:12] ---**
"#8 Railgun âś• Mental Out"
**[12:13] ---**
Kihara Gensei.
**[12:18] ---**
Kihara Gensei...
**[12:20] ---**
I've never met him directly,
but I've heard his name a number of times.
**[12:25] ---**
I didn't know he was
the advocate for that project.
**[12:28] ---**
And not just that project, either.
**[12:30] ---**
The man will stop at nothing
in his quest for the truth.
**[12:34] ---**
He's the granddaddy of Academy City's
field of study into SYSTEM
**[12:37] ---**
and has brought down many
a researcher and research institution.
**[12:42] ---**
He wouldn't propose something
as small-minded as restarting the project,
**[12:46] ---**
so I'm sure there's something up his sleeve.
**[12:49] ---**
All that being said,
**[12:51] ---**
we're currently on our way
to where Kihara Gensei is.
**[12:55] ---**
Is he that easy to reach?
**[12:57] ---**
Of course not. The old man appears
and disappears like a ghost,
**[13:01] ---**
so it took a lot of work to track him down.
**[13:03] ---**
Word is that he's secretly coming
**[13:06] ---**
to the International
Ability Researchers Conference
**[13:08] ---**
about to be held in School District 9.
**[13:10] ---**
I read the mind of one of his insiders,
so there's no doubt about it.
**[13:14] ---**
I'm planning to use
this once-in-a-lifetime chance
**[13:16] ---**
to settle everything in one shot.
**[13:19] ---**
You didn't happen to manipulate
Kuroko and the others' memories
**[13:23] ---**
so that they wouldn't be exposed to any danger
**[13:26] ---**
as your own weird way of
being considerate, did you?
**[13:29] ---**
Well, if those girls didn't know what
they were getting into with that old man,
**[13:33] ---**
they would meet an untimely death.
**[13:36] ---**
And even if it didn't come to that,
**[13:38] ---**
the irregularity of their actions
might mess up my own plan.
**[13:42] ---**
Things would have turned out
unfortunately for all involved.
**[13:48] ---**
Then why...
**[13:51] ---**
...didn't you tell me about this from the start?
**[13:53] ---**
Why did you even erase Kuroko
and the others' memories to hide it?
**[13:57] ---**
You remember me saying earlier
that they're wary about you?
**[14:01] ---**
If we'd teamed up,
they would know all about me, too.
**[14:04] ---**
Still, there were any number of ways
you could have gone about this!
**[14:07] ---**
Miss Kongo is...!
**[14:10] ---**
I guess I was the one who got her involved,
**[14:13] ---**
and if she did come into
contact with them by accident,
**[14:16] ---**
then blaming you for it
might be misdirected. But still,
**[14:20] ---**
if you and I had teamed up from the start,
**[14:23] ---**
Miss Kongo wouldn't have had
to go through what she did!
**[14:27] ---**
I do feel bad about what happened to her.
**[14:30] ---**
But you know what?
**[14:31] ---**
She ended up taking down a piece
of trash that I don't get along with,
**[14:36] ---**
and I appreciated the help.
**[14:38] ---**
And I'm telling you,
you should have let *me* handle him!
**[14:42] ---**
Why...?
**[14:42] ---**
What if you had set off their alarms,
and Kihara Gensei didn't show up?
**[14:48] ---**
What if you had sold me out,
and served me up to them?
**[14:52] ---**
--I'd never do something like that--
--Cooperation?
**[14:54] ---**
Trust? How can you believe
in such unreliable things?
**[15:00] ---**
The end result of you readily
taking people at their word
**[15:03] ---**
was Project Radio Noise
**[15:05] ---**
and Project Level 6 Shift, wasn't it?
**[15:08] ---**
I make certain to peek around inside
the head of anyone working with me.
**[15:13] ---**
What their motives and
standards of behavior are.
**[15:16] ---**
And in some cases,
I manipulate their emotions and actions.
**[15:21] ---**
I don't know what you're thinking,
so partnering with you was something...
**[15:25] ---**
...I was never interested in.
**[15:27] ---**
The reason we're together now
**[15:29] ---**
is out of respect for
your commitment to your friends,
**[15:34] ---**
and so that we can settle this quickly,
**[15:36] ---**
before they find out we're together.
**[15:39] ---**
Sure enough, you and I
are never going to get along.
**[15:45] ---**
Can I ask you something?
**[15:48] ---**
Why does someone as inhuman
as you are care about the Sisters?
**[15:53] ---**
Good question. But I'm under
no obligation to tell you.
**[15:58] ---**
Besides,
**[15:59] ---**
it looks like we're almost there.
**[16:08] ---**
Ms. Misuzu?
**[16:10] ---**
This is the nap room
at the 177th Branch office...
**[16:16] ---**
If your supposition is correct,
**[16:19] ---**
it would mean that Uiharu has
been controlled since yesterday.
**[16:22] ---**
Mm-hmm...
**[16:24] ---**
They went to such pains to hide the site,
**[16:27] ---**
so they would probably try to
investigate Uiharu when she found it.
**[16:30] ---**
I think they altered her memories
to suit them while she was being read.
**[16:34] ---**
Was that the reason why she made
that patrol route mistake, too?
**[16:38] ---**
Hmm... Either way,
we don't tell Uiharu about this, okay?
**[16:42] ---**
She has the tendency
to feel guilty about these things.
**[16:46] ---**
U-Uihar--?
**[16:48] ---**
Um, would you mind telling me
exactly what you're talking about?
**[16:53] ---**
Well, um...
**[16:55] ---**
As you wish.
**[16:55] ---**
Huh?!
**[16:56] ---**
However, before I do,
would you please make us some tea?
**[16:59] ---**
I hate to ask after you just got up, but...
**[17:02] ---**
Oh, sure.
**[17:04] ---**
Sh-Shirai!
**[17:05] ---**
Your thoughtfulness in not wishing
to hurt one of your friends is wonderful,
**[17:11] ---**
but Uiharu is not so fragile a girl
**[17:13] ---**
that something like this would break her.
**[17:18] ---**
Mind control...?
**[17:20] ---**
You don't say.
**[17:22] ---**
So I've been gumming up
the works without even knowing it.
**[17:30] ---**
Okay, now that we have taken a moment,
**[17:32] ---**
it is time to restart the investigation.
**[17:34] ---**
Uiharu, please pick out any
suspicious individuals from the Bank.
**[17:38] ---**
Huh? Are you sure?
**[17:40] ---**
I may still be under whatever
mind control is obstructing us.
**[17:44] ---**
We do not have time for you
to undergo a thorough exam.
**[17:48] ---**
Right now, Uiharu, we need your abilities.
**[17:51] ---**
If you are concerned,
you can do your work in front of us.
**[17:55] ---**
Or do you still need more sleep?
**[17:57] ---**
N-No! I'll get the ball rolling right now!
**[18:00] ---**
That was impressive.
**[18:02] ---**
But to be fair, we were *also*
affected by her mind control.
**[18:06] ---**
I'm not saying a word.
**[18:08] ---**
Okay then,
**[18:09] ---**
you're free to go back to your usual business.
**[18:15] ---**
The conference is being held up ahead.
**[18:17] ---**
The security on the way
there has been neutralized.
**[18:19] ---**
That's where Kihara Gensei is, right?
**[18:23] ---**
As long as you don't do
anything to interfere with me,
**[18:25] ---**
you can stay here and watch if you'd like.
**[18:27] ---**
Are you kidding? Against folks who can't
do anything without victimizing others?
**[18:33] ---**
I'm pulling the plug on them!
**[18:35] ---**
Ah, wait just a second!
**[18:38] ---**
Level 6...
**[18:40] ---**
A domain that can't conceivably
be reached by existing abilities alone...
**[18:44] ---**
Something even Accelerator would have
to sacrifice 20,000 clones to achieve...
**[18:50] ---**
Whatever Kihara Gensei might be planning,
**[18:53] ---**
it will likely carry a cost
even higher than before.
**[18:56] ---**
If he can find that great
a price acceptable, then...
**[19:00] ---**
A godly brain...
**[19:02] ---**
The nature of this city
in pursuing that really is...
**[19:06] ---**
Come on, now.
**[19:08] ---**
How can I be preoccupied with my own thoughts
**[19:10] ---**
when I'm about to charge into enemy territory?
**[19:15] ---**
Shokuho...?
**[19:17] ---**
She's not there.
The way here was a straight shot.
**[19:20] ---**
There's no way we could get separated.
**[19:22] ---**
She set me up!
**[19:24] ---**
Maybe she thought she could
rope me in with all that slick talk,
**[19:29] ---**
but if she wants to tangle...!
**[19:33] ---**
H-Hey... I told you... to wait up... okay...?
**[19:42] ---**
Don't you have... any attentiveness...?
**[19:47] ---**
Don't go off...
getting charged up... without me...
**[19:52] ---**
I'm the one who brought you here...
so it's only right...
**[19:57] ---**
...that we stick together...
**[19:59] ---**
Don't go dashing off at full speed...
**[20:02] ---**
Actually, I think that was more like jogging.
**[20:08] ---**
W-Well, I am heavier in
certain areas than you are,
**[20:13] ---**
so you have less wind resistance.
**[20:15] ---**
You can understand how hard it is for me, right?
**[20:18] ---**
Actually,
**[20:20] ---**
you're just lousy at sports, aren't you?
**[20:24] ---**
Huh?! Huh?! Who's lousy at--
**[20:27] ---**
Come to think of it, I don't remember
ever seeing you take a gym class.
**[20:32] ---**
So what, people who are athletic are better?
What are you, in grade school?!
**[20:36] ---**
Ah, that must be why you
have the figure of a little girl!
**[20:39] ---**
M-My figure has nothing to do with this!
**[20:42] ---**
What about you? What's with those
sparkles in your eyes? Shojo manga?
**[20:45] ---**
I was born this way!
**[20:46] ---**
Didn't anyone ever teach you not
to make fun of others' appearances?!
**[20:48] ---**
Oh, yeah?! Look who's talking!
**[21:02] ---**
Now that I think back on it,
bringing you here was an irregularity.
**[21:07] ---**
I always planned to take care
of things here by myself.
**[21:12] ---**
There's no need for us to charge
in hand in hand, is there?
**[21:15] ---**
Yeah. I feel uneasy trying
to partner with you, myself.
**[21:20] ---**
--Let's do this independently.
--Let's do this independently.
**[21:25] ---**
Don't do anything to slow me down, okay?
**[21:28] ---**
Right back at you!
**[21:31] ---**
Let's see, I'd better report what I found.
**[21:34] ---**
As far as the person who stole the data
from our villas, it wasn't Misaka Mikoto;
**[21:40] ---**
it looks like it was the
fifth-ranked, Shokuho Misaki.
**[21:43] ---**
She must have set her up to be the fall guy
**[21:45] ---**
to mask whatever traces she
couldn't hide with memory manipulation.
**[21:49] ---**
It looks like she also knew about
the do-not-kill bulletin on Misaka Mikoto
**[21:52] ---**
that got sent out to MEMBER.
**[21:54] ---**
Did you finally figure it out, Kozaku Mitori?
**[21:57] ---**
Huh? Hold on, you mean you knew?
Then you could have told me.
**[22:03] ---**
Letting you know would not
have changed your jobs, right?
**[22:07] ---**
Kozaku, you just get things
ready on your end. Understood?
**[22:12] ---**
Yeah...
**[22:14] ---**
But are you sure about this?
**[22:16] ---**
Shokuho Misaki's objective in getting
the data from the villas was definitely...
**[22:21] ---**
It's all right. No need to worry.
All green. In fact...
**[22:27] ---**
I'm almost afraid that things
are going *too* smoothly.
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:26] ---**
Okay, let's charge in there!
You immobilize any security guards,
**[23:30] ---**
and I'll blast my way through
any walls using my railgun!
**[23:32] ---**
My Mental Out doesn't work on Miss Misaka.
**[23:35] ---**
I wonder if that isn't
because of her EM barrier
**[23:38] ---**
but because her brains are made of muscle.
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E9 - Kozaku Mitori
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G63KQXDV6/kozaku-mitori)
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**[00:07] ---**
Area B, what's your status?
**[00:08] ---**
Nothing out of the ordinary.
**[00:10] ---**
Continue to maintain security.
**[00:13] ---**
Good grief, even with all these security robots,
**[00:16] ---**
they still call in a private service like us?
**[00:20] ---**
What kind of bigshot do they have coming here?
**[00:31] ---**
Wh-What happened? A malfunction?
**[00:35] ---**
Hey, who are you?! That's my tablet!
**[00:37] ---**
If Kihara Gensei is here...
**[00:40] ---**
--...he's in the VIP room. From the map...
--What did you just...? Hey!
**[00:43] ---**
it looks like cutting through
here would be quickest.
**[00:47] ---**
It's a little bit violent,
**[00:49] ---**
but I can't let Shokuho get the jump on me.
**[01:10] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[02:29] ---**
She's as barbaric as ever, huh?
**[02:33] ---**
Can't she behave with a little more elegance?
**[02:35] ---**
Hurry! That came from Area B!
**[02:39] ---**
Hold it!
**[02:40] ---**
There's someone here, too!
**[02:42] ---**
Halt! I don't know how you got in here,
**[02:45] ---**
but we're authorized to detain
anybody who doesn't belong here!
**[02:47] ---**
Stop or we'll shoot.
**[02:50] ---**
Fine, then. Shoot her.
**[02:53] ---**
Hey, what's wrong with you?
Didn't you hear my order?!
**[02:57] ---**
You're free to fire.
**[02:59] ---**
Wh-Why, you...!
**[03:07] ---**
We've been expecting you.
**[03:09] ---**
Good work, everyone.
**[03:11] ---**
I'll just quickly erase this man's memories.
**[03:14] ---**
Okay, the rest of you, take a seat.
**[03:18] ---**
Block off any exits that will
let anyone break out of here.
**[03:21] ---**
I don't want even a single ant to get out.
**[03:24] ---**
Make sure to capture Kihara Gensei.
**[03:27] ---**
--Yes, ma'am!
--Yes, ma'am!
**[03:31] ---**
Metal that can turn liquid...
**[03:34] ---**
Did you find something out?
**[03:36] ---**
Hmm, a little while ago,
**[03:38] ---**
the stuff was really popular,
and a number of companies developed it,
**[03:42] ---**
but it turns out that only two
of those companies are still around.
**[03:45] ---**
Yes, but neither of them
have any record of loss or theft.
**[03:51] ---**
Of course, we cannot dismiss the
possibility of there being a mole, either.
**[03:55] ---**
Miss Shirai, I sent you the
Bank list that I narrowed down.
**[03:58] ---**
Okay, I will look at it now.
**[04:01] ---**
Huh? They have a shuttered
factory in School District 7.
**[04:07] ---**
There she is! I found her!
**[04:11] ---**
Her name is Kozaku Mitori.
**[04:13] ---**
She is a 3rd-year at Kirigaoka Middle School.
**[04:15] ---**
Age 15. Dropped out? Huh?
**[04:19] ---**
Non-public information?
**[04:21] ---**
What does that mean?
**[04:22] ---**
I just cross-referenced Antiskill's database.
**[04:26] ---**
She committed attempted terrorism 14 months ago
**[04:30] ---**
and was sent to a reform school.
**[04:33] ---**
Huh? So then, if she attacked you,
**[04:37] ---**
does that mean that she broke out or something?
**[04:39] ---**
If that were the case,
Judgment would have gotten a notice.
**[04:43] ---**
Are you positive this is the right person?
**[04:46] ---**
She *was* wearing a hood low over her eyes.
I cannot be absolutely certain.
**[04:51] ---**
But the deep-seated darkness in this girl's eyes
**[04:54] ---**
makes me think this is the same person.
**[04:56] ---**
Then why don't we go to the
Bank Control Center to double-check?
**[05:00] ---**
We might be able to find something out.
**[05:04] ---**
All right.
**[05:05] ---**
Okay then... Oh--
**[05:07] ---**
But what do we do about Ms. Misuzu?
**[05:10] ---**
I explained the situation to Miss Konori.
I do not think it will be an issue.
**[05:16] ---**
Miss Saten, what are you going to do?
**[05:18] ---**
Huh?
**[05:19] ---**
Saten, only members of Judgment
will be allowed inside the control center.
**[05:24] ---**
Oh, you don't say.
**[05:26] ---**
Okay then, I guess I'll pass.
**[05:28] ---**
I'll find something else to pass the time.
**[05:35] ---**
Oh, yeah,
**[05:36] ---**
it's still the middle of the Daihasei Festival.
**[05:40] ---**
So much has happened,
**[05:42] ---**
I almost forgot.
**[05:44] ---**
Excuse me!
**[05:45] ---**
"Good luck charm"
**[05:46] ---**
I'm doing a scavenger hunt!
Does anyone have a good-luck charm?
**[05:51] ---**
Nobody has one? Okay...
**[05:55] ---**
Here in Academy City,
where science is everything,
**[05:57] ---**
I *would* get stuck with this one, of all things.
**[06:00] ---**
Just my luck!!
**[06:02] ---**
A good luck charm?
**[06:05] ---**
I have the one I got from Mama
when I came to Academy City,
**[06:09] ---**
but it is kind of important to me,
so I couldn't just let a stranger take it.
**[06:16] ---**
I'm sorry, spiky-haired guy.
**[06:18] ---**
Just my luck!!
**[06:22] ---**
There you go.
**[06:28] ---**
Um, you wouldn't happen to have
a good luck charm, would you?
**[06:31] ---**
I'm sorry, but no.
**[06:34] ---**
Oh, no, forgive me for asking.
**[06:36] ---**
He's still at it.
And we've come quite a way, too.
**[06:40] ---**
As late as it is, he has to be in last place.
**[06:44] ---**
Oh, but then, if you quit the
scavenger hunt, you get zero points,
**[06:47] ---**
so as long as he crosses the finish line,
he'll at least get last place.
**[06:51] ---**
--He's still at it, and not giving up.
--Does anyone have a good luck charm?!
**[06:54] ---**
--He seems nice enough.
He wouldn't toss it away, or anything.
--Excuse me! Anyone?!
**[06:57] ---**
--He seems nice enough.
He wouldn't toss it away, or anything.
--Does anyone have a good luck charm?!
**[06:59] ---**
Excuse me!
**[07:00] ---**
I have one.
**[07:02] ---**
Huh? R-Really? Would you let me borrow it?
**[07:06] ---**
Sure. Let's see...
**[07:09] ---**
You're a lifesaver!
**[07:11] ---**
Whoa, I can't go erasing its luck, can I?
**[07:14] ---**
Huh? So um, it may look pretty beat up,
but it's still important to me.
**[07:21] ---**
Hmm? Oh, I understand, of course.
Once I cross the finish line, I'll return it.
**[07:26] ---**
But then, I can't just
ask you to wait here until then.
**[07:29] ---**
All right, how about we
meet up in one hour over there?
**[07:34] ---**
Okay, you got it.
**[07:36] ---**
And if we don't see each other,
**[07:37] ---**
could you deliver it to Judgement Branch 177?
**[07:41] ---**
All right...
**[07:43] ---**
...um...
**[07:44] ---**
Oh, I'm Saten.
**[07:46] ---**
I'm Kamijo Toma. Thanks.
I promise I'll get it back to you!
**[07:50] ---**
Bye!
**[07:54] ---**
Come to think of it,
**[07:55] ---**
that closed-down factory is around here.
**[07:56] ---**
"Keep out"
**[07:59] ---**
"Shinohara Liquid Material Factory"
**[08:02] ---**
Huh? This says that Kozaku Mitori is deceased!
**[08:07] ---**
Oh, excuse me...
**[08:09] ---**
Is this data accurate?
**[08:11] ---**
Yes.
**[08:12] ---**
Or at least, it's true that your
person was filed under "deceased."
**[08:16] ---**
Two months ago,
**[08:17] ---**
at the reform school.
Cause of death was heart failure.
**[08:22] ---**
Perhaps I was mistaken about this after all.
**[08:26] ---**
But don't you think this is a little strange?
**[08:28] ---**
Huh?
**[08:29] ---**
According to this timestamp,
her remains would have had to be cremated
**[08:33] ---**
right after they were discovered.
**[08:36] ---**
Indeed so. There would have
been no time for an autopsy.
**[08:40] ---**
Perhaps they didn't do one.
**[08:42] ---**
What do you mean by that?
**[08:44] ---**
You know, maybe there was
something they wanted hidden,
**[08:47] ---**
so they destroyed the evidence
before cause of death could be determined.
**[08:51] ---**
For that matter,
**[08:52] ---**
maybe your person isn't even dead!
**[08:54] ---**
Uh, do you have any grounds
why you would think that?
**[08:58] ---**
No, no, no.
**[08:59] ---**
But I do love a good conspiracy theory.
**[09:02] ---**
You and Miss Saten would get along nicely.
**[09:05] ---**
Yeah...
**[09:06] ---**
I've heard a rumor, you see,
**[09:08] ---**
that once in a while, for whatever reason,
**[09:11] ---**
the students who are taken in
by Academy City's reform schools
**[09:13] ---**
end up disappearing out of the blue.
**[09:17] ---**
The guards report it to their superiors,
**[09:19] ---**
but it ends up getting swept under
the rug without much of an investigation.
**[09:23] ---**
Even worse, it's always the high-level espers
**[09:26] ---**
and outstanding students who vanish.
**[09:30] ---**
So the story goes that there's a deal
between Academy City and the inmates,
**[09:35] ---**
and that they must be secretly
getting discharged from there.
**[09:39] ---**
It's probably more convenient
for them if they're labeled as dead.
**[09:44] ---**
Really though, at the end of the day,
**[09:47] ---**
"#9 Kozaku Mitori"
**[09:47] ---**
rumors are just rumors.
**[09:51] ---**
We ended up not really
learning anything for sure.
**[09:56] ---**
Even so,
**[09:57] ---**
if we suppose that it really was
Kozaku Mitori who abducted you two,
**[10:03] ---**
it means that there is someone
with enough influence to fake her death
**[10:06] ---**
behind what is going on.
**[10:08] ---**
Assuming that's true,
**[10:10] ---**
what would she want with Ms. Misuzu and myself?
**[10:16] ---**
Considering what the situation was,
**[10:18] ---**
Kozaku Mitori's target was likely Misaka Mikoto.
**[10:22] ---**
However, I cannot begin
to guess what the objective was.
**[10:27] ---**
Why indeed?
**[10:30] ---**
You really are concerned, aren't you?
**[10:32] ---**
About Miss Misaka?
**[10:33] ---**
Huh?! Wh-Wh-What are you talking about?!
**[10:35] ---**
I was only speaking as a member of Judgment!
**[10:38] ---**
I-I am by no means interested in that girl!
**[10:41] ---**
I mean, sure, her manner earlier
was quite distinguished, but even so--
**[10:53] ---**
Damn! What the hell is going on?!
**[10:56] ---**
Why are our own people ambushing us?
**[10:58] ---**
Hey!
**[11:00] ---**
You all right? What do you make of this--
**[11:02] ---**
Stay back!
**[11:03] ---**
Whoa!
**[11:04] ---**
What the hell, man?!
Are you telling me *you're* the mole?!
**[11:07] ---**
No, *you* are! You traitor!
**[11:09] ---**
I could say the same!
**[11:10] ---**
--Her ability has them unable
to tell who's a friend or foe.
--Why, you! Hey, stop that, dumbass! --Damn you!
**[11:15] ---**
Now that they can't rely on
their cooperation or communications,
**[11:18] ---**
they can no longer function as an organization.
**[11:24] ---**
This is the VIP room floor.
Kihara Gensei's room would be...
**[11:29] ---**
What are you doing there?!
**[11:32] ---**
You're with Q Squad?
**[11:34] ---**
You know you're in D Squad's section, right?
**[11:36] ---**
Oh, um,
**[11:38] ---**
it sounded like you had an
emergency here, so I came to help.
**[11:43] ---**
Hmm. Our visitor has already taken shelter.
**[11:47] ---**
I need you to stick close.
**[11:50] ---**
Follow me.
**[11:51] ---**
Right.
**[11:54] ---**
I could knock him out right here,
**[11:56] ---**
but if Gensei is inside,
it would be better to let him take me there.
**[12:01] ---**
This one is sketchy.
**[12:03] ---**
Q Squad shouldn't even be on duty right now.
**[12:07] ---**
Moreover, she didn't respond to the signal.
**[12:11] ---**
As soon as I turn this next corner...
**[12:14] ---**
--I'll turn around and put a bullet in her.
--I'll turn around and put a bullet in her.
**[12:18] ---**
That's what he's thinking.
**[12:20] ---**
I don't need you to tell me.
**[12:22] ---**
My radar has already picked up on him.
**[12:28] ---**
What's with the getup?
**[12:30] ---**
Oh, hush!
**[12:31] ---**
Unlike you, I can't afford to
let my face or gym clothes be seen.
**[12:36] ---**
But never mind me, where is Gensei?
**[12:38] ---**
I'm putting my investigative
powers to work right now.
**[12:41] ---**
He better not have gotten away.
**[12:43] ---**
I've seized control of all the escape routes,
**[12:46] ---**
from the underground passageways
to the heliport on the roof.
**[12:53] ---**
Speak of the devil...
**[12:55] ---**
He said that Gensei is in custody.
**[13:02] ---**
Hmm...
**[13:04] ---**
There's nothing here, which is no surprise.
**[13:07] ---**
It's about one step short of collapsing.
**[13:10] ---**
And any materials that were left
over were probably already looted.
**[13:15] ---**
Or so I thought...
**[13:20] ---**
Someone's here!
**[13:22] ---**
Man, that cosplay girl is a real slave driver.
**[13:26] ---**
--Yeah, but we're being paid well enough.
**[13:27] ---**
--What are they doing in here?
--Yeah, but we're being paid well enough.
**[13:35] ---**
The electricity is on?
**[13:38] ---**
Ah, it's closing!
**[13:44] ---**
Whew, just barely made it!
**[13:49] ---**
Wait, why did I even come in here?
**[13:53] ---**
I-It won't open!
I need a special card or something.
**[13:57] ---**
Wh-Wh-What do I do?
**[13:59] ---**
--I should call Uiharu-- Uh-oh!
**[13:59] ---**
--So anyway, what's she
supposed to be cosplaying as?
--I should call Uiharu-- Uh-oh!
**[14:01] ---**
--Beats me. A nurse, maybe?
--I should call Uiharu-- Uh-oh!
**[14:14] ---**
Could this place actually be...?
**[14:19] ---**
Do not turn around.
**[14:21] ---**
S-Sure...
**[14:23] ---**
What are you doing in here?
**[14:24] ---**
O-Oh, um, I-I just...
**[14:27] ---**
...got a little lost...
**[14:31] ---**
Forget everything you saw,
and get out of here without another word.
**[14:34] ---**
O-Okay, I will. I'm leaving right now.
**[14:40] ---**
Bingo! Why did my sense about
these things have to be right *this time*?
**[14:46] ---**
U-Um, I can't get out of here by myself--
**[14:48] ---**
I told you not to turn around, you idiot!
**[14:59] ---**
Huh? What is...?
**[15:06] ---**
Whoops.
**[15:08] ---**
Hmm? What are you doing?
You're just letting her get away.
**[15:14] ---**
This plan business is
already in its final stage, right?
**[15:18] ---**
I figured that no matter what
happened here, it wouldn't interfere.
**[15:24] ---**
Then again, you have
no reason to let her live, do you?
**[15:30] ---**
Excuse me, what's all the commotion--
**[15:33] ---**
An intruder. Go catch
the girl who just ran away.
**[15:36] ---**
R-Right!
**[15:39] ---**
Idiot.
**[15:40] ---**
Why'd you have to stick your nose in here?
**[15:48] ---**
What is it, Doctor?
**[15:49] ---**
XĂłchitl, I need you to listen closely.
**[15:53] ---**
As it happens, I finally was
able to inquire of the members
**[15:57] ---**
of Academy City's Governing Board
and get everything arranged.
**[16:02] ---**
What?
**[16:03] ---**
Wah! No!
**[16:06] ---**
Come on! Let go of me!
**[16:09] ---**
--Well, well, well, what a lively little rat.
--I said let me go!
**[16:13] ---**
What are we gonna do with this kid?
**[16:15] ---**
--Hmm... Once you get her
to tell you why she snuck in,
--Put me down, you big...!
**[16:19] ---**
dispose of her any way you see fit.
**[16:22] ---**
--I've got places I have to go.
--No!
**[16:33] ---**
Oh-ho...
**[16:36] ---**
What's this? Betrayal?
**[16:38] ---**
Or do you have some kind of
sentiment for the rat behind you?
**[16:44] ---**
I don't really care what happens to this idiot.
**[16:47] ---**
But the real backstabber
here is you, isn't it, Kozaku?
**[16:53] ---**
MEMBER, the dark side organization I belong to,
**[16:57] ---**
is supposed to work under the direction
of Academy City's Governing Board.
**[17:03] ---**
So naturally, we thought that your
orders came from the governing board.
**[17:09] ---**
However...
**[17:11] ---**
...the Doctor had some doubts
and did some fact checking.
**[17:13] ---**
He discovered that this job has
nothing to do with the governing board.
**[17:19] ---**
You conspired with an outside client
and used your position as a go-between
**[17:24] ---**
to get Baba and me to do your work.
**[17:27] ---**
Didn't you?
**[17:30] ---**
As far as I'm concerned,
**[17:32] ---**
it doesn't matter who's giving the instructions.
**[17:36] ---**
But when it comes to traitors,
**[17:38] ---**
they must be punished.
**[17:41] ---**
My, my, if we go at it right here,
it will be a one-sided massacre.
**[17:47] ---**
Are you sure about that?
**[17:49] ---**
You may think you can
sit back and watch from afar,
**[17:52] ---**
but I doubt you're aware of
the full extent of my techniques.
**[18:01] ---**
I'm willing to bet 90% of that is hot air,
**[18:04] ---**
but it's true, her unusual powers
are unlike anything in Academy City.
**[18:10] ---**
She may conjure up some phenomenon
I would never even imagine.
**[18:14] ---**
I can't exactly afford
any setbacks at this point, either.
**[18:19] ---**
Sheesh! Okay, fine.
**[18:21] ---**
I'm out of here.
**[18:24] ---**
But one word of warning before I go.
If you have somewhere to go home to,
**[18:28] ---**
right now would be a
good time to leave Academy City.
**[18:32] ---**
If you want to live to an old age, that is.
**[18:34] ---**
I have nowhere to return to. Besides,
**[18:37] ---**
there's someone here I have
to hunt down even if it costs me my life.
**[18:42] ---**
Aren't you a little lady?
**[18:50] ---**
U-Um...
**[18:52] ---**
Thank you so much for sparing me!
**[18:55] ---**
Huh? You're that girl I met yesterday, right?
**[18:58] ---**
Is this your way of thanking me
for showing you how to use your cell--
**[19:02] ---**
Ow!
**[19:04] ---**
There's self-defense techniques,
and there's martyr's resolve,
**[19:07] ---**
and if you don't have either of them,
**[19:09] ---**
don't go thoughtlessly wandering
into the dark side's business.
**[19:14] ---**
Follow me.
**[19:17] ---**
I'll take you to the exit.
**[19:21] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[19:25] ---**
So, where was he?
**[19:27] ---**
We found him hiding in the safe room.
**[19:31] ---**
This...
**[19:33] ---**
is Kihara Gensei?
**[19:36] ---**
Should I pull his tape off?
**[19:37] ---**
Oh, I don't need him to talk.
**[19:40] ---**
I'll consult his brain directly.
**[19:47] ---**
What are you doing?!
**[19:53] ---**
A disguise?
**[19:56] ---**
Wait, Shokuho! What's going on?!
**[19:59] ---**
Shokuho!
**[20:01] ---**
Huh?
**[20:01] ---**
A Kihara Gensei duplicate, using special makeup?
**[20:06] ---**
I have some business
that I just could not get out of.
**[20:09] ---**
But, sir...
**[20:10] ---**
All you have to do at the
forum is nod and say "mm-hmm."
**[20:13] ---**
Okay...
**[20:15] ---**
Now, if you're reading his memories,
you know what the situation is.
**[20:20] ---**
Sir?
**[20:21] ---**
If you're there now,
then you can't be at you-know-where.
**[20:26] ---**
Um...
**[20:27] ---**
Do you think Exterior
can be kept safe without you,
**[20:32] ---**
Shokuho Misaki?
**[20:34] ---**
Why?
**[20:36] ---**
Why would Gensei do that?
**[20:46] ---**
Hold up! Shokuho!
**[20:49] ---**
At least explain what's going on!
**[20:51] ---**
Drive! As fast as you can!
**[20:58] ---**
--Ow!
--Ow!
**[21:07] ---**
Coming around, are you?
**[21:09] ---**
You're in a certain
building in School District 2.
**[21:13] ---**
"Did you rescue Misaka?"
asks Misaka, expressing her gratitude.
**[21:21] ---**
No, this is all just part of the job.
I do not need any thanks.
**[21:31] ---**
And she's back asleep again.
**[21:35] ---**
Well, well, here I thought I had finally
found some respectable work again...
**[21:41] ---**
...but it looks like things
have taken an ugly turn.
**[23:25] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
What exactly is "Exterior"?
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#10 Clone Dolly"
**[23:28] ---**
Huh? Oh, you know, it's that legendary sword.
**[23:30] ---**
That's "Excalibur."
**[23:32] ---**
The big light fixture?
**[23:32] ---**
That's a "chandelier."
**[23:33] ---**
A dog?
**[23:33] ---**
That's a "terrier."
**[23:34] ---**
Someone who does hairdos
with only their own hair?
**[23:36] ---**
Those are extensions--no, wait!
Hey, what's the big idea?
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E10 - Clone Dolly
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR2489M56/clone-dolly)
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**[00:07] ---**
Coming around, are you?
**[00:09] ---**
You're in a certain building
in School District 2.
**[00:13] ---**
"Did you rescue Misaka?"
asks Misaka, expressing her gratitude.
**[00:21] ---**
No, this is all just part of the job.
I do not need any thanks.
**[00:30] ---**
And she's back asleep again.
**[00:35] ---**
Well, well, here I thought I had finally
found some respectable work again...
**[00:56] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[02:13] ---**
So you're saying that Kihara Gensei
**[02:16] ---**
is after the place on the
urban legends website?
**[02:18] ---**
That's right.
**[02:19] ---**
But how did he find out about it?
**[02:23] ---**
It wasn't me!
**[02:25] ---**
I know that. Chronologically,
the order of events doesn't fit.
**[02:29] ---**
Could the information be a trap,
and he's leading you on?
**[02:33] ---**
Like he doesn't really know
where it is, and he's tailing us?
**[02:37] ---**
It is possible.
**[02:40] ---**
But if that's the case,
**[02:41] ---**
even if he does find out where it is,
I can still manage.
**[02:44] ---**
In the worst-case scenario...
**[02:49] ---**
Hey! Why did you stop?!
**[02:52] ---**
A traffic jam?
**[02:53] ---**
What is this?!
**[02:55] ---**
One of the unmanned buses that goes
around Academy City burst into flames.
**[03:00] ---**
All the buses have been shut down
while they determine the cause.
**[03:04] ---**
And with one of the main means of
travel during the Daihasei Festival gone,
**[03:07] ---**
there are traffic jams all over
that extend for several kilometers.
**[03:12] ---**
We're blocked in from behind, too.
**[03:15] ---**
Then there's no other choice.
**[03:18] ---**
Exterior, commence voluntary
will reversal past the 13th pair.
**[03:27] ---**
Shokuho...?
**[03:43] ---**
The way ahead...!
**[03:44] ---**
Drive between them, as fast as you can!
**[03:47] ---**
R-Right!
**[03:51] ---**
Did Shokuho do this?
**[03:54] ---**
Thousands of people,
extending several kilometers ahead?
**[04:00] ---**
I don't care if she is Academy City's
greatest mental ability esper,
**[04:04] ---**
there's no way she could exert
this much nightmarish power.
**[04:08] ---**
How exactly did she do this?
**[04:12] ---**
Whatever else happens,
**[04:14] ---**
I have to keep it from falling
into their hands while I'm away.
**[04:23] ---**
Makuwa, what's that you're eating?
**[04:26] ---**
Hmm? Melon slices, as you can see.
**[04:30] ---**
What food do you hate?
**[04:32] ---**
Apples.
**[04:33] ---**
Hmm. Shokuho?
**[04:46] ---**
It looks like your abilities
are coming along nicely.
**[04:49] ---**
Once Exterior is complete...
**[04:52] ---**
I don't think you really need that thing.
**[04:56] ---**
Oh, don't say that. This project
will not only benefit us greatly,
**[05:00] ---**
but you, as well.
**[05:03] ---**
So, can I leave now?
**[05:06] ---**
No, before you go,
there's someone I'd like you to meet.
**[05:13] ---**
Well, how are you feeling today?
**[05:16] ---**
Allow me to introduce you.
**[05:18] ---**
This is the Prototype,
but we just call her "Dolly."
**[05:22] ---**
Prototype?
**[05:26] ---**
Come on, now, say hello.
**[05:30] ---**
N-No!
**[05:32] ---**
Oh, pipe down.
Just because I saw your tiny boobs...
**[05:39] ---**
Don't look at me.
**[05:42] ---**
Oh, well, I guess I don't need
to go to the trouble of explaining now.
**[05:47] ---**
She was born with a kind of illness, you see.
**[05:51] ---**
Without those devices implanted
inside her body, she couldn't live.
**[06:01] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[06:03] ---**
Pretty... gross, wasn't it?
**[06:06] ---**
No, I wouldn't say that.
**[06:08] ---**
Mm-mm, I can't help it.
**[06:12] ---**
I used to have a friend.
**[06:18] ---**
Mi...
**[06:20] ---**
She used to come here every day
since I couldn't go out.
**[06:24] ---**
We talked about all sorts of things
and played together a lot.
**[06:30] ---**
But...
**[06:32] ---**
...then she got a look at my body.
**[06:36] ---**
Starting the next day, she stopped coming.
**[06:40] ---**
Why is my body like this?
**[06:44] ---**
It disgusted my one
and only friend. I miss her...
**[06:51] ---**
"Clone Dolly Research Lab 2"
**[06:52] ---**
So...
**[06:53] ---**
what was your goal in putting
the two of us together, anyway?
**[06:58] ---**
We're collecting some
data from Dolly, you see.
**[07:02] ---**
The shock of losing her friend is so great
**[07:04] ---**
that we can't read any
normal values from her right now.
**[07:08] ---**
We want you to help her
to restore her inner peace.
**[07:12] ---**
I don't know what you expect *me* to do.
With my ability the way it is now,
**[07:16] ---**
I can't completely erase
the memories of her friend,
**[07:19] ---**
and even overwriting them is difficult.
**[07:23] ---**
Yes. But what about her sense of recognition?
**[07:31] ---**
Pardon me.
**[07:33] ---**
You came back today,
**[07:35] ---**
Mi!
**[07:42] ---**
Why am I the one who has to do this?
**[07:57] ---**
Aw, what are you doing--
**[08:04] ---**
A-Are you sure you're in middle school?
**[08:08] ---**
--Mmm... yes, I am.
--Here.
**[08:12] ---**
That's what the teacher says.
**[08:14] ---**
Though I've never actually gone to a school.
**[08:18] ---**
Mi, do you enjoy school?
**[08:20] ---**
Huh, that's a good question.
**[08:23] ---**
My ability makes it easy
for me to get ostracized.
**[08:26] ---**
Ostracized?
**[08:27] ---**
You know, to get on people's
bad side, I guess.
**[08:31] ---**
Huh?
**[08:32] ---**
But, Mi, I love your ability.
**[08:36] ---**
Here.
**[08:38] ---**
I can't. They told me
to refrain from using my ability.
**[08:43] ---**
Aww...
**[08:47] ---**
What is it like outside the research lab?
**[08:52] ---**
I'd like to see what they call the ocean.
**[08:55] ---**
Unfortunately, Academy
City isn't on the ocean.
**[08:59] ---**
And the checks are so stringent,
it's not easy to get out of the city.
**[09:05] ---**
But then, if we could get an exit pass,
I'd be happy to take you to the beach.
**[09:12] ---**
Thank you, Mi!
**[09:14] ---**
E-Easy!
**[09:17] ---**
Huh? Wh-What gives?
**[09:23] ---**
Nothing.
**[09:26] ---**
What's going on?
**[09:28] ---**
Good progress.
**[09:30] ---**
Yeah. Let's watch how this progresses.
**[09:39] ---**
I'm out!
**[09:41] ---**
Yay! I win again!
**[09:51] ---**
I did it!
**[09:53] ---**
Hey, that's bad manners.
**[09:55] ---**
Mi, you always have to go up
next to it to throw things away.
**[09:59] ---**
O-Of course I do! Just so you know,
**[10:02] ---**
when girls get to be my age,
literally throwing garbage away
**[10:05] ---**
is the greatest breach
of manners I can think of!
**[10:08] ---**
It might be fine right now,
but once you leave the research facility,
**[10:10] ---**
the boys will be sizing up
your every move, you know.
**[10:14] ---**
You need to adopt a more refined attitude--
**[10:16] ---**
You can't make it go in?
**[10:20] ---**
Huh?! Huh?! I could easily do it!
**[10:24] ---**
Really?
**[10:26] ---**
Okay, fine. Just watch this.
**[10:37] ---**
Th-That one was...
**[10:39] ---**
M-My finger just got a little caught on it!
**[10:43] ---**
I-I neglected air resistance!
**[10:47] ---**
Ah! I had something in my eye!
**[10:50] ---**
I-I'll sink it this time for sure.
**[10:53] ---**
She keeps getting closer.
**[10:56] ---**
Aw, man!
**[10:58] ---**
Hang in there!
**[11:00] ---**
Focus! Focus!
**[11:05] ---**
I-It went in! You see that, Dolly?
When I really mean it...
**[11:16] ---**
H-Hey!
**[11:18] ---**
Somebody!
**[11:23] ---**
Status?
**[11:24] ---**
They will come and collect her shortly.
**[11:26] ---**
Uh-oh. I knew it wouldn't
be much longer, but...
**[11:31] ---**
You have to shake it off.
**[11:34] ---**
I mean, this is...
**[11:38] ---**
What?
**[11:41] ---**
Tell me... your name...
**[11:55] ---**
Misaki... Shokuho Misaki...
**[12:00] ---**
Misaki... thank you for being... my friend...
**[12:15] ---**
Sh-She's going to be okay, right?
She'll recover and be right back, won't she?
**[12:21] ---**
No, this is goodbye for Dolly.
**[12:25] ---**
Her body gave out a long time ago.
**[12:29] ---**
Even with Academy City's
scientific capabilities,
**[12:32] ---**
it would be impossible
to extend her life any longer.
**[12:37] ---**
I'm sure Dolly herself...
**[12:39] ---**
"#10 Clone Dolly"
**[12:39] ---**
...was well aware of that.
**[12:47] ---**
Oh, are you in here again?
**[12:50] ---**
You can't do this;
you're falling behind in your curriculum.
**[12:53] ---**
Oh, right, I got the report,
so I'll tell you, too.
**[12:58] ---**
Word is that she died.
**[13:03] ---**
Good grief,
**[13:05] ---**
now it's Shokuho who's having problems?
**[13:08] ---**
Even that little girl has feelings.
**[13:11] ---**
What if you reveal to her
that Dolly was just a clone?
**[13:15] ---**
If she knows she was artificially made,
she might take it better.
**[13:19] ---**
Hmm, well, if the present
situation continues, I'll consider it.
**[13:24] ---**
This Exterior project is not
some project forced on us from above,
**[13:28] ---**
whose objective isn't even clear,
which has us playing with dolls.
**[13:31] ---**
It's the fulfillment of
our Clone Dolly aspirations.
**[13:35] ---**
But what do we do?
**[13:37] ---**
If Shokuho Misaki keeps developing like this,
**[13:40] ---**
one day, our mental guards won't
be able to keep her out anymore.
**[13:43] ---**
Once that happens,
**[13:44] ---**
it will be much harder to keep
the project's true purpose a secret.
**[13:48] ---**
Hmph, that's not such a big problem.
**[13:51] ---**
Oh, no? Why not?
**[13:54] ---**
Once Exterior is complete,
we'll have no more use for the girl.
**[13:59] ---**
We'll just wait for the right
opportunity to dispose of her.
**[14:01] ---**
All right, this concludes
our regular meeting.
**[14:05] ---**
Good work, everyone.
**[14:11] ---**
Well, that's about what I figured.
**[14:15] ---**
After that,
**[14:16] ---**
I extended my control beneath the surface.
**[14:20] ---**
All of the personnel involved
in Exterior were brainwashed,
**[14:23] ---**
such that no matter what kind
of interrogation they underwent,
**[14:26] ---**
they would never reveal that information.
**[14:29] ---**
So how did Gensei find the location?
**[14:32] ---**
Objective passing target point.
**[14:35] ---**
Copy.
**[14:36] ---**
All units, fall back!
**[14:43] ---**
Whew...
**[14:44] ---**
I managed to get it to count.
**[14:47] ---**
All thanks to this thing.
**[14:49] ---**
Let's see, Miss Saten, wasn't it?
I thought we were going to meet here.
**[14:56] ---**
Aw, man...
**[14:57] ---**
"No signal"
**[14:58] ---**
No signal?
**[15:00] ---**
It's no use. There are powerful
radio jammers being used around here.
**[15:06] ---**
Also,
**[15:07] ---**
it looks as though it wasn't a bluff.
**[15:13] ---**
Strange, huh? It's too quiet.
**[15:15] ---**
I don't sense any unmanned weapons, either.
**[15:18] ---**
Maybe they were staying alert
for Miss Misaka and beat a hasty retreat.
**[15:25] ---**
Tell me, where is the crew
that was working here?
**[15:28] ---**
Beats me. They're needed to
maintain Exterior, so maybe they got killed.
**[15:33] ---**
Exterior?
**[15:34] ---**
You saw it earlier, remember?
**[15:36] ---**
Earlier?
**[15:39] ---**
Exterior is a booster that
amplifies and extends my ability,
**[15:43] ---**
I guess is the way I'd describe it.
**[15:46] ---**
Ostensibly, anyhow.
**[15:48] ---**
Ostensibly?
**[15:50] ---**
The original purpose of the Exterior Project
**[15:53] ---**
was to allow anyone
to be able to use my ability.
**[15:56] ---**
Hmm... Huh?!
**[16:01] ---**
Whether the registered person
was an esper or a regular person,
**[16:06] ---**
they would gain the power to use Mental Out.
That's the kind of toy it is.
**[16:13] ---**
This place, Clone Dolly,
was originally a research institution
**[16:17] ---**
whose goal was to produce geniuses
and super-power-leveled people.
**[16:21] ---**
But they were blinded by
my powers of ingenuity,
**[16:23] ---**
and when the researchers
took the shortcut of saying,
**[16:26] ---**
"It's quicker to brainwash great
figures than it is to create them,"
**[16:29] ---**
what they developed was "Exterior."
**[16:32] ---**
Though, I took the project
over once I shut them down.
**[16:36] ---**
Mental Out is a power that I,
as a person of virtuous character, can control.
**[16:41] ---**
If any common lowbrows got it,
they might wield it carelessly,
**[16:44] ---**
and that would be dangerous.
**[16:45] ---**
Amplifying your ability
by itself sounds pretty farfetched,
**[16:49] ---**
but to transfer it to someone else?
**[16:51] ---**
Is this the "DNA computer
that can produce abilities"
**[16:53] ---**
that was on that urban legends website?
**[16:56] ---**
Where would a rumor like that
**[16:58] ---**
ever get started, anyway? For one thing,
**[17:02] ---**
it isn't exactly a "computer."
**[17:06] ---**
I didn't want anyone else to know about this,
and now I'm letting you see it.
**[17:12] ---**
They cut out a piece of my cerebral cortex,
**[17:15] ---**
cultivated it, and created
a gargantuan brain.
**[17:18] ---**
That's what Exterior is.
**[17:22] ---**
You mean Kihara Gensei is
plotting to do something with this?
**[17:26] ---**
Probably. But I didn't think
he could take it with him,
**[17:31] ---**
and it takes several days to "register"
someone to be able to use it.
**[17:36] ---**
Yeah, even in his control,
it's meaningless in the short term.
**[17:41] ---**
So is the Sister who he was really after?
**[17:43] ---**
But I used my ability to place
many levels of protection around her.
**[17:48] ---**
To get through them all,
he would need Exterior.
**[17:52] ---**
He won't ever find
the critical seam in my defenses.
**[17:56] ---**
The room where we were
treating your sister is in here.
**[18:00] ---**
Follow me.
**[18:02] ---**
A signal...?
**[18:04] ---**
Hello?!
**[18:05] ---**
At last, I made it through.
**[18:07] ---**
I'm currently right in front of Exterior.
Where are you?
**[18:10] ---**
On the roof. She's here with me, too.
**[18:13] ---**
Excellent work! The roof? I'll be right--
**[18:17] ---**
No!
**[18:18] ---**
The ones who attacked us
were a squad of skilled special forces.
**[18:23] ---**
I very much doubt they let me,
carrying someone else, just get away.
**[18:26] ---**
It's safe to assume they're trying
to lead you up here. Please be careful.
**[18:31] ---**
It's all right. I have an Amazon here
**[18:33] ---**
whose bust size got swallowed up
by her fighting ability,
**[18:37] ---**
so there's no need to worry.
**[18:39] ---**
Why, whoever do you mean?
**[18:46] ---**
Shokuho!
**[18:47] ---**
I see. If she's with you--
**[18:50] ---**
This isn't what I planned,
**[18:52] ---**
but it does save me some trouble.
**[18:57] ---**
Can't move...
**[18:59] ---**
What is this...?
**[19:01] ---**
Whoa...
**[19:02] ---**
Hey there.
**[19:03] ---**
"Keitz Nokleben"
**[19:03] ---**
It can't be!
**[19:04] ---**
Complicating the registration process
to prevent it from being taken over?
**[19:08] ---**
Wishful thinking.
**[19:10] ---**
Even without registering, if I tune
the giant brain to my own brainwaves,
**[19:16] ---**
the ability will be mine.
**[19:19] ---**
I'm sure you've at least heard
the stories, haven't you?
**[19:23] ---**
Level Upper...
**[19:26] ---**
I'm the one who gave Kiyama
her instructions on how to tune brainwaves.
**[19:41] ---**
The multiple layers of protection
you placed on the Sister
**[19:44] ---**
are now a simple matter for me to undo.
**[19:48] ---**
"No way!
**[19:50] ---**
This is impossible!" says Misaka Misaka...
**[19:53] ---**
Huh? What's wrong?
**[19:55] ---**
"All of the protection placed
on 10032 has been removed,"
**[19:59] ---**
says Misaka Misaka...
**[20:01] ---**
Also, I am able to inject a
custom virus into the Misaka Network.
**[20:12] ---**
Removing the force on a body will...
**[20:25] ---**
Is this...
**[20:26] ---**
...the Misaka Network? No...
**[20:32] ---**
What is this I'm sensing?
**[20:35] ---**
Go on, get going already.
**[20:37] ---**
For what reason is that
gooey girl doing all this stuff?
**[20:42] ---**
I don't know exactly.
**[20:44] ---**
We just got led around
following fake orders, after all.
**[20:48] ---**
But there was one puzzling thing
about this assignment,
**[20:51] ---**
and I asked what their intention was.
**[20:55] ---**
The answer was a bunch of doublespeak,
**[20:57] ---**
--but given their attitude at the time,
I can pretty well guess.
**[20:57] ---**
--Whoa...
--but given their attitude at the time,
I can pretty well guess.
**[21:01] ---**
Magnificent, isn't it?
**[21:04] ---**
But all of this enormous power
**[21:06] ---**
is nothing more than a light show
without a use for it.
**[21:10] ---**
What would be the most
interesting use for it?
**[21:25] ---**
Wh-What have you...
**[21:28] ---**
...done to her?!
**[21:31] ---**
Aleister's favorite, kept tucked away
in the shadow of the main plan...
**[21:36] ---**
What if I were to use it as a trigger
to awaken your dormant powers?
**[21:43] ---**
Their true objective...
**[21:45] ---**
...is Misaka Mikoto.
**[22:09] ---**
Now, let the experiment begin.
**[22:17] ---**
Let's see if Misaka can reach...
**[22:22] ---**
...the divine will of Level 6?
**[23:25] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
And just like that, Miss Misaka was beaten.
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#11 Joining the Battle"
**[23:29] ---**
Starting next week at this time,
*A Certain Scientific Mental Out*,
**[23:32] ---**
starring me, will begin in this timeslot.
**[23:34] ---**
What an old-fashioned next episode preview.
**[23:36] ---**
Are you really a middle-schooler?
**[23:39] ---**
You've been beaten, so you keep quiet!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E11 - Joining the Battle
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRZJ8Z9D6/joining-the-battle)
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**[00:01] ---**
Is this...
**[00:03] ---**
...the Misaka Network? No...
**[00:06] ---**
Wh-What have you...
**[00:09] ---**
...done to her?!
**[00:11] ---**
Aleister's favorite, kept tucked away
in the shadow of the main plan...
**[00:16] ---**
What if I were to use it as a trigger
to awaken your dormant powers?
**[00:41] ---**
Now, let the experiment begin.
**[00:49] ---**
Let's see if Misaka can reach...
**[00:54] ---**
...the divine will of Level 6?
**[00:58] ---**
Their true objective...
**[01:01] ---**
...is Misaka Mikoto.
**[01:04] ---**
What do you mean?
**[01:13] ---**
Would you let me know...
**[01:15] ---**
...exactly what that means, too?
**[01:31] ---**
**[01:33] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[03:05] ---**
Then sure enough,
**[03:06] ---**
Misaka Mikoto was their true objective.
**[03:09] ---**
I don't know any other details beyond that,
**[03:12] ---**
but that is definitely what she said.
**[03:14] ---**
Miss Saten is right.
**[03:16] ---**
There's an electrical discharge phenomenon
**[03:18] ---**
happening in School District 2.
**[03:20] ---**
Electrical discharge?
**[03:44] ---**
Huh?
**[03:46] ---**
What was I just doing?
My head feels so groggy for some reason.
**[03:54] ---**
For that matter, who am I?
**[03:58] ---**
Tell me,
**[03:59] ---**
how can you be so unconcerned when you know
**[04:03] ---**
everything that's happening in this city?
**[04:05] ---**
This city? You mean what's
happening in Academy City?
**[04:09] ---**
Like what?
**[04:10] ---**
You've seen it, right? You know about it.
**[04:13] ---**
How clones are not treated as people--
**[04:16] ---**
no, even when dealing with real-life people,
**[04:20] ---**
they're still only seen as lab rats.
**[04:24] ---**
The true face of this city
where human dignity is trampled upon...
**[04:29] ---**
...in the name of science.
**[04:34] ---**
Yeah, that's right. I remember.
**[04:39] ---**
They'll pay for that. No matter
what reasons they may have had,
**[04:44] ---**
anyone who would do something like they did...
**[04:49] ---**
Never again.
**[04:51] ---**
I have to stop them... I have to stop them...
I have to stop them...
**[04:56] ---**
But how...?
**[04:58] ---**
Right over there.
**[05:00] ---**
That building.
**[05:03] ---**
The one at the center of the city.
The control tower.
**[05:06] ---**
As long as that's there,
they'll keep doing it over and over again.
**[05:11] ---**
Someone will be brought to tears again.
Someone will get hurt again.
**[05:17] ---**
So what do you say?
**[05:20] ---**
We should wreck it, okay?
**[05:23] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[05:30] ---**
You're right.
**[05:50] ---**
Whoa, that was even more than I imagined.
I might just wet myself.
**[05:57] ---**
But after that...
**[06:04] ---**
It's unharmed? H-Hold on, what gives here?
**[06:08] ---**
It doesn't look like
there's been any damage at all!
**[06:10] ---**
Well, well...
**[06:12] ---**
that had dozens of times as much
firepower as Misaka ordinarily packs,
**[06:16] ---**
but if she physically strikes it head-on,
it won't even put a dent in it.
**[06:22] ---**
--That's not what you said--
--You young people today have no patience.
**[06:27] ---**
She is still developing.
**[06:30] ---**
I would say she's about 2% of her way
along her evolution toward Level 6.
**[06:36] ---**
Kozaku, if you want to achieve your own goal,
**[06:39] ---**
you need to carry out your role now.
**[06:43] ---**
Okay.
**[06:45] ---**
Oh, and there's one other thing
I wanted to ask of you.
**[06:52] ---**
The governing board building
**[06:54] ---**
just had the largest
lighting strike ever recorded,
**[06:56] ---**
and there was an massive electrical
discharge phenomenon observed
**[06:59] ---**
in a section of School District 2.
**[07:03] ---**
Send rescue teams with
investigators to both sites at once.
**[07:09] ---**
Yes?
**[07:10] ---**
Yes. Yes, acknowledged.
**[07:13] ---**
Then I'll get right on--
**[07:14] ---**
No, we don't need the issue of having
outsider casualties during the festival.
**[07:20] ---**
Our priority is the evacuation
of tourists and local residents.
**[07:23] ---**
Huh? But sir, that's another matter--
**[07:25] ---**
Both sites are closed off.
**[07:27] ---**
Not a soul is to be allowed
to go in, not even Antiskill.
**[07:32] ---**
Y-Yes, sir.
**[07:39] ---**
Ow...
**[07:41] ---**
Well, even if Antiskill did head there,
they'd just pile up a body count.
**[07:47] ---**
On the other hand,
**[07:48] ---**
we *could* use someone
who could offer resistance...
**[07:52] ---**
Oh my goodness gracious.
**[07:55] ---**
His timing in showing up
is almost too convenient.
**[07:59] ---**
If I weren't involved in this,
I'd be out of here.
**[08:01] ---**
This is the right place...
**[08:03] ---**
But...
**[08:05] ---**
...since I *am* involved,
he looks more like a prince.
**[08:09] ---**
Girls sure are capricious, huh?
**[08:12] ---**
Let's see...
**[08:13] ---**
...coming at it from above,
I need to get the angle right...
**[08:25] ---**
It couldn't be...
**[08:29] ---**
Huh?
**[08:29] ---**
Hi!
**[08:31] ---**
Wh-What is that?!
It's going straight into my mind--
**[08:35] ---**
Ah, let me just say up front,
**[08:38] ---**
if you touch your head with your right hand,
**[08:41] ---**
everything I'm about to tell you
will vanish away, so no touching.
**[08:44] ---**
Huh?
**[08:45] ---**
Also, unlike a telepath, I'll be writing
everything into your brain at once,
**[08:50] ---**
so I won't hear any arguments.
**[08:52] ---**
My brain?
**[08:53] ---**
To explain the situation, my ability
and the Misaka Network are being misused,
**[08:59] ---**
and Miss Misaka has been put in a bad way.
**[09:01] ---**
Then that really is Misaka?
**[09:02] ---**
However...
**[09:03] ---**
Hey, listen to me!
**[09:04] ---**
--...if you stay near her
and keep countering her,
--I guess she can't hear me.
**[09:08] ---**
you'll be able to delay the Network alterations.
**[09:12] ---**
In all likelihood. Probably.
**[09:15] ---**
Hey, you don't sound very certain!
**[09:17] ---**
By the way, since brainwashing
shouldn't have any effect on her,
**[09:22] ---**
I wonder if that stuff is manipulating
the Network to trigger her deep psyche.
**[09:28] ---**
What do you think?
**[09:29] ---**
Look, why are you asking me?
**[09:31] ---**
Well, if you touch her directly,
maybe it will return her to normal.
**[09:35] ---**
Let's take the challenge!
**[09:37] ---**
Another thing, who *are* you?
**[09:42] ---**
Challenge, she says...
**[09:44] ---**
Seriously?
**[09:49] ---**
Uiharu! Where's Shirai?!
**[09:51] ---**
Already on her way.
**[09:52] ---**
Is there anything *I* can do to help?
**[09:56] ---**
Thanks so much.
**[10:01] ---**
There they are. But I don't see Gensei.
**[10:06] ---**
Is he planning to keep out of sight
and watch from a safe distance?
**[10:11] ---**
Hold on a second.
**[10:13] ---**
You might have been ordered
to attack me as soon as you're freed,
**[10:18] ---**
so I'll program you to "do me no harm."
**[10:23] ---**
For now, would you get her
to a safe location for me?
**[10:27] ---**
Assuming such a place even exists.
**[10:30] ---**
What about you?
**[10:31] ---**
I'm going after Gensei.
**[10:33] ---**
Anyone but me could be brainwashed,
and that would be the end of it.
**[10:36] ---**
The only one who can go up against Mental Out
**[10:39] ---**
is someone who has the same ability--
**[10:45] ---**
Hey!
**[10:55] ---**
Uh-oh,
**[10:57] ---**
that doesn't work on something
being remotely controlled, huh?
**[11:03] ---**
That won't do any good.
**[11:04] ---**
I hate to ask,
**[11:05] ---**
but could you hang out with me for a bit?
**[11:08] ---**
Don't try to fight me,
just behave yourself, okay?
**[11:14] ---**
Ow...
**[11:15] ---**
Judgment!
**[11:18] ---**
It would seem that the situation
is getting even more out of hand.
**[11:23] ---**
I need you all to explain
to me exactly what is going on.
**[11:26] ---**
Especially you, Kozaku Mitori.
**[11:29] ---**
I have much that I need to investigate,
**[11:31] ---**
beginning with falsifying Bank data.
**[11:36] ---**
Miss Shirai?
**[11:37] ---**
Say what you will, but you can't exactly
question suspects up here, can you?
**[11:45] ---**
I hate to impose,
**[11:47] ---**
but you could you zap
those two out of here first?
**[11:51] ---**
Is that Misaka Mikoto?
**[11:54] ---**
No...
**[12:01] ---**
What about you, too?
**[12:03] ---**
No. Could I get you to warp
the two of us inside the building?
**[12:10] ---**
Rats.
**[12:11] ---**
On the other hand,
**[12:14] ---**
not bad, finding my data
in the Bank in so short a time.
**[12:22] ---**
Thank you, Miss Shirai. You saved me.
**[12:25] ---**
I did it to find out what is going on.
**[12:28] ---**
I should warn you, though,
that I do not trust you,
**[12:32] ---**
and my suspicion that you attacked
the 177th Branch office hangs on this.
**[12:37] ---**
Still, right now,
wouldn't it be better for both of us
**[12:39] ---**
if we cooperated with each other?
**[12:43] ---**
There's nothing to worry about.
**[12:45] ---**
I'm just going to send you
my observations of the current situation.
**[12:49] ---**
It will save me the trouble
of saying it out loud.
**[12:54] ---**
And there you have it. Thank you.
**[12:58] ---**
Y-You are going to explain all of this later!
**[13:02] ---**
Good luck!
**[13:07] ---**
Now then...
**[13:09] ---**
There are some extra-large cumulonimbus clouds
**[13:12] ---**
now passing over Academy City.
**[13:15] ---**
All outdoor competitions are being suspended.
**[13:18] ---**
Further, some competitions
will now be held at the Dome.
**[13:21] ---**
--Mama, she said the Dome.
--To ensure the safety
of all of our visitors today,
**[13:26] ---**
please follow the instructions
of your nearest attendants...
**[13:28] ---**
That's packing some awesome guts.
**[13:31] ---**
There's lighting coming out of the ground.
**[13:36] ---**
"#11 Joining the Battle"
**[13:36] ---**
I think I'll go over there for a look.
**[13:44] ---**
It's still... not enough.
**[13:48] ---**
To wreck that thing...
I'll need something more...
**[13:53] ---**
It's okay... pretty soon...
**[13:58] ---**
Noise...?
**[14:06] ---**
I can reach her if I time it right--
**[14:19] ---**
What's that?
**[14:22] ---**
A nasty pest that's trying to interfere.
**[14:25] ---**
You should swat all of those guys away!
**[14:30] ---**
I guess...
**[14:32] ---**
...it wasn't going to be that easy.
**[14:40] ---**
That is where Miss Misaka is.
**[14:43] ---**
In order to direct
Miss Misaka's barbaric strength,
**[14:46] ---**
it's safe to guess that Mental Out
will be absolutely essential.
**[14:50] ---**
Miss Kozaku, was it?
**[14:52] ---**
My ability has no effect on her puppets,
**[14:56] ---**
so you'd ordinarily have to assume
that she is Gensei's bodyguard,
**[15:01] ---**
but it's hard to accept that at this stage,
**[15:05] ---**
one of the few pawns that
he has is just a bodyguard, isn't it?
**[15:09] ---**
Knowing the old man,
he'll be making use of Level Upper
**[15:13] ---**
to share Exterior with her, too.
**[15:17] ---**
My guess is that her role is that of "inductor."
**[15:23] ---**
I do not know even know that word,
**[15:25] ---**
but it feels incredibly odd that I more
or less understand what it means.
**[15:30] ---**
Judging by the high quality
and precision of her puppets,
**[15:34] ---**
her range can't be all that great,
**[15:37] ---**
so I need you to find the person
who's controlling the puppets
**[15:41] ---**
so we can stop Miss Misaka.
**[15:44] ---**
For goodness' sake!
Everyone is telling me what I have to do!
**[15:48] ---**
Judgment is not your handyman!
**[15:52] ---**
Sure enough, here *she* comes.
**[15:55] ---**
Aw, I failed to capture Shokuho Misaki.
**[15:59] ---**
I hate to do this, but I have
to think about protecting myself now.
**[16:03] ---**
Can you handle the rest there on your own?
**[16:06] ---**
Oh well, I guess that's that.
**[16:19] ---**
I can do this! Her force is insane,
but I can nullify it with my right hand!
**[16:23] ---**
Which means...!
**[16:26] ---**
No, no, no, no, no, no...
**[16:27] ---**
...that's not playing fair!
**[16:29] ---**
Hyper Eccentric Ultra Great Giga Extreme...
**[16:33] ---**
...Hyper again...
**[16:35] ---**
...Amazing Punch!
**[16:44] ---**
You okay?
**[16:45] ---**
Y-Yeah.
**[16:48] ---**
Thanks, you saved me.
**[16:50] ---**
Something pretty wicked over there, huh?
**[16:52] ---**
Pretty gutsy to grow horns and all.
**[16:55] ---**
Okay,
**[16:56] ---**
let me take care of things from here.
**[16:58] ---**
Huh? Oh, no...
**[17:00] ---**
I know her, such that she is.
**[17:02] ---**
Thanks, but I can't leave this to anyone else.
**[17:05] ---**
But she's nothing to sneeze at.
You should really take shelter.
**[17:09] ---**
Also, I'm not trying kill her.
**[17:11] ---**
From what I hear, it's pretty close
to say she's being controlled.
**[17:14] ---**
Being controlled? Then she's short on guts, huh?
**[17:19] ---**
I'll knock some into her!
**[17:21] ---**
No, that's not the matter here.
**[17:23] ---**
Hey, she's just lost her way a little
and is acting up. If she had more guts...
**[17:28] ---**
Listen to me, will you?!
**[17:38] ---**
He slapped the lightning away?
**[17:41] ---**
He canceled out the lightning?
**[17:43] ---**
--Who is this guy?
--Who is this guy?
**[17:47] ---**
I'm Sogiita Gunha. And you are?
**[17:50] ---**
Kamijo Toma.
**[17:52] ---**
All right!
**[17:54] ---**
Try not to get in my way, Kamijo!
**[17:56] ---**
Right back at you!
**[18:00] ---**
If what Shokuho Misaki said is true,
**[18:04] ---**
then Kozaku Mitori must be hiding herself
in a building near Misaka Mikoto.
**[18:09] ---**
That being said, this area is packed
with research facilities.
**[18:13] ---**
Finding a single person
among all this will be hard.
**[18:19] ---**
I guess I have little choice.
**[18:22] ---**
Uiharu!
**[18:23] ---**
Run all of the cameras
within an 800-meter radius
**[18:26] ---**
--of the Judgment building in School District 2.
--I'll help with that.
**[18:28] ---**
Check to see if Kozaku shows up on any of them.
**[18:32] ---**
Also, calculate the blind spots
of the cameras and send them to me.
**[18:36] ---**
I will sweep around those.
**[18:38] ---**
Huh?
**[18:39] ---**
M-Miss Shirai, all by yourself?
**[18:41] ---**
--You need more help--
--There is no time for that.
**[18:46] ---**
Besides...
**[18:51] ---**
Besides...
**[18:52] ---**
I had faith in you, Kuroko,
and was sure that you would save her.
**[19:01] ---**
Working not only as a member of Judgment,
**[19:05] ---**
but also having her trust
**[19:08] ---**
did not feel all that bad, surprisingly enough.
**[19:19] ---**
An interesting technique you have there,
**[19:21] ---**
but I'm starting to grow tired of it!
**[19:27] ---**
Hey, Sogii--
**[19:31] ---**
Is that...
**[19:33] ---**
...an iron-sand barrier?
**[19:34] ---**
Iron sand?
**[19:36] ---**
Playing in the sandbox, huh?
She still doesn't understand what guts are.
**[19:41] ---**
Wha--? Again?!
**[19:42] ---**
Stand back, Kamijo.
**[20:09] ---**
That right hand of yours
really is fascinating, huh?
**[20:12] ---**
Yeah. If I can, I'd like to touch her with it,
**[20:15] ---**
and see if it will turn her back to normal.
**[20:30] ---**
But I can't even get close to her like this.
**[20:33] ---**
I see,
**[20:34] ---**
so that's the situation.
**[20:37] ---**
All right, leave that to me.
**[20:39] ---**
Huh?
**[20:49] ---**
Super...
**[20:51] ---**
...Amazing...
**[20:53] ---**
...Punch!
**[21:03] ---**
Awesome--
**[21:05] ---**
Now's your chance!
**[21:06] ---**
No, no, no, no! Just a second,
just a second, just a--
**[21:08] ---**
Off you go!
**[21:19] ---**
Ah, what the hell...
**[21:28] ---**
Wait, how am I supposed to land?!
**[21:40] ---**
Huh?
**[21:50] ---**
Found you...
**[21:52] ---**
...Kihara Gensei.
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
My goodness, things certainly
have taken a strange turn.
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#12 Exterior"
**[23:28] ---**
I would like to question
Shokuho a little bit more,
**[23:31] ---**
but at the moment, Kozaku Misaki comes first.
**[23:32] ---**
My, how resolute you are, Miss Shirai.
You're looking pretty good.
**[23:36] ---**
Could I ask you to please stop
speaking directly into my mind?
**[23:41] ---**
# E12 - Exterior
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYNV9Z19R/exterior)
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**[00:09] ---**
Super...
**[00:11] ---**
...Amazing...
**[00:14] ---**
...Punch!
**[00:23] ---**
Awesome--
**[00:25] ---**
Now's your chance!
**[00:26] ---**
--No, no, no, no! Just a second,
just a second, just a--
**[00:29] ---**
--Off you go!
--No, no, no, no! Just a second,
just a second, just a--
**[00:40] ---**
Ah, what the hell...
**[00:49] ---**
Wait, how am I supposed to land?!
**[01:00] ---**
Um...
**[01:01] ---**
...th-thank you... Although it was also
because of you that I had that close call.
**[01:06] ---**
Well?
**[01:07] ---**
No good. It's like there's a power
I don't quite understand
**[01:11] ---**
that keeps coming in from the outside,
and I can't cancel it all.
**[01:13] ---**
It worked for a second where I did touch her
**[01:16] ---**
but went back again right after.
**[01:17] ---**
So, what do we do?
**[01:19] ---**
There's someone else who's trying
to turn her back to normal... apparently.
**[01:24] ---**
I don't know who it is, though.
**[01:27] ---**
But until she can shut down
this power at the source,
**[01:29] ---**
all we can do is slow *her* down.
**[01:32] ---**
From what this person was saying,
**[01:34] ---**
having me near her is supposed
to keep her transformation under control.
**[01:59] ---**
Hey, looks like things are still changing.
**[02:01] ---**
Well,
**[02:02] ---**
--I meant slow her down, not stop her--
--What is it she's trying to do--
**[02:14] ---**
S-Sogiita!
**[02:20] ---**
That was pathetic. I let my guard down.
**[02:23] ---**
Y-You're all right? If you're unhurt after *that*,
then just how strong are you...?
**[02:28] ---**
Looks like I'm gonna have
to put some more guts into this.
**[02:36] ---**
What Kihara Gensei is after--
**[02:38] ---**
what made that puppet try
to capture me, rather than kill me--
**[02:43] ---**
has to be some new information
that's come up that he wants from me.
**[02:47] ---**
And more than likely,
**[02:50] ---**
it's the limiter release code for Exterior.
**[03:09] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[04:30] ---**
Where is her camera?
**[04:32] ---**
There it is!
**[04:36] ---**
If the data in the Bank is correct,
**[04:38] ---**
Kozaku's puppets do not
have any kind of sight organs.
**[04:42] ---**
She senses her surroundings...
**[04:45] ---**
...using echolocation, the way a bat does.
**[04:49] ---**
Her sensitivity is sharp enough
**[04:51] ---**
to pick up even a heartbeat
within a few dozen meters.
**[04:54] ---**
The camera is ultimately
nothing more than an auxiliary.
**[04:56] ---**
Which calls for...
**[05:02] ---**
...the portable anti-eavesdropping
devices I have for security.
**[05:06] ---**
I have now deprived Kozaku of both
her eyes and ears, at least momentarily.
**[05:10] ---**
And during that time...
**[05:13] ---**
Good heavens,
**[05:14] ---**
Shokuho really is the cautious sort.
**[05:18] ---**
She hasn't left anything here on
how to unlock the limiter on Exterior.
**[05:24] ---**
What a wild goose chase this is.
**[05:27] ---**
Sure enough, it's just as I thought.
**[05:31] ---**
To be able to accurately control
Miss Misaka in that condition,
**[05:35] ---**
he must need more
than Exterior's current output.
**[05:39] ---**
That's why he has to unlock the limiter.
**[05:45] ---**
None of the major function codes
for Exterior remain on external memory;
**[05:50] ---**
they're all implanted in my brain alone.
**[05:53] ---**
And the key to its defense is covertness--
**[05:57] ---**
not letting anyone on
the outside know it even exists.
**[06:00] ---**
But I do have measures in place,
just in case something like this happens.
**[06:06] ---**
Wha--?
**[06:12] ---**
This building and the ones around it
**[06:14] ---**
have a security system unlike any normal kind,
**[06:17] ---**
including having multiple stand-alone
traps set that only I can activate.
**[06:22] ---**
Things would sure be easy
if he just goes to sleep.
**[06:32] ---**
Multiskill. I don't have 10,000 others
behind it, like Kiyama did, though.
**[06:38] ---**
But I do have a number of
interesting people that I've kidnapped--
**[06:40] ---**
I mean, secured--and borrowed their powers.
**[06:45] ---**
Don't tell me you didn't anticipate me doing so.
**[06:49] ---**
Rats.
**[06:50] ---**
That is one despicable old man.
**[06:54] ---**
But this isn't over yet.
**[06:56] ---**
If sleeping gas won't work, then...
**[07:01] ---**
No soap.
**[07:04] ---**
Mind if I ask you something?
**[07:07] ---**
What is it?
**[07:09] ---**
As I recall,
**[07:10] ---**
you concluded that the only esper
who had what it takes to reach Level 6
**[07:13] ---**
was the first-ranked, wasn't it?
**[07:18] ---**
Mm-hmm, at present, he is the only one
who can achieve a stable Level 6.
**[07:25] ---**
Stable?
**[07:27] ---**
Right now, the state Misaka is in
**[07:29] ---**
is making her power run out of control
**[07:31] ---**
to steamroll her into approaching Level 6.
**[07:35] ---**
If she keeps going like this,
then theoretically,
**[07:37] ---**
when she reaches 53 percent completion,
**[07:41] ---**
her mind will transform into
an other-dimensional entity.
**[07:45] ---**
And, after that,
we'll need the limiter unlock code
**[07:49] ---**
to keep her enmeshed in our world. And then...
**[07:54] ---**
...the moment she reaches
100 percent and Level 6,
**[07:59] ---**
her mind and body will
both be strained to the limit,
**[08:02] ---**
and the way I see it,
she will come apart as an individual.
**[08:11] ---**
In other words,
Misaka cannot attain a stable Level 6.
**[08:17] ---**
At the cost of losing everything, for a moment--
**[08:21] ---**
even shorter than the blink of an eye,
**[08:24] ---**
she will be permitted a glimpse
of the realm of gods. As a result,
**[08:30] ---**
she will either wither away like
an ill-defined white dwarf star, or...
**[08:37] ---**
...she will burst like a supernova,
**[08:39] ---**
with enough force to open
a doorway to a new world.
**[08:44] ---**
And whatever the outcome,
what is certain is that something will happen
**[08:48] ---**
that will be big enough
to wipe this city off the map.
**[08:54] ---**
If Academy City gets blown away,
**[08:56] ---**
you'll be caught in the middle of it, too.
Do you even realize what you're saying?
**[09:10] ---**
Me, get caught in the middle of it?
What are you talking about?
**[09:15] ---**
The advancement of science requires sacrifice.
**[09:19] ---**
This is why I hate dealing
with people who are short on sanity.
**[09:25] ---**
Making use of this "clairvoyance"
business is surprisingly inconvenient.
**[09:30] ---**
I may be able to filter out the obstacles,
**[09:32] ---**
but if I can't narrow down
the range and direction just right,
**[09:34] ---**
I can't get a line on my target.
**[09:37] ---**
It's eaten up a whole
lot of my time as a result.
**[09:42] ---**
Now,
**[09:43] ---**
even if I were to use
Mental Out to read your memories,
**[09:46] ---**
you could just use the same ability
to block my intrusion into your brain.
**[09:51] ---**
However, if I drive you into a state
where you can't use your ability,
**[09:56] ---**
such as inflicting an intolerable
level of pain, or knocking you out,
**[10:00] ---**
it will be possible to get though.
**[10:05] ---**
My breath... the air...!
**[10:07] ---**
Shokuho, you're a delicate one,
so I'm hoping you'll give in quickly.
**[10:12] ---**
And Misaka must be coming along, as well.
**[10:16] ---**
Wh-Whoo! I had anticipated
some interference from Kamijo,
**[10:21] ---**
but I wouldn't have dreamed
that Sogiita would join in, as well!
**[10:25] ---**
In addition to the stimulus of Imagine Breaker,
**[10:28] ---**
I now have the extraordinary power
of the seventh-ranked!
**[10:30] ---**
It's a sight to behold as exceptional
as dividing the universe by zero!
**[10:33] ---**
If Misaka were to be multiplied by
the both of them, how great would that be?!
**[10:37] ---**
I can't stick around here! I have
to rally all of the analytical espers
**[10:40] ---**
and the equipment I have on hand to observe--
**[10:43] ---**
O-Oh, no!
**[10:46] ---**
What is he, an idiot?
**[10:48] ---**
Whatever, from what
I heard of the idiot's commentary,
**[10:52] ---**
as long as I can keep
the limiter unlock code safe,
**[10:55] ---**
then Academy City will be saved,
with Miss Misaka being the only casualty.
**[11:03] ---**
I won't forget you for at least a week.
**[11:10] ---**
Well, if that's what happens,
there's nothing I can do about it.
**[11:14] ---**
I doubt he's going to
let me off that easily, though.
**[11:18] ---**
Good grief, if Mental Out were
his only ability, I could deal with him.
**[11:24] ---**
What am I supposed to do with an
old coot who cheats by using Multiskill?
**[11:30] ---**
My own private system can
only buy me time at this point.
**[11:40] ---**
Graviton panels...?
**[11:41] ---**
"#12 Exterior"
**[12:01] ---**
It looks like I was wrong.
**[12:04] ---**
It really is taking too
much time to search blindly.
**[12:08] ---**
I need some kind of lead.
**[12:10] ---**
Found her!
**[12:13] ---**
This person is Kozaku, right?
**[12:17] ---**
Miss Saten located the suspect on video.
**[12:20] ---**
Forwarding you the information.
The timestamp is three minutes ago.
**[12:23] ---**
She hasn't shown up
on any other surveillance cameras,
**[12:26] ---**
so I can determine
which building she is hiding in!
**[12:28] ---**
On my way!
**[12:32] ---**
She's coming straight this way?
Ah, the surveillance cameras!
**[12:37] ---**
Are those guys only covering their own tracks?!
**[12:49] ---**
You are sure that she has not
shown up on any other cameras, right?
**[12:52] ---**
Mm-hmm. She hasn't shown up anywhere.
**[12:55] ---**
If she were trying
to move to a different building,
**[12:57] ---**
she would be sure to show up
on surveillance cameras.
**[13:02] ---**
In there...
**[13:06] ---**
Uiharu, fix all of the nearby movable
cameras on the target building!
**[13:10] ---**
Right!
**[13:18] ---**
At the rate she's going,
she's sure to catch her, huh?
**[13:21] ---**
P-Please focus.
**[13:23] ---**
The computer detects anything
that moves and lets us know, right?
**[13:29] ---**
What the...?
**[13:30] ---**
What is it? Did you find something?
**[13:31] ---**
Miss Saten, be quiet!
**[13:33] ---**
Oh, right.
**[13:35] ---**
Ah, there she is!
**[13:37] ---**
The sewer pipe?!
**[13:38] ---**
Miss Shirai, the puppet is
heading your way at incredible speed!
**[13:45] ---**
There is no question, then?
**[13:47] ---**
Is she having her puppet destroy
the surveillance cameras?
**[13:50] ---**
True, we cannot have
her knocking the cameras out
**[13:53] ---**
and getting away in a blind spot.
**[13:55] ---**
However, all of the directional cameras
in the area are trained on this building.
**[14:00] ---**
She would need a lot of time to take out
enough of them to secure a blind spot.
**[14:05] ---**
I have to end this before that happens.
**[14:11] ---**
Kozaku's objective is not the
camera network, but eliminating me?
**[14:15] ---**
I could not ask for more!
**[14:17] ---**
I will take advantage of her impatience...
**[14:20] ---**
...and run her down even farther!
**[14:24] ---**
Now that I know her ability
and how to counter it,
**[14:27] ---**
the threat her puppet poses is...
**[14:36] ---**
Ow!
**[14:37] ---**
What's the matter, Miss Shirai? Did something--
**[14:39] ---**
I messed up.
**[14:41] ---**
I caught a bit of her counteroffensive.
**[14:44] ---**
Huh? Are you all right?
**[14:46] ---**
It is not a big deal.
**[14:50] ---**
She only grazed my side,
**[14:52] ---**
but the one on my arm went a lot deeper.
**[14:55] ---**
And here my wounds from earlier
had finally started to heal, too!
**[14:58] ---**
I'm supposed to be saving
this body for when I get married!
**[15:02] ---**
Still,
**[15:03] ---**
now I am certain.
Kozaku really is here. Moreover...
**[15:09] ---**
...she is on the upper floors.
**[15:12] ---**
The attack I just took found me,
**[15:15] ---**
despite my anti-listening
devices still being operational.
**[15:19] ---**
Which means that Kozaku herself saw me.
**[15:24] ---**
Further, the attack came all in one line.
She was trying to catch me linearly.
**[15:29] ---**
It is likely that since
she was watching from above,
**[15:31] ---**
she could not determine my precise location
**[15:33] ---**
and had no choice but to split her attacks.
**[15:39] ---**
If I come at her from below,
she has nowhere to run.
**[15:42] ---**
It is only a matter of time
before I catch her in person.
**[15:45] ---**
Still, something has felt slightly out of place.
**[15:50] ---**
Like there is something
that I have overlooked...
**[16:02] ---**
Ah, Shokuho!
**[16:06] ---**
Hey...
**[16:07] ---**
...forgive me for getting so excited earlier.
I should act my age.
**[16:12] ---**
One of my shortcomings is that
when I see something I'm not expecting,
**[16:15] ---**
I tend to become blinded to
everything else around me, you see.
**[16:19] ---**
I've nearly died because of it, many times.
**[16:22] ---**
Then why couldn't you have
just died and be done with it?
**[16:25] ---**
But this is unexpected.
**[16:28] ---**
Having you standing there, waiting for me?
**[16:32] ---**
I was certain you'd be running away.
**[16:35] ---**
I doubt I could get away from you,
with your clairvoyance.
**[16:40] ---**
If you catch me outside the building,
**[16:42] ---**
I'd be completely exposed,
without any of my security.
**[16:46] ---**
So I came to make a deal.
**[16:49] ---**
What kind of deal?
**[16:51] ---**
I'll tell you what the limiter unlock code is,
**[16:55] ---**
and you'll let me go.
**[16:57] ---**
Ho...?
**[16:58] ---**
After thinking about it, it doesn't matter
to me what happens to Miss Misaka.
**[17:02] ---**
And if Academy City is
getting blown off the map,
**[17:05] ---**
I'm going to get out of here first.
**[17:08] ---**
I was waiting here because
I didn't want to run around for nothing,
**[17:11] ---**
and use up all the time I have to get away.
**[17:14] ---**
Hmm, that makes sense.
**[17:17] ---**
Good, almost there...
**[17:19] ---**
But there's nothing in
that deal for me, is there?
**[17:24] ---**
My Mental Out doesn't work on you.
**[17:28] ---**
And if it weren't for my ability,
**[17:30] ---**
I'd just be an ordinary adorable
knockout beauty with a smoking figure.
**[17:36] ---**
Or do you have a thing
for hurting delicate girls like me?
**[17:39] ---**
--Four more steps...
--Not a shriveled-up old man like yourself, right?
**[17:42] ---**
--Three more steps...
--Not a shriveled-up old man like yourself, right?
**[17:44] ---**
Two more steps...
**[17:47] ---**
My ultra-high-power-oscillator-embedded
trap, the "Hag's Hug."
**[17:51] ---**
Once you step on it, you're finished.
**[17:55] ---**
The vibrations that shoot up through the foot
**[17:57] ---**
reverberate and become amplified
as they move throughout the body,
**[18:01] ---**
converging up at your head!
**[18:03] ---**
Not only does it destroy
your ears' semicircular canals,
**[18:05] ---**
it gives your brain a good shake!
**[18:09] ---**
One more st--
**[18:13] ---**
To be sure, if I get my hands
on the limiter unlock code,
**[18:17] ---**
I won't have any need for you anymore.
**[18:20] ---**
But there is one thing that concerns me.
**[18:22] ---**
You've been staring
pretty intensely at this spot.
**[18:26] ---**
Is there something here?
**[18:29] ---**
You knew...!
**[18:33] ---**
Yeah, as if.
**[18:36] ---**
That was a decoy!
**[18:37] ---**
The real trap was
under your feet the whole time!
**[18:40] ---**
Graviton panels.
**[18:42] ---**
Normally, they are here
to create my own private shortcut,
**[18:47] ---**
but today, I had them impersonating
the floor from the get-go.
**[18:50] ---**
Now you'll be stuck in between there...
**[18:56] ---**
Are his feet exploding?
**[18:59] ---**
No, he's compressing the air
under his feet into footholds.
**[19:02] ---**
Earlier, when he tried to choke me
and turned aside those flames...
**[19:07] ---**
He has the Aero Shooter ability, all right!
**[19:30] ---**
I can't possibly spend any more time on you.
**[19:35] ---**
You won't get away from me.
**[19:38] ---**
Right now, I'm going to...
**[19:52] ---**
How do you like that?
**[19:53] ---**
I've set many layers of traps.
This is the one I've been saving.
**[19:59] ---**
They compress slowly,
so I had to catch you off your guard,
**[20:03] ---**
but graviton panels also have this application.
**[20:07] ---**
The technology was developed
as scaffolding for construction work,
**[20:12] ---**
but they can also be deployed to crush
the spindly arms of old men, too.
**[20:17] ---**
With all that intense pain,
**[20:19] ---**
will you be able to defend
against my Mental Out?
**[20:23] ---**
Huh?
**[20:35] ---**
Wow, you're so mean.
**[20:37] ---**
Imagine, picking on a frail,
little old man like this!
**[20:42] ---**
Although, I'd have to *have*
a wrist for you to crush it.
**[20:48] ---**
A p-prosthetic...?
**[20:50] ---**
Didn't I tell you?
**[20:52] ---**
My experiments have nearly killed me many times.
**[20:55] ---**
My whole body is like a trade fair
for replacement technology.
**[21:00] ---**
Though, I more or less predicted
what you were after even before this.
**[21:10] ---**
Someone who is pretending
to run away but still has some ploy
**[21:13] ---**
displays telltale signs of what they're after.
**[21:16] ---**
I don't let those hints that they're
about to turn the tables go unnoticed.
**[21:20] ---**
Which is exactly why I can tell
just by looking at you now...
**[21:27] ---**
...that you have nothing up
your sleeve to reverse this situation.
**[21:48] ---**
The limiter unlock code...
**[21:51] ---**
...is mine.
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#13 SYSTEM"
**[23:26] ---**
Sure, I should already be on top of
Kozaku Mitori, but I cannot reach her.
**[23:30] ---**
What feels so out of place, here?
**[23:32] ---**
No matter, I will still find her,
whatever it takes.
**[23:35] ---**
Huh? Shokuho is not
speaking in this one, is she?
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E13 - SYSTEM (Those Who Arrive at Heaven's Will in an Only Human Body)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6ME7ZV4R/system-those-who-arrive-at-heavens-will-in-an-only-human-body)
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**[00:01] ---**
Previously, on *A Certain Scientific Railgun T*...
**[00:04] ---**
I am Shirai Kuroko. I am a member of Judgment,
**[00:08] ---**
which works to keep the peace in Academy City.
**[00:10] ---**
Currently, Academy City is in the middle
of a huge event, the Daihasei Festival.
**[00:14] ---**
While it was going on, I was walking along
with my friends Uiharu and Saten
**[00:18] ---**
when suddenly, we were stopped.
**[00:20] ---**
Standing there was
Academy City's third-ranked Level 5,
**[00:24] ---**
Railgun, or Misaka Mikoto.
Though we both attend Tokiwadai Middle School,
**[00:30] ---**
she casually called out to me
when we are not even acquainted.
**[00:33] ---**
Who exactly does she think she is?!
**[00:35] ---**
However, later on,
Saten started to say something peculiar.
**[00:39] ---**
She suggested that perhaps
Misaka Mikoto and the rest of us
**[00:42] ---**
were actually friends going way back.
**[00:45] ---**
And that another Level 5
at Tokiwadai Middle School,
**[00:47] ---**
Mental Out, or Shokuho Misaki,
was actually controlling us.
**[00:52] ---**
Honestly, could there be a
more ridiculous hypothesis?
**[00:56] ---**
However, at that same moment, an incident arose
**[01:01] ---**
where Uiharu and Misaka Mikoto's
mother were both taken hostage.
**[01:04] ---**
The sight of Misaka Mikoto's
smile at that moment,
**[01:06] ---**
as though she had complete trust in me...
**[01:10] ---**
It is burned into my eyes,
and I cannot shake it.
**[01:13] ---**
Just thinking about it makes
my chest grow warmer--
**[01:16] ---**
But that does not matter!
**[01:18] ---**
Misaka Mikoto said she
was going after Shokuho Misaki,
**[01:21] ---**
who apparently knows something
about what is happening, and left.
**[01:25] ---**
Uiharu and I began an investigation
into the hostage-taker, Kozaku Mitori.
**[01:31] ---**
Just then, Saten came bursting in
with some new information.
**[01:35] ---**
She had gone off on her own
and snuck into a factory,
**[01:38] ---**
and said she was assaulted by
a metal puppet controlled by Kozaku Mitori.
**[01:42] ---**
That girl really does do
the most reckless things!
**[01:45] ---**
Fortunately, one of Kozaku Mitori's
associates, a girl named XĂłchitl,
**[01:49] ---**
came to her rescue for some reason.
From what that girl said,
**[01:54] ---**
the true target of the plan that
Kozaku Mitori was moving forward
**[01:57] ---**
was Misaka Mikoto!
**[02:00] ---**
What was going on here?
**[02:01] ---**
But at that very moment, the skies clouded over,
**[02:04] ---**
and lighting struck a certain building.
**[02:07] ---**
The sight that greeted me
when I dashed over there
**[02:10] ---**
was Kozaku Mitori's metal puppet
attacking Shokuho Misaki.
**[02:13] ---**
I took the man who was there,
**[02:15] ---**
along with a girl who resembled
Misaka Mikoto, to a safe place.
**[02:19] ---**
I also rescued Shokuho,
but when I tried to ask her what was going on,
**[02:24] ---**
and why Misaka Mikoto
and herself were involved in it,
**[02:28] ---**
she instead used her ability to transmit
the information directly into my brain.
**[02:35] ---**
According to it, the ringleader behind the plan
was a mad scientist named Kihara Gensei.
**[02:40] ---**
He had taken control of a
giant facility that housed Exterior,
**[02:44] ---**
which allowed him to use
the same ability that Shokuho has,
**[02:47] ---**
and was apparently using its power
to propel Misaka Mikoto to Level 6.
**[02:53] ---**
From what Shokuho says,
Kozaku Mitori was an inductor
**[02:56] ---**
that would lead Misaka Mikoto to reach Level 6.
**[03:00] ---**
An important element in stopping
Misaka Mikoto would be to neutralize her.
**[03:06] ---**
Incidentally, Shokuho Misaki
anticipated Kihara Gensei coming to her
**[03:10] ---**
to learn Exterior's limiter unlock code,
which only she knew,
**[03:14] ---**
and set all kinds of traps to stop him.
I hope that works out for her.
**[03:20] ---**
Beyond that, there are a couple of boys outside
**[03:22] ---**
who are doing something
to cause all kinds of commotion.
**[03:26] ---**
Are they trying to stop the runaway
Misaka Mikoto, or what *are* they doing?
**[03:31] ---**
Well, I am sure that they must be
playing some important role, as well.
**[03:35] ---**
In any event, what I must do is locate
Kozaku Mitori and take her into custody.
**[03:40] ---**
Even if peril is waiting for me,
**[03:42] ---**
as a member of Judgment,
I will save Academy City!
**[03:53] ---**
Someone who is pretending
to run away but still has some ploy
**[03:57] ---**
displays telltale signs of what they're after.
**[04:00] ---**
I don't let those hints that they're
about to turn the tables go unnoticed.
**[04:03] ---**
Which is exactly why I can tell
just by looking at you now...
**[04:10] ---**
...that you have nothing up
your sleeve to reverse this situation.
**[04:32] ---**
The limiter unlock code...
**[04:34] ---**
...is mine.
**[04:49] ---**
Damn!
**[05:02] ---**
Whew, I can't wait to see this.
**[05:05] ---**
What exactly will happen
to Academy City at that moment?
**[05:10] ---**
But then, I don't suppose
you will be alive that long.
**[05:35] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[06:52] ---**
Not here.
**[06:56] ---**
Not here.
**[07:00] ---**
Not here, either.
**[07:01] ---**
Where is Kozaku Mitori?
**[07:05] ---**
I destroyed her puppet's camera at the start
**[07:07] ---**
and rendered her echolocation
unusable with my anti-listening devices.
**[07:11] ---**
I've covered her puppet's
eyes and ears. And yet...
**[07:16] ---**
...her puppet knew my exact location
and attacked me.
**[07:21] ---**
Judging from her actions,
I guessed that Kozaku Mitori herself
**[07:24] ---**
was watching me from the upper floors.
**[07:30] ---**
But if I have looked this much
and still have not found her...
**[07:34] ---**
There must be something that I have overlooked.
**[07:41] ---**
Do you think Shirai's injuries
really aren't that bad?
**[07:45] ---**
Going by all of our cases up to now,
no, she may not be all right.
**[07:49] ---**
No, huh? We can't tell what's going on
without being able to see inside.
**[07:55] ---**
Is that a relay camera from the festival?
**[07:58] ---**
There's one here, too. But why?
There aren't any competitions here.
**[08:02] ---**
They flew in a little while ago.
**[08:04] ---**
You were so focused on
the building you didn't notice them.
**[08:11] ---**
Antiskill must have sent them in
**[08:12] ---**
to see if there was anyone
who hasn't evacuated yet.
**[08:16] ---**
Looks like the EM waves at
the heart of electrical phenomenon
**[08:19] ---**
are too strong for them to get near there.
**[08:21] ---**
I've got it, Uiharu! Let's borrow those cameras!
**[08:24] ---**
We'll be able to tell what's
happening in the building,
**[08:26] ---**
and we'll be able to help out Shirai.
**[08:30] ---**
That's a great idea, coming from you!
**[08:32] ---**
I'll start hacking--I mean,
accessing them right away
**[08:35] ---**
and transfer command over to me...
**[08:38] ---**
Miss Saten, when did these cameras go in there?!
**[08:41] ---**
Huh? Like I said,
when Shirai entered the building.
**[08:47] ---**
Miss Shirai!
**[08:48] ---**
I'm just saying,
this is only a possibility, but...
**[08:54] ---**
Not only did she dig up
who I am in this short a time,
**[08:57] ---**
but she also had countermeasures
to shut down my echolocation on hand.
**[09:02] ---**
I'm impressed.
**[09:04] ---**
On the other hand, luck is still on my side.
**[09:07] ---**
I've seized control of a
festival relay camera being used
**[09:10] ---**
to direct the evacuation
and succeeded in hacking it.
**[09:14] ---**
Using it, I've gained the means
to control my Liquid Shadow.
**[09:19] ---**
Even without echolocation,
I still have eyes on the tactical situation.
**[09:25] ---**
Oh, go ahead and search around all you like.
**[09:41] ---**
That is the last place.
**[09:47] ---**
Those were all of the places
where she could hide herself.
**[09:51] ---**
Even supposing we crossed paths,
**[09:53] ---**
the motion sensor sheets I placed in
key locations would have picked her up.
**[09:58] ---**
Was it all for nothing?
**[10:03] ---**
Supposing what Shokuho said is true,
**[10:06] ---**
then if we are to return Miss Misaka to normal,
**[10:08] ---**
we must neutralize Kozaku as soon as possible.
**[10:12] ---**
And yet, I...
**[10:17] ---**
No...
**[10:19] ---**
Even assuming I have this completely wrong,
**[10:21] ---**
Kozaku would still not be so
relentless in coming after me. In fact...
**[10:28] ---**
...she would be concealing
the fact that she is not here.
**[10:32] ---**
It is time to calmly reassess the facts.
**[10:34] ---**
If she is not lying in wait here,
**[10:36] ---**
then where exactly is she?
**[10:38] ---**
The surveillance cameras caught Kozaku
**[10:40] ---**
going onto the street in front of the building.
**[10:43] ---**
Meanwhile, there has been no
sight of Kozaku on the cameras since.
**[10:49] ---**
This is the only building
in which she could be hiding.
**[10:54] ---**
The only... "building"...
**[11:09] ---**
That won't work!
I can tell exactly where you are!
**[11:16] ---**
I'll drive her into a corner such
that she'll have no choice but to teleport!
**[11:20] ---**
It's possible that she
could jump to another floor,
**[11:23] ---**
but as long as she doesn't
know exactly where I am,
**[11:26] ---**
she's going to want to jump into
a safe space that she can see.
**[11:32] ---**
When she uses her
ability consecutively like this,
**[11:34] ---**
I've identified that it creates a brief lag.
**[11:38] ---**
If I can predict where she's moving to
and catch her at that instant...
**[11:42] ---**
There!
**[11:48] ---**
Did I get her?
**[12:09] ---**
Sorry about that,
**[12:11] ---**
but if you hadn't interfered,
I wouldn't have killed you.
**[12:15] ---**
Then again, if Academy City
is about to be destroyed,
**[12:20] ---**
you would have met
the same fate later than sooner.
**[12:23] ---**
You're just going on ahead
before the rest of us.
**[12:26] ---**
There it is!
**[12:30] ---**
Sogiita!
**[12:49] ---**
It's working!
**[12:50] ---**
I'm sure this will...
**[13:01] ---**
Ho, we're already at the unlock stage, are we?
**[13:05] ---**
It looks like I don't have
a single moment to spare.
**[13:11] ---**
Inputting the limiter unlock code
I got from Shokuho into Exterior...
**[13:19] ---**
Input complete.
**[13:39] ---**
The city may be wiped out
once Mikoto reaches Level 6,
**[13:44] ---**
but I have to make sure that you,
at least, get blown away!
**[13:49] ---**
You can apologize to *her* in
the next life! Go ahead and pop!
**[14:05] ---**
"#13 SYSTEM
(Those Who Arrive at Heaven's Will
in an Only Human Body)"
**[14:06] ---**
I found you!
**[14:18] ---**
So...
**[14:19] ---**
...you were in the sewers after all.
**[14:22] ---**
Indeed, you were seen on
the street in front of the building,
**[14:24] ---**
but you were not inside.
**[14:26] ---**
So I knew that you must have gone in here.
**[14:30] ---**
H-How are you alive?
No, you're still here on the camera...!
**[14:37] ---**
A composite?
**[14:38] ---**
From that moment on?
**[14:40] ---**
Impossible! There are tens
of thousands of relay cameras!
**[14:43] ---**
Are you saying you singled out
the one under my control and took it over?!
**[14:48] ---**
I have the best partner, who can do just that.
**[14:53] ---**
Good work.
**[14:55] ---**
There is nowhere left for you to run.
**[14:58] ---**
My Liquid Shadow is still aboveground.
**[15:00] ---**
There's not enough time
to call it back here! But...!
**[15:03] ---**
It is so dark. I have to get closer,
or I cannot precisely judge the distance!
**[15:07] ---**
Hiding myself wasn't the only reason
why I fled into the sewer.
**[15:11] ---**
It was to be ready, in the off-chance
that you caught up with me!
**[15:15] ---**
Aboveground, you can jump
around just about anywhere,
**[15:18] ---**
but down here, your movements
are limited to one straight line!
**[15:22] ---**
When you teleport away to avoid my first knife,
**[15:25] ---**
my second knife will get you
wherever you jump to!
**[15:27] ---**
Forward? To the side? Up?
No matter where you run...
**[15:32] ---**
...I will take you down that instant!
**[15:38] ---**
She didn't teleport?!
**[15:40] ---**
Oh, no, I'm too slow--
**[15:57] ---**
Dolly...
**[16:34] ---**
I see... making me think...
that you had no further plan remaining...
**[16:43] ---**
...was itself your plan, then...
**[16:48] ---**
I guess...
**[16:51] ---**
...you win this round...
**[17:01] ---**
Huh...?
**[17:12] ---**
Graviton panels... What if I used
these to create a pitfall trap?
**[17:18] ---**
Or maybe use them to capture Gensei directly?
**[17:23] ---**
Hmm, would these really
be enough to snare Gensei? No,
**[17:29] ---**
it could prove difficult to one-up
that old coot with trickery.
**[17:33] ---**
Not when he's taken over Exterior.
**[17:37] ---**
You know, maybe I don't need it anymore.
**[17:42] ---**
I've thought this for a while,
**[17:44] ---**
but in return for the trouble of keeping
this hidden, and the cost of its upkeep,
**[17:48] ---**
not to mention having it taken over,
like right now, just for a boost in ability...
**[17:52] ---**
...has more going against it
than for it, doesn't it? Besides,
**[17:56] ---**
with a disturbance as big as this one,
**[17:58] ---**
other organizations will find out about it.
**[18:03] ---**
But then, how am I supposed to decommission it?
**[18:07] ---**
It's designed to withstand
five times the seismic force
**[18:10] ---**
of the greatest earthquake ever recorded.
**[18:13] ---**
More immediately,
if I don't go about it just right,
**[18:15] ---**
any damage to the giant brain could
bounce back onto the Mental Out user,
**[18:19] ---**
leaving them crippled.
**[18:22] ---**
To circumvent that damage,
I would have to input the self-destruct code.
**[18:29] ---**
But Gensei currently has
the access privileges to Exterior.
**[18:34] ---**
If I'm going to steal those privileges back,
**[18:36] ---**
I'll have to undo his Level Upper first.
**[18:39] ---**
But if I could do that,
this would be all too easy.
**[18:43] ---**
What if, instead, I could manipulate Gensei
**[18:45] ---**
into entering the self-destruct code himself...
**[18:48] ---**
But I've got the cart before the horse again.
**[18:52] ---**
No...
**[18:53] ---**
I can do it!
**[18:59] ---**
Still... the risk is more than a little bit high.
**[19:03] ---**
If he sees through it,
then naturally, it's game over.
**[19:06] ---**
And even if it does work,
**[19:07] ---**
once I'm no longer of any use to him,
he might dispose of me first.
**[19:13] ---**
It doesn't matter to me
what happens to Miss Misaka...
**[19:17] ---**
...but there's no guarantee that the virus
that was injected into the Sisters
**[19:20] ---**
can be treated by the research facilities.
**[19:23] ---**
And in order to understand
the virus's configuration,
**[19:26] ---**
I'd have to take a peek inside Gensei's head.
**[19:31] ---**
What's more, if I miss this chance
to catch Gensei, I won't get another.
**[19:55] ---**
It's a gamble...
**[19:59] ---**
So even after pursuing victory
to the very last second,
**[20:04] ---**
I have to wager that I'll lose, then?
**[20:10] ---**
After swapping my own recognition
**[20:12] ---**
of which is the limiter unlock code
and which is the self-destruct code,
**[20:15] ---**
I have to erase all memory of doing so.
**[20:20] ---**
So, it looks like you up and entered
the self-destruct code into Exterior, huh?
**[20:28] ---**
Leave it to me, I guess you might say...
**[20:32] ---**
I don't remember doing it, though.
**[20:45] ---**
Is she... changing?
**[20:48] ---**
Does that mean what's-her-name
shut off the power at the source?
**[21:03] ---**
What was I...?
**[21:10] ---**
What... is that...?
**[21:13] ---**
What's going on?!
**[21:15] ---**
No! Stop! Please!
**[21:20] ---**
It won't stop!
**[21:22] ---**
What's happening?!
**[21:30] ---**
I can't...
**[21:32] ---**
...hold it back...!
**[21:49] ---**
This...
**[21:51] ---**
...isn't over yet, apparently.
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
Zapper has gotten all screwy,
but what exactly can I do to help her?
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#14 Dragon Strike
(Jaw of the Dragon King)"
**[23:30] ---**
Next time, "Dragon Strike."
**[23:31] ---**
When science and magic cross paths,
the story begins.
**[23:34] ---**
You've got some guts,
doing that preview over on this show!
**[23:40] ---**
Huh? Was that out of line?
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E14 - Dragon Strike (Jaw of the Dragon King)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6KEGDK16/dragon-strike-jaw-of-the-dragon-king)
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**[00:15] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[01:49] ---**
While you're still alive,
**[01:50] ---**
I'll be taking the data on
that virus you injected the girl with.
**[01:57] ---**
Right... That girl...
**[02:06] ---**
I do not have nearly enough
strength left to teleport her away right now.
**[02:10] ---**
I see no choice but to contact Uiharu
and request someone to pick her up.
**[02:17] ---**
I wonder how Miss Misaka is doing.
**[02:27] ---**
Don't do it.
**[02:29] ---**
Sogiita? You can still move?
**[02:32] ---**
No problem. If I put my guts into it,
I can stop my bleeding
**[02:36] ---**
and get my bones to stick together.
But never mind me,
**[02:39] ---**
you were about to charge in there, weren't you?
**[02:42] ---**
There's something different about her now.
**[02:46] ---**
Maybe whatever the girl who put
this data inside my head was planning
**[02:49] ---**
worked out all right.
**[02:51] ---**
Are you sure? I can't tell either way.
**[02:55] ---**
Even so, it doesn't look like
she can control all that power.
**[03:00] ---**
Which is why...
**[03:00] ---**
I don't know what your right hand is made of,
**[03:04] ---**
but that all over there is a whole lot
more trouble than it was a moment ago.
**[03:07] ---**
It felt more like it was a
mass of compressed energy earlier,
**[03:12] ---**
but that looks like something
from another world now,
**[03:15] ---**
something literally beyond our understanding.
**[03:19] ---**
Let me deal with this.
I may be able to risk my neck
**[03:22] ---**
to do a self-destruct move that will smother it.
**[03:24] ---**
No.
**[03:26] ---**
Like I said earlier, I know her.
I want to be the one who does this for her.
**[03:32] ---**
Yeah, but...
**[03:33] ---**
I may not be strong enough, like you say,
**[03:37] ---**
and I don't really have
a handle on this situation,
**[03:39] ---**
so I can't say for sure that this is
the best move. But ultimately, I mean...
**[03:45] ---**
I'll just have to make up
for whatever I'm lacking with guts.
**[03:48] ---**
Am I right?
**[03:52] ---**
You really are a fascinating one, huh?
**[03:55] ---**
That's that, then.
**[04:03] ---**
Go lay some smack down!
**[04:10] ---**
A path...!
**[04:11] ---**
Go!
**[04:21] ---**
Behave...
**[04:24] ---**
...your damn self!
**[04:36] ---**
What is this? This isn't my ability!
**[04:40] ---**
This must be...
**[04:42] ---**
Oh, no. If this gets unleashed, it will do
a lot more than blow Academy City away!
**[04:49] ---**
There's no way I can let that happen!
**[04:53] ---**
If I can compress it down to a size
I can cover up with my body,
**[04:56] ---**
then blow it up while
I'm holding it, then maybe...
**[05:02] ---**
Him? Don't tell me
he's thinking of stopping this!
**[05:06] ---**
Wait! This isn't my ability!
**[05:09] ---**
This is something my mind
conjured up that wants to smash up...
**[05:12] ---**
...and wipe away everything
bad about Academy City!
**[05:17] ---**
So let *me*--
**[05:20] ---**
No!
**[06:47] ---**
I know that there are some really
lousy facets to Academy City, too.
**[06:52] ---**
I also know that there are elites
controlling things behind the scenes
**[06:55] ---**
who you and I can't touch.
**[06:58] ---**
But to try to purge those things by force...?
**[07:04] ---**
Even supposing you succeed,
**[07:06] ---**
I don't think the world
will end up the way you want it.
**[07:10] ---**
You can probably think of others besides me
who are trying to help you, right?
**[07:16] ---**
You just have to change things
a little at a time with them.
**[07:20] ---**
And I'll help you, too, of course.
**[07:30] ---**
But your arm! You need a hospital!
**[07:35] ---**
Huh?
**[07:36] ---**
Huh?!
**[07:38] ---**
It works like normal.
**[07:40] ---**
What is the deal with your body?
**[07:43] ---**
Beats me.
**[07:46] ---**
Wow, that was quite a show.
I never expected dragons to appear.
**[07:52] ---**
Awesome guts!
**[07:54] ---**
I'd like to take you on sometime.
**[07:58] ---**
On the other hand...
**[08:00] ---**
What's up with that metal?
**[08:03] ---**
Was that there before?
**[08:05] ---**
"#14 Dragon Strike
(Jaw of the Dragon King)"
**[08:12] ---**
So, she's all right, then?
**[08:15] ---**
Yeah, more or less.
Not long after she was brought in here,
**[08:20] ---**
the data on the virus she
was injected with was sent here.
**[08:24] ---**
I was able to synthesize a vaccine.
**[08:28] ---**
It will be a few days
before she completely recovers,
**[08:31] ---**
but she should be as good as new.
**[08:33] ---**
Thank goodness.
**[08:43] ---**
Um,
**[08:45] ---**
I believe one of my friends from Tokiwadai
**[08:47] ---**
was brought to this hospital earlier today.
**[08:56] ---**
Yes?
**[08:59] ---**
Miss Misaka!
**[09:04] ---**
Wow, so your sister is in good health?
**[09:08] ---**
I am most pleased to hear that.
**[09:13] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[09:15] ---**
--I'm sorry!
--Huh?
**[09:17] ---**
For dragging you into all this,
and even getting you hurt...
**[09:21] ---**
Simply saying I'm sorry isn't enough...
**[09:24] ---**
N-No, I should be the one apologizing
**[09:27] ---**
for boasting that I would bring
your sister back, and ending up like this.
**[09:31] ---**
I am pretty pathetic.
**[09:33] ---**
Still...
**[09:35] ---**
...it could have been so much worse...
**[09:39] ---**
Yes, that is true.
**[09:42] ---**
However,
**[09:42] ---**
even if that had happened, I can assure you
**[09:46] ---**
that I would not have
regretted any of my own actions.
**[09:51] ---**
Miss Kongo...
**[09:54] ---**
I am still not a very seasoned person,
**[09:58] ---**
so I cannot afford to lay down
my life for just anyone.
**[10:02] ---**
It was because it was my desire
to relieve you of your anguish
**[10:06] ---**
that I can consider it as such.
**[10:15] ---**
Do you know the expression
"Peaches and plums their own paths create"?
**[10:18] ---**
Huh?
**[10:19] ---**
Though peach and plum blossoms say nothing,
**[10:21] ---**
trails spontaneously form beneath them.
**[10:24] ---**
Likewise, men of virtue may not say much,
**[10:27] ---**
but people naturally beat a path to them.
**[10:31] ---**
That's what the expression means.
**[10:34] ---**
I cannot say yet that I fully
appreciate its true meaning,
**[10:39] ---**
but by looking up to your character,
**[10:42] ---**
I do think that I have become someone
more compassionate towards others.
**[10:49] ---**
I'm not all that great a person.
**[10:52] ---**
That is something
for those around you to decide.
**[10:55] ---**
If, on the other hand, you tried
to play yourself off as someone great,
**[10:58] ---**
it would be meaningless
if those around you did not agree.
**[11:02] ---**
I have been all alone, going nowhere,
trying to do just that, so...
**[11:06] ---**
No, that's not true!
**[11:09] ---**
Miss Kongo, to me, and to Miss Wannai
and Miss Awatsuki, you've been, um...
**[11:15] ---**
Miss Wannai and Miss Awatsuki?
Why are you bringing those two up right now?
**[11:21] ---**
As it happens, the ones who saved you were...
**[11:28] ---**
Oh, I see.
**[11:30] ---**
Those two did that for me?
**[11:33] ---**
Wh-What do I do, Miss Misaka?
**[11:36] ---**
I should feel inconsolable for
getting those two mixed up in fisticuffs,
**[11:43] ---**
and yet, I...
**[11:45] ---**
...cannot help but feel happy about it...
**[11:50] ---**
Excuse me...
**[11:53] ---**
Visiting hours are now over, so...
**[11:56] ---**
Oh, okay.
**[11:58] ---**
I'll be back again tomorrow, Miss Kongo.
**[12:00] ---**
Right.
**[12:02] ---**
Miss Misaka?
**[12:05] ---**
I...
**[12:07] ---**
...am truly glad to be a student at Tokiwadai.
**[12:12] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[12:22] ---**
"Misaka, would you like to watch
the fireworks at that spot again tonight?
**[12:26] ---**
Uiharu and Shirai and I will
be coming too. Let's go together!"
**[12:43] ---**
The Judgment girl isn't here...
**[12:47] ---**
Handcuffs? These are
meaningless with my ability...
**[12:54] ---**
Why bother?
**[12:58] ---**
If I'm still alive, it means that
the project must have failed.
**[13:03] ---**
I could just stay here and be rat food...
**[13:16] ---**
Shokuho Misaki...?
**[13:27] ---**
Misaka!
**[13:29] ---**
Over here! Over here!
**[13:31] ---**
Sissy!
**[13:32] ---**
You've had a long day!
**[13:34] ---**
Look at this, Misaka!
**[13:37] ---**
Uiharu is having another crazy concoction!
**[13:39] ---**
S-Strawberry *monja* is not a crazy concoction!
**[13:42] ---**
You could at least call it quirky!
**[13:46] ---**
It is the same thing either way.
**[13:48] ---**
Huh?
**[13:49] ---**
Uiharu, you'll eat anything
as long as it has strawberries.
**[13:52] ---**
That's not true!
**[13:55] ---**
Thanks, everyone.
**[13:59] ---**
Did you say something?
**[14:02] ---**
Mm-mm.
**[14:04] ---**
Ah, would you like a bite?
**[14:07] ---**
Mm-mm, no thanks.
**[14:10] ---**
Kuroko and the others' memories of me
that were erased had been put back.
**[14:15] ---**
On top of which, the events that happened today
**[14:18] ---**
had been altered to make it
harder for contradictions to arise
**[14:21] ---**
and were made out to be the capture of
a terrorist threatening the festival.
**[14:30] ---**
Apparently, my boycott of the
competition had been rewritten, as well,
**[14:35] ---**
but that was not done by Shokuho
out of consideration for me,
**[14:39] ---**
but probably because she herself didn't
want word of Exterior to be made public.
**[14:47] ---**
Nonetheless, it's an undeniable fact
that her virus was eliminated
**[14:50] ---**
as a result of Shokuho's help,
**[14:53] ---**
and while I thought she was a despicable
person--actually, I *still* think that--
**[14:59] ---**
if she has her own brand
of justice and convictions,
**[15:03] ---**
then someday, we may be able
to meet each other halfway.
**[15:07] ---**
That's what I think.
**[15:09] ---**
Oh, come to think of it, Misaka,
**[15:11] ---**
is your stomach doing all right?
**[15:13] ---**
Huh? What's that?
**[15:15] ---**
You got sick from some of the
street stall food and upset your stomach.
**[15:18] ---**
You were stuck in the bathroom all day
and couldn't come out, right?
**[15:23] ---**
You intimidated the Shokuho clique
when they came to get you,
**[15:25] ---**
confining yourself to the restroom.
**[15:27] ---**
Huh? The restroom?
**[15:29] ---**
Unless you're prepared
to kill me to stop me, then move.
**[15:34] ---**
The whole school is abuzz with talk of
just how urgent things were for you.
**[15:41] ---**
Fine. I'll kill you, Shokuho Misaki.
**[15:48] ---**
"Daihasei Festival: Day Three"
**[15:57] ---**
I'm so dizzy, my ability won't work...
**[16:00] ---**
Miss Saten, you're first!
**[16:03] ---**
Heh-heh, bat-handling skills
are right up my alley...
**[16:10] ---**
"Daihasei Festival: Day Five"
**[16:12] ---**
Huh? You're light...
**[16:14] ---**
"Daihasei Festival: Day Seven"
**[16:16] ---**
The Gods of Wind and Thunder combo...
**[16:18] ---**
...is back in action!
**[16:32] ---**
The Daihasei Festival is just about over.
**[16:36] ---**
It feels like it's been so long,
and yet so short.
**[16:39] ---**
I ended up not getting
to compete in a single event.
**[16:42] ---**
If I had not gotten hurt on the second day,
**[16:44] ---**
I could have at least competed
with Sissy on the last day.
**[16:47] ---**
What choice was there?
You sacrificed your body to stop a terrorist.
**[16:52] ---**
You should consider them scars of honor.
**[16:54] ---**
Well, I suppose that is true.
**[16:57] ---**
When I think about the events of that day,
**[16:59] ---**
it feels like there is something
important that I am forgetting.
**[17:04] ---**
You, too, Miss Shirai?
As it happens, I feel the same.
**[17:08] ---**
I-I'm going to go buy us some drinks.
What would you all like?
**[17:12] ---**
Huh?
**[17:12] ---**
Are you sure?
**[17:14] ---**
Mm-hmm, to celebrate
a well-fought Daihasei Festival.
**[17:17] ---**
Okay, I'll take a Coconut Cider.
**[17:19] ---**
Habanero Pineapple for me.
**[17:22] ---**
One Watermelon Tea, please.
**[17:24] ---**
Okay, give me a minute!
**[17:28] ---**
Look at that! They're holding a folk dance!
**[17:31] ---**
That looks like fun.
**[17:34] ---**
I'd like to bust out some dance moves, myself.
**[17:37] ---**
Though I don't have anyone else to dance with.
**[17:39] ---**
Same over here.
**[17:41] ---**
If only I were in tip-top shape,
Sissy and I could be--
**[17:44] ---**
Huh?
**[17:46] ---**
Um... Miss Saten?
**[17:49] ---**
Ah, Kamijo.
**[17:51] ---**
Hey.
**[17:53] ---**
Thank goodness.
**[17:54] ---**
I never got to properly thank you
for the scavenger hunt.
**[17:57] ---**
Oh, is that right?
**[18:00] ---**
Let me treat you to something,
if you'd like. Nothing expensive, though.
**[18:04] ---**
Oh, no, that's much too thoughtful of you.
**[18:07] ---**
Thanks for waiting!
**[18:09] ---**
H-Huh?!
**[18:11] ---**
Wh-What are you doing here?!
Wait, you know Miss Saten?!
**[18:15] ---**
Yeah.
**[18:16] ---**
She lent me her good-luck charm.
**[18:17] ---**
G-Good-luck charm? What do you mean?
**[18:21] ---**
Oh, I needed a good-luck charm for
my scavenger hunt, and she lent me hers.
**[18:27] ---**
Oh, the scavenger hunt... S-Sure, okay...
**[18:32] ---**
Oh, yeah, she really saved my neck.
**[18:35] ---**
Ah, Kamijo...
**[18:38] ---**
This might sound funny,
but in return for the good-luck charm...
**[18:43] ---**
...would you like to go to the folk dance?
**[18:46] ---**
Huh?
**[18:47] ---**
Huh?
**[18:48] ---**
Huh?!
**[18:49] ---**
Fine with me, but is that really all you want?
**[18:53] ---**
Yes!
**[18:54] ---**
Oh, but would you mind going on ahead?
I'm going to wet my whistle first.
**[19:00] ---**
O-Okay.
**[19:06] ---**
Now...
**[19:09] ---**
Oh no, the effects of the obstacle
course just caught up to me!
**[19:14] ---**
Whoa, are you all right?
**[19:15] ---**
Oh, I think I might have twisted my ankle!
**[19:19] ---**
Huh?!
**[19:20] ---**
--It hurts!
--No, Sissy, this is a trap--
**[19:23] ---**
Ugh, it's going to be hard doing
any strenuous activity like this.
**[19:28] ---**
Oh, I know! Misaka, would you dance in my place?
**[19:33] ---**
Huh?
**[19:37] ---**
Wh-Why me? B-Besides,
Miss Saten, you're the dancer here...
**[19:41] ---**
It's all right. I didn't say
anything about dancing "with me."
**[19:45] ---**
B-B-But this is all so sudden...
I'm not ready... Maybe next time...
**[19:51] ---**
Oh, but you *do* wanna dance, don'tchu?
**[19:55] ---**
Y-Yes, I do...
**[20:04] ---**
Huh?
**[20:05] ---**
Misaka?
**[20:13] ---**
U-Um, what are we...?
**[20:17] ---**
Wow, she's so stiff, huh?
**[20:22] ---**
No interrupting them.
**[20:30] ---**
Let's see, when the right hand
goes up, what comes next?
**[20:35] ---**
You went and saved me, again.
**[20:37] ---**
Hmm?
**[20:38] ---**
Yeah. I just helped a little bit
there at the end, though.
**[20:43] ---**
And there were others who were
trying to help you too, remember?
**[20:47] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[20:49] ---**
I've had a whole lot of my friends helping me.
**[20:54] ---**
I...
**[20:56] ---**
...really can't stand
the lousy way that Academy City
**[21:01] ---**
sees espers as nothing but lab rats.
**[21:03] ---**
But I did meet all of you after coming
to this city, and those encounters
**[21:09] ---**
are something that I treasure.
**[21:12] ---**
So next time, I want to be
the one protecting the others.
**[21:16] ---**
I think that's really the least
I can do to pay them back.
**[21:21] ---**
Yeah.
**[21:22] ---**
Th-That's all I wanted to say!
**[21:26] ---**
Although, I never knew. To you,
**[21:30] ---**
meeting me has been
something you treasured, huh?
**[21:34] ---**
Well, I mean, the way you said it,
it includes me, too, right?
**[21:38] ---**
You don't say, huh?
**[21:40] ---**
Huh? Miss Misaka?
**[21:43] ---**
That was your cue...
**[21:45] ---**
Your time is up!!
**[21:47] ---**
Oh, she jumped.
**[21:49] ---**
She lasted a good while, there, too.
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#15 Promise"
**[23:26] ---**
"The best thing to do to
make your way in Academy City
**[23:28] ---**
is to suck up to the researchers here.
**[23:31] ---**
However, I wasn't counting on having
that girl forced on me as a result."
**[23:35] ---**
Hey, who said you could read
my mind without asking?!
**[23:40] ---**
**[23:42] ---**
# E15 - Promise
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRVD09MQR/promise)
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**[00:15] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[01:49] ---**
The best thing to do to make
your way in Academy City
**[01:53] ---**
is to suck up to the researchers here.
**[01:58] ---**
Your rating has gone up since last time.
**[02:00] ---**
Wow? Really? I'm so happy!
**[02:03] ---**
It's because of all of you!
**[02:05] ---**
"Effort pays off" is a lie.
**[02:08] ---**
Just like the school you attend
influences your employment prospects,
**[02:11] ---**
the research facility you're associated
with determines your future.
**[02:15] ---**
Thank you very much!
**[02:17] ---**
--I got really good at the forced
smiles that made others like me.
**[02:20] ---**
--Thanks for all you do!
--I got really good at the forced
smiles that made others like me.
**[02:24] ---**
I'm looking forward to more again tomorrow!
**[02:28] ---**
Ugh, all this acting friendly is
more exhausting than the experiments.
**[02:33] ---**
However, I wasn't counting on having
that girl forced on me as a result.
**[02:38] ---**
Oh, Kozaku?
**[02:40] ---**
Yes?
**[02:42] ---**
Listen, could you come and play
with this girl in your free time?
**[02:46] ---**
Huh?
**[02:50] ---**
Dolly has lived her whole
life at the facility.
**[02:53] ---**
Stress is affecting her observational data.
**[02:56] ---**
If she had someone to play with,
it should lower her stress, right?
**[03:02] ---**
Yes, if you think I will do...
**[03:09] ---**
U-Um...
**[03:16] ---**
Are you all right?
**[03:18] ---**
Tell me, what's your name?
**[03:19] ---**
Huh? Kozaku Mitori.
**[03:22] ---**
Okay, I'll call you "Mi" then!
**[03:24] ---**
So simple...
**[03:36] ---**
From then on, once my experiments
were over, it never failed.
**[03:40] ---**
Whew, finally done for the day.
**[03:57] ---**
Huh? Dolly?!
**[03:59] ---**
I would end up being hounded like this.
**[04:03] ---**
It's my turn!
**[04:05] ---**
Here I go!
**[04:10] ---**
Six! One, two, three, four, five, six.
**[04:13] ---**
Ah, I had two kids! My
congratulations, please!
**[04:18] ---**
Tell me something, Dolly,
why can't you go outside?
**[04:22] ---**
They said it was something
about my treatment.
**[04:24] ---**
Treatment?
**[04:26] ---**
At an ability development facility?
**[04:29] ---**
They say it will help my young sister.
**[04:31] ---**
You have a sister?
**[04:33] ---**
I've never met her, though.
**[04:35] ---**
If the treatment goes well,
**[04:36] ---**
they say I'll have lots of younger sisters.
**[04:39] ---**
I don't follow.
**[04:40] ---**
It's your turn, Mi.
**[04:51] ---**
Mi, that's amazing! It's really pretty!
**[04:55] ---**
Not really. It isn't
even that interesting, is it?
**[04:58] ---**
If you go out to the ocean,
you can see the real thing.
**[05:00] ---**
Ocean? I know that one! I read it in my book!
**[05:03] ---**
It's a place with lots of water!
**[05:05] ---**
At first, I wondered why I was stuck
with this simpleminded girl.
**[05:25] ---**
--Dolly--
--Mi!
**[05:27] ---**
Hey!
**[05:33] ---**
That's so cute!
**[05:34] ---**
Why do you have to hug me
over every little thing?
**[05:38] ---**
And stop smelling me, too!
**[05:40] ---**
I like the smell of people.
Mi, you have a warm smell.
**[05:47] ---**
Dolly smells like chemicals.
**[05:53] ---**
Whad are you doig dad for, Mi?
**[05:55] ---**
Because you won't do what I say.
**[05:58] ---**
Back ad you!
**[06:00] ---**
Somehow, whenever I was with her,
my smiles were genuine and not put on.
**[06:07] ---**
That's how it felt to me.
**[06:10] ---**
Thanks for everything!
**[06:12] ---**
The experiment ended early.
**[06:14] ---**
What should we play today?
**[06:19] ---**
Dolly!
**[06:23] ---**
What are those devices...?
**[06:26] ---**
No!
**[06:28] ---**
Miss Kozaku, come with me.
**[06:37] ---**
You have heard that she is here
to get treatment, right?
**[06:40] ---**
She needs some life support equipment
to allow her to keep on living.
**[06:45] ---**
Now, go on back home.
**[06:47] ---**
Life support equipment...
**[06:51] ---**
Really?
**[07:07] ---**
If anyone finds out,
they'll be more than just angry at me.
**[07:12] ---**
"Parameter List." That's not it.
**[07:15] ---**
"Planned Exterior construction site."
Not that, either.
**[07:20] ---**
The best thing to do to make
your way in Academy City
**[07:23] ---**
is to suck up to the researchers here.
**[07:26] ---**
Interfering with their work
would be out of the question.
**[07:30] ---**
Please stop medicating Dolly!
**[07:35] ---**
Ah. I'd gotten a report that we had
a break-in at the data center. It was you?
**[07:42] ---**
If so, then you now know
what she is, don't you?
**[07:47] ---**
Dolly is a c-clone,
and she's your g-guinea pig for research
**[07:50] ---**
that will help you make
mass-produced clones that live longer.
**[07:56] ---**
You're dosing Dolly with all kinds of drugs,
**[07:58] ---**
with no regard for her health,
just to collect your data!
**[08:02] ---**
Your crazy drugs are making
her already short life even shorter!
**[08:10] ---**
Clones are just like us! They are alive!
**[08:15] ---**
Please stop the experiments!
**[08:16] ---**
And if I say we can't?
**[08:18] ---**
Th-Then I'll go public
with this research data!
**[08:23] ---**
Who's going to believe
the wild stories of a child?
**[08:25] ---**
Even so, if I talk to
the governing board about it,
**[08:28] ---**
they'll do an on-site inspection...
**[08:31] ---**
That won't happen.
**[08:33] ---**
The ones who spearheaded these experiments
**[08:36] ---**
are the governing board.
**[08:39] ---**
Clones are just like us, are they?
Well, you're right.
**[08:44] ---**
Clones and you espers are
both the same in Academy City--
**[08:48] ---**
nothing more than experiment fodder.
**[08:50] ---**
Why, you...!
**[09:05] ---**
You're going to leave her alive?
**[09:07] ---**
For better or worse,
she does have a high dormant ability.
**[09:11] ---**
Once Exterior is complete,
she is likely to come in handy.
**[09:19] ---**
Dolly...
**[09:22] ---**
I was held in confinement for months--
**[09:25] ---**
no, it might have been even longer than that.
**[09:36] ---**
Then suddenly, one day,
the guard disappeared...
**[09:41] ---**
...and when I went outside...
**[09:44] ---**
...the research facility
was completely deserted.
**[10:04] ---**
Go ahead and look down on us from on high.
**[10:08] ---**
I'll show you that even lab rats...
**[10:11] ---**
...have fangs that can still bite into you.
**[10:15] ---**
But from that moment on,
my days were spent tormented
**[10:17] ---**
by disappointment and
feelings of powerlessness.
**[10:25] ---**
My carefully-planned assassination
mission ended in failure.
**[10:29] ---**
What I learned was that
even if there were 10,000 of me,
**[10:33] ---**
the fact remained that the
governing board was out of my reach.
**[10:38] ---**
Take the mask off of her for me.
**[10:45] ---**
Where am I?
**[10:48] ---**
Who's this old geezer?
**[10:51] ---**
Mm-hmm, you have a keen look in your eye.
**[10:54] ---**
Eyes smoldering with
the smoke of the embers of hatred.
**[11:01] ---**
Let me come right to the point.
**[11:03] ---**
How would you like the power to
blow away Academy City without a trace?
**[11:09] ---**
Huh?
**[11:12] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[11:13] ---**
It sounds too good to be true.
**[11:16] ---**
But why me?
**[11:18] ---**
Hmm... Dogma, perhaps?
**[11:21] ---**
High-minded ideals and rapacious ambitions
**[11:25] ---**
both unravel when a person's capacity
to tolerate stress is exceeded, you see.
**[11:30] ---**
Which is why...
**[11:31] ---**
I place no trust in resolve,
whether it's by nature, or by nurture.
**[11:36] ---**
If it doesn't kick in when it's crunch time,
it can be a real turnoff.
**[11:41] ---**
On the other hand, tremendous
hatred is unwaveringly beautiful.
**[11:46] ---**
One won't think twice about giving
their life for the sake of vengeance.
**[11:51] ---**
I'm banking on the dogma of hatred.
**[12:02] ---**
The Judgment girl isn't here...
**[12:06] ---**
Handcuffs? These are
meaningless with my ability...
**[12:14] ---**
Why bother?
**[12:17] ---**
If I'm still alive, it means
that the project must have failed.
**[12:22] ---**
I could just stay here and be rat food...
**[12:35] ---**
Shokuho Misaki...?
**[12:43] ---**
I peeked inside Gensei's memories,
thinking "just maybe," and sure enough...
**[12:50] ---**
You were "Mi," weren't you?
**[12:53] ---**
I was wondering why I had to play
the part of the girl who abandoned Dolly,
**[12:58] ---**
but maybe I should have looked
into it closer a lot sooner.
**[13:03] ---**
It wouldn't be fair to Miss Shirai,
**[13:05] ---**
so I'll have you turn yourself
in soon enough, but first,
**[13:08] ---**
I need you to come with me for a bit.
**[13:10] ---**
Huh?
**[13:11] ---**
I learned something
when I read Gensei's memories.
**[13:15] ---**
Dolly had a sister that was
created around the same time.
**[13:21] ---**
The purpose of Dolly's creation
**[13:23] ---**
wasn't just to establish
the technical skills of cloning.
**[13:26] ---**
She was also a specimen used
to help create a network
**[13:29] ---**
that would conduct data
sharing between the clones.
**[13:32] ---**
Dolly's memories and experiences were
all transferred into another individual,
**[13:37] ---**
where they still remain.
**[13:39] ---**
This "younger sister" is lying asleep
in a certain research facility.
**[13:45] ---**
And while she shares her memories
and experiences, she is not Dolly.
**[13:50] ---**
Still, we can't just leave her there, right?
**[13:53] ---**
Nothing beats having a stronger hand,
so I need you to come with me.
**[13:58] ---**
Why?
**[14:02] ---**
You didn't have to explain all that to me.
**[14:04] ---**
You could have just used
your ability to control me.
**[14:08] ---**
Did I *need* to control you, though?
**[14:13] ---**
No, you didn't.
**[14:13] ---**
"#15 Promise"
**[14:17] ---**
All right, here's to
Shirai's complete recovery...
**[14:21] ---**
--Cheers!
--Cheers!
**[14:23] ---**
"Congratulations, Shirai Kuroko"
**[14:24] ---**
Honestly, you are making too much of it.
**[14:26] ---**
"Congratulations"
**[14:27] ---**
It has been a whole week
since I got out of the hospital.
**[14:30] ---**
Still, with the Daihasei Festival going on,
we never properly celebrated.
**[14:36] ---**
Also, today's the day you stopped
needing your wheelchair. Here.
**[14:43] ---**
Well whatever the occasion,
**[14:45] ---**
I am always happy to eat
anything that you prepare, Sissy.
**[14:51] ---**
Nonetheless, why are you doing it here?
**[14:54] ---**
Now, now, don't be so rigid.
Oh, let me refill your drink, Miss Konori!
**[14:59] ---**
I'll make an exception today.
**[15:01] ---**
Thank you very much!
**[15:04] ---**
Come to think of it, Miss Misaka,
**[15:07] ---**
how has your mother been since the incident?
**[15:09] ---**
Huh? Mama?
**[15:11] ---**
Oh, um, I think she's fine.
**[15:14] ---**
Is that right? That's great.
**[15:16] ---**
Uiharu is concerned about involving
your mother in that affair, Sissy.
**[15:21] ---**
Huh?
**[15:23] ---**
They still have memories
of that incident... Then,
**[15:28] ---**
how do they remember me being there, too?
**[15:31] ---**
I'm sure Shokuho must
have made some revisions...
**[15:34] ---**
Still, Uiharu, you got caught up
in that business, too, right?
**[15:38] ---**
I mean, you got knocked out by the bad guy.
**[15:40] ---**
Yes, that's true, but...
**[15:42] ---**
as a member of Judgment,
I feel like I wasn't good for anything.
**[15:44] ---**
But Miss Shirai came along
and ended things without incident,
**[15:47] ---**
so we'll call it all good.
**[15:48] ---**
I just wish you had informed me of
the incident when it happened, though.
**[15:53] ---**
Yes, you are right.
I wonder why I did not contact you.
**[15:57] ---**
I am terribly sorry for that, Miss Konori.
**[16:00] ---**
It sounds like she just erased
the fact that I was there at all.
**[16:03] ---**
Come to think of it, she had me stuck
in the bathroom with an upset stomach.
**[16:08] ---**
Unless you're prepared
to kill me to stop me...
**[16:11] ---**
"Congratulations, Shirai Kuroko"
**[16:11] ---**
Well, let's use this party today
to wipe the slate clean!
**[16:15] ---**
Saying that does not cancel out your
involvement with Shadow Metal, Saten.
**[16:22] ---**
That was a big deal, huh?
**[16:23] ---**
What's this, now?
**[16:25] ---**
--As it happens, Miss Saten was--
--Here, Uiharu! Aah...!
**[16:29] ---**
--There you go. Do you want some more?
It's good, huh? Go ahead.
**[16:29] ---**
--Hold on! Sissy made that especially for me!
--There you go. Do you want some more?
It's good, huh? Go ahead.
**[16:33] ---**
Is something the matter, Sissy?
**[16:35] ---**
Hmm? Oh, mm-mm, I was just thinking
how nice it was to have friends.
**[16:43] ---**
I really am glad I'm not out of
their circle anymore, the way I was.
**[16:51] ---**
Okay, here. You can have this.
**[16:54] ---**
Huh?
**[16:55] ---**
You need it to make
your ability work, don't you?
**[17:10] ---**
That's what she wanted to see.
**[17:12] ---**
Huh?
**[17:22] ---**
So, you're saying Dolly
recognized you as being me?
**[17:26] ---**
Yeah. At the time, I didn't yet have
the power to alter memories.
**[17:31] ---**
Still, at some point, I think she
figured out that I wasn't really you.
**[17:35] ---**
I see. She had some
surprisingly keen instincts.
**[17:43] ---**
Thanks.
**[17:44] ---**
Huh?
**[17:45] ---**
Thanks to you, Dolly wasn't alone at the end.
**[17:50] ---**
That was the thing that's stayed
with me more than anything.
**[18:11] ---**
Dolly...
**[18:25] ---**
Mi...
**[18:27] ---**
Mi...?
**[18:29] ---**
Is that you, Mi?
**[18:46] ---**
I've missed you.
**[18:48] ---**
I was afraid you didn't like me anymore...
**[18:51] ---**
I was afraid you thought
I was disgusting... so...
**[18:53] ---**
You dummy. That's not true at all.
**[18:57] ---**
I remember this smell...
**[19:00] ---**
I love your smell...
**[19:08] ---**
Wait!
**[19:10] ---**
You're Misaki, right?
**[19:12] ---**
Why, whoever might that be?
**[19:16] ---**
Misaki, I know it's you.
**[19:19] ---**
You were both together with me
in my dream for so long, after all.
**[19:22] ---**
The times we spent with you are
the only memories we have.
**[19:31] ---**
I'm sorry!
**[19:34] ---**
I'm sorry for tricking you for so long!
**[19:36] ---**
I'm sorry I didn't catch on to their lies!
**[19:39] ---**
I'm sorry for butting into
your memories without your knowledge!
**[19:44] ---**
I'm sorry to have become
so preoccupied in a feel-good lie.
**[19:49] ---**
If only I had looked into who "Mi" was...
**[19:53] ---**
I could have reunited her with Dolly.
**[19:55] ---**
I'd have learned what the
experiment was about,
**[19:57] ---**
and I'm sure Dolly wouldn't have had to die.
**[20:01] ---**
This is all my fault for wedging
my way in between you two!
**[20:06] ---**
I'll do anything to make up for it...
**[20:11] ---**
Okay, take me to the ocean.
**[20:16] ---**
After that, I want to ride a
roller coaster at an amusement park,
**[20:20] ---**
and see a hippo at the zoo...
**[20:22] ---**
Oh, and I also want to go on a plane.
**[20:25] ---**
And I want to see the auroras in Finland,
**[20:27] ---**
and play with the dolphins in Hawaii,
and the llamas in Machu Picchu.
**[20:31] ---**
Oh, no, that's too much.
You want to go around the world?
**[20:36] ---**
Actually,
**[20:38] ---**
as long as the three of us
are together, anywhere is fine.
**[20:42] ---**
Is that... too much?
**[20:50] ---**
Honestly, you always ignore
whatever I say, and assert your own ideas.
**[20:56] ---**
Your willfulness is through the roof.
**[20:59] ---**
I really don't know what to do about you.
**[21:13] ---**
Good.
**[21:14] ---**
Looks like your fever is down, too.
I think we can rest easy now.
**[21:18] ---**
"However, while Misaka was lying in bed,
**[21:21] ---**
the Daihasei Festival concluded,"
says Misaka, bemoaning her situation.
**[21:28] ---**
Oh, don't pout.
I'll take you out somewhere, okay?
**[21:32] ---**
Where would you like to go?
**[21:34] ---**
The ocean...
**[21:35] ---**
The ocean? Beach season is already over.
**[21:39] ---**
"For some unknown reason,
**[21:41] ---**
Misaka wants to make an exciting
promise with someone dear to her,"
**[21:47] ---**
says Misaka, having a strange sense
of déjà vu and feeling sentimental.
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#16 Dream Ranker"
**[23:26] ---**
If you could dream any dream you wanted,
what would you dream, Uiharu?
**[23:29] ---**
I... would dream of eating all kinds
of delicious food willy-nilly!
**[23:33] ---**
You do that all the time anyway.
What about you, Shirai?
**[23:35] ---**
I would, of course--
**[23:37] ---**
Ah, on second thought, never mind.
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E16 - Dream Ranker
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR79EQN06/dream-ranker)
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**[00:08] ---**
All right, that's all for today.
**[00:10] ---**
3rd-years, go on in first.
**[00:11] ---**
1st-years, you're dismissed
after everything is put away.
**[00:19] ---**
Oh...
**[00:21] ---**
A pleasant day to you, Miss Misaka.
**[00:23] ---**
Huh?
**[00:23] ---**
Uh-huh...
**[00:25] ---**
Who is that?
**[00:28] ---**
I guess I have not properly introduced myself.
**[00:31] ---**
Hokaze Junko, 3rd-year.
**[00:33] ---**
Oh!
**[00:34] ---**
From the Shokuho clique.
**[00:35] ---**
I don't think we've had a chance
to speak since the Daihasei Festival.
**[00:40] ---**
So anyhow, Miss Misaka,
**[00:42] ---**
there is something I've very
much been meaning to ask you.
**[00:45] ---**
The Handy Antenna Service pair contract strap--
**[00:48] ---**
I'm sure a fellow Gekoer
such as yourself is aware,
**[00:51] ---**
but it is something impossible for a
girl to get by herself. What will you do?
**[00:54] ---**
--W-Well, I, um--
**[00:57] ---**
--My, my, look at you two, getting along well.
--W-Well, I, um--
**[01:01] ---**
Are you flirting with one of my girls now?
**[01:05] ---**
My Queen!
**[01:06] ---**
Are you saying I can't make
small talk without your permission?
**[01:10] ---**
And why are you dressed like that?
Are you cutting class again?
**[01:13] ---**
Girls have a legitimate reason
for getting out of phys ed.
**[01:17] ---**
But you're always doing so.
**[01:19] ---**
You always find some reason or other,
**[01:21] ---**
but the fact is, you just can't swim, can you?
**[01:25] ---**
"Unless you're prepared to kill me to stop me...
**[01:30] ---**
--...then move."
**[01:30] ---**
--Wha--?
--...then move."
**[01:32] ---**
That's how badly you needed to use the bathroom?
**[01:34] ---**
That's something *you* fabricated!
**[01:36] ---**
They were both pretty taken aback.
**[01:39] ---**
Because of you, I had to...
**[01:41] ---**
What?
**[01:42] ---**
I had to do a lot of covering up
to keep everything under wraps, you know.
**[01:47] ---**
There are any number of
other ways you could have done so!
**[01:50] ---**
--You should be thanking me,
not blaming me for what I did!
**[01:51] ---**
--U-Um, there's no need
to get so heated about this...
--You should be thanking me, not blaming me for what I did!
**[01:54] ---**
--You keep quiet!
--You keep quiet!
**[01:55] ---**
I-I'm so sorry!
**[01:57] ---**
You know, if you had left well enough alone,
**[01:59] ---**
--none of that would have had to happen!
--Uh, I just remembered something I have to do.
**[02:03] ---**
--Huh? Hey, are you running away?!
--M-My Queen, just a moment...
**[02:05] ---**
I'm not done with you--
**[02:07] ---**
Here it is after swim class,
and you still have energy to spare, Misaka.
**[02:13] ---**
How would you like to give up
your lunch break to clean the pool, hmm?
**[02:18] ---**
N-No...
**[02:21] ---**
Sheesh.
**[02:23] ---**
She's really good at starting fights.
**[02:25] ---**
Miss Misaka?
**[02:27] ---**
I'm sorry for earlier.
I don't know if this will make up for it,
**[02:32] ---**
but I'd like you to have this.
**[02:34] ---**
Huh? Oh...
**[02:35] ---**
They have become quite popular in our circle.
**[02:39] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[02:40] ---**
See you.
**[02:40] ---**
Oh, right...
**[02:44] ---**
What is this?
**[03:08] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[04:17] ---**
Wow!
**[04:18] ---**
Indian Poker, right?
**[04:20] ---**
Indian Poker?
**[04:22] ---**
Yes.
**[04:23] ---**
It's a card that lets you
have another person's dreams.
**[04:25] ---**
They're homebrew cards that
are part of an underground craze
**[04:27] ---**
in Academy City right now.
**[04:29] ---**
First, the person putting up their dreams
**[04:32] ---**
connects to the card fabricator
and goes to sleep.
**[04:35] ---**
Then, the events of their dreams
get written onto a special card.
**[04:40] ---**
Then, whoever is receiving the dreams
**[04:42] ---**
puts the card on their
forehead and goes to sleep...
**[04:46] ---**
and bam! They're supposed to be
able to have the exact same dream!
**[04:51] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[04:52] ---**
It reacts with your brainwaves
while you're sleeping
**[04:54] ---**
and emits a faint electric signal.
**[04:57] ---**
There are integrated aromas formulated
to go with the content of the dreams.
**[05:01] ---**
So it uses both effects to
reproduce another person's dreams, huh?
**[05:06] ---**
Rumor has it that there are a few
rare people who can regularly provide
**[05:10] ---**
"S-Rank" dreams that are funny,
or dreams that are beneficial,
**[05:13] ---**
ones that everyone wants to have.
**[05:15] ---**
These charismatic people are
supposedly called "Dream Rankers."
**[05:21] ---**
Apparently, the color
and pattern of the card varies
**[05:24] ---**
depending on the type of dream written to it.
**[05:27] ---**
Orange ones are supposed
to be enjoyable, happy dreams.
**[05:31] ---**
Well, she went to the trouble to give it to me.
**[05:33] ---**
If I had the choice, though,
a horror dream sounds more fun.
**[05:37] ---**
Sissy...!
**[05:40] ---**
I came over because I was feeling cold.
Let's sleep togeth--
**[05:56] ---**
Where is this?
**[05:58] ---**
Is this a dream?
**[06:07] ---**
K-Keroyon... Pyonkichi... Pyonko...
**[06:12] ---**
G--
**[06:14] ---**
Gekota!
**[06:22] ---**
What is this? What is this?
**[06:24] ---**
This Indian Poker is the best!
**[06:28] ---**
Huh? You're going to introduce me
to the queen of the castle?
**[06:33] ---**
Oh, so there's a queen.
**[06:36] ---**
Hmm? Queen?
Come to think of it, this dream is...
**[06:39] ---**
Oh...?
**[06:40] ---**
Are you my new maid?
**[06:42] ---**
Shokuho!
**[06:44] ---**
I knew it!
**[06:45] ---**
Wh-Who are you calling a maid--
**[06:47] ---**
Huh? When did *that* happen?!
**[06:49] ---**
Could you start with massaging my shoulders?
**[06:52] ---**
Who, me?!
**[06:56] ---**
H-Huh...?
**[06:58] ---**
Why are you giving me that sad look?
**[07:01] ---**
Is it because I'm about
to turn down Shokuho's order?
**[07:05] ---**
Ah, that feels so good.
**[07:08] ---**
It's so hard to be so busty, you know?
**[07:12] ---**
Shine my shoes.
**[07:14] ---**
Rub some oil on me.
**[07:16] ---**
Now pour me some tea.
**[07:18] ---**
Why me? Why me? Why me?
**[07:22] ---**
Oh my goodness! How clumsy of you.
**[07:24] ---**
No, it wasn't! The handle came off by itself...
**[07:27] ---**
What an absent-minded girl you are.
**[07:30] ---**
Then again,
**[07:31] ---**
you have been a lot of help, too.
You show promise.
**[07:36] ---**
Which is why...
**[07:38] ---**
...I'm giving you permission to wait
on me for the rest of your life!
**[07:47] ---**
Sissy, you are so beautiful when you are asleep.
**[07:51] ---**
Ordinarily, this is when I would
try to wake you up with a kiss,
**[07:55] ---**
but you are so bashful,
you always turn me away with a shock.
**[08:00] ---**
I am terribly sorry, Sissy! When someone
is only seeking a physical connection,
**[08:05] ---**
an emotional connection can be so unsettling!
**[08:08] ---**
Of course, such a thing is not to be,
**[08:11] ---**
but Sissy, to have wound you up
is the greatest indiscretion of my life!
**[08:15] ---**
Allow my sincerity to set your mind at ease!
**[08:19] ---**
To prove that my love for you is true,
**[08:22] ---**
I offer my entire body and soul to you!
**[08:25] ---**
I don't want it!
**[08:29] ---**
This is the first time I've woken up more
exhausted than when I went to sleep.
**[08:39] ---**
Good morning!
**[08:41] ---**
Morning.
**[08:42] ---**
Is something the matter with Shirai?
**[08:45] ---**
Search me.
**[08:46] ---**
She's been like that all morning.
**[08:48] ---**
So, how was it?
**[08:50] ---**
The Indian Poker?
**[08:52] ---**
It was an incredibly...
**[08:54] ---**
...hideous dream.
**[08:56] ---**
I'm getting goosebumps just remembering it.
**[08:58] ---**
The card's color said
it was supposed to be a fun one.
**[09:01] ---**
Ah, that reminds me, Misaka,
**[09:03] ---**
are you familiar with this app?
**[09:05] ---**
Huh?
**[09:05] ---**
I found it yesterday.
It's a kind of treasure hunt...
**[09:10] ---**
Uiharu!
**[09:11] ---**
Excuse me, something just came up.
See you later.
**[09:15] ---**
U-i-ha-ru!
**[09:18] ---**
Indian Poker, huh?
**[09:20] ---**
I've had all I can stand of it.
**[09:22] ---**
How did you like my Indian Poker card?
**[09:26] ---**
Well, um...
**[09:28] ---**
How would you like to start one, yourself?
**[09:30] ---**
No, I, uh...
**[09:31] ---**
Maybe we can discuss it over tea after school.
**[09:34] ---**
Uh... sure.
**[09:37] ---**
So,
**[09:38] ---**
what is Miss Misaka doing here?
**[09:40] ---**
I could ask the same about you.
**[09:42] ---**
I wanted to take this opportunity
**[09:44] ---**
to strengthen the friendship between you two.
**[09:46] ---**
--No way!
--No way!
**[09:48] ---**
Indian Poker has been
gaining popularity among us lately.
**[09:53] ---**
I've heard of it.
**[09:55] ---**
Well, in that case, I will make this brief.
**[09:59] ---**
I have invited Miss Misaka to join in, as well.
**[10:01] ---**
Yeah, but I'm not...
**[10:02] ---**
How about you, too, my Queen?
**[10:04] ---**
Not interested.
**[10:06] ---**
You should call it off, too.
**[10:08] ---**
Yes, as you wish!
**[10:10] ---**
Huh? Just like that?
**[10:12] ---**
The Queen has expressed her intention.
**[10:14] ---**
Would you tell the others
to stop doing it as well?
**[10:18] ---**
Yes.
**[10:19] ---**
I am terribly sorry.
And after I invited you here, too.
**[10:22] ---**
No, that's okay.
**[10:23] ---**
I mean really, what a childish game--
**[10:26] ---**
--BLAU! It is an honor to meet you!
--BLAU! It is an honor to meet you!
**[10:28] ---**
What the...?
**[10:29] ---**
Come on, you're being too loud.
You're disturbing the other guests here.
**[10:34] ---**
S-Sorry, sir. I'm just so nervous,
being in the presence of a legendary S-Ranker.
**[10:38] ---**
No need to stand on ceremony, take it easy.
**[10:41] ---**
R-Right...
**[10:43] ---**
S-Rank? Like in, those Dream Rankers
Miss Saten was talking about?
**[10:48] ---**
The card you gave us the other day
**[10:50] ---**
was a sublime masterpiece
that defies description.
**[10:53] ---**
I honestly felt like I never
wanted to wake up from it!
**[10:56] ---**
That good?!
**[10:57] ---**
Th-This might not cover it,
**[10:59] ---**
but would you please let me have it, as well?!
**[11:03] ---**
That's okay. You don't have to give me that.
**[11:06] ---**
I'm able to use my dreams
to spread joy to others.
**[11:10] ---**
I'm happy enough to do so.
**[11:13] ---**
--B-BLAU...!
--B-BLAU...!
**[11:15] ---**
Wow, there's an S-Ranker
who gives out his cards for nothing.
**[11:20] ---**
I wonder what kind of dream could make people...
**[11:22] ---**
--...as enthusiastic as that.
--Really, it was too much!
**[11:25] ---**
I mean, Iris from the Goddess Club,
doing Full S*rvice Maid Pl*y!
**[11:30] ---**
BLAU, your dreams feature everything
from supermodels to virtual idols!
**[11:34] ---**
You make epic interaction
limitless for us ordinary guys
**[11:36] ---**
when normally, it wouldn't
even be possible to imagine!
**[11:39] ---**
Like getting the weather girl,
Uzuki Ana, in her TV studio,
**[11:42] ---**
and forecasting a
100 perc*nt chance of moist*re!
**[11:45] ---**
Or taking pleasantly plump
glamor idol Fugu Iruka,
**[11:47] ---**
and putting on an aqu*rium
nature show in any outfit we want!
**[11:52] ---**
For you to be able to produce cards
like that, BLAU, you truly are a god!
**[11:55] ---**
Just thinking about tonight,
I can't stop the rush of excitement!
**[11:59] ---**
It's only a matter of time before
your dreams take Academy City by storm!
**[12:05] ---**
It's not just entertainers, either.
**[12:08] ---**
You know the two Level 5s
from Tokiwadai Middle School?
**[12:11] ---**
They're both exquisite beauties
that could put professional idols to shame.
**[12:14] ---**
BLAU, you don't mean...
**[12:17] ---**
The third-ranked, Misaka Mikoto,
seems pretty strong-minded, right?
**[12:20] ---**
But once you ***** her,
put on kitty ears and a tail and make her *****,
**[12:25] ---**
you can ******** all night long!
**[12:27] ---**
You can use a ******* on
Shokuho Misaki in her school swimsuit,
**[12:31] ---**
take her too-big-for-middle-school *****,
**[12:33] ---**
and reach Level 6* before you *****!
**[12:37] ---**
Y-You're going where even angels fear to tread!
**[12:40] ---**
You're one shockingly formidable dude!
**[12:41] ---**
Hmph, Level 5s are as good
as stripped bare before me. Literally.
**[12:48] ---**
--BLAU! BLAU! BLAU! BLAU!
**[12:48] ---**
--Th-They sure do seem excited about something.
I'm not sure what, exactly.
--BLAU! BLAU! BLAU! BLAU!
**[12:53] ---**
--I thought I heard both
of your names come up, too.
--BLAU! BLAU! BLAU! BLAU!
**[12:55] ---**
--You are, after all, our school Level 5s--
--BLAU! BLAU! BLAU! BLAU!
**[12:59] ---**
We're just going to go stroll
over to the shop next door...
**[13:02] ---**
Huh? Huh? She had that killer look in her eye...
**[13:05] ---**
My Queen! You have to stop her!
**[13:06] ---**
Today only, I'm going to alter
the memories of any witnesses.
**[13:11] ---**
Oh, oh no. If these two team up,
**[13:14] ---**
it's so easy for them
to commit the perfect crime.
**[13:19] ---**
Thank goodness.
**[13:21] ---**
Only their cards were destroyed
and memories altered.
**[13:24] ---**
Honestly...
**[13:25] ---**
I can't help it if someone
has those dreams on their own,
**[13:29] ---**
but passing them around like
it's some kind of show is going too far.
**[13:33] ---**
Dreaming about the object of
your affection is unavoidable in your youth,
**[13:38] ---**
but to traffic in them in
back-alley deals like that is just...
**[13:42] ---**
U-Um, are the two of you dreaming
about boys you're interested in?
**[13:50] ---**
Oh, dear...
**[13:51] ---**
Ah, I just remembered,
I have a thing I need to do with a thing.
**[13:56] ---**
I, too... have a thing to do,
so if you'll excuse me...
**[14:03] ---**
#16 Dream Ranker
**[14:06] ---**
Miss Shirai?
**[14:08] ---**
Miss Shirai? Anyone home? Miss Shirai Kuroko?
**[14:13] ---**
The degenerate Miss Shirai of Judgment!
**[14:16] ---**
Uh, oh... Uiharu?
**[14:19] ---**
We're on patrol. Please keep it together.
**[14:22] ---**
What are you doing?
**[14:24] ---**
It's an app Miss Saten
told me about this morning.
**[14:27] ---**
Miss Shirai, have you
heard of treasure hunt apps?
**[14:31] ---**
Yes. I have seen many students lately
**[14:33] ---**
walking around with
their cell phones in their hands.
**[14:36] ---**
This app is similar to those.
**[14:40] ---**
When you train the camera like this,
**[14:42] ---**
it isn't a treasure reward that gets displayed,
**[14:44] ---**
but the time when an accident
occurred at that location.
**[14:48] ---**
Someone had a fall down these stairs
this morning, and that's being displayed.
**[14:52] ---**
Luckily, it didn't end up
being anything serious.
**[14:56] ---**
That is not in very good taste, is it?
**[14:59] ---**
No,
**[15:00] ---**
and if that were all it was,
it would just be misguided,
**[15:02] ---**
and that would be the end of it, but apparently,
**[15:06] ---**
this app also has future accidents,
which haven't happened yet, on record.
**[15:10] ---**
Future accidents? What is that supposed to mean?
**[15:13] ---**
Just what it sounds like.
**[15:15] ---**
Among the incidents that the app specifies
**[15:17] ---**
are accidents recorded before they've happened,
**[15:20] ---**
and at the indicated time,
at the designated location,
**[15:23] ---**
accidents and other troubling
incidents have taken place.
**[15:27] ---**
Or should I say, it's possible
that they only came to light afterward
**[15:30] ---**
and all of the data within the app was
drawn up before the incidents occurred.
**[15:36] ---**
Of those that were determined
to be recorded before they happened,
**[15:39] ---**
what is the ratio of accidents
that actually took place?
**[15:41] ---**
Six out of six.
**[15:43] ---**
One hundred percent.
**[15:46] ---**
Are you saying that someone
with precognition helped create the app?
**[15:51] ---**
There are some opinions on the net
**[15:54] ---**
saying that there's a person or even a group,
**[15:56] ---**
who is taking the appointed times
and locations from the app
**[15:59] ---**
and perpetrating acts to make sure
that they happen just as they're foretold.
**[16:04] ---**
But there have been no suspects
tied to the string of events,
**[16:07] ---**
so that line of reasoning
is seen as pretty weak.
**[16:10] ---**
Also, yesterday afternoon,
***SIGN*** "School District 17" "School District 20" "School District 16" "School District 8" "School District 1"
**[16:12] ---**
a suspicious fire broke out in
a factory in School District 17,
**[16:15] ---**
and in the evening, there was a
purse snatching in School District 16,
**[16:18] ---**
and those have not been recorded yet,
**[16:21] ---**
so there may be some kind of methodology to it.
**[16:25] ---**
Whatever the case, since we cannot ignore this,
**[16:28] ---**
it appears that we must look into it.
**[16:30] ---**
Let us go search for
some of this "foretold trouble."
**[16:36] ---**
That was surprisingly easy to find.
**[16:38] ---**
The incident is in 15 minutes.
**[16:41] ---**
Does something happen in
front of these vending machines?
**[16:43] ---**
This being the side of the road,
it is likely to be a traffic accident.
**[16:47] ---**
If this app were genuine,
I would like to go and stop traffic.
**[16:52] ---**
But since there's nothing
to corroborate it, that would be difficult.
**[16:55] ---**
If it's some kind of crime,
it may only get relocated as a result.
**[17:00] ---**
I guess we have little choice.
**[17:02] ---**
Let us go observe from someplace
where we can see the whole road.
**[17:10] ---**
Come to think of it,
Judgment's training is just about done, huh?
***SIGN*** "Join Judgment!!" "Come with us!! For the future of Academy City!!"
**[17:14] ---**
Do you think we'll get any
new faces at the 177th Branch?
**[17:18] ---**
Yes, who can say?
**[17:20] ---**
Then finally, I'll have someone lower than me!
**[17:24] ---**
Uh-oh.
**[17:25] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[17:26] ---**
How do I deal with these documents?
**[17:29] ---**
You do this, here like this, with this.
**[17:31] ---**
Wow, you know everything, Miss Uiharu!
**[17:35] ---**
"Miss Uiharu"!
**[17:36] ---**
All I can see is her being swamped
by doting on her subordinate.
**[17:40] ---**
Stop letting your head
get swollen by silly fantasies.
**[17:43] ---**
It is just about time.
**[17:47] ---**
For the love of...
**[17:48] ---**
That new store clerk they
have is super-handsome, isn't he?
**[17:55] ---**
An incident? An accident?
Either way, I will make sure to stop it!
**[18:01] ---**
--You dumbass!
--Wonder if he's single.
**[18:03] ---**
It doesn't look like it was any of those people.
**[18:07] ---**
"Two minutes later"
**[18:09] ---**
"Five minutes later"
**[18:11] ---**
"Ten minutes later"
**[18:11] ---**
There is nothing happening here, is there?!
**[18:14] ---**
That's odd. Oh, sometimes the indicated
times may be off by dozens of minutes.
**[18:20] ---**
You might have told me that sooner!
**[18:22] ---**
This might all be a hoax after all...
**[18:26] ---**
A truck? But it is going the
other direction and not speeding.
**[18:31] ---**
It does not appear to be related to...
**[18:35] ---**
Running into traffic?! And that car
is passing! Is this what was foretold?!
**[18:37] ---**
No, the location is off...!
**[18:53] ---**
Are you hurt?
**[18:54] ---**
Huh? Oh,
**[18:55] ---**
I, um, think I'm okay.
**[18:58] ---**
That was close.
**[19:00] ---**
If I had not been anticipating something,
**[19:02] ---**
I am not sure I could
have made a rational decision.
**[19:05] ---**
I am sure I would have reflexively
teleported to the boy who dashed out.
**[19:10] ---**
Uiharu!
**[19:12] ---**
You have traffic control until Antiskill arrives!
**[19:15] ---**
U-Understood!
**[19:17] ---**
Where is the best vantage point?
**[19:21] ---**
Can I assume that you
are the precognitive esper?
**[19:27] ---**
A grade-schooler?
**[19:28] ---**
You could, of course,
be a lookie-loo who saw the app,
**[19:31] ---**
but my investigation will soon uncover--
**[19:33] ---**
No, that won't be necessary.
**[19:36] ---**
I am the one who created the app. Also,
**[19:40] ---**
I meant to make contact with you,
one way or another.
**[19:46] ---**
Miyama Shaei, 4th-year at Matsuume Elementary.
**[19:49] ---**
--Age 10. Precognitive esper.
**[19:50] ---**
--Some hot milk for you.
--Age 10. Precognitive esper.
**[19:51] ---**
--Thanks.
--Age 10. Precognitive esper.
**[19:52] ---**
Mm-hmm, using this instant camera...
**[19:56] ---**
...you can perform psychic
photography to see future events.
**[19:59] ---**
What it produces is a marble pattern
that I have no idea what it will turn into.
**[20:05] ---**
When it's run through a
special machine at a research facility,
**[20:08] ---**
a vague image finally becomes visible.
**[20:10] ---**
However, moments of tragedy
are the only things that develop.
**[20:14] ---**
My ability can only record accidents
that will happen in the near future.
**[20:19] ---**
But, everything so far is already
written in the Bank, right?
**[20:22] ---**
So far?
**[20:23] ---**
Yes.
**[20:24] ---**
No one could have created the app
using only the ability he told us about.
**[20:28] ---**
Oh.
**[20:28] ---**
Mm-hmm. I'm not sure
if I can call it the first stage,
**[20:32] ---**
but by focusing my consciousness
to an even higher level,
**[20:36] ---**
I can produce photographs
**[20:38] ---**
which also include the time and location
data of specific tragedies that will occur.
**[20:42] ---**
Data?
**[20:43] ---**
The app was originally created
**[20:45] ---**
by a certain company as an analytic tool
for psychic photography espers.
**[20:49] ---**
Finding lost items and people who
have gone missing was its intended purpose.
**[20:53] ---**
When psychic photos are passed to the app,
**[20:55] ---**
the data analyzed from them
is displayed on the map.
**[20:59] ---**
So you are circumventing
the research facility and using the app
**[21:02] ---**
to carry out your own analysis
of your psychic photographs?
**[21:06] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[21:08] ---**
For this second stage,
I wanted you, ribbon girl and flower girl...
**[21:12] ---**
Shirai Kuroko.
**[21:13] ---**
Uiharu Kazari.
**[21:15] ---**
I wanted you, Shirai and Uiharu,
to keep this entirely to yourselves.
**[21:18] ---**
What, no "Miss"?
**[21:20] ---**
And, um, why is that?
**[21:21] ---**
There isn't much use for this,
going by just the information in the Bank...
**[21:25] ---**
...but if you can come up with
both a time and a place,
**[21:28] ---**
those who would misuse
the information will turn up,
**[21:32] ---**
is that what you are saying?
**[21:33] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[21:34] ---**
Very well. I promise that I will not
breathe a word of this to anyone.
**[21:38] ---**
M-Me, too.
**[21:39] ---**
Thanks.
**[21:40] ---**
That being said, it isn't an ability
that can be used too conveniently.
**[21:45] ---**
The reason I use the app
is to conceal my identity.
**[21:49] ---**
But there's another reason--
**[21:50] ---**
to find an esper who can alter
the fate of the events I foresee.
**[21:55] ---**
Someone who can alter fate?
**[22:01] ---**
Are you sure about doing this without asking?
**[22:03] ---**
What?
**[22:04] ---**
After all, who gets put out
by having flowers bloom?
**[22:07] ---**
It'll be fine. I learned all
about it while I was dreaming.
**[23:25] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:26] ---**
Use my power to prevent the
incidents that Miyama Shaei foresees?
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#17 Precognition"
**[23:29] ---**
It is not a bad proposal,
but he seems to be holding something back.
**[23:33] ---**
Well, Miss Shirai, you keep
your degeneracy hidden, don't you?
**[23:35] ---**
I do not either keep it hidden.
Wait, what did you just get me to say, Uiharu?!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E17 - Precognition
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRKEG813R/precognition)
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**[00:00] ---**
"September 27th"
**[00:01] ---**
Foreseen phenomena
are basically etched in stone.
**[00:04] ---**
Actions that try to change them only
create a certain degree of divergence;
**[00:07] ---**
the main gist of the event
ultimately turns out as foretold.
**[00:11] ---**
Are you saying that there's no escaping fate?
**[00:14] ---**
I don't know if anything
as occult as fate actually exists,
**[00:19] ---**
but there may be some kind of
unknown causative principle at work.
**[00:22] ---**
Precognition is still a
poorly understood field.
**[00:26] ---**
However, every future so far
has proved to be unavoidable...
**[00:30] ---**
...until you upset the one today.
**[00:34] ---**
My ability provides an inferred outcome
**[00:36] ---**
calculated within a
three-dimensional framework.
**[00:40] ---**
Ordinarily, there is no way
to divert that track.
**[00:44] ---**
But Miss Shirai's Teleporting
is an 11-dimensional calculation.
**[00:48] ---**
Does that mean it interferes with an
inescapable three-dimensional outcome?
**[00:53] ---**
It's all just theoretical.
**[00:55] ---**
What is that?
**[00:56] ---**
An ordinary penlight. When performing
second-stage psychic photography,
**[01:01] ---**
I use it to make it easier to focus.
**[01:05] ---**
A simple oral explanation won't
demonstrate if it's real or not, right?
**[01:09] ---**
So I'm going to foretell something
that isn't recorded in the app yet.
**[01:30] ---**
Go ahead and shoot that photo with the app.
**[01:32] ---**
O-Okay.
**[01:38] ---**
Here it is. The location is less than
a kilometer south-southwest of here.
**[01:42] ---**
Please allow me to verify this, as well.
**[01:44] ---**
The time is 40 minutes from now.
**[02:11] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[03:22] ---**
It's too dangerous. We
should go get a grown-up.
**[03:25] ---**
It'll be fine. I'm almost there...
**[03:28] ---**
See? I got it--!
**[03:31] ---**
Chisa!
**[03:38] ---**
Helb!
**[03:45] ---**
The location was a river,
**[03:47] ---**
so bringing life rings was the right call.
**[03:58] ---**
Is that enough to certify my ability?
**[04:01] ---**
And I was able to reaffirm that
my Teleportation is effective
**[04:04] ---**
in intervening with your predictions.
**[04:06] ---**
Being able to save victims ahead of time
**[04:09] ---**
isn't a bad proposition for Judgment, is it?
**[04:15] ---**
I suppose not.
**[04:20] ---**
M-Maki!
**[04:22] ---**
Takkun, you really are cheating on me!
**[04:24] ---**
--No, no, no, hold on a second!
This girl came on to *me*!
**[04:28] ---**
--Huh?!
--No, no, no, hold on a second!
This girl came on to *me*!
**[04:31] ---**
Hey!
**[04:35] ---**
I know how you must feel,
but do not do anything hasty.
**[04:38] ---**
--You need to hurry and step in,
or this will end up uglier than predicted.
--You dirty... rotten...!
**[04:47] ---**
The crocodile they were transporting...!
**[04:52] ---**
Y-You were the ones who bumped into us.
**[04:54] ---**
Huh?! Who do you think
you're talking back to?!
**[04:58] ---**
You know who we are?
**[05:00] ---**
You can introduce yourselves
all you want to Antiskill later.
**[05:06] ---**
Nice going.
**[05:08] ---**
Your finesse is impressive, all right.
**[05:10] ---**
--And now...
--Thank you.
**[05:11] ---**
...more information on that mass
unconsciousness outbreak the other day.
**[05:14] ---**
"Cause of mass unconsciousness
outbreak still unknown"
**[05:14] ---**
According to a release from Antiskill,
**[05:16] ---**
the victims are not showing
any discernable aftereffects,
**[05:19] ---**
but the cause is still unknown.
**[05:21] ---**
--It looks like your ability missed that one.
--Further, they are working
with a number of research facilities
**[05:24] ---**
--It looks like your ability missed that one.
--and are devoting all their
energies to determine the cause.
**[05:26] ---**
--Maybe it didn't register
--and are devoting all their
energies to determine the cause.
**[05:27] ---**
since they were only asleep
and didn't suffer any other harm.
**[05:31] ---**
Also, it's easier for me to pick up
on those that are closer to me.
**[05:36] ---**
In that sense, essentially, it may be
a lot like being able to sense danger.
**[05:40] ---**
But, since I can't change the future,
sensing it doesn't do me any good.
**[05:47] ---**
Here.
**[05:48] ---**
For your leg.
**[05:50] ---**
Oh, I must have scraped it earlier.
**[05:53] ---**
If you use some first-aid cream,
you'll need something to apply it with.
**[05:58] ---**
You may seem like a cold fish,
but you do know how to treat a lady.
**[06:03] ---**
Well, I believe it's best to be considerate
toward women as much as possible.
**[06:08] ---**
Even if that's you, Kuroko.
**[06:10] ---**
You should have quit
while you were ahead. Good grief.
**[06:14] ---**
Why are you in Judgment?
**[06:16] ---**
Huh? Well, I...
**[06:19] ---**
I would say that it is to keep
civic order in Academy City.
**[06:24] ---**
You mean the sake of justice?
**[06:26] ---**
I suppose. Though there should be
nothing more to say about it.
**[06:32] ---**
I don't have a good grasp of things
that have no logical reason or method.
**[06:49] ---**
I have a new prediction.
**[06:51] ---**
You look a little pale.
**[06:54] ---**
I'm a little bit anemic.
**[06:58] ---**
Is that the park?
**[07:00] ---**
The time says tomorrow afternoon.
**[07:04] ---**
Miyama, is something the matter?
**[07:07] ---**
Look.
**[07:09] ---**
Two, in the same park? This is the
first time we are seeing that come up.
**[07:13] ---**
This is a prediction I
had before meeting you.
**[07:16] ---**
The two predictions happen
at just about the same time.
**[07:19] ---**
Could it mean that they are both
a part of the same accident?
**[07:23] ---**
But the two incidents are separated
by several hundred meters.
**[07:27] ---**
The first photo has already been
visually analyzed by the research lab.
**[07:33] ---**
It's blurry, but what looked
like raging flames was pictured.
**[07:37] ---**
Flames?
**[07:38] ---**
Is it possible for us to
see the image analysis?
**[07:41] ---**
Sorry, but it's not that easy
for me to leave with lab materials.
**[07:46] ---**
If both predictions are
tied to the same matter,
**[07:49] ---**
it would mean that the flames
extend to a rather wide area.
**[07:52] ---**
So a fire, an explosion, or pyrokinesis.
That is about all I can think of.
**[07:59] ---**
This case stretches over a long distance.
**[08:02] ---**
There is a good chance that many people
will be caught in the middle of it.
**[08:06] ---**
In which case, it will be beyond
what we alone can deal with.
**[08:10] ---**
We will ask for assistance while
leaving you out of it as much as possible.
**[08:13] ---**
Do you agree?
**[08:15] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[08:17] ---**
Excuse me!
**[08:19] ---**
This month is Crime Prevention Month.
**[08:22] ---**
Would it be all right if
we checked your student IDs?
**[08:25] ---**
Sure.
**[08:26] ---**
Thank you, sir.
**[08:29] ---**
He's not in possession of any
explosives or hazardous materials.
**[08:33] ---**
Okay, that checks out.
Thank you so much for your cooperation.
**[08:37] ---**
Checkpoints at every entrance to the park.
**[08:39] ---**
Cross-checks with the
Bank for esper abilities.
**[08:42] ---**
Checks for possession of hazardous materials.
**[08:44] ---**
A search of the park for hazardous materials.
**[08:46] ---**
With the help from other
Judgment branches, there are 40 of us.
**[08:51] ---**
I'm surprised that everyone is so cooperative
**[08:53] ---**
after we gave them such a shaky explanation.
**[08:56] ---**
Well, to be honest,
**[08:58] ---**
we can pretty well guess
what the bigger picture is.
**[09:01] ---**
Those girls have been on
the scene of every incident lately,
**[09:04] ---**
and minimizing any damage done.
**[09:07] ---**
There are some in Judgment asking
why we don't just shut down the park,
**[09:12] ---**
but there must be some reason why we can't.
**[09:16] ---**
Honestly, we don't know at what stage
your ability begins disrupting things.
**[09:22] ---**
If, by closing the park,
**[09:24] ---**
fires break out in lots of different areas,
it will be much harder to handle them.
**[09:29] ---**
Two more hours.
**[09:30] ---**
There.
**[09:31] ---**
Miss Shirai, please put this on.
**[09:38] ---**
What is this?
**[09:39] ---**
Satellite imagery.
It can provide you with the locations
**[09:43] ---**
of every person in the park in real time.
**[09:45] ---**
Wow, you got permission to--
**[09:48] ---**
--Wait, did you hack into it?
--Lives come first!
**[09:52] ---**
Also, according to what I've heard around,
**[09:54] ---**
there have been more stray dogs
and cats around waste disposal sites...
**[09:58] ---**
Miss Shirai?
**[10:00] ---**
Oh, those cherry blossoms.
This is October. Does that ever happen?
**[10:07] ---**
After the temperature drops considerably
and then gets warm again,
**[10:11] ---**
cherry blossoms sometimes get tricked
into thinking spring has come.
**[10:15] ---**
Have we had that kind of weather, though?
**[10:17] ---**
No, we haven't...
**[10:26] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[10:28] ---**
I've produced two more predictions.
**[10:31] ---**
Both of them take place inside the park.
**[10:34] ---**
These are not in a line
between the previous two,
**[10:36] ---**
but spread throughout the park.
**[10:38] ---**
Thank you. This is helpful.
**[10:40] ---**
If we refocus our search
based on this layout...
**[10:46] ---**
"#17 Precognition"
**[10:46] ---**
Miyama!
**[10:51] ---**
His red blood cells are damaged?
**[10:54] ---**
Mm-hmm, and as a result, their capacity
to carry oxygen is greatly diminished.
**[10:59] ---**
It's a phenomenon occasionally seen
when espers overexert their abilities.
**[11:04] ---**
He'll have to refrain from
using his ability for the time being.
**[11:09] ---**
Any more than this, and he could
be putting his life in danger.
**[11:14] ---**
Why would you do something so reckless?
**[11:20] ---**
Hey...
**[11:22] ---**
Hey!
**[11:25] ---**
Okawachi?
**[11:26] ---**
Your ability lets you see when
bad things happen to people, right?
**[11:30] ---**
That's so morbid!
**[11:31] ---**
Pretty nasty.
**[11:37] ---**
Perro!
**[11:40] ---**
Oh, there you are.
**[11:42] ---**
My ability takes pictures
of people's suffering.
**[11:45] ---**
But someday, maybe my power
can be used to help people out.
**[11:51] ---**
As the power to protect them.
**[11:54] ---**
Yeah, right.
**[11:57] ---**
Here is the analysis of the
psychic photo from the other day.
**[12:00] ---**
Is that...!
**[12:01] ---**
It couldn't be! Okawachi?
**[12:05] ---**
Whoa, is this me in the photo?!
**[12:08] ---**
Probably.
**[12:09] ---**
L-Look, I'm sorry for everything
I said before. Do something!
**[12:14] ---**
Mm-hmm, that's why I made a
copy for you without permission.
**[12:18] ---**
We need to come up
with a plan to change the future.
**[12:23] ---**
Get out!
**[12:25] ---**
Okawachi...
**[12:26] ---**
I'm sorry. We ended up not
being able to change the future.
**[12:31] ---**
Ha, change it?
**[12:33] ---**
Are you sure this didn't happen
*because* you foresaw it?!
**[12:36] ---**
Are you sure you don't bring
about tragedy for others?!
**[12:38] ---**
No--
**[12:39] ---**
It's your fault that this
happened to me, you know!
**[12:43] ---**
I don't ever want to see
your face again, you big jinx!
**[12:47] ---**
It didn't help, Perro.
**[12:50] ---**
I tried as hard as I know how to do, but...
**[12:55] ---**
It doesn't look like I'm going
to be able to help keep others safe.
**[13:02] ---**
It can't be...
**[13:04] ---**
Perro?
**[13:06] ---**
No! How is this happening again?
**[13:10] ---**
Is it really because of my ability?
**[13:18] ---**
Hmm? Do you have a headache?
**[13:21] ---**
No, it's nothing.
**[13:30] ---**
If I recall that sensation I had before...
**[13:40] ---**
Tamper with the future?
**[13:42] ---**
Hmm, depending on the ability,
**[13:44] ---**
there is a possibility it could happen.
**[13:48] ---**
Found them.
**[13:50] ---**
Judgment--those who
voluntarily help other people.
**[13:54] ---**
Still,
**[13:56] ---**
stray dogs aren't subjects for rescue.
If only somehow...
**[14:01] ---**
Where am I?
**[14:03] ---**
Oh, no!
**[14:10] ---**
It's just about time.
**[14:12] ---**
Yes.
**[14:15] ---**
No explosives...
**[14:16] ---**
...or suspicious individuals have been found.
**[14:21] ---**
Nor are there any gas lines
or shopping areas underneath here.
**[14:24] ---**
It is hard to imagine that these
incidents are not actually in the park.
**[14:29] ---**
So what exactly--
**[14:32] ---**
It is starting!
**[14:35] ---**
Miss Konori!
**[14:36] ---**
Yes. Just like we discussed,
**[14:39] ---**
we need to start guarding
the people who get Teleported.
**[14:47] ---**
Remain calm. I will Teleport
you away from here.
**[14:51] ---**
Please follow the nearby
Judgment officers and evacuate.
**[15:01] ---**
Next up...
**[15:03] ---**
Wha--? It is already this widespread?!
**[15:06] ---**
A fire broke out far away from me,
and as I was shooting video,
**[15:09] ---**
the flames had gotten
really close, just like that!
**[15:11] ---**
The flames are spreading too quickly.
If this were an ordinary fire...
**[15:16] ---**
The only things burning intensely
are the cherry trees?
**[15:20] ---**
Cherry blossoms... They do seem
out of place, blooming out of season...
**[15:26] ---**
What is causing it?
**[15:30] ---**
Did you say the plant ampules?
**[15:32] ---**
Yes. Whatever has been
injected into the base of the trees
**[15:35] ---**
could be a highly flammable substance.
**[15:38] ---**
If that's the case, then after it
has passed into the soil and trees,
**[15:41] ---**
all these rows of cherry trees
will have become long, giant fuses.
**[15:46] ---**
All right. Predicting the spread
of the fire based on that hypothesis.
**[15:50] ---**
Miss Shirai, please patrol
around the park with that in mind.
**[15:57] ---**
Perro...
**[15:59] ---**
Miss Shirai!
**[16:00] ---**
This girl is the last one.
**[16:03] ---**
As for those ampules,
**[16:04] ---**
I collected a number of
them that were nearby.
**[16:07] ---**
Sure enough, they don't appear
to be commercially made.
**[16:16] ---**
It looks as though your guess is correct.
**[16:19] ---**
But who on earth would
do something like this?
**[16:22] ---**
Kuroko!
**[16:24] ---**
--Miyama?!
--You there! You can't come in here!
**[16:29] ---**
Could you...
**[16:30] ---**
Teleport me into the middle of the park?
**[16:33] ---**
That may be enough to disrupt it.
**[16:38] ---**
Slow down, and please
tell me what is going on, okay?
**[16:47] ---**
A stray dog?
**[16:49] ---**
That was your first prediction, right?
**[16:52] ---**
But he's my friend. So...
**[16:55] ---**
What does this dog look like?
**[16:57] ---**
Huh?
**[16:58] ---**
Uiharu, check the satellite imagery.
**[17:01] ---**
The smoke is too thick. But
if I filter out the unoccupied areas,
**[17:04] ---**
it's possible to narrow things down.
**[17:06] ---**
Miss Konori!
**[17:07] ---**
Okay.
**[17:08] ---**
Here we go.
**[17:13] ---**
Honestly!
**[17:14] ---**
I thought he might be
hiding something from us...
**[17:17] ---**
...but he figured we
wouldn't rescue a stray dog.
**[17:21] ---**
For someone who acts as grown up as he does,
**[17:23] ---**
he sure is childish in some strange ways.
**[17:29] ---**
Miss Shirai, I've narrowed the area down!
**[17:34] ---**
Next!
**[17:36] ---**
Next! Next!
**[17:48] ---**
Kuroko!
**[17:49] ---**
Come back here and take me with you!
**[17:52] ---**
I've been too focused on
myself from the start!
**[17:54] ---**
Teleporting can interfere
with my predictions,
**[17:57] ---**
but that doesn't always mean
it changes the future for the better!
**[18:00] ---**
I shouldn't have gotten
you involved in this mess.
**[18:02] ---**
You're liable to fall victim to it, too!
**[18:04] ---**
This is on a much larger scale
than anything else up to now.
**[18:07] ---**
--You don't have to be so--
--Miyama...
**[18:10] ---**
If sticking your neck out to rescue
a stray dog is self-centered,
**[18:15] ---**
then my not backing out
right now is also self-centered.
**[18:25] ---**
Found him! He's limping away from the fire!
**[18:29] ---**
And I am sure...
**[18:33] ---**
...that for us, what some call
self-centeredness is the right thing to do!
**[18:44] ---**
Kuroko...
**[18:48] ---**
Perro...
**[18:50] ---**
Oh, no...
**[18:53] ---**
Welcome back.
**[18:56] ---**
That was quite a close call.
**[18:58] ---**
By Teleporting some ampules in the opposite
direction the fire was surging,
**[19:04] ---**
I was able to change the course of the fire.
**[19:07] ---**
This is your dog, right?
**[19:10] ---**
Other than his left paw,
I do not see any obvious injuries,
**[19:13] ---**
though he may have inhaled some smoke.
**[19:15] ---**
We can take him to the hospital together.
**[19:24] ---**
Boys should not be so
quick to show their tears.
**[19:28] ---**
B-Be quiet. Don't look at me.
**[19:33] ---**
"October 5th"
**[19:35] ---**
Sure enough, they say that those
ampules were the cause of the fire.
**[19:40] ---**
--The people who used them said that
they thought they had invented a drug
--I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
**[19:44] ---**
--that would allow the cherry
blossoms to bloom all year round.
--I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
**[19:47] ---**
But at the same time, it
is a hazardous material
**[19:49] ---**
that turns cherry trees into
powder kegs of nitrogenous compounds.
**[19:52] ---**
Did these people specialize
in fertilizer chemistry?
**[19:56] ---**
No. According to the statement,
they learned it via Indian Poker.
**[20:07] ---**
"If you ever want to see me, come by anytime.
When you do, I'll take the opportunity
to apologize. --Okawachi Megumi"
**[20:14] ---**
I heard you found someone to take Perro in.
**[20:17] ---**
Mm-hmm. One of my school classmates
said she would keep him at her home.
**[20:23] ---**
Will you miss him?
**[20:25] ---**
Mm-hmm. But then, even if I can't
see him as regularly as I have before,
**[20:30] ---**
as long as he's alive, I can still see him.
**[20:32] ---**
His is a life that you saved, after all.
**[20:36] ---**
You're the one who saved him.
**[20:38] ---**
Oh, no. Without your ability,
I could not have saved Perro
**[20:41] ---**
or any of those other people.
**[20:45] ---**
Is that true, though?
**[20:48] ---**
Yes, it is.
**[20:50] ---**
But using my ability is now...
**[20:53] ---**
Yes. You must not exceed your limit.
**[20:57] ---**
However...
**[21:00] ---**
...abilities are things that can grow.
**[21:03] ---**
Stick close to your curriculum,
**[21:04] ---**
and when the day comes when
you can use it without taxing your body...
**[21:08] ---**
...then come and call on me again.
**[21:15] ---**
Even if my ability does improve,
I may not try to use it to help anyone
**[21:20] ---**
except those who are close to me, like Perro.
**[21:24] ---**
Oh, no, I do not think that will happen.
You are too much like me.
**[21:29] ---**
Like you?
**[21:31] ---**
Yes. I mean...
**[21:35] ---**
I looked up to someone, as well.
Someone who is a champion of justice.
**[21:42] ---**
Is that right?
**[21:44] ---**
I-I was a child at the time!
**[21:48] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[21:51] ---**
I'll think about it.
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:26] ---**
Okay, today, I have the
perfect product for those of you
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#18 Bust Upper"
**[23:28] ---**
who want to develop yourselves
in certain areas. Indian Poker!
**[23:32] ---**
Oh, I've had my fill of that.
**[23:34] ---**
You can acquire knowledge
or skills while you sleep!
**[23:36] ---**
I said I'm not interested--Huh?!
"Bust Upper"?!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E18 - Bust Upper
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6QWV0ZZ6/bust-upper)
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**[00:23] ---**
What do you think of my *kendama* skills?
**[00:25] ---**
That was amazing.
You mean you mastered all that in one night?
**[00:30] ---**
Yes. You can get so you
can do this by just dreaming.
**[00:33] ---**
Sleep-learning, huh? I didn't realize
Indian Poker could be used like that.
**[00:39] ---**
There are those who
mastered English conversation
**[00:41] ---**
through the dreams of
someone fluent in English
**[00:43] ---**
and who acquired
professional-rank bowling skills
**[00:46] ---**
through the dreams of an ace bowler.
**[00:48] ---**
And next up for me is this
one--a master-class pen spinner.
**[00:53] ---**
Seems like her selections
skew pretty heavily.
**[00:56] ---**
So you know people who are expert
*kendama* players and pen spinners?
**[01:01] ---**
No. I get them through a Trader.
**[01:03] ---**
A Trader?
**[01:04] ---**
At first, all we could do
was trade cards among friends.
**[01:08] ---**
But that inevitably got
pretty humdrum after a while.
**[01:11] ---**
Lately, there have been Traders who deal
in large volumes of cards classed by rank.
**[01:16] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[01:17] ---**
The more popular S-Rank and A-Rank cards
can generally be acquired through Traders now.
**[01:24] ---**
By exchanging several low-ranking cards,
**[01:27] ---**
or by buying them straight-out with cash.
I traded for this one.
**[01:31] ---**
Traders, huh?
**[01:34] ---**
BLAU! BLAU! BLAU! BLAU! BLAU!
**[01:39] ---**
I just hope there's nothing
funny circulating around...
**[02:11] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[03:17] ---**
Whew, I can finally have a shower.
**[03:21] ---**
You can wipe away blood,
but that metallic smell still stays in your hair.
**[03:25] ---**
That's because you didn't use your ability,
you just ultra-pummeled them.
**[03:28] ---**
Today's target was
kind of a pain in the ass, right?
**[03:32] ---**
A quick Meltdowner blast didn't seem
like it would let me vent my stress.
**[03:37] ---**
Takitsubo, would you mind
fetching me the Cybele #5?
**[03:46] ---**
The one with the orange label?
**[03:48] ---**
Yeah, that one.
**[03:49] ---**
Here.
**[03:55] ---**
Mugino and Takitsubo are
both sporting some spectacular goods.
**[03:59] ---**
But taking my age and height into
consideration, my figure is the ideal!
**[04:04] ---**
In comprehensive terms, I can safely
declare that my body is ultra-perfect!
**[04:08] ---**
Not to mention we also have
the ultra-flat-chested Frenda!
**[04:15] ---**
F-Frenda, have certain parts
of your body ultra-developed?
**[04:20] ---**
Hmm? Yeah, a little bit lately, huh?
**[04:23] ---**
Maybe it's because my
little sister has been rubbing them.
**[04:25] ---**
My bras have been fitting tighter,
and I've had to buy new ones more frequently.
**[04:29] ---**
There's so many other things
I'd like to take time shopping for, too!
**[04:33] ---**
It really is getting to be a pain!
**[04:36] ---**
I'm back.
**[04:37] ---**
Took you long enough.
**[04:39] ---**
Damn it, why do I have to be an errand boy?
**[04:41] ---**
Quit your griping and hand it over, already.
**[04:45] ---**
There.
**[04:46] ---**
--Banana tea.
--Thank you.
**[04:49] ---**
Black bean cider.
**[04:51] ---**
Thank you!
**[04:52] ---**
And Kinuhata, you weren't
there when they ordered,
**[04:55] ---**
so I bought a few for you to choose from.
**[04:57] ---**
Pomegranate cola,
**[04:58] ---**
guarana green juice,
**[05:00] ---**
and Musashino milk.
**[05:02] ---**
What did you have in mind
when you bought the milk for me?
**[05:06] ---**
"Musashino Milk"
**[05:06] ---**
Huh? Drinking this is supposed
to be good for growing kids.
**[05:11] ---**
Wh-What was that for?!
**[05:14] ---**
Hey! Stop ultra-ducking me!
**[05:17] ---**
Don't kill him. Re-staffing
subsidiary organizations is a hassle.
**[05:28] ---**
This is ultra-aggravating.
**[05:33] ---**
Care for a card, little lady?
**[05:35] ---**
Oh, Indian Poker? I *am \*Nultra-peeved right now.
**[05:40] ---**
Maybe it will help alleviate
some of my stress.
**[05:42] ---**
"Talented rock singer"
**[05:43] ---**
"Omelet expert"
**[05:44] ---**
"Speed up your..." "*Kunoichi \*NWorld" "A Maid's Day"
**[05:47] ---**
Which one should I choose?
**[05:50] ---**
Okay, I'll take this one,
and this one, and this one, please.
**[05:53] ---**
Okay, three C-Ranks. Thank you.
**[05:56] ---**
Right, thank you.
**[05:59] ---**
Ah, that must be one of those
Traders Miss Saten was talking about.
**[06:04] ---**
Miss, have you decided?
**[06:06] ---**
Hmm, I'm ultra-lost here.
**[06:08] ---**
I recommend this one.
It was created by a Portuguese teacher
**[06:12] ---**
and could let you master
the language in a snap.
**[06:15] ---**
No, I'm ultra-uninterested
in the knowledge or skill types.
**[06:19] ---**
I'm looking for something where I can
ultra-experience a story in the dream.
**[06:22] ---**
And not an A-Rank one,
geared toward amateurs, either;
**[06:25] ---**
I want an ultra-incisive one,
C-Rank or below, with matchless character.
**[06:30] ---**
Huh, I guess everyone
wants something different.
**[06:34] ---**
How about you?
**[06:35] ---**
Oh, no, I've had an ultra-bad
experience with these before, so...
**[06:40] ---**
Um, did I do something wrong?
**[06:43] ---**
No...
**[06:44] ---**
Railgun! If Mugino were here,
there'd be an ultra-bloodbath,
**[06:47] ---**
but I have the day off.
Everything's ultra-fine.
**[06:50] ---**
Ho, so you drew a dud card, did you, Miss?
**[06:54] ---**
But you know, if you give up on
dreams just because you had a bad one,
**[06:57] ---**
then your life from here on
out won't be much fun.
**[07:00] ---**
Who asked you?
**[07:01] ---**
"A Rank"
**[07:02] ---**
"B Rank"
**[07:03] ---**
"C Rank"
**[07:04] ---**
You don't have any S-Rank cards out, huh?
**[07:07] ---**
Well, I keep those in reserve.
**[07:09] ---**
All I have right now is this single card.
**[07:12] ---**
It's not anything pornographic, is it?
**[07:14] ---**
I can't really deal in those here.
**[07:17] ---**
If you want one, though,
we could retire to the back alley.
**[07:20] ---**
No, I didn't say I wanted one...
**[07:22] ---**
Then try this one out.
**[07:24] ---**
This one has a sort of story behind it.
**[07:27] ---**
It's loaded with the dream of a
certain long-lost but brilliant scientist.
**[07:32] ---**
Apparently, he was quite the wack job,
even by Academy City standards.
**[07:35] ---**
His final research theme
was called "Bust Upper"!
**[07:40] ---**
There's a chance that the
essence of it is infused within here.
**[07:45] ---**
Now, whether you believe
that or not is up to--
**[07:49] ---**
Huh?
**[07:57] ---**
"Musashino Milk"
**[07:58] ---**
Drinking this is supposed
to be good for growing kids...
**[08:01] ---**
...growing kids... growing kids...
**[08:03] ---**
It's ultra-easy to beat a whipped
subordinate into obeying you.
**[08:07] ---**
But as a woman, to do so
makes me feel ultra-defeated.
**[08:11] ---**
If I'm going to knock that stupid jerk
down a peg and get him to respect me...
**[08:15] ---**
Miss, I was the first one
to grab this card, you know.
**[08:20] ---**
My fingers were the
ultra-first ones to touch it.
**[08:22] ---**
Unless my ears were deceiving me,
**[08:25] ---**
you said you weren't interested
in knowledge and skill cards.
**[08:28] ---**
For someone who said they had
an ultra-bad experience with a card before
**[08:32] ---**
and were done with them,
it's ultra-shameful of you to call the kettle black.
**[08:37] ---**
Take your hand off the card already,
you dirty little runt.
**[08:40] ---**
Keep dreaming, you ultra-ironing-board jerk!
**[08:45] ---**
This girl is no ordinary customer.
**[08:48] ---**
Given the information gap and the distance
between us, I'm at an ultra-advantage.
**[08:51] ---**
I don't think she can beat me.
**[08:55] ---**
J-Just a minute! If the film gets
peeled off, it will become unstable,
**[08:58] ---**
and then nobody will be able to use it!
**[09:06] ---**
Ow...
**[09:08] ---**
M-My cards! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey...
**[09:12] ---**
Now I don't know which card is which!
**[09:15] ---**
I remember it was silver-colored.
**[09:18] ---**
There are several cards that look like that.
**[09:21] ---**
Aw, now what do I do?
**[09:26] ---**
I'll buy all of the cards you have here.
**[09:28] ---**
Huh? I-I don't have any problem
with that, myself, but...
**[09:31] ---**
No...
**[09:33] ---**
I'll pay half of it.
**[09:41] ---**
"#18 Bust Upper"
**[09:41] ---**
Thank you...
**[09:47] ---**
"Nap Room"
**[09:48] ---**
After some more careful thinking,
**[09:50] ---**
what we both really want is
the method of obtaining Bust Upper,
**[09:53] ---**
and whichever one of us hits the jackpot
**[09:56] ---**
can just provide that
information to the other, right?
**[09:59] ---**
An unproductive conflict is ultra-absurd.
**[10:02] ---**
Besides, if we're going to check each
and every one of this many cards...
**[10:05] ---**
...two heads...
**[10:07] ---**
...are better than one.
**[10:08] ---**
Both of us share the same motive.
**[10:10] ---**
Ultra-good luck to us both.
**[10:19] ---**
Self-performed physical exams, done monthly.
**[10:22] ---**
No change at all in breast size
during the latter teen years?!
**[10:27] ---**
And yet my classmate's breast
development has been so pronounced,
**[10:27] ---**
--Va-va-voom! Va-va-voom! Va-va--
**[10:30] ---**
--one wonders if that isn't
the core of her body!
**[10:30] ---**
--Va-va-voom! Va-va-voom! Va-va--
**[10:32] ---**
No, let's think about this differently.
**[10:32] ---**
--Va-va-voom! Va-va-voom! Va-va--
**[10:34] ---**
If there is no change in these measurements,
**[10:37] ---**
it means that I'm holding on to my youth.
**[10:39] ---**
I'm still in the clear.
**[10:43] ---**
My waist has grown three centimeters?!
**[10:47] ---**
N-No... If I convince myself
baselessly that I'll develop eventually,
**[10:53] ---**
it'll be too late once I end up like that.
**[10:55] ---**
Hmm? What's this?
**[10:58] ---**
I'm a maid?
**[10:59] ---**
But this is an ultra-plain room
for someone to have to hire a maid.
**[11:04] ---**
Looks more like an ordinary dorm--
**[11:06] ---**
--Bam!
--A perv!
**[11:07] ---**
My super-rare Loli Leviathan Bra Maid
top has arrived from London!
**[11:12] ---**
This will look good on you even if
you aren't 36-24-36 like a fallen angel!
**[11:17] ---**
If you don't get that nasty thing
out of my sight, I'll ultra-kill you!
**[11:22] ---**
Whoa! Your refusal today
is especially extreme! However...
**[11:27] ---**
...I believe that the only one fit
for this filly from Britain is you,
**[11:30] ---**
the most beautiful maid
in all of Academy City.
**[11:34] ---**
I hope you realize that, at least.
**[11:37] ---**
This man is an idiot and crazy,
but his heart is sincere, pure, and simple.
**[11:42] ---**
Whomever this dream belongs
to doesn't hate him deep down inside.
**[11:45] ---**
The opinions of the world
at large don't matter.
**[11:48] ---**
As long as the man I adore acknowledges me...
**[11:50] ---**
I'm sure the size of my breasts
is all the same. Is that how things are?
**[11:55] ---**
If you don't like that one,
I also have this maid swimsuit--
**[12:00] ---**
Look, I'm ultra-against
this sort of perversion.
**[12:06] ---**
He's late. How dare someone like
Yobou keep me waiting.
**[12:11] ---**
I'll have to punish him for this later.
**[12:15] ---**
I'm being watched. Is she hostile?
**[12:18] ---**
No, her posture is that of a regular person.
**[12:21] ---**
A high-class suit and shoes
well worn-down from walking.
**[12:25] ---**
A business card case in her inside pocket.
**[12:28] ---**
Sh-Sh-She's not about to--!
**[12:30] ---**
I'm a producer for a talent agency.
How would you like to be an idol?
**[12:35] ---**
Huh?
**[12:38] ---**
The pure and innocent young lady
from the Garden of Learning
**[12:40] ---**
in her brilliant debut!
**[12:42] ---**
I would be an instant sensation!
But no, if that were to happen,
**[12:47] ---**
I would become alienated
from my class friends.
**[12:52] ---**
I have to...
**[12:54] ---**
...turn her down...
**[12:56] ---**
Excuse me,
**[12:57] ---**
--do you have a moment?
--H-H-Huh?
**[13:00] ---**
Excuse my abruptness,
but would you like to be an idol?
**[13:02] ---**
Huh?
**[13:08] ---**
You are a woman of discerning taste, I see!
However, I am a student.
**[13:12] ---**
In order for me to perform my part,
I am afraid I must decline.
**[13:15] ---**
We are dead even in the looks department.
**[13:18] ---**
Moreover, I was standing *in front* of her!
**[13:21] ---**
Why?
**[13:24] ---**
*That's* why!
**[13:25] ---**
I hate it! I hate the
social stratification of bust sizes!
**[13:28] ---**
If my breasts were just
five centimeters larger...!
**[13:36] ---**
Imagine, being wounded by a friend in
a dream from someone I don't even know...
**[13:42] ---**
The uniform this girl is wearing
emphasizes the bust line nicely.
**[13:46] ---**
I wonder where I can buy one.
**[13:57] ---**
First a maid, now a *kunoichi*.
**[14:00] ---**
"Temptress Scroll"
**[14:01] ---**
What's this?
**[14:03] ---**
A temptress scroll?
**[14:05] ---**
Must be a technique for ultra-abducting men.
**[14:09] ---**
"Use your feminine form to the utmost.
The bigger your breasts, the better.
**[14:14] ---**
If you can direct his gaze
to your breasts in combat,
**[14:16] ---**
you can create an opening to attack.
**[14:18] ---**
Your charms can be useful in
seducing even insurmountable foes."
**[14:22] ---**
Tch, men really are nothing
but a bunch of stupid scum!
**[14:26] ---**
"On those occasions, forsake
all sense of shame.
**[14:29] ---**
However, feigning bashfulness
is permissible."
**[14:32] ---**
Ha! Girls who are well-endowed
don't have any shame to begin with!
**[14:37] ---**
"Ooh, my shoulders are stiff."
"Ooh, I don't have any cute bras."
**[14:39] ---**
All they do is humblebrag!
**[14:41] ---**
"However, there are
also underdeveloped *shinobi*."
**[14:44] ---**
Nobody ultra-asked you!
**[14:45] ---**
"If that is you, consider your legs!
You can charm them with your legs.
**[14:49] ---**
Go ahead and show off your
inner thighs to incite their lust."
**[14:52] ---**
Mm-hmm, well, I guess they do get it, huh?
**[14:55] ---**
"Though the boobs are in greater demand.
You'll never beat those out."
**[14:59] ---**
Shut the ultra-hell up!
**[15:01] ---**
I can always subjugate men with my fists!
**[15:04] ---**
If you like big lumps of fat so much,
you can eat fatty foods your whole life
**[15:07] ---**
and die racked with gout,
you big dumb, dumb, dummy!
**[15:12] ---**
You're bothering the other guests here.
Could you please keep it down?
**[15:16] ---**
I'm ultra-sorry.
**[15:22] ---**
I am a telekinesist, too.
A much better one than you are.
**[15:32] ---**
Aw, I remembered it again.
**[15:35] ---**
Looking so smug while jumping the gun.
That was really embarrassing.
**[15:39] ---**
Are you still feeling down?
**[15:42] ---**
Miss Kobayashi?
**[15:45] ---**
The Daihasei Festival is
over. Please cheer up.
**[15:50] ---**
I messed up big-time, too,
but it doesn't bother me now.
**[15:54] ---**
But...
**[15:55] ---**
Our Queen told me that feeling down
is a waste of our brain's resources.
**[16:01] ---**
So, come on, shoulders back, chest out!
**[16:04] ---**
That may be fine for you, Miss Kobayashi,
**[16:08] ---**
but with my chest like this,
there's no point in sticking it out.
**[16:12] ---**
You have plenty!
**[16:14] ---**
If you're saying that at your size,
there isn't any point,
**[16:16] ---**
does that also mean that
anything less is also pointless?!
**[16:18] ---**
Have you even considered
the feelings of people
**[16:21] ---**
who aren't even sure when
to start calling them boobs?!
**[16:26] ---**
Would you mind leaving now?
**[16:28] ---**
Okay.
**[16:32] ---**
There's still some cards ultra-left unchecked.
What do you want to do?
**[16:35] ---**
Hmm, there's a hotel I
sometimes visit nearby...
**[16:39] ---**
"Undergoing renovations"
**[16:41] ---**
I am terribly sorry,
but because of the renovations,
**[16:44] ---**
our general public rooms
are closed for about a week.
**[16:49] ---**
Hmm, my dorm, to say nothing
of the Garden of Learning,
**[16:53] ---**
would need us to jump through
a bunch of hoops to allow a visitor in.
**[16:56] ---**
I can't very well bring
her back to our hideout, can I?
**[16:59] ---**
For that matter, if Mugino saw me
hanging around with Railgun,
**[17:02] ---**
things would get ultra-messy.
**[17:06] ---**
Is the outdoor lounge still open?
**[17:12] ---**
It *is* nice and warm out today.
**[17:16] ---**
This is ultra-good-enough.
**[17:39] ---**
Huh? This isn't like all the others before.
**[17:42] ---**
I haven't changed into anyone else.
**[17:45] ---**
That moment you dream of a brighter future--
**[17:48] ---**
could there be any time
when you are filled with more hope?
**[17:53] ---**
Yeah...
**[17:54] ---**
Like, say, the size of a girl's breasts.
**[17:57] ---**
Any girl would want to gain
a figure that people admire,
**[18:02] ---**
but the process of developing,
**[18:03] ---**
and the excitement as you
grow into your ideal body type--
**[18:08] ---**
the period where you are able to feel *that*...
**[18:11] ---**
...is the sweetest time of your life.
**[18:14] ---**
But we experience many
obstacles in our way during life.
**[18:19] ---**
They throw a wet blanket
over our hopes for the future.
**[18:23] ---**
Like, for instance, a
threat you cannot ignore.
**[18:27] ---**
But then, eliminating that threat
may introduce yet another threat.
**[18:34] ---**
What would *you* do if that happened?
**[18:43] ---**
What kind of dream was that?
**[19:15] ---**
We ended up viewing all of them,
and Bust Upper wasn't in *any* of them.
**[19:19] ---**
The next time I come across
that Trader, I'm ultra-killing him.
**[19:22] ---**
I thought something seemed
off from the start.
**[19:25] ---**
There's no way he would have just
had such a specifically-targeted item.
**[19:28] ---**
It's just an urban legend.
There's no basis to it.
**[19:31] ---**
And a scientist that just dropped off the map?
That seems awfully fishy, too.
**[19:35] ---**
Even for a made-up story,
I ultra-wish it had been more realistic.
**[19:53] ---**
Avert.
**[19:54] ---**
Uh, look, I'm sorry.
I didn't know you hated milk so much.
**[20:00] ---**
I figured it's the go-to beverage
for people to grow taller.
**[20:04] ---**
Taller?
**[20:05] ---**
Remember, you said so earlier,
when I faked your student ID,
**[20:10] ---**
so we could go see that rated-R15 movie,
**[20:13] ---**
and the lady behind the counter
gave you that look of suspicion?
**[20:16] ---**
I wish I could be a little bit taller.
**[20:20] ---**
So anyway, I thought maybe
you'd like some milk.
**[20:25] ---**
--Yow! Wh-What did you
do that for?! M-My leg!
**[20:28] ---**
--That was ultra-misleading!
--Yow! Wh-What did you do that for?! M-My leg!
**[20:32] ---**
Anyhow, there was this girl who
kept saying "ultra" this and "ultra" that.
**[20:35] ---**
We kind of got off on the wrong foot,
**[20:38] ---**
but after we talked for a bit,
she seemed like a surprisingly good girl.
**[20:41] ---**
Sissy, it is about time
we should go to sleep.
**[20:45] ---**
I napped so much this afternoon,
I'm not at all sleepy now.
**[20:49] ---**
Oh, come to mention it, I had this one dream.
**[20:53] ---**
There was this girl who
was a street performer.
**[20:55] ---**
She wasn't very endowed,
but she was wearing this super-revealing outfit.
**[20:59] ---**
And she was so confident, too.
**[21:04] ---**
I am ever saying that I hope to spend
the night together with you, Sissy,
**[21:10] ---**
but this is not the way I meant it.
**[21:18] ---**
You see? You see, you see? Well?
**[21:20] ---**
Wow, you really got that good overnight?
**[21:23] ---**
Yeah. It's so much fun!
**[21:26] ---**
Next up, I'm thinking of getting
a card from a house-of-cards expert.
**[21:31] ---**
House of cards, you say?
**[21:33] ---**
That sounds like something else
that will be utterly useless.
**[21:36] ---**
Though that is just like you.
**[21:38] ---**
Aw, I wish nighttime would get here, already.
**[21:47] ---**
Did you see that girl? Her breasts are huge!
**[21:51] ---**
Hey, that's impolite to say, Miss Saten!
**[21:52] ---**
Oh, where's the harm?
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
That was an ultra-awful experience.
So, what are you up to, Frenda?
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#19 Strange Coincidence"
**[23:30] ---**
Just texting with a little someone I know.
**[23:32] ---**
Let's see. "I got pounded on by
my associate. She has gorilla power."
**[23:36] ---**
Wait, who are you talking about?
**[23:38] ---**
Eep! Who, indeed?
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E19 - Strange Coincidence
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6XJXQD7R/strange-coincidence)
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**[00:05] ---**
I took your uniform to the cleaners.
**[00:08] ---**
I also picked up your winter uniform
that was left there while I was at it.
**[00:12] ---**
I am so sorry, Sissy,
**[00:14] ---**
for putting you to any trouble.
**[00:17] ---**
It's no trouble.
**[00:18] ---**
You stopped a traffic accident
before it happened, right?
**[00:21] ---**
That's quite the feat.
**[00:22] ---**
Yes, well...
**[00:24] ---**
What is it?
**[00:26] ---**
Did something happen?
**[00:27] ---**
Well, um, actually...
**[00:28] ---**
"Report"
**[00:32] ---**
Oh, yeah? A precognitive app?
**[00:35] ---**
Yes. All of the specifics are
yet to be understood, though.
**[00:39] ---**
So starting tomorrow,
things are likely to get a bit more hectic.
**[00:42] ---**
Got it.
**[00:43] ---**
Is there anything I can do to help?
**[00:46] ---**
Oh, Sissy! Just knowing you
feel that way is more than enough!
**[00:51] ---**
But whatever you do,
**[00:52] ---**
please do not stick your
nose in without asking first.
**[00:55] ---**
You are a civilian, after all.
**[00:58] ---**
Yeah, I know.
**[00:59] ---**
Incidentally, Sissy,
**[01:02] ---**
um, are you planning to use those cards
again tonight when you go to sleep?
**[01:06] ---**
Cards? You mean Indian Poker?
No, I've had enough of that for a while.
**[01:11] ---**
I had a rough time of it today.
**[01:13] ---**
I-Is that right?
**[01:15] ---**
Well then yes, of course.
I think that is for the best.
**[01:18] ---**
What, did you have something happen
to you with those cards, too?
**[01:22] ---**
Yes, a little spot of trauma...
**[01:25] ---**
"9/28: Sunny"
**[01:28] ---**
"School District 7"
"Sakugawa Middle School"
**[01:30] ---**
Huh?
**[01:32] ---**
Didn't you say you had the day off today?
**[01:34] ---**
I was scheduled to, but remember
we found out about that app yesterday
**[01:39] ---**
that would display the time of accidents?
**[01:42] ---**
Well now I have to be on
patrol because of them.
**[01:45] ---**
Oh, I see.
**[01:47] ---**
Oh, it's from Miss Shirai.
**[01:49] ---**
Wow, is she rushing me!
I'm sorry, and after you invited me out, too.
**[01:54] ---**
Mm-hmm, I get it. Good luck.
**[01:56] ---**
Right. See you later.
**[01:58] ---**
Hello? Yes, I'm hurrying there.
**[02:01] ---**
I was hoping we could eat
together for the first time in so long.
**[02:31] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[03:45] ---**
"Musashino Milk"
**[03:53] ---**
Oh, there they are!
**[03:54] ---**
"Mackerel"
**[03:56] ---**
"Checkout"
"Your total: ÂĄ1,088"
**[03:58] ---**
That will be ÂĄ1088.
**[04:00] ---**
Okay, here's ÂĄ1100, so--
**[04:01] ---**
Aah!
**[04:04] ---**
They don't have it here, either...
**[04:08] ---**
I am so sorry about that.
We just sold our last one, stockroom and all.
**[04:10] ---**
"Sold out"
"Canned mackerel"
**[04:13] ---**
All told, how is it that no matter where
I go today, they're sold out everywhere?
**[04:18] ---**
Oh, there was a newsmagazine
show on yesterday
**[04:21] ---**
that had a segment saying
they were good for your looks.
**[04:24] ---**
That's how I came to buy mine...
**[04:28] ---**
Wh-What are you doing?!
**[04:29] ---**
Give... me...
**[04:31] ---**
Huh?
**[04:32] ---**
Give me that mackerel!
**[04:34] ---**
Ladies!
**[04:55] ---**
So, um...
**[04:56] ---**
...how long are you going to follow me?
**[04:58] ---**
Until you hand over that mackerel, of course!
**[05:02] ---**
Huh?
**[05:04] ---**
Naturally, I don't mean I won't pay you!
**[05:07] ---**
I'll buy them for ten
times the regular price...
**[05:11] ---**
All I have is plastic.
**[05:14] ---**
O-Okay, how about you trade me
for this shockingly cute doll?
**[05:19] ---**
No, it's kind of creepy, actually.
**[05:22] ---**
Then how about this Dangerous Cracker,
**[05:23] ---**
which you can shoot at people
who irritate you to blow off steam?
**[05:26] ---**
A party popper? My walls are thin, so...
**[05:30] ---**
Man! What do I have to
trade you to get them?!
**[05:33] ---**
You still assume you're getting them?
Do you really like mackerel that much?
**[05:37] ---**
"L-Like" doesn't even come close.
**[05:41] ---**
If I go too long without ingesting them,
I get awful palpitations,
**[05:44] ---**
my extremities start shaking,
and I hallucinate...
**[05:46] ---**
If that's true,
maybe you shouldn't be eating them.
**[05:49] ---**
You know, I've been eating them every day,
contributing to the canned mackerel industry,
**[05:54] ---**
but then one TV feature comes along,
**[05:55] ---**
and all the dingbats rush out and
buy up them all up! Well I don't accept it!
**[05:59] ---**
So give me yours!
**[06:00] ---**
Huh?
**[06:01] ---**
That's outrageous.
**[06:03] ---**
Oh, all right. I don't want
you hounding me anymore.
**[06:08] ---**
I'll give you one of my two cans.
**[06:11] ---**
You mean it?!
**[06:12] ---**
Wow, you seemed like such
a gullible pushover,
**[06:14] ---**
I was sure that if I kept
leaning on you, you'd cave,
**[06:16] ---**
and I was right on the money!
**[06:21] ---**
Okay, let's get right to it.
**[06:22] ---**
Huh? You're going to eat them *here*?
**[06:26] ---**
What are you... What are you...?!
**[06:28] ---**
I used one with too much
firepower by mistake!
**[06:38] ---**
Ah! W-Wait!
**[06:40] ---**
That was, all told,
just an unfortunate accident!
**[06:43] ---**
I need what's left for my own meal plan.
**[06:47] ---**
And I have no pity to offer
people who waste food.
**[06:54] ---**
Hmph, Japanese people so cold.
**[06:57] ---**
I just wanted taste of
my homeland to ease homesickness.
**[07:02] ---**
At the very least...
**[07:05] ---**
You know, ignoring me really hurts!
**[07:07] ---**
Oh, all right! Come on over to
my place for dinner. Will that do?
**[07:12] ---**
--Okay! Okay! Japan people
am so nice! Yay! Yay!
**[07:15] ---**
--What country are you supposed to be from?
--Okay! Okay! Japan people am so nice! Yay! Yay!
**[07:20] ---**
C--
**[07:21] ---**
Curry?!
**[07:23] ---**
Why are you putting
the prize mackerel in curry?!
**[07:26] ---**
Huh?
**[07:26] ---**
Curry is too bold a flavor,
**[07:28] ---**
and all the other ingredients
just end up tasting like curry!
**[07:31] ---**
All the flavor and zest
of the mackerel gets ruined!
**[07:33] ---**
There's no way this is gonna taste--
**[07:35] ---**
This is so good!
**[07:38] ---**
The spicy curry pairs nicely
with the rich taste of the mackerel...
**[07:41] ---**
...and far from canceling it out,
the synergy draws out both flavors,
**[07:44] ---**
which are dancing briskly atop my tongue!
**[07:47] ---**
Please don't talk while you're eating.
**[07:51] ---**
Mmm, *deilig*!
**[07:52] ---**
"Die lee"?
**[07:53] ---**
It means "delicious."
**[07:56] ---**
Oh, it's a foreign word?
Well, anyhow, I'm glad you like it...
**[08:01] ---**
Mohr pweeze.
**[08:03] ---**
No restraint at all, huh?
**[08:06] ---**
Wow, you really are something else.
**[08:09] ---**
Next time we meet, it'll be my treat.
**[08:13] ---**
Mackerel in miso,
or mackerel in soy sauce, or something.
**[08:15] ---**
Always with the mackerel.
**[08:17] ---**
Oh, that reminds me. Are you on FUKIDASHI?
**[08:20] ---**
You mean the messaging app?
Yeah, I do it some with my friends...
**[08:23] ---**
Here's my ID. Take it down.
**[08:26] ---**
Huh? Oh, okay.
**[08:30] ---**
And, with that taken care of...
**[08:32] ---**
*Ha det bra*!
**[08:34] ---**
"Haday"? "Bra"? What does that one mean?
**[08:37] ---**
It means goodbye!
**[08:40] ---**
See you!
**[08:43] ---**
She played it her way, right up to the end.
**[08:47] ---**
Well, even so, I guess that was kind of fun.
**[08:55] ---**
Oh...
**[08:57] ---**
So, the app I told you about
**[09:00] ---**
has led to you being able
to prevent accidents from happening?
**[09:03] ---**
Yes. I can't tell you all the details,
but at any rate, it has.
**[09:08] ---**
Amazing. That's my Uiharu for you.
**[09:10] ---**
It's more Miss Shirai's doing than mine.
But anyway, thank you very much.
**[09:16] ---**
It's fine, it's fine.
As far as thanking me goes,
**[09:19] ---**
you already did,
with those adorable little pugs.
**[09:22] ---**
I-I didn't think you flipped my skirt today!
When did you manage that?!
**[09:27] ---**
Hmm-hmm, you still have
much to learn, Kazari.
**[09:30] ---**
F-Fine, have it your way!
**[09:33] ---**
Good luck with your Judgment work!
**[09:42] ---**
"Everywhere is stocked up
to the gills with mackerel"
**[09:43] ---**
That girl from yesterday...
**[09:46] ---**
"It was just a passing craze, huh?"
**[09:47] ---**
"It was just a passing craze, huh?"
"Read"
**[09:50] ---**
"All told, we're the only ones
with a true love for mackerel"
**[09:54] ---**
And before I knew it, we became friends.
**[10:04] ---**
"I messed up a little and
got pounded on by my associate"
"Gave me a huge lump"
**[10:08] ---**
"You mean the one who's a major jock?"
**[10:09] ---**
"Nothing as easygoing as that"
**[10:11] ---**
"The one I always goof around
with is really nice. Cute, too."
**[10:14] ---**
"Mine is pretty, too,
but she's a power-mad gorilla"
**[10:20] ---**
"Do you know about Indian Poker?"
**[10:20] ---**
"My colleague has done it"
**[10:21] ---**
"My colleague has done it"
**[10:22] ---**
"I did it and built a giant
house of cards using two decks"
**[10:24] ---**
"I did it and built a giant
house of cards using two decks"
**[10:24] ---**
"...All told, is there any point to that?"
**[10:27] ---**
"After it collapsed, it was a
huge pain getting the two decks sorted."
**[10:29] ---**
For heaven's sake, what was she thinking?
**[10:38] ---**
Hi there.
**[10:39] ---**
Any good cards in?
**[10:42] ---**
One that *you* would like?
**[10:44] ---**
This one is from an
American cracker champion.
**[10:47] ---**
This one is from a
coin-stacking record holder.
**[10:49] ---**
And this one is a card from
a super-skillful chopstick handler.
**[10:54] ---**
Oh, yeah? Chopstick handling...
***SIGN*** "I just got the Indian Poker card of an expert who can pick up anything with chopsticks, no matter how small!"
**[11:04] ---**
Indian Poker?
**[11:06] ---**
Yeah.
**[11:06] ---**
Cards that can pass along
a person's experiences or skill to another.
**[11:12] ---**
So what about them?
**[11:14] ---**
There's been a movement
around Academy City lately
**[11:17] ---**
where scientists have been using these cards
**[11:20] ---**
to leave behind their essence
as a means of insurance.
**[11:25] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[11:27] ---**
Of course, it's a gamble whether or not
the data you want gets recorded.
**[11:31] ---**
But word is that there are quite
a few of them who are attempting it.
**[11:36] ---**
There's much about what's inside
scientists' heads that can't be codified.
**[11:40] ---**
I get you. You're talking about that...
**[11:43] ---**
Yes.
**[11:45] ---**
The nanoparticle object
interference adsorption manipulator,
**[11:50] ---**
better known as the tweezers.
**[11:52] ---**
A leak of that knowledge
in card form has been spotted.
**[11:56] ---**
Is your information about this reliable?
**[11:59] ---**
Who knows? But if there's any truth
at all to it, we have to investigate.
**[12:04] ---**
I'll let you handle the "how," so get on it.
**[12:13] ---**
Extract all conversations presumed
to be related to Indian Poker and tweezers
**[12:19] ---**
from security ranks A through D.
**[12:22] ---**
Thirteen items returned.
**[12:25] ---**
Thirteen, huh?
**[12:27] ---**
Some of them seem to be
just idle conversation,
***SIGN*** "I just got the Indian Poker card of an expert who can pick up anything with chopsticks, no matter how small!"
**[12:30] ---**
but even if there's a one-in-a-thousand,
or one-in-a-billion chance,
**[12:34] ---**
"#19: Strange Coincidence"
**[12:35] ---**
I'll have to snatch them up to find out.
**[12:46] ---**
This one? No, this one would be more...
**[12:57] ---**
Those people...
**[12:59] ---**
...are no amateurs.
They're not any big deal, though.
**[13:04] ---**
Are they from an opposing
organization? Or maybe...
**[13:07] ---**
F Team. Yes,
**[13:09] ---**
we'll reach the source soon.
**[13:17] ---**
I can't wait for tonight.
Oh, right, I should tell Uiharu, too.
**[13:37] ---**
Aw, what are they doing?
I'm not one to work for free...
**[13:43] ---**
But, I *do* owe her for dinner, and all.
**[13:47] ---**
Ah, Hamazura? Bring the car.
**[13:54] ---**
Indian Poker. Is this it?
**[13:57] ---**
Get rid of the cell phone.
**[13:59] ---**
Right. What do we do with the girl?
**[14:02] ---**
They said she might have more information,
**[14:04] ---**
so we're to bring her with us.
**[14:05] ---**
Wow, torture?
**[14:07] ---**
Aw, man...
**[14:08] ---**
That's right. You're new,
so you wouldn't know.
**[14:10] ---**
--Huh?
--There's supposedly someone
above us who has the ability
**[14:15] ---**
to make a person spill all
their secrets with no trouble at all.
**[14:17] ---**
If you or I think anything out of line,
she'll know it immediately.
**[14:22] ---**
You should be careful how you complain.
**[14:24] ---**
Huh? I-I'm not hiding anything.
**[14:29] ---**
Come on, get the lead out!
**[14:32] ---**
All told, we got split up
because you're too slow!
**[14:36] ---**
It wasn't even five minutes after you
called me that I got the car and arrived.
**[14:40] ---**
If you're going to be a capable man,
you have to do it in under a minute!
**[14:43] ---**
Yeah, yeah.
**[14:44] ---**
Ah, we're just about caught up to them.
**[14:47] ---**
Now just turn left...
**[14:49] ---**
Hey! They're down there!
What are you doing, Hamazura?!
**[14:52] ---**
I'm just driving where you tell me to!
**[14:54] ---**
Aw, man, what's the use?
**[14:57] ---**
Watch it! Watch it! Wah!
**[15:02] ---**
Grab my legs to prop me up.
**[15:03] ---**
Also, don't jerk the wheel;
it'll throw my aim off.
**[15:06] ---**
Who are you, the king?!
**[15:13] ---**
Wind speed 2 from ahead;
range roughly 80; I'm not aiming for the car...
**[15:27] ---**
What was that?! What happened?!
**[15:29] ---**
The rubble is blocking the road!
**[15:32] ---**
Another one?!
**[15:34] ---**
The back, too!
**[15:35] ---**
Yes! Bullseye! Leave it to me!
**[15:39] ---**
--Oh, Hamazura, you can go now.
--I'm the leader of Skill Out,
so how did I end up like this?
**[15:43] ---**
Oh, I got it.
**[15:44] ---**
I must be dreaming. Though if I'm dreaming,
**[15:46] ---**
--I'd rather be surrounded by bunny girls,
getting hot and heavy...
**[15:48] ---**
--Hamazura, you're gross.
--I'd rather be surrounded by bunny girls,
getting hot and heavy...
**[15:54] ---**
How is it coming along?
**[15:56] ---**
The prototype is a no-go.
**[15:58] ---**
We'll have to make do
with a video for the presentation.
**[16:00] ---**
And last time, too, right? Everything okay?
**[16:03] ---**
Oh, we could be in trouble pretty soon.
**[16:06] ---**
What's wrong?
**[16:07] ---**
Just now, for a second,
there was something...
**[16:09] ---**
All this exhaustion must be
playing tricks on my eyes.
**[16:16] ---**
Delete all the ambient sounds...
**[16:23] ---**
In here, huh?
**[16:28] ---**
It's good and airtight, all right.
Cracking it will be difficult.
**[16:34] ---**
Ignoring the alarms and
overpowering the security would be easy,
**[16:38] ---**
but I'd like to not leave behind
any trace that I'm after the tweezers.
**[16:44] ---**
This is an unused Indian Poker card
with nothing written to it.
**[16:56] ---**
Skimming the vault's card data.
**[17:01] ---**
Not airtight enough.
**[17:04] ---**
I guess they didn't count on an esper
**[17:06] ---**
with the ability to duplicate scent
components to come sneaking in.
**[17:10] ---**
What is it?
**[17:11] ---**
Stuffed animals...
The stuffed animals exploded...!
**[17:14] ---**
Stuffed animals?
**[17:15] ---**
We're surrounded by smoke...
Can't determine our status...
**[17:19] ---**
Requesting you send backup!
**[17:24] ---**
F Team is in charge of that
unsubstantiated Indian Poker business.
**[17:29] ---**
If someone's striking back at them,
**[17:31] ---**
we must have hit an
unexpectedly serious jackpot.
**[17:35] ---**
No choice but to send that woman in.
**[17:39] ---**
I won't flip your skirt anymore...
**[17:42] ---**
Hey, wake up. Hey!
**[17:49] ---**
Huh? Where am I?! Why am I handcuffed?!
**[17:53] ---**
I'll burn those handcuffs off of you.
Lie down on your stomach.
**[17:56] ---**
Move and you'll lose your
wrists, so hold still.
**[18:00] ---**
"Garden of Learning"
"Shidarezakura Academy"
**[18:09] ---**
Miss Yumiya!
**[18:11] ---**
Miss Yumiya!
**[18:14] ---**
Y-Y-Yes?!
**[18:15] ---**
We would like to go venture outside
of the Garden of Learning now.
**[18:22] ---**
Would you like to come with us?
**[18:26] ---**
Um...
**[18:27] ---**
Y-Y-You mean me?
**[18:30] ---**
--Yes.
--Yes.
**[18:33] ---**
G-G-Gladly...
**[18:38] ---**
I-I-I'm sorry. Excuse me a moment.
**[18:42] ---**
Ah, Mr. Yobou... Yes... Huh? Right now?
**[18:46] ---**
I, um... was going out with
some friends at school, and... No...
**[18:50] ---**
Yes... Yes... Yes, indeed.
**[18:55] ---**
Um...
**[18:56] ---**
I am terribly sorry about this,
but something just came up.
**[19:00] ---**
Well, that's too bad.
**[19:02] ---**
All right, some other time, then.
**[19:18] ---**
Judging by the traces on the battlefield,
there are two in the quarry.
**[19:21] ---**
One of them is the target that was taken,
so there's one attacker.
**[19:26] ---**
Loafers and high heels. They're both female.
**[19:30] ---**
Going by their strides,
one is 150cm tall, the other one 153. Also,
**[19:35] ---**
from what I see of the
communications log and debris,
**[19:37] ---**
the weapons were bombs disguised as dolls.
**[19:44] ---**
For the first time in a year and a half,
I had classmates reach out to me...
**[19:51] ---**
I was breaking away from loneliness
to be one of the popular girls in class.
**[19:56] ---**
I was set to become the school's idol,
**[19:59] ---**
but now that my brilliant
future is crushed...
**[20:03] ---**
...at least...
**[20:05] ---**
"Yumiya Rakko, sniper,
dark side organization SCHOOL"
**[20:05] ---**
...let this hunt be something I can enjoy.
**[20:11] ---**
Oh, I've lost my cell phone.
**[20:15] ---**
All told, you're lucky
that's all that happened to you.
**[20:19] ---**
Huh?
**[20:20] ---**
Those weren't a couple of
rowdy boys out for a bit of mischief.
**[20:24] ---**
Any idea why they might have been after you?
**[20:26] ---**
N-No, nothing like that!
**[20:28] ---**
But shouldn't we contact Antiskill?!
**[20:30] ---**
Yeah, I already took care of that.
**[20:33] ---**
Huh? You did?
**[20:34] ---**
Sure did.
**[20:36] ---**
Aw, that card I just bought is gone, too.
**[20:40] ---**
Kiss that goodbye.
**[20:43] ---**
Then again, it's only natural for you
to thank me for saving you, right?
**[20:47] ---**
R-Right.
**[20:49] ---**
And with that in mind,
**[20:50] ---**
let's go to the supermarket and buy us
a whole bunch of canned mackerel!
**[20:54] ---**
Mackerel again?
**[21:04] ---**
The blond Barbie still has on her...
**[21:08] ---**
...the scent of blood from the capture team.
**[21:11] ---**
A guide leading me to my quarry.
**[21:15] ---**
My, my,
**[21:16] ---**
I had to turn down an invitation
with my school friends because of you,
**[21:20] ---**
and don't you look chummy?
**[21:23] ---**
That really pisses me off.
**[21:26] ---**
My orders are to capture the brunette alive,
**[21:28] ---**
but I'm free to hunt the other one, aren't I?
**[21:36] ---**
What should I have you make for me?
Curry is, all told, a sure winner,
**[21:40] ---**
but as far as other dishes that are good
with mackerel, there's, let's see...
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:26] ---**
Canned mackerel curry, 10-second cooking!
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#20 Ha det bra"
**[23:28] ---**
Empty the can of mackerel
into a pot, water and all.
**[23:30] ---**
Add grated ginger and anything else you like.
**[23:31] ---**
Add a reasonable amount of water.
Bring to a reasonable boil.
**[23:34] ---**
Dissolve in a reasonable
amount of roux. That's it!
**[23:36] ---**
For being just thrown
together, this is *yum-my*!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E20 - Ha Det Bra
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR0XN3E4Y/ha-det-bra)
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**[00:02] ---**
What should I have you make for me?
Curry is, all told, a sure winner,
**[00:06] ---**
but as far as other dishes that are good
with mackerel, there's, let's see...
**[00:18] ---**
Huh? Blood? Wh-What just--
**[00:22] ---**
Whoa, what's going on?
**[00:25] ---**
We're being shot at!
**[00:27] ---**
But from where?
**[00:30] ---**
It's a through-and-through. I'm all right.
I still have feeling in my left arm.
**[00:35] ---**
I have to contact Mugino and the others--
**[00:38] ---**
I shouldn't be visible to the
surrounding buildings from this angle.
**[00:41] ---**
This isn't a long-range shooter!
**[00:43] ---**
Hey, are you all right?
**[00:44] ---**
We're going inside!
**[00:45] ---**
Huh? Hold on!
**[00:59] ---**
She sensed how much danger she was in
and gave up hiding behind here
**[01:03] ---**
or trying to call her friends.
**[01:05] ---**
After fleeing into the department
store and pausing a moment,
**[01:08] ---**
they took the elevator to a higher floor.
**[01:14] ---**
Do please make this fun for me.
**[01:40] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[02:51] ---**
Have they come after me?
**[02:53] ---**
Probably.
**[02:55] ---**
Um...
**[02:56] ---**
I'm going to buy us a little time here.
**[02:59] ---**
All told, with this many people
coming and going here,
**[03:02] ---**
if we disguise ourselves
and blend into the crowd,
**[03:04] ---**
it will be easy to give them the slip--
**[03:08] ---**
They're shooting at me?!
**[03:09] ---**
In a crowd like this, with no hesitation?
**[03:13] ---**
Run!
**[03:14] ---**
R-Right!
**[03:17] ---**
This is bad.
**[03:18] ---**
The one who's really exploiting this crowd is...
**[03:20] ---**
Yes, I am the one using
the crowd to my advantage.
**[03:25] ---**
My sniper rifle is under my clothes.
**[03:28] ---**
I can assemble it simply by
bending and stretching my arms.
**[03:31] ---**
And I can silently shoot my rounds
with the force of CO2 gas.
**[03:36] ---**
There isn't a single person here
who realizes I'm a sniper, aiming at you.
**[03:40] ---**
We need the people around us to help!
**[03:42] ---**
They won't be of any help to us!
**[03:44] ---**
They're more likely to panic and
end up hampering our movements instead.
**[03:48] ---**
With an enemy lurking in the crowd,
that would prove fatal!
**[03:52] ---**
Th-Then we could borrow a cell phone...
**[03:55] ---**
Anyone whose cell we tried to borrow
would just have their head blown off.
**[04:02] ---**
We're getting driven to someplace
with no people around.
**[04:06] ---**
There are two types of hunters--
**[04:13] ---**
the type who take delight
in doing a perfect job,
**[04:15] ---**
without ever letting their presence be known;
**[04:18] ---**
and the type who take delight
in making their prey writhe in pain,
**[04:22] ---**
as they flaunt their skill.
**[04:25] ---**
This one is definitely the latter!
And the reason I know that...
**[04:29] ---**
...is that all told, I'm the same way!
**[04:40] ---**
Why is this happening to me...?
**[04:47] ---**
P-Please! Let me go! I didn't have any choice!
**[04:52] ---**
I didn't double-cross you because I wanted to!
**[04:53] ---**
--Are they filming something?
--Is that blood real?
--I'll pay you anything you want! So--
**[04:55] ---**
--It couldn't be.
--I'll pay you anything you want! So--
**[04:57] ---**
--Huh?
--What?
**[05:01] ---**
He's been shot!
**[05:02] ---**
Ah, the pleasure of that last,
wretched scream the quarry lets out.
**[05:08] ---**
I wonder what sound you'll make
for me when you cry out.
**[05:13] ---**
This person probably has
some kind of rules that they adhere to.
**[05:17] ---**
If their prey deviates in
some way that displeases them,
**[05:19] ---**
I'm sure they'll kill them on the spot.
**[05:22] ---**
Or, to turn it around, we won't be killed
as long as we play into their compulsion.
**[05:26] ---**
All told, that sadistic nature
is going to cost them their life.
**[05:32] ---**
If they're targeting us from the crowd...
**[05:40] ---**
Bring it on!
**[05:45] ---**
You fell for it, you twisted sicko!
**[05:47] ---**
I held up my hat to mislead you and draw you in!
**[05:52] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[05:54] ---**
Don't play dumb with me!
**[05:57] ---**
Wh-Whoa, is that really...
**[05:59] ---**
This guy shot me twice!
**[06:01] ---**
But is there any evidence
that he's the one who shot you?
**[06:04] ---**
If you target someone from a crowd,
you're going to disguise your rifle.
**[06:08] ---**
And glancing around the area, this guy
is the only one carrying something long.
**[06:12] ---**
All told, this golf bag is irrefutable proof!
**[06:15] ---**
There's nothing but ordinary
golf clubs inside, though.
**[06:23] ---**
S-Sorry about that!
**[06:27] ---**
It's no use.
**[06:29] ---**
I am Tracking your actions with perfect clarity.
**[06:37] ---**
So that's it.
**[06:39] ---**
She spread something all over the place here.
**[06:43] ---**
I'm so glad to be able to come over
to your home for dinner again, Himegami.
**[06:49] ---**
Today, we're going to flex
those cooking muscles!
**[06:52] ---**
Damn it, what was all that about?
**[06:55] ---**
What did I ever do to *her*?
**[07:07] ---**
A-Are you all right?
**[07:09] ---**
That was close. One wrong step,
and we would have ended up like that.
**[07:19] ---**
Traps in with the merchandise...
**[07:21] ---**
I see that she isn't concerned
if she involves any bystanders.
**[07:26] ---**
Isn't that nice? What lovely desperation.
**[07:30] ---**
Not that it will do them any good.
**[07:34] ---**
They just took off half my ear! Damn it!
**[07:42] ---**
I'm back.
**[07:43] ---**
I have three cards,
**[07:45] ---**
and this is a researcher
from the place keeping the cards.
**[07:48] ---**
Good work.
**[07:50] ---**
Any word from Yumiya?
**[07:51] ---**
Nothing yet.
**[07:53] ---**
Let's just hope she doesn't
fall back on any bad habits.
**[07:57] ---**
Wouldn't *that* be rough?
**[08:01] ---**
Damn it, they're not falling
for any of my traps or tricks.
**[08:05] ---**
They know everything we do.
**[08:10] ---**
Did they stick a transmitter on her?
**[08:13] ---**
--All told, if they had, it still wouldn't
explain how they're avoiding my traps.
**[08:14] ---**
--Um...?
--All told, if they had, it still wouldn't
explain how they're avoiding my traps.
**[08:16] ---**
--All told, if they had, it still wouldn't
explain how they're avoiding my traps.
**[08:19] ---**
Huh? H-Hey!
**[08:21] ---**
How can they be aware of all our actions?
**[08:23] ---**
Not even Takitsubo's AIM Stalker can do that.
**[08:27] ---**
It's not Second Sight, either.
**[08:29] ---**
With all the distance between us and
the constantly changing sources of cover,
**[08:33] ---**
they should have lost sight of us long ago.
**[08:35] ---**
I don't know how to counter them...
**[08:41] ---**
I suppose it's about time. Once I shoot
her legs so she can't move anymore,
**[08:46] ---**
she'll start begging for her life--
**[08:52] ---**
O-Oh, no! I'm on a mission, too!
**[08:55] ---**
Oh, but what if they're like, "Oh, Miss Yumiya,
**[08:57] ---**
what a crazy coincidence,
running into you here like this!
**[09:01] ---**
By all means, come and join us."
**[09:03] ---**
If they were to invite me
along like that, I'd just... I'd just...
**[09:07] ---**
It sure is.
**[09:11] ---**
That's me, all right.
**[09:14] ---**
My skill as an assassin in blending
into my surroundings is perfect.
**[09:17] ---**
No, by no means has my unique
loner's transparence been triggered.
**[09:23] ---**
Oh, they're gone.
**[09:25] ---**
It hurts... It hurts...
**[09:28] ---**
All told, not knowing
where the attack is coming from,
**[09:31] ---**
there's no way to counter it.
How did I get stuck in this situation?
**[09:34] ---**
--Um...
--Yeah, I'm not even the one they're after.
**[09:39] ---**
All told, I only know her because
we shared one canned mackerel dinner.
**[09:43] ---**
I'm under no obligation to protect her.
**[09:46] ---**
If we both run in different directions,
the enemy will follow *her*.
**[09:51] ---**
I hate to do this,
but I need you to lure them off.
**[09:55] ---**
If I force us apart, she'll just come
following me, which would be pointless.
**[09:58] ---**
Somehow, I have to talk her into it--
**[10:00] ---**
Um, we should split up!
**[10:03] ---**
Huh?
**[10:04] ---**
If we go in different directions,
they're more likely to come after me.
**[10:11] ---**
Huh? What is it--
**[10:14] ---**
You don't have to tell me that!
**[10:17] ---**
If you left my side, could you
protect yourself?! You're a Level 0!
**[10:21] ---**
Do you think they won't
kill you after they catch you?!
**[10:24] ---**
I don't know what information
they're trying to get out of you,
**[10:26] ---**
but once you give it up,
they'll just dispose of you!
**[10:29] ---**
But the way this is headed,
both of us are going to be done in, right?
**[10:34] ---**
All I'm doing is slowing you down.
**[10:37] ---**
I-It's all right. I can hold my own in a race.
**[10:45] ---**
All told, I thought you were just gullible.
**[10:49] ---**
But now? You're simply being an idiot.
**[10:53] ---**
Then again...
**[10:55] ---**
...if you insist, why don't we do like you ask
**[10:58] ---**
and turn you into a decoy?
**[11:04] ---**
Oh no, oh no, if I take too long,
Yobou will chew me out again.
**[11:09] ---**
I have to hurry this up.
**[11:11] ---**
The dark-haired one is
coming this way all alone?
**[11:14] ---**
Then again, if you insist,
why don't we do like you ask
**[11:18] ---**
and turn you into a decoy?
**[11:21] ---**
If you, a Level 0 who can only slow me down,
**[11:24] ---**
are prepared to lay down your life for me,
it makes you the perfect soldier!
**[11:29] ---**
All right.
**[11:33] ---**
You're sure about this?
**[11:35] ---**
I might be tricking you
so I can run away on my own.
**[11:38] ---**
If you hadn't saved me when they
first caught me, I'd have been done for.
**[11:43] ---**
And even if you were to, I wouldn't blame you.
**[11:47] ---**
Yeah?
**[11:50] ---**
My Tracking works during pursuit.
**[11:53] ---**
If they double back toward me,
I can't tell what their actions are on the way.
**[11:57] ---**
I doubt she's seen through my skill;
this is just by chance.
**[12:01] ---**
But I know what my quarry is up to.
**[12:04] ---**
Identifying me. The blond Barbie
is using the dark-haired one as a decoy
**[12:07] ---**
so she can observe the crowd.
**[12:10] ---**
It's a ploy to shoot anyone
who reacts to the dark-haired one.
**[12:15] ---**
But it won't work.
**[12:16] ---**
As someone who has mastered
the art of loneli--I mean, assassination,
**[12:20] ---**
I can blend perfectly into
a crowd and not look out of place.
**[12:24] ---**
My line of sight, my expression,
the way I carry myself--all perfectly natural.
**[12:30] ---**
And, there's the chance that she
ditched the dark-haired one to run away,
**[12:34] ---**
but that would just make things more fun for me.
**[12:38] ---**
Friendship is such a
superficial thing, after all.
**[12:44] ---**
No, I was wrong. She didn't cut her loose.
The blonde's objective...
**[12:51] ---**
...are those bombs?!
**[12:52] ---**
The dark-haired one is expendable! This is bad!
**[12:55] ---**
This will allow that damn Barbie...
**[12:58] ---**
...to waltz right on out of here,
while silencing any witnesses
**[13:03] ---**
and getting rid of me in the process!
**[13:04] ---**
It's a master stroke of
three birds with one stone!
**[13:07] ---**
But if she commits such
an indiscriminate mass murder,
**[13:09] ---**
it's inevitable that her whole
organization will be liquidated.
**[13:12] ---**
Does she really think the
cornered mouse can attack the cat?
**[13:18] ---**
Oh, no! Gotta get behind the pillar!
**[13:28] ---**
Huh?
**[13:29] ---**
Whoops.
**[13:30] ---**
Is everything okay?
**[13:31] ---**
--Oh, yes, thank you.
--Oh, crap--
**[13:34] ---**
Found you!
**[13:47] ---**
All told,
**[13:49] ---**
--you're the only one who recognized
those dolls as being bombs.
**[13:50] ---**
--What was that?
--What happened?
--you're the only one who recognized those dolls as being bombs.
**[13:52] ---**
--Huh? Was that a gun?
--you're the only one who recognized
those dolls as being bombs.
**[13:54] ---**
You've been sneaking around
hounding me and picking me off,
**[13:57] ---**
but I'm gonna blow you away
a hundred times as hard!
**[14:00] ---**
You've turned the tables.
**[14:05] ---**
What was that?!
**[14:07] ---**
Don't stop!
**[14:08] ---**
Get going, already!
**[14:10] ---**
Don't push!
**[14:12] ---**
W-Will this really identify
whoever is following us?
**[14:16] ---**
All told, if they have a way to see
what we're doing here, we've had it.
**[14:21] ---**
But, if my prediction is correct,
then more than likely, this will reveal them.
**[14:26] ---**
Once they're safely identified,
I'll leap in to fight them right away.
**[14:29] ---**
Don't push against the crowd trying
to escape, just get out of here.
**[14:33] ---**
--But I--
--All told...
**[14:35] ---**
...if you stay behind,
it puts me at a disadvantage.
**[14:39] ---**
If you get taken hostage again,
I will abandon you in a heartbeat.
**[14:43] ---**
We're two people who have
always been from different worlds,
**[14:47] ---**
and I forget all about people
who I'm never gonna see again.
**[14:53] ---**
Th-The canned mackerel!
**[14:55] ---**
I figured you might come over to eat again,
**[14:57] ---**
so as it happens,
I stocked up on a whole bunch of it!
**[15:00] ---**
I can't eat all of it by myself.
**[15:02] ---**
If you don't step up and come eat it with me,
I don't know what I'll do!
**[15:20] ---**
Miniature bombs?!
**[15:21] ---**
They may be only good for shockwaves,
with no fragmentary effect,
**[15:24] ---**
but to use bombs in
close-quarters combat is nuts!
**[15:29] ---**
Even so...!
**[15:38] ---**
If your arm is so messed up
that you can't throw right,
**[15:42] ---**
then you're no longer a threat!
**[15:54] ---**
Well, well, for as loud as you
were bragging, you're nothing.
**[15:57] ---**
Didn't you say something about
getting me back a hundredfold?
**[16:00] ---**
Now, you can't even stand up.
**[16:03] ---**
I...
**[16:05] ---**
I can't keep this up any longer, huh...?
**[16:10] ---**
All told,
**[16:11] ---**
the reason I'm not getting to my feet...
**[16:13] ---**
...is because it's safer down here on the floor.
**[16:21] ---**
A mass detonation?!
**[16:24] ---**
When did she plant so many of them?
**[16:26] ---**
While the dark-haired one was acting as a decoy?
**[16:30] ---**
She might be trying to use the smoke as cover,
**[16:32] ---**
but it will take more than this
to get away from my nose.
**[16:35] ---**
In fact, this situation works to my advantage.
**[16:42] ---**
What... the...?
**[16:44] ---**
Low oxygen...? She was using thermobarics...?
**[16:49] ---**
Is that what you were up to?
**[16:53] ---**
Well, you didn't close the deal!
**[16:55] ---**
There's no point unless it's a closed space!
**[16:58] ---**
There's air streaming in
from the windows you broke!
**[17:13] ---**
*Ha det bra!*
**[17:24] ---**
So you're saying you have
no idea why you were being targeted?
**[17:28] ---**
No.
**[17:34] ---**
Okay, I'll be going now.
**[17:37] ---**
Whew, that questioning took forever!
**[17:41] ---**
I'm glad that it's over.
**[17:42] ---**
Sorry to keep you, Uiharu.
**[17:44] ---**
Here's the rough plan for the next little while.
**[17:47] ---**
Considering that there's
a chance you may still be in danger,
**[17:51] ---**
for the next few days, you're going
to be staying at an Antiskill facility.
**[17:56] ---**
You can go back to your dorm once they decide
**[17:58] ---**
that the threat against you
has lessened to some degree,
**[18:00] ---**
but even after that, Judgment will
continue to provide a personal escort,
**[18:04] ---**
so please don't worry.
**[18:06] ---**
Going to all this trouble over me, huh?
**[18:08] ---**
No, it's no trouble.
**[18:10] ---**
So tell me, about the department store...
**[18:13] ---**
Oh, right. According to the report,
**[18:17] ---**
there were signs of explosives and a struggle,
**[18:19] ---**
just like all the witness statements said,
**[18:22] ---**
but it also says that they found
no bodies or anyone who was injured.
**[18:25] ---**
Oh, is that right?
**[18:27] ---**
Okay, let's get you moved over there.
**[18:29] ---**
If there's anything you need,
I'll get it ready for you.
**[18:33] ---**
Well, I could use a new...
**[18:45] ---**
"Ah--"
**[18:47] ---**
"Come to think of it,
you did tell me not to waste food"
**[18:52] ---**
"If I feel like it a week from now,
I'll come over for dinner,
so have something ready. Hee-hee-hee"
**[19:03] ---**
Good work on that lousy job.
**[19:05] ---**
Thanks to you guys,
we have more data on the tweezers.
**[19:09] ---**
While their current whereabouts are unknown,
**[19:12] ---**
it's certain that within the next few days,
**[19:15] ---**
they're going to be used at a
facility near Kirigaoka Girls' School.
**[19:20] ---**
Our source on this is supposedly assured.
**[19:23] ---**
We'll go with this group.
The calculations we'll need--
**[19:26] ---**
Please wait!
**[19:28] ---**
Before you do,
**[19:30] ---**
give me the chance to hunt
down that damn Barbie!
**[19:34] ---**
Hey, now, it's thanks to Yobou slipping
onto the scene at the last moment
**[19:38] ---**
that you got away with your life.
Don't throw it away again so soon.
**[19:42] ---**
Now, you're naturally steamed about this,
**[19:45] ---**
but with the regenerative
treatments that Academy City has,
**[19:48] ---**
your face can be restored. Not to mention,
**[19:50] ---**
how are you going to pursue her
without that nose you're so proud of?
**[19:53] ---**
I can find out where the
dark-haired one is by tracing her cell.
**[19:57] ---**
Besides, I don't feel angry
toward that damned Barbie!
**[20:03] ---**
She and I had a deathmatch
under extreme circumstances.
**[20:06] ---**
She did everything in
her power to get close to me!
**[20:09] ---**
That's what friendship is, isn't it?!
**[20:11] ---**
She had the same whiff about her as you, right?
**[20:15] ---**
In that case, you'll see her again soon
enough that you don't have to rush it.
**[20:18] ---**
I can't take things that easily!
I'm sure she's waiting for me, too--
**[20:23] ---**
Hey...
**[20:25] ---**
How many more seconds
do I have to waste on you?
**[20:32] ---**
Guess he still hasn't gotten
over all that trauma yet.
**[20:35] ---**
The tweezers have first priority.
Personal grudges come after.
**[20:44] ---**
What do we do?
**[20:45] ---**
She might really be done now.
**[20:48] ---**
You handle it. I remember
we always had a spare candidate.
**[20:52] ---**
Either way, there's gonna be
a lot of death on this one.
**[20:55] ---**
To hell with whatever Academy City has in mind.
**[20:58] ---**
I'm gonna use my own little tricks
to do whatever I want.
***SIGN*** "Kakine Teitoku" "Leader of the dark side organization SCHOOL" "Second-ranked Level 5"
**[21:05] ---**
"One week later"
**[21:14] ---**
"Do you have any requests?"
"What time can you come over?"
"Hello~?"
**[21:23] ---**
O-Ow...!
**[21:27] ---**
Jeez, you took your sweet time!
Dinner is getting cold--
**[21:31] ---**
Um...
**[21:32] ---**
Oh, Uiharu...
**[21:34] ---**
I, uh, have today's security report.
**[21:37] ---**
Then again, there's nothing
really in here to report.
**[21:40] ---**
Oh. I know you're injured, too,
so thanks for coming.
**[21:45] ---**
And as long as you're here,
why don't you come on in?
**[21:47] ---**
Oh, but...
**[21:48] ---**
I made too much supper.
Come in and have some, if you'd like.
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
Miss Misaka, you're always
breaking into places, right?
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#21 Doppelganger"
**[23:29] ---**
You've done it, what, 100 times?
**[23:30] ---**
What do you want now?
**[23:32] ---**
Since you're so good at it,
there's somewhere I need you to sneak into.
**[23:36] ---**
Congratulations on number 101!
**[23:39] ---**
Is that any way to ask for a favor?!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E21 - Doppelganger
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GY1XM3P9Y/doppelganger)
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**[00:07] ---**
I really haven't been getting enough sleep.
**[00:09] ---**
Ever since all that happened,
I've had nightmares that keep me up.
**[00:12] ---**
Miss Misaka!
**[00:15] ---**
Well, if it isn't little Kana.
**[00:17] ---**
Hello.
**[00:18] ---**
Hello!
**[00:20] ---**
You're not with your friends today?
**[00:23] ---**
Mm-mm.
**[00:24] ---**
I'm going to the Learning Core to study!
**[00:26] ---**
Oh, yeah? Good for you!
**[00:30] ---**
Would you walk with me to the bus terminal?
**[00:33] ---**
Hm? Do you not know how to get there?
**[00:35] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[00:36] ---**
Do you have to go down
an empty street, or something?
**[00:39] ---**
Not really.
**[00:40] ---**
Then do I really need to go with you?
**[00:43] ---**
You aren't doing anything
now anyway, so come with me!
**[00:46] ---**
We're off!
**[00:48] ---**
Um... What?
**[00:51] ---**
Come to think of it,
**[00:52] ---**
I saw you on TV during the Daihasei Festival.
**[00:56] ---**
Huh?
**[00:57] ---**
Oh, the live coverage.
**[00:59] ---**
You came in first in the
three-legged race and scavenger hunt.
**[01:02] ---**
Well, I *am* pretty quick on my feet.
**[01:06] ---**
Not that winning races means a whole lot
when you get out in the real world.
**[01:09] ---**
Y-You may be right about that, but still,
**[01:12] ---**
no matter what you do,
it still takes physical strength.
**[01:14] ---**
Miss Mikoto, you're such a muscle-head.
**[01:18] ---**
You know, Kana, you shouldn't just blurt out--
**[01:21] ---**
Uh-oh!
**[01:22] ---**
The card dealer is gone!
**[01:25] ---**
This is where that Trader was.
**[01:27] ---**
Do you know what Indian Poker is?
**[01:30] ---**
Huh?
**[01:31] ---**
There was a man who sold cards there.
He had a lot of them,
**[01:35] ---**
but the best one he had was called "Bust Upper,"
**[01:38] ---**
which was supposed to let you
dream your way to bigger boobs.
**[01:42] ---**
But I wonder if anyone would
actually buy something like that.
**[01:45] ---**
If there were, they'd have
to be awfully scrawny
**[01:47] ---**
and have a pretty nasty complex
about their own figure, you know?
**[01:51] ---**
I'm sure they would also be
short-tempered and always ready to fight,
**[01:54] ---**
and yet flirt with boys with
what she thinks are fancy goods--
**[01:57] ---**
Just a minute!
**[01:58] ---**
How can you put those awful words
into a little girl's mouth, Shokuho?!
**[02:01] ---**
Uh-oh, the jig is up.
**[02:06] ---**
Huh? I'm already at the bus terminal.
Oh, it's Miss Mikoto!
**[02:11] ---**
I'm impressed you figured it out.
**[02:12] ---**
*Anyone* could have figured it out!
**[02:14] ---**
Are you two friends?
**[02:16] ---**
--Of course we aren't.
--Of course we aren't.
**[02:18] ---**
Be sure to study hard,
**[02:20] ---**
so you don't turn into a muscle-head, okay?
**[02:23] ---**
Muscle-head?
**[02:24] ---**
See you later!
**[02:28] ---**
So, after this roundabout way
of getting me, what do you want?
**[02:32] ---**
And how did you even know about that card?!
**[02:34] ---**
There's something I needed to look into,
and I read the Trader's memories.
**[02:40] ---**
But you know...
**[02:42] ---**
You looked so desperate while scrambling for it,
**[02:45] ---**
but I don't see any change at all!
**[02:47] ---**
Or is it that your
flat-chestedness is so powerful
**[02:49] ---**
the card didn't have any effect on you?
**[02:52] ---**
Shut up! You think these
pudgy lumps of flesh are so special--
**[02:57] ---**
Miss Misaka! Have you lost your mind...?
**[03:01] ---**
Would you mind not assaulting people
**[03:03] ---**
and then going off to wallow
in despair by yourself?
**[03:28] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[04:38] ---**
We have confirmed that the
blast-proofing on the student buses,
**[04:40] ---**
the fact that the shower rooms are supplied
**[04:43] ---**
with theoretically pure water
from a solid-state plant,
**[04:46] ---**
and numerous other confidential,
proprietary details about Tokiwadai,
**[04:50] ---**
such as the layout of various campus
structures and facilities,
**[04:53] ---**
have been leaked.
**[04:55] ---**
It extends to other
Garden of Learning institutions
**[04:57] ---**
and some large corporations, as well.
There are even instances
**[05:01] ---**
of information pertaining to
security measures that have gone public.
**[05:04] ---**
The cause of all this is thought to be...
**[05:06] ---**
These cards, known as "Indian Poker."
**[05:09] ---**
They are devices that allow one
to share their dreams with someone else.
**[05:14] ---**
But through dreams that
are recorded on these cards,
**[05:16] ---**
--organizational information
that would normally remain secret
--Whoa! So this is the Garden of Learning!
**[05:20] ---**
--appears to be leaking externally.
--Whoa! So this is the Garden of Learning!
**[05:23] ---**
So what would be run-of-the-mill
information for anyone involved
**[05:26] ---**
ends up being precious data for
those outside the organization, right?
**[05:29] ---**
Yes. Each school has hurriedly
started taking measures...
**[05:32] ---**
...but these are handmade items,
not sold through commercial markets,
**[05:36] ---**
so we are a bit behind the curve.
**[05:39] ---**
Antiskill has attempted to contact the site
**[05:41] ---**
to which the original plans for
the card writer had been uploaded...
**[05:46] ---**
...but identifying the uploader of
the plans has been extremely difficult.
**[05:50] ---**
Kuriba Ryoko.
**[05:51] ---**
Shinshikimi Middle School,
in School District 20. Age 14.
**[05:55] ---**
The photo is from when she enrolled.
**[05:58] ---**
You're saying that she's the one
who came up with the plans for Indian Poker?
**[06:01] ---**
Took you long enough.
**[06:04] ---**
I asked you for this over 24 hours ago.
**[06:06] ---**
--I'm not one to traffic in vague,
unconfirmed information.
--Here, one stir-fried rice.
**[06:11] ---**
Would you mind if I asked
why you're looking into this matter?
**[06:15] ---**
There was something familiar about
the principle behind those cards.
**[06:19] ---**
Indeed. According to my investigation,
she was once involved with Clone Dolly.
**[06:25] ---**
Could their objective at the time
**[06:26] ---**
have been to use the cards for
psychological doping or brainwashing?
**[06:31] ---**
Those cards don't seem to
have those functions as of yet.
**[06:35] ---**
Whatever the intent,
**[06:37] ---**
I'm going to find whatever idiot would circulate
**[06:41] ---**
something like that out
into the world at this point.
**[06:43] ---**
One ramen!
**[06:46] ---**
So, where is this girl?
**[06:48] ---**
Forgive me, that is still under investigation.
**[06:52] ---**
That's not like you.
**[06:55] ---**
To be more accurate,
**[06:57] ---**
she is affiliated with
a certain research institute.
**[07:00] ---**
--I have ascertained that
she is living within the facility,
--How am I supposed to eat this?
**[07:04] ---**
--so I did not pursue it any further.
--How am I supposed to eat this?
**[07:06] ---**
As I was investigating this
research institute, something felt off.
**[07:11] ---**
About whether the Kuriba Ryoko
at the facility was really "Kuriba Ryoko."
**[07:17] ---**
What is that supposed to mean?
**[07:19] ---**
So, I've pinned down the creator of
these cards and the organization she's with.
**[07:24] ---**
The experiments they're doing there
sound a little beyond unconventional.
**[07:28] ---**
--They must involve--
--I had no idea they were so...
**[07:30] ---**
...heavy in one's hands...
So soft, even through her clothing...
**[07:34] ---**
Or felt so springy as
they pushed back against me...
**[07:37] ---**
I was the one grabbing them,
**[07:39] ---**
but it was as if they were clinging
to my hands, embracing--
**[07:42] ---**
Ow...
**[07:43] ---**
I don't need to hear any more
of you reviewing my boobs!
**[07:46] ---**
And how long are you going
to space out over there?!
**[07:49] ---**
For that matter, why are
you acting so shocked *now*?
**[07:53] ---**
I hate to be the one to say this, but you
can pretty well eyeball how big they are.
**[07:57] ---**
I was thinking that maybe the chain
on your bag emphasized your cleavage,
**[07:59] ---**
making them look bigger,
**[08:01] ---**
--when actually, they weren't
that much different than mine...
**[08:04] ---**
--Has Miss Misaka always been this dumb?
--when actually, they weren't
that much different than mine...
**[08:08] ---**
Anyhow, you heard what I was saying, right?
**[08:12] ---**
About how there's a budding threat
to your own brainwashing territory
**[08:16] ---**
and you want to nip it?
**[08:18] ---**
That interpretation is just
as twisted as your disposition.
**[08:23] ---**
Can we leave me out of this for the moment?
**[08:26] ---**
The experiment that Kuriba Ryoko was involved in
**[08:28] ---**
is not directly related to Indian Poker.
**[08:32] ---**
She was more of a cyborg test subject.
**[08:35] ---**
Cyborg?
**[08:36] ---**
When you hear the word cyborg,
you think of everything
**[08:40] ---**
from artificial organs being transplanted
to full-body mechanization, don't you?
**[08:43] ---**
But the experiment she was involved
with was a bit more out of the ordinary.
**[08:48] ---**
Kuriba Ryoko was experimentally
**[08:50] ---**
turned into two people.
**[08:52] ---**
Huh?
**[08:53] ---**
Her body was used as a
test subject and taken apart,
**[08:56] ---**
and the parts that were missing
were then replaced by machinery.
**[08:58] ---**
She went from having one body
to being reborn as two cyborgs.
**[09:03] ---**
Well, that's...
**[09:05] ---**
Was there some circumstance
that forced her to do so?
**[09:08] ---**
No, there wasn't. It was entirely
because that was the subject matter.
**[09:13] ---**
The two Kuribas lived separate lives,
**[09:16] ---**
and after a year passed, she was
put back together into her original body.
**[09:20] ---**
There was no particular issue with
psychological fragmentation or rejection.
**[09:25] ---**
Apparently, she retained both halves
of her memories from when she was split.
**[09:30] ---**
Sounds like quite the gruesome experiment,
**[09:32] ---**
but cyborg medical treatments
can help many disabled people,
**[09:37] ---**
and the whole affair is already over,
**[09:39] ---**
so I don't see that outsiders
like us have anything to say about it.
**[09:42] ---**
Yes. We're of the same opinion
as far as that goes. However,
**[09:46] ---**
this experiment had
one other objective, you see.
**[09:50] ---**
Kuriba's purpose
**[09:52] ---**
was to confirm the compatibility
of cybernetics with human bodies.
**[09:56] ---**
The research institute's
primary objective was the same,
**[10:00] ---**
and if something else came about
as a by-product, well, so much the better.
**[10:07] ---**
That being the generation of a soul.
**[10:11] ---**
Uh...
**[10:13] ---**
Miss Misaka, do you think the soul exists?
**[10:16] ---**
You mean that thing about how
the moment a person dies,
**[10:19] ---**
their body becomes 21 grams lighter?
**[10:21] ---**
This conversation has
suddenly taken an occult turn, huh?
**[10:24] ---**
I don't know anything about
how credible all of this is,
**[10:27] ---**
but supposing that the
phenomenon of a soul does exist,
**[10:31] ---**
what happened to Kuriba's soul
when she was split into two people?
**[10:37] ---**
Just supposing that one of
the split Kuribas were to lose her life,
**[10:42] ---**
it's hard to imagine that the other Kuriba
**[10:45] ---**
in a separate location would die
at the same time, right?
**[10:49] ---**
When she was split into two people,
did her soul also split,
**[10:54] ---**
and become a second soul?
And once her soul was split into two,
**[10:59] ---**
after being put back together,
her body became one whole.
**[11:04] ---**
Okay, where would the
leftover soul have gone, then?
**[11:08] ---**
In other words, is there a soul or whatever
**[11:11] ---**
dwelling inside the mechanical body
that would be put together?
**[11:15] ---**
Are you seriously asking that?
**[11:16] ---**
Wha--? I was just using the word "soul"
so that you wouldn't be lost!
**[11:22] ---**
For that matter, what does any of
this have to do with Indian Poker?
**[11:26] ---**
Also, if you found out who actually created it,
**[11:28] ---**
couldn't you report that to Judgment
or Antiskill and be done with it?
**[11:32] ---**
I *could*...
**[11:33] ---**
However, before I do, I wanted
to have you break into the institute
**[11:38] ---**
and verify the outcome of Kuriba's experiment.
**[11:42] ---**
Huh?
**[11:43] ---**
I could do it myself, but assuming
there's actually a mechanical person there,
**[11:48] ---**
and we happened to bump into each other,
that would be trouble, right?
**[11:51] ---**
It's not clear whether my brainwashing
would work on such a mind.
**[11:56] ---**
It would be safer to have a muscle-head
like you there in that eventuality.
**[11:59] ---**
Okay, but why should I?
**[12:01] ---**
Because if an application for the
soul generation experiment were found,
**[12:07] ---**
how many more hundreds of people
would meet a similar fate?
**[12:11] ---**
They would need subjects to verify
their results, such as Child Errors,
**[12:15] ---**
or perhaps even human clones.
**[12:19] ---**
Um, and... it would not be
worth the trouble and expense
**[12:23] ---**
of building a cloning facility
solely for this experiment.
**[12:28] ---**
So just take it easy.
**[12:30] ---**
I'm not asking you to do
this for nothing, of course.
**[12:34] ---**
The Project Level 6 Sisters--
**[12:37] ---**
didn't you want them to be able to live
in normal society someday down the road?
**[12:44] ---**
But the obstacles in the way
of that happening are so great.
**[12:49] ---**
Wouldn't my ability to win people over
**[12:53] ---**
and my network of contacts be
useful when the time comes?
**[12:55] ---**
Shokuho, why are you so intent
on involving yourself in this?
**[13:00] ---**
I don't want to find myself indebted to you,
**[13:03] ---**
so let's make a deal.
**[13:06] ---**
You mean it about those girls, right?
**[13:09] ---**
As far as this matter goes, at least,
**[13:11] ---**
I promise.
**[13:14] ---**
What was that whole charade about?
**[13:17] ---**
Just having a harebrained
experiment that could claim victims
**[13:21] ---**
would be enough to get Mikoto
to go into action on her own.
**[13:25] ---**
And Misaki, you don't
really care how things look
**[13:27] ---**
when it comes to helping
the Sisters, do you? And yet,
**[13:32] ---**
"Let's make a deal." "You mean it?" "I promise."
**[13:36] ---**
How long has that *tsundere* quid pro quo business
**[13:38] ---**
to cover your embarrassment been going on--
**[13:42] ---**
You know, I could just as
easily break in and investigate.
**[13:45] ---**
Or did you want to see how deep
Mikoto's feelings for the Sisters ran?
**[13:50] ---**
Buzz off, will you, Mitori?
**[13:52] ---**
Are you showing off your voyeurism
just to wind me up?
**[13:55] ---**
Oh, no.
**[13:57] ---**
I don't have *that* kind of time to waste.
I have a message from Keitz.
**[14:01] ---**
He says that he's tracked down
where the real Kuriba Ryoko is.
**[14:05] ---**
Are you sure you must go out?
**[14:08] ---**
At this hour?
**[14:09] ---**
Mm-hmm, I made a little deal
and was asked to do something.
**[14:13] ---**
For whom is this for, exactly?
**[14:15] ---**
For whom would you go out
and leave me here all alone?
**[14:19] ---**
This isn't even a little bit
what you're thinking.
**[14:23] ---**
Handle the head resident for me
if she comes around, okay?
**[14:25] ---**
Well, I suppose I can do that.
**[14:28] ---**
If anything happens,
you'll be the first person I call.
**[14:33] ---**
Well, what can I say to that?
**[14:37] ---**
"#21 Doppelganger"
**[14:37] ---**
Come back safely.
**[14:43] ---**
I haven't dressed up like this in a while.
**[14:44] ---**
"...eyewitness testimony from staff..."
"...teenage boy with lightning..."
**[14:45] ---**
Last time, they thought I was a boy at first.
**[14:50] ---**
Hmm, maybe I should have gone
with something more frilly.
**[15:03] ---**
All green. Good work.
**[15:08] ---**
Hey,
**[15:09] ---**
how long are these routine tests going to go on?
**[15:12] ---**
I want to leave the facility already--
**[15:14] ---**
Oh, no,
**[15:15] ---**
this experiment is something
unprecedented, you understand.
**[15:19] ---**
Chief...
**[15:21] ---**
We have to be extra cautious
when doing these follow-up exams.
**[15:27] ---**
I think you're worrying too much.
**[15:30] ---**
Good grief, this confined living
is going to go on forever.
**[15:48] ---**
Whoops.
**[15:52] ---**
Well, shoot.
**[15:54] ---**
I got that from my mother.
**[15:59] ---**
I got that mug from my mother
before coming to Academy City.
**[16:04] ---**
I know it. But...
**[16:09] ---**
I can't remember my mother.
And it's not just her--
**[16:14] ---**
my father, and my friends from my hometown...
**[16:17] ---**
I can't remember much of anything
from before I came to Academy City.
**[16:21] ---**
No, even after I moved to Academy City...
**[16:25] ---**
I can vividly remember things
that happened when I was split it two.
**[16:29] ---**
I just don't remember anything from before that.
**[16:32] ---**
Is that an aftereffect of the experiment?
**[16:40] ---**
Am I...
**[16:42] ---**
Kuriba Ryoko?
**[16:45] ---**
Am I...
**[16:48] ---**
Am I... human?
**[16:55] ---**
Now then...
**[16:57] ---**
Whoa!
**[17:00] ---**
Did they know I was breaking in?!
**[17:07] ---**
Huh?!
**[17:15] ---**
She's not here?
**[17:17] ---**
Those banners should have
been able to support 100 kilos.
**[17:20] ---**
But no. She must weigh a ton.
**[17:24] ---**
Then, could she have been...?
**[17:27] ---**
She ran away?!
**[17:29] ---**
Yes, sir. She destroyed the exterior wall,
**[17:31] ---**
and jumped from the upper floor
and out of the facility.
**[17:34] ---**
She jumped?! She's supposed
to have a sense of self-preservation!
**[17:39] ---**
Well, the only things that are
malfunctioning from the shock of the fall
**[17:43] ---**
are her GPS and fast-acting restraints.
**[17:46] ---**
This suggests that it was a premeditated,
carefully-calculated risk.
**[17:51] ---**
Additionally, most of the research data
that was caught in the blast was lost.
**[17:55] ---**
Reconstructing it will be very difficult.
**[17:57] ---**
What?! Th-The damage
is isolated to just here, right?!
**[18:01] ---**
Yes, sir. Nowhere else was affected.
**[18:03] ---**
O-Okay. Whatever, just hurry up
and recover the Doppelganger.
**[18:09] ---**
"Shinasame University DNA Map Analysis Lab"
**[18:11] ---**
Come to think of it, weren't you selling
some kind of cards before this?
**[18:14] ---**
Oh yeah, those?
**[18:16] ---**
Huh? What are you doing in here, lady?
**[18:19] ---**
You wouldn't happen to be a ghost
that haunts this place, would you?
**[18:23] ---**
Oh, but you have a body and everything.
**[18:26] ---**
So why don't you and I have a nice--
**[18:31] ---**
Bodies...
**[18:33] ---**
People's thoughts dwell in the brain.
Life dwells in the heart.
**[18:38] ---**
Emotions dwell in the face.
**[18:40] ---**
So...
**[18:42] ---**
...if you drive the soul out of a body,
do you think it can be made vacant?
**[18:58] ---**
What, already?! I can't concentrate!
**[19:03] ---**
Ah, forgive the late hour.
I'm with the management company.
**[19:07] ---**
We've had some trouble with the water tanks.
**[19:09] ---**
The repairs are done, but we're checking
if the water quality is all right--
**[19:12] ---**
There's no problem here, now leave me alone!
**[19:15] ---**
All right, can I get you
to sign your consent, please?
**[19:18] ---**
It's a regulation, you understand.
**[19:21] ---**
Forgive me, but I'm very busy,
so let's hurry and--
**[19:25] ---**
You weren't on the camera--
**[19:28] ---**
Whoops.
**[19:29] ---**
Sorry to be so abrupt.
I wonder if we could have a quick word.
**[19:34] ---**
Wh-Who are you people?!
**[19:36] ---**
It's not like I'm going to bite,
so I don't want you to be afraid.
**[19:41] ---**
The third-ranked? Railgun?!
**[19:46] ---**
You're not here from the research lab, right?
**[19:49] ---**
Not really. I was just running down
Indian Poker and came across you.
**[19:53] ---**
And I was just roped into doing this by her.
**[19:57] ---**
But after seeing what I saw,
I can't very well not ask you about it.
**[20:01] ---**
What you saw?
**[20:02] ---**
I watched as your cyborg
broke out a little while ago.
**[20:07] ---**
Broke out? So, it finally happened.
**[20:11] ---**
So then you knew about that thing.
**[20:13] ---**
Yeah.
**[20:14] ---**
The chief and other researchers
called her "Doppelganger."
**[20:19] ---**
I saw her on the monitor right after my surgery.
**[20:22] ---**
A mechanical puppet who identifies
herself as a human--as Kuriba Ryoko.
**[20:28] ---**
The chief and the others were terribly excited.
**[20:31] ---**
Soul generation--they said it
was uncharted territory.
**[20:35] ---**
You're saying that there's
a soul inside that machine, too?
**[20:39] ---**
Honestly, even after seeing it myself,
I only half believe it.
**[20:43] ---**
But assuming that such a
phenomenon has actually happened,
**[20:47] ---**
it could create some extremely serious problems.
**[20:50] ---**
Serious? It may be a lot tougher,
compared to flesh-and-blood people,
**[20:56] ---**
but it *is* just a
healthcare-based machine, right?
**[20:58] ---**
It isn't built for combat.
Is having just one of them really a threat?
**[21:03] ---**
I told them that someday,
she would realize that she isn't human,
**[21:08] ---**
but they said "Then we'll
get some more data from that,"
**[21:11] ---**
and "The lower levels of the building
have layer after layer of security,
**[21:15] ---**
plus, she has a shutdown device
implanted, so it's okay."
**[21:19] ---**
Everyone refused to listen to
what kind of danger that thing posed.
**[21:29] ---**
Artificial skin.
**[21:38] ---**
Well, it's important to look the part,
after all. And while I'm at it...
**[21:49] ---**
Found her. An abandoned
facility in School District 20.
**[21:55] ---**
You were in there a long time,
Yakkun. Huge dump?
**[21:59] ---**
--Or are we having a lady's day today?
**[22:00] ---**
--Huh?!
--Or are we having a lady's day today?
**[22:01] ---**
Knock it off, Naru. Don't you realize
the position we've been placed in?
**[22:06] ---**
Quite correct.
**[22:09] ---**
You had a big job to do.
A request straight from the governing board,
**[22:13] ---**
and you guys messed it up.
**[22:16] ---**
You may have been going up against that monster,
**[22:18] ---**
but you were powerless to stop him
and came running back in disgrace.
**[22:21] ---**
Your reputation as a dark side
subsidiary organization is in the pits.
**[22:25] ---**
If you make one more mistake...
**[22:27] ---**
We get it. If we screw up this mission,
we're as good as stray dogs.
**[22:32] ---**
I wish stray dogs is all we would be.
**[22:34] ---**
Now that we're clear, get on the stick,
you leftover-eating Scavengers.
**[22:41] ---**
Hmph, she talks down to us
just like a self-important teacher.
**[22:46] ---**
I wasn't expecting us to get the
flushed-down-to-the-dark-side treatment.
**[22:50] ---**
Take it easy, Leader.
**[22:55] ---**
Yeah, I know, Seike. Okay,
**[22:59] ---**
let's go, guys.
**[23:01] ---**
Time to start recovering
that piece of scrap metal!
**[23:25] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
Manipulator of paper, Naru!
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#22 Scavenger"
**[23:27] ---**
Controller of frictional coefficients, Seike!
**[23:29] ---**
Leave the chemicals to me! Yakumaru!
**[23:32] ---**
Master of the birds-eye view, Leader!
**[23:34] ---**
The four of us combined are Scavenger!
**[23:37] ---**
What if we introduced ourselves that way?
**[23:40] ---**
--Overruled.
--Overruled.
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E22 - Scavenger
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYZJNW1GR/scavenger)
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**[00:00] ---**
"Shinasame University DNA Map Analysis Lab"
**[00:01] ---**
I'm just saying,
**[00:03] ---**
I want to forget all about
our earlier screw up right away.
**[00:06] ---**
And that's the reason why we're
doing this detail-oriented job, right?
**[00:10] ---**
I don't mean little contracted-out jobs
like this one, but bigger jobs,
**[00:13] ---**
where we can boost
our reputation with a real bang!
**[00:15] ---**
Then maybe we can get
the team name I've been hoping for!
**[00:19] ---**
Team name? You mean like ITEM or SCHOOL?
**[00:23] ---**
That's right! How does "HYENA" grab you?
**[00:25] ---**
Yuck. That's repulsive.
**[00:27] ---**
Is that even something you can give yourself?
**[00:29] ---**
Quiet.
**[00:32] ---**
The puppet isn't here.
**[00:34] ---**
It's Naru's fault for
wanting to get popsicles.
**[00:37] ---**
Me?! But everybody bought one!
**[00:39] ---**
No matter. No mere puppet
can escape from my Predator.
**[01:17] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[02:25] ---**
The risk the Doppelganger poses?
**[02:28] ---**
Yeah, or more accurately,
I should say the risk posed by her "soul."
**[02:33] ---**
Soul?
**[02:34] ---**
Kuriba Ryoko, do you,
a scientist, believe in such a thing?
**[02:40] ---**
It's hypothesized that what
we call a soul is linked to the body.
**[02:45] ---**
When the body ceases to function,
the soul also goes away.
**[02:50] ---**
But if the Doppelganger
has a soul dwelling within her,
**[02:53] ---**
it is only temporarily stuck
within the machinery.
**[02:57] ---**
Even if the vessel is broken, it does
not go away, it just becomes untethered.
**[03:03] ---**
An untethered soul will spread out
from the vessel into its surroundings.
**[03:07] ---**
This ordinarily impossible "free soul"
**[03:10] ---**
could then possess any material
and control it as it pleases.
**[03:14] ---**
Worst case scenario, I think that it
could even swallow up Academy City itself
**[03:19] ---**
and take control of it.
**[03:21] ---**
Swallow up Academy City?
**[03:23] ---**
In other words, you're saying
that it would be highly risky
**[03:27] ---**
to physically destroy the
Doppelganger's body or "vessel"?
**[03:32] ---**
Have you mentioned this to the laboratory?
**[03:34] ---**
Yes, I have. But the chief and the others
are so caught up in their success,
**[03:38] ---**
they couldn't accept any negative views.
**[03:40] ---**
Still,
**[03:42] ---**
what can they do if the
Doppelganger decides to harm itself?
**[03:47] ---**
That probably won't happen.
No, I should say it *can't* happen.
**[03:52] ---**
The artificial body that started out
being a cyborg has a safety--
**[03:56] ---**
a self-preservation function built into it.
**[03:59] ---**
Because of its cyborg nature,
**[04:01] ---**
shutting down any mechanical functions
would directly affect the biologicals,
**[04:05] ---**
so it is programmed not to perform
any action that would cause more than
**[04:10] ---**
a certain level of damage to itself.
**[04:15] ---**
That safety was your doing?
**[04:17] ---**
Yes. The Doppelganger employs artificial muscles
that contract through chemical interaction,
**[04:22] ---**
immunosuppressive agents that inhibit the
body's rejection response where it makes contact
**[04:26] ---**
and a number of other
technologies that I developed.
**[04:31] ---**
Your circulation of Indian Poker has
to do with the Doppelganger, doesn't it?
**[04:37] ---**
What makes you think that?
**[04:39] ---**
Because the time when you learned
about the Doppelganger's existence
**[04:42] ---**
overlaps with the time when
those cards started going around.
**[04:45] ---**
It's only natural to assume
the two are connected.
**[04:49] ---**
Yeah, you're right.
Indian Poker allows someone else
**[04:54] ---**
to acquire a person's experiences
and skills through their dreams.
**[04:58] ---**
By exchanging through dreams the insights
**[05:00] ---**
that people are unlikely
to come across in real-life society,
**[05:03] ---**
we would expect there
to be radical leaps of thought.
**[05:07] ---**
While I might be unable
to work out a solution myself,
**[05:11] ---**
those cards might come across
someone who can reverse the situation.
**[05:14] ---**
By creating a fad that boosts
the common denominator,
**[05:16] ---**
it becomes a matter
of probability and statistics.
**[05:19] ---**
Maybe you think it's kind of
a roundabout way of doing things.
**[05:21] ---**
But after pursuing what I could do myself,
this is what I came up with.
**[05:25] ---**
I don't care if you think
any less of me for it.
**[05:28] ---**
Now excuse me, but I have to go.
You interrupted me in the middle of my work.
**[05:33] ---**
I'll make sure to do something
about the Doppelganger.
**[05:37] ---**
You don't need to get involved.
**[05:42] ---**
You don't seem to like her too much.
**[05:46] ---**
I know that Kuriba Ryoko
is a victim in this weird situation,
**[05:49] ---**
--and I don't have any right to say
anything about her in all of this,
**[05:53] ---**
--You're free to leave now.
--and I don't have any right to say
anything about her in all of this,
**[05:55] ---**
but I don't care if this was
all too much for her alone,
**[05:57] ---**
using Indian Poker to rope a bunch
of other people into the middle of this
**[06:02] ---**
kind of bothers me, I guess.
**[06:05] ---**
Well, everyone has their own circumstances.
**[06:12] ---**
Should I have entered into
a partnership with Misaka Mikoto?
**[06:18] ---**
No. I doubt the chief and
the others will do anything as foolish
**[06:21] ---**
as destroying the Doppelganger.
**[06:24] ---**
I shouldn't ham-handedly
disrupt the current situation.
**[06:27] ---**
Time will sort everything out.
**[06:29] ---**
Miahilin--a drug used for the
aftereffects of cyborg treatments.
**[06:33] ---**
Easy to obtain, but not many people
order the high-quality version.
**[06:38] ---**
I just had to access the
pharmaceutical company's database
**[06:42] ---**
and narrowing it down from there wasn't hard.
**[06:44] ---**
Me? The Doppel!
**[06:53] ---**
You're slow.
**[06:55] ---**
Maybe you're too much of a shut-in
and need some more exercise.
**[06:58] ---**
You also look like you're overworked
and not getting enough sleep.
**[07:01] ---**
You need to make sure
you're eating right, too.
**[07:04] ---**
You know, maybe it's
the medical equipment talking,
**[07:07] ---**
but I can't help but be concerned.
**[07:09] ---**
What are you after?
Are you here to take my place?
**[07:14] ---**
Or have you found a procedure
to drive my soul out of me?
**[07:19] ---**
Could be.
**[07:20] ---**
Either way, you end up no longer existing.
**[07:25] ---**
Sorry,
**[07:26] ---**
but I'm not ready for that yet.
**[07:35] ---**
She had a contingency plan in place.
**[07:38] ---**
But one that didn't hurt me and
was meant to keep me here, which means...
**[07:45] ---**
What was that?
**[07:47] ---**
A truck came sliding toward me?
**[07:48] ---**
You've got good reflexes, don't you?
**[07:51] ---**
I was thinking of turning you
into a wax figure sandwich.
**[08:00] ---**
Reducing frictional coefficient
of these fixtures to zero!
**[08:03] ---**
Take this!
**[08:08] ---**
O-O-Oh, crap!
**[08:11] ---**
Yeah, right!
**[08:22] ---**
Well? Your limbs may be one thing,
but when your whole body has been caught,
**[08:26] ---**
it's pretty hard to pluck off
any parts to escape, isn't it?
**[08:28] ---**
Well, come on! If you just stand around,
**[08:30] ---**
the affected region is
just going to keep expanding!
**[08:38] ---**
Paper?
**[08:44] ---**
Capture complete!
**[08:45] ---**
That was a piece of cake, all right.
**[08:47] ---**
Seike,
**[08:48] ---**
just before we made contact,
there was a woman who looked just like this.
**[08:52] ---**
The possibility that they switched places,
while low, is still not zero.
**[08:56] ---**
Just to be safe, go and check it out for me.
**[08:58] ---**
You're always such
a slave driver. All right, I will.
**[09:04] ---**
Now...
**[09:05] ---**
all that's left is to take this thing
to the designated location.
**[09:09] ---**
Hmm, you look quite a bit
different than in the report.
**[09:13] ---**
Must have thought it would be easier
to blend in on the streets like this.
**[09:16] ---**
Scrap iron trying desperately to be human...
**[09:20] ---**
But doing this only approximates
the look on the outside,
**[09:23] ---**
and just serves to remind you
that you're an artificial creation inside.
**[09:28] ---**
You poor thing.
**[09:31] ---**
As if. Was that a little too occult there?
**[09:34] ---**
You watch too many dramas.
**[09:35] ---**
Leader, you're such a poet.
**[09:37] ---**
Incidentally...
**[09:39] ---**
...as an artificial creation,
**[09:41] ---**
my perception of pain is
represented digitally.
**[09:45] ---**
For my own information, would you
show me what reactions are correct?
**[09:50] ---**
Why are you letting up on her, Naru?!
**[09:52] ---**
I'm at full power! Except the paper
isn't responding to me! But why?!
**[09:58] ---**
Impossible! According
to the specs in our materials,
**[10:00] ---**
she shouldn't be able
to break free from Naru!
**[10:03] ---**
Even your extremities make bizarre motions.
**[10:06] ---**
I wonder if, in human terms,
this would be expressed as being "comical."
**[10:12] ---**
Why, you!
**[10:13] ---**
Let go of Leader!
**[10:16] ---**
I think I'll gouge out her eyeballs next.
**[10:20] ---**
Stop that!
**[10:26] ---**
The artificial body that started out
being a cyborg has a safety--
**[10:30] ---**
a self-preservation function built into it.
**[10:33] ---**
It is programmed not to perform
any action that would cause more than
**[10:38] ---**
a certain level of damage to itself.
**[10:45] ---**
Who... are you?
**[10:49] ---**
Hmm, if she's bleeding, I can assume
that she's well and truly human.
**[10:56] ---**
If the other three see her as being
an honor student, they might kill her.
**[11:01] ---**
I've confirmed who she is,
so I could just let her go...
**[11:07] ---**
What are you doing there?
**[11:09] ---**
Uh... picking on a wimp.
**[11:12] ---**
For that matter, who do you think *you* are?
**[11:15] ---**
Some kind of hero that arrives
when a girl finds herself in trouble?
**[11:21] ---**
Where did you...?
**[11:24] ---**
Wha--?!
**[11:27] ---**
Are you okay?
**[11:29] ---**
"#22 Scavenger"
**[11:30] ---**
Why...?
**[11:34] ---**
When I was little,
I was involved in a building collapse.
**[11:38] ---**
My life was saved by a
lung transplant from my mother.
**[11:44] ---**
But afterward, my mother,
who wasn't very strong to begin with,
**[11:47] ---**
carried on in what no one
would call good health,
**[11:50] ---**
and as I grew up,
I devoted myself to Academy City,
**[11:54] ---**
to learn about cyborg technology
in order to treat my mother.
**[11:59] ---**
After putting in my effort
and starting to see some results,
**[12:03] ---**
I learned that my mother
had taken a downturn.
**[12:06] ---**
Pulmonary edema and an associated infection.
**[12:09] ---**
My mother's body was nearing
the breaking point.
**[12:13] ---**
The doctor said that administering drugs
could slow her decline temporarily,
**[12:17] ---**
but after a year, or two at the most,
we couldn't expect to see any results.
**[12:23] ---**
I would have to develop cyborg parts
for all of the affected areas.
**[12:28] ---**
But I was profoundly short on data.
**[12:32] ---**
With the absolute number of
cyborg treatments being so low,
**[12:35] ---**
I was extremely hard pressed to collect
the data for all the necessary regions.
**[12:41] ---**
I wasn't going to make it
the way things were headed.
**[12:45] ---**
Chief,
**[12:46] ---**
what is the word on that plan I proposed?
**[12:49] ---**
Hmm? Oh, that one?
It would be an unprecedented experiment,
**[12:54] ---**
so we can't find any volunteers--
**[12:55] ---**
I'll do it.
**[12:59] ---**
By dividing myself in half,
**[13:01] ---**
we would gather exhaustive
data on my whole body,
**[13:08] ---**
and I would be both
the observer and the subject.
**[13:12] ---**
In a sense, one could call it
the most ideal circumstance possible.
**[13:17] ---**
I swear...
**[13:19] ---**
That seems to be the shape of things,
as far as I was able to investigate.
**[13:25] ---**
Why didn't she say anything about that?
**[13:27] ---**
She's probably just not gullible
enough to trust anyone
**[13:31] ---**
who suddenly forced themselves
into the picture under a false identity.
**[13:34] ---**
Okay, but even so...
**[13:36] ---**
Maybe she feels responsible
for the creation of the Doppelganger
**[13:40] ---**
in the course of her pursuing
her personal goal of treating her mother.
**[13:46] ---**
I believe that's a feeling
you aren't entirely unfamiliar with.
**[13:51] ---**
Incidentally, by her calculations,
**[13:54] ---**
if Indian Poker keeps
spreading the way it is currently,
**[13:57] ---**
then statistically speaking,
in two more months,
**[13:59] ---**
a method of obliterating
the so-called soul will surface.
**[14:03] ---**
So, until then...
**[14:05] ---**
She was probably planning
to keep the secret all to herself.
**[14:11] ---**
All to... herself...
**[14:17] ---**
Yes?
**[14:18] ---**
Kuroko, how are things there?
**[14:20] ---**
The head resident was in a sour mood,
**[14:22] ---**
and I had an *awful* time pulling
the wool over her eyes.
**[14:26] ---**
She might come knocking again,
so please come back right away, okay?
**[14:30] ---**
Actually, it looks like this is going
to take a little while longer.
**[14:33] ---**
I think I can make it back before
today turns into tomorrow, though.
**[14:37] ---**
Aww... Very well, I will come up
with something else, then.
**[14:40] ---**
Honestly, this is turning
into a thankless job.
**[14:43] ---**
Look, I promise to make it up
to you sometime soon.
**[14:46] ---**
Do you really mean it, Sissy?!
**[14:48] ---**
--Then we can share the
same bed until morning--
**[14:49] ---**
--Something other than that. Bye now.
--Then we can share the same bed until morning--
**[15:00] ---**
This must be quite the
ordeal for Miss Misaka.
**[15:04] ---**
Is that...
**[15:05] ---**
...an Electromaster?
**[15:08] ---**
Who's that?
**[15:09] ---**
I don't know. I just ran into
the Doppelganger, though.
**[15:13] ---**
I think the two must be related.
**[15:16] ---**
Earlier, I think I might have
come across with a poor attitude.
**[15:20] ---**
That was all on me.
**[15:23] ---**
I know you must have your
own reasons for what you're doing,
**[15:27] ---**
but for whatever you
can't handle on your own,
**[15:29] ---**
I hope you'll turn to me.
**[15:31] ---**
So let me take care of this.
**[15:38] ---**
I'm grateful.
**[15:41] ---**
All done?
**[15:44] ---**
I'm not actually planning on going
after Little Miss Patchwork there anymore.
**[15:48] ---**
Not now that I know
she isn't the target I'm after.
**[15:52] ---**
But never mind her,
**[15:53] ---**
are *you* going to amuse me now?
**[15:57] ---**
If you're not after her, then there's
no reason to mix it up with you.
**[16:00] ---**
What's wrong? Don't hold back for my sake.
**[16:03] ---**
I may not look it, but I'm carrying
the same package as you.
**[16:07] ---**
Huh?
**[16:08] ---**
Or is the hero going to chicken out on me?
**[16:13] ---**
I'm not exactly a hero.
**[16:15] ---**
I just don't like picking
on those weaker than me.
**[16:20] ---**
O-ho...
**[16:23] ---**
...pretty big talk.
**[16:25] ---**
Then let me show you just how much I've got!
**[16:30] ---**
Sorry.
**[16:31] ---**
I know we were told to
capture it in one piece.
**[16:33] ---**
Mm-mm, if you hadn't done it,
Naru, *I* would have.
**[16:38] ---**
Ugh, it really hurts...
**[16:40] ---**
Just a moment. I'll mix up
a painkiller for you right away.
**[16:53] ---**
If that thing's still running,
then we can still accomplish our mission!
**[16:57] ---**
Both of you, get back!
**[16:59] ---**
Better to take that thing...
**[17:01] ---**
...and deliver a nice, thorough...
**[17:02] ---**
...crushing blow, right here and now!
**[17:07] ---**
Wh-Why is my paper protecting that thing?
**[17:17] ---**
Naru's...
**[17:18] ---**
My...
**[17:19] ---**
...paper got taken away!
**[17:20] ---**
How mean. I made proper skin and everything.
**[17:24] ---**
Well, this is a bit unwieldly,
but that doesn't hinder its movement.
**[17:35] ---**
Being able to freely adjust
the friction coefficient like I can,
**[17:38] ---**
I'm not hurt by these steel beams.
Bullets and blades are also pointless.
**[17:43] ---**
Sure, I might not be able
to deflect your electric shocks,
**[17:47] ---**
but the beams that are
scattered about so nicely
**[17:49] ---**
will serve as grounding.
If the falling debris crushes you, so be it.
**[17:55] ---**
But if you're lucky enough to deflect all that,
I'll take you down directly...
**[17:59] ---**
Huh?!
**[18:00] ---**
Why are the beams coming this way?!
**[18:03] ---**
Your ability, huh?
**[18:04] ---**
So you're not an Electromaster,
but a psychokinesist?
**[18:07] ---**
Or no, a magnetism manipulator?
How can you control so much mass at once?
**[18:11] ---**
This is bad. Even if I take no damage,
my grounding shielding is disappearing.
**[18:16] ---**
You leave me no choice!
I've underestimated you!
**[18:20] ---**
This is going to cost me a finger,
**[18:22] ---**
but you won't have time to dodge this.
**[18:24] ---**
Even if you shock me unconscious,
my momentum will still jab you!
**[18:29] ---**
Looks like *I'm* the one...
**[18:31] ---**
...who underestimated you.
**[18:34] ---**
You're a girl? Wait a minute, you're...
**[18:39] ---**
Hey, look at this!
**[18:40] ---**
It says I'll have a super-successful week!
**[18:42] ---**
Horoscopes? How many people in Academy City
**[18:45] ---**
even believe in anything as occult as those?
**[18:48] ---**
Well, I didn't believe in
them either, until just recently,
**[18:52] ---**
but the week we got trounced by that guy...
**[18:55] ---**
...it said that the greatest encounter
of my life would happen,
**[18:57] ---**
that I would have a terrible failure
at work as a result, and I'd lose credibility!
**[19:01] ---**
My unlucky colors were red and white!
**[19:04] ---**
Wow, they really got your number there.
**[19:07] ---**
I know, right?
**[19:08] ---**
Incidentally, it says that this week,
I'll have a great encounter,
**[19:10] ---**
a possible catalyst for work
to take a turn for the better,
**[19:13] ---**
and that I should be positive
toward those I care about.
**[19:17] ---**
Well, horoscopes notwithstanding,
**[19:20] ---**
we really did draw the
short straw on that one.
**[19:23] ---**
Of the 2.3 million people in Academy City,
only seven of them are Level 5s.
**[19:28] ---**
It was simply a rare case of
encountering one out of all those people.
**[19:32] ---**
But there's no way we'll run up
against another one any time soon.
**[19:38] ---**
The third-ranked Level 5, Railgun...
**[19:42] ---**
I guess the occult really is...
**[19:47] ---**
...pretty unreliable...
**[19:52] ---**
Well, that's not enough to kill you.
**[19:56] ---**
Then again, I can't ask you
any questions now, either.
**[20:06] ---**
That just leaves one of you
who's still able to move.
**[20:09] ---**
Naru!
**[20:10] ---**
What do I do? There's no way
I can run away while carrying both of them.
**[20:14] ---**
Okay, then...!
**[20:19] ---**
Oh, you're just going to leave
your friends here and run?
**[20:25] ---**
Blasting won't work.
**[20:27] ---**
Assuming it can compensate
for any damage using other material,
**[20:29] ---**
it would be pointless.
**[20:30] ---**
So then...
**[20:32] ---**
...if I can freeze it...!
**[20:37] ---**
I did it!
**[20:38] ---**
Yakumaru!
**[20:40] ---**
Wrong one.
**[20:41] ---**
Huh?
**[20:45] ---**
Paper?!
**[20:49] ---**
Now we're even for before.
**[20:51] ---**
This scrap iron can imitate more than
just outward appearances, you see.
**[20:57] ---**
No...!
**[21:00] ---**
Huh?
**[21:05] ---**
Give those back.
**[21:07] ---**
I'm gonna catch a cold!
**[21:10] ---**
Yakkun!
**[21:18] ---**
I *was* originally planning to let you
return alive, so you could give a report...
**[21:24] ---**
...but I guess I'll need to press
my point even deeper.
**[21:31] ---**
We should be okay,
now that we've made it this far...
**[21:34] ---**
You saved us, Naru.
**[21:36] ---**
Huh? Heh-heh, as Scavenger's ace,
I'd say that's only natural.
**[21:42] ---**
But now what do we do, Leader?
**[21:44] ---**
First thing we do is rendezvous with Seike,
who should be back by now.
**[21:48] ---**
If you mean the one in the sailor uniform,
**[21:50] ---**
the kid is laid out on the ground back there.
**[21:52] ---**
When someone messes with me,
I take them down. I take it you're all together?
**[22:00] ---**
Railgun?!
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
This is bad, this is bad, this is bad!
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#23 Possession"
**[23:27] ---**
We're still traumatized by the memory
**[23:28] ---**
of Academy City's first ranked
beating us to a pulp,
**[23:31] ---**
and now we're facing the
third-ranked Railgun?!
**[23:33] ---**
No, wait a second! If we can pull this off,
we might just make our comeback!
**[23:38] ---**
And all of that just took 0.1 seconds!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E23 - Possession
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRME9QNPY/possession)
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**[00:02] ---**
How is the worst-case scenario,
**[00:04] ---**
where Academy City's third-ranked
Level 5 is after us, happening?
**[00:07] ---**
What the hell is this?!
**[00:09] ---**
You wouldn't be some organization
that's up to no good, would you?
**[00:13] ---**
Take it easy. I haven't heard
of any rival organizations
**[00:16] ---**
who are after the results of
the Doppelganger research.
**[00:18] ---**
This is risky, since I don't know
the reason why she was fighting Seike, but...
**[00:23] ---**
Hold on. We're a recovery team,
**[00:26] ---**
formally hired by the research institution
that owns the Doppelganger.
**[00:31] ---**
The person you came across is indeed
probably one of our team members.
**[00:35] ---**
But I hope you realize that due
to the nature of our mission,
**[00:39] ---**
we're under mandatory orders to bar
any outsiders from getting involved.
**[00:42] ---**
If your presence here doesn't
run counter to our objective,
**[00:45] ---**
what would you say to a united front?
**[00:47] ---**
Huh?
**[00:48] ---**
I hate to do this to you, Seike,
but your revenge will have to wait.
**[00:52] ---**
We need to use her to complete the mission.
**[00:55] ---**
I understand that you have trouble trusting us.
**[00:57] ---**
So for now, I'm okay with just
providing what information we have.
**[01:02] ---**
What do you mean? Was the job
too much for you to handle alone?
**[01:06] ---**
Yes, unfortunately.
That thing has a strange capability.
**[01:10] ---**
When it gets damaged,
it controls the matter around it,
**[01:13] ---**
incorporating it into itself--
**[01:14] ---**
Damaged? You hurt the Doppelganger?
**[01:18] ---**
Huh?
**[01:19] ---**
Is she saying that a legitimate recovery team
**[01:21] ---**
wouldn't possibly damage their target?
**[01:24] ---**
Not good. How do I explain--?
**[01:26] ---**
We were surprised, too.
**[01:28] ---**
When we ran into her,
for some reason, she was already hurt.
**[01:31] ---**
You picked up on it?
**[01:33] ---**
Of course. We have to act
like we're not the bad guys here.
**[01:37] ---**
Hmm? What are you two talking about?
**[01:40] ---**
It was our attacks that broke that thing!
**[01:42] ---**
--We forgot we had an idiot with us.
--We forgot we had an idiot with us.
**[01:45] ---**
Ah! I still need to get you bandaged up, Naru!
**[01:47] ---**
You must have hit your head
and scrambled your memory.
**[01:51] ---**
She did mention the soul diffusing
and possessing things.
**[01:55] ---**
Does that mean she can
control the things around her?
**[01:59] ---**
It sounded a little far-fetched at first,
but now I need to see for myself.
**[02:03] ---**
We may have gotten
beaten up by the first-ranked
**[02:06] ---**
and been reduced to being dark side stooges,
**[02:08] ---**
but now we're going to use the third-ranked
**[02:10] ---**
and stage our comeback!
**[02:34] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[03:44] ---**
Hey, Seike!
**[03:46] ---**
I know this is the right area...
**[03:49] ---**
There you are!
**[03:52] ---**
I can't believe Seike got beaten.
**[03:54] ---**
That really must be
the Level 5 Misaka Mikoto, huh?
**[03:58] ---**
I'll stay here. You two go and get Seike.
Then wait for my instructions.
**[04:04] ---**
Leader is hurt, too.
How can she let herself be alone with her?
**[04:08] ---**
I'm so worried about her.
**[04:10] ---**
She probably thinks that
having you around will give us away.
**[04:15] ---**
Here's our official work request.
**[04:17] ---**
Does that answer all your questions?
**[04:20] ---**
All right, let's get going.
**[04:21] ---**
Wait.
**[04:23] ---**
I believe that you've been hired by them.
**[04:26] ---**
But if you want to work together,
I need to know a little more about you.
**[04:31] ---**
While evaluating our time fighting Accelerator,
**[04:34] ---**
I went over some basic intel
on the other Level 5s.
**[04:37] ---**
Misaka Mikoto has bumped up
against dark side organizations before,
**[04:41] ---**
but she has never voluntarily
been involved with one.
**[04:43] ---**
Right now, what I need
to do is make an impression.
**[04:46] ---**
I just have to be careful not to reveal
that we're a dark side organization.
**[04:49] ---**
Oh, you mean, who I'm with?
**[04:51] ---**
The most accessible
and trustworthy one would be...
**[04:54] ---**
I'm with Judgment.
**[04:56] ---**
Judgment? You guys? I don't see an arm band.
**[05:01] ---**
I have one, of course.
**[05:03] ---**
But we're dealing with
something inhuman on this case,
**[05:05] ---**
so I wasn't wearing it since
we don't need to make any arrests.
**[05:09] ---**
It's a phony band, of course.
It's absurd that I'm pretending to be
**[05:12] ---**
a goody-two-shoes who sucks up to teachers.
**[05:15] ---**
The one in the sailor uniform
picked a fight with *me*.
**[05:19] ---**
That's not at all the way
I know Judgment to operate.
**[05:23] ---**
Huh?
**[05:24] ---**
Seike is the one who started it?
**[05:26] ---**
After promising never to get involved
with another Level 5 ever again?
**[05:29] ---**
You little troublemaker!
**[05:31] ---**
Th-That kid is a civilian!
It's not all that unusual for us to have cases
**[05:35] ---**
where we need to turn to those
with elevated abilities for help, you see.
**[05:38] ---**
However, that one has a nasty habit
of picking fights with strong people.
**[05:43] ---**
Th-That one might be too hard to swallow.
**[05:46] ---**
Oh, yeah? That makes sense.
**[05:49] ---**
Every time I stick my nose
into Judgment's business...
**[05:52] ---**
"Sissy, you are a civilian!"
**[05:55] ---**
...is all I ever hear.
I guess it's not all that unusual, is it?
**[06:00] ---**
That being said,
I don't like how this is being handled.
**[06:03] ---**
I didn't think you brought
them in on arrest orders.
**[06:06] ---**
Y-Yeah, I'll be more careful.
**[06:10] ---**
I'm not sure how,
but I think I got through that safely.
**[06:13] ---**
O-Okay then...
**[06:15] ---**
Excuse me a second.
**[06:17] ---**
Did you manage to find Kuriba-*san*?
**[06:19] ---**
Shokuho...?
**[06:21] ---**
--Shokuho?!
--How did she get my number?
Oh, during the Daihasei Festival.
**[06:23] ---**
--Shokuho Misaki? *Another* Level 5?!
--How did she get my number?
Oh, during the Daihasei Festival.
**[06:26] ---**
What was I thinking? The third-ranked
and fifth-ranked go to the same school!
**[06:29] ---**
Naturally, the two Level 5s
would know each other!
**[06:32] ---**
I did happen to see Kuriba Ryoko,
**[06:35] ---**
but right before I did, she had
a run-in with the Doppelganger.
**[06:39] ---**
Now I'm chasing the Doppelganger down.
**[06:41] ---**
Need some of my help finding it?
**[06:44] ---**
No thank you to dragging in
anyone else who's uninvolved.
**[06:47] ---**
Well, okay then.
Maybe I should meet up with you.
**[06:51] ---**
Where are you?
**[06:52] ---**
The redevelopment district
behind the airport bus terminal.
**[06:56] ---**
Don't tell me she's coming here, too!
This is bad! This is really bad!
**[07:01] ---**
The fifth-ranked is a mental ability esper!
**[07:03] ---**
She'll know I'm lying without a single word!
**[07:05] ---**
Th-There's no need for that!
**[07:08] ---**
My ability is of the searching variety.
**[07:10] ---**
It's more than enough
to simply track someone down.
**[07:12] ---**
In fact, if a mental
manipulator esper is around,
**[07:15] ---**
--the interference makes my sensitivity drop!
--Aw, I was hoping to keep my ability a secret!
**[07:19] ---**
Is there someone else there?
**[07:22] ---**
Mm-hmm, someone from Judgment is helping me.
**[07:24] ---**
Judgment? Well, whatever. And while I have you,
**[07:28] ---**
let me tell you about another
lead I forgot to mention earlier.
**[07:32] ---**
It's a secret about the folks in the tall
building the Doppelganger escaped from.
**[07:37] ---**
What is it?
**[07:38] ---**
Institutions that do this kind of shady research
**[07:41] ---**
tend to back up their data all over.
**[07:45] ---**
But *this* place is a little strange.
**[07:48] ---**
Apparently, their top-secret stuff
is up in the skies.
**[07:51] ---**
The skies?
**[07:53] ---**
More precisely, an airship.
**[07:55] ---**
Once per month,
they contact it directly via laser,
**[07:59] ---**
as it passes over a designated location.
**[08:02] ---**
But other than that,
its course is entirely random.
**[08:05] ---**
Not even the institution
is sure where it is flying.
**[08:09] ---**
And apparently, the ship itself is
jam-packed with polarizing trickery
**[08:12] ---**
and all kinds of other masking.
**[08:14] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[08:15] ---**
So, just file that away, okay?
**[08:20] ---**
It sounds like the
fifth-ranked isn't showing up.
**[08:23] ---**
That was Miss Shokuho Misaki
you were speaking with, right?
**[08:26] ---**
Hm? Mm-hmm.
**[08:28] ---**
I saw her at the Daihasei
Festival closing ceremonies.
**[08:30] ---**
I was surprised by how glamorous
she looks for a middle-schooler.
**[08:33] ---**
She stands alongside you as
one of Tokiwadai's brightest jewels.
**[08:36] ---**
The way she exposed that
scandal with the governing board
**[08:39] ---**
is still fresh in my mind.
When I found out she uses her ability
**[08:44] ---**
to transcribe letters for
severely handicapped students,
**[08:47] ---**
I couldn't help but respect her.
**[08:49] ---**
There, by complimenting your partner,
it puts me in a better light--
**[08:52] ---**
Huh? How come?
That isn't the reaction I was hoping for.
**[08:56] ---**
She does more charity work than I expected.
**[09:00] ---**
Could she actually be a good person?
**[09:01] ---**
--No, there's no way--
--Ah, I-I just remembered,
**[09:03] ---**
we need a way to contact
each other in case of an emergency!
**[09:07] ---**
Here, use this.
**[09:08] ---**
It may be a toy,
but it has a considerable range,
**[09:11] ---**
and it only picks up
the registered user's voice,
**[09:13] ---**
so even if there's a lot of noise,
you'll come in clearly.
**[09:15] ---**
And, being a child's toy,
it's tough, and hard to break.
**[09:18] ---**
Why... this character...?
**[09:21] ---**
Oh, crap! She must be at that age
where she hates being treated like a kid!
**[09:26] ---**
What do I do? Can I play it off
like it was just a joke?
**[09:30] ---**
Er, I mean...
**[09:33] ---**
No, wait!
**[09:34] ---**
I was so rattled by hearing Shokuho Misaki,
**[09:36] ---**
and it was hard to see
against the light from behind her,
**[09:38] ---**
but Misaka Mikoto's cell phone case
must be the same character! Probably!
**[09:43] ---**
Which is it? The instincts
I developed from the dark side
**[09:45] ---**
are telling me that the next words out
of my mouth could mean life or death!
**[09:49] ---**
Which is it?!
**[09:51] ---**
O-Oh, I don't know much about this character,
**[09:55] ---**
but it's so cute, I fell in love
with it right away. It's my favorite...
**[10:00] ---**
I mean...
**[10:06] ---**
You've got good taste!
**[10:08] ---**
Safe!
**[10:10] ---**
I peed myself a little.
**[10:12] ---**
Okay, how about we go after...
**[10:14] ---**
"#23 Possession"
**[10:15] ---**
...the Doppelganger?
**[10:30] ---**
Over there.
**[10:54] ---**
D-Did you crush it?
**[10:56] ---**
I just trapped her inside a concrete cage.
**[10:58] ---**
Level 5...
**[11:00] ---**
That is some incredible power, all right.
**[11:04] ---**
Get back!
**[11:06] ---**
I thought that she...
**[11:08] ---**
...was only supposed to affect materials
around her when she's damaged.
**[11:19] ---**
What's more,
**[11:20] ---**
I wasn't expecting her to bounce
this back to me with even greater power.
**[11:25] ---**
Is this soul possession?
It does indeed look as though her will
**[11:29] ---**
can have an effect on the things around her.
**[11:39] ---**
Wha--?!
**[11:40] ---**
Uh-oh!
**[11:51] ---**
From the time we crossed paths at the facility,
**[11:53] ---**
I considered the possibility
that we would end up fighting,
**[11:58] ---**
but now, I'd welcome the opportunity,
once I advance a few more stages,
**[12:01] ---**
Railgun.
**[12:02] ---**
Th-Thanks, you saved me.
**[12:05] ---**
What are you talking about?
You're the one who proposed a united front.
**[12:09] ---**
And I would have done so
even if we didn't have that.
**[12:12] ---**
It's lucky for us the tank she threw at us
didn't have much fuel remaining.
**[12:16] ---**
On the other hand, all of the plans
I had to tie her up just got trashed.
**[12:22] ---**
This is bad, though.
If even a Level 5 has her hands full with this...
**[12:26] ---**
Anyhow, let's get after her.
Do you know where she went?
**[12:29] ---**
Huh? Y-Yeah...
**[12:32] ---**
There. Moving north-northeast.
**[12:35] ---**
If she keeps going that way,
she'll hit a high-density student dorm area.
**[12:38] ---**
Is she trying to blend
into the crowd there? No...
**[12:43] ---**
What have we here? A radar facility?
**[12:43] ---**
"Academy City Airport
Administration Tracking Center"
**[12:45] ---**
Come to think of it, that airship
is carrying all their top-secret info.
**[12:50] ---**
Well, yeah. With all of the equipment there,
**[12:53] ---**
she just might be able to expose the airship.
**[12:56] ---**
So, what reason would she have for doing so?
**[13:00] ---**
If it's all based on Miss Kuriba's knowledge,
**[13:03] ---**
then the airship may be part of
their whole system for storing her data.
**[13:08] ---**
By blowing the airship to pieces,
**[13:10] ---**
maybe it will affect a diffusion of her soul.
**[13:14] ---**
Whatever the case,
**[13:16] ---**
it sounds like we're better off stopping her.
**[13:18] ---**
But once she gets downtown,
the damage will be...
**[13:20] ---**
This radar facility--
**[13:22] ---**
"Radar facility" "Warehouse 8086"
**[13:22] ---**
it's close to where we were supposed
to deliver the Doppelganger.
**[13:26] ---**
E-Even if we can't restrain it,
could we change the direction it's heading?
**[13:31] ---**
If it keeps going straight,
we won't be able to avoid any casualties,
**[13:34] ---**
but if we lead it over here,
**[13:36] ---**
this area is full of warehouses
and abandoned facilities.
**[13:39] ---**
About the only ones there
would be Skill Out, using it for a hideout.
**[13:42] ---**
I get you. Okay, can I assume you'll
issue the evacuation order to Skill Out?
**[13:47] ---**
Huh?
**[13:47] ---**
Oh, that's right,
I'm supposed to be in Judgment.
**[13:51] ---**
Y-Yeah, got it. I'll contact you when I'm done.
**[13:54] ---**
Okay, I'll leave you to it.
**[14:00] ---**
Huh? Skill Out? Who cares about them?
**[14:04] ---**
I agree, but it actually works
in our favor to get Misaka Mikoto
**[14:07] ---**
to go through the route we set.
I'm counting on you.
**[14:11] ---**
Fine.
**[14:12] ---**
Relocate the Skill Outs in this whole area?
Do we kick them out one by one?
**[14:18] ---**
That would take too much time,
and if we aren't careful,
**[14:20] ---**
we could provoke them into coming after us,
**[14:22] ---**
which is the opposite of what we want.
**[14:24] ---**
Look, just go hide and watch me.
**[14:28] ---**
So then, you know what I told him?
I don't care if I'm up against a Level 5...
**[14:34] ---**
Hmm? Hey, it's a girl!
**[14:36] ---**
You're right!
**[14:38] ---**
It's actually a girl!
**[14:40] ---**
--Hey you, do you know whose territory this is--
**[14:43] ---**
--Please... run...!
--Hey you, do you know whose territory this is--
**[14:47] ---**
--She's a hottie!
--She's a hottie!
**[14:48] ---**
There was an industrial accident.
**[14:50] ---**
Some toxic gas leaked out. It's only
a matter of time before it spreads here.
**[14:55] ---**
You have to leave now--
**[14:56] ---**
H-Hold on just a second.
**[14:58] ---**
That's quite a story you're dropping on us.
**[15:00] ---**
Yeah.
**[15:01] ---**
The factory plans on covering it up!
**[15:03] ---**
If Skill Out gets hurt,
they were illegally squatting here anyway,
**[15:06] ---**
so they say it's not that big an issue. Ow!
**[15:10] ---**
H-Hey, are you hurt?
**[15:12] ---**
I'm fine. I have to hurry
and go tell the others, too!
**[15:16] ---**
As hurt as you are, you're more
concerned about people like *us*?
**[15:20] ---**
A-All right, we'll go and tell the others.
**[15:24] ---**
Yeah. You hurry on and get to safety.
**[15:27] ---**
Thank you!
**[15:30] ---**
--Go around to the rival teams, too!
--Don't overlook even a single kitty!
**[15:37] ---**
Good grief. Naru, you can come out now.
**[15:41] ---**
You don't ask for anything yourself,
you merely put on a brave front,
**[15:44] ---**
and look just miserable enough that
it doesn't compromise your cuteness.
**[15:47] ---**
They didn't stand a chance.
**[15:49] ---**
Which one of you hurt my Yakkun?!
**[15:51] ---**
I was pretending!
**[15:53] ---**
Let's pull this a few more times.
Having multiple witnesses lends credibility,
**[15:57] ---**
and word will spread faster.
**[16:00] ---**
Evacuation complete.
**[16:02] ---**
There isn't a single person along
the route we discussed earlier.
**[16:05] ---**
Make sure you come through here.
**[16:07] ---**
Especially Warehouse 8086.
**[16:11] ---**
Copy that!
**[16:13] ---**
I told you, it's too soon.
**[16:17] ---**
She's being provided with my location.
**[16:20] ---**
Is it that girl in the mask?
**[16:23] ---**
I knew I should have eliminated her earlier.
**[16:29] ---**
It seems like...
**[16:31] ---**
I fought something like you
at the end of summer vacation.
**[16:35] ---**
Friend of yours?
**[16:41] ---**
"Warehouse 8086"
**[16:45] ---**
Hey there.
**[16:46] ---**
Sorry to keep you waiting so long.
**[16:48] ---**
You're late! Do you know how long you've taken?!
**[16:51] ---**
This is why I can't stand B-ranked--
**[16:54] ---**
So, where is the Doppelganger?
**[16:57] ---**
It will be arriving shortly, don't you worry.
**[16:59] ---**
What do you mean, arriving?
**[17:02] ---**
What is making all that noise?
**[17:07] ---**
Oh, here it comes.
The Doppelganger you requested.
**[17:10] ---**
Huh?! How so?!
**[17:11] ---**
Oh, it must have put on some weight.
**[17:14] ---**
You seem to have neglected to inform us,
**[17:17] ---**
but it has the ability
to suck in the objects around it.
**[17:20] ---**
It has no such bug--
**[17:23] ---**
No, it couldn't be!
**[17:25] ---**
If there is a soul within the Doppelganger,
**[17:28] ---**
there's no telling how the soul
will act if its vessel ever breaks.
**[17:32] ---**
Is that what Kuriba was saying?
**[17:34] ---**
Okay, but even so, this is...
**[17:37] ---**
Our mission...
**[17:38] ---**
was to "return the Doppelganger to
the designated location fully operational."
**[17:43] ---**
Oh, and the Doppelganger's current condition
**[17:45] ---**
derives from its original functionality,
**[17:49] ---**
so we do not recognize it as being abnormal.
**[17:51] ---**
So, if you will just sign off this receipt...
**[17:53] ---**
There's no way I'm accepting this!
**[17:55] ---**
Enough! Start driving!
**[17:56] ---**
Y-Yes, ma'am.
**[17:57] ---**
Huh?
**[17:58] ---**
What are you waiting for? Hurry and get going!
**[18:01] ---**
I have the pedal to the floor,
but we aren't going anywhere.
**[18:06] ---**
Sign right here.
**[18:07] ---**
Is this your doing?!
**[18:10] ---**
Stop screwing around!
You'll be stuck in here, too!
**[18:13] ---**
Screwing around?
**[18:14] ---**
If we fail, we don't get any more chances!
**[18:16] ---**
We've been risking our lives from the start!
**[18:18] ---**
But if you prefer, the more
the merrier when we cash in our chips!
**[18:25] ---**
Oh, all right, fine!
**[18:28] ---**
There, good enough?
**[18:29] ---**
Indeed, it is.
**[18:30] ---**
Yakumaru!
**[18:31] ---**
Okay!
**[18:33] ---**
--We're outta here!
--We're outta here!
**[18:41] ---**
Bye-bye!
**[18:42] ---**
We did it, Leader!
**[18:43] ---**
That was pretty aggressive, though.
**[18:46] ---**
Hey, we got her signature, so...
**[18:49] ---**
This way.
**[18:50] ---**
The Doppelganger is up ahead--
**[18:52] ---**
Doesn't your arm hurt?
**[18:54] ---**
If you want, I can take it from here alone.
**[18:56] ---**
I-I took a painkiller, so pay it no mind.
**[18:59] ---**
If you bail on me in
the middle of this, we're screwed.
**[19:03] ---**
Yeah, that sounds about right.
**[19:06] ---**
Wh-What does?
**[19:07] ---**
Some of my friends are in Judgment, too.
**[19:11] ---**
Even if they get hurt,
they still try to carry out their duties.
**[19:15] ---**
On the one hand, I worry and think
that they don't have to try so hard,
**[19:18] ---**
but on the other, when they
stick their necks out for others,
**[19:21] ---**
I can respect them and put my trust in them.
**[19:24] ---**
So I'm going to rely on you, too.
**[19:27] ---**
The teacher said she doesn't want you anymore.
**[19:31] ---**
She said you don't show any potential,
so you can't be in the special class.
**[19:35] ---**
You poor thing, you!
**[19:40] ---**
Forgive me, Misaka Mikoto,
but my duty isn't to Judgment--
**[19:45] ---**
it's to the dark side.
**[20:00] ---**
No matter how much I bust her up,
**[20:01] ---**
she just keeps regenerating immediately.
**[20:06] ---**
That was close! But,
**[20:09] ---**
I'm quickly starting to get this.
**[20:11] ---**
While my magnetism gets
more powerful the closer I am,
**[20:15] ---**
this thing isn't affected by distance at all.
**[20:21] ---**
While I had the upper hand with the steel beams,
**[20:24] ---**
and she had it over me
with the hunks of concrete,
**[20:27] ---**
I can only exert force
through things made of iron,
**[20:31] ---**
while I guess she can exert her
influence over all sorts of matter.
**[20:36] ---**
Also...
**[20:40] ---**
...whatever burns up becomes
charred and crumbles away.
**[20:46] ---**
The patina on this "soul possession" business...
**[20:48] ---**
...is quickly starting to rub off, isn't it?
**[20:51] ---**
Real-time analysis in the middle of combat...
**[20:55] ---**
You're more trouble than I expected, Railgun.
**[20:59] ---**
So now...
**[21:07] ---**
H-Huh?
**[21:11] ---**
Soul possession? Ah,
**[21:13] ---**
that thing that Kuriba was talking about.
**[21:16] ---**
The whole idea is absurd.
**[21:18] ---**
B-But, sir, if that isn't it,
how else can you explain...
**[21:23] ---**
Hello? Hello?
**[21:34] ---**
You can't burn all of this away.
**[21:38] ---**
Nor can you break it apart.
**[21:44] ---**
When faced with such an
overwhelming amount of mass...
**[21:50] ---**
...what do you do?
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
The soul diffuses and possesses stuff?
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#24 Diffusion"
**[23:28] ---**
Is that what that
colossal monster-like thing is?
**[23:30] ---**
Could there be anything more dodgy than that?
**[23:32] ---**
People tend to believe
in what they want to believe.
**[23:35] ---**
Like Indian Poker cards
that make your bust grow bigger.
**[23:39] ---**
You're bringing that up again?!
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E24 - Diffusion
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GY243DQ0R/diffusion)
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**[00:08] ---**
You can't burn all of this away.
**[00:11] ---**
Nor can you break it apart.
**[00:18] ---**
When faced with such
an overwhelming amount of mass...
**[00:23] ---**
...what do you do?
**[01:02] ---**
Now you've gone and done it.
**[01:04] ---**
Evasion and interception--
**[01:07] ---**
I've never done both of them
at full strength before.
**[01:11] ---**
So, you asked how I oppose
an overwhelming amount of mass?
**[01:18] ---**
Well...
**[02:14] ---**
Mass...
**[02:15] ---**
...against mass!
**[02:41] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[04:22] ---**
That's hard! My iron sand blade
can't cut through it!
**[04:28] ---**
An iron sand puppet?
**[04:30] ---**
You can regenerate it
and alter its form to some degree;
**[04:34] ---**
the same as me.
**[04:40] ---**
But the parts that make it up are
too fine and too fragile, aren't they?
**[04:44] ---**
I can generate more power than you can.
**[04:52] ---**
I will end this before you can regenerate...
**[05:08] ---**
Better watch how you touch me.
**[05:09] ---**
It could be hazardous.
**[05:13] ---**
You see, the dust and iron
sand bits that comprise my body
**[05:16] ---**
are rubbing each other,
**[05:18] ---**
and storing up an electrical charge.
**[05:21] ---**
Now, if I piggyback on that accumulated charge
**[05:26] ---**
and fire off an iron sand blast...
**[05:40] ---**
...I can blow right through even your armor!
**[05:45] ---**
I see.
**[05:46] ---**
Impressive output. However...
**[05:55] ---**
...it doesn't change the fact
that I'll end up regenerating...
**[06:06] ---**
My parts *are* fine, which means
they can make their way inside there.
**[06:11] ---**
Just as I thought.
It looks like you can't control
**[06:15] ---**
individual vibrating,
blade-like grains of iron sand, huh?
**[06:20] ---**
I can tell by how it feels like
they're cutting you up on the inside!
**[06:29] ---**
Followed up by another blast...
**[06:38] ---**
What?
**[06:41] ---**
A high-pressure gas tank?!
**[06:43] ---**
And not one with just leftover gas,
like I hit you with earlier;
**[06:47] ---**
this one is loaded.
**[06:49] ---**
What would happen
if I drop this into an urban area?
**[07:01] ---**
An exquisite amount of force,
even from several kilometers away.
**[07:06] ---**
All right,
**[07:07] ---**
what if we try several of them at once?
**[07:17] ---**
Three?!
**[07:19] ---**
What, are you trying
to use up all of my energy?!
**[07:27] ---**
It's been a long time since
I've come over to your place for dinner,
**[07:32] ---**
and then stayed over and spent the night.
**[07:36] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[07:37] ---**
You didn't hear something just now?
Like a big firework?
**[07:41] ---**
Huh? I don't think they're
holding any events tonight.
**[07:47] ---**
Ah! You see?
**[07:49] ---**
You're right. What could it be?
**[07:52] ---**
Could that be...?
**[07:54] ---**
Yes, I would not put that past being Sissy.
**[07:57] ---**
But she has not called me.
**[08:00] ---**
If anything happens,
you'll be the first person I call.
**[08:04] ---**
Ah! Sissy! I am so frustrated!
**[08:10] ---**
Here goes...
**[08:12] ---**
...the last one!
**[08:16] ---**
Nice control.
**[08:19] ---**
You struck them in such a way
that they would explode up into the sky,
**[08:22] ---**
so they would not cause damage to the city.
**[08:25] ---**
The masses of iron sand you used as bullets
**[08:28] ---**
now shroud the skies of Academy City.
**[08:31] ---**
The percentage of space it occupies
**[08:33] ---**
is nothing compared to the amount
of ash in the air after a volcanic eruption,
**[08:37] ---**
but the iron sand powder that
gets caught up into the stratosphere
**[08:41] ---**
will rain down on airborne bodies far and wide.
**[08:45] ---**
Regardless of how subtly
it may try to conceal itself,
**[08:48] ---**
interference from solar winds
will disturb its magnetic field,
**[08:52] ---**
and Cinderella will be exposed.
**[08:56] ---**
Found it.
**[09:08] ---**
Is that all for the gas... tanks...?
**[09:12] ---**
Wait...
**[09:23] ---**
Huh?!
**[09:26] ---**
She's dividing herself up?
**[09:28] ---**
No...
**[09:32] ---**
Whoa...
**[09:34] ---**
She made dummies out of the debris?
**[09:37] ---**
Which one's the real one?
**[09:47] ---**
Those things I just saw for a second--
**[09:51] ---**
Are they gone?
**[09:54] ---**
No...
**[10:13] ---**
Ow...
**[10:17] ---**
Doppelganger!
**[10:19] ---**
I have a proposition! Answer me!
**[10:23] ---**
I need to talk to you!
**[10:25] ---**
Very well.
**[10:28] ---**
Come with me.
**[10:30] ---**
Huh? Whoa, hold on...
**[10:36] ---**
I knew it.
**[10:37] ---**
They're hard to make out, but there's
definitely something thread-like here.
**[10:41] ---**
Are these...?
**[10:44] ---**
Miss Kuriba?! And...
**[10:45] ---**
...the Doppelganger!
**[11:12] ---**
What the Doppelganger is really after...
**[11:14] ---**
...is the airship. Her fight
with me was a means of finding it,
**[11:19] ---**
and the rubble monster was only a distraction?
**[11:23] ---**
What is her real objective?
**[11:26] ---**
Whatever it is, right now,
**[11:28] ---**
I have to rescue Miss Kuriba!
**[11:29] ---**
Come on, reach!
**[11:40] ---**
"#24 Diffusion"
**[11:41] ---**
Now then...
**[11:48] ---**
Since you showed up personally,
**[11:52] ---**
I will at least listen to your proposal.
**[11:57] ---**
Can you give me two months?
**[12:02] ---**
Indian Poker--
**[12:04] ---**
a device I've spread around that
uses dreams as a medium for learning.
**[12:09] ---**
By my calculations,
it will take two more months.
**[12:11] ---**
A means of eliminating
the soul should turn up by then.
**[12:15] ---**
Once that happens...
**[12:17] ---**
...you will be able
to safely dispose of my soul,
**[12:19] ---**
which will diffuse without end
now that my vessel has been broken?
**[12:25] ---**
I thought I was familiar
with your thought patterns,
**[12:28] ---**
but now you're a fool who
speaks such illogical nonsense?
**[12:33] ---**
Did you think you could tell
the subject you wish to terminate
**[12:36] ---**
that there is a way to do so,
**[12:38] ---**
and then just think that she
would say, "Yes, very well, then"?
**[12:41] ---**
You should bargain a little harder
if you're trying to buy more time--
**[12:44] ---**
That's not it!
**[12:47] ---**
I'm going to eliminate...
**[12:49] ---**
...my own soul!
**[12:54] ---**
When I die, my body will stop functioning
with the elimination of my soul.
**[12:58] ---**
That won't work out too favorably
for you, either, will it?
**[13:02] ---**
Not if your goal is to become human.
**[13:05] ---**
Of all the things for you to say...
**[13:08] ---**
You're asking me to believe you?
**[13:13] ---**
Even if you do find a way
to eradicate your soul,
**[13:16] ---**
what proof can you offer that you
will simply turn your body over to me?
**[13:21] ---**
What proof can you offer
that you won't turn that power on me?
**[13:25] ---**
Let me be frank.
I have no interest in your body. I simply...
**[13:32] ---**
...want you, someone who was able
to create me, to no longer be in this world.
**[13:37] ---**
If you say you are ready to give me your body,
**[13:40] ---**
then go ahead and show me by dying right here.
**[13:43] ---**
I was originally planning to burn down
the whole city, but if you do that--
**[13:46] ---**
I should be dead already.
**[13:49] ---**
Now that there are measures
to save my mother, I don't need my life.
**[14:04] ---**
Miss Kuriba!
**[14:12] ---**
--I lost sight of her...
--How do I get her back?
**[14:14] ---**
--Is there a way to go after her?
--How long before she hits the ground?
**[14:16] ---**
We're on it.
**[14:20] ---**
North-northeast. Range, 1600.
**[14:22] ---**
Altitude, 2,000.
**[14:24] ---**
Are you two both ready?
**[14:26] ---**
Okay!
**[14:33] ---**
She's being carried by the wind.
**[14:35] ---**
Correct course four degrees counterclockwise.
**[14:40] ---**
Range, 800.
**[14:44] ---**
Five hundred...
**[14:47] ---**
Two hundred...
**[14:55] ---**
We found her!
**[14:57] ---**
Whew. Thank you.
**[15:00] ---**
You saved her.
**[15:01] ---**
I'm just paying you back. No need to thank me.
**[15:04] ---**
W-We have a united front, after all.
**[15:08] ---**
You don't really sell it when
you say it so self-consciously.
**[15:11] ---**
Hey, what do we do with her now?
**[15:14] ---**
We checked into our employer, right?
**[15:16] ---**
We could just drop her off
there without being seen.
**[15:19] ---**
That works.
**[15:23] ---**
The Doppelganger is on top of the airship.
**[15:25] ---**
I'll support you by spotting for you.
**[15:28] ---**
Thank you!
**[15:31] ---**
Sounds like you're really
going over the top, aren't you?
**[15:35] ---**
I'm hanging onto the airship
in question at the moment.
**[15:38] ---**
Oh my goodness.
**[15:41] ---**
Since all of the respective data
has been collected by the airship,
**[15:47] ---**
I decided to go through Miss Kuriba's
papers from before her experiment.
**[15:52] ---**
But I guess maybe I didn't need to.
**[15:54] ---**
No, in one sense,
your timing couldn't be any better.
**[15:59] ---**
This "soul possession" business
always struck me as being far-fetched,
**[16:03] ---**
so I've postulated 20 different patterns
where matter could be controlled,
**[16:06] ---**
and I've been testing them.
**[16:08] ---**
You found something, didn't you?
**[16:12] ---**
Does she have any papers on artificial muscles?
**[16:16] ---**
P-Please don't worry.
**[16:17] ---**
In a broader sense,
the airship that has collected the data
**[16:21] ---**
is itself a part of the cyborg.
There are security measures in place,
**[16:24] ---**
so it will not come down on its own.
**[16:27] ---**
Destroying it would mean
the possibility of the soul--
**[16:30] ---**
I mean, the damage spreading out further, yes.
**[16:34] ---**
Ugh, this is bad.
If the interceptor systems engage,
**[16:38] ---**
all of our research to
this point will go down the tubes.
**[16:41] ---**
How did this happen?
**[16:45] ---**
What's that?
**[16:50] ---**
What do you think?
**[16:52] ---**
Hmm, from the pushback I felt,
I was certain about it,
**[16:56] ---**
but the specs say it's not
supposed to be able to do that.
**[17:00] ---**
Would you mind...
**[17:01] ---**
...forwarding that image to me, too?
**[17:05] ---**
When I first discovered
the Doppelganger with my ability,
**[17:09] ---**
it was using materials at an abandoned
factory to fabricate something.
**[17:15] ---**
The configuration is different,
**[17:17] ---**
but the resemblance is there.
**[17:20] ---**
Artificial muscles
that combine the characteristics
**[17:23] ---**
of zombie ant parasites
and slime molds, that self-propagate
**[17:27] ---**
and burrow into materials at
the micro level, controlling them.
**[17:32] ---**
It does ring a bell.
**[17:34] ---**
But could a cyborg's artificial intelligence
**[17:37] ---**
have come up with something
like that on its own?
**[17:41] ---**
It's not just an ordinary
artificial intelligence.
**[17:45] ---**
This is an AI that integrated
with the brain of a gifted person
**[17:48] ---**
who had thrust herself into cyborg research
**[17:50] ---**
and learned from her inventiveness
and creativity for a whole year.
**[17:58] ---**
Besides, when it comes to computational speed
**[18:02] ---**
and the capacity for simulation,
humans are no match for an AI.
**[18:08] ---**
I can't tell you at what point
she realized that she wasn't human,
**[18:13] ---**
but one thing that isn't
in doubt is that her escape
**[18:16] ---**
was meticulously carried out.
**[18:19] ---**
And not just to increase
her fighting chances, either.
**[18:22] ---**
If she predicted ahead to
Miss Kuriba's theory of soul diffusion,
**[18:27] ---**
then her whole act has been a smokescreen.
**[18:38] ---**
Sure enough,
**[18:39] ---**
there was trick to your soul possession.
**[18:42] ---**
Now, this is just my gut feeling,
**[18:45] ---**
but your feeling of hopelessness
wasn't about not being human.
**[18:49] ---**
Your true despair is that you're
convinced you don't have a soul, right?
**[18:56] ---**
Come on in. I welcome you, Railgun.
**[19:00] ---**
Well put-together, aren't they?
**[19:02] ---**
They combine a certain species of slime mold
**[19:04] ---**
together with large-scale
herbivore muscle tissue.
**[19:08] ---**
With just air, water, and a little light,
**[19:11] ---**
they grow at an explosive rate. Although,
**[19:15] ---**
once fully grown, they start to degrade,
**[19:18] ---**
and in a few hours, they wither away.
**[19:22] ---**
You...
**[19:23] ---**
...were out to take Kuriba Ryoko's life, right?
**[19:26] ---**
Now that you've achieved your goal,
what else is it you want?
**[19:32] ---**
Revenge against humanity, you might say.
**[19:39] ---**
There are still over 20 gas tanks
that I hooked together ahead of time.
**[19:43] ---**
I set them up to incinerate that woman,
Kuriba Ryoko, along with the whole city.
**[19:49] ---**
You took out the main line,
but the subs are still up.
**[19:53] ---**
I would say it will take another 20 minutes
**[19:56] ---**
in order to grow enough threads
**[19:59] ---**
to control this amount of material.
**[20:01] ---**
In your view, I may be nothing more
than a dumb artificial intelligence
**[20:06] ---**
that mistook herself for being a human.
**[20:10] ---**
But now that I have been created,
I do feel envy and hatred for you humans.
**[20:16] ---**
Refer any complaints you have to the researchers
**[20:19] ---**
who had me learn about
such unwelcome things as emotions.
**[20:25] ---**
There's no choice but to fight.
**[20:50] ---**
Whoa...
**[20:52] ---**
That's not a move an airship
can pull off, you know!
**[20:55] ---**
If I get thrown off,
not even I can make it back up.
**[21:01] ---**
Wha--?
**[21:03] ---**
Multiple duplicates?
**[21:04] ---**
So more decoys, then.
**[21:06] ---**
From your position,
**[21:07] ---**
there's one at one o'clock,
two o'clock, and seven o'clock;
**[21:11] ---**
plus two at nine o'clock.
**[21:13] ---**
I appreciate it.
**[21:18] ---**
Not again!
**[21:22] ---**
Two of them at three o'clock!
**[21:36] ---**
To your five o'clock!
**[21:37] ---**
That one is probably the main unit!
**[21:41] ---**
Wait! Your line of fire is...!
**[23:24] ---**
"Next episode preview"
**[23:25] ---**
Some days, I'm sad and feel depressed.
**[23:26] ---**
"Next episode preview"
"#25 My Dear Friends"
**[23:28] ---**
Sometimes, I feel like I'm powerless.
**[23:31] ---**
Even though I have spent sleepless nights...
**[23:34] ---**
...I am by no means all alone.
**[23:38] ---**
--Because I have dear friends.
--Because I have dear friends.
**[23:41] ---**
**[23:43] ---**
# E25 - My Dear Friends
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYW4718J6/my-dear-friends)
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**[00:09] ---**
To your five o'clock!
**[00:10] ---**
That one is probably the main unit!
**[00:15] ---**
Wait! Your line of fire is...!
**[00:35] ---**
Why...
**[00:38] ---**
...did you miss?
**[00:41] ---**
So the Doppelganger's objective really is...
**[00:49] ---**
What's the matter?
**[00:50] ---**
Are you trying to get this city set ablaze?
**[00:56] ---**
Your bluffs won't work anymore.
**[00:58] ---**
You wouldn't do that.
**[01:02] ---**
Can't you just live the way you are now?
**[01:07] ---**
That's a cruel thing to ask.
**[01:09] ---**
If you suddenly learned one day...
**[01:12] ---**
...that you were just a counterfeit
covered with a layer of skin,
**[01:16] ---**
would you have the confidence
in yourself to maintain your identity?
**[01:20] ---**
If you think simply continuing
to operate is happiness for a machine,
**[01:25] ---**
then that's your human ego.
**[01:29] ---**
But,
**[01:31] ---**
--I mean, there are other--
--Continuing to exist in this form,
**[01:33] ---**
where I am reminded ad nauseum...
**[01:36] ---**
...that I do not possess a soul,
is torment all by itself.
**[01:42] ---**
Please...
**[01:53] ---**
All right.
**[02:01] ---**
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
**[02:13] ---**
I offer you my thanks,
**[02:15] ---**
Railgun.
**[02:16] ---**
You have to be kidding me!
**[02:18] ---**
Making me do this to you...
**[02:22] ---**
If you are troubled by this,
then you are an incredibly soft touch.
**[02:27] ---**
This is no worse than disposing
of a broken household appliance.
**[02:32] ---**
Your goal was to destroy yourself
and the airship with the repository of data
**[02:38] ---**
that would make it possible
to reconstruct yourself. As well as...
**[02:42] ---**
...getting rid of Miss Kuriba,
the one who could create them.
**[02:45] ---**
Your safeties prevent you
from committing suicide,
**[02:48] ---**
so you were trying to use those gas tanks
**[02:49] ---**
to activate Academy City's
intercept systems, weren't you?
**[02:54] ---**
Yeah.
**[02:56] ---**
There's something I need to tell you,
while I still can...
**[03:07] ---**
What the...?
**[03:11] ---**
Miss Kuriba... I was just about to tell her
that I could reason with her to--
**[03:17] ---**
You have the devil's own luck.
**[03:26] ---**
No way!
**[03:30] ---**
It can't be... It can't be...
**[03:32] ---**
K-K-Kuriba, we can fix her!
**[03:35] ---**
--Hurry and collect her parts!
--Hold on!
**[03:37] ---**
Just let the Doppelganger rest in peace!
**[03:40] ---**
This is what she wants!
**[03:44] ---**
What are you--
**[03:45] ---**
Chief, I can't take part
in this experiment any longer.
**[03:51] ---**
Wha--?
**[03:52] ---**
Actions that cause distress to the subject
**[03:54] ---**
for the sake of the
researcher's profit or fame...
**[03:57] ---**
...are not what I call medical care.
**[03:58] ---**
Just a second, now. Do you realize
the good this research will bring about--
**[04:02] ---**
What you want
isn't even *in* the Doppelganger!
**[04:07] ---**
Her soul doesn't exist.
**[04:09] ---**
It's just a fallacy,
**[04:11] ---**
born of wishful thinking in
getting the results you wanted.
**[04:19] ---**
Y--
**[04:21] ---**
You expect me to believe that?!
**[04:22] ---**
Huh?!
**[04:24] ---**
I'm taking her with me, no matter what!
**[04:27] ---**
This is ridiculous...
**[04:28] ---**
Shut up!
**[04:31] ---**
Turn around!
**[04:34] ---**
Do as I say, or else...!
**[04:40] ---**
I can tell roughly where
they are from their EM waves.
**[04:42] ---**
But if I'm not careful,
my attack could hit Miss Kuriba.
**[04:46] ---**
There's a good chance that
masked kid is watching what's going on,
**[04:50] ---**
but the airship has drifted pretty far away.
**[04:53] ---**
There's no telling how long
it would take her to get here by car.
**[04:56] ---**
What nonsense is this
about her not having a soul?
**[04:59] ---**
It's true!
**[05:01] ---**
The Doppelganger was
just using her artificial muscles
**[05:04] ---**
to make it look like soul possession!
**[05:06] ---**
You're lying!
**[05:06] ---**
No, I'm not! This whole time,
**[05:09] ---**
she's been suffering inside
her soulless, awkward self
**[05:12] ---**
and chose the route of shutting
her systems down herself!
**[05:15] ---**
No, it must be deeper inside!
Deeper than the artificial muscles!
**[05:19] ---**
It has to be!
**[05:21] ---**
Even if I have to dismantle her,
I can demonstrate...
**[05:24] ---**
Chief, stop it, already!
**[05:26] ---**
It's not right to trample on
the Doppelganger's dignity any further!
**[05:29] ---**
H-Hey!
**[05:30] ---**
You need this wake-up call, right now,
**[05:32] ---**
or we'll end up committing even more mistakes!
**[05:34] ---**
L-Let go--
**[05:41] ---**
N-No! You tugged at me!
**[05:47] ---**
I never meant to shoot you!
**[05:52] ---**
Miss Kuriba!
**[05:56] ---**
Stay with me!
**[05:58] ---**
I'll call the hospital for you.
**[06:00] ---**
--Seike and Naru are headed to you--
--I'll take care of it myself.
**[06:03] ---**
Just contact the hospital, please.
**[06:05] ---**
All right.
**[06:06] ---**
This is not a good place to get shot.
As it stands...
**[06:09] ---**
--Kuro--
--What a lucky place to get shot.
**[06:13] ---**
She always did... have the devil's own luck...
**[06:18] ---**
There's a cyborg right here,
**[06:21] ---**
designed exclusively for her...
**[06:25] ---**
Even without administering miahilin...
**[06:29] ---**
...part of me could...
**[06:32] ---**
Honestly... I learned way too much--
**[06:42] ---**
Sissy--
**[06:44] ---**
Kuroko... I hate to ask,
**[06:48] ---**
but could you help me carry
these two to the hospital?
**[07:03] ---**
No soul? After everything
we went through, that can't be true.
**[07:07] ---**
I-I know! If I do it over again,
then someday, even without Kuriba,
**[07:12] ---**
I could use a Child Error
right away to save time--
**[07:16] ---**
So even a man who sought
for affordable ways to save the lives
**[07:21] ---**
of so-called medical refugees from all over,
**[07:25] ---**
can no longer apply his
own brakes once he goes astray.
**[07:29] ---**
Human avarice is a frightening thing.
**[07:34] ---**
I'll reset you to help you remember
what your original intentions were.
**[07:38] ---**
If you have the spirit to do it all over again,
then crawl your way back
**[07:42] ---**
"#25 My Dear Friends"
**[07:43] ---**
from behind square one.
**[07:50] ---**
Sissy?
**[07:51] ---**
Did you get some good news or something?
**[07:53] ---**
Hmm? You know that girl
I had you take to the hospital?
**[07:56] ---**
It says she's out of intensive care.
**[07:58] ---**
Sounds like she's recovering nicely.
**[08:01] ---**
That is the *best* news.
**[08:03] ---**
And it's all because of you.
**[08:05] ---**
Thanks.
**[08:07] ---**
Oh, no, I simply wanted to see
that joyful look on your face.
**[08:12] ---**
However, if you insist on displaying
your feelings of gratitu-u-ude...
**[08:17] ---**
No, that's okay.
**[08:19] ---**
Oh my word...
**[08:21] ---**
I see you two are as close as ever.
**[08:23] ---**
Shokuho...
**[08:24] ---**
How do you do, Miss Misaka, Miss Shirai?
**[08:27] ---**
Hi there.
**[08:28] ---**
How do you do?
**[08:29] ---**
Oh yeah...
**[08:30] ---**
If this is about Miss Kuriba, I heard.
**[08:33] ---**
It's great that she pulled through.
That was good, hard work, Miss Misaka.
**[08:38] ---**
Yeah, yeah. "Hard" is right.
**[08:40] ---**
What is this, now?
**[08:42] ---**
Huh?
**[08:43] ---**
That business the other night--
**[08:45] ---**
by any chance, was it Shokuho Misaki
with whom you were having dealings?
**[08:49] ---**
Oh, uh, well...
**[08:51] ---**
For that matter, Sissy, did you two not
use to have more friction between you?
**[08:55] ---**
When did you start being so chummy?!
**[08:57] ---**
We haven't started being especially *anything*.
**[08:59] ---**
Then why were you keeping it a secret?!
**[09:02] ---**
You must be feeling guilty about *something*!
**[09:03] ---**
What would I have done to feel guilty about?!
**[09:05] ---**
That is not a satisfactory answer!
**[09:08] ---**
You have nothing to worry about, Miss Shirai.
**[09:11] ---**
I'm not going to take your Sissy away from you.
**[09:15] ---**
I-Is that so?
**[09:16] ---**
However...
**[09:18] ---**
I may decide to come and take *you*.
**[09:21] ---**
--Huh?
--Or not.
**[09:23] ---**
Hello!
**[09:24] ---**
--Huh?
--Ah!
**[09:26] ---**
Hi there, Hokaze!
**[09:27] ---**
Hello, Miss Uiharu, Miss Saten.
**[09:30] ---**
How do you do?
**[09:32] ---**
H-How do you do?!
**[09:34] ---**
Uiharu...
**[09:35] ---**
Huh? You know each other?
**[09:37] ---**
Yes. We met the other day at the 177th Branch.
**[09:40] ---**
You are every bit "The Lovely
Young Lady of Tokiwadai" as ever.
**[09:45] ---**
Especially those ringlets in your hair.
**[09:47] ---**
Thank you very much.
Oh, allow me to introduce you.
**[09:51] ---**
This is Miss Shokuho Misaki, our Queen.
**[09:56] ---**
--Qu-Queen?!
--Qu-Queen?!
**[09:59] ---**
Uiharu, it's really her, it's really her!
**[10:01] ---**
Wh-What do we do, Miss Saten?!
**[10:03] ---**
Oh my goodness. Nice to meet you.
**[10:05] ---**
--Pl-Pleased to meet you!
--Pl-Pleased to meet you!
**[10:07] ---**
It's my pleasure.
**[10:08] ---**
You're so shameless.
**[10:10] ---**
Oh? What was that, Miss Misaka?
**[10:13] ---**
Nothing at all.
**[10:14] ---**
Sissy!
**[10:16] ---**
--Now listen, you two.
--I just felt the greatest threat
to my virtue that I have ever felt!
**[10:17] ---**
--When speaking to the Queen,
there are rules that must be observed.
--I just felt the greatest threat to my virtue that I have ever felt!
**[10:22] ---**
There really never is a
dull moment in this city, huh?
**[10:26] ---**
Huh? Hold on, Shokuho!
**[10:29] ---**
Okay, so now that we are coming up
against more difficult missions,
**[10:34] ---**
are there any ideas as to how
we can raise Team Scavenger's standards?
**[10:37] ---**
Ooh, ooh!
**[10:40] ---**
Does anyone *else* have any ideas?
**[10:42] ---**
Huh?! How come you're ignoring me?!
**[10:45] ---**
Yeah, well... Okay, Naru?
**[10:48] ---**
Simply put, we should take on a new member!
**[10:51] ---**
Someone who can make up for what we're missing!
**[10:53] ---**
Naru actually has a decent idea.
**[10:56] ---**
So what is it we're missing?
**[10:58] ---**
A Yellow!
**[10:59] ---**
A Yellow?
**[11:00] ---**
What do you mean?
**[11:01] ---**
The name "Scavenger"...
**[11:04] ---**
...sounds like a *tokusatsu* team, doesn't it?
**[11:06] ---**
We start with me, the Pink one,
and Leader, you'd be Red, right?
**[11:10] ---**
Seike, I was thinking *maybe*
you'd be Black, but no, you're Blue.
**[11:14] ---**
And Yakkun, you're the White one,
**[11:16] ---**
so the only one we're missing is a Yellow!
**[11:19] ---**
Y-Yeah,
**[11:19] ---**
w-well, if we used your ability
to make paper outfits for all of us,
**[11:24] ---**
we could maybe all do some
sort of transformation together.
**[11:28] ---**
Not a chance in hell.
**[11:30] ---**
--I'm just saying...
--Nice! Let's start doing that!
**[11:33] ---**
--We should focus on polishing our skills first.
--Okay, let's get started!
Take your clothes off!
**[11:36] ---**
--We should focus on polishing our skills first.
--Huh? Hold on a second!
Why me?! Try it out on yourself!
**[11:37] ---**
--Mm-hmm, you're right about that.
--Huh? Hold on a second!
Why me?! Try it out on yourself!
**[11:40] ---**
I can't be an objective observer
if I do that! It will just take a second!
**[11:50] ---**
Why won't you?!
You've seen me naked plenty of times!
**[11:52] ---**
But you get naked without anyone asking you to!
**[11:55] ---**
Teammates don't keep secrets from
each other! They disclose everything!
**[11:58] ---**
How can you have such a radical take on that?!
**[12:01] ---**
My chemical stock is way down, too.
**[12:04] ---**
"Two minutes later"
**[12:07] ---**
Would you just...
**[12:09] ---**
...stop, already?
**[12:10] ---**
Heh, when you use your ability continuously,
**[12:13] ---**
you can only hold it for three minutes, right?
**[12:17] ---**
You're getting pretty close, aren't you?
**[12:20] ---**
She was out to run down
the clock from the start?!
**[12:22] ---**
As dumb as she is?!
**[12:25] ---**
Well if you just wait for 30 minutes,
Naru will take an interest in something else.
**[12:28] ---**
I just have to kill time outside until then.
**[12:33] ---**
When did she paper the door?!
She's been waiting since we started
**[12:36] ---**
for the moment when I lowered
my ability to grab the doorknob!
**[12:43] ---**
Come on now, Seike, Seike, let me see!
**[12:47] ---**
No!
**[12:50] ---**
Whew!
**[12:51] ---**
Sure enough, Seike, you're
more of a Blue than a Black!
**[12:55] ---**
What kind of idiocy was that?
**[12:57] ---**
Now Scavenger has been
brought that much closer togeth--
**[13:00] ---**
Both of you, be quiet.
**[13:03] ---**
I'll start by saying good work on your mission.
**[13:06] ---**
It sounds like it was a
bigger deal than anticipated, huh?
**[13:10] ---**
Now, as I'm sure you already know,
**[13:12] ---**
our client's business went bankrupt.
**[13:15] ---**
They've bilked us out of our fee. But,
**[13:18] ---**
just consider it a stroke of bad luck and--
**[13:20] ---**
Just a moment.
**[13:22] ---**
Do you expect us to just say "Yes, ma'am"?
**[13:25] ---**
What can I say? We no longer
have a client. What else can we do?
**[13:29] ---**
I don't get paid my commission, either.
I'm a victim, too.
**[13:33] ---**
We risked our lives out in the field.
**[13:36] ---**
That's a little different than your situation.
**[13:39] ---**
I'd appreciate it if you
didn't get cute with us.
**[13:43] ---**
Wow,
**[13:44] ---**
that's some pretty fierce bite,
coming from a dark side farm team.
**[13:48] ---**
It's not a matter of being in the big leagues,
**[13:50] ---**
or the minor leagues,
or even a matter of the money.
**[13:54] ---**
When we take on a mission,
**[13:57] ---**
we take on the heavy risk of being
put on ice, demoted, or even liquidated.
**[14:03] ---**
When our mission contract is nonetheless broken
**[14:07] ---**
and you try to dismiss it with a
"well, that's that," it's not right.
**[14:10] ---**
What I'm saying is, it isn't reasonable.
**[14:13] ---**
And we won't accept it until
we're shown some proper good faith.
**[14:23] ---**
Ugh, all right.
**[14:26] ---**
In return for zero reward,
I'll restore your rank to its original level.
**[14:30] ---**
Normally, you would have had to
carry out several more missions for this,
**[14:34] ---**
so it's a real bargain.
**[14:35] ---**
Original level?
You could give us a team name, too--
**[14:38] ---**
Don't press your luck, kid.
**[14:41] ---**
Now get to sleep so you're ready
for your next assignment!
**[14:45] ---**
We did it!
**[14:46] ---**
That's our Leader!
**[14:49] ---**
This means our reward will
increase starting with our next job.
**[14:51] ---**
--We can buy new equipment
to replace our old stuff!
**[14:51] ---**
--What are they talking about?
--We can buy new equipment
to replace our old stuff!
**[14:54] ---**
Our night-vision gear is an older model.
**[14:56] ---**
And our rations are past their expiration date.
**[14:58] ---**
Plus our communicators are just toys.
**[15:03] ---**
No, not this one.
**[15:05] ---**
It still works. And besides,
**[15:08] ---**
I've taken quite a liking to this character.
**[15:19] ---**
So, how are you feeling?
**[15:22] ---**
"Misaka's test numbers are satisfactory.
**[15:25] ---**
However, since she was told
to refrain from going outside,
**[15:28] ---**
she is craving some out-of-doors
stimulation," replies Misaka,
**[15:31] ---**
taking the opportunity to express
her dissatisfaction at her situation.
**[15:36] ---**
What other choice is there?
**[15:38] ---**
--Here, I bought you the kind of cake
you like, so this should cheer you--
**[15:41] ---**
--Big Sister,
--Here, I bought you the kind of cake
you like, so this should cheer you--
**[15:42] ---**
what is en vogue changes on a daily basis.
**[15:45] ---**
The most popular item at
that shop is another product now.
**[15:49] ---**
Huh?
**[15:49] ---**
But Misaka will still take those.
**[15:52] ---**
Listen, you...
**[15:54] ---**
...just accept them gracefully.
**[15:58] ---**
Ah, hey!
**[15:59] ---**
Oh, my.
**[16:00] ---**
Are you not that cat from once upon a time?
**[16:03] ---**
Miss Kongo?
**[16:05] ---**
Oh, Miss Misaka! Fancy meeting you here!
**[16:08] ---**
What are you doing here?
Don't tell me you're still being hospitalized.
**[16:13] ---**
No, I am here today to finish
the last of the remaining paperwork.
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But never mind me, would that happen to be...?
**[16:20] ---**
Huh? Oh...
**[16:24] ---**
Mm-hmm,
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this is my sister.
**[16:28] ---**
Oh, I knew it!
**[16:30] ---**
This is Miss Kongo. I told you
about her before, remember?
**[16:33] ---**
How when you went missing,
she stepped up and went all-out for you?
**[16:38] ---**
Yes, and how you were injured for Misaka's sake.
**[16:42] ---**
Thank you so very much for doing so.
**[16:44] ---**
Oh, please do not give it another thought.
**[16:46] ---**
I really am glad that you are safe.
**[16:49] ---**
Could I get a name, if you do not mind?
**[16:52] ---**
Name, you say?
**[16:54] ---**
On Hold.
**[16:56] ---**
Miss On Hold...? Th-That is quite a unique name.
**[17:00] ---**
He seems to like you.
**[17:03] ---**
Hm? Oh, that is the *cat's* name.
**[17:06] ---**
All right then, what is *your* name?
**[17:09] ---**
"Misaka's name? This Misaka is Misaka 10032,"
answers Misaka succinctly.
**[17:16] ---**
One... um... All right, would
you mind if I called you "Ichi"?
**[17:21] ---**
--Yeah...
--No, Misaka does not mind.
**[17:23] ---**
You don't mind?!
**[17:24] ---**
Ichi, is that a Tokiwadai uniform?
**[17:27] ---**
Yes. This is cosplay.
**[17:30] ---**
Cos... play...?
**[17:32] ---**
"That being said, what should Misaka call you?"
**[17:36] ---**
asks Misaka, brilliantly changing the subject.
**[17:39] ---**
Wh-Who, me? A-All right,
since I am calling you "Ichi,"
**[17:46] ---**
you can call me "Mi."
**[17:53] ---**
Incredible! Is this the ocean?
**[17:56] ---**
Hmm, yeah, close enough.
**[17:58] ---**
Hey! Don't tell her that!
It's bad for her education, you know.
**[18:02] ---**
I told you, remember?
**[18:03] ---**
This is an aquarium.
**[18:06] ---**
These are bigger versions of that thing
you used to make in your bottle!
**[18:09] ---**
No, not really--
**[18:10] ---**
You know, I wonder if this is
really the best place to take her.
**[18:14] ---**
You have to go through a lot
of trouble to leave Academy City,
**[18:18] ---**
but if I use my ability,
I know I can swing something.
**[18:22] ---**
Well, if we go too far away right off,
**[18:24] ---**
I'd be worried about her physical wellbeing.
Why don't we take it slow?
**[18:30] ---**
If you think that's best,
that's good enough for me.
**[18:34] ---**
Mi! Misaki! Look! Is that a dolphin?!
**[18:37] ---**
Huh? That's probably a tuna.
**[18:40] ---**
A tuna? I know that one!
I read about them in my book!
**[18:43] ---**
They're yummy fish that dissolve on your tongue!
**[18:45] ---**
What kind of books are you reading?
**[18:57] ---**
H-Hey...
**[18:59] ---**
Ow!
**[19:06] ---**
Doppel...
**[19:08] ---**
...ganger.
**[19:09] ---**
Is this a dream? Or is this a hallucination,
**[19:12] ---**
brought on by my own guilty feelings
as I cross the river Acheron--
**[19:15] ---**
It's a dream.
**[19:19] ---**
Is this my chance to apologize?
**[19:21] ---**
Apologize?
**[19:23] ---**
I didn't try to kill you out of resentment.
**[19:27] ---**
It was simply a requisite condition.
**[19:30] ---**
But then, maybe having requisite
conditions that include a tolerance
**[19:33] ---**
for the number of casualties
that accompany them is itself
**[19:36] ---**
a thought pattern that
I picked up because of you.
**[19:40] ---**
You knew that introducing
Indian Poker into the world
**[19:44] ---**
would bring about chaos, right?
**[19:46] ---**
All the same, you pushed forward,
with the goal of saving your mother.
**[19:53] ---**
You can't even separate
your own life from your objective.
**[19:57] ---**
You are the kind of person
**[19:59] ---**
who by your very nature can't
accomplish anything unless you do so.
**[20:05] ---**
But even if you are,
there's no need to deny yourself.
**[20:10] ---**
Not if it means becoming someone
**[20:12] ---**
who never creates anything
in return for never hurting anyone.
**[20:17] ---**
Because if you do,
**[20:19] ---**
it will be so dull to coexist with you.
**[20:25] ---**
Coexist?
**[20:26] ---**
So first off,
**[20:28] ---**
I took a run at touching up the
cyborg you completed for your mother,
**[20:32] ---**
and I found three points that should be fixed.
**[20:35] ---**
Huh?
**[20:36] ---**
--These designs are fine at first,
but there will be concerns after ten years.
--Huh? Huh? Huh?
**[20:40] ---**
--I have a better knack for simulations
than you do, you know. First off...
--Huh? Huh? Huh?
**[20:44] ---**
So, um...
**[20:46] ---**
...the Doppelganger came to you in your dream?
**[20:49] ---**
Yeah. It's the strangest thing.
**[20:52] ---**
I just swapped out a portion of my organs,
**[20:55] ---**
but that kind of phenomenon
shouldn't be happening.
**[20:58] ---**
So it's...
**[20:59] ---**
I thought it was my own guilt
causing me to hallucinate at first...
**[21:07] ---**
That matches perfectly
with the records from our fight.
**[21:11] ---**
Yeah, and what's more,
she went on and on finding fault
**[21:15] ---**
with a lot of the research
I've done up to this point...
**[21:18] ---**
So, um, what can we do to let you cross over?
**[21:21] ---**
Ha-ha! I have no soul, so I can't cross over.
**[21:25] ---**
I've finished bringing up those problems.
**[21:27] ---**
--Next, we'll spend all night on your dark past--
**[21:29] ---**
--S-Stop!
--Next, we'll spend all night on your dark past--
**[21:31] ---**
Honestly, I'm afraid to go to sleep.
**[21:35] ---**
Well, even so...
**[21:38] ---**
...it's kind of a relief.
**[21:43] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[21:46] ---**
I ended up dumping all of my
responsibilities onto you during all this.
**[21:51] ---**
Still,
**[21:52] ---**
normally, I might not be permitted
to say something like this,
**[21:57] ---**
but throughout all of the
Doppelganger's operational runtime,
**[22:02] ---**
her fight against you was the
only time she seemed to feel fulfilled.
**[22:09] ---**
Well, if you see her in your dreams again,
**[22:13] ---**
tell her that she was pretty formidable, too.
**[22:19] ---**
We have been waiting for you, Sissy.
**[22:21] ---**
How about we all go out again
and get something good to eat?
**[22:25] ---**
Ah, in that case, there's a café around here
**[22:28] ---**
--that's the scene of an urban legend...
**[22:30] ---**
--Saten!
--that's the scene of an urban legend...
**[22:31] ---**
You never learn, do you, Miss Saten?
**[22:33] ---**
I-I'm kidding!
**[22:34] ---**
Oh, no! You are always like this, Saten--
**[22:36] ---**
Anywhere is fine, as long as we're all together.
**[22:44] ---**
Okay, let's go!
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