# 8 - The Sweeping Cat
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**[00:16] ---**
Man, I'm freezing!
**[00:18] ---**
That's because it's winter.
**[00:20] ---**
Who said it was okay
for winter to start?
**[00:23] ---**
You're cold because you sold your coat
without considering the consequences.
**[00:26] ---**
And what on earth are those?
**[00:28] ---**
Emergency food?
**[00:30] ---**
He says they're paw pads...
**[00:31] ---**
Aren't they slick?
**[00:33] ---**
I don't understand...
**[00:34] ---**
I don't understand
your sense at all!
**[00:40] ---**
Hey! Don't go
blowing snot on me!!
**[00:44] ---**
I-It sure is cold, I guess...
**[00:47] ---**
Honestly, at
least fix the heater!
**[00:50] ---**
We don't have
that kind of money!
**[00:52] ---**
Why?!
**[00:53] ---**
I help out a lot with
your sweeper work too!
**[00:56] ---**
It's because you
shovel down food like a pig!
**[01:00] ---**
You've been leeching
off me for six long months!
**[01:05] ---**
By the way, Eve,
what're you reading?
**[01:08] ---**
"The Desperate Trio:
Their Escape from the Pits."
**[01:13] ---**
Sounds like you're
reading a difficult book...
**[01:16] ---**
Idiot. Eve's trying to improve
this situation in her own way, so...
**[01:20] ---**
Man, I'm freezing...
**[01:22] ---**
If you wanna complain,
**[01:24] ---**
complain after
you capture this guy.
**[01:27] ---**
Ha! Okay, then!
**[01:29] ---**
A small fish like
this, I can do it alone...
**[01:31] ---**
Me, too...
**[01:32] ---**
Huh?
**[01:32] ---**
Huh?
**[01:33] ---**
I'll do it, too.
**[01:35] ---**
Do what?
**[01:36] ---**
If we capture that
person, we'll get money, right?
**[01:41] ---**
It's too difficult for you!
**[01:44] ---**
Anyway, you can just leave this guy to me
and go quietly read a book or something...
**[01:49] ---**
Then, Train, do you wanna
compete with me...
**[01:52] ---**
in a game of tag?
**[01:54] ---**
*That's how it always starts...*
**[01:56] ---**
*under the azure sky*
**[01:59] ---**
*After making a vow,*
**[02:03] ---**
*I now set off*
**[02:19] ---**
*Yeah, the desert glitters with a golden hue*
**[02:24] ---**
*(The wind is scorching)*
**[02:25] ---**
*I'm searching for a diamond flower*
**[02:30] ---**
*(I keep on wandering)*
**[02:32] ---**
*Now, for the first time in my life,*
**[02:38] ---**
*I live for someone else*
**[02:45] ---**
*There's something I wanna protect*
**[02:51] ---**
*I'll never, ever lose it again*
**[02:58] ---**
*Resound, my heartbeat!*
**[03:04] ---**
*A heartbeat smaller and fragile,
but tougher than anyone's.*
**[03:24] ---**
"The Sweeping Cat"
**[03:37] ---**
Boss! We really did it!
**[03:39] ---**
Don't get excited
with small change.
**[03:41] ---**
That's our boss!
You've got a large caliber!
**[03:45] ---**
In any case, the effect of that
drink was really something!
**[03:50] ---**
Please let me have
some too next time...
**[03:52] ---**
Boss?
**[04:17] ---**
Where are you going
to spend your vacation?
**[04:18] ---**
I haven't decided yet...
**[04:21] ---**
Then, I'd love for you
to come to my vacation home.
**[04:24] ---**
You can stay
as long as you want.
**[04:27] ---**
If you want,
y-you can stay forever...
**[04:31] ---**
I have to go now...
**[04:33] ---**
Where to?
**[04:35] ---**
That's a secret...
**[04:49] ---**
Ta-da! Here it is.
**[04:54] ---**
With my skills, stuff
like this is a piece of cake!
**[04:58] ---**
There you are!
**[05:00] ---**
You playin' hide and sheek?
**[05:04] ---**
Umm, who might you be?
**[05:07] ---**
Come on, Elena-*san*,
you must be drunk.
**[05:11] ---**
It's me! Me!
**[05:13] ---**
Why don't we shhpend our vacation
together at my vacation home?
**[05:16] ---**
You can't be...
**[05:17] ---**
No vacashionn...
**[05:20] ---**
Haha...
**[05:22] ---**
So, I shee you like books.
**[05:25] ---**
Y-Yes...
**[05:27] ---**
especially things like
medieval Italian literature...
**[05:32] ---**
I love that shtuff, too,
that Italian whatever...
**[05:37] ---**
Oh?
**[05:38] ---**
Elena-*san*, this is...
**[05:42] ---**
Looks like you saw it...
**[05:44] ---**
Yes... I saw it.
**[05:48] ---**
In that case, I have no choice!
**[05:58] ---**
How about a cocktail?
**[06:00] ---**
I'm in a hurry, so...
**[06:02] ---**
Don't be like that.
Have a drink with me...
**[06:04] ---**
Rinslet Walker, the thief...
**[06:07] ---**
Who are you?
**[06:10] ---**
I'm Jenos Hazard.
**[06:21] ---**
Chrono Numbers!
**[06:26] ---**
The name of the cocktail is "Fate."
**[06:29] ---**
In token of our new
acquaintanceship...
**[06:31] ---**
Stealing a confidential
document within only five minutes...
**[06:34] ---**
What a skill...
**[06:35] ---**
If you've got something
to say, hurry up and say it.
**[06:37] ---**
Cinderella doesn't
have much time, huh?
**[06:42] ---**
Elena-*san*!
**[06:44] ---**
What do you want?
**[06:48] ---**
Half a year ago, I was
pursuing Torneo's bio-weapon...
**[06:52] ---**
I was taking over for
Black Cat, who left Chronos.
**[06:56] ---**
While I was investigating,
I came across your name.
**[07:00] ---**
Your skills are amazing,
getting the better of Chronos.
**[07:04] ---**
Well, that's not
important any more...
**[07:07] ---**
The situation
has changed a little,
**[07:09] ---**
and we don't have
time for that right now.
**[07:11] ---**
A force that opposes
Chronos has appeared.
**[07:15] ---**
Opposes Chronos?
**[07:17] ---**
What a reckless bunch...
**[07:21] ---**
They're a group of Tao users.
**[07:22] ---**
Tao?
**[07:23] ---**
It's an uncanny power that
has been passed down in Itairiku.
**[07:26] ---**
The Tao users were eradicated
by Chronos 20 years ago.
**[07:32] ---**
But lately, there have been
criminals who use that power.
**[07:38] ---**
With power like that of a monster,
they did whatever they pleased.
**[07:41] ---**
But, in every case, their
bodies destroyed themselves.
**[07:45] ---**
There have been three
incidents like that up until now.
**[07:48] ---**
The common thread among them is
that, before they committed crimes,
**[07:51] ---**
they were visited
by a suspicious duo.
**[07:55] ---**
Are those two also Tao users?
**[07:58] ---**
Probably...
**[07:59] ---**
I heard that the three
who gained the power of Tao
**[08:02] ---**
were given a
strange drink by that duo.
**[08:06] ---**
A drink that gives you
the power of Tao by drinking it...
**[08:10] ---**
It's interesting, isn't it?
**[08:13] ---**
Are you asking me to steal it?!
**[08:18] ---**
The three that died an unnatural
death had something in common.
**[08:21] ---**
They all escaped from the
same prison half a year ago.
**[08:24] ---**
The Office of Investigations
**[08:26] ---**
thinks there was someone
who helped them from the outside.
**[08:29] ---**
These two are the ones that remain.
**[08:32] ---**
The Tao user duo
will probably visit these two.
**[08:36] ---**
If you know that much,
why don't you steal it yourself?
**[08:40] ---**
I don't want to aggravate
the matter at this point.
**[08:42] ---**
I need your thief skills.
**[08:46] ---**
Find someone else.
**[08:47] ---**
Ten million gold...
**[08:49] ---**
Plus necessary expenses...
**[08:51] ---**
How is that?
**[08:54] ---**
Shoot!
**[08:55] ---**
That wasn't nice, Elena-*san*!
**[09:01] ---**
My heart's pounding!
**[09:02] ---**
Why are you following me?!
**[09:04] ---**
I feel like you're my fate.
**[09:07] ---**
I'm gonna slug you!!
**[09:15] ---**
I wanna hear about the duo
that came to see your boss.
**[09:20] ---**
What were they like?
**[09:22] ---**
If you don't tell me,
I'll hit you again!
**[09:24] ---**
A-A man with a hat
and a young woman.
**[09:28] ---**
And?!
**[09:29] ---**
We were told that the man with the hat
helped our boss to escape from prison.
**[09:33] ---**
Our boss told us he had to help
that man as a token of his gratitude.
**[09:38] ---**
But your boss died...
**[09:40] ---**
It's their fault.
**[09:42] ---**
They made our boss...
**[09:43] ---**
Drink something...
**[09:46] ---**
Is there some left?
**[09:51] ---**
Begafurt, Rubek City,
**[09:56] ---**
Desburg...
**[09:59] ---**
Considering the route they're
taking, it should be this way.
**[10:05] ---**
You shouldn't do that.
**[10:16] ---**
Flowers are alive, too.
**[10:19] ---**
I'll teach you a lot about flowers.
**[10:22] ---**
Okay!
**[10:24] ---**
I've looked all over for you, Igor.
**[10:31] ---**
I'll teach you next time, okay?
**[10:33] ---**
Okay...
**[10:42] ---**
Charden-*san*...
**[10:43] ---**
The battle with
Chronos will start soon.
**[10:49] ---**
I want to...
**[10:51] ---**
live here quietly.
**[10:54] ---**
You mean an escaped prisoner
lives in a rural area like this?
**[10:57] ---**
I got the information from Annette.
It's definitely correct.
**[11:00] ---**
Three miles to the town.
**[11:02] ---**
We aren't there yet!
**[11:04] ---**
Help me push the car.
**[11:08] ---**
We're out of gas.
**[11:18] ---**
I'm exhausted...
**[11:20] ---**
Let's hurry up
and go capture him.
**[11:22] ---**
Igor Planter.
Occupation: Forest Keeper.
**[11:27] ---**
Seems like he's your average guy.
**[11:30] ---**
There's no need to rush.
**[11:32] ---**
We don't even know where he is.
Let's take a break.
**[11:36] ---**
Then, I'll go look
for him by myself.
**[11:38] ---**
See, this is why I think that an
innocent princess'll give us trouble.
**[11:43] ---**
Princess?
**[11:44] ---**
A princess, huh?
**[11:46] ---**
You got a point there.
**[11:51] ---**
So, what can I get for you?
**[11:57] ---**
Oh?
**[12:01] ---**
Ahhh!
**[12:01] ---**
Ahhh!
**[12:03] ---**
You're that waitress
from Blakio City...
**[12:05] ---**
You're the pops who
skipped out on your bills!
**[12:07] ---**
Don't say things
that'll hurt my reputation!
**[12:10] ---**
This brings back memories!
It's been half a year, hasn't it?
**[12:13] ---**
Why are you here?
**[12:16] ---**
A lot has happened
to me since then...
**[12:19] ---**
I quit that restaurant
and broke up with that guy.
**[12:21] ---**
--Then went to that country and met that guy.
**[12:22] ---**
--Man, I'm hungry...
**[12:23] ---**
--Then, I broke up with that guy
**[12:23] ---**
--I'll have this, this, this and this...
**[12:24] ---**
--and met that man, and...
**[12:24] ---**
--I'd like this one.
**[12:25] ---**
--Oh, that one?
Now what do I want?
**[12:25] ---**
--Oh, and, this one, too.
**[12:28] ---**
--Hey, listen!!
**[12:29] ---**
--Huh?
**[12:31] ---**
*Daughter...*
**[12:32] ---**
*Not sure...*
**[12:33] ---**
*Father...*
**[12:35] ---**
So you've got a
complicated family structure...
**[12:40] ---**
Brrr, I'll have some hot milk, please!
Hey, isn't there any meat?
**[12:43] ---**
Vegetables are nutritious.
**[12:45] ---**
That's right! And you're scarfing
it down while you're complaining!
**[12:49] ---**
Hey!
**[12:51] ---**
What are you guys
doing in a place like this?!
**[12:58] ---**
Why is that assassin here?
**[13:01] ---**
A lot happened...
**[13:02] ---**
Hey! I'll settle for the cheap
stuff, so bring me more food!
**[13:06] ---**
Tao users?
What's that about?
**[13:10] ---**
It's a mysterious militant group
that uses uncanny techniques.
**[13:13] ---**
Uncanny techniques?
**[13:15] ---**
In any case, it seems that these two
have been building up a circle of allies
**[13:20] ---**
by having vicious criminals
drink some strange drink.
**[13:24] ---**
Now, drink it.
**[13:29] ---**
What happens when I drink it?
**[13:32] ---**
You may get an amazing power,
**[13:34] ---**
or you may die.
**[13:37] ---**
Did you drink it, too?
**[13:39] ---**
It's incredibly effective.
**[13:41] ---**
First you take a sip.
**[13:43] ---**
Then once your body becomes familiar
with the Tao power, you take another sip.
**[13:47] ---**
If you go too fast, your cells
won't be able to bear the rapid change.
**[13:52] ---**
Who commissioned you
to pursue those two?
**[13:54] ---**
Chronos...
**[13:56] ---**
When did you start
working with them?
**[13:58] ---**
Don't worry.
**[14:00] ---**
I didn't tell them about Eve, so...
**[14:05] ---**
I read the article.
**[14:07] ---**
He couldn't do it...
**[14:10] ---**
He couldn't
control his own power.
**[14:12] ---**
Will I be like him?
**[14:15] ---**
You said you wanted the
power to get revenge on society.
**[14:20] ---**
Th-That was just...
**[14:24] ---**
I didn't do anything wrong,
but I was apprehended...
**[14:27] ---**
so, I was angry...
**[14:28] ---**
Oh! I know!
**[14:30] ---**
That's called a false accusation, right?!
**[14:34] ---**
That's right.
**[14:35] ---**
I didn't do anything wrong.
**[14:47] ---**
So, the Tao users are so dangerous
that Chronos keeps an eye on them?
**[14:51] ---**
I heard that they can fight
on par with the Numbers.
**[14:54] ---**
S-Seriously?!
**[14:56] ---**
--On the house!
**[14:56] ---**
--Yeah!
**[14:57] ---**
Oh, these are just
bread crusts...
**[14:59] ---**
Be happy you got this!
**[15:01] ---**
So, why are they in this town?
**[15:03] ---**
Half a year ago,
**[15:04] ---**
a man with a hat helped five vicious criminals escape from prison.
**[15:09] ---**
One of them is in this town...
**[15:12] ---**
This guy!
**[15:13] ---**
Igor-*san*!
**[15:21] ---**
You know him?!
**[15:22] ---**
Where?! Where is he!
**[15:24] ---**
Hey! Are you after him, too?!
**[15:27] ---**
That's right! He's our target!
**[15:30] ---**
Hey, where is he?
**[15:31] ---**
If you don't tell me I won't be able
to pay you for the food here, either!
**[15:36] ---**
He's at Desburg Botanical Garden!
**[15:38] ---**
A botanical garden?
**[15:40] ---**
That's right! So you'd
better pay up this time!
**[15:44] ---**
Hey, what happened to Eve?
**[15:46] ---**
Huh?
**[15:47] ---**
Oh? The wanted
poster's gone, too...
**[16:09] ---**
The garden is closing soon.
**[16:14] ---**
Who are you?
**[16:15] ---**
It seems I've forgotten my name.
**[16:18] ---**
Really?
**[16:20] ---**
For a long time, I've only
dealt with flowers and trees, so...
**[16:25] ---**
Flowers don't do things
like call people by name, right?
**[16:29] ---**
You like flowers and trees?
**[16:31] ---**
I like them a lot.
**[16:34] ---**
More than humans?
**[16:38] ---**
I'm surprised you
understand, young lady...
**[16:41] ---**
Eve!
**[16:43] ---**
But, I'm really touched
you're so worried about Eve.
**[16:47] ---**
Crap! At this rate, I'm
going to lose the competition!
**[16:51] ---**
Hey, that's not the issue here!
**[16:55] ---**
Train, wait! No, wait,
you don't have to wait!
**[16:57] ---**
In any case, find Eve!
**[17:00] ---**
I think that nothing in this
world is quite so pretty as flowers.
**[17:06] ---**
They show their beautiful
form in each season.
**[17:09] ---**
Look...
**[17:11] ---**
They are my sweethearts...
**[17:15] ---**
Igor Planter...
**[17:17] ---**
This is your name, isn't it?
**[17:22] ---**
Yeah...
**[17:23] ---**
I found you...
**[17:25] ---**
Are you playing tag?
**[17:26] ---**
I'm "it"...
**[17:29] ---**
What a cute "it" you are!
**[17:33] ---**
That's...
**[17:34] ---**
I'm a sweeper...
**[17:37] ---**
Are you saying that you're
going to apprehend me?
**[17:39] ---**
I didn't do anything wrong...
**[17:42] ---**
You killed many
people, didn't you?
**[17:45] ---**
All I did was teach a lesson to
hikers who contaminated the forest.
**[17:48] ---**
They trampled on flowers
that posed no threat to them,
**[17:50] ---**
and they tore flowers
from the ground...
**[17:52] ---**
But you shouldn't kill...
**[17:57] ---**
Young lady, are you also one of them?
**[18:07] ---**
Don't step on the flowers!!
**[18:10] ---**
You have a cute face, and yet,
you trample on flowers, too?!
**[18:23] ---**
Eve!
**[18:24] ---**
You'll be o...
**[18:27] ---**
kay now...
**[18:29] ---**
I must punish bad children
who mess up the flowerbeds!
**[18:46] ---**
Stop it, you monster!
**[18:51] ---**
The trees and forests are angry.
**[18:53] ---**
You can hear their
angry voices, right?
**[18:58] ---**
You can't get out of this
greenhouse, young lady...
**[19:01] ---**
You're gonna die here!
**[19:03] ---**
Stop right there!!
**[19:05] ---**
Is that... performance art?
**[19:10] ---**
Does it hurt?
**[19:12] ---**
But you'll feel better soon.
**[19:19] ---**
You'll now be eaten by a
flower and reborn as a plant.
**[19:25] ---**
Isn't that wonderful?
**[19:29] ---**
Wh-Who's there?!
**[19:31] ---**
A sweeper!
**[19:34] ---**
Sorry for keeping you waiting, princess!
**[19:39] ---**
It makes no difference
how many of you come.
**[19:44] ---**
I feel it!
**[19:49] ---**
You don't know
when to give up, pops!
**[19:51] ---**
Do you like flowers?
**[19:54] ---**
What?
**[19:57] ---**
M-My eyes!
**[20:00] ---**
Can you use your gun like that?
**[20:02] ---**
Train!
**[20:05] ---**
This is it for both of you!
**[20:11] ---**
Let those two go!
**[20:17] ---**
Dammit!
**[20:21] ---**
What the hell are you doing?!
**[20:23] ---**
Don't shoot!
**[20:24] ---**
What?!
**[20:56] ---**
Guns don't work on me.
**[20:59] ---**
I'm now invincible!
**[21:01] ---**
That's right! I'm invincible!
**[21:04] ---**
Ha! He's pretty persistent...
**[21:07] ---**
Die!!
**[21:10] ---**
I won't let you get away!!
**[21:16] ---**
My body... my body is...!
**[21:24] ---**
Someone... help me!
**[21:31] ---**
How ruthless...
**[21:34] ---**
Now I feel sorry for him...
**[21:37] ---**
I win, princess.
**[21:40] ---**
That man's body destroyed itself.
**[21:42] ---**
What?!
**[21:43] ---**
I rescued you, remember?!
**[21:45] ---**
As if you yourself
weren't in danger...
**[21:47] ---**
Dummy! I was pretending!
**[21:48] ---**
--I did that on purpose!
**[21:49] ---**
--Shinkitou?
**[21:53] ---**
Is this all?!
**[21:55] ---**
There's no way we'll get paid
when our target looks like that!
**[21:59] ---**
You really are a pops
who has no luck with money.
**[22:02] ---**
Shut up!
**[22:04] ---**
If you're in that much trouble,
why don't you help me with my job?
**[22:26] ---**
*The stars in the night sky are my tears*
**[22:31] ---**
*Goddess of the moon, angel of the stars!*
**[22:35] ---**
*Please stop time tonight!*
**[22:50] ---**
*Please show yourself*
**[22:52] ---**
*even if just a little*
**[22:56] ---**
*Around the time the first evening star appears,*
**[22:59] ---**
*I hear footsteps approaching*
**[23:02] ---**
*The only time I can see you**
**[23:05] ---**
s when the moon is shining*
**[23:08] ---**
*Please let me dream a little*
**[23:10] ---**
*'Cause it'll become an illusion by morning*
**[23:14] ---**
*Even though I know it, I still feel lonely*
**[23:17] ---**
*The stars in the night sky are my tears*
**[23:23] ---**
*You held me in your arms*
**[23:26] ---**
*and your passionate lips met mine*
**[23:29] ---**
*Please don't let go of me*
**[23:32] ---**
*I'm about to melt in your arms*
**[23:35] ---**
*But morning is almost here*
**[23:38] ---**
*Goddess of the moon, angel of the stars!*
**[23:41] ---**
*I pray to you,*
**[23:44] ---**
*please stop time*
**[23:55] ---**
"Next Episode"
**[23:56] ---**
*Kyoko here!*
**[23:57] ---**
*I'm traveling with
Charden-san to gather allies.*
**[24:01] ---**
*But, I'm getting sick and tired
of it 'cause they're all weird guys.*
**[24:03] ---**
*Oh, where's my prince?*
**[24:07] ---**
*According to a fortune-telling book,*
**[24:09] ---**
*let me see, my love
fortune for next week is...*
**[24:11] ---**
*excellent?!
And, lucky items are...*
**[24:14] ---**
*popsicles and a black cat?!*
**[24:16] ---**
*Alrighty!!*
**[24:17] ---**
*I'll have to give it everything I've got!*
**[24:17] ---**
"The Charming Cat"