# 7 - Ups and Downs in Life
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I thought I told you not to come in here!
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Do you want that to happen to you?!
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He's my child.
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I will raise him by my own hand.
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It's only natural that my parents feared
the unfortunate curse I had from birth
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of breaking the tools I used.
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All the books I enjoyed
crumbled as I read them.
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And I hardly ever touched anyone.
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I wonder what would have happened
if I'd handled someone like a tool.
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Once counted among the richest in D'natia,
my family was headed to ruin before I knew it.
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Shark.
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I won't touch you, I promise.
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When I lost my close friend,
that's when I finally understood...
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Tools can be broken, and lives lost,
even if I don't come in contact with them.
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That was what I took as truth in this world.
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I heard rumors of the Clazzvali Family's fall.
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His suffering should end on this island.
**[02:55] ---**
Are you referring to his
contract with Black Dragon?
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So long as his bad habit doesn't surface...
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Bad habit?
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The name of this island is Nil Kamui.
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The land where the great
and ancient country Kouran
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and our homeland, D'natia,
are in conflict for supremacy.
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Empire Era 285, September...
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The great ancient country, Kouran...
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...our country, D'natia...
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...and the revolutionary army
representing Nil Kamui
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came together to form
the Red Dragon expedition,
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whose ranks I joined.
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All so that I can part ways with my absurd fate.
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Ogani Volcano
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It's me! You remember me, don't you?!
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Hien...
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The Child of Contract...
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Get a hold of yourself!
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You're a mighty warrior of the Hyakki Force!
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He's a Returned One now...
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I will sacrifice anything in the
name of the one to become king.
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Wait for me...
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Let's hit it four times, shall we?
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P? Shn!
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What nectar, Lou!
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Never before have I savored
such a soul as that.
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That is quite pleasing to hear.
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Izun...
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Izun, can you hear me?!
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I'm one of the Imperials, Ibuki!
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Ibuki!
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Are you really Izun...?
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There...!
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How's that?
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What are you trying to do here?
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Ibuki...
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Uh, Sir Ibuki, was it?
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I'm trying to buy him time so that
he can try to talk sense into him.
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Once a person becomes a Returned One,
they will never regain their sanity.
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So it is with Izun.
**[07:53] ---**
Um, what are you planning to do?
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I will offer my life to
bring down the Stone Giant.
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I don't think he'll comply with your wish...
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I don't need to borrow
my lord's power for this!
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Fng ZhÎn!
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So that's the power of a Black Dragon Knight...
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Ibuki!
**[09:02] ---**
Those kids still have room to grow.
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They need to be protected by someone
until their time to break arrives.
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Dragon | The dragons are the
primordial beings of this world.
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What is this...?
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My lord?
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Lady Meryl...?
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It was back when he was ten years old...
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He insisted on a Mixed One as a slave.
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Supposedly, Bounded Ones
and Mixed Ones didn't age...
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...so they wouldn't break.
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Or at least that's what he thought.
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That Mixed One wasn't brought in as a slave,
but was instead adopted by a steward.
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Years later, she was involved in a kidnapping,
which left her on the verge of death...
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I see.
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So, that peculiar phenomenon
of yours drew me here.
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Do you wish to save her?
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Yes!
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If so, then I will shift her wounds onto you.
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All things go to ruin without exception.
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He knows that very well, and yet...
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Such a bad habit...
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Val!
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Izun!
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I'll absorb all that it has!
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It's still full of life!
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I'm truly sorry!
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I will protect you, my lord!
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Lou!
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Izun...
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I'll kill you...
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I'll follow you shortly after.
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If she keeps that up, Eykha will kill Izun...
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Killing a friend...
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No one else...
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...needs to go through that!
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Ibuki!
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Hien!
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He turned into a Returned One?!
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Hien...
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You too...?
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Please kill me...
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I'm sorry...
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I'll offer you as a sacrifice to Red Dragon!
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Hurry...
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Red Dragon's power...
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Hien...!
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His sanity...
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No, he wasn't a Returned One
in the first place?!
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No...!
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Then, those eyes were...?!
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If I wasn't a Returned One...
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...you would not have used my life, Lord Ibuki...
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You are a kind person, after all...
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What of Red Dragon...?
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Hurry, the Stone Giant must be...
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Red Dragon, the offering has been made.
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Lend me your flames!
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Finally, you will use... my life to...
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Red Dragon! Your power!
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Lend me your power!
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Hien!
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I offered Hien's life...!
I offered it to you just now!
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Answer me!
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Please answer me!
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Ibuki, we need to get out of here!
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Why...?
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The Dragon Eye isn't shining...
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That means...
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...Hien's life isn't considered
to be an equivalent exchange.
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I suppose that's the line of reasoning.
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But...
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I was told to offer those precious to me...
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S-Sweallow...?
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Don't worry... I've got something I need to do.
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I knew Hien wasn't a Returned One...
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None of the other
Returned Ones were moving at all.
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But there was no way I could tell them
about the Black Dragon's Scale...
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Because of that, Hien...
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All of this is my sin to bear...
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Months ago
D'natia | Clazzvali Family manor
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Please don't touch.
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At least let me get some tea.
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No.
**[16:30] ---**
This mansion and all its belongings are
under seizure by the Sherbet Company.
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I really appreciate it, my dear creditor.
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You're about the only one to support
the bankrupt Clazzvali Family.
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By the way, it's about time, Sir Sweallow.
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Do I really have to go?
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Oh, all right, I'll go...
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Hours later...
D'natia | Shrine of the Black Dragon
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I see.
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I suppose it can be called
a curse of destruction.
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It's exactly how you saw it, Black Dragon.
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Do you wish to remove that curse?
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If possible.
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As you can tell, it's just absurd living with this.
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You are aware that one of the Seven Dragons,
Red Dragon, resides in Nil Kamui, yes?
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That one, Red Dragon, has gone mad.
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I want you to join the combined
expedition among the three countries...
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...and exterminate Red Dragon
with your very own hands.
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Is that the condition placed
on the removal of my curse?
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The scar placed upon you shall
again seal your contract with me.
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This scar saved Meryl...
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I have nothing else to say.
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I appoint you, Sweallow Clazzvali,
to the Black Dragon Knights.
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Contract seal, release!
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I bring the tyranny of Black Dragon!
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This power is supposed to be saved
for finishing off Red Dragon...
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But this is my sin too...
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Black Blade...
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My contract and your curse are connected.
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When differing powers of humans
and dragons come together as one...
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Izun...!
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I know of the Black Blade which
the Black Dragon Knights use,
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but that is not quite the same...
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I can't believe how graciously
he uses his swords to ruin...
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I wonder how he would use me.
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My lord...
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My greatest joy is to offer all of the living
blood flowing within me to you, my lord...
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Ibuki, are you okay?
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I... couldn't kill Izun.
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Ibuki?
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I...
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Hien...
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It seems as if this is the clue that
my friend Red Dragon has left behind.
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I suppose it's only fair that the
rights to it belong to Sweallow.
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I recall an ancient legend saying
that only dragons can kill dragons.
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Hello...
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Excuse me, but it seems something
odd is happening in Haiga.
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Haiga, you say?
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Ah, um... Hello, Shaddy?
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Ah, Lord Ka Grava!
D'natia's bishop is in the city, and...!
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Why don't you send an image to me?
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Ah, yes!
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Behold, citizens of Nil Kamui!
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The one you see here is the
true Imperial of Nil Kamui!
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The one to become queen!
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Lady Inori!
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Inori?!
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Do you know her?
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She's...
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...my younger sister.
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Act 7
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Act 7
Ups and Downs in Life
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Act 8
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Act 8: "Perfect Serenity."
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Inori's return releases Ibuki from his fate.
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Who is it that doesn't want that to happen?
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