# 18 - The Cat Deploys
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYWEQW20Y/black-cat)
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**[01:10] ---**
Hmph, you've improved.
**[01:15] ---**
They all seem to be in perfect condition.
**[01:19] ---**
I'm sure they will fully demonstrate
their abilities in the mission,
**[01:24] ---**
or rather, battle, that is about to start.
**[01:39] ---**
It seems the time has come.
**[01:44] ---**
*That's how it always starts...*
**[01:46] ---**
*under the azure sky*
**[01:49] ---**
*After making a vow,*
**[01:53] ---**
*I now set off*
**[02:09] ---**
*Yeah, the desert glitters with a golden hue*
**[02:14] ---**
*(The wind is scorching)*
**[02:15] ---**
*I'm searching for a diamond flower*
**[02:20] ---**
*(I keep on wandering)*
**[02:22] ---**
*Now, for the first time in my life,*
**[02:28] ---**
*I live for someone else*
**[02:35] ---**
*There's something I wanna protect*
**[02:41] ---**
*I'll never, ever lose it again*
**[02:47] ---**
*Resound, my heartbeat!*
**[02:54] ---**
*A heartbeat smaller and fragile,
but tougher than anyone's.*
**[03:14] ---**
"The Cat Deploys"
**[03:26] ---**
All preparations have been made,
so please rest and relax today.
**[03:31] ---**
And tomorrow morning,
we will set sail for Kraken Island.
**[03:36] ---**
It's finally time, huh?
**[03:46] ---**
What's the matter? Is something...
**[03:49] ---**
Train!
**[03:54] ---**
What's the meaning of this?
**[03:57] ---**
Stop, Train!
**[03:58] ---**
Train!
**[04:12] ---**
What the...?!
**[04:16] ---**
You're...
**[04:17] ---**
Ch-Chronos Numbers...
**[04:21] ---**
Yes, I'm No. X...
**[04:24] ---**
Lin Shaolee.
**[04:28] ---**
What's Chronos trying to do
by gathering sweepers?
**[04:33] ---**
Of course, the capture of Creed Diskenth.
**[04:37] ---**
Capture, my foot! You want his death!
**[04:41] ---**
As you say, Creed Diskenth's death.
**[04:45] ---**
Rather, the annihilation
of the Apostles of the Stars.
**[04:50] ---**
Annihilation?!
**[04:53] ---**
I see...
**[04:55] ---**
The Apostles of the Stars
are a nuisance for Chronos.
**[04:58] ---**
And for us sweepers,
they make good bounty.
**[05:01] ---**
So, it'd be a waste if you
don't take advantage of us...
**[05:04] ---**
Our target is the same,
**[05:07] ---**
so there should be no problem
in how it is accomplished.
**[05:10] ---**
How like Chronos.
**[05:14] ---**
They do anything to get what they want.
**[05:17] ---**
You're right.
**[05:19] ---**
However, Black Cat,
you can understand, can't you?
**[05:23] ---**
The reason why Chronos operates that way.
**[05:30] ---**
The hell with this!!
**[05:33] ---**
Now that we know
Chronos was behind this,
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let's just call this whole thing off!
**[05:37] ---**
That's right! We're not
lapdogs for Chronos!
**[05:41] ---**
I don't quite care for this turn of events.
**[05:46] ---**
Sweepers don't take orders from anyone.
**[05:53] ---**
The ideal of Chronos is world peace.
**[05:57] ---**
Can't you understand that mind-set?
**[06:01] ---**
Bullshit! It doesn't matter
if we understand it or not.
**[06:04] ---**
We're not interested in Chronos' mind-set!!
**[06:06] ---**
He's right.
**[06:08] ---**
Don't take us lightly.
**[06:11] ---**
This is why you're sweepers...
**[06:13] ---**
What'd you say?!
**[06:15] ---**
Why you...!
**[06:17] ---**
You bastard!
**[06:21] ---**
When things don't go your way,
you immediately resort to violence.
**[06:25] ---**
So sweepers really are
just barbarians, huh?
**[06:30] ---**
What?!
**[06:31] ---**
River-*san*!
**[06:33] ---**
Then, you're saying
that erasers aren't barbarians?
**[06:38] ---**
After all, you're killers, aren't you?
**[06:40] ---**
You don't mince any words, do you?
**[06:42] ---**
Well, fine... just remember this much.
**[06:47] ---**
We cannot allow Creed Diskenth
free rein to do as he pleases.
**[06:52] ---**
He will certainly lead the world
on the path to destruction.
**[07:01] ---**
How is Creed's condition?
**[07:04] ---**
He is doing just fine.
**[07:05] ---**
The fusion of
the *ki* energy of Tao and nanotechnology...
**[07:09] ---**
The molding of unused cells and
giving form to *ki* energy substances...
**[07:13] ---**
Everything is going well.
**[07:15] ---**
When Creed awakens, tell him this...
**[07:19] ---**
Sweepers eager for a three billion
bounty will head there shortly.
**[07:25] ---**
Sweepers? Humph!
**[07:27] ---**
Such fools!
**[07:29] ---**
You'd better not underestimate them.
**[07:31] ---**
Black Cat is also among them.
**[07:33] ---**
I see...
**[07:35] ---**
All right. Leave the sweepers to me.
**[07:39] ---**
Just keep track of their movements.
**[07:42] ---**
Understood.
**[07:54] ---**
I can't stop laughing.
**[07:56] ---**
That's because the
sweepers will be the prey
**[08:00] ---**
for the weapons that I have created!
**[08:03] ---**
For the living weapons created
through the fusion of Tao and nanotech!
**[08:09] ---**
Right, Echidna?
**[08:12] ---**
You're going to take care of
them before Creed awakens, right?
**[08:17] ---**
Are you worried about Black Cat?
**[08:20] ---**
Well...
**[08:22] ---**
I just dislike cats
who are too mischievous.
**[08:45] ---**
No!
**[08:46] ---**
No!
**[08:47] ---**
No!
**[08:48] ---**
Can't you make an exception?
**[08:50] ---**
No way!
**[08:54] ---**
Why?
**[08:56] ---**
Everyone gets scared shitless
just from hearing the name Kraken Island.
**[08:59] ---**
Why don't you offer money?
**[09:02] ---**
You think I have that kind of money?
**[09:04] ---**
I just thought I'd mention it, is all.
**[09:07] ---**
We're like that saying,
"The poor have no money"!
**[09:09] ---**
There's no saying like that.
**[09:11] ---**
Hey!
**[09:13] ---**
Still can't rent a boat?
**[09:15] ---**
Shut up! Why are you coming with
us if you're always complaining?!
**[09:19] ---**
Can't help it!
**[09:21] ---**
The sweeper alliance
has practically disbanded.
**[09:27] ---**
I'd feel sorry for you if you were gonna
go to Kraken Island by yourselves.
**[09:31] ---**
So super-strong me will go with you!
**[09:33] ---**
Be grateful!
**[09:35] ---**
Huh?
**[09:36] ---**
Bad sense of direction, huh?
**[09:37] ---**
Yes, he's got a bad sense of direction.
**[09:39] ---**
Why, the last time, he got lost
and ended up walking along the sewer.
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Don't say that!
**[09:44] ---**
Please take the boat out!
**[09:48] ---**
No matter how much you beg, no means no!
**[09:51] ---**
The currents around that island are
fierce and we can't get close to it.
**[09:54] ---**
Understand?
**[09:55] ---**
Um...
**[09:57] ---**
I'll give you my treasure!
**[10:03] ---**
Apologize...
**[10:05] ---**
to the girl!
**[10:07] ---**
Wh-Who are you?
**[10:09] ---**
A brave sweeper who's looking for
a boat to go to Kraken Island,
**[10:12] ---**
just like that girl.
**[10:14] ---**
Right?
**[10:16] ---**
Oh?
**[10:17] ---**
What?
**[10:18] ---**
Are you hurt?
**[10:19] ---**
No.
**[10:23] ---**
Believe me.
**[10:24] ---**
That island is cursed.
Better not go near it.
**[10:28] ---**
Sorry, missy!
**[10:31] ---**
Cursed?
**[10:36] ---**
Dammit!
**[10:37] ---**
And he calls himself a seafaring man?
What a joke!
**[10:40] ---**
Just watch me...
even if I have to swim over, I'll...
**[10:42] ---**
Can you...
**[10:45] ---**
sail a boat?
**[10:51] ---**
In Chronos' eyes,
we sweepers are just small fries.
**[10:56] ---**
Yeah...
**[10:58] ---**
But that guy said it
was for peace, didn't he?
**[11:01] ---**
Yeah, but the peace they're talking about
is one that fulfills their own interest.
**[11:07] ---**
That's a falsehood villains often use!
**[11:09] ---**
I shoulda let 'im have it then!
**[11:12] ---**
Damn right!
**[11:13] ---**
Next time I see him,
he won't get away so easily!
**[11:17] ---**
But I sorta understand what
that Shaolee guy was saying.
**[11:23] ---**
Huh?
**[11:24] ---**
I don't know much about Chronos,
**[11:26] ---**
but I think them trying to destroy
the Apostles of the Stars is a good thing.
**[11:30] ---**
I'm not smart, so I can't explain it well,
**[11:32] ---**
but if everyone in the world
can live peacefully, or happily,
**[11:37] ---**
I think that's good.
**[11:39] ---**
Mundock, are you...
**[11:43] ---**
stupid?!
**[11:43] ---**
We, sweepers, aren't champions of justice!
**[11:46] ---**
We work for money!
In other words, this is business!
**[11:50] ---**
Business!
**[11:53] ---**
But none of us are here for the money...
**[11:58] ---**
I know that much...
**[12:05] ---**
This is a personal thing,
**[12:08] ---**
but I'm very interested in you.
**[12:12] ---**
People even called you
the legendary eraser, Black Cat.
**[12:15] ---**
Why is someone like you
working as a mere sweeper?
**[12:20] ---**
That's none of your business.
**[12:22] ---**
Well, it is.
**[12:24] ---**
I've always thought...
**[12:27] ---**
that I'd become a member
of Chronos Numbers like you.
**[12:31] ---**
You, as an eraser, were indeed my goal,
**[12:36] ---**
and I really admired you.
**[12:49] ---**
How's this?
**[12:50] ---**
Err... well...
**[12:53] ---**
A box, an umbrella and tires.
**[12:54] ---**
Eve, that's rude.
**[12:57] ---**
You don't expect to sail
to Kraken Island in that thing?!
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Hey, cut it out!
**[13:04] ---**
Huh? Err...
**[13:06] ---**
I didn't mean it like that...
**[13:09] ---**
Uhm...
**[13:13] ---**
Hey, this is a fine boat!
**[13:16] ---**
Awright! Off to Kraken Island we go now!
**[13:18] ---**
Row! Row!
**[13:21] ---**
It's impossible after all, isn't it?
**[13:25] ---**
H-Hey, where're you going?
**[13:27] ---**
I'm going to look for a bigger boat.
**[13:30] ---**
Oh, I see...
**[13:38] ---**
Is it revenge? For Saya Minatsuki?
**[13:44] ---**
It didn't take long to find out
the circumstances surrounding No. XIII
**[13:49] ---**
up until the time he left Chronos.
**[13:54] ---**
So there shouldn't be any problem.
**[13:57] ---**
Our target is the same.
**[13:59] ---**
Why not join forces against
the Apostles of the Stars so that...
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I already told you. I don't trust Chronos.
**[14:05] ---**
Why not?
**[14:07] ---**
The sweeper alliance is a decoy, isn't it?
**[14:09] ---**
While the sweepers draw the
attention of the Apostles of the Stars...
**[14:12] ---**
the Numbers will attack their base...
**[14:14] ---**
I see...
**[14:15] ---**
so you have it all figured out.
**[14:21] ---**
And you want to say that
that is a dirty trick?
**[14:24] ---**
However, failure is not
an option for Chronos.
**[14:28] ---**
That is because our loss means
the destruction of the world order.
**[14:33] ---**
Hence, we cannot be
picky about our methods.
**[14:37] ---**
Err... missy...
**[14:38] ---**
I think you'd better go home soon
or your mommy and daddy will worry.
**[14:42] ---**
I don't have any.
**[14:43] ---**
Huh?
**[14:45] ---**
I don't have a mommy or daddy.
**[14:48] ---**
Don't have...
**[14:50] ---**
Oh!
**[14:54] ---**
Chronos bears a very heavy
responsibility on its shoulders.
**[14:58] ---**
It's much different from sweepers
who are merely bounty hunters.
**[15:02] ---**
Well, I'm a sweeper, too.
**[15:04] ---**
No, you are of the
same caliber as the Numbers.
**[15:08] ---**
Why don't you quit pretending
to be some lowly sweeper
**[15:10] ---**
and return to Chronos?
**[15:12] ---**
For someone like you, the elders
are sure to permit your return!
**[15:17] ---**
You don't understand anything.
**[15:20] ---**
I left Chronos because
I wanted to be a sweeper...
**[15:23] ---**
in order to gain the freedom to
think on my own and to live as I please.
**[15:30] ---**
I have no intention of
returning now... not one bit.
**[15:32] ---**
Freedom to you means turning your
back on justice and fighting for revenge?
**[15:38] ---**
I'll ask you one more time...
Train Heartnet!
**[15:42] ---**
You don't have any intention
of following Chronos' noble cause?
**[15:45] ---**
I'll settle with Creed myself.
**[15:48] ---**
And I won't allow Chronos to interfere.
**[15:51] ---**
I see...
**[15:53] ---**
I guess I still couldn't get you to see...
**[15:58] ---**
A sweeper can never win against Chronos...
**[16:01] ---**
because the responsibility
we shoulder is much heavier.
**[16:04] ---**
I wonder about that.
**[16:06] ---**
A stray cat sweeper may be living
with a much heavier burden, you know.
**[16:13] ---**
Shall we see about that?
**[16:27] ---**
What the...?!
**[16:35] ---**
What the hell are these things?!
**[16:38] ---**
Is this... no way!
**[16:44] ---**
Transformation?!
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Ahhhh!
**[16:48] ---**
What's this?! It doesn't
look like it's just nanotech!
**[16:52] ---**
It's probably that "Tao" thing, isn't it?!
**[16:55] ---**
The fusion of nanotech and Tao!
**[16:57] ---**
So, this is the answer the
Apostles of the Stars were seeking!!
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Damn you!
**[17:04] ---**
Are you all right?!
Monsters! Those monsters!
**[17:06] ---**
What?!
**[17:07] ---**
On Kraken Island, those
monsters took my mommy and daddy!
**[17:10] ---**
Then you were on Kraken Island?!
**[17:13] ---**
Daddy put the boat out and let me escape!
**[17:17] ---**
The island became full of monsters!
**[17:22] ---**
I see... Okay.
**[17:26] ---**
You stay put right here.
**[17:28] ---**
The sweepers will take
care of all the bad monsters!
**[17:34] ---**
Sweepers?
**[17:46] ---**
This way!
**[17:48] ---**
Are you all right?
**[17:49] ---**
Hurry and get away!
**[17:53] ---**
Let's go!
**[17:54] ---**
Yes!
**[17:57] ---**
It's useless!
**[18:05] ---**
What?!
**[18:13] ---**
What... What are you fighting for?
**[18:18] ---**
Huh?
**[18:20] ---**
Well, I'm a sweeper.
**[18:23] ---**
So, I'm just clearing away
things that get in people's way.
**[18:30] ---**
Can you understand?
**[18:33] ---**
Train-*san*...
**[18:39] ---**
This is what sweepers are all about.
**[18:48] ---**
Sweepers are fools.
**[18:51] ---**
Even though it doesn't
bring in any money...
**[18:53] ---**
they're fighting for strangers...
**[18:59] ---**
And aren't you one of these fools?
**[19:06] ---**
Perhaps so.
**[19:21] ---**
If you want to use us as
a decoy, go right ahead.
**[19:26] ---**
And we'll use Chronos.
**[19:29] ---**
That's fine by us...
**[19:31] ---**
I'm just glad you all came...
**[19:36] ---**
Mister!
**[19:40] ---**
What're you doing here?
**[19:42] ---**
Please... take me to the island!
**[19:45] ---**
Nope.
**[19:47] ---**
There are lots of monsters.
**[19:50] ---**
Uhm...
**[19:55] ---**
Then Mommy and Daddy...
**[19:59] ---**
Your Mommy and Daddy?
**[20:01] ---**
They're there!
**[20:02] ---**
Mommy and Daddy are
somewhere on that island!
**[20:06] ---**
I know it!
**[20:15] ---**
Okay.
**[20:21] ---**
I'll take on that job!
**[20:24] ---**
Thank you, Mister!
**[20:27] ---**
Be careful!
**[20:45] ---**
Huh?
**[20:50] ---**
The fusion of nanotech and Tao?
**[20:54] ---**
This thing seems
way deeper than I thought.
**[21:03] ---**
Where'd Rins go?
**[21:05] ---**
She said she had work.
**[21:06] ---**
Oh... What a busy
woman she is... as usual...
**[21:11] ---**
Although, there seems to be
another busy woman here...
**[21:21] ---**
You're... one of the Apostles of the Stars!
**[21:24] ---**
The world-famous actress...
**[21:30] ---**
Echidna Parass...
**[21:37] ---**
What's the big idea?
**[21:42] ---**
Anyone...
**[21:45] ---**
Anyone who tries to harm Creed...
**[21:48] ---**
will be eliminated.
**[21:50] ---**
That's...
**[21:58] ---**
Geez, that woman!
**[22:14] ---**
Creed...
**[22:29] ---**
*Since your new black
boots caused a blister,*
**[22:36] ---**
*you rest your right foot*
**[22:43] ---**
*We'll keep walking along
with our own rhythm, without rushing*
**[22:56] ---**
*Don't say anything*
**[23:04] ---**
*because we'll soon understand each other*
**[23:11] ---**
*I'm just holding you now to keep you warm*
**[23:25] ---**
*I'm completely wrapped around you, so...*
**[23:35] ---**
*Quietly the powder-like
snow is building up...*
**[23:55] ---**
"Next Episode"
**[23:57] ---**
*Awright! We've made it to the
base of the Apostles of the Stars!*
**[24:00] ---**
*Train, I heard you have a complicated
history with the leader of the enemy.*
**[24:05] ---**
*Okay then, you just leave everything to me!*
**[24:07] ---**
*I'll restrain his underlings until
you attain your long-cherished goal!*
**[24:11] ---**
*Why, if I swing my knuckles,
these guys will be easily...*
**[24:17] ---**
*Holy crap! They're strong!*
**[24:17] ---**
"The Sprinting Cat"