12 - Absolute Duo

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    We managed to pull it off.
[00:05] ---
    Ja. All thanks to you.
[00:08] ---
    That's my future husband for you!
[00:11] ---
    He only did what was expected.
[00:14] ---
    Where do you think you're going?
[00:17] ---
    None of this is over yet.
[00:24] ---
    You bastard!
[00:40] ---
    A Blaze is at once your weapon
    and your greatest weakness.
[00:57] ---
    Lilith! Tora!
[01:00] ---
    Even an Exception like her
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    will soon crack...
[01:07] ---
    Just as I thought:
    Exceeds are no match at all...
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    ...not for this Destruction!
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    "#12 Absolute Duo"
[01:38] ---
    Julie!
[01:39] ---
    It's just a scratch!
[01:46] ---
    Tor!
[02:01] ---
    Do you think you can win
    with her holding you back?
[02:04] ---
    Julie's my Duo!
[02:07] ---
    I just don't understand.
[02:09] ---
    Why do you need another person's
    presence to make you stronger?
[02:18] ---
    Going to spout some nonsense
    about your resolve being your strength?
[02:32] ---
    No wonder you're so fragile and weak!
[02:43] ---
    Now you'll see how powerless you really are!
[02:54] ---
    Did you forget about this?
[02:59] ---
    Koryo Academy... what a wonderful place.
[03:04] ---
    You learn together,
    compete together, laugh together...
[03:10] ---
    The ideal place to spend your brightest years.
[03:19] ---
    So very, very wonderful. It makes me sick.
[03:30] ---
    Stop!
[03:36] ---
    Why go to such lengths?
    Do you really have nothing?
[03:39] ---
    No one to keep safe?
    No wanting to keep someone safe?
[03:45] ---
    That doesn't matter in the slightest.
[03:51] ---
    Power--power is everything to me!
[04:03] ---
    No!
[04:10] ---
    Not so fast, you little shit!
[04:38] ---
    I've got this--you go smash him to pieces!
[04:44] ---
    Tsukimi!
[04:49] ---
    What's a girl gotta do to
    get a little shuteye, anyway?
[05:00] ---
    I should never have become a teacher.
[05:13] ---
    Oh, well.
[05:20] ---
    What futility.
[05:25] ---
    And you think that'll help somehow?
[05:27] ---
    Nej. But we've made a blind spot.
[05:36] ---
    Ah, too bad.
[05:41] ---
    From this close, I won't miss.
[05:53] ---
    Your injuries okay?
[05:54] ---
    Ja. No problem at all.
[05:58] ---
    Let's see if I can make you behave.
[06:03] ---
    Julie!
[06:10] ---
    Tor?
[06:21] ---
    Tor!
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    See? You really did protect her.
[06:43] ---
    Now die an awkward
    death in front of your friend...
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    ...so it can eat away at her soul forevermore.
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    Tor?
[07:00] ---
    Tor?
[07:02] ---
    Tor?
[07:04] ---
    Tor?
[07:05] ---
    Tor...
[07:07] ---
    Tor! Tor?
[07:09] ---
    Your precious Duo is
    calling! Come on: stand up.
[07:10] ---
    Tor! Tor! Tor!
[07:14] ---
    Tor!
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    Take out your Blaze!
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    You'll protect her, right? Tor Kokonoe!
[07:25] ---
    You won't get away with this...
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    Never...
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    Never, ever...
[07:31] ---
    You'll never get away with this!
[07:34] ---
    There it is: the dark
    power that once wounded me.
[08:17] ---
    This... this power!
[08:21] ---
    Mighty enough to surpass this Destruction...
[08:24] ---
    I... I refuse to accept it!
[08:37] ---
    This is it!
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    Julie...
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    No--Julie--
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    Don't...
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    Julie... you can't!
[09:37] ---
    Tor... Kokonoe...
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    Head off Julie's fang!
[09:50] ---
    Aegis Desire!
[10:02] ---
    Julie, I know where you're coming from.
[10:06] ---
    Someone important to you was killed,
    and you seek power to avenge him.
[10:13] ---
    You're an Avenger, same as me...
[10:17] ---
    But every time I get power, I lose track...
[10:21] ---
    Power... revenge... is that what's right?
[10:25] ---
    How is this power any different from his?
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    Julie... it's all thanks to you.
[10:47] ---
    The time we've spent
    together has made me realize:
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    I wanted to protect.
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    That's why my soul, my Blaze...
    isn't a weapon, but a shield.
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    That's what my power is meant for!
[11:08] ---
    And that's why, Julie...
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    I'm going to protect you!
[11:28] ---
    Julie... that's enough.
[11:30] ---
    I'm not dead. I'm alive.
[11:37] ---
    Please... come back to me, Julie!
[11:51] ---
    T... Tor?
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    That's right.
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    Tor... Tor, I... I--
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    I told you I'd always keep you safe.
[12:11] ---
    Your big brother will always keep you safe.
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    The power of your resolve...
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    There's no such thing!
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    Enough. It'd be pointless to keep going.
[12:29] ---
    Yes... everything is pointless once you've lost.
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    And that's why I'll kill you both!
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    Because power is all I have left!
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    Then I'll protect her to the very end!
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    Julie?
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    And I'll protect you...
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    ...because I'm your Duo.
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    That's right.
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    Aegis Desire!
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    Die, Tor Kokonoe... Julie Sigtuna!
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    It's over!
[13:18] ---
    Why... how?!
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    What I give Julie...
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    ...and what I give Tor...
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    We lived in a closed-up past
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    ...is protection!
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    With an ever-distant future and time unmoving
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    Finding in our battle now
    what we were searching for
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    The power to believe in each other,
    beyond even destiny
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    Ridiculous... This power--where...
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    We'll get stronger,
    you and me: a pair to the end
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    Alone, I can't defeat you.
[13:57] ---
    This light reflects a bond
    even deeper than our wounds
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    But I have Julie:
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    a friend to whom I'm bound!
[14:03] ---
    I want to protect you...
    and so my soul runs out to you now
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    That's a Duo.
[14:08] ---
    Never... I'll never admit defeat!
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    Just hand it over to me
    (all of it)--even your pain
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    We're together (together) that's why
    (that's why) we can make it our strength
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    Julie!
[14:20] ---
    Tor...
[14:21] ---
    My soul and yours...
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    I'll be your shield, and yours alone
[14:26] ---
    Yeah!
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    My back to yours,
    I believe in miracles (in meetings)
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    No one can intrude on that (can't stop it)
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    Looking down on our limits
    from far above: Absolute Soul
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    B-Brother...
[15:21] ---
    I'm so sorry!
[15:24] ---
    I brought this on you all. I'm so, so sorry!
[15:32] ---
    Hey, we can get stronger, right?
[15:40] ---
    Of course. Because I've got Miyabi.
[15:43] ---
    Oh... yeah! And I have Tomoe!
[15:49] ---
    Miyabi, Tachibana, Tora, Tatsu.
    Let's keep up our friendship!
[15:56] ---
    You damn pests! Quit following me!
[16:00] ---
    Wait up! Dark Professor Bunbun!
[16:04] ---
    Dammit! Leave me alone already!
[16:06] ---
    What's up with them?
[16:08] ---
    She was the one defending the dorms.
[16:12] ---
    Huh! Okay...
[16:18] ---
    "No Visitors Allowed"
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    Here you go, Tor. To celebrate
    you getting out of the hospital.
[16:32] ---
    What is it?
[16:34] ---
    Materials on Kevin Wayfair...
    the young man known as "K."
[16:40] ---
    He had an older brother
    with whom he was quite close.
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    But K lost him suddenly.
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    His family fell apart,
    and he wound up in the shadows...
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    ...sold off into that old man's organization.
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    "Kevin Wayfair" "DOB 8-3-1996"
    "Nationality: USA" "Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA"
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    He lost his family, had his name stolen,
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    and was raised as a soldier
    seeking only power--and results.
[17:05] ---
    That's the long and short of K.
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    Why would you give me this?
[17:12] ---
    I thought you'd be curious.
[17:15] ---
    Thank you, Lilith.
[17:17] ---
    It's the least I can do for my future spouse.
[17:21] ---
    Oh, and the other thing
    you must be worried about:
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    I hear she left the hospital today.
[17:27] ---
    Really?!
[17:29] ---
    I can't say I like that reaction of yours.
[17:37] ---
    All right. I know you
    haven't seen her all this time.
[17:40] ---
    I suppose I'll allow
    it for today. Go on then, Tor.
[17:46] ---
    Thanks, Lilith!
[17:53] ---
    You're being kind to Tor,
    letting him see K's file like that.
[17:59] ---
    I'd like his soul to develop even further.
[18:03] ---
    Perhaps his erstwhile
    enemy's feelings will help fuel that.
[18:07] ---
    You certainly haven't changed.
[18:10] ---
    No. All for the path
    I take to reach Absolute Duo.
[18:54] ---
    Can you see Gimle?
[18:56] ---
    Nej. Unfortunately.
[19:00] ---
    Tor...
[19:04] ---
    I'm not an Exceed.
[19:08] ---
    The day Papa was killed...
    I prayed for strength, begged for it.
[19:14] ---
    And then...
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    I found myself fangs. For revenge.
[19:23] ---
    I have awakened the power within me.
    An El Awake: that's what I am.
[19:31] ---
    An El Awake...?
[19:33] ---
    People have power hidden away
    in the depths of their souls.
[19:38] ---
    Those whose power awakens
    to make weapons of their souls...
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    ...those are El Awakes.
[19:44] ---
    But that's just like an Exceed!
[19:49] ---
    I've heard that Exceeds are El Awakes
[19:51] ---
    who've had their
    soul-power artificially awakened.
[19:56] ---
    I couldn't control my power.
    And the Dorn Agency rescued me.
[20:04] ---
    Is that what happened?
[20:08] ---
    I lied. I was afraid.
[20:13] ---
    Afraid you'd find out I wasn't an Exceed...
[20:16] ---
    ...that I'm not the same as you.
[20:20] ---
    Afraid that once you
    knew everything, you'd drift away.
[20:24] ---
    More than anything, afraid that
    my power would hurt you... or kill you.
[20:32] ---
    Julie...
[20:33] ---
    But... but...
[20:38] ---
    I still want to be with you.
    I want to be your Duo!
[20:48] ---
    I need to apologize to you, too, Julie.
[20:51] ---
    The first time I saw your true power, I thought,
[20:56] ---
    "I can never let her use that again."
[20:59] ---
    That a power capable of hurting
    you was absolutely out of the question.
[21:03] ---
    But I went and let you use it again.
    I hurt you... again.
[21:09] ---
    No!
[21:10] ---
    It's all right. I'll get stronger.
    Strong enough to really protect you.
[21:18] ---
    So, Julie...
[21:20] ---
    I want you to keep being my Duo.
[21:33] ---
    Blaze!
[21:35] ---
    So bound, we two shall remain together always
[21:39] ---
    to the best of our ability.
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    In joy, in sorrow, in health--
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    until death do us part.
[22:00] ---
    The wind stops, having touched your back
[22:07] ---
    As you walked all alone
[22:15] ---
    The sound of bells echoes beside you
[22:23] ---
    Loneliness melts away in time
[22:31] ---
    Wishes to the skies, oaths to eternity: my soul
[22:39] ---
    Though caught in the driving rain, we are two:
    Just believe, believe, believe
[22:48] ---
    Even the faintest voice will reach you--
    that alone is enough
[22:56] ---
    For even trembling hands
    to hold a shining hope
[23:04] ---
    Courage spread wide,
    we breathe together and grab the sky
[23:11] ---
    In my world, you're here


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