# 9 - Duel
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR497ZW36/chaoschild)
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***SIGN*** This story is a work of fiction, with no relationship to real persons or groups.
**[00:05] T**
Gen-san!
**[00:08] Gu**
What's wrong?
**[00:16] Gu**
Is this the place?
**[00:18] T**
Yeah.
**[00:19] T**
I want you to help me out a little,
but just for getting inside.
**[00:22] T**
I can take it from there myself.
**[00:25] Gu**
Sure.
**[00:28] Gu**
Get it done quick.
**[00:51] Gu**
Did I drink a little much?
**[00:53] T**
Thanks.
**[00:55] T**
You can go.
**[00:57] Gu**
Yeah.
**[00:59] Gu**
Bye! Take care!
**[01:17] T**
Wh-What are they doing here?
**[03:12] O**
Non-chan?
**[03:16] S**
Non-chan, huh?
**[03:21] S**
During the first murder...
**[03:22] S**
You were there, weren't you?
**[03:25] S**
There was a sound I knew well in the video.
**[03:29] S**
Answer me.
**[03:31] S**
Our family lost Yui.
**[03:34] S**
She died.
**[03:36] S**
She's gone forever.
**[03:39] S**
Why did you take her from us?
**[03:46] S**
On that day, eight years ago,
**[03:49] S**
were you there in that hospital basement?
**[03:52] S**
Were you really there with Takuru?
**[03:56] S**
You can't answer me, can you?
**[03:58] S**
Because you weren't!
**[04:02] S**
I know that better than anyone.
**[04:05] S**
Tell me.
**[04:07] S**
Who are you?
**[04:13] S**
I knew it.
**[04:16] S**
So I was right...
**[04:18] S**
Serika...
**[04:23] S**
*There's no doubt about it.*
**[04:25] S**
*She can see this.*
**[04:26] S**
*And that's not all.*
**[04:29] S**
* It's like she sees all there is*
* to know about me.*
**[04:38] S**
It's you, isn't it?
**[04:40] S**
You were using Senri Minamisawa!
**[04:45] O**
I don't want to hear that
from you, Nono Kurusu.
**[04:56] T**
It can't be.
**[05:08] O**
I always found you obnoxious,
**[05:12] O**
but even your Di-Sword's annoying.
**[05:15] S**
Looks like you've got a rather
problematic Di-Sword yourself.
**[05:20] S**
Can't you tell?
**[05:23] S**
It's sending your thoughts to me
through my Di-Sword.
**[05:28] O**
What?
**[05:30] O**
No way...
**[05:32] O**
This Di-Sword even reads my own thoughts
**[05:38] O**
and transmits them?
**[05:40] S**
And so now I know about you,
**[05:42] S**
though maybe not all there is to know.
**[05:45] S**
Now we're even.
**[05:49] S**
What will you do?
**[05:51] S**
You want to kill me, right?
**[05:53] S**
Then do it.
**[05:55] S**
That's what Takuru wants, right?
**[05:57] S**
Then I'll gladly let you kill me.
**[06:01] S**
You can read Takuru's mind, right?
**[06:05] S**
If Takuru really wants you
to kill me, then do it!
**[06:12] S**
What's wrong?
**[06:13] S**
Won't you do it?
**[06:16] S**
Serika...
**[06:18] S**
What you're thinking contradicts itself.
**[06:21] O**
Contradicts itself?
**[06:22] S**
This is what you're thinking.
**[06:25] S**
You exist to give Takuru a goal
and help him with it.
**[06:31] S**
But do you really think
this is what Takuru wants?
**[06:35] S**
His best friend, Itou-kun,
just killed his little sister, Yui.
**[06:41] S**
Do you really think that's what Takuru wants?
**[06:46] O**
I needed to make the game more exciting.
**[06:50] S**
Then kill me, too!
**[06:53] O**
You little...
**[07:24] O**
What's wrong?
**[07:26] T**
O-Onoe?
**[07:30] T**
Aren't you going to attack?
**[07:32] O**
*No... No...*
**[07:35] O**
*Why would Onoe do this?*
**[07:38] O**
*It can't be!*
**[07:51] S**
T-T-Takuru...
**[07:55] O**
Nono!
**[07:57] O**
Nono!
**[07:59] O**
Nono!
**[08:05] Gu**
* Takuru Miyashiro-kun remains*
* a person of interest in the case,*
***SIGN*** Freesia Offices
**[08:07] Gu**
*and no new information about him is available.*
**[08:11] Gu**
* As for why they chose to*
* reveal the name of a minor*
**[08:14] Gu**
*when issuing the warrant,*
**[08:16] Gu**
* police pointed to the importance*
* of this case in their announcement.*
**[08:20] H**
Um, are you okay?
**[08:21] Gu**
* The Ministry of Law's Human Rights*
* Protection Bureau, the Lawyer's Association,*
**[08:25] Gu**
* and all major human rights groups*
* have given statements*
**[08:25] H**
Sorry. Of course you aren't.
**[08:28] H**
I'll go make some coffee.
**[08:29] Gu**
* essentially stating no disagreement*
* with this decision.*
***SIGN*** Person of Interest's Name Revealed
**[08:33] Gu**
*Public opinion is on the side—*
**[08:38] Gi**
It's just like what happened
six years ago, isn't it?
**[08:41] K**
With Takumi Nishijou?
**[08:44] Gi**
Yes.
**[08:45] Gi**
He was said to be the killer behind
the New Generation Madness,
**[08:49] Gi**
but he proved his innocence
and became famous overnight.
**[08:56] Gi**
Good morning.
**[08:58] Gi**
Shinjou-chan contacted us.
**[09:01] Gi**
The reports say you're a "person of interest,"
**[09:04] Gi**
but it seems the police have decided
you were the mastermind behind these events.
**[09:09] T**
I see.
**[09:11] Gi**
And she...
**[09:14] T**
Nono?
**[09:15] T**
What happened to Nono?!
**[09:16] Gi**
Um, well...
**[09:18] S**
She's still alive.
**[09:20] S**
You could say she's through the worst.
**[09:25] S**
Isn't that great, Miyashiro-kun?
**[09:29] T**
Yes, thank you.
***SIGN*** Aoba Clinic
***SIGN*** Hinae Arimura
**[09:38] H**
*So Kurusu-senpai is okay.*
**[09:44] U**
But we can't see Nono-san yet, can we?
**[09:48] H**
*Yeah... I think not.*
**[09:50] Y**
Wh-What about Big Bro Takuru?
**[09:52] H**
*Oh, right.*
**[09:53] H**
*Hold on a second.*
**[09:55] H**
Here.
**[09:58] T**
Yuuto, Uki...
**[10:00] T**
Are you okay?
**[10:01] T**
Has anything changed?
**[10:04] Y**
*No, I'm okay.*
**[10:06] U**
*I'm fine.*
**[10:08] U**
*But...*
**[10:10] U**
The media people... There's so many of them.
**[10:13] U**
And the police are here, too.
**[10:15] U**
It looks like they're searching your room
and Nono-san's room for something.
**[10:20] U**
And Dr. Sakuma disappeared
and hasn't come back.
**[10:25] U**
*What do I do?*
**[10:28] U**
*I don't know!*
**[10:31] T**
I'm really sorry...
**[10:34] H**
Senpai, we need to hang up soon,
or the cops will notice.
***SIGN*** Hinae Arimura
**[10:40] T**
*Hang in there just a little longer, you two.*
**[10:44] Both**
Okay.
**[10:45] T**
*Thank you too, Kazuki.*
**[10:50] H**
Okay, Hana.
**[10:52] H**
Take care of them, please.
**[10:56] S**
Where are you going?
**[10:58] H**
Wait, Senpai!
**[11:00] H**
It's a bad idea to go outside now!
**[11:02] H**
There's photos of your face all over the net!
**[11:06] K**
Damn it!
**[11:07] Gi**
But nobody knows you're here yet.
**[11:11] Gi**
Not the police or the rest of the world.
**[11:13] S**
Miyashiro-kun,
**[11:15] S**
there's some things I want to ask.
**[11:17] S**
Can you help me?
**[11:21] T**
Yes.
**[11:30] S**
Well?
**[11:31] S**
Any idea?
**[11:36] Gi**
He's asking if you have any idea
where Serika Onoe could have gone.
**[11:43] Gi**
While you spent a day sleeping,
**[11:46] Gi**
Shinjou-chan and I went to her house.
**[11:50] Gi**
But nobody was there.
**[11:53] S**
We copied the data on her computer.
**[11:57] S**
But we didn't find any clues.
**[11:59] Gi**
At this point, you're all we have.
**[12:02] Gi**
If you were Serika Onoe's childhood friend,
**[12:05] Gi**
you must know something.
**[12:10] Gi**
Knock it off!
**[12:11] Gi**
Are you going to let this chance go to waste?
**[12:14] Gi**
The Gigalomaniac serial killer
we've been looking for
**[12:17] Gi**
finally showed herself!
**[12:19] Gi**
If we trace her back,
it might lead us to them...
**[12:23] H**
Enough.
**[12:25] H**
First his sister, and now Kurusu-senpai...
**[12:29] H**
His big sister just got hurt!
**[12:32] H**
Can't you be a little nicer?
**[12:37] Gi**
I have a very limited number of
people I can be nice to.
**[12:41] Gi**
And you Gigalomaniacs aren't on that list.
**[12:45] H**
You're terrible!
**[12:47] Gi**
There's no point in lying to you.
**[12:50] Gi**
I just want to find the killer
**[12:52] Gi**
and use them to reveal
who's pulling the strings.
**[12:55] H**
But that doesn't mean...
**[12:56] S**
Anyway...
**[12:59] S**
You really have no idea
where she could've gone?
**[13:04] T**
Yes.
**[13:15] O**
Damn it!
**[13:23] O**
Just trying to struggle against
his power did this to me?
**[13:30] [SONG] ---**
Unknown Number
***SIGN*** Freesia Offices
**[13:41] Gi**
I'm going shopping.
**[13:43] Gi**
Does anyone need anything?
**[13:45] Gi**
My treat.
**[13:47] H**
I'll take some harusame noodles
and an eclair, then.
**[13:57] Gi**
You, Miyashiro-kun?
**[13:59] T**
I'm fine.
**[14:01] Gi**
I see.
**[14:02] Gi**
And you, Mio-chan?
**[14:06] Gi**
I guess not.
**[14:09] S**
Bye!
**[14:14] T**
I eat the chocolate flavor a lot, too.
**[14:20] T**
Can I really?
**[14:22] S**
Don't worry about it.
**[14:23] S**
Honestly, I'm sick of this flavor.
**[14:27] T**
Yeah...
**[14:27] H**
What is this?
**[14:29] H**
Male bonding? Is that it?
**[14:32] H**
You should've just asked Momose-san.
**[14:35] Gi**
This is...
**[14:36] Gi**
Miyashiro?
**[14:37] Gi**
Arimura?
**[14:39] Gi**
The white light seen during
the Shibuya Earthquake...
**[14:43] Gi**
Didn't you say you saw it, too?
**[14:46] Gi**
I'm certain that has something to do
with the creation of you Gigalomaniacs.
**[14:52] Gi**
There was once a planetarium
near the epicenter of the quake.
**[14:57] Gi**
That planetarium was bought out
by a certain company.
**[15:01] S**
My investigations revealed that strange men
came to be seen there after that.
**[15:07] Gi**
And there's multiple witness reports of
what sound like real boot phenomena.
**[15:13] Gi**
I've also learned that company is intimately
related to AH Tokyo General Hospital.
**[15:21] H**
Um... So, what exactly are you saying?
**[15:25] Gi**
This is just a theory,
**[15:28] Gi**
but the planetarium was just
like that underground facility.
**[15:31] Gi**
It was used for an experiment or something
similar involving Gigalomaniacs.
**[15:35] Gi**
But the earthquake destroyed it.
**[15:39] Gi**
Or perhaps it was vice versa,
**[15:41] Gi**
and the earthquake was caused by
an experiment gone awry.
**[15:45] Gi**
Anyway, they were experimenting to find
some kind of causal factor for Gigalomaniacs,
**[15:51] Gi**
which ended up spreading around the area.
**[15:54] Gi**
I think that's what that white light was.
**[15:58] H**
Causal factor?
**[15:59] S**
Something that drew the Gigalomaniac
powers out from your brains.
**[16:06] H**
Oh, like an allergen?
**[16:09] Gi**
Not even close.
**[16:11] Gi**
Shut up, idiot.
**[16:16] Gi**
We can assume that everyone
who was bathed in that light
**[16:19] Gi**
was exposed to the causal factor,
**[16:22] Gi**
but not all of them awakened.
**[16:25] Gi**
According to our research so far,
**[16:27] Gi**
young people whose brains were
still in development and active,
**[16:32] Gi**
and only those whose brains
were under extreme stress,
**[16:38] Gi**
developed those abilities.
**[16:41] Gi**
The powers a psychic develops
depend on those conditions,
**[16:45] Gi**
or more accurately,
**[16:46] Gi**
on the psychological response
those conditions induced.
**[16:51] S**
Does that ring any bells, Miyashiro-kun?
**[16:53] T**
Yes.
**[16:55] T**
When I woke up from the coma
I'd fallen into during the earthquake,
**[16:59] T**
I found in rehab that
my body wouldn't move like it should.
**[17:04] T**
That put me under a lot of stress.
**[17:07] T**
The psychological stress of wondering
**[17:09] T**
if I was always going to be
like this was terrifying.
**[17:12] T**
I think that's how I got my psychokinesis.
**[17:21] T**
Takuru Miyashiro's ability is psychokinesis.
**[17:24] T**
The cause was very difficult
physical therapy.
**[17:28] T**
That's what I'd assumed,
wrongly, after investigating you.
**[17:32] T**
Wrongly?
**[17:35] Gi**
I jumped to conclusions.
**[17:37] Gi**
If not for that,
I could've reached Serika Onoe sooner.
**[17:42] T**
Wh-What do you mean?
**[17:45] Gi**
Just what I said.
**[17:47] Gi**
All psychics were affected by the Gigalomaniac
causal factor during the earthquake,
**[17:53] Gi**
which is what manifested their powers.
**[17:55] Gi**
The intensity of the earthquake put
them under stress, so they made a wish,
**[18:01] Gi**
which itself became the trigger.
**[18:04] Gi**
And Riko Haida, the pyrokinetic...
**[18:07] Gi**
I finally managed to
investigate her thoroughly.
**[18:11] Gi**
Her face was burned
during the Shibuya Earthquake,
**[18:14] Gi**
and just like the other psychics,
**[18:16] Gi**
manifested her powers shortly afterward.
**[18:19] Gi**
Overwhelming stress induced
by a sense of despair,
**[18:21] Gi**
and a wish to make other people
feel the same despair she felt,
**[18:26] Gi**
are what connected with the causal factor.
**[18:30] Gi**
Now you understand, right?
**[18:31] Gi**
As far as I know,
**[18:33] Gi**
everyone's powers manifested
right after the white light.
**[18:37] Gi**
Takuru Miyashiro,
**[18:39] Gi**
nobody in my data experienced
a year-long time lag like you did.
**[18:47] Gi**
After going back over the data,
**[18:50] Gi**
I found that a side effect always occurs
when the powers of a psychic manifest.
**[18:57] T**
Wh-What is that?
**[19:00] Gi**
An unbearable headache.
**[19:04] Gi**
So now I have a question for you.
**[19:07] Gi**
Did you ever have a terrible headache
during your physical therapy?
**[19:14] T**
No, I didn't.
**[19:18] Gi**
Then, just like with the other psychics,
**[19:22] Gi**
there must've been a moment during the quake
when you got a terrible headache.
**[19:27] Gi**
There was, right?
**[19:29] Gi**
What were you doing then?
**[19:37] T**
No, I'll ask a more precise question.
**[19:40] T**
What did you wish for during the earthquake?
**[19:44] T**
Wasn't that when you got your psychokinesis?
**[19:48] T**
No, that's not it.
**[19:50] T**
I never wished for anything like that.
**[19:54] T**
What I wished for then... was...
**[19:59] H**
Senpai!
**[20:00] S**
Are you okay?
**[20:03] Gi**
Miyashiro, look at this.
**[20:08] Gi**
This is Onoe's medical chart.
**[20:11] Gi**
It's dated November 21st, 2009.
**[20:16] Gi**
It was found on a system in a hospital
affiliated with AH Tokyo General.
**[20:22] T**
That's where we went together
after the earthquake.
***SIGN*** Name
Serika Onoe
**[20:25] Gi**
Yeah.
**[20:27] Gi**
But there are no records
of Onoe prior to this.
**[20:32] T**
Th-That's impossible.
**[20:34] T**
Onoe was with me ever since we were little.
**[20:37] Gi**
You lived next to each other, right?
**[20:39] T**
That's right.
**[20:41] Gi**
At the time, you lived in a corner condo
on a building's sixth floor.
**[20:45] Gi**
Your next-door neighbors
were the Arai family.
**[20:48] Gi**
They were an elderly couple
who lived off a pension.
**[20:51] Gi**
They didn't have any kids.
**[20:54] T**
What are you saying?
**[20:55] T**
Onoe lived next door.
**[20:58] T**
Her parents ignored her.
**[20:59] Gi**
Did you ever meet her parents?
**[21:03] Gi**
No, right?
**[21:06] Gi**
Onoe supposedly didn't have
any other friends beyond you.
**[21:10] Gi**
But did you ever even see her
talking to someone besides you?
**[21:17] T**
I don't remember...
***SIGN*** Name
Takuru Miyashiro
**[21:20] Gi**
And this is your medical chart.
**[21:23] Gi**
It was found in that same hospital.
**[21:26] T**
Mine?
**[21:27] Gi**
The cause of your coma is listed as unknown.
**[21:32] Gi**
They were unable to identify
the causal factor.
**[21:36] Gi**
But instead...
**[21:39] Gi**
They listed records from the psychology
department of a different hospital.
**[21:44] H**
Another hospital?
**[21:46] H**
Psychology department?
**[21:48] Gi**
It's dated 2006?
**[21:50] Gi**
When you were in third grade, right?
**[21:53] Gi**
It says you were extremely dependent
on an imaginary friend.
**[21:58] H**
Imaginary friend?
**[22:00] Gi**
Yeah.
**[22:01] Gi**
The product of a delusion,
**[22:04] Gi**
who shouldn't exist in this world.
***SIGN*** Episode 9
***SIGN*** Duel