E23 - Silent Party
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The idealist will say,
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"Academy City Research Assembly"
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a man does not have any
inherent superiority--
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that we are all beings
of equal worth.
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The spiritualist will shout,
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there is no effort that
goes unrewarded.
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Hence we must endeavor; it is
the process itself that is important.
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However, that is not true.
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"Daihasei Festival"
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Even children soon understand
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one thing after living in this city--
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that no matter how much
you apply yourself to your studies,
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or how great a thesis you
may produce, in the end,
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in this city, the espers are the
only ones who aren't neglected.
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That a person's ability level
is their worth, their superiority,
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and their one and only benchmark.
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However, an ability
is in fact an uncertain thing.
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They are greatly affected by
one's innate qualities,
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and the bottom line is,
the creation of a high-level esper
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is only brought about by
near-uncontrollable chance.
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In which case, I thought to myself,
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couldn't I create an esper
using a completely new approach,
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totally different from existing methods?
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Couldn't I create an esper
with greater stability and uniformity,
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and which would not be too
valuable to use up, out of nothing?
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So then I and other
like-minded individuals
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came up with a certain project.
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A project that created
with absolute certainty an esper,
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without relying on
a fluke of Providence.
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"Project Chemicaloid."
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A shining hope runs its way
through the city, letting friends
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who always believe in each other
join hands and follow their hearts
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in an ongoing search for
a future they have faith in
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Standing still amid
the hustle and bustle,
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I watched as you faded into the distance
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Because I now realize
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the importance of sharing
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Both the day and all of
us are wreathed in smiles
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and I want to preserve
how normal that feels for us
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When the sky resounds
with dreams kicking off
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unshakable power starts seizing on reality
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It's because you had the
strength to reveal your weakness
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that I never forget, every single day,
to cherish the bonds between us
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and head held high,
blaze a future to be proud of
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And that is the reason
you made Febrie and her sister?
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For something as petty as that?
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Hmph, as it turns out,
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you are one of those who
is entrenched in ability Levelism.
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Just like those others.
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Those others?
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Previously,
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I presented this project
to those who possessed skills
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that would likely be
necessary for a chemicaloid.
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For someone claiming to be
underground, they're not a big deal, huh?
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Not if they can't see
the potential our proposal has.
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I'm glad you made it here safely.
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Now we can implement
Project Level 6 Shift
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on the scale that we had planned for it.
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Is that... Dr. Kihara Gensei?
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When I heard there was some competition,
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I broke out in a bit of a cold sweat.
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Competition?
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Ah, you mean with that
summer-vacation arts and crafts project?
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But then, what I learned from that
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was that even famous researchers
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suffer from an outdated
obsession with esper Levelism.
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Revolutionary ideas are
always regarded as heretical, after all.
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To be recognized, we would have
to prove ourselves by our merits.
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That is why we actually
did create them.
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Chemicaloids. We would use
them to prove our superiority--
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our correctness--to the world!
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So, what did the basis of
your superiority end up being?
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What is their ability?
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Trying to draw some
information out of me, are you?
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But then, I've already given
you a good number of clues.
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Remote operation...
with those hairs acting as a medium...
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Mm-mm, that will only
earn you about thirty points.
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You flunk, Railgun.
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The answer is... yes.
You will find that out tomorrow.
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Tomorrow morning, at daybreak,
our large-scale chemicaloid
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open experiment is scheduled to be held.
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Experiment?
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No, we can't call it an
experiment anymore, can we?
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Allow me to revise that.
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A revolution! We, the members
of STUDY, will be instigating
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a revolution in Academy City!
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The residents of this city--no,
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of the whole world will learn their lesson.
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It is not abilities that will
open the way for the new age,
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but intelligence!
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How...
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15:40...
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Trying to move won't do any good.
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About all you can move right
now are your mouth and eyes.
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Because... the drug
I injected you with earlier
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blocks the transmission
of commands to your nerves.
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You shouldn't be able to move
even a finger for two more hours.
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Tell me, Miss Nunotaba,
why are you mixed up with these guys?
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You spoke before, didn't you,
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about my sisters? How you no
longer thought of them as things,
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and were trying to
shut down the experiments.
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Why would someone like you
be someplace like this once again?
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I messed up with the Sisters case,
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and was caught by
an underground organization.
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And then, I was sold...
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...to STUDY.
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That's when I came across
the artificially created twins,
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Janie and Febrie.
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The involuntary neural activity
essential to keeping them alive,
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what you might call
their base programming,
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had been based on a thesis
that I had written long ago.
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The sin that I once committed
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will never, ever be forgiven;
it will always follow me.
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However,
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that is the very reason
why I must do this personally.
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That is what I thought
when I looked at those girls.
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Janie...
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Febrie's sister only has enough
programming language installed
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to allow her Diffusion Ghost
core to function.
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Diffusion Ghost?
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Janie's ability. I was planning to
give her consciousness as a person,
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and then once I got
the neutralizing agent recipe,
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run away together with her.
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But now that things have gone
this far, that's quite impossible.
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All I can do now is to get
the recipe out of Aritomi himself,
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since he's the one who came up with it.
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No matter what that might take.
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Ah... right.
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I don't care what happens to me.
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I will save those two girls, at any cost.
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I'm sure that right now, Miss Nunotaba is...
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Say...
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The way that I've wronged you is--
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My sisters said that they
wanted to offer their thanks to you.
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Before you go taking everything
on yourself, turn around,
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open your eyes wide,
and take a good look.
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There are people there
that want to help you, after all.
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And you are one of them, aren't you?
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What are you able to do now?
Your motor nerves have been shut down,
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and the most you can do is move your mouth.
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Who'd you say...
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...can't move?
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How...?
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Don't tell me...
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...she's using her ability
to directly control
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the electrical signals
that run to her motor nerves!
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This is the first time I've ever tried this,
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but I might be able to
do quite a bit this way, huh?
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But by doing that, she should have
intense pain throughout her body!
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I've finally started
to understand recently.
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You count on someone,
and someone counts on you.
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And just like that,
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people can generate more strength
than they can all by themselves.
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You know, when I first
found out about my sisters,
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I started running in circles, too.
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Like, "It's all my fault," or
"I have to do something."
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However,
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right now, I'm thinking that
was a mistake. Which is why...
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Here they come.
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Huh?
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Hey, what was that?
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Intruders. The guard robots
have been destroyed!
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Uiharu, the entrance is under my control.
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You are sure there are no other civilians?
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No doubt about it.
Please, go as crazy as you like.
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Miss Saten, what is the status outside?
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Fine. No suspicious activity as of yet.
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How did they know about this place?
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I borrowed one of
those tracking nanodevices
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that they use when you
go outside of Academy City.
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Then, I told my friends,
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"If I'm not back in time, come get me."
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You even dragged your friends into this--
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No.
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I explained everything
to them first, and asked them...
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...to help me.
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They all nodded
without hesitation, saying,
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"If it's for Febrie, sure."
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But it looks like it will take
more than just us to help Febrie.
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So I'm asking you...
to come help us, too.
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But there's nothing I can do--
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You're wrong.
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You're the only one who can.
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Look--
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Before I answer,
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there is something that
I have to say to you, too.
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Please... help...
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...us.
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Kuroko!
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Sissy!
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Ah! Wait, Kuroko--
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Sissy! I came to help you,
and this is how you treat me?
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Oh, sorry. Some things
happened, and for a little while,
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I'm going to be a human stun gun.
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In any case,
let's get out of here for now.
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Sissy?
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I'll explain everything afterward.
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To be able to move after
being injected with that drug...
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For crying out loud,
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she is every bit the
beast that we'd heard about.
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So, why are you still here?
Why didn't you run away?
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Above all, if I, who had been sold
among the underworld, ran away,
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I would turn all of the
underworld against me.
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Here in this city,
that's as good as being dead.
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You truly have had
it drilled into you, all right.
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But that's okay.
If you had run away,
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we would have had no choice
but to use the whip when using Janie.
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The only place you have
anymore is in the darkness.
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Please keep that in mind as you work.
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Are you sure you want to stay?
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Aritomi and the others pulled
up their stakes from here,
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and relocated Janie someplace else.
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If I leave here now, we won't
be able to find out where they went.
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But...
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Never mind.
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I still have some value to them.
They won't dispose of me right away.
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One way or another, I'll get a nibble,
find out where their base is,
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and get the recipe
for the neutralizing agent.
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All right.
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Also, that Aritomi guy seemed
pretty confident about "tomorrow."
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What's that about?
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They haven't told
me the details, either.
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But they plan to put
it into action... tomorrow.
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A major terrorist attack
at the Reach Assembly sites?!
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Yes. They said it
was going to be a revolution.
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A revolution?
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They mean business. Using the
STUDY Corporation as a cover,
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they're going to use
Febrie's sister Janie's power...
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Huh?!
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You mean...!
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That "Diffusion Ghost"
ability that she has?
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"Diffusion Ghost"
uses her hair as a medium,
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filling the space
in which it is enclosed
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by converting the AIM
diffusion field into virtual matter,
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controlling it.
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In other words, what was
controlling that empty powered suit
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and the inoperative
security robots was, in fact,
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the ability of this girl Janie.
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Materializing AIM diffusion fields...
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You mean, like Dr. Kiyama
did that one time?
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Uiharu, you know what she means?
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I kind of know,
and I've kind of seen it.
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But then,
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it is said that with
operating system abilities,
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there is a limit to how many
things can be controlled at once.
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I do not think this is well-suited
for a large-scale terrorist attack.
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Well, they did say that a number
of simple commands are placed
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ahead of time into the fields
that Janie virtually materializes.
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Like, say,
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"Eliminate any opponent
that attacks you," or something.
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So what you mean is, they can
use them like autonomous robots?
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If that's true, then indeed,
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a large-scale terrorist
attack would not be impossible.
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Janie...
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Do you know where Janie is?
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If we stop her, they can't
launch a terrorist attack, right?
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Yes, but this Nunotaba Shinobu
woman I mentioned before
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was not told what location is
the base for the terrorist plot.
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Oh, no...
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Once Janie uses her ability,
she said we can take advantage of that
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to have Febrie give us a rough idea,
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or at least the direction where she is.
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But for that to be possible,
the event has to have already happened,
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is what that means, is it not?
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If we're going to forestall this,
the surest thing to do
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seems to be to pursue the
powered suit angle.
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There must be quite
a few of them deployed
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in the area around
the Reach Assembly site.
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Miss Uiharu, can you look that up?
[15:05] ---
The number of narrow
parameters has increased.
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I think I can do it!
[15:11] ---
Sissy, with this much
information collected,
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might not Antiskill
be able to act now?
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Yeah, right!
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I'm sorry,
[15:18] ---
but Antiskill probably
can't go any further into this case.
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That cannot be!
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The STUDY Corporation, huh?
[15:27] ---
After hearing that name,
things are starting to make sense.
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They're a company that has
suddenly risen to prominence,
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forcing out the competition and becoming
the suppliers for our equipment.
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But they have no visible
backbone, considering,
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and that part did bother me.
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Tch, to think I have to find out
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why I was suddenly
put on suspension like this.
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Suspension?!
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Are you all right?
[15:50] ---
Yeah. I'm weathering things at
a friend's place right now.
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You don't have to worry about me.
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I'm more worried about you guys.
Don't do anything crazy, now.
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The situation is more
dire than we thought, huh?
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I've got it! The records of STUDY
Corporation's bulk containers
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and the sites they were delivered to!
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They're inside the sites?!
But that's--
[16:12] ---
It says that at each site,
there was a blackout during delivery,
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and the records are less than sound.
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Blackouts?!
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So this is the reason for those!
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So then, how many are there?
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One moment, please.
I'm tallying them now--
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Bad news!
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I finally got a hold of
some information I looked up
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through my father's channels!
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When you add up all the parts
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Approximating by container
capacity and contents...
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that were placed by various companies,
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you can build a tremendous
number of powered suits!
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No way! That many?!
[16:37] ---
The number has to be at least--
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Over 20,000 suits!
[16:41] ---
I beg your pardon?
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That many?
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Sure enough,
[16:47] ---
since they went
through formal procedures
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and were delivered to the sites,
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if we take any action
without Antiskill's cooperation,
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there's a good chance
that we could be arrested.
[16:57] ---
Then there isn't much of
anything we can do
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until they make their move, is there?!
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Then we'll just have to
find this Janie girl and stop her!
[17:04] ---
But since we cannot find
out where she is
[17:07] ---
until she activates her ability...
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We need to let the
terrorist attack begin.
[17:12] ---
That's nuts!
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20,000 powered suits.
[17:14] ---
We're completely behind the curve.
[17:16] ---
That many of them is like a joke.
[17:17] ---
These guys are serious.
[17:18] ---
Not being able to prevent
it until it happens--
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They've been preparing all
this time to mean business.
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What is this?!
[17:22] ---
If they break loose into the city,
who knows the damage they'll do?
[17:25] ---
Sissy?
[17:27] ---
Miss Misaka?
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I want to save Febrie.
Her sister, Janie, too.
[17:37] ---
I want to save Miss Nunotaba,
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who is doing her best
among the enemy right now, too.
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and of course,
I want to protect Academy City.
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Even so,
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I don't want to expose
the rest of you to any danger.
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Is that just being too selfish of me?
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If that is--
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If that's what you say,
then call me selfish, too!
[18:00] ---
Mm-mm, perhaps even worse!
After all, there's all that, plus,
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I don't want you
to make that face, either.
[18:08] ---
She is right!
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No matter how
much everything goes right,
[18:12] ---
Sissy, you always pull that face,
and it keeps us from feeling happy.
[18:19] ---
That's true. Besides,
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if we all work together,
can't we do this?
[18:23] ---
Yes! If all of us work together!
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I-I believe so, as well.
[18:29] ---
That's right.
And when all of this is over...
[18:33] ---
...having everyone smiling together
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is what it takes to
have a happy ending, after all!
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Having everyone come back smiling,
[18:50] ---
without having
lost anything, is my dream.
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Mm-hmm. This...
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...is "my dream."
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Huh? Everyone's here?
[19:04] ---
Say, Febrie,
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we're about to go and help Janie.
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Would you come with us?
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Mm-hmm!
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Oh, Aomi?
[19:21] ---
Sorry for calling you so late.
[19:23] ---
That's okay.
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I know if you're calling, Mii,
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that there's a reason
why it has to be right now.
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Go ahead and tell me.
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Listen, Aomi,
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what do you think about this city?
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Eh?
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Thank you very much, Father!
[19:38] ---
Well then, if you'd be so kind!
[19:43] ---
You heard her.
[19:45] ---
Would you mind satisfying
Mitsuko's indulgence, Pops?
[19:51] ---
Hot! Hot!
[19:53] ---
I did it!
[19:54] ---
Oh! That's very good!
[19:57] ---
I'm going to let my sister eat it!
[19:59] ---
Isn't that nice?
[20:01] ---
Miss Saten, how is it coming?
[20:03] ---
I'm not too sure, but right now,
we have to do everything we can.
[20:08] ---
Hang in there!
[20:09] ---
Yep!
[20:10] ---
All right, let's work
hard and make these, too!
[20:13] ---
Whew, that's refreshing.
[20:16] ---
Everything is ready here, as well.
[20:19] ---
Now we can rest easy, no matter
when the head resident barges in.
[20:23] ---
Wait, this just looks like
one of us is sleeping, doesn't it?
[20:27] ---
And this side is too big...
[20:29] ---
They are sleeping so soundly together.
[20:33] ---
"Tee-hee"
[20:35] ---
I worked hard on that, too...
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Good grief.
[20:37] ---
That's enough. If we're found out,
[20:40] ---
we'll both get chewed out together.
[20:43] ---
Let's see...
[20:44] ---
Sissy...
[20:49] ---
What's this?
[20:50] ---
A good-luck charm.
[20:53] ---
One that is eminently beneficial.
[20:57] ---
Thank you.
[20:59] ---
By the way, who
was that you called earlier?
[21:02] ---
Oh...
[21:03] ---
Just someone.
[21:05] ---
Ten more minutes to sunrise.
[21:09] ---
It has been a long night.
[21:12] ---
At last, this long night
really is about to be over.
[21:16] ---
All systems check out.
[21:19] ---
All that remains is to activate them.
[21:21] ---
Janie has reached critical phase, too.
[21:24] ---
It's almost like she
is aware of her own position.
[21:28] ---
Whether this works, or whether it doesn't,
[21:32] ---
it won't absolve my sin.
[21:36] ---
But, even so, right now,
I will do what I can!
[21:42] ---
Now then, the final confirmation.
[21:45] ---
Those in favor of executing the project?
[21:50] ---
Then let us begin our Silent Party.
[21:56] ---
You look nice in that outfit, don't you?
[22:00] ---
Is that what Miss Kongo bought for you?
[22:02] ---
Mm-hmm! This is pretty,
like that other one before!
[22:05] ---
The one before?
[22:07] ---
The one Shinobu picked out for me!
[22:11] ---
Oh, yeah?
[22:13] ---
Well...
[22:16] ---
It's time.
[22:24] ---
What exactly is my own individuality?
[22:28] ---
Crying out on the arid wind,
[22:36] ---
I closed my eyes and asked
[22:40] ---
while searching for the dawn...
[22:43] ---
All right!
[22:45] ---
You're not taking...
[22:48] ---
...one more step...
[22:50] ---
...beyond this point!
[22:51] ---
G-Go ahead and come at us...
[22:54] ---
...from wherever you like!
[23:00] ---
That way! My sister is--
[23:03] ---
Here, don't forget to lick this.
[23:07] ---
This is the last shot...
[23:10] ---
Up you go!
[23:12] ---
Just bear with
this for a minute, okay?
[23:20] ---
Okay, here we go!
[23:47] ---
"Next episode preview"
[23:48] ---
To protect Academy City!
[23:49] ---
To save Janie and Febrie...
[23:51] ---
...and Miss Nunotaba, too!
[23:52] ---
And for all of us to come back smiling!
[23:54] ---
That is my...
[23:55] ---
That is our dream!
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