7 - Variant Leaves

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[01:32] OS
    EPISODE 7:
    VARIANT LEAVES
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    We're seeking interviews with those who've left
    the Japan Branch since the Blue Night.
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    Mr. Nagatomo and Mr. Kyodo, you were both
    exorcists before the Blue Night, correct?
[01:44] ---
    Yes.
[01:45] ---
    Mr. Misumi...
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    Y-Yes?
[01:48] ---
    Prior to the Blue Night, you were a security guard
    at True Cross Academy's Eastern Gate...
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    but I hear you were once the leading authority
    on genome drug research at True Cross University.
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    Someone with such an illustrious background
    suddenly becomes a security guard for 22 years?
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    On top of that, you've been a monk for 16 years.
    Truly, your life has been full of twists and turns!
[02:07] ---
    I'd really love to hear
    what on earth happened to you!
[02:12] ---
    Mr. Misumi...
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    As he doesn't seem well,
    we're very sorry, but...
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    - Kyodo, please see them off.
    - Right.
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    All three of you have a lot of nerve,
    hiding under the mask of holy men.
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    If you're going to snivel,
    then tell me the truth.
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    I-I'll be killed if I speak!
[02:34] ---
    Not just me! All of us!
[02:36] ---
    Come forth, Slyvestre.
[02:38] ---
    And so on.
[02:40] ---
    Circular Saw.
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    - I think you've lived long enough.
    - Stop it!
[02:46] ---
    At least, let your final act
    be something useful to the world—
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    You can't go any further!
[02:52] ---
    He's a human being!
[02:56] ---
    Thanks.
[02:57] ---
    I forgot myself and went overboard.
[02:59] ---
    Sorry about that.
[03:01] ---
    Forget it.
[03:03] ---
    H-Hold on a second!
[03:06] ---
    You're absolutely right!
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    I'd like to confess to everything before I die!
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    Mr. Misumi, you can't do that!
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    I...
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    I was...
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    at Section 13!
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    E...
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    E-Elixir!
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    Death.
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    Related to the King of Time, huh?
[03:43] ---
    Mr. Misumi...
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    Just as I thought, a Morinath Contract, huh?
[03:52] ---
    Thanks, Mr. Misumi.
[03:54] ---
    I'll make sure that you didn't die in vain.
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    Section 13 is a complete mystery,
    but the Elixir is a miracle drug for eternal youth.
[04:05] ---
    We have our link
    to the Illuminati at last.
[04:09] ---
    This just won't do!
    The master is currently bathing!
[04:12] ---
    Oh!
[04:13] ---
    P-P-P-P-Pervert!
[04:15] ---
    Belial! How did this sicko get in—
[04:17] ---
    This is the seal that appeared on the nape
    of the neck of a man who died this morning.
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    But it's not recorded in any logs.
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    Death is your kin, King of Time.
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    An unofficial Morinath Contract would be
    in violation of the laws of the Order.
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    Well, I'm going to sue you for lewd conduct!
SIGN    I'M GOING TO SUE YOU FOR LEWD CONDUCT!!
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    What's Section 13?
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    Were you carrying out research on the Elixir?
    Or are you still engaged in that now?
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    After all, I'm sure that with a body like that,
    you'd love to have eternal youth.
[04:46] ---
    Your false accusations are beyond wild.
[04:48] ---
    Oh, so that's your reaction?
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    Then, you won't mind being hauled into court?
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    Very well.
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    I can't have any disruptions right now...
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    so I'm going to point you
    toward the treasure you're seeking.
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    All you need to do
    is clasp the key in the hand.
[05:06] ---
    That said...
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    I would urge you to do it covertly
    under cover of darkness.
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    He said to clasp the key in the hand.
[05:18] ---
    What exactly does that mean?
[05:20] ---
    The Exorcism Cram School...
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    makes liberal use of the designs
    found at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain...
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    and that palace features a certain legend.
[05:30] ---
    The Moorish king who built the palace...
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    made a pact with the devil...
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    and used the magical power
    he'd gained to hide his treasure.
[05:40] ---
    When that pact expires...
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    the hand engraved
    on the Judgment Gate will emerge...
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    and clasp the key.
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    At that moment...
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    the palace will crumble...
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    and the Moorish king's treasure will appear.
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    That's it!
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    A key in the hand!
[06:10] ---
    But the souls of the righteous
    are in the hand of God...
[06:14] ---
    and the torment of suffering
    shall not touch them.
[06:18] ---
    He does not treat us
    as our sins deserve...
[06:18] ---
    It hasn't even been a year yet
    since the old man died.
[06:20] ---
    and the mercy of the Lord is everlasting
    as a father to his children.
[06:24] ---
    Come to think of it,
    was it raining that day, too?
[06:27] ---
    Yes, it was.
[06:34] ---
    Dammit!
[06:35] ---
    It won't do any good to say anything now.
[06:38] ---
    Mr. Misumi knew what was coming.
[06:39] ---
    Not only that, but he was up against
    that Arch Knight, Lightning.
[06:43] ---
    There's no way he could've said no.
[06:49] ---
    Mother...
[06:51] OS
    FOR THE 173rd
    EXORCIST CERTIFICATION EXAM
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    I...
[06:57] ---
    have spent all this time in a cramped world...
[06:59] ---
    being helped out by Grandma, you and Yuki...
[07:03] ---
    being protected all my life.
[07:05] ---
    I've been so at peace and happy until now.
[07:09] ---
    But then I started going to cram school
    and after I'd made some friends,
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    I learned that there are
    lots of happy things and sad things,
[07:16] ---
    that there are fun things
    and painful things,
[07:19] ---
    that the world is vast,
    and there's so much out there.
[07:22] ---
    That's what everyone taught me.
[07:26] ---
    I've been consumed by all that
    for the last nine months!
[07:32] ---
    I...
[07:33] ---
    want to live in this world!
[07:36] ---
    Please...
[07:38] ---
    allow me to take
    the Exorcist Certification Exam!
[07:45] ---
    I see.
[07:47] ---
    You've become so strong.
[07:51] ---
    All right. If you have
    that kind of resolve,
[07:53] ---
    there's something
    I'd like to tell you, too.
[07:56] ---
    I'm sure that right now,
    you can handle it.
[08:01] ---
    Listen to what I have to say.
[08:02] ---
    If you still want to take that exam,
    then I won't stop you.
[08:16] ---
    Where are we?
[08:17] ---
    The Exorcism Cram School?
[08:22] ---
    Wow!
[08:23] ---
    This is probably the cram school's previous
    incarnation, the Exorcism Training School...
[08:28] ---
    commonly known as "The Asylum."
[08:34] ---
    The Asylum.
[08:36] ---
    Both Shiro Fujimoto and the current Paladin,
    Arthur, hail from here.
[08:40] ---
    But it was shut down 16 years ago.
[08:43] ---
    Because it became ground zero
    for the Blue Night.
[08:46] ---
    But really, how amazing is that Lord Pheles?
[08:49] ---
    Right after the Blue Night, he must've saved
    the Asylum as is in some other dimension, right?
[08:56] ---
    Huh?
[08:57] ---
    Doesn't it... bother you at all?
[09:01] ---
    I know I really did that old man wrong.
[09:04] ---
    I have a grandfather myself, so it pains me.
[09:07] ---
    You're lying.
[09:08] ---
    Correct! I'm the type of person
    who can't empathize with others.
[09:14] ---
    I've been lacking in emotion since birth.
[09:16] ---
    Believe it or not, I've actually improved.
[09:19] ---
    When I was a kid, I was so immersed
    in my demon research and I was violent,
[09:23] ---
    so the people around me feared me,
    thinking that I was a demon.
[09:27] ---
    But I like humans even more than demons,
    and I like everything about this world.
[09:33] ---
    I'll do anything to protect this world.
[09:38] ---
    One of the reasons
    that I made you my apprentice...
[09:39] ---
    was because I thought you were a decent
    human being with common sense.
[09:44] ---
    And because I get anxious
    if I don't have someone along...
[09:47] ---
    to set a normal criteria
    for decision making.
[09:50] ---
    But if we keep going forward, we probably won't be
    able to turn back in more ways than none.
[09:54] ---
    If you want to resign as my apprentice,
    now's your chance.
[09:57] ---
    That's your master's final warning.
[10:02] ---
    I'll be your brakes!
[10:04] ---
    Now that it's come to this,
    I can't leave you on your own!
[10:06] ---
    I'm going to follow you until the end!
[10:13] ---
    You really are one mind-blowing
    masochist, huh?
[10:16] ---
    Is that what you call "the samurai spirit"?
    You know, like committing hara-kiri?
[10:19] ---
    You're laughing like a madman!
[10:21] ---
    But thanks.
[10:24] ---
    That will be an enormous help.
[10:28] ---
    Let's go!
[10:40] ---
    This is where they sheltered
    orphaned children afflicted with Temptaints...
[10:43] ---
    and those related to demons by blood.
[10:45] ---
    It's where they trained the promising ones
    to become exorcists.
[10:50] ---
    But that was just their cover story.
[10:57] ---
    An examination table...
[10:59] ---
    So, it was just a medical facility?
[11:02] ---
    Take a good look.
[11:03] ---
    They're all delivery tables.
[11:06] ---
    It's abnormal.
[11:10] ---
    Are these the archives?
[11:11] ---
    Serum Drug Experiment Logs...
[11:15] OS
    INJECTED WITH THE P-07 SERUM
    AND APPLIED ELECTRIC SHOCK
    OF 10-100 mA, BUT NO RESPONSE.
    P-07 IS CONSIDERED A FAILURE.
[11:15] OS
    EXPERIMENT
    SUBJECT
[11:17] ---
    What the...
[11:18] OS
    INJECTED WITH
    THE P-07 SERUM
[11:19] OS
    E.R (AMPUTATED AT ELBOW)
[11:22] ---
    Looks like they were experimenting on humans
    with a serum drug for reviving life functions.
[11:27] ---
    Meaning this might just be what leads
    to the Elixir of Immortality experiments.
[11:37] OS
    HUMAN REINFORCEMENT
    EXPERIMENTS
[11:39] ---
    Lucifer?
[11:51] ---
    You've got to be kidding me!
[11:53] ---
    Lightning!
[11:55] ---
    What's wrong, Ryuji?
[12:06] ---
    Let's sum this up.
[12:08] ---
    In short, until the Asylum was destroyed
    during the Blue Night,
[12:12] ---
    it was the front for the research lab
    called "Section 13."
[12:17] ---
    There, they conducted...
[12:19] ---
    illegal human experiments...
[12:21] ---
    and mass-produced
    clones of the Demon Kings.
[12:28] ---
    Wh-What exactly does that mean?
[12:30] ---
    The Demon Kings?
[12:32] ---
    Lu...
[12:34] ---
    Lucifer...
[12:35] ---
    Lu, Lu...
[12:38] ---
    Lu...
[12:40] ---
    Sm...
[12:42] ---
    Samael!
[12:44] ---
    Sm, Sm, Sm, Sm...
[12:49] ---
    Az...
[12:56] ---
    Ryuji, give me some light.
[12:58] ---
    What is it?
[12:59] OS
    AZAZEL GROUP
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    These are the records
    for the experiments on the clones.
[13:04] ---
    Most likely...
[13:05] ---
    Hold up!
[13:06] OS
    SUCCESS
[13:07] ---
    Amaimon?
[13:09] ---
    You're sure about that?
[13:10] ---
    He's the spitting image!
[13:11] ---
    Does this mean that the True Cross Order
    was creating a vessel for Baal?
[13:16] ---
    No way!
[13:18] ---
    I-Is it possible that Lord Pheles
    was just acting on his own...
[13:21] ---
    and the Order's higher-ups
    had nothing to do with it?
[13:26] ---
    If that's the case, then it means you and I
    have been working for one evil organization!
[13:33] ---
    But it's too soon to draw
    that kind of conclusion.
[13:36] ---
    The possibilities are relentlessly dark, but...
[13:39] ---
    Gramps...
[13:41] ---
    No, the real issue here is...
[13:46] ---
    Come forth, Set...
[13:48] ---
    Amshir...
[13:49] ---
    And so on!
[13:57] ---
    Seriously...
[13:59] ---
    Mephisto!
[14:00] ---
    They were sleeping so peacefully.
[14:03] ---
    This is all because you were making
    such a commotion.
[14:06] ---
    But how disheveled you are...
[14:09] ---
    Perhaps you should take a bath?
[14:16] ---
    What's the big idea? We were in the middle
    of rifling through the records!
[14:19] ---
    And I hate baths!
[14:21] ---
    For once, you've lost all composure, huh?
[14:24] ---
    I'm not averse, you know.
    To this human-ish you.
[14:29] ---
    That space is now a free-for-all.
[14:32] ---
    Go ahead and explore all you want.
[14:34] ---
    What is it that you want?
    Why would you show that to us?
[14:37] OS
    STRAWBERRY MILK
[14:38] ---
    In order to explain myself.
[14:40] ---
    Since you're such a pest.
[14:42] ---
    I have nothing to do
    with either the Order or the Illuminati.
[14:45] ---
    Neither is it a fact
    that I'm in cahoots with Lucifer.
[14:49] ---
    The power structure involving Gehenna is simple.
[14:51] ---
    Lucifer's faction, which is hostile
    toward humans,
[14:54] ---
    and the Order's faction, which works
    with the humans, have been at odds for a long time.
[14:58] ---
    Naturally, I'm with the Order's faction.
[15:01] ---
    I can't trust you
    after seeing what you showed me!
[15:04] ---
    Then, let me tell you a tale from the past.
[15:10] ---
    In ancient times...
[15:12] ---
    we Baal were conceptual existences.
[15:15] ---
    But as human culture made advances...
[15:18] ---
    we began to take on clear forms...
[15:23] ---
    and some began to be incarnated
    as flesh and blood.
[15:26] ---
    For those like you who have their own
    physical bodies, it must be hard to fathom...
[15:31] ---
    but gaining a physical body
    was a shocking stimulation.
[15:37] ---
    Having awoken to one's self
    and indulged in the five senses,
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    once we experienced a physical body
    for the first time,
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    we could no longer imagine
    ever being deprived of one.
[15:44] ---
    But flesh doesn't last forever.
[15:49] ---
    Though we can regenerate cells faster
    than humans can, thanks to our magical power,
[15:54] ---
    the more exalted the King,
    the faster the degradation of his body.
[15:57] ---
    And yet, we Baal cannot die.
[16:00] ---
    Though our bodies may be destroyed,
    we live on forever as concepts.
[16:04] ---
    That was altogether too cruel.
[16:08] ---
    In particular, Lucifer's body deteriorates the fastest
    of all the Baal, not even lasting ten years.
[16:15] ---
    His outlet for that stress
    became aimed at humans,
[16:18] ---
    and he persuaded his siblings,
    the other Kings, to start attacking humans.
[16:23] ---
    Long years of war, flood
    and epidemics ensued.
[16:31] ---
    Some of the Baal, including myself, decided that
    if we did nothing, humans would become extinct...
[16:36] ---
    so we gave humans the knowledge
    they needed to battle the demons.
[16:39] ---
    That's how the Knights
    of the True Cross began.
[16:45] ---
    And then, was it
    just a hundred years or so ago?
[16:48] ---
    My elder brother, Lucifer, snapped.
[16:53] ---
    I cannot go on any longer.
[16:56] ---
    It is time to return everything
    to nothingness.
[16:59] ---
    Please calm down, Elder Brother.
[17:02] ---
    I'm sure you don't understand.
[17:05] ---
    Being that you can live longer than I
    with your power of Time.
[17:11] ---
    It pains me...
[17:14] ---
    my body!
[17:18] ---
    Why is this world so cruel and unfair?
[17:24] ---
    It should be more equal.
[17:28] ---
    So, what are you going to do?
[17:30] ---
    I shall take my own life.
[17:34] ---
    I shall release all of my powers...
[17:38] ---
    and destroy this planet.
[17:41] ---
    That way, everyone can return
    to being concepts on equal footing.
[17:44] ---
    We shall return to a world that's fair
    and where there is no suffering.
[17:48] ---
    Lucifer!
[17:49] ---
    While I do feel for you, you shouldn't force
    the world that you see onto others!
[17:54] ---
    Please wait.
[17:57] ---
    Elder Brother, have you ever heard
    of "biological clones"?
[18:02] ---
    What is that?
[18:03] ---
    If you could easily acquire a new vessel...
[18:05] ---
    even if your body degrades...
[18:09] ---
    humans...
[18:11] ---
    this world...
[18:12] ---
    would be worth
    allowing to survive, wouldn't it?
[18:15] ---
    I will set up a research lab
    within the Japan Branch...
[18:18] ---
    that I control with utmost secrecy.
[18:20] ---
    We should be able to eliminate
    your pain, Elder Brother.
[18:27] ---
    This is how Section 13 was built,
    with the Asylum as its hideout.
[18:32] ---
    And the best and brightest of the world's researchers
    were summoned to launch our clone research.
[18:37] ---
    But only after creating them did we realize
    that the clones were not complete copies.
[18:43] ---
    Most of all, the spirit inside was separate.
[18:47] ---
    No matter how magnificent the physical body,
    they couldn't possibly all become vessels.
[18:53] ---
    In order to appease Lucifer,
    we needed to find a new method.
[18:58] ---
    Let us study the Elixir.
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    In other words, we would create
    an enhanced human being who was immortal.
[19:07] ---
    The Elixir experiments were horrific.
[19:10] ---
    Miraculously, Amaimon's vessel
    did come into being...
[19:14] ---
    but we were unable to create Lucifer's.
[19:19] ---
    One day, the most powerful
    enhanced human being was born.
[19:23] ---
    But it was not Lucifer who possessed it.
[19:32] ---
    You could call it Gehenna itself,
    the realm which produced all of us.
[19:36] ---
    By the time we determined it
    to be a giant concept...
[19:38] ---
    it was already far too late
    for everything.
[19:41] ---
    Satan...
[19:42] ---
    Yes. In other words, the entity
    who fathered the Okumura Brothers...
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    appeared at that moment.
[19:50] ---
    And after it acquired an ego,
    the Blue Night occurred.
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    The research lab was destroyed.
[19:57] ---
    Almost everyone involved died that day.
[20:04] ---
    I thought I understood all of this.
[20:07] ---
    But now, I can't believe...
[20:08] OS
    REVISED
    EDITION
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    what kind of fate that is!
[20:10] OS
    MATHEMATICS I
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    They're in such a gigantic maelstrom.
[20:19] ---
    Those two.
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    We have awakened from our dream.
[20:24] ---
    We were sure all of our research
    had been buried in the darkness.
[20:27] ---
    But my brother had never given up.
[20:31] ---
    He had extracted the Elixir research
    and has been carrying it on in secret.
[20:35] ---
    Still, it's unlikely that
    my brother himself took the research.
[20:39] ---
    There is, beyond a doubt, a traitor
    within the Order who aided him.
[20:43] ---
    Well, that's probably true.
    But wouldn't that actually...
[20:47] ---
    be you, man?
[20:48] ---
    When did you start
    speaking to me in that rude tone?
[20:51] ---
    Then, I'll ask you another way.
    The Arch Knight and the Paladin...
[20:54] ---
    How many of the higher-ups
    know about Section 13?
[20:58] ---
    Well, the Blue Night left Arthur
    with amnesia, you know.
[21:01] ---
    Amnesia...
[21:03] ---
    Yes. We did have him sign
    a Morinath Contract just in case,
[21:06] ---
    but he has virtually no memories
    dating back before the Blue Night.
[21:10] ---
    The only Arch Knight who was involved
    is Dr. Drac Drăgulescu.
[21:16] ---
    If I remember correctly, he'd been declared dead
    under the alias "Nicolae Eminescu."
[21:21] ---
    At the time, he was the leader
    of the Elixir research after all.
[21:25] ---
    But he, too, signed a Morinath Contract.
[21:30] ---
    There's no way to invalidate the contract,
[21:32] ---
    and it would be extremely difficult to work
    with the Illuminati while under contract.
[21:39] ---
    Time's up.
[21:41] ---
    Use this information to make your deductions,
    and find a way to unmask the traitor, Mr. Detective.
[21:48] ---
    That goes without saying.
[21:53] ---
    W-Wait up!
[21:55] ---
    Where is this place?
[21:56] ---
    Lightning!
[21:58] ---
    What are you doing here?
[23:34] OS
    NEXT TIME
    HAPPY (MERRY XMAS) BIRTHDAY!