# 23 - The Cat's Paradise
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYWEQW20Y/black-cat)
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**[00:22] ---**
Run! If that rain gets on you, it's over!
**[00:28] ---**
Meg!
**[00:29] ---**
Meg! Are you all right?!
**[00:32] ---**
Tim! Hurry!
**[00:34] ---**
Grab hold!
**[00:39] ---**
Tim!
**[00:46] ---**
Transformation?!
**[00:48] ---**
Tim is... Tim is...
**[00:53] ---**
Strange...
**[00:54] ---**
I'm not afraid of anything anymore.
**[00:57] ---**
Tim!
**[01:04] ---**
It's finally begun!
**[01:05] ---**
Yeah.
**[01:12] ---**
Awright! Let's go!
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*That's how it always starts...*
**[01:18] ---**
*under the azure sky*
**[01:21] ---**
*After making a vow,*
**[01:25] ---**
*I now set off*
**[01:41] ---**
*Yeah, the desert glitters with a golden hue*
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*(The wind is scorching)*
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*I'm searching for a diamond flower*
**[01:52] ---**
*(I keep on wandering)*
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*Now, for the first time in my life,*
**[02:00] ---**
*I live for someone else*
**[02:07] ---**
*There's something I wanna protect*
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*I'll never, ever lose it again*
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*Resound, my heartbeat!*
**[02:26] ---**
*A heartbeat smaller and fragile,
but tougher than anyone's.*
**[02:48] ---**
There's been no
response from the flying object.
**[02:50] ---**
Please order an attack!
**[02:52] ---**
We have no choice...
**[02:58] ---**
Target confirmed. Formation 05.
**[03:01] ---**
Maintain your positions!
We'll aim at its head.
**[03:04] ---**
Roger! Locked on target!
**[03:07] ---**
"The Cat’s Paradise"
**[03:45] ---**
What are you thinking?
**[03:49] ---**
It's not about what's
outside this paradise, is it?
**[03:53] ---**
I...
**[03:54] ---**
That is a sin.
**[03:57] ---**
Now look...
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No!
**[04:06] ---**
See? Even over here...
**[04:11] ---**
No!!
**[04:24] ---**
Those poisonous snakes are trying
to drag you out of this paradise,
**[04:29] ---**
and take you back to the sullied world.
**[04:34] ---**
You must destroy them. Or it is
the end for you and paradise.
**[04:40] ---**
Me?
**[04:44] ---**
Wh-What's happening? What's going on?!
**[05:01] ---**
Magnificent! Eve, keep it up!
**[05:05] ---**
Bring down all who try
to invade our paradise!
**[05:16] ---**
What?! You're saying Eve's doing all that?
**[05:19] ---**
Eve is putting everything she has
learned up to this point to use.
**[05:23] ---**
But... I never taught Eve how
to bring down armed helicopters!
**[05:33] ---**
Was that it?
**[05:36] ---**
What?!
**[05:37] ---**
He is...
**[05:42] ---**
Relax. I don't plan to fight you guys.
**[05:47] ---**
More importantly, you're
heading to that monster thing, right?
**[05:51] ---**
What?! Your friend was
swallowed up by that thing?!
**[05:56] ---**
I... couldn't protect Tim.
**[05:59] ---**
Tim?!
**[06:05] ---**
Dammit!
**[06:07] ---**
Eden will continue to
grow by absorbing life energy.
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In time, it will swallow up all of mankind,
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and totally cover this planet.
**[06:17] ---**
A self-propagating machine with
immortal life and infinite capacity...
**[06:25] ---**
But Eden is still in its infancy.
**[06:28] ---**
What?! No way!
That thing is still an infant?!
**[06:32] ---**
Yes, if it swallows up more and
more people and increases its power...
**[06:37] ---**
it will be beyond our powers.
**[06:40] ---**
No!
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Then what do you do?
**[06:43] ---**
Separating Eve from Eden before
they completely merge is the only way...
**[06:49] ---**
Eve? Did something happen to her?
**[06:51] ---**
Eve is inside that thing.
**[06:55] ---**
If it's as I designed it,
Eve has been taken into the receptor.
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Sheesh... Awfully relaxed,
aren't you?! You even brought food!
**[07:08] ---**
C'mon! It's like they say,
you can't fight on an empty stomach.
**[07:14] ---**
Right?
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Don't they?
**[07:22] ---**
So, the question is how we attack it...
**[07:25] ---**
Eden is showering nanomachines...
**[07:29] ---**
In other words, we can't attack from below.
**[07:32] ---**
But to attack from the sky...
**[07:34] ---**
We'd be cut into pieces
with that sickle-like thing...
**[07:38] ---**
It will be difficult
to stop that nano-slicer.
**[07:41] ---**
The only way is to create a blind spot...
**[07:44] ---**
Or lure it to a small
area and run it aground?
**[07:48] ---**
How?
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We're at the end of our rope...
**[07:52] ---**
Isn't there something we can do?
**[07:57] ---**
How does Eden detect people?
**[08:00] ---**
It's not as though it's spreading
nanomachines at random, right?
**[08:08] ---**
Eden detects humans'
mental activities through Eve,
**[08:13] ---**
and moves towards areas
where it senses a high response.
**[08:15] ---**
So that's why it targets cities.
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Then the place Eden will target next is...
**[08:25] ---**
Palmila City...
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Then, it means that we have to take care
of it before it gets there or it's over.
**[08:31] ---**
If it's in the middle of the
desert, where no humans are around,
**[08:33] ---**
even a small number of
people may be able to lure Eden.
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That's it!
**[08:39] ---**
Now, the question is,
where are we going to lure Eden?
**[08:43] ---**
If we are to run it aground,
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maybe it should be between cliffs?
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Oh, let's just move forward for now.
**[08:54] ---**
We've already chowed down, so...
**[08:59] ---**
Kuro-*sama*!
**[09:02] ---**
I asked Charden-*san* to join me!
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It has been a while...
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Since that time,
**[09:14] ---**
I've continued on my journey
in search of a path to follow.
**[09:22] ---**
That's right...
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What's more important than me right
now is what to do with that monstrosity.
**[09:29] ---**
This is the place...
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To the southwest of Palmila City,
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there is a ravine created
over time by weathering.
**[09:38] ---**
If we lure it here...
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Sheesh! How are we gonna make
that huge thing change its course?!
**[09:45] ---**
Eve's consciousness
shouldn't be completely gone yet.
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Eden will react to whatever Eve likes.
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Whatever Eve likes... whatever Eve likes...
**[09:55] ---**
Isn't there something?!
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When you think of Princess,
you think of omelets! Charred black ones!
**[10:00] ---**
And I love mango pudding!
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Young girls love fruit parfaits.
**[10:05] ---**
Grilled octopus in batter?
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Hamburgers?
**[10:08] ---**
Poached tofu?
**[10:09] ---**
Sven...
**[10:10] ---**
No!! It's nothing like that!
**[10:14] ---**
When you think of Eve,
you think of books, right?!
**[10:16] ---**
"The Bond Between a Husband and Wife,"
"101 Wild Elephants on the Stampede!"
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"Camels' Humps," "*Tagaya*"...
**[10:25] ---**
Fireworks!
**[10:26] ---**
--Fireworks?!
**[10:26] ---**
--Fireworks?!
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Right! Fireworks!
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Eve likes the fireworks at festival time!
**[10:35] ---**
We'll shoot up lots and lots of
fireworks and get Eve's attention!
**[10:37] ---**
Fireworks?
**[10:39] ---**
We won't find fireworks
in the middle of a desert like this.
**[10:45] ---**
Hey! Where're you going?!
**[10:48] ---**
To the fireworks factory in town!
**[10:50] ---**
You guys go on ahead,
I'll catch up right away!
**[10:53] ---**
Leon!
**[10:54] ---**
Leon!
Leon!
**[10:56] ---**
You fool!
**[10:58] ---**
If the nanomachine rain gets on you,
you'll be swallowed up, too!
**[11:12] ---**
I hate sand!
**[11:15] ---**
Damn, that kid!
**[11:43] ---**
Well, Train?
**[11:45] ---**
See the kid?
**[11:56] ---**
--Nope.
**[11:56] ---**
--♪ La la... ♪
**[11:57] ---**
I see...
**[11:59] ---**
Gotcha!
**[12:00] ---**
Leon...
**[12:04] ---**
Eden is!
**[12:06] ---**
What the hell is that?!
**[12:08] ---**
Eden has turned into a woman...
**[12:12] ---**
So pretty...
**[12:14] ---**
The second form of Eden...
**[12:16] ---**
What?
**[12:17] ---**
By absorbing the people in Kashmir City,
**[12:20] ---**
the bond between Eden
and Eve has grown stronger.
**[12:23] ---**
Oh, no!
**[12:26] ---**
Once it reaches Palmila City, no one will
be able to stop Eden and Eve from merging.
**[12:32] ---**
We must hurry!
**[12:34] ---**
Dammit, where's the fireworks?!
**[12:37] ---**
He's definitely taking too long.
**[12:39] ---**
There's no point in
placing our hopes on a kid.
**[12:42] ---**
He may have been an
Apostle of the Stars once,
**[12:44] ---**
but he's still just a kid.
**[12:46] ---**
I wonder if he got
rained on by nanomachines
**[12:49] ---**
and was swallowed up by Eden...
**[12:52] ---**
Hey!
**[12:58] ---**
--Oweee!
**[12:59] ---**
--Hey! Stop it!
**[12:59] ---**
--My bad! My bad! I'm sorry!
**[13:05] ---**
That kid... isn't too shabby, it seems...
**[13:09] ---**
Huh?
**[13:14] ---**
Kuro-*sama*!
**[13:14] ---**
Train!
**[13:15] ---**
Wait for me!
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That's reckless! Come back! Train!
**[13:21] ---**
Don't worry!
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Eden has left Kashmir City!
The rain will stop soon!
**[13:29] ---**
All... who... invade... paradise...
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will be... dealt with.
**[13:40] ---**
Well, you can't have this!
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Dammit!
**[14:23] ---**
*Kid, you're not bad at all.*
**[14:31] ---**
What's the speed of the enemy?
**[14:33] ---**
It's still going
at about 100 km per hour.
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It'll be over if we fall behind...
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The road conditions are awful.
**[14:40] ---**
It's a life-or-death rally, huh?
**[14:42] ---**
Awright... I'm all fired up!
**[14:45] ---**
Once Eden runs aground, we will go in.
**[14:49] ---**
Then let us wish each other success,
**[14:51] ---**
and also that we will meet again alive.
**[14:54] ---**
--Right!
**[14:54] ---**
--Right!
**[15:01] ---**
Are you tired, Eve?
**[15:05] ---**
But it's just a little more.
**[15:08] ---**
We're going to an even more fun place next.
**[15:13] ---**
A place... that's even... more fun...
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No, not that way!
**[15:39] ---**
Let's go to an even more fun place!
**[15:42] ---**
Hey! Eve!
**[15:47] ---**
Awright!
**[15:49] ---**
Just like someone said,
it's reacting to the fireworks!
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Aghh! It's headed this way!
**[15:54] ---**
Awright! Let's make a big show!
**[16:00] ---**
I have permission
from Kuro-*sama* just for today...
**[16:03] ---**
So I'm going to blow a lot of fire!
**[16:14] ---**
*Tamaya*!
**[16:18] ---**
*Tamaya*! *Tamaya*!
**[16:21] ---**
*Tamaya*!
**[16:24] ---**
*Tamaya*! *Tamaya*! *Tamaya*!
**[16:30] ---**
What's going on?
**[16:32] ---**
Eden has changed its course!
**[16:35] ---**
The sweepers...
Rather, it's the work of small fries.
**[16:40] ---**
It doesn't matter!
**[16:42] ---**
Put it back on course
for Palmila City immediately.
**[16:45] ---**
I understand.
**[16:48] ---**
*Tama...*!
**[16:58] ---**
Now...
**[17:00] ---**
come with me to an even more fun place, Eve.
**[17:07] ---**
Leave them to me and
keep shooting up fireworks!
**[17:14] ---**
Drat! That thing's turning around!
**[17:17] ---**
Shoot up more fireworks!
**[17:22] ---**
Aww... Looks like it's going away!
**[17:25] ---**
Hey! Don't give up!
**[17:27] ---**
Boo!
**[17:33] ---**
This is bad, Sephiria! Eden is
turning back towards Palmila City.
**[17:40] ---**
Hey Train! What're you up to?!
**[17:44] ---**
--Go, Mister!
**[17:45] ---**
--Aghhh! Stop it!!
**[17:46] ---**
--You're so cool!
**[17:48] ---**
Hang on tight!
**[17:51] ---**
Let's go!
**[18:08] ---**
Hey! Princess!
**[18:11] ---**
Come on over this way!
**[18:14] ---**
Eve! Come back!
**[18:22] ---**
What's wrong, Eve?
**[18:25] ---**
Eve! I was wrong!
**[18:28] ---**
I'll never tell you to go
to a boarding school again!
**[18:31] ---**
Th-This is...!
**[18:39] ---**
You don't have to go to school!
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We'll always be together!
**[18:55] ---**
All right! It's coming this way!
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Whee!
**[19:38] ---**
--Yeah!!
**[19:38] ---**
--Yeah!!
**[19:40] ---**
Awright! Let's attack!
**[19:43] ---**
--Right!
**[19:43] ---**
--Right!
**[19:44] ---**
Kaboom!
**[19:46] ---**
We will go in, too!
**[19:58] ---**
Fight with all your strength...
in accordance with your beliefs!
**[20:02] ---**
Very well!
**[20:04] ---**
Let us wish each other success...
**[20:07] ---**
Rins-*chan*! When I return,
I will give you a big, long hug!
**[20:13] ---**
Wow! He's gonna marry you!
**[20:15] ---**
Wedding! Wedding!
**[20:17] ---**
Tan tan tatan!
**[20:19] ---**
Jenos!
**[20:21] ---**
I'll punch you in the face when you return!
**[20:33] ---**
Small fries... this is
your idea of a trap?!
**[20:37] ---**
I have no choice...
**[20:38] ---**
I shall show you small fries
the true power of Eden!
**[20:44] ---**
The real power of Tao!
**[20:52] ---**
Now you shall witness...
**[20:54] ---**
the infinite life
energy that I discovered!
**[21:17] ---**
What?!
**[21:19] ---**
We're already in a pinch?!
**[21:25] ---**
Now go, Zero Numbers!
**[21:39] ---**
Heartnet, leave this place to us...
**[21:42] ---**
and go!
**[21:49] ---**
Go, XIII!
**[21:51] ---**
Mademoiselle Eve is waiting!
**[21:54] ---**
I owe you!
**[21:57] ---**
The sin of betrayal...
**[21:59] ---**
You shall pay for it now!
**[22:01] ---**
Damn! They're here again!
**[22:06] ---**
I shall assist!
**[22:11] ---**
I'm counting on you!
**[22:14] ---**
Awright!
**[22:15] ---**
Each one of you...
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Don't you dare die!!
**[22:29] ---**
*Since your new black
boots caused a blister,*
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*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"
**[23:55] ---**
*I've finally made it this far...*
**[23:59] ---**
*The journey was short yet it seemed long...
so many things happened.*
**[24:03] ---**
*Well, thanks to those things,
I can now see things better...*
**[24:06] ---**
*Friends... freedom... things like that...*
**[24:12] ---**
*Well, whether we like it or not,
this is the end!*
**[24:15] ---**
*Everyone, let's go out with a bang
so there's no regrets!*
**[24:17] ---**
"The Carefree Cat"