# 13 - Talent Time
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Don't look away!\n
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Predict your target's moves!\n
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If you all do that, you'll block off\nevery last one of his escape routes!\n
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We're going on our fourth month of training,\n
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and more and more students\nare showing promise.\n
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Yuma Isogai and Hiroto Maehara.\n
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They've got great reflexes,\n
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and when they work as a pair,\ntheir knives hit the mark more often now.\n
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Karma Akabane.\n
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He seems like the evasive,\nmeandering type at first glance,\n
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but there's great mischief in those eyes.\n
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Tch!\n
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And the girls:\n
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Hinata Okano's unpredictable movement\nborn of her gymnastics background,\n
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and Meg Kataoka, with a reach\nand momentum to rival the boys'.\n
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These traits make them stand out as attackers.\n
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And Koro Sensei, the very\nmodel of an ideal teacher.\n
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To kill such a man of character\nwould be unthinkable!\n
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Don't be making up thoughts for me.\n
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Get lost, target!\n
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Although no other students\nhave distinguished themselves,\n
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overall their talent has come quite a long way.\n
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Ow...\n
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Sorry!\n
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Put a little too much oomph into my block there.\n
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Oh, I-I'm fine.\n
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Dummy! You gotta keep an eye on him!\n
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Nagisa Shiota...\n
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The strange presence I just felt--\nwas that my imagination?\n
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Man, I just can't hit him!\n
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Mr. Karasuma has, like, zero chinks.\n
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Sir! Come out for snacks with us after class!\n
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I appreciate the invite,\nbut I still have work to do.\n
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No chinks in his private life, either.\n
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It's more like there's a wall\nbetween him and us,\n
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like he's keeping his distance.\n
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He takes good care of us and all,\n
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but is that only because he *has* to?
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Yo, Karasuma!\n
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Takaoka!\n
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A new teacher?\n
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Hey! I'm Akira Takaoka, \n
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"Ministry of Defense Special Forces" "Akira Takaoka"\nand I'll be assisting Karasuma as of today!\n
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"Ministry of Defense Special Forces" "Akira Takaoka"\nNice to meet you, E Class!\n
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*Stand up, bow, lock on! *
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*Stand up, bow, lock on! Oh, yeah *
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*Sensei! Target on *
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*The more the potential, the bigger the hassle *
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*Our dropout mentality goes beyond the extraordinary *
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*We looked like we were nodding off, hidden knives in hand *
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*Stand up, bow, lock on! *
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*Let it go and someone's sure to take care of it *
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*We thought it was someone else's problem... and yet *
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*Mr. Teacher, tell us *
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*Will we, still incomplete *
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*Be able to shoot through *
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*The invincible target that's you? *
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*As long as we keep trying, the odds are 50/50 *
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*Mr. Teacher, look at us *
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*Lost in so many ways *
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*For you more than anyone else *
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*Studying like a house on fire *
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*Our bloodlust alone is our message to you *
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*A self- (let's go) reliant (all out) *
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*Revolution *
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*Oh, yeah! Sensei! Target on *
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"Episode 13: Talent Time"\n
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What's all this?\n
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Cake!\n
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And éclairs from Le Hermès!\n
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Are you sure? They look so pricey...\n
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Go on, eat up! I emptied out my\nwallet for this, so don't hold back!\n
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You sure know your brand-name sweets.\n
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Honestly, when it comes to me and sugar,\n
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it's love!\n
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So cute for such a big guy...\n
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So will you be taking over phys ed tomorrow?\n
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Yep! Orders from headquarters.\nGotta lessen Karasuma's load, so--\n
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Caaake...\n
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Oh, you must be Koro Sensei! Eat, eat!\n
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We'll still end up killing you.\n
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For colleagues, you and Mr. Karasuma\nare like night and day.\n
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You're like a neighborhood dad!\n
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Dad! I like that!\n
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We're in the same classroom,\nso that makes us family, right?\n
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"The Next Day"\n
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"The Next Day"\nGreat--the gang's all here!\n
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Now, things could start getting a little tough,\n
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but I'll have more delicious treats\nfor you when it's all over!\n
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And you're not just saying that because *you* want to eat them?
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Gotta keep my figure!\n
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And you're fine with this?\nHe comes across as awfully forced.\n
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And Karma's cutting his class entirely.\n
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We were in the airborne brigade together.\n
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I understand he's a far\nbetter instructor than I.\n
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He's got a good grip on his students' hearts.\n
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That ought to go far in training.\n
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Maybe I was going about this the wrong way.\n
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Rather than drawing a line and\nconnecting to them as a professional,\n
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perhaps his method of relating\nto them like family would...\n
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Now, then!\n
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Along with your new training regimen\n
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"Training"\ncomes a new schedule!\n
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"Training"\nNo way!\n
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"Training"\nTen periods?\n
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"Training"\nTraining until 9 at night?\n
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But of course! Following this curriculum\n
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will boost your abilities by leaps and bounds.\n
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--Let's get to work!\n--Hey, wait a minute! This is impossible!\n
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With so little time for learning,\nour grades'll plummet!\n
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And no free time, either? We can't do this!\n
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"We can't," nothing. You *will*.
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It's like I said: we're a family,\nand I'm the dad.\n
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Show me a family that\ndoesn't do as the dad says.\n
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If you want to sit out, sit out.\n
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I'll use my authority to bring in\nnew students to replace you.\n
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But I don't want to have to do that.\n
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After all, you're my precious family.\n
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A father doesn't want to lose\na single one of his children.\n
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Let's save the world\ntogether, kids--as a family!\n
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You need only two things\nto win over your students:\n
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affection and fear.\n
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Well? You're coming along\nwith your old dad, right?\n
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W-Well...\n
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I, um...\n
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I don't want to.\nI prefer Mr. Karasuma's class.\n
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Kanzaki!\n
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Seems you still don't understand.\nThe only answer here is "yes."\n
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If that's a problem, we can\ntalk it out with our fists.\n
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That's one of your old dad's specialties!\n
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Takaoka, stop!\n
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Are you all right? Does your neck hurt?\n
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I'm okay.\n
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And you, Maehara?\n
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Y-Yeah, fine.\n
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I'm going easy on them, Karasuma.\nAfter all, they're my family.\n
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No,\n
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they're not your family--they're my students.\n
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Koro Sensei!\n
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Just what have you been up to\nwhile my back was turned?\n
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Got a problem, monster? Phys ed is *my* class to run.
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And these punishments fall well\nwithin the bounds of education.\n
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I don't have much time to train up\nthese assassins to kill you--\n
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of course I need to be tough on them.\n
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And so what if I am? Just because\nyour views on education differ,\n
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is that any reason to attack a man\nwho never did you any harm?\n
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He'll wind up crushing those students.\n
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It looks all wrong to me, but he has\nhis own ideas about education...\n
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That's why, Mr. Karasuma,\nas a fellow phys ed teacher,\n
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I'd like *you* to shut him down.
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Me? Shut him down?\n
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It must really grind your gears, Karasuma,\n
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me stealing away your students like this.\n
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You were the best in our brigade,\nnever paying any heed\n
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to what I could do.\n
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And now I've snatched away your\nchance at the ultimate promotion.\n
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Let half these kids be crushed to smithereens.\n
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If I train the rest into fierce\nassassins and kill that octopus,\n
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I'll be the hero-training hero-- and *you'll* be at my beck and call!
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Th-This isn't funny!\n
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Three hundred squats? We'll die!\n
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Mr. Karasuma!\n
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Hey, now!\n
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Karasuma's not part of our family.\nPunishment time.\n
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This is what happens to kids\nwho don't rely on their dad alone!\n
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That's enough. If you want to\nget violent, get violent with me.\n
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I figured it was about time for you\nto stick your nose in, Karasuma...\n
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And about time for me to go *there*.
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It's like I said: this isn't\nviolence, it's education.\n
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I don't want to engage\nwith you through violence.\n
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If we *do* face off, it'll be as teachers.
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Choose the best of the students\nyou've trained, Karasuma.\n
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They can fight me, and if their\nknife so much as touches me,\n
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I'll concede that your style of\neducation is better than mine\n
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and take my leave.\n
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But we won't be using these old things.\n
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No, you'll be killing me... and that means\n
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you'll need the real thing.\n
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A real knife?\n
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Enough! They're neither trained\nnor prepared to kill a human!\n
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Relax--stopping just before\ncontact will count as a hit.\n
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And I'm barehanded.\nWhat more of a handicap do you want?\n
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This trick worked wonders in the military, too.\n
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Unarmed, I'd beat down\na terrified new recruit\n
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holding a knife for the first time.\n
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Everyone there saw how\nmuch I outranked them\n
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and became my faithful devotees.\n
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Well, Karasuma? Pick one!\n
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It's that, or obey me unconditionally!\n
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I still don't know.\n
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Do we really not need his no-mercy approach\n
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when training assassins to save the world?\n
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I've been nothing but unsure\never since I got here.\n
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And now: should I be exposing to danger\n
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a student with a hint of potential?\n
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Nagisa... will you do it?\n
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Wait, why Nagisa?\n
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As someone charged with an\nassassination mission to save the Earth,\n
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I consider you all fellow professionals.\n
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And as such, the very least\ncompensation you deserve\n
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is the guarantee of a normal junior-high life.\n
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So there's no need to force\nyourself to take this knife.\n
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I'll make every effort to have Takaoka\n
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continue to provide you that compensation.\n
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I like this man's eyes.\n
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None of my family members\nwould look me in the eye like this.\n
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There must be a lot\nthey're keeping from us.\n
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I don't even know why he chose me.\n
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But...\n
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If he's the one handing me the knife,\nI know I can trust him.\n
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And I can't forgive what happened\nto Kanzaki and Maehara.\n
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I'll do it.\n
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Your eyes must be going bad, Karasuma.\n
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What the hell is Karasuma doing, picking Nagisa?\n
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Just watch. You'll see.\n
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You think Nagisa's knife'll hit?\n
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No way. A real knife against a real pro?\n
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Nagisa!\n
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Bring it on!\n
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A public execution!\n
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I dodge all his attacks,\nthen torment him endlessly.\n
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The students will be so afraid,\n
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they'll come right around\nto my way of teaching.\n
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Now listen: for Takaoka, this is combat,\n
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meant to serve as a warning.\n
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But for you, it's an assassination.\n
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You don't need to show your strength.\nJust make contact once.\n
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One time, and you can win.\n
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He'll have realized what it\nmeans to be holding a knife...\n
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"Stab a person with a real knife\nand they'll die! I can't use this!"\n
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I *love* seeing a rank amateur go pale when that dawns on him!
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I wasn't too sure how to move\nwith a real knife in my hand.\n
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I remembered Mr. Karasuma's advice:\n
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That's right--I don't have to fight him to win.\n
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I just need to kill him.\n
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"I just need to kill him."\nI just need to kill him.\n
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So with a smile on my face,\n
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I walked right up to him.\n
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Completely normal, like walking to school.\n
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That's when Mr. Takaoka first realized\n
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he was about to be killed.\n
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Startled, he lost his balance.\n
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Everyone startles when\nthey're about to be killed.\n
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Even Koro Sensei.\n
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With his center of balance shifted to the back,\n
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I grab his shirt, pull him down,\n
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and go in for the kill.\n
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He can block a blow from the front,\n
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so I circle around behind him, and sure enough--\n
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Gotcha.\n
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Holy hell... he's exceeded\nmy every expectation!\n
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You would never find that\nkind of talent in everyday life!\n
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The talent to hide his\nbloodlust on his approach,\n
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to use that bloodlust to frighten his foe,\n
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to be so self-assured in\ngoing through with it all!\n
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That chill I felt during training...\n
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What if that had been a real assassination?\n
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He doesn't have a knack\nfor combat or for violence--\n
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that's a knack for assassination!\n
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Should I even encourage that kind of talent?\n
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Oops! Was I not supposed\nto use the back of my knife?\n
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That's enough!\n
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That's the match, Mr. Karasuma.\n
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Honestly, are you out of your mind,\ngiving a real knife to a student?\n
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What if he'd hurt himself?\n
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\n--You'd have been in there at Mach speed to patch him up.\n
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--You did it, Nagisa!\n--You'd have been in there at Mach speed to patch him up.\n
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--Oh, thank goodness!\n--You'd have been in there at Mach speed to patch him up.\n
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--That's a big deal!\n--But still...\n
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You sure know your way around a knife!\n
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Nah, I just did what Mr. Karasuma\ntold me. Mr. Takaoka is tough.\n
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Ow!\n
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What was that for?!\n
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Sorry. I kinda didn't believe that was you.\n
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But thanks! That assassination was a total rush!\n
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Stabbing that knife with a smile,\nand then that "Gotcha"?\n
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You were pretty lost out there today,\nweren't you, Mr. Karasuma.\n
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What's wrong with that?\n
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Oh, nothing.\n
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You brats...\n
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Turning on your father figure and\nrejoicing in some fluke victory?!\n
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Again!\n
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I'll tear you in two--body and soul!\n
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If we fought again, I'd lose for sure.\n
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But what's plain to see\n
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is that Koro Sensei is our teacher,\n
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and Mr. Karasuma is our training instructor.\n
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And that's final.\n
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You and your forced father-figure role\n
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don't come across half as warm\n
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as Mr. Karasuma and his professionalism.\n
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We're grateful you really\ntried to make us stronger...\n
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But I'm sorry. Please leave.\n
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Wait--what am I?\n
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You're our bitch.\n
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You're *dead*.
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A teacher's happiest moment\n
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is when a student gives a clear\nanswer to your own lesson\n
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of which you yourself are unsure.\n
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And Mr. Karasuma...\n
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--I'm not gonna stand here\n
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--a teacher must give a clear answer in response as well.\n--and listen to this brat spoutin' off!\n
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I apologize for the trouble\nmy colleague caused.\n
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Don't worry about what comes next.\n
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I'll negotiate with my superiors\nto resume my teaching position.\n
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Mr. Karasuma!\n
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You think I'll let you get one\nover on me like that? I'll--\n
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There's no need to negotiate.\n
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Principal Asano!\n
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I was curious as to how our\nnewest teacher was doing\n
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and saw the whole thing.\n
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Mr. Takaoka, your lesson was a joke.\n
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Yes, fear is a must in education.\n
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But a teacher who can only\ninstill fear through violence\n
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is a teacher of the lowest order indeed.\n
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B-But... I--\n
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Your walking papers.\n
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The Ministry of Defense\nhas no hiring rights here.\n
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I call the shots around here.\nAnd don't you forget it.\n
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Dammit, dammit, dammit,\ndammit, dammit, dammit...\n
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Damn it all to hell!\n
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Takaoka got fired?\n
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So it's back to Mr. Karasuma again?\n
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Hooray!\n
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*He's* as confident as ever in his views on education.
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What if...\n
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If he said he wanted to be\nan assassin when he grew up,\n
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would you still be able to train him--\nwith zero hesitation?\n
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He may not realize it,\nbut he has what it takes.\n
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That's a tricky one, to be sure...\n
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But I think every teacher has doubts.\n
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We secretly wonder if we're\ngiving them our best answers,\n
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but we must keep a cool head\nin front of our students,\n
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ever majestic, never letting them see us waver.\n
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And *that's* why teaching is such a great profession!
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Mr. Karasuma?\n
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Since it was us students who\ngot your phys ed job back,\n
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don't you think we should\nget some kind of reward?\n
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Yeah! That's one thing\nMr. Takaoka was great at!\n
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I don't know much about sweets.\nHere, get something you--\n
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Yesss!\n
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Let me in on that reward, too!\n
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Huh? What for?\n
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You didn't even do much this time around!\n
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No, no, no! I watched in silent contemplation\n
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so Mr. Karasuma could learn\nthe value of being a teacher!\n
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Never mind him. Let's go!\nC'mon, Mr. Karasuma!\n
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I might be getting a little\nstuck on this place--\n
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and the fun of training people\ndespite my doubts.\n
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--He's coming after us on his hands and knees!\n--Just how badly does he want it?!\n
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Please, please, please, please, *please*--
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*The sun shines, leaving a red afterimage *
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*On the backs of closed eyelids *
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*With notebook and pen in my leather bag *
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*C'mon, let's go walking *
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*I draw and I draw *
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*But they don't get any neater *
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*There's nothing wrong with the paint I've chosen *
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*I still remember the shooting star *
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*I saw last night--I was waiting for... *
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*Hello, shooting star *
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*Hello, shooting star again *
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*She's been waiting *
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*That dreaming girl has been here *
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*All this time, ah ah *
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*Just like she was that day, ah ah *
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*Shine again *