7 - Branchial Blues

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    Hellsalem's Lot--a city where this world
    and the alterworld intersect.
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    This is the record of the clandestine activities
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    of the secret society of supermen,
    Libra, who work in the shadows
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    to preserve the balance of worlds.
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    I’m sane, but it’s trick or treat?
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    I’m right, but it’s truth certainly
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    Well then “awesome!” welcome to tragedy
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    Fake town, Fake town, baby?
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    I’m sane, but it’s trick or treat?
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    I’m right, but it’s truth certainly
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    Well then “awesome!” welcome to tragedy
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    Fake town, Fake town, baby?
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    Giving in to emotion is an utter waste
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    A moment's solace
    is an immediate nuisance
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    Hello me, hello you, there are no timeouts
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    Fake town, Fake town
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    See, I don't even know when
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    I started thinking this way
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    I'd gotten myself so ready to be a winner,
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    it's a shame about the pandemonium
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    I've forgotten what my percentage
    is at finding happiness
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    There's no God, I don't want one,
    even if there was
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    Whose "you are here" is this?
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    You decide whether it's bitter or sweet
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    "I hate what I hate, buzz off, shut up"
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    You're probably well past
    getting by like that
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    In this town, if all you do is complain
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    the rule is that no one
    will give you the time of day
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    Ah, just get in on this call
    or drop of a lifetime
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    Even man-eating ghouls
    are clapping their hands
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    Here's the round of applause
    you've been waiting for
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    Here are the foolproof winning odds
    you've been waiting for
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    I got it! I got it! I got it!
[02:09] ---
    I got it!
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    Stop gloating, stop gloating.
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    You got Sky Castle Bar Utsuroi?
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    Well done, party committee!
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    This year's New Year's party
    is going to be a cut above!
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    Mr. Zed! Mr. Zed!
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    Are you here?
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    Ah, Leo. Hello.
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    Look at this! I finally did it!
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    This bar is super-popular!
    This is honestly near-miraculous!
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    It has 13 kinds of illusionry access,
    which change every day,
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    and is completely isolated in mobile space,
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    making it the perfect place
    for a top-secret wild party!
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    We'll have a whole bunch
    of Libra members there, after all!
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    Now we can formally
    introduce you to everyone!
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    Well, I'll leave the flyer here.
    Keep your schedule open! Save the date!
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    Dues? Like I have money for that.
    Why don't you spot me?
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    Ha-ha-ha-ha, what a kidder!
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    There's a better chance
    of me getting any of it back
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    if I flushed it down the drain!
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    Are you looking for a fight?!
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    It costs that much?
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    Well, sure. All of his equipment
    has to be custom-made for him.
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    No fair! It's all about the fish!
    I want money, too!
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    Wow, what a thing to just blurt out.
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    Equipment costs aside,
    operating funds are disbursed uniformly.
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    Sorry it's such a token payment.
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    Damn right it is! Excuse me for saying so,
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    but each month it takes about
    25 minutes before it's gone!
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    I'm not making that up!
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    Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho,
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    I can't fathom why you take
    such pride in admitting that.
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    What was that?!
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    --Well, say what you will,
    but it's literally his life-support system.
    --A gambling freak like you, up to his eyeballs in debt,
[04:12] ---
    --Well, say what you will,
    but it's literally his life-support system.
    --could get a billion, and you'd just tack on another zero!
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    --I appreciate your understanding.
    --You shut up!
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    No, that's actually not doing him any favors.
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    Does he really dislike it that much
    when good things happen to others?
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    How greedy.
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    And him, as far removed from
    the word "equality" as you can get.
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    None but those who work are entitled to eat!
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    Mr. Zed!
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    Uh, we were just...
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    Miss...
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    Don't make any noise.
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    I beg your pardon.
    I thought the song was well over.
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    Are you ignorant? There were still
    0.5 seconds in the fadeout.
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    Next time, I'll zap you
    right to the core of your medulla.
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    What did you want?
[05:17] ---
    Yes, Miss. Sviatoslav from Russia
    ordered 12 local-defense bodies.
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    They have the rest from the neck up?
[05:26] ---
    --Yes, Miss.
    --Then charge two billion for them
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    including transplant surgery costs.
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    Make an overture to the Sudanese
    intelligence network, too.
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    Next?
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    That Workers Party Operations
    Department matter from last week...
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    That tub of guts? I'm under
    no obligation to concede anything.
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    Put a bullet in the First Secretary's
    ear to shake things up.
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    Once he backs off, deliver a soldier
    with a chip implanted in his brain.
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    Next?
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    That just leaves your negotiation
    with England's SIS in 20 minutes.
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    They're finally going to cybernate
    the Zero-Zero-Numbers, too?
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    Treat them as our most important customers
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    until missiles shoot out
    of Daniel Craig's knees.
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    It will send a good message.
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    That is all.
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    As long as there is
    still conflict in this world,
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    the only safe refuge I have
    is inside these headphones.
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    Well, um...
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    You have no work history,
    no schooling, no one to vouch for you,
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    and naturally, no visa, either, right?
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    Yeah, that's fine!
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    There are a lot of people like you.
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    We aren't hung up on old-fashioned
    ideas here. All we see is you, yourself!
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    Mr. President!
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    What's up? A new colleague for us?
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    Uh, incidentally... Hmm?
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    Huh? Hey, you!
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    No, we don't want any non-humans here.
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    No way, no way!
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    Ah, mister, wait!
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    You're not one of us, huh?
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    "Ho-ho, this is unusual."
[07:17] ---
    "A hybrid of fish and man?"
[07:19] ---
    "Count, you've gone and created a cruel joke."
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    Who are you?
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    You speak man's tongue,
    illegitimate child of darkness?
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    Then listen to me. I am about
    to raze this mansion. With you in it.
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    However, if you possess any backbone,
    you may choose your fate.
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    But I will warn you, having no fellow beings,
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    the loneliness that you will face once outside
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    is beyond imagining--enough to make
    this place seem like warm waters.
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    So, which hell do you choose to tread?
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    Oh, sorry.
[08:40] ---
    Could those be...? No, they couldn't!
[08:42] ---
    They couldn't, they couldn't, they couldn't!
[08:45] ---
    Those... The pair that
    heteromorph was wearing...
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    ...was the Vaneheiser Mark 0?!
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    The piece of phantom ultra-high-grade
    audio gear that they were unable
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    to technologically reproduce after
    the blood-splattered prototype incident
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    and ended up being mothballed?!
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    According to one theory,
    they are so perfectly made
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    that one could hear
    revelation from God through them!
[09:03] ---
    Why is an out-of-place-artifact-grade
    pair of headphones like that in this city?!
[09:07] ---
    Stop the car!
[09:11] ---
    What is the matter, Miss?
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    Go back.
[09:14] ---
    But Miss, you are meeting with
    Her Majesty the Queen in three minutes.
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    Bowen! Stanislaw!
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    --Yes?
    --Yes?
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    Take possession of this item
    from the man 150 meters behind me.
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    Start negotiations at three billion.
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    If he refuses to give them to you,
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    kill him and take them.
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    We really should apologize.
[10:21] ---
    Everyone has their own reasons.
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    For that matter, I don't need
    to be lectured about hard work
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    from someone whose main source of income
    is the cash he gets from women!
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    Seconded.
[10:34] ---
    Um, Ms. Chain, please come down from there.
    You're explicitly in the way.
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    What's wrong? Isn't he answering?
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    Doesn't look like it.
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    Okay, then let's just agree
    to try much harder tomorrow,
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    and spend the rest of the day drinking.
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    We can't do that!
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    What is it?
[11:02] ---
    Mr. Zed!
[11:05] ---
    Ah! His pods are gone!
[11:14] ---
    Whew, that's a huge relief.
[11:18] ---
    Those air gills are
    specially-made for Mr. Zed, right?
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    There isn't any other use for them,
    so what gives?
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    If we don't find them,
    he'll be stuck in here for a month
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    before we can have a replacement delivered.
[11:30] ---
    Huh?! But the New Year's party!
[11:33] ---
    Not likely.
[11:34] ---
    No way! After all I went through
    to get reservations?!
[11:39] ---
    Huh? What's that?
[11:57] ---
    Let's go get them back.
[11:58] ---
    Huh?
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    As party planner, I can't accept this.
[12:03] ---
    This is an emergency request from
    the New Year's Party executive committee!
[12:10] ---
    "Branchial Blues"
[12:17] ---
    That was fast.
[12:19] ---
    The target was intoxicated.
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    He couldn't have given us any trouble.
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    Are those really headphones?
[12:53] ---
    The culprits were a pair of men
    wearing trench coats.
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    One with a thin mustache and glasses,
    one rugged-faced with black eyes.
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    Necromancy has been performed
    at dozens of trash sites,
[13:06] ---
    and garbage golems are running amuck.
[13:09] ---
    Are those of us who can only
    live in a contaminated world
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    --They're positively coming
    out of the woodwork.
    --to be told by the rest of you to just die?!
[13:15] ---
    Leo, sorry about this. We'll be right back.
[13:26] ---
    Damn.
[13:27] ---
    Their traces are too weak.
[13:30] ---
    What are you doing?
[13:32] ---
    Ms. Chain? Why are you...?
[13:34] ---
    With all the heavy lifting on that job,
    I don't play into it.
[13:37] ---
    I'm here to help.
[13:48] ---
    Wh-What the...?
[13:50] ---
    An application of the
    Big Dipper Style Blood Technique.
[13:55] ---
    Amazing.
[13:56] ---
    How strange.
[13:59] ---
    Nothing like this came up
    in my conversations with the count.
[14:04] ---
    What did you talk about?
[14:07] ---
    Huh?
[14:08] ---
    With the count?
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    Poetry and music,
[14:13] ---
    art and science, philosophy,
    astronomy, and other things.
[14:19] ---
    How pitiful. Perhaps it is
    difficult to truly be alone,
[14:25] ---
    no matter the kind of being one is, huh?
[15:04] ---
    Oh, Mr. O'Brien, have you awakened?
[15:08] ---
    Mr. Gilbert?
[15:13] ---
    You're sure that this is where the tracks end?
[15:16] ---
    It should be, most likely.
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    Walhalla Dynamics.
[15:22] ---
    What's that?
[15:24] ---
    A company?
[15:25] ---
    They're a hardcore arms company
    who have had rapid growth
[15:27] ---
    in the combat cyborg sector
    over the last few years.
[15:30] ---
    Their featured products,
    the Einherjar Body 4000,
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    are high-performance military units
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    that can hold their own
    against even combat helicopters.
[15:38] ---
    Ugh...
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    Whatever we do,
[15:42] ---
    we should think very carefully
    about how to tackle this.
[15:49] ---
    What are you waiting around for,
    you worthless humps?!
[15:52] ---
    Shh!
[15:53] ---
    Let's take care of this already--
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    You idiot! You stupid idiot!
[15:59] ---
    Do you know what we're going up against?!
[16:01] ---
    She's right! Those guys are war-making pros!
[16:04] ---
    So what? Do you get mad at people
    differently depending on who they are?
[16:11] ---
    Once they humiliate you, you don't
    waste even 0.1 second striking back.
[16:14] ---
    Everyone knows that!
[16:18] ---
    What?
[16:19] ---
    Nothing. I just thought
    you were mad for Mr. Zed's sake.
[16:25] ---
    --What's the matter with you?!
    You wanna die first?!
[16:26] ---
    --Shh! Shh!
    --What's the matter with you?!
    You wanna die first?!
[16:27] ---
    --Shh! Shh!
    --You think you're tougher
    than combat cyborgs?!
[16:32] ---
    I am honestly fed up
    with that aquatic pantywaist!
[16:36] ---
    He's a disgrace to the Big Dipper Name!
[16:39] ---
    Hey, you there!
[16:41] ---
    What are you doing over there?!
[16:43] ---
    Oh, you're just in time!
    There's something I need to ask you.
[16:48] ---
    A friend of ours got mugged earlier.
[16:51] ---
    We're looking for the silly
    sons of bitches who did it now.
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    Do you know anything about it?
[16:56] ---
    No, I don't. Go tell the police your story.
[17:00] ---
    This place is off limits
    to any unauthorized personnel.
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    A pair of men in trench coats.
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    Thin mustache and black eyes.
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    Which one of us will be more put out
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    if we go to the police?
[17:19] ---
    Big Dipper Style Blood Technique, Blade Four:
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    Crimson Honebami!
[17:23] ---
    "Crimson Honebami!"
[17:26] ---
    That is correct, Your Majesty.
[17:28] ---
    The melody of the world
    is one of ever-increasing chaos.
[17:31] ---
    It is difficult to anticipate what threats
    may be looming at any time.
[17:35] ---
    However, our company provides services
    to cope with such situations--
[17:48] ---
    Go, she-bitch! In this confusion,
[17:50] ---
    the top floor here will be where
    all the information is collected!
[17:53] ---
    For crying out loud...
[17:58] ---
    U-Um, what should I do?
[18:00] ---
    Stay close to me. Beyond that,
    you're on your own not to get hurt!
[18:04] ---
    Huh?!
[18:06] ---
    An enemy attack? What are their numbers?
[18:22] ---
    Just the two of them, against the
    4000 Series? What are they, monsters?
[18:30] ---
    Why, you...! How did you get in here?!
[18:37] ---
    Put those back in the case.
    If you don't obey my order, I'll shoot you!
[18:54] ---
    That didn't kill her?!
[18:56] ---
    Don't think you can get out of here!
    This is my compound!
[19:08] ---
    How does it feel to have someone
    stroking your myocardium directly?
[19:15] ---
    Perhaps you have become very successful
[19:18] ---
    and can pretty much
    manipulate the world at your whim,
[19:22] ---
    but don't grow too arrogant.
[19:24] ---
    The next time you try a stunt like this,
    I'll be here in a second.
[19:27] ---
    I'll skip the pleasantries,
    and drive a rusty nail through you.
[19:38] ---
    Yo...
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    Let's go, you damn monkey.
[19:55] ---
    It looks like they are all
    more-or-less all right.
[19:59] ---
    Thank goodness.
[20:38] ---
    I declare, when it comes to you people...
[20:42] ---
    Would you please take a moment
[20:44] ---
    and think before you do anything like this?
[20:46] ---
    An application of the
    Big Dipper Style Blood Technique:
[20:49] ---
    Reverse Fish Bowl!
[20:49] ---
    "Reverse Fish Bowl!"
[20:54] ---
    Still...
[20:57] ---
    Thank you.
[21:03] ---
    Why are you laughing?!
[21:05] ---
    I mean, dude,
[21:06] ---
    what alien from which
    star system are you from?!
[21:11] ---
    And so, while there may
    have been a lot of commotion...
[21:14] ---
    Cheers!
[21:15] ---
    Cheers!
[21:18] ---
    ...the New Year's party
    at Utsuroi safely concluded,
[21:22] ---
    and today is another day;
    our daily life goes on.
[21:26] ---
    Walhalla revises earnings forecast...
[21:33] ---
    Come to think of it,
    Mr. Zed is doing much better lately.
[21:37] ---
    He even went so far as to
    treat me to lunch not long ago.
[21:47] ---
    Big Dipper Style Blood Technique...
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    Shinatobe...
[21:52] ---
    Wind-weaver.
[23:37] ---
    Wow, that was something to see!
[23:39] ---
    Reeling them in quick, fish that he is.
[23:42] ---
    Not a very clever pun there.
[23:46] ---
    Why is it that weaklings are so quick
[23:48] ---
    to rattle off their shortcomings
    without the least bit of shame,
[23:50] ---
    then make excuses for every little thing?
[23:53] ---
    Jeez, buck up and
    accept your weaknesses flat-out.
[23:57] ---
    "Desperate Fight in the Macro Zone, Part 1"
[23:57] ---
    It'll make you stronger.