E20 - The Place of Beginnings

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[00:01] Kourin
    You'll pay. You'll pay...
[00:04] Kourin
    You'll pay for this!
[00:06] Kourin
    You're a disgrace to the name of SK4!
[00:09] Kourin
    Apologize to Aichi with your life!
[00:15] Miwa
    Sorry, Kourin!
[00:16] Miwa
    These guys are more important to me.
[00:18] Kai
    Miwa...
[00:20] Ibuki
    I'll Delete both of you!
[00:22] Miwa
    Asura Kaiser!
[00:28] Ibuki
    Back off!
[00:29] Miwa
    You say "back off," but I'm not
    stupid enough to actually do that!
[00:33] Ibuki
    So, you've seen through my ability?
[00:37] Miwa
    I'm counting on you girls!
[00:39] Shuka
    Here I go, Emi!
[00:41] Emi
    Realize!
[00:46] Miwa
    Let's meet again, Ibuki!
[00:48] Miwa
    At the place it all began for us!
[00:50] Ibuki
    The place it all began?
[00:56] Kourin
    They got away.
[00:58] Ibuki
    Don't worry. I'll Delete all of them.
SIGN    if 20
     The Place of Beginnings
[02:45] Suiko
    If we made it this far, we should be safe.
[02:47] Shuka
    My heart is still pounding!
[02:50] Emi
    Just what was that "Deletor"?
[02:53] Emi
    Why would Ibuki be like that?
[02:57] Miwa
    I'll tell you.
[02:59] Kai
    Miwa?
[03:01] Miwa
    Deletors can delete a unit from the board.
[03:04] Miwa
    Any person who gets Deleted
    has their bond with Vanguard severed
[03:08] Miwa
    and can no longer imagine having one.
[03:11] Shuka
    I don't believe you!
    Bukki would never use units like that!
[03:15] Suiko
    He has used them before.
[03:18] Suiko
    He despised Vanguard.
[03:21] Suiko
    He even said that Deleting people
    "freed" them from the chains of battle.
[03:26] Suiko
    To be honest, I really didn't like
    being reminded of how he was back then...
[03:39] Kai
    The image that I saw...
[03:41] Kai
    Then that was real, too?
[03:44] Kai
    I can't believe it.
[03:46] Kai
    Ibuki taught us how to play Vanguard.
    He was our vanguard!
[03:51] Kai
    So why would he...?
[03:52] Miwa
    Don't get the wrong idea, Kai.
[03:55] Miwa
    The image you saw wasn't your memory.
[03:59] Miwa
    It was an echo of Ibuki's PSYqualia.
[04:03] Kai
    What are you talking about, Miwa?
[04:06] Miwa
    Despite living here all this time,
    I've always sensed that something was off.
[04:12] Miwa (N)
    I couldn't put my finger on why.
[04:14] Miwa (N)
    It felt like a pebble in a well-fitted shoe.
[04:20] Miwa (N)
    But then, one day...
[04:22] Miwa (N)
    ...I spotted you by chance.
[04:25] Miwa (N)
    You seemed a bit different from the Kai I knew.
[04:32] Miwa (N)
    But that's when I had the thought:
[04:35] Miwa (N)
    If you were doing well, I was fine with it.
[04:39] Miwa (N)
    Thing is, though, the moment I tried to
    ignore it, the truth of this world got revealed.
[04:49] Morikawa
    Ow!
[04:50] Morikawa
    I've still got another scene...
[04:52] Miwa
    Wh-What the...?
[04:54] Miwa
    Morikawa? What the heck happened?
[04:57] Morikawa
    I remember fighting magical girls, and then...
[05:01] Miwa
    Magical girls? You must've been daydreaming.
[05:04] Morikawa
    You're probably right.
[05:09] Miwa
    H-Hey!
[05:12] Miwa
    Wait!
[05:16] Miwa
    Kourin?
[05:17] Kourin
    My name is Yellow Typhoon.
[05:20] Kourin
    I protect Sanctuary.
[05:23] Miwa
    First him, now you.
    What the heck is going on?
[05:26] Kourin
    You've noticed them too, haven't you?
[05:29] Kourin
    The distortions in the world...
[05:31] Miwa
    Distortions?
[05:33] Kourin
    Someone is threatening Toshiki Kai's happiness.
[05:38] Miwa
    Toshiki Kai...
[05:39] Miwa
    You know Kai?
[05:45] Miwa
    Long story short, I became one of them,
    but there was something that didn't make sense.
[05:53] Miwa
    I'm talking about Ibuki.
[05:55] Miwa
    The Blaster Pair are Sanctuary's enemy
    because they threatened Kai's happiness.
[06:00] Miwa
    But Ibuki, our old friend,
    was on the magical girls' side.
[06:07] Miwa
    Why?
[06:08] Suiko
    Well, that's...
[06:09] Shuka
    Of course he was!
    The distortions are from your side.
[06:13] Emi
    Ibuki was trying to turn
    Kai and Aichi back to normal.
[06:18] Miwa
    That's what he said.
[06:21] Kai
    He?
[06:22] Miwa
    You met him before, right?
[06:25] Miwa
    Takuto Tatsunagi.
[06:27] Suiko
    You met Takuto?
[06:30] Miwa
    Yeah.
[06:31] Miwa
    He and I talked after I clashed with you guys,
    though the stuff he said flew way over my head.
[06:39] Takuto
    In the multiverse
    created by a quantum universe,
[06:42] Takuto
    even your current self
    is no more than a single possibility.
[06:45] Takuto
    What is the truth? No more than
    an observer's personal--
[06:48] Miwa
    Sorry, but...
[06:50] Miwa
    Could you make that a bit easier to follow?
[06:56] Takuto
    If you look from above, the lid looks bulging,
    but if you look from below, it looks dented.
[07:03] Takuto
    The reason you sense something off
    about the current Toshiki Kai
[07:07] Takuto
    is because your consciousness
    is connected to the other you,
[07:11] Takuto
    the one who knows
    the bulging-top-side Toshiki Kai.
[07:15] Miwa
    I really don't get it.
[07:17] Miwa
    But let me ask you something.
[07:21] Miwa
    You know where Ibuki is right now, don't you?
[07:27] Takuto
    Right now, he's inside a past mistake.
[07:31] Miwa
    Mistake?
[07:33] Takuto
    Back when he caused mayhem
    by using the power of Deletors.
[07:40] Takuto
    I suspect Kourin is attempting
    to construct a world line
[07:44] Takuto
    in which Kouji Ibuki
    never received Neon Messiah.
[07:48] Takuto
    Back then, he was a lot like
    how Aichi Sendou is now.
[07:53] Takuto
    Perhaps those two would get along rather well.
[07:58] Emi
    Aichi and Ibuki...
[08:02] Aichi
    This is reassuring.
[08:04] Aichi
    I never imagined you would become
    a Sanctuary Knight, Ibuki.
[08:09] Ibuki
    Just so we're clear, I never agreed
    to become your lackey.
[08:14] Ibuki
    I joined because we have a common objective.
[08:17] Ibuki
    That's all.
[08:18] Aichi
    Yes, I know.
[08:21] Aichi
    I think we'll get along famously.
[08:25] Ibuki
    Oh, yeah?
[08:27] Kourin (M)
    That's right. You two are birds of a feather.
[08:30] Kourin (M)
    You both despise Vanguard and wish to erase it.
[08:34] Ibuki
    Thanks for lunch.
[08:36] Aichi
    Finished already?
[08:38] Ibuki
    I'm keeping people waiting.
[08:40] Aichi
    Kourin. Take him there.
[08:43] Kourin
    Certainly.
[08:43] Ibuki
    No need.
[08:45] Ibuki
    I can get there by myself.
[08:47] Ibuki
    It's like my backyard.
[08:51] Ibuki (M)
    The place where it all began
    for Kai, Miwa, and me...
[08:57] Kai
    Oh, you've gotta be kidding me.
[08:59] Suiko
    What are you talking about?
[09:00] Miwa
    You see, we'd made a bet about
    what kind of animal was at this park.
[09:06] Kai
    Ibuki said it was a hippo,
    while Miwa and I went with pig.
[09:11] Kai
    To think it'd be a panda...
[09:13] Suiko
    I'll ask once more:
    What are you talking about?
[09:16] Miwa
    Oh, sorry.
[09:18] Miwa
    This is where it all began for us.
[09:21] Shuka
    Where what all began?
[09:23] Miwa
    This park is where
    Ibuki taught us how to play Vanguard.
[09:29] Kai
    After that, we played here almost every day.
[09:32] Miwa
    We sure did.
    We'd play all day, till the sun set.
[09:36] Emi
    So this is an important place for you three.
[09:38] Kai
    If we wait here, I'm sure Ibuki will come.
[09:42] Suiko
    That's all well and good,
    but he has Deletor powers.
[09:45] Suiko
    Do you have a chance of beating him?
[09:47] Miwa
    We do! Or we probably do.
[09:49] Miwa
    Right?
[09:50] Shuka
    I'm not sure...
[09:52] Miwa
    If it doesn't work out, we can
    always think of something else.
[09:55] Ibuki
    Think of what?
[10:05] Ibuki
    With your lightweight brains,
    deep thoughts are too much of a load.
[10:11] Miwa
    Aren't you the confident public speaker now.
[10:14] Miwa
    Still the same Ibuki who threw up
    on the bus and cried during our field trip?
[10:19] Ibuki
    Shut up, Miwa.
[10:21] Ibuki
    I'm going to "Delete End"
    all of those memories of yours.
[10:25] Kai
    Please reconsider this, Ibuki.
[10:26] Kai
    We're old friends, remember?!
[10:28] Kai
    Why can't we laugh together like we used to?
[10:31] Suiko
    He's right. Kourin altered your past!
[10:34] Ibuki
    You stay out of this!
[10:37] Shuka
    Don't talk to her like that!
[10:39] Emi
    Haven't we been friends
    making this journey together?!
[10:43] Miwa
    His past has been overwritten.
[10:45] Miwa
    He doesn't remember
    any of his experiences with you.
[10:48] Shuka
    What should we do, Emi?
[10:50] Emi
    Something I'd rather not do,
    but we have no choice!
[10:54] Emi
    Now's the time to take initiative! Make a stand!
[10:57] Shuka
    Who cares who's the strongest?
    Just keep at it till it's over!
[11:02] The Two
    Try to win with your own power!
[11:08] Ibuki
    I warned you!
[11:15] Shuka
    Elemental Calling!
[11:22] Emi
    Realize!
[11:26] Cat Butler
    Always at your call, m'lady.
[11:29] Ibuki
    Those who interfere will get no mercy,
    not even if they're women or children.
[11:48] Ibuki
    Go!
[11:53] Emi
    Shuka!
[11:54] Shuka
    I-It's okay!
[11:56] Ibuki
    Okay how?
[11:57] Ibuki
    Bind!
[12:02] Shuka
    Cat Butler!
[12:03] Emi
    Please, Aermo!
[12:09] Ibuki
    Vanish Delete!
[12:14] Shuka
    Aermo!
[12:15] Suiko
    This is another Deletor power!
[12:18] Kai
    Shuka! Emi!
[12:19] Miwa
    Lend us your power!
[12:21] Shuka
    Roger that!
[12:28] Emi
    Superior Realize!
[12:44] Ibuki
    Don't underestimate me.
[12:58] Ibuki
    Go, Docking Deletor, Greion!
[13:05] Ibuki
    Eat this, Miwa!
[13:10] Miwa
    You're our vanguard,
    the one who taught us how to play!
[13:14] Miwa
    But that doesn't mean
    we're never gonna surpass you!
[13:28] Ibuki
    Greion!
[13:30] The Two
    Yes!
[13:31] Miwa
    Ibuki!
[13:33] Suiko
    If you win this fight,
    we may be able to get him back!
[13:38] Kourin
    How naive!
[13:44] Miwa
    Hey, you're...
[13:46] Kourin
    You cowards.
[13:48] Kourin
    Why don't you fight fair and square?
[13:51] Suiko
    Kourin!
[13:53] Kourin
    Go, my servants!
[14:01] Ibuki
    Stay out of this!
[14:03] Kourin
    What? I'm only helping you because
    it seemed they had you on the ropes.
[14:07] Suiko
    Shuka, lend me power, too!
[14:13] Suiko
    Kourin!
[14:18] Suiko
    Back off, Kourin!
[14:20] Suiko
    You have no business being here!
[14:23] Kourin
    You talk like you have the right
    to treat Ibuki however you want!
[14:28] Suiko
    What would you know?!
[14:31] Suiko
    He was wracked with guilt over the Deletors.
[14:35] Suiko
    But even while suffering all this time,
    he's still been trying to atone for his sins!
[14:41] Suiko
    If you'd trample on his feelings,
    all his efforts, then I'll--
[14:45] Kourin
    I don't care about any of that!
[14:50] Kourin
    Kouji Ibuki has just one wish.
[14:54] Ibuki
    Come to me, my avatar!
[14:57] Kourin
    To eradicate Vanguard!
[14:59] Kourin
    And that's Aichi's wish, too!
[15:04] Ibuki
    Waving Deletor, Greidhol!
[15:08] Shuka
    That's Bukki's Vanguard!
[15:11] Emi
    It looks really ominous!
[15:14] Ibuki
    Docking Release!
[15:24] Suiko
    Kai!
[15:25] Ibuki
    Every sound you make, from your heart,
    your pulse, your performance...
[15:31] Ibuki
    ...will all be erased...
[15:33] Ibuki
    ...by my Greidhol!
[15:37] Kai
    I finally figured it out.
[15:39] Ibuki
    What?
[15:40] Kai
    Why something felt off.
[15:43] Kai
    If you claim to despise Vanguard and want
    to erase it, then why do you use Vanguard?
[15:49] Kai
    No matter how much
    you talk about resentment,
[15:52] Kai
    even now, you still like Vanguard!
[15:55] Emi
    That's right!
[15:56] Shuka
    E-Emi?
[15:58] Emi
    Remember how Ibuki kept challenging people
    to fights, even when he knew they'd refuse?
[16:05] Emi
    Ibuki, you love Vanguard!
[16:08] Ibuki
    Keep quiet!
[16:10] Emi
    I won't be quiet!
[16:11] Emi
    After all, we've been making
    this journey together as friends!
[16:17] Ibuki
    Friends...
[16:19] Kourin (M)
    No! His memories are returning!
[16:21] Kourin
    Blond Ezel!
[16:23] Kourin
    Dispose of them, starting with those girls!
[16:26] Suiko
    Oh no, you don't!
[16:28] Kourin
    Suiko!
[16:29] Suiko
    Remember, Ibuki!
[16:31] Suiko
    Remember our travels!
[16:37] Kai
    Remember how the three of us
    used to play back then!
[16:41] Young Kai
    Ibuki, let's play Vanguard together!
[16:50] Ibuki
    You're annoying me!
[16:51] Ibuki
    Greidhol!
[16:52] Ibuki
    Delete End!
[16:59] Miwa
    Kai!
[17:04] Kai
    Miwa!
[17:12] Miwa
    Don't worry about me.
[17:13] Miwa
    All I wanted was to protect your smile.
[17:17] Kai
    But that's no reason to...
[17:20] Miwa
    Like Shingo and Naoki, I'm just gonna
    return to my original world line.
[17:26] Miwa
    Right?
[17:28] Miwa
    Ibuki, I have a message for you
    from the Concert Master:
[17:33] Miwa
    "There's no creation without destruction."
[17:36] Miwa
    Even your Deletor's ability serves a purpose.
[17:41] Miwa
    Y'see, Ibuki?
[17:43] Kai
    Miwa!
[17:46] Kai
    Haven't you had enough, Ibuki?!
[17:48] Kai
    There's no more reason for us to fight!
[17:53] Kourin
    But there is.
[17:55] Kourin
    We share the same goal as Aichi,
[17:59] Kourin
    to erase everything having to do with Vanguard!
[18:02] Emi
    Why can't you understand?!
[18:04] Emi
    Aichi doesn't actually want anyone to fight!
[18:10] Shuka
    What's this?
[18:12] Miwa
    A special card I borrowed from Takuto.
[18:16] Miwa
    I bet it'll come in handy somehow.
[18:18] Miwa
    You hold onto it.
[18:22] Shuka
    Emi! Use this!
[18:29] Emi
    Superior Realize!
[18:37] Kai
    Destiny has reached the crossroads!
[18:41] Kai
    Dragonic Overlord "The X"!
[18:45] Kourin
    Dragonic Overlord...
[18:47] Suiko
    ..."The X"?!
[18:55] Kai
    A ray of light reaching out
    through the despair of oblivion!
[18:59] Kai
    The bond known as courage
    that connects us in the darkness!
[19:04] Ibuki
    What?!
[19:06] Kourin
    I-It can't be!
[19:08] Kourin
    Two Overlords, side by side?!
[19:22] Kai
    With these flames,
    I reduce your past mistakes to ashes!
[19:27] Kai
    Our paths have crossed once more!
[19:34] Ibuki (M)
    It's burning away,
    the hatred and rage inside me...
[19:39] Ibuki (M)
    Are these the ultimate flames?
[19:51] Young Kai
    Ibuki, let's play Vanguard together!
[20:01] Ibuki
    People can start over again.
    And so can we, as a trio once more...
[20:18] Suiko
    Ibuki!
[20:19] Kai
    Are you all right? Try getting up.
[20:22] Ibuki
    What am I doing here?
[20:26] Suiko
    Thank goodness.
[20:27] Suiko
    Oh, thank--
[20:29] Shuka
    Bukki!
[20:30] Emi
    You really are back!
[20:32] Shuka
    Don't scare us like that!
[20:33] Ibuki
    I'm back? What are you talking about?
[20:36] Kai
    You okay?
[20:38] Suiko
    Yes.
[20:39] Suiko
    Let's head back,
[20:41] Suiko
    to our own world.
[20:46] Morikawa
    Hey, Miwa!
SIGN    Vanguard Koshien
[20:48] Miwa
    Huh? Morikawa?
[20:50] Morikawa
    How long were you gonna nap?
[20:52] Morikawa
    We've got a strategy session to begin.
[20:55] Miwa
    A strategy session? For what?
SIGN    Aim for victory! Vanguard Koshien Strategy Session
[20:58] Morikawa
    For the Vanguard Koshien, duh!
SIGN    Milk
[21:01] Miwa
    Oh right... guess I spaced on that.
[21:04] Inenaga
    But Kai's not here.
[21:06] Morikawa
    That jerk...!
[21:08] Morikawa
    He must've slipped away again!
[21:10] Morikawa
    Just where did he go?!
[21:17] Miwa
    Don't worry.
[21:20] Miwa
    Knowing him, he'll be back soon.
[22:58] Kourin
    You'll pay. You'll pay.
[23:01] Kourin
    I swear you'll pay for this.
[23:04] Kourin
    You'll suffer for all eternity
    in the space-time continuum, Suiko.
[23:13] Emi
    We're back!
[23:16] Shuka
    Now that we're safe, I'm starving!
[23:18] Kai
    I'll whip something up.
[23:20] Kai
    Ibuki, you help too.
[23:23] Ibuki
    Ask Suiko that, not me.
[23:26] Kai
    Where is Suiko?
[23:29] Emi
    She's not here?
[23:30] Ibuki
    I know she came with us!
[23:40] Shuka
    No way...
[23:45] Narrator
    The 30-second card intro segment!
[23:48] Narrator
    Today's featured card is
     Kagero's Dragonic Overlord "The X"!
SIGN    Dragonic Overlord "The X"
[23:53] Narrator
    If you put an "Overlord" unit
    from your deck into the Soul,
[23:55] Narrator
    this unit will get all of that unit's skills!
[23:58] Narrator
    If you get Dragonic Overlord the End's skills,
[24:01] Narrator
    you can combine them with "The X's" own skills
[24:03] Narrator
    that make your hand count as zero cards
    and prevent its drive from being zero or less,
[24:07] Narrator
    letting you do three mega-powerful
    Vanguard attacks in a row!
[24:10] Narrator
    With this card, you too can
    "Ride The Vanguard"!
SIGN    Ride The Vanguard!
[24:15] Suiko
    My name is Suiko.
[24:17] Suiko
    Once I was an ordinary high school student,
     attending Fukuhara High...
[24:21] Suiko
    ...enduring those boring days,
    with my head in the clouds.
[24:26] Suiko
    But the moment I got swallowed up
    by the Akashic Book on that day...
[24:30] Suiko
    ...my destiny changed forever.
[24:33] Suiko
    The same town, the same card shops,
    the same public parks...
[24:39] Suiko
    But something is different.
SIGN    if 21
     Sentinel of Fate
[24:42] Suiko
    Don't miss the next episode.