E24 - Diffusion

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    You can't burn all of this away.
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    Nor can you break it apart.
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    When faced with such
    an overwhelming amount of mass...
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    ...what do you do?
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    Now you've gone and done it.
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    Evasion and interception--
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    I've never done both of them
    at full strength before.
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    So, you asked how I oppose
    an overwhelming amount of mass?
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    Well...
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    Mass...
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    ...against mass!
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    "A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
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    That's hard! My iron sand blade
    can't cut through it!
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    An iron sand puppet?
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    You can regenerate it
    and alter its form to some degree;
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    the same as me.
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    But the parts that make it up are
    too fine and too fragile, aren't they?
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    I can generate more power than you can.
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    I will end this before you can regenerate...
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    Better watch how you touch me.
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    It could be hazardous.
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    You see, the dust and iron
    sand bits that comprise my body
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    are rubbing each other,
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    and storing up an electrical charge.
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    Now, if I piggyback on that accumulated charge
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    and fire off an iron sand blast...
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    ...I can blow right through even your armor!
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    I see.
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    Impressive output. However...
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    ...it doesn't change the fact
    that I'll end up regenerating...
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    My parts are fine, which means
    they can make their way inside there.
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    Just as I thought.
    It looks like you can't control
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    individual vibrating,
    blade-like grains of iron sand, huh?
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    I can tell by how it feels like
    they're cutting you up on the inside!
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    Followed up by another blast...
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    What?
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    A high-pressure gas tank?!
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    And not one with just leftover gas,
    like I hit you with earlier;
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    this one is loaded.
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    What would happen
    if I drop this into an urban area?
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    An exquisite amount of force,
    even from several kilometers away.
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    All right,
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    what if we try several of them at once?
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    Three?!
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    What, are you trying
    to use up all of my energy?!
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    It's been a long time since
    I've come over to your place for dinner,
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    and then stayed over and spent the night.
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    Is something the matter?
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    You didn't hear something just now?
    Like a big firework?
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    Huh? I don't think they're
    holding any events tonight.
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    Ah! You see?
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    You're right. What could it be?
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    Could that be...?
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    Yes, I would not put that past being Sissy.
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    But she has not called me.
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    If anything happens,
    you'll be the first person I call.
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    Ah! Sissy! I am so frustrated!
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    Here goes...
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    ...the last one!
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    Nice control.
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    You struck them in such a way
    that they would explode up into the sky,
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    so they would not cause damage to the city.
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    The masses of iron sand you used as bullets
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    now shroud the skies of Academy City.
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    The percentage of space it occupies
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    is nothing compared to the amount
    of ash in the air after a volcanic eruption,
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    but the iron sand powder that
    gets caught up into the stratosphere
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    will rain down on airborne bodies far and wide.
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    Regardless of how subtly
    it may try to conceal itself,
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    interference from solar winds
    will disturb its magnetic field,
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    and Cinderella will be exposed.
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    Found it.
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    Is that all for the gas... tanks...?
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    Wait...
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    Huh?!
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    She's dividing herself up?
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    No...
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    Whoa...
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    She made dummies out of the debris?
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    Which one's the real one?
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    Those things I just saw for a second--
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    Are they gone?
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    No...
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    Ow...
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    Doppelganger!
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    I have a proposition! Answer me!
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    I need to talk to you!
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    Very well.
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    Come with me.
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    Huh? Whoa, hold on...
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    I knew it.
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    They're hard to make out, but there's
    definitely something thread-like here.
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    Are these...?
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    Miss Kuriba?! And...
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    ...the Doppelganger!
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    What the Doppelganger is really after...
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    ...is the airship. Her fight
    with me was a means of finding it,
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    and the rubble monster was only a distraction?
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    What is her real objective?
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    Whatever it is, right now,
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    I have to rescue Miss Kuriba!
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    Come on, reach!
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    "#24 Diffusion"
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    Now then...
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    Since you showed up personally,
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    I will at least listen to your proposal.
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    Can you give me two months?
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    Indian Poker--
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    a device I've spread around that
    uses dreams as a medium for learning.
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    By my calculations,
    it will take two more months.
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    A means of eliminating
    the soul should turn up by then.
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    Once that happens...
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    ...you will be able
    to safely dispose of my soul,
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    which will diffuse without end
    now that my vessel has been broken?
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    I thought I was familiar
    with your thought patterns,
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    but now you're a fool who
    speaks such illogical nonsense?
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    Did you think you could tell
    the subject you wish to terminate
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    that there is a way to do so,
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    and then just think that she
    would say, "Yes, very well, then"?
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    You should bargain a little harder
    if you're trying to buy more time--
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    That's not it!
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    I'm going to eliminate...
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    ...my own soul!
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    When I die, my body will stop functioning
    with the elimination of my soul.
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    That won't work out too favorably
    for you, either, will it?
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    Not if your goal is to become human.
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    Of all the things for you to say...
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    You're asking me to believe you?
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    Even if you do find a way
    to eradicate your soul,
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    what proof can you offer that you
    will simply turn your body over to me?
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    What proof can you offer
    that you won't turn that power on me?
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    Let me be frank.
    I have no interest in your body. I simply...
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    ...want you, someone who was able
    to create me, to no longer be in this world.
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    If you say you are ready to give me your body,
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    then go ahead and show me by dying right here.
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    I was originally planning to burn down
    the whole city, but if you do that--
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    I should be dead already.
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    Now that there are measures
    to save my mother, I don't need my life.
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    Miss Kuriba!
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    --I lost sight of her...
    --How do I get her back?
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    --Is there a way to go after her?
    --How long before she hits the ground?
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    We're on it.
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    North-northeast. Range, 1600.
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    Altitude, 2,000.
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    Are you two both ready?
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    Okay!
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    She's being carried by the wind.
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    Correct course four degrees counterclockwise.
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    Range, 800.
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    Five hundred...
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    Two hundred...
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    We found her!
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    Whew. Thank you.
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    You saved her.
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    I'm just paying you back. No need to thank me.
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    W-We have a united front, after all.
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    You don't really sell it when
    you say it so self-consciously.
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    Hey, what do we do with her now?
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    We checked into our employer, right?
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    We could just drop her off
    there without being seen.
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    That works.
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    The Doppelganger is on top of the airship.
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    I'll support you by spotting for you.
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    Thank you!
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    Sounds like you're really
    going over the top, aren't you?
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    I'm hanging onto the airship
    in question at the moment.
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    Oh my goodness.
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    Since all of the respective data
    has been collected by the airship,
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    I decided to go through Miss Kuriba's
    papers from before her experiment.
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    But I guess maybe I didn't need to.
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    No, in one sense,
    your timing couldn't be any better.
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    This "soul possession" business
    always struck me as being far-fetched,
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    so I've postulated 20 different patterns
    where matter could be controlled,
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    and I've been testing them.
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    You found something, didn't you?
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    Does she have any papers on artificial muscles?
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    P-Please don't worry.
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    In a broader sense,
    the airship that has collected the data
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    is itself a part of the cyborg.
    There are security measures in place,
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    so it will not come down on its own.
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    Destroying it would mean
    the possibility of the soul--
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    I mean, the damage spreading out further, yes.
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    Ugh, this is bad.
    If the interceptor systems engage,
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    all of our research to
    this point will go down the tubes.
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    How did this happen?
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    What's that?
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    What do you think?
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    Hmm, from the pushback I felt,
    I was certain about it,
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    but the specs say it's not
    supposed to be able to do that.
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    Would you mind...
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    ...forwarding that image to me, too?
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    When I first discovered
    the Doppelganger with my ability,
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    it was using materials at an abandoned
    factory to fabricate something.
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    The configuration is different,
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    but the resemblance is there.
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    Artificial muscles
    that combine the characteristics
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    of zombie ant parasites
    and slime molds, that self-propagate
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    and burrow into materials at
    the micro level, controlling them.
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    It does ring a bell.
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    But could a cyborg's artificial intelligence
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    have come up with something
    like that on its own?
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    It's not just an ordinary
    artificial intelligence.
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    This is an AI that integrated
    with the brain of a gifted person
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    who had thrust herself into cyborg research
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    and learned from her inventiveness
    and creativity for a whole year.
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    Besides, when it comes to computational speed
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    and the capacity for simulation,
    humans are no match for an AI.
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    I can't tell you at what point
    she realized that she wasn't human,
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    but one thing that isn't
    in doubt is that her escape
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    was meticulously carried out.
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    And not just to increase
    her fighting chances, either.
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    If she predicted ahead to
    Miss Kuriba's theory of soul diffusion,
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    then her whole act has been a smokescreen.
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    Sure enough,
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    there was trick to your soul possession.
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    Now, this is just my gut feeling,
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    but your feeling of hopelessness
    wasn't about not being human.
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    Your true despair is that you're
    convinced you don't have a soul, right?
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    Come on in. I welcome you, Railgun.
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    Well put-together, aren't they?
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    They combine a certain species of slime mold
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    together with large-scale
    herbivore muscle tissue.
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    With just air, water, and a little light,
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    they grow at an explosive rate. Although,
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    once fully grown, they start to degrade,
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    and in a few hours, they wither away.
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    You...
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    ...were out to take Kuriba Ryoko's life, right?
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    Now that you've achieved your goal,
    what else is it you want?
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    Revenge against humanity, you might say.
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    There are still over 20 gas tanks
    that I hooked together ahead of time.
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    I set them up to incinerate that woman,
    Kuriba Ryoko, along with the whole city.
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    You took out the main line,
    but the subs are still up.
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    I would say it will take another 20 minutes
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    in order to grow enough threads
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    to control this amount of material.
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    In your view, I may be nothing more
    than a dumb artificial intelligence
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    that mistook herself for being a human.
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    But now that I have been created,
    I do feel envy and hatred for you humans.
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    Refer any complaints you have to the researchers
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    who had me learn about
    such unwelcome things as emotions.
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    There's no choice but to fight.
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    Whoa...
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    That's not a move an airship
    can pull off, you know!
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    If I get thrown off,
    not even I can make it back up.
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    Wha--?
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    Multiple duplicates?
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    So more decoys, then.
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    From your position,
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    there's one at one o'clock,
    two o'clock, and seven o'clock;
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    plus two at nine o'clock.
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    I appreciate it.
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    Not again!
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    Two of them at three o'clock!
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    To your five o'clock!
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    That one is probably the main unit!
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    Wait! Your line of fire is...!
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    "Next episode preview"
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    Some days, I'm sad and feel depressed.
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    "Next episode preview"
    "#25 My Dear Friends"
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    Sometimes, I feel like I'm powerless.
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    Even though I have spent sleepless nights...
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    ...I am by no means all alone.
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    --Because I have dear friends.
    --Because I have dear friends.
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