3 - Dengue Fever/Acne
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EPIDERMIS
300 μm
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Hello!
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I've come to deliver
your oxygen and nutrients!
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Boy, have I been waiting for these!
I'm starving!
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CELL
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Thank you for your patience!
Here you go!
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FRAGILE
CONDENSED GAS
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Thanks!
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My pleasure!
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It's so nice out today.
Maybe I'll have it right here on the porch.
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METAL DETECTED
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That's not good!
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Harmful materials detected
near the epidermis!
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HISTAMINE
HANDLING
MANUAL
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Let's see.
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For this amount, I should turn
the dial to... about this much, right?
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Time to dig in!
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FULL COURSE
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Harmful materials detected nearby.
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Now releasing histamines.
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Huh? No way! Just like that?
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Confirming histamine response.
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Now dilating blood vessels.
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Everything just got short-circuited!
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The itch nerves got short-circuited! Itchy!
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What's going on?
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WHITE BLOOD CELL
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Where's the antigen?
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Wh-White Blood Cell!
I-It's all right!
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Achoo!
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EPISODE 3:
DENGUE FEVER
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I take a little break,
and look what happens.
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Not exactly a breeze,
reacting to each and every harmful material.
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Well, but it is my job, I guess.
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Mast Cell! Where's the antigen?
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Huh? What are you talking about?
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There doesn't seem to be one,
White Blood Cell.
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Hey, stop dumping histamine
so recklessly!
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It's such a huge pain in the butt
for us every time!
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H-Huh?
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We were invaded by a harmful material,
so I responded! I did what I had to do!
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What do you mean, "harmful material"?
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You know you were just overreacting
to something trivial again!
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Hey, hold up! Histamines
do play a crucial role, and...
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Calm down, you guys!
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But...
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that's because it's my job.
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Your job, your job! When have you ever done
anything but make trouble for others?
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All you do is create extra work for us,
you hysterical cell!
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Who are you calling a...
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"hysterical cell"?
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Mast Cell! Please calm down!
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Okay, fine! So, I'm a troublemaker
who only creates extra work for you!
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All right, I'm not going to do jack now!
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Get out of here!
All of you, get out of my sight!
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That was one mind-blowing fight.
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Sure, it can be hard to get along,
since we each have our own roles, but...
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S-Sorry! I had something on my mind
and wasn't looking where I was going.
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No, I'm the one who should apologize.
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Langerhans Cell.
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A type of Dendritic Cell
found in the epidermis.
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They mainly present bacteria, viruses
and other foreign substances to the immune system,
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alerting the brain to any invasions.
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They also have a second self-protection function,
shielding the skin from ultraviolet and dryness.
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But you must be careful,
my dear Red Blood Cell.
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We're close to the epidermis. There's no telling
when outside enemies might attack.
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R-Right, sir!
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That's right!
I have to focus on my own work!
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Wh-What's that?
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This sound...
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What's that? A saw?
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Mosquito.
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A parasitic insect that sucks blood from humans,
sometimes serving as a medium for malaria protozoa.
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Whoa! There's something in the air!
Stay away from here, everyone! It's dangerous!
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H-Huh?
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I'm getting sleepy.
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Wha... Wha...
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Whaaaaat?
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All the blood cells are being taken!
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I-I'm about to be taken, too—
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Hang in there, please!
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Here, take my hand!
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Ouch! Ugh...
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They're gone.
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Wh-What just happened?
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I wonder what this could be.
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A mask?
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I don't know where it came from,
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but this mask seems to have
a mysterious allure.
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A-Are you okay?
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De-Dengue!
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Whoa! The wind!
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De-Dengue!
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What's going on?
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The Langerhans Cells
are acting crazy all of a sudden!
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Don't tell me these guys
are virus-infected cells!
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2k REALTY
ROOMS AVAILABLE
WHY NOT START A NEW LIFE?
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Somebody help us!
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What's up with this extreme reaction?
I have to release histamines!
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Stop dumping histamine so recklessly!
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You hysterical cell!
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I-It doesn't matter.
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I just have to do my job.
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It would just be...
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extra work, right?
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That's right.
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Even if I don't release histamines now,
someone will eventually show up.
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Are those the cells from before?
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In my eyes,
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you appear to be a marionette, forced to dance
by the very strings of words that shackle you.
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In this world where all things intertwine, transform
and vanish, the blazing flames, chaos itself...
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Wh-Why is this showing up onscreen?
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Of which this catastrophe, too,
is but a fragment...
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In this uncertain world, there exists
but one thing that each life can control.
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And that is the ego as well as the self.
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Basophil, who are you speaking to?
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We, who are but fragile life forms,
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must affirm our reason for being
through independent actions,
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and make our lives complete
by fulfilling our missions.
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"Follow the path you believe in."
Is that what you're saying?
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We must never forget that our reason for being
is to prove our existence—
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Wh-What's this?
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De-Dengue!
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Dammit! What's taking
the Immune Cells so long?
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I'm sure they'll be here soon,
so please stay calm!
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But if they don't get here...
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- De-Dengue!
- ...we'll be toast!
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- De-Dengue! De-Dengue!
- I don't care who it is!
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Just save us!
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De-Dengue!
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Is this histamine?
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Was that you again, Mast Cell?
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Just shut up, sit back and watch.
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Watch me work!
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Confirming histamine response.
Now dilating blood vessels.
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Immune Cells, please head
to the site immediately.
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Where are they?
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Just you wait! Here we come!
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We're going to wipe them out
and then have a tea party!
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Come on out and show your faces!
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I'll kill you!
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Target sighted!
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All of you, die!
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You damn infected cells!
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W-We're saved.
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De-Dengue!
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Bye-bye, germ!
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Thank you very much!
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The crisis was averted
in the nick of time.
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Thanks to the Immune Cells
who arrived on the scene...
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the virus was wiped out without proliferating.
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The enemy was revealed
to be the dengue virus.
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This incident was triggered
by the invasion of the dengue virus
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when the mosquito sucked blood
from the body.
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They say it was a mosquito. Scary, huh?
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We have to do some construction!
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So, this crisis was caused
by a mosquito bite, huh?
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Yeah. The cells we lost
won't be coming back.
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But we did manage
to minimize the damage.
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Thanks to Mast Cell, that is.
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It was because you released the histamines
that we were able to rush to the scene.
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Mast Cell...
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Wh-What do you want?
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Hey, I'm sorry.
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I didn't know that histamines
summoned the Immune Cells.
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Looks like it was you
who came to our rescue today.
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Hey you! Is it true
that you got tangled up in another incident?
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Yes! I'm sorry!
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Thanks, Mast Cell!
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Sorry I called you hysterical, okay?
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W-Well, I should've released
the histamines sooner.
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Then, you wouldn't have had to feel scared. So, I'm...
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Didn't I tell you to be careful?
I'm taking your hat from you!
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But that's so unfair!
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...sor—
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Wait, I've been telling you from the start,
I've done nothing wrong!
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Why should I have to apologize, too?
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That's so messed up!
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Jeez, I was this close to apologizing!
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We told you!
The histamines make us so itchy!
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PLATELETS
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What do I care?
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An irrational life causes a gust of wind to blow,
and all things transform.
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Did the wind break your umbrella?
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- Yes.
- Why, you...
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public hazard cell!
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ACNE
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This inflammatory response...
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Hair root.
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The part of a hair embedded under the skin.
The tissue where hair is developed.
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Hey, stop slacking off!
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Come on, make that sebum!
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Anyone I find slacking
will get one hundred lashes!
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I-I can't go on...
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Elder! Elder!
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Aha! I spy a big-time slacker!
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One hundred lashes—
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L-Little boy, stop...
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Hair Matrix Cell.
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Divides to produce hair.
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Don't you dare abuse the Elder!
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All right, then are you ready to take
that old geezer's beating for him?
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Would that be a bit too cruel maybe?
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Oh, but on second thought...
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a hundred lashes it is!
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Die!
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You damn germ bastard!
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I'm White Blood Cell.
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I'm with the Neutrophil Division.
Who are you?
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We are the cells who work in this pore.
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What in the world happened here?
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In the past, we all carried out
our own respective tasks,
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like producing sebum or coloring.
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But one day, the acne germs showed up
and began tyrannizing us!
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This is no longer a mere pore!
It's a pimple!
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Pimple.
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An inflammatory disease of the skin.
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Inflammation begins
when the pores become clogged with sebum.
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The parts of the body that produce
excess sebum are susceptible to acne.
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An outbreak is often accompanied
by pus and some pain.
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What's this?
What's all this commotion?
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It's the acne germs!
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Acne germ.
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Normal bacteria flora that can cause acne.
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Official name is "Propionibacterium acnes."
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Dislikes oxygen and loves sebum.
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Huh? Y-You damn White Blood Cell! How dare you!
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Acne germs? Just look at that horde!
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Big Brother White Blood Cell!
I'm going to help you fight!
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L-Little boy! Stop it!
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Big Brother!
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- White Blood Cell!
- Little boy!
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There are no saviors here!
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Now get back to your posts and work!
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Where are we?
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You came to?
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Sorry about that! It's all my fault.
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No. You've done nothing wrong.
Anyway, who were those guys back there?
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It all started with such a minor problem.
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The pipe we use to send sebum
to the epidermis got clogged with dirt...
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and the whole pore got flooded with sebum.
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That's when the sebum-loving acne germs
set their sights on us.
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And they just kept getting
stronger and stronger!
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The next thing we knew,
we'd been taken over...
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and they'd made us their slaves!
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Why did you wait around
for them to multiply like that?
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Didn't my friends come to save you?
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Sure they did. But... But they just...
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They gave up!
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All of them!
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Look at that.
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Wh-What is that? Pus?
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My friends' corpses?
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They were all brave warriors just like you.
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But...
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Just look at them now!
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This hair root is our homeland
as well as our precious workplace.
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But in the overall scheme of things,
it's merely a single pore.
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All we have to do
is submit to being wiped out.
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Little boy, try to understand.
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I see.
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If only I had courage
just like you White Blood Cells!
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This is No. 1146.
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I've spotted a den of acne germs
in that hair root.
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Requesting those nearby
to come to my aid.
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Gotcha! We'll be a little late!
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Huh? B-B-But...
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No matter how small its impact...
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so long as a germ runs rampant
in this body, I can't let it go.
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That's my...
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That's our job.
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Big Brother...
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All right! A hundred lashes!
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Die!
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Ah, you're that White Blood Cell
who should've died then. You're still alive?
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How amusing!
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I, the King of the Acne Germs, shall add you
to my collection of White Blood Cell corpses!
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You can take your place in that pus now!
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I'll kill you first!
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Be careful!
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Try not to fall!
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You can do it, Big Brother!
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Die!
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I'm going to smash you to pieces!
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Hey, look! He has a shot at winning!
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Something's off.
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I'm sure you were too obese and slow
to defeat all those White Blood Cells.
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What kind of low methods did you stoop to,
Acne Germ King or whatever?
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You have no clue yet
how terrifying I can be!
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I'm going to give you a taste
of some interminable suffering!
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Just as I did your friends!
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What?
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Muah!
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MUAH
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How do you like that?
Talk about a geographical edge!
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Here, we have an endless supply
of our favorite food, sebum!
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That's why we're able to heal over and over!
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Th-This is bad!
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It was futile from the start.
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It was simply that man's fate to become pus.
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Let us resign ourselves.
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After all, what is this but a single hair?
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No matter how small its impact...
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so long as a germ runs rampant
in this body...
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I can't let it go.
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Elder...
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Elder, you...
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dummy!
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POW
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L-Little boy! How dare you
do such a thing to the Elder!
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Big Brother told me...
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that no matter how small its impact,
he'd still fight it!
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Because that was his job!
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It may be a single hair...
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but it's still our precious homeland!
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Big Brother and all the White Blood Cells
who died were fighting for a single hair!
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So, how can we give up on it ourselves?
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L-Little boy...
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Elder, I'm sorry, but...
[20:05] ---
Elder...
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Elder, we feel the same way.
[20:10] ---
Now is the time...
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for us to make a stand!
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Y-You people...
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Not bad! Who knew you'd hang on this long?
But it's all over now!
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Die!
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A resounding victory for me!
[20:32] ---
Now, let's get you
into my collection of corpses!
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Heave-ho! Heave-ho!
[20:37] ---
What's that I hear?
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Open it up all the way!
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Turn it! Full throttle, now!
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- This is our workplace!
- And we're going to protect it ourselves!
[20:59] ---
W-Water? No, this is...
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sebum?
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Full blast! Keep turning
until it's open full blast!
[21:06] ---
If it's sebum you want,
we'll give you sebum!
[21:09] ---
Big Brother...
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My belly's so heavy!
This is bad! I'm drowning!
[21:16] ---
I have to get away from here for now.
[21:20] ---
You feasted too much on sebum, slowpoke!
[21:31] ---
Die, you miserable germ!
[21:42] ---
Sir White Blood Cell,
please forgive us.
[21:45] ---
Big Brother!
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We don't know where
that White Blood Cell went after that.
[21:57] ---
Is that right?
[21:59] ---
Who knows what became of him?
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We're going to search over there!
[22:20] ---
Did I fall into the sebum pipe?
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I'm shiny all over!
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Big Brother!
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Big Brother!
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Thank you. This single hair
that you protected...
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We'll always cherish it
and take good care of it.
[22:45] ---
Until the day it falls out.
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I'm telling you, man,
you have to be kinder to yourself.
[22:53] ---
People who can't be kind to themselves
can't be kind to others.
[22:57] ---
Yeah, I'll keep that in mind.
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Hey, thanks.
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Hey!
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White... Blood... Cell?
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Did you, uh, switch jobs?
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No, I just... you know...
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Big Brother, this is for you.
[23:21] ---
It's a token of my gratitude!
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A new employee?
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You'll have to look forward
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H. PYLORI/ANTIGENIC SHIFT
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"H. Pylori/Antigenic Shift."
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