# E15 - Promise
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"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
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The best thing to do to make
your way in Academy City
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is to suck up to the researchers here.
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Your rating has gone up since last time.
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Wow? Really? I'm so happy!
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It's because of all of you!
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"Effort pays off" is a lie.
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Just like the school you attend
influences your employment prospects,
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the research facility you're associated
with determines your future.
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Thank you very much!
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--I got really good at the forced
smiles that made others like me.
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--Thanks for all you do!
--I got really good at the forced
smiles that made others like me.
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I'm looking forward to more again tomorrow!
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Ugh, all this acting friendly is
more exhausting than the experiments.
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However, I wasn't counting on having
that girl forced on me as a result.
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Oh, Kozaku?
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Yes?
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Listen, could you come and play
with this girl in your free time?
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Huh?
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Dolly has lived her whole
life at the facility.
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Stress is affecting her observational data.
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If she had someone to play with,
it should lower her stress, right?
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Yes, if you think I will do...
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U-Um...
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Are you all right?
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Tell me, what's your name?
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Huh? Kozaku Mitori.
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Okay, I'll call you "Mi" then!
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So simple...
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From then on, once my experiments
were over, it never failed.
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Whew, finally done for the day.
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Huh? Dolly?!
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I would end up being hounded like this.
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It's my turn!
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Here I go!
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Six! One, two, three, four, five, six.
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Ah, I had two kids! My
congratulations, please!
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Tell me something, Dolly,
why can't you go outside?
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They said it was something
about my treatment.
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Treatment?
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At an ability development facility?
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They say it will help my young sister.
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You have a sister?
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I've never met her, though.
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If the treatment goes well,
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they say I'll have lots of younger sisters.
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I don't follow.
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It's your turn, Mi.
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Mi, that's amazing! It's really pretty!
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Not really. It isn't
even that interesting, is it?
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If you go out to the ocean,
you can see the real thing.
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Ocean? I know that one! I read it in my book!
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It's a place with lots of water!
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At first, I wondered why I was stuck
with this simpleminded girl.
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--Dolly--
--Mi!
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Hey!
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That's so cute!
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Why do you have to hug me
over every little thing?
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And stop smelling me, too!
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I like the smell of people.
Mi, you have a warm smell.
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Dolly smells like chemicals.
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Whad are you doig dad for, Mi?
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Because you won't do what I say.
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Back ad you!
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Somehow, whenever I was with her,
my smiles were genuine and not put on.
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That's how it felt to me.
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Thanks for everything!
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The experiment ended early.
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What should we play today?
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Dolly!
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What are those devices...?
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No!
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Miss Kozaku, come with me.
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You have heard that she is here
to get treatment, right?
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She needs some life support equipment
to allow her to keep on living.
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Now, go on back home.
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Life support equipment...
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Really?
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If anyone finds out,
they'll be more than just angry at me.
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"Parameter List." That's not it.
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"Planned Exterior construction site."
Not that, either.
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The best thing to do to make
your way in Academy City
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is to suck up to the researchers here.
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Interfering with their work
would be out of the question.
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Please stop medicating Dolly!
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Ah. I'd gotten a report that we had
a break-in at the data center. It was you?
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If so, then you now know
what she is, don't you?
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Dolly is a c-clone,
and she's your g-guinea pig for research
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that will help you make
mass-produced clones that live longer.
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You're dosing Dolly with all kinds of drugs,
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with no regard for her health,
just to collect your data!
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Your crazy drugs are making
her already short life even shorter!
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Clones are just like us! They are alive!
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Please stop the experiments!
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And if I say we can't?
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Th-Then I'll go public
with this research data!
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Who's going to believe
the wild stories of a child?
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Even so, if I talk to
the governing board about it,
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they'll do an on-site inspection...
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That won't happen.
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The ones who spearheaded these experiments
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are the governing board.
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Clones are just like us, are they?
Well, you're right.
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Clones and you espers are
both the same in Academy City--
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nothing more than experiment fodder.
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Why, you...!
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You're going to leave her alive?
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For better or worse,
she does have a high dormant ability.
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Once Exterior is complete,
she is likely to come in handy.
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Dolly...
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I was held in confinement for months--
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no, it might have been even longer than that.
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Then suddenly, one day,
the guard disappeared...
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...and when I went outside...
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...the research facility
was completely deserted.
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Go ahead and look down on us from on high.
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I'll show you that even lab rats...
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...have fangs that can still bite into you.
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But from that moment on,
my days were spent tormented
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by disappointment and
feelings of powerlessness.
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My carefully-planned assassination
mission ended in failure.
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What I learned was that
even if there were 10,000 of me,
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the fact remained that the
governing board was out of my reach.
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Take the mask off of her for me.
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Where am I?
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Who's this old geezer?
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Mm-hmm, you have a keen look in your eye.
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Eyes smoldering with
the smoke of the embers of hatred.
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Let me come right to the point.
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How would you like the power to
blow away Academy City without a trace?
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Huh?
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Oh, yeah?
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It sounds too good to be true.
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But why me?
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Hmm... Dogma, perhaps?
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High-minded ideals and rapacious ambitions
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both unravel when a person's capacity
to tolerate stress is exceeded, you see.
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Which is why...
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I place no trust in resolve,
whether it's by nature, or by nurture.
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If it doesn't kick in when it's crunch time,
it can be a real turnoff.
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On the other hand, tremendous
hatred is unwaveringly beautiful.
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One won't think twice about giving
their life for the sake of vengeance.
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I'm banking on the dogma of hatred.
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The Judgment girl isn't here...
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Handcuffs? These are
meaningless with my ability...
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Why bother?
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If I'm still alive, it means
that the project must have failed.
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I could just stay here and be rat food...
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Shokuho Misaki...?
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I peeked inside Gensei's memories,
thinking "just maybe," and sure enough...
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You were "Mi," weren't you?
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I was wondering why I had to play
the part of the girl who abandoned Dolly,
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but maybe I should have looked
into it closer a lot sooner.
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It wouldn't be fair to Miss Shirai,
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so I'll have you turn yourself
in soon enough, but first,
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I need you to come with me for a bit.
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Huh?
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I learned something
when I read Gensei's memories.
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Dolly had a sister that was
created around the same time.
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The purpose of Dolly's creation
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wasn't just to establish
the technical skills of cloning.
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She was also a specimen used
to help create a network
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that would conduct data
sharing between the clones.
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Dolly's memories and experiences were
all transferred into another individual,
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where they still remain.
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This "younger sister" is lying asleep
in a certain research facility.
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And while she shares her memories
and experiences, she is not Dolly.
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Still, we can't just leave her there, right?
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Nothing beats having a stronger hand,
so I need you to come with me.
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Why?
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You didn't have to explain all that to me.
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You could have just used
your ability to control me.
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Did I *need* to control you, though?
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No, you didn't.
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"#15 Promise"
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All right, here's to
Shirai's complete recovery...
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--Cheers!
--Cheers!
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"Congratulations, Shirai Kuroko"
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Honestly, you are making too much of it.
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"Congratulations"
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It has been a whole week
since I got out of the hospital.
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Still, with the Daihasei Festival going on,
we never properly celebrated.
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Also, today's the day you stopped
needing your wheelchair. Here.
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Well whatever the occasion,
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I am always happy to eat
anything that you prepare, Sissy.
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Nonetheless, why are you doing it here?
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Now, now, don't be so rigid.
Oh, let me refill your drink, Miss Konori!
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I'll make an exception today.
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Thank you very much!
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Come to think of it, Miss Misaka,
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how has your mother been since the incident?
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Huh? Mama?
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Oh, um, I think she's fine.
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Is that right? That's great.
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Uiharu is concerned about involving
your mother in that affair, Sissy.
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Huh?
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They still have memories
of that incident... Then,
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how do they remember me being there, too?
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I'm sure Shokuho must
have made some revisions...
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Still, Uiharu, you got caught up
in that business, too, right?
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I mean, you got knocked out by the bad guy.
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Yes, that's true, but...
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as a member of Judgment,
I feel like I wasn't good for anything.
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But Miss Shirai came along
and ended things without incident,
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so we'll call it all good.
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I just wish you had informed me of
the incident when it happened, though.
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Yes, you are right.
I wonder why I did not contact you.
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I am terribly sorry for that, Miss Konori.
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It sounds like she just erased
the fact that I was there at all.
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Come to think of it, she had me stuck
in the bathroom with an upset stomach.
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Unless you're prepared
to kill me to stop me...
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"Congratulations, Shirai Kuroko"
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Well, let's use this party today
to wipe the slate clean!
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Saying that does not cancel out your
involvement with Shadow Metal, Saten.
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That was a big deal, huh?
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What's this, now?
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--As it happens, Miss Saten was--
--Here, Uiharu! Aah...!
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--There you go. Do you want some more?
It's good, huh? Go ahead.
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--Hold on! Sissy made that especially for me!
--There you go. Do you want some more?
It's good, huh? Go ahead.
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Is something the matter, Sissy?
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Hmm? Oh, mm-mm, I was just thinking
how nice it was to have friends.
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I really am glad I'm not out of
their circle anymore, the way I was.
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Okay, here. You can have this.
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Huh?
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You need it to make
your ability work, don't you?
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That's what she wanted to see.
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Huh?
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So, you're saying Dolly
recognized you as being me?
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Yeah. At the time, I didn't yet have
the power to alter memories.
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Still, at some point, I think she
figured out that I wasn't really you.
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I see. She had some
surprisingly keen instincts.
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Thanks.
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Huh?
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Thanks to you, Dolly wasn't alone at the end.
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That was the thing that's stayed
with me more than anything.
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Dolly...
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Mi...
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Mi...?
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Is that you, Mi?
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I've missed you.
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I was afraid you didn't like me anymore...
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I was afraid you thought
I was disgusting... so...
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You dummy. That's not true at all.
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I remember this smell...
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I love your smell...
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Wait!
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You're Misaki, right?
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Why, whoever might that be?
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Misaki, I know it's you.
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You were both together with me
in my dream for so long, after all.
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The times we spent with you are
the only memories we have.
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I'm sorry!
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I'm sorry for tricking you for so long!
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I'm sorry I didn't catch on to their lies!
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I'm sorry for butting into
your memories without your knowledge!
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I'm sorry to have become
so preoccupied in a feel-good lie.
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If only I had looked into who "Mi" was...
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I could have reunited her with Dolly.
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I'd have learned what the
experiment was about,
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and I'm sure Dolly wouldn't have had to die.
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This is all my fault for wedging
my way in between you two!
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I'll do anything to make up for it...
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Okay, take me to the ocean.
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After that, I want to ride a
roller coaster at an amusement park,
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and see a hippo at the zoo...
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Oh, and I also want to go on a plane.
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And I want to see the auroras in Finland,
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and play with the dolphins in Hawaii,
and the llamas in Machu Picchu.
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Oh, no, that's too much.
You want to go around the world?
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Actually,
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as long as the three of us
are together, anywhere is fine.
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Is that... too much?
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Honestly, you always ignore
whatever I say, and assert your own ideas.
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Your willfulness is through the roof.
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I really don't know what to do about you.
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Good.
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Looks like your fever is down, too.
I think we can rest easy now.
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"However, while Misaka was lying in bed,
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the Daihasei Festival concluded,"
says Misaka, bemoaning her situation.
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Oh, don't pout.
I'll take you out somewhere, okay?
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Where would you like to go?
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The ocean...
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The ocean? Beach season is already over.
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"For some unknown reason,
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Misaka wants to make an exciting
promise with someone dear to her,"
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says Misaka, having a strange sense
of déjà vu and feeling sentimental.
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"Next episode preview"
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"Next episode preview"
"#16 Dream Ranker"
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If you could dream any dream you wanted,
what would you dream, Uiharu?
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I... would dream of eating all kinds
of delicious food willy-nilly!
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You do that all the time anyway.
What about you, Shirai?
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I would, of course--
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Ah, on second thought, never mind.
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