# 7 - Cancer Cell II (Part I)
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*I wonder what's wrong.*
**[00:03] ---**
*Since he had had that talk with NK,
things seem kind of tense.*
**[00:03] ---**
CELL
**[00:03] ---**
WHITE BLOOD CELL
**[00:08] ---**
- Not looking good.
- It's gone to ruin, all right.
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I-I can't breathe!
**[00:14] ---**
This is toxic gas from the harmful bacteria
that live in the intestines.
**[00:18] ---**
- "Toxic gas"?
- "Toxic gas"?
**[00:21] ---**
So, his friends are all here?
**[00:23] ---**
Yeah.
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There are up to a hundred trillion bacteria
in the intestines, they say.
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Then, we're sure to find them, right?
**[00:32] ---**
Yeah.
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That'll be a relief.
**[00:35] ---**
*He doesn't sound
the least bit relieved.*
**[00:38] ---**
Look, you two, I don't care what you do
as long as you're quiet.
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I don't want him to know
we're on the move.
**[00:45] ---**
Now, I've fought with him once in the past.
**[00:48] ---**
And I'm going to use that experience today
to head to the front lines as a Memory T Cell
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and finish off the enemy!
**[00:54] ---**
U-Um, I just have a simple question.
**[00:57] ---**
Who's this guy you keep mentioning?
**[01:02] ---**
- A Cancer Cell.
- A Cancer Cell.
**[01:04] ---**
C-Cancer Cell?
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Are you okay, Platelet?
**[01:10] ---**
Yes! I'm fine!
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Everyone! Watch out, okay?
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I can't see in front of me!
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PLATELETS
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It looks like he's meeting us
head-on this time.
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*Where is he?*
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You really came back to life just so you could
throw a tantrum, you stupid Cancer Cell?
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Die!
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Did I get him?
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So, you fell for it!
He's nothing but a puppet!
**[02:05] ---**
Look at all the effort
you had to put in against a mere doll.
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Do you know what you've gotten
yourselves into, Immune Cells?
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I'm so thrilled!
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It's the trio from before, right?
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Cancer Cell!
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It's been a long time, huh?
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This just might be
what they call fate, huh?
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For the three of you from that day
to saunter right toward me.
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Now then, which of us, me or you three,
is on the side of justice?
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Let's settle it once and for all.
**[02:48] ---**
Here he comes!
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Die! Die!
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NK!
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EPISODE 7:
CANCER CELL II
(PART I)
**[05:01] ---**
You really are a one-trick pony
when it comes to attacking!
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You saved us, NK!
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Hey! You can gloat after you've untied us!
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Now then... Boy, would you mind
telling me something?
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Why'd you come back to life
when you knew you'd only be killed?
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Don't tell me you actually thought
you could win this time!
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This is my second time battling you!
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Your tactics are a little too exposed
for you to be picking a fight with me, you know.
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It's not that I want
to pick a fight with you.
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It's just that I've found
what it is I have to do.
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And I wanted you three to bear witness.
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Surprised?
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These are all the same
as that puppet you just saw.
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They're all fragments of my tissue.
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You can stab them with your sword,
but they won't die.
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They'll keep moving forever.
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There isn't a thing that you can do.
Just resign yourselves to being my captives.
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Behind you, NK!
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Over by you, too, Neutrophil!
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Who do you think you're dealing with?
**[07:02] ---**
I'm Memory T Cell,
and I've seen every one of your attacks!
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Memory T Cell...
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I see.
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Meaning you're not quite
the same guy you were before?
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You can't escape!
**[07:16] ---**
Right now, I can foresee
your every next move!
**[07:21] ---**
Right there!
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Kindly cease your attacks.
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Those are not the appropriate responses.
**[07:32] ---**
He is not an enemy
from the outside world.
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He was born of this body.
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He's a cell just like us.
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I will not allow any attacks
on the body itself.
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R-Regulatory T Cell...
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*Regulatory T Cells.*
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*They control the activity of T Cells to prevent them
from triggering anomalous immune responses.*
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Wh-Why...
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would you...
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No good! Memory T!
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Watch your back!
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N-Neutrophil!
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*...146, where are you? Come in!*
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*1146! Where are you?*
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Just as I thought.
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*Come in, 1146! Come in—*
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I knew you'd protect him.
I was sure you would.
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Let's have a nice, long chat...
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instead of killing each other.
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Okay?
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Nyuuu! Nyuuu!
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Are those germs still behind us?
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I'm not sure!
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Just keep running!
**[09:17] ---**
Nyuuu!
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We're going to keep our handkerchiefs
pressed to our mouths and run low to the ground!
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Okay!
**[09:38] ---**
It looks like the intestine
is in even worse shape than before.
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Big Sister Red Blood Cell...
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What is it?
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You see, you see... I don't think
we can take this path.
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See? Look!
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NO ENTRY
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You can't come this way!
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The bacteria's invaded the area up ahead!
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What?
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Take another route
and run as fast as you can!
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R-Right!
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I'm so scared...
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Big Sister Red Blood Cell!
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We're going to be fine, Backward Cap.
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*The Platelets seem really anxious.*
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I have to be their rock now!
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You guys, we're going to run
at top speed, okay?
**[10:21] ---**
Okay!
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NK! Memory T!
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Cancer Cell!
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Memory T!
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Let me out of here, Cancer Cell!
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Wasn't I the one you wanted to kill?
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If you have a grudge against me,
then I'll take you on!
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That won't do, White Blood Cell.
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You shouldn't fly off the handle
when you're all banged up.
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You need to value your own life more.
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If you agree to what I'm about to say,
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I'll let you out of there right away.
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Since I'm sure it's tearing you apart
to be locked up and helpless.
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Regulatory T Cell,
open this door, will you?
**[11:36] ---**
I'll do it! I'll kill this Cancer Cell! So please!
**[11:40] ---**
Kill? I can't open that door
if you're going to kill him.
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As he's in no way an external enemy.
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*Regulatory T Cell's role.*
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*Regulatory T Cells are responsible
for reining in the activity of Immune Cells,*
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*preventing them from attacking the body's
own tissues or cells that are beneficial to the body.*
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*In this case, as the Cancer Cell
originated from this body,*
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*instead of recognizing him
as a foreign substance, a non-self cell,*
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*she is trying to suppress
the Immune Cells' attacks.*
**[12:14] ---**
It's not like she's betraying you guys.
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This is that lady's job, I hear.
**[12:20] ---**
Cancer Cell, I'm gonna kill—
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You mustn't...
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ever attack other cells.
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Isn't this amusing?
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You normal cells are all so dead serious.
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And yet, despite being dead serious...
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White Blood Cell...
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you rescued that ordinary cell
and those Lactic Acid Bacteria, didn't you?
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About that...
The only reason I didn't kill them
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was because those bacteria
weren't toxic to this body! That's all!
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Sure. I get that, all right.
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But the thing is, I've changed my mind
somewhat. It got me thinking.
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Lives that are necessary
and lives that are not...
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Why does such a distinction
have to made at all?
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When it's so tragic for us to be taking lives
or being robbed of our lives,
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why do we have to keep repeating
that cycle over and over again?
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What do you think?
Have you ever had a thought like that?
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It's for the sake of this body!
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Because it's necessary!
That's why we die and kill!
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That's what I thought you'd say.
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Okay, then let's take it a bit further.
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Which is more important?
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The lives of trillions of cells?
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Or this body's one life?
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We cells are killed, burn with hatred
for each other and are sacrificed
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all so that this body can go on living.
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Those of us who get killed, and you guys,
the ones who kill... We've all suffered so much.
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So, how about a world where we cells
don't have to kill or be killed at all?
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Even if it's a world gone mad,
approaching death...
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If it's to make that world a reality
even for a split second...
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don't you think we'd be justified
in sacrificing the life of this body?
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I won't let you!
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No way will I ever let you do such a thing!
**[14:19] ---**
Let me out of here, Cancer Cell!
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I'll kill you! You're horrendously wrong,
but I'll set you straight!
**[14:25] ---**
If this body dies, that means
that all of us cells will die with it, too!
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Sure, we'll die.
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But we'll die after we've been liberated.
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And it's my job to make that happen.
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There's nothing wrong about that at all.
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There's no way you could pull that off—
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Oh, I can pull it off.
**[14:45] ---**
Regulatory T Cell is siding with me.
Not to mention...
**[14:51] ---**
this place, as well.
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Th-Those fumes are...
**[15:12] ---**
harmful bacteria...
**[15:14] ---**
toxins!
**[15:21] ---**
When the new world is completed...
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then let's be friends, all right,
White Blood Cell, you kindhearted assassin?
**[15:30] ---**
Stop!
**[15:56] ---**
Don't do it, Cancer Cell!
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NK! Memory T! Regulatory T Cell!
Are you all right?
**[16:19] ---**
Y-Yeah!
**[16:22] ---**
So, you're more worried
about your friends than yourself?
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You know, that's what I like about you
**[16:30] ---**
along with all the contradictions you bear.
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Even though you can only live
for someone else's sake,
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you were born a cell
who can do nothing but kill others.
**[16:40] ---**
Watching you, I feel
such pity and impatience.
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And it's so entertaining.
**[16:46] ---**
How dare you!
**[16:50] ---**
I'm sick of all your yammering,
you annoying little punk!
**[17:01] ---**
Cancer Cell, I'm gonna kill—
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You mustn't...
**[17:06] ---**
ever attack other cells.
**[17:07] ---**
Do you realize you've been repeating
the same conversation over and over?
**[17:11] ---**
- What are you, a moron?
- Sh-Shut the cell up!
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As if...
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I had time...
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to think...
**[17:16] ---**
of different lines...
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every single time!
**[17:18] ---**
I totally agree.
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In the first place...
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is that the only move you've got,
pounding him head-on?
**[17:24] ---**
Can you at least try a different move
for once, you idiot?
**[17:28] ---**
Shut up! This is how I've always been, moron!
**[17:33] ---**
That's right.
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This is how you've always been.
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Tactics were never your strong suit.
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Easily swayed by your emotions,
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unable to thrive on victory,
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and unable to use defeat as a stepping-stone...
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You will never be able
to defeat me like that.
**[17:52] ---**
It's futile to even struggle.
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Just let it go and cease your attacks.
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Nyuuu!
**[18:16] ---**
W-We're surrounded! What should I do?
**[18:19] ---**
TREMBLE
TREMBLE
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Nyuuu!
**[18:22] ---**
*Lactic acid bacteria.*
**[18:23] ---**
*Good bacteria that work to support
the health of the human body.*
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*They have a variety of features.*
**[18:30] ---**
It's all right, Lactic Acid Bacterium!
**[18:32] ---**
I'll p-protect—
**[18:34] ---**
Huh! This cell just said he's going to protect
that lactic acid bacterium!
**[18:39] ---**
That's pretty funny, you know.
**[18:41] ---**
*Harmful bacteria.*
**[18:42] ---**
*Pathogenic E. coli, Staphylococci,
Clostridium and the like*
**[18:47] ---**
*cause proteins to degrade
and produce toxic by-products.*
**[18:51] ---**
Why don't we test you to see
if you can really protect it?
**[18:54] ---**
I wonder if you can withstand this.
**[18:56] ---**
The Harmful Bacteria Toxic Attack!
**[18:59] ---**
Nyuuu!
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*The toxicity of harmful bacteria.*
**[19:04] ---**
*Toxic effects of harmful bacteria include intestinal
putrefaction, production of toxins and carcinogens.*
**[19:13] ---**
*A host of deleterious effects to the human body
can ensue, such as a weakened immune system,*
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*foul-smelling stools and gas,
and diarrhea or constipation.*
**[19:26] ---**
- My legs!
- Nyuuu!
**[19:29] ---**
Show us a good time, Cell boy!
**[19:32] ---**
We came all this way to this side
of the intestinal wall
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only to find it duller than we thought,
so it's been a real gut punch for us!
**[19:41] ---**
We're going to torment you every which way,
so be sure to show us some juicy reactions!
**[19:46] ---**
Nyuuu! Nyu-nyuuu!
**[19:50] ---**
Nyuuu!
**[19:53] ---**
Nyuuu!
**[19:56] ---**
What kind of a lame attack is this?
**[19:58] ---**
Nyuuu!
**[20:01] ---**
Lactic Acid Bacterium!
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Nyuuu!
**[20:09] ---**
Huh! You miserable good bacteria runt...
**[20:11] ---**
You're a germ,
and yet you're sucking up to a cell?
**[20:15] ---**
If you dare turn on us,
I'll obliterate you first!
**[20:17] ---**
Nyuuu! Nyuuu!
**[20:19] ---**
Stay away, Lactic Acid Bacterium!
**[20:21] ---**
Just run away as far as you can!
**[20:22] ---**
Nyuuu?
**[20:23] ---**
Don't worry about me!
Just run and save yourself! Hurry!
**[20:27] ---**
Nyuuu! Nyuuu! Nyuuu!
**[20:31] ---**
You dummy! Go now!
**[20:32] ---**
Hey, he's...
**[20:34] ---**
Get out of here now! I said go!
**[20:41] ---**
Nyuuu...
**[20:44] ---**
Get out of my sight!
**[20:50] ---**
Nyuuu!
**[20:52] ---**
Nyuuu!
**[20:56] ---**
Huh! Now that was one lame farce
you made us watch.
**[21:00] ---**
Sorry that you were the only one
who got such a sad goodbye.
**[21:08] ---**
But it's all right. As long as you can
go on living, that's enough.
**[21:16] ---**
Grow up to be a strong, fine
lactic acid bacterium, okay?
**[21:19] ---**
Now then, are you ready?
**[21:23] ---**
Time for us to have some fun!
**[21:49] ---**
Nyuuu!
**[23:24] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
PREVIEW
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I-It seems like you've really got your
hands full, White Blood Cell!
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Our battle has hardly even begun yet!
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CLENCH
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Next episode of "Cells at Work!!"...
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EPISODE 8:
CANCER CELL II (PART II)
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"Cancer Cell II (Part II)"!
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Who was that just now?
**[23:37] ---**
Target sighted!