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E8 - Level Upper

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    And from this, we can see
    that the most important thing
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    in the ability-developing
    curriculum of Academy City
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    "Personal Reality (self-actuality)"
    is "Personal Reality," or acquiring reality unto oneself.
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    This is the one and
    only basis for esper powers.
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    And so, once you
    understand Personal Reality,
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    one other thing that cannot
    be avoided is quantum theory,
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    based on the uncertainty principle
    postulated by Heisenberg.
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    What Personal Reality and
    quantum theory have in common
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    is that both of them
    are rooted in probability.
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    For example, I think you all
    know the story of Schrödinger's cat...
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    Huh? A cold?
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    Yes. I only have a slight fever,
    but it just won't seem to go down.
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    Oh. Well get plenty of rest. Mm-hmm.
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    Saten... Saten Ruiko!
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    Y-Yes?
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    You look like you have this all down, huh?
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    Would you explain simply that last point?
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    R-Right!
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    Let's see... Let's see...
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    Never mind. Be sure to study
    up on Personal Reality for next time.
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    That's all for today.
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    Who cares about theories and allegories?
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    I wish they'd teach us some
    techniques to level up quickly.
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    Hanate! Kokoro ni kizanda
    yume wo mirai sae okizari ni shite

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    Genkai nado shiranai imi nai
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    Kono chikara ga hikari chirasu
    sono saki ni haruka na omoi wo

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    Aruite kita kono michi
    wo furikaeru koto shika

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    dekinai nara ima koko de subete wo kowaseru
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    Kurayami ni ochiru machinami
    hito wa doko made tachimukaeru no?

[02:46] ---
    Kasoku suru sono itami kara
    dareka wo kitto mamoreru yo

[02:53] ---
    Looking! The blitz loop this
    planet to search way

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    Only my railgun can shoot it ima sugu
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    Karadajuu wo hikari no hayasa de
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    kakemegutta tashika na yokan
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    Tsukame! Nozomu mono nara
    nokosazu kagayakeru jibunrashisa de

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    Shinjite'ru yo ano hi no chikai wo
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    Kono hitomi ni hikaru namida
    sore sae mo tsuyosa ni naru kara

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    Sure is hot today, huh?
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    What's with the frowny-face?
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    I just cannot believe it about
    Kaitabi Hatsuya being a Level 2.
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    Kaitabi? Oh, the one behind
    those graviton attacks earlier.
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    But all the destruction
    he caused was Level 4 class.
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    Yes, which means that this is...
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    ...this is...
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    What does it mean, anyway?
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    That's kind of what
    I was just asking you.
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    If you're stressing, let's take a break,
    and let your head cool off.
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    "Ice"
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    What do you want, Kuroko?
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    The same thing that
    you are getting, Sissy.
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    It is mystifying, is it not?
    When you hear a wind chime,
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    it feels a little bit cooler.
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    Yeah, it's called synesthesia.
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    Synesthesia?
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    Thank you for waiting.
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    Here, two strawberries.
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    "The reception of multiple
    sensations from a single stimulus."
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    We're paying separately, here.
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    Sissy, you were the one who offered...
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    Huh? What's that?
[04:47] ---
    Oh, nothing.
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    So anyway,
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    when you see reddish colors,
    you feel warmer,
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    and when you see bluish
    colors, you feel cooler, right?
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    They call them warm colors and cool colors.
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    Right. And this shaved ice is strawberry-red.
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    I get you. The red syrup
    adds to the fruity image of it.
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    Oh, Sissy...!
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    Misaka! Shirai!
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    Saten...
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    That sure looks good.
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    This is starting to become
    a summer tradition.
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    You still want to eat it,
    even knowing that's what will happen.
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    Oh, are yours strawberry?
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    Mm-hmm. Would you like a spoonful?
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    Wow, you mean it? Don't mind if I do...
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    Mmm, delicious.
    Want to have some lemon in return?
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    Thanks.
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    W-W-What... What are you doing?
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    Huh? Tasting each others' flavors.
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    Tasting each others'...
    each others'... each others'...
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    I could have done that!
    Kuroko, that's the goof of a lifetime!
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    W-Well then, you can secondhand kis--
    I mean, taste my flavor, too.
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    You've got the same strawberry
    flavor that I do, don't you?
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    Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
    Kuroko, how stupid!
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    Come to think of it, Saten,
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    isn't Uiharu with you today?
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    She stayed home from
    school with a summer cold.
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    So I'm on my way to
    drop her off some medicine.
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    Is it pretty bad?
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    She says it's nothing serious,
    but I'm still concerned, you know?
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    Um, if you like...
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    And so, we came to check up on you!
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    Pardon the intrusion.
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    Thanks for going to the trouble.
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    Don't you worry about it.
    Now, don't move...
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    37.3 degrees.
    Well, it is slightly elevated,
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    so spend the rest of the day in bed.
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    And no more sleeping
    with your tummy uncovered.
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    Miss Saten, I got chilled because
    you keep flipping my skirt up.
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    No, that's just because,
    as Uiharu's best friend,
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    I'm concerned that she's
    wearing panties every day, you know?
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    Of course I wear them! Every day!
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    Yeah, yeah, we know.
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    Now come on, lie down, you're sick.
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    I'll go fix you a cool towel.
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    Oh, right, Miss Shirai...
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    Have there been any developments
    in the graviton attacks case?
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    There is one thing,
    but it really is nothing.
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    All we really know is that
    the culprit's ability was Level 2.
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    But what he did was
    unmistakably Level 4-class stuff.
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    So the development is just
    that there's more we don't understand?
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    Well, that appears to be the shape of it.
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    Come to think of it, Saten,
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    didn't you say something or
    other about a Level Upper before?
[07:54] ---
    Huh?
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    Raise a person's ability level?
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    Yeah, but like I said, it's just a rumor.
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    It's an item that's unsubstantiated.
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    Unsubstantiated?
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    That's right.
    The gist of the rumor is all mixed up,
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    so it really is like an urban legend.
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    Oh. Well, I guess it couldn't
    be that convenient, huh?
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    The truth is, as far as cases
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    where the level recorded in the databank
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    and the actual damage done do not match go,
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    this is not the first time it has happened.
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    The Tokiwadai-stalking eyebrow girl,
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    and the pyrokineticist bank robber--
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    those are two cases that
    you already know about, Sissy.
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    There have also been other cases
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    where the ability does
    not match the damage inflicted.
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    You mean...
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    There really is a Level Upper?
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    Is there anything else you know about it?
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    Huh? Let's see...
    I don't know if this is true or fake,
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    but there's something about people
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    who use the Level Upper posting
    to a message board on the net.
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    Do you know which message board?
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    Uh, let's see...
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    let's see... let's see...
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    Could it be this one?
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    This message board?
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    Ah, there it is!
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    Nicely done!
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    Now if we can just investigate
    their identities
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    and where they hang out...
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    I can't speak to their identities,
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    but as for their hangouts, look--
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    they seem to get together at this restaurant.
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    "Let's get together at Jona G!"
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    Thank you, Uiharu! I'll go have a look!
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    Oh, and take care of yourself!
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    Sissy! That is my job!
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    Sissy! Listen to me when I'm talking! Sissy!
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    I wonder if they'll be all right?
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    Knowing those two,
    there's nothing to worry about.
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    They're each Level 5 and Level 4,
    the pride of Academy City.
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    There's no point in us going, huh?
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    Miss Saten...
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    Say, Uiharu,
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    do you think that if we used the Level Upper,
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    our levels really would increase, too?
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    Who knows? Oh, but cheating is wrong.
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    Yeah, I'm just saying, "if," that's all.
[10:02] ---
    It's all right. I wouldn't get involved.
[10:05] ---
    Hey, I got an idea!
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    Today at school, the teacher
    singled me out, and I was stumped.
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    Would you explain this to me?
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    Please don't ask me when I'm sick.
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    Are you hungry? I can make something for you.
[10:18] ---
    It's not right to bribe
    me with things like that.
[10:20] ---
    All right. Then I guess
    you don't want anything.
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    I could eat.
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    Yeah, he told me to study "Personal Reality,"
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    but I just don't get it, you know?
[10:37] ---
    Yeah, what is this?
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    I know in my mind that there's
    this "reality unto oneself" thing,
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    "Unto oneself," huh?
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    Unto you, Uiharu; unto me;
    what is that reality, anyway?
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    Delusions, maybe?
[10:54] ---
    Oh, that might be close.
[10:55] ---
    Huh?
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    Delusions are what they are,
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    but there's also hard-and-fast assumptions,
    and the power of belief.
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    Maybe it's a strong feeling like that.
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    The power of belief, huh?
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    I myself am only a Level 1,
    so I may not be at all convincing.
[11:11] ---
    Mm-mm, thanks. Honestly,
    if you said "reality unto oneself" to me,
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    it was as clear as mud,
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    but I get the feeling
    that I understand it now.
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    I wonder if my level will
    go up someday, too, if I believe.
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    You'll be fine.
[11:30] ---
    Miss Saten, once you get an
    idea in your head, there's no shaking it.
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    You inadvertently say the worst
    things, you know that?
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    #8 Level Upper
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    This is it.
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    Well, shall we go in?
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    There you go again, Sissy.
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    You're in Judgment,
    so people might know who you are.
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    But...
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    Look, just let me handle this.
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    Okay, you hang back,
    sit down, and wait for me.
[11:57] ---
    What could this be?
    I am feeling very uneasy.
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    Okay, here I go!
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    Please, hold on, Sissy!
[12:08] ---
    You wanna know
    more about the Level Upper?
[12:11] ---
    Mm-hmm. I happened to
    stumble upon your posts on the net,
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    and thought, if I can,
    I'd sure like to learn more, so...
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    Please! I'm begging you!
    Okay? You don't mind, right?
[12:22] ---
    Don't know nothing about it.
[12:24] ---
    Now scram, will you?
[12:25] ---
    Oh, don't give me that.
[12:27] ---
    You're bugging us. Ain't it
    time for a kid like you to be in bed?
[12:31] ---
    Th-This isn't working.
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    My hunch that this would
    fail is coming true already.
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    I'm not really that much of a child.
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    You sure aren't a child,
    are you? You're just my type.
[12:44] ---
    Wow! Really? Then, will you tell me more?
[12:48] ---
    But then, I ain't gonna
    do it for free, you know?
[12:52] ---
    Um, if you want some money,
    I can pay you a little.
[12:55] ---
    Money is okay,
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    but in this situation,
    I'd rather have some of this.
[13:02] ---
    Yeah, but that sort of puts me off.
[13:08] ---
    I don't know you that well.
    Are you sure money won't do it?
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    You ain't a child, right?
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    I lied to my parents.
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    Huh? Where's this coming from?
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    I don't have... anywhere else
    to turn but the Level Upper...
[13:32] ---
    ...so... can't you help...?
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    Whatever, just don't cry.
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    I mean... I...
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    Isn't that uniform from Tokiwadai?
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    Huh? Now that you mention it...
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    She could make for a
    surprisingly good money tree.
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    H-Hey...
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    All right. Don't cry, it's a real drag.
    We'll tell you more.
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    Thank you, mister.
[14:04] ---
    Okay, let's step out for a bit.
[14:06] ---
    You think we're going to
    spill our beans in here? Let's go.
[14:15] ---
    "Danger, there is powerful
    electricity in here. Please stay out."
[14:17] ---
    Okay then, this is far enough.
    No one will interfere with us here.
[14:22] ---
    Then...
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    First, why don't you
    give us all the money on you?
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    And don't forget your
    cash card and PIN number.
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    Oh, and any credit cards.
[14:31] ---
    Being a Tokiwadai lady,
    you've got some, right?
[14:34] ---
    Uh... I did withdraw some before
    I came, but I can't give you all of it.
[14:40] ---
    Huh?
[14:41] ---
    You wanna hear what we have
    to say, right? Then pay up, right now.
[14:45] ---
    Yeah, yeah.
[14:46] ---
    You'd better pay up, quick.
[14:48] ---
    Or we could strip you bare,
    and take your wallet that way.
[14:51] ---
    What a pain.
[14:53] ---
    Huh? Look, just make with the money--
[15:01] ---
    J-Junta?!
[15:03] ---
    Why, you...!
[15:04] ---
    I've had enough.
    And here I was, being extra-nice.
[15:09] ---
    Now you're going
    to spill everything you know
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    about the Level Upper.
[15:14] ---
    Don't go getting smug with us!
[15:15] ---
    We'll show you our powered-up strength!
[15:22] ---
    Have all these guys really
    used this Level Upper thing?
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    If there's this many of them,
    at the same level as Kaitabi...
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    Now, take this! This is my Level 2--
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    With this many of you around,
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    it's hard for me to hold back.
[15:47] ---
    You really did quite a
    number on them, didn't you?
[15:50] ---
    B-Boss...
[15:52] ---
    Hey, you guys,
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    what were you doing to that little lady?
[15:57] ---
    W-We're sorry.
[15:58] ---
    Going after a girl's wallet like that...
[16:01] ---
    B-But...
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    Are you talking back to me?!
    I'll bury you!
[16:05] ---
    --S-Sorry!
[16:06] ---
    --You're not apologizing to me!
    --S-Sorry!
[16:08] ---
    Come on, the rest of you, too!
[16:12] ---
    M-My bad...
[16:14] ---
    Not like that!
[16:15] ---
    I-I'm really sorry about this!
[16:17] ---
    Us, too!
[16:20] ---
    That squares it, right?
    Can you forgive them?
[16:24] ---
    You guys, beat it!
[16:26] ---
    Yes, ma'am!
[16:26] ---
    Excuse us!
[16:28] ---
    Are you their boss?
[16:31] ---
    Then you must know about the Level Upper, too.
[16:34] ---
    Never mind that,
    you sure took good care of my boys.
[16:38] ---
    You're prepared to answer for that, right?
[16:40] ---
    Prepared to...
    Uh, but didn't they just apologize to me?
[16:44] ---
    That was that, but this is this.
[16:47] ---
    I have to pay you back in full.
[16:51] ---
    Here goes!
[16:53] ---
    Wha--? What is this?!
[16:55] ---
    The ground is...!
[16:57] ---
    My ability is called "Flux Coat".
[17:00] ---
    I'm freely able to control
    the viscosity of the asphalt.
[17:09] ---
    Whatcha gonna do?
    There's nowhere you can run.
[17:18] ---
    That attack won't work against--
[17:20] ---
    W-What?!
[17:22] ---
    She vanished!
[17:23] ---
    Not bad.
[17:27] ---
    W-What the...?
    How can you stay up there?!
[17:30] ---
    Electrical current.
[17:32] ---
    It creates a magnetic field.
[17:34] ---
    Directing it toward the rebar
    inside this wall can be handy, see?
[17:46] ---
    Well?
[17:49] ---
    Do you feel like telling
    me what I want to know yet?
[17:52] ---
    I get it. You weren't giving
    me your all on that first attack.
[17:58] ---
    And on this blast, you missed
    me on purpose, is that it?
[18:02] ---
    That's right. Now, be a good girl and--
[18:04] ---
    Screw you!
[18:06] ---
    I'm not beaten just yet!
[18:08] ---
    If you call yourself an esper,
    then give me your best!
[18:11] ---
    If you think you can break my
    iron will with your puny electricity,
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    then go ahead and try it!
[18:23] ---
    That's not something I'd mind doing.
[18:26] ---
    Okay, I'll take you up on that.
[18:32] ---
    Sissy! Wait!
[18:35] ---
    Yeah, I know.
[18:36] ---
    No, you do not, Sissy!
[18:42] ---
    Uiharu, don't you want to
    become a high-level esper?
[18:47] ---
    Like Misaka, and Shirai?
[18:51] ---
    Well, nothing beats
    having a high ability level,
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    and it would leave me sitting pretty
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    when it comes time
    for academic advancement.
[18:58] ---
    Sure, and if we wanted a normal school life,
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    we can always get that outside here.
[19:03] ---
    Lots of people come to Academy City
[19:05] ---
    because they're enamored
    of esper powers, right?
[19:10] ---
    I wondered what my ability was, myself,
[19:13] ---
    and what kind of power
    I have hidden inside me.
[19:17] ---
    I couldn't sleep the night before
    I came here, I was so excited.
[19:20] ---
    And then, on my first
    System Scan, they told me,
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    "You have absolutely
    no talent. You are a Level 0."
[19:28] ---
    It made me feel like, "Aww..."
[19:32] ---
    To be honest, it got me down.
[19:35] ---
    I know how you feel. I don't have
    much of an ability level, myself.
[19:42] ---
    But working together with Miss Shirai,
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    and playing around together with you,
    Miss Saten, I enjoy every day.
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    I mean, if I hadn't come here,
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    I never would have been
    able to meet all of you.
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    I think it was meaningful
    for me to come to Academy City,
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    if only because of that.
[19:58] ---
    Uiharu...
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    Oh, you say the most adorable things!
[20:05] ---
    As a reward, I'll sponge
    down your whole body for you!
[20:07] ---
    Miss Saten! I can do the areas
    I can reach by myself!
[20:13] ---
    A blackout?
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    This is why I told you to wait!
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    "Power Substation"
     "No entrance to unauthorized personnel"
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    I can't help it, can I?
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    How was I to know that there was
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    something like this around here?!
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    Like I said, I did...
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    You can't just appear at the
    last instant like that!
[20:29] ---
    And what am I gonna do
    about my loafers?!
[20:31] ---
    You brought that upon yourself.
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    I guess I lost.
[20:38] ---
    "The blackout caused by the accident
    is still affecting some areas."
[20:48] ---
    What a bummer.
[20:50] ---
    I ended up without any information.
[20:53] ---
    Kuroko...
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    We have a new problem.
[20:56] ---
    Kaitabi Hatsuya is unconscious?
[20:59] ---
    I do not know all the details,
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    but he suddenly passed out
    while Antiskill was questioning him.
[21:05] ---
    I am Shirai, with Judgment.
[21:06] ---
    What is his condition?
[21:07] ---
    We are doing everything we can,
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    but he shows no signs
    of regaining consciousness.
[21:12] ---
    Um, earlier, I clocked
    him good and hard in the face...
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    Oh, he doesn't present
    any significant head trauma.
[21:20] ---
    For that matter, we didn't find
    anything wrong with him anywhere.
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    He just simply lost consciousness.
[21:27] ---
    So you are saying it is unexplained.
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    There is one other unusual thing;
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    as of this week, we've had
    patients with the same symptoms
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    brought in here, one after the next.
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    I hate to have to admit it,
    but this is beyond the capabilities
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    of this hospital and its staff,
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    so I called in an outside
    specialist in cerebrophysiology.
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    Sorry to keep you waiting.
[21:53] ---
    I received a request from the
    Mizuho Systems Hospital Director.
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    I'm Kiyama Harumi.
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    Thanks for coming.
[22:02] ---
    It's you!
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    Dear my friend
[22:06] ---
    Every day & night
    Always be with you

[22:12] ---
    Dear my friend
[22:13] ---
    Every day & night
    Always be with you

[22:20] ---
    Hanashite mo madamada tarinai mama
[22:27] ---
    yuuyake ga machi wo somete yuku
[22:35] ---
    Omou you ni nakanaka ikanai tte
[22:42] ---
    kizuitara issho ni naite ita
[22:50] ---
    Koi mo yume mo hana mo niji mo kaze mo
[22:53] ---
    zenbu tsukamou yo
[22:56] ---
    Daijoubu! Genki dashite
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    Watashi ga soba ni iru kara
[23:04] ---
    Kyou no misu kuiyamu yori ima norikoete
[23:11] ---
    Daijoubu! Mayowanai de
[23:15] ---
    Mada minu mirai e to mukatte
[23:21] ---
    zutto aruite yukou
[23:26] ---
    Every day & night
    Always be with you

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    I can't find anything on the Level Upper.
[23:40] ---
    Maybe the rumors really are just rumors.
[23:45] ---
    Guess I'll put some new songs on here.
[23:51] ---
    A hidden link?
[23:58] ---
    Is this...?
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    The Level Upper actually exists?
[24:01] ---
    #9 Majority Report
[24:02] ---
    Do the people who use it ever go
    back to normal?
[24:05] ---
    Huh? Where did you go? Miss Saten?
[24:10] ---