# E8 - The Last Testament of a Certain Skeleton
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Oh my god!
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Who would do such a horrible thing?!
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Although they don't have any
pronounced external injuries...
**[00:30] ---**
Sure enough...
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Their vitality has been sucked up.
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It bears a great resemblance to whatever the
student from our school was preyed upon by.
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Melida.
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Let's see what your private
tutor has to say about this.
**[00:47] ---**
Th-the thing is...
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I haven't been able to find him
since I woke up this morning.
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There's no doubt that young man is a key
person of interest in relation to this incident!
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Track him down and bring him before me!
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If that's what you ask of us, Blossom!
**[01:07] ---**
Yeah, right on!
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Hey, Lita.
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There's something I want to tell you about.
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Sorry, Elli.
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I want to be alone right now.
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Lita...
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The Last Testament of a Certain Skeleton
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Why would Instructor Kufa do that?
**[03:01] ---**
Did he really?
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Attention everyone!
**[03:05] ---**
We may have experienced
a heartbreaking event,
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but try not to let it get to you.
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Let's press on and continue
our studies and training here.
**[03:17] ---**
Can't say I'm impressed.
**[03:20] ---**
To think a top student like
yourself is trying to escape!
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I bet you were thinking,
**[03:25] ---**
"If no one is going to believe him,
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then I need to take my instructor's
side and stand by him."
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Am I right?
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W-well...
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Pretty foolish, aren't you?
**[03:38] ---**
I'm seeing you in a new light.
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Maybe you have the right idea.
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Seems a lot more worthwhile than some
boring investigation of historic ruins.
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In the first place, Angel...
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Have you started to get an idea of what
it is we should be investigating?
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I don't know.
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But I can't just stand around and do nothing.
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The mystery spots.
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Kufa was talking about them.
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He said in recent years there's been an unnatural
surge in the number of mystery spots in town.
**[04:09] ---**
Instructor Kufa said that?
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He asked a favor of me.
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He said, "If anything should happen to me,
I'd like you to watch over Lady Melida."
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Jeez, he goes and asks me of all people...
**[04:22] ---**
My instructor did such a thing?
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We're gonna go around town
and ask some questions now.
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But, I stand out too much.
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Being an instructor at my age and all...
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Ah, so that's why you're disguising
yourself as a student?
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What do you think?
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Does it suit me?
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Oh...?
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You're still inside the hotel?
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Shouldn't you be attending to your studies?
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My little sister left something
behind in the room!
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She was being a big baby saying,
"I can't go back unless my big sis is with me,"
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which is why we're here together!
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I-I love my kindhearted big sister!
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Oh my, the two of you certainly are close.
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Here's some chocolate for you.
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Y-yay!
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Hey, Angel, I'll get even with you for that.
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In any case, let's start
gathering some information.
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Okay, I'll give it a shot!
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Hey now, Angel!
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Excuse me!
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Oh, a cute little schoolgirl.
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Something I can help you with?
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Actually, there's something I'd like to
ask people from this town about...
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What is it?
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You see, I'm looking into
this town's mystery spots.
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They scolded me harshly, saying,
"Don't go near them on a lark."
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I did get a piece of candy, though.
**[05:54] ---**
I award you zero points.
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I'll show you how it's done.
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Big Sis, buy me some flowers!
**[06:03] ---**
Huh?
**[06:04] ---**
S-sure.
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What an unusual scent and shape...
**[06:08] ---**
Big Sis, what's this flower called?
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Uh, let me see...
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Well, you see...
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It's a selectively-bred variety that might as well
be called a Shangarta brand, young ladies.
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Amazing!
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Being able to enjoy colorful
flowers in an arid land like this
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is one of the many things
that's all thanks to Blossom.
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Ma'am, as a matter of fact,
we're doing some research.
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Oh, about what?
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About the great achievements of
Marquis Blossom Pricket!
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Well that's just wonderful, isn't it?!
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Yes!
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Speaking of Marquis Blossom's achievements,
there's the development of new crop varieties...
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and also - let's see...
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The identification of mystery spots, right?!
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Thanks to which there are far fewer people
who end up getting injured these days!
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What's a "mystery spot"?!
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I've heard they're dangerous places...
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Well done indeed, Instructor Laque!
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What can I say?
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Although for now I've resigned myself
to the position I temporarily hold...
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The true me is...
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Pretty amazing like that, you know!
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Extracting intel during the course
of a spontaneous conversation...
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is only the beginning of what I can do.
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The mystery spots that old
lady mentioned were...
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"The Whirlpool Forest,"
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"The Zero-Gravity Cave,"
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and...
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The most suspicious of all
was "The Crooked House."
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That must be it!
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Blossom Pricket was especially strict about
forbidding anyone from entering this area.
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There's nothing here.
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Just as I suspected.
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This place isn't a mystery spot.
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Huh?
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This log cabin didn't become
crooked over time...
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It was built that way from the start.
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But why?!
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By hiding something within
another "product of nature,"
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the aim was probably to make sure people
and their prying eyes kept their distance.
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There it is.
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Hey, Angel.
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There's no telling what
might happen down there.
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Stay close by at all times.
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I bet this is meant to prevent intruders.
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If it was just an ordinary cellar,
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there'd be no need to construct
it so deep underground.
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And not putting on lamps on the
stairway is also quite absurd.
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By instilling a sense of fear and anxiety,
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the aim is to deter people from
heading further inside, you see.
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To put it the other way around,
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it speaks to the fact that
venturing inside is unadvisable.
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Seems we've arrived.
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A dungeon?
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Instructor Laque, who are those people?
**[09:35] ---**
Judging from their clothing,
they're likely residents of Shangarta.
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Moreover, those aren't regular old corpses.
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Huh?
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Loup-garous...
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Humans affected by the "night gene-factor"
who weren't able to fully transform,
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would-be lancanthropes...
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Those corpses are failed loup-garous.
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Look at that man's arm.
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That's the man who...
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"Rare illness"? Yeah, right!
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The thing raging around
this town is no disease.
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The residents are being used
for some sort of experiment.
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The Marquis is starting
to look pretty suspicious.
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Marquis Blossom?
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The specimens he collected that
he professed as diseased
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were likely carried to this place that's hidden from
public view and then used in his experiments.
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And I suppose that's why he deliberately
increased the number of mystery spots.
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How half-hearted!
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It's not enough...
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Blood! Show me some blood!
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Kill them! Go on and kill them!
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Hey, Angel, are you listening to me?
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That voice...
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There's going to be another incident!
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Hey! Angel?!
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Why...
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Do I know where the next incident
is going to take place?
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They say someone's been attacked again.
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This time it was a school kid...
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She's dead... DEAD!
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Headmistress!
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Miss Angel, where have you been?
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Why...?
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Why did this happen?!
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Elli?!
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Hang in there, Elli!
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She's breathing...
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What a relief.
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Elli isn't wounded...
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So, where's this blood from?
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Rosetti, why did you die?
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Why was it that you had to be murdered?!
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Instructor Rosetti...
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Is dead?
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Headmistress?
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When we rushed over here after being notified,
we arrived to the same scene you did.
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Miss Angel.
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You didn't take part in the
training session either, right?
**[12:20] ---**
C-correct.
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It would seem Elise noticed your absence,
became concerned, and then headed back here.
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Elli did that?
**[12:29] ---**
It's probable that Instructor
Rosetti then accompanied her...
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So long as she went along with her,
I gave my tacit approval,
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but it turned out to be most careless of me.
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There are signs that Instructor
Rosetti put up a fight.
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Assuming she was overpowered
and wrestled to the floor,
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the culprit is no average joe.
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Must be that man!
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I bet he's a soldier!
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Hail the town folk for me!
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It's that man with the military
uniform and the black hair!
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He's the guy who killed Rosetti!
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Drag him before me ASAP!
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Ah, Marquis Blossom...
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My daughter's soul is still here with us!
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I'll attempt to bring her back to life!
**[13:12] ---**
Marquis, is it right to handle
Lady Rosetti so roughly?
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What the hell would a school kid know?!
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I'm a man who's been called a sage!
**[13:21] ---**
I shall overcome even the
state between life and death!
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Soundly defeating a Paladin and the
Carrier Marquis at the same time, huh?
**[13:50] ---**
There aren't too many people
capable of pulling that off.
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Excuse me, Instructor Laque.
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Could you please give me a
little time alone with Elli?
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In any case...
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We're not going to be able to leave this
town until the lightning outside subsides.
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There can be no more jumping
the gun and acting rashly.
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I'm sorry, Elli.
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If I hadn't gone off on my own like that...
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You never would have gotten wrapped
up in that incident, you know?
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Hey, Lita...
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There's something I want to tell you about.
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Elli...
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Back then...
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What was it you wanted to tell me?
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Elli...
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I'm weak, so lend me your strength.
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Get that student!
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The pupil of that uniform-clad man!
**[15:10] ---**
Hurry up!
**[15:10] ---**
What?!
**[15:11] ---**
Avenge Rosetti!
What?!
**[15:11] ---**
Avenge Rosetti!
Melida!
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You need to get out of here right away!
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Shenfa, did something happen?
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This time Marquis Blossom was attacked!
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Apparently, the culprit wounded the Marquis
and then made off with Rosetti's corpse.
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At the scene of crime,
there were some flames of blue mana left behind.
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Even the academy director is no longer
capable of standing up for your instructor.
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She in there?!
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That blond student!
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Open up!
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Wh-what's going on?
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The townspeople have become aware
of your connection to Instructor Kufa.
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They're saying that if they take you hostage
they'll be able to lure out the culprit.
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Let's break down the door!
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Yeah!
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Make a run for it, Melida!
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Hurry!
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Okay!
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I'm sorry.
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Shenfa.
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Elli.
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Headmistress.
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Instructor Laque.
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Instructor Kufa.
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I'm going to get to the bottom of this!
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For the sake of Elli and Instructor Rosetti.
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And, above all, in order
to save Instructor Kufa!
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Sure enough, I can hear it...
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The sound of water.
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Milady, have you grown tired of the lecture?
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Instructor...
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No!
**[16:48] ---**
Stay away from there!
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This area is a mystery spot!
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It's a world in which conventional
wisdom does not apply!
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I now know based on my investigation
with Instructor Laque...
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Mystery spots include more than just
places affected by magnetic fields.
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Besides...
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Instructor Kufa was also trying to keep me
away from this boulder for some reason.
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"Mystery spot"? I think not!
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There's definitely some
trickery at play here.
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A spiderweb?
**[18:17] ---**
Is that...
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Marquis Blossom's signature?
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And here, too... and here... and here...
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The writing in all of them regards
research on the "night gene-factor"
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and its extraction and transplantation?
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"From lancanthropes, the basis of the curse,
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the night gene-factor,
must first be extracted."
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Then, infect humans with it.
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In theory, it should be possible.
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However, there can be no expectation that
such a dreadful experiment will succeed.
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In fact, seven years ago I failed
to control the night gene-factor.
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I can sense it.
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Someone has crept inside my old haunt.
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I currently lack the sense of sight...
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Who the hell are you?
**[19:14] ---**
I-I'm a young Paladin
girl named Melida Angel!
**[19:18] ---**
Now, what about you?
**[19:19] ---**
Show yourself!
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A Paladin...?
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I see.
**[19:25] ---**
You'll make for a very useful
specimen in the experiments.
**[19:29] ---**
A bright idea just occurred to me.
**[19:31] ---**
What...?
**[19:44] ---**
Instructor Rosetti?!
**[19:46] ---**
So you're still alive, then!
**[19:54] ---**
I want it...
**[19:56] ---**
I want...
**[19:57] ---**
Blood.
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Give me your blood!
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Blue... mana?
**[20:14] ---**
This is the mana of the culprit!
**[20:17] ---**
Lita!
**[20:17] ---**
Someone has been attacked again!
**[20:20] ---**
By that blue-flamed criminal!
**[20:22] ---**
Instructor Rosetti, did you...
**[20:24] ---**
Was all of this your doing,
Instructor Rosetti?!
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Now, drink!
**[20:36] ---**
This time, suck the very
life out of your prey!
**[20:38] ---**
Present me with the sweet smell of blood!
**[20:42] ---**
His pupil shall be the first one sacrificed!
**[20:53] ---**
Instructor...?!
**[20:54] ---**
Snap out of it, Rose!
**[20:58] ---**
So you've shown yourself, Ice King!
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Rose!
**[21:16] ---**
You're not an inhabitant of the darkness!
**[21:18] ---**
Your memories of the time you spent as a
human should act to constrain you now!
**[21:24] ---**
Remember!
**[21:25] ---**
Remember all the people who love you!
**[21:37] ---**
It's futile.
**[21:39] ---**
There's no defying seven
years' worth of thirst.
**[21:42] ---**
Just sit back and watch the repulsive sight
of that woman fall under my control.
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Instructor...
**[21:59] ---**
What's with your appearance?
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