2 - Melody of Despair
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I'm gonna go on ahead!
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Wait a minute! You're forgetting something!
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Your lunch!
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What's the menu today?
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It's omelet rice!
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That again?
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T-Thanks... now, don't you be late, either!
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Yes, I understand!
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Now, please excuse me.
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Welcome to our academy.
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So in this place, every single student
has some special ability?
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Episode 2
Melody of Despair
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No, some have the possibility of having one,
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some show signs of developing one...
there are many students of such pending nature.
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But transferring just for that..?
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Long ago, those who had
special abilities like us
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became guinea pigs for neuroscientists without fail!
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If you get caught even once,
your life is basically over.
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Hah... such a hyperbole...
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I'm actually talking about my big brother..
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To protect those with abilities,
a certain individual created the current system.
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Though it wasn't in time
to save my big brother.
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But you were the one that got me into
this student council, and to use my powers.
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The student council is the only group
that is entrusted with a special mission.
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The mission is to get a hold of those with abilities
out on the loose, like you were, before others...
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and either protect them
or threaten them to never use their powers.
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Why do I need to do such a thing?
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In return, you are paid appropriately.
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Isn't Ayumi doing her best to make
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meals every day because you
can't even afford proper food?
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Well... I'm Yu Otosaka.
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I came here from Hinomori High School.
Nice to meet you.
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So handsome!
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Hey, she's a first year,
but she's the student council president?
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Right. In this academy, the student council president
is not determined by grade.
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The highest priority goes to someone with an ability,
and how active they are.
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Congratulations
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This is exactly the same
thing as last night's dinner!
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Otosaka, what are you
going to do about lunch?
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Well, I don't have anything...
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Then, let's go to the cafeteria together.
I'll guide you there.
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That would be a big help.
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You're not going to invite her?
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If you don't mind, I can invite her as well?
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Nah... no thanks.
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There doesn't seem to be
any open seats at the tables...
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Then how about we buy some sandwiches
and go back to the classroom?
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Well, it's pretty crowded over there, too.
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Leave that part to me.
It's where I can show off my own ability.
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Is it okay for you to use it?
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It's fine. I'll go in from
the blind spot on the camera.
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Though, since it will go by too quickly,
what kind of bread I grab all depends on luck.
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What was that?
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An explosion?
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Sorry to make you wait.
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Oh, today I have a marvelous
result. A cutlet sandwich.
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You call that a success?
With so many wounds all over you?
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I do wear armor under my uniform
so the wounds are not that deep, you know?
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But you're bleeding from your head!
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You're... a pretty dangerous
guy, despite how you look.
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What do you mean by that?
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More like, you have nothing
but cutlet sandwiches.
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It's teleportation, you know?
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Did you think I had time to
pick and choose what I wanted?
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And every single one is smushed...
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It's teleportation, you know?
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You think I can fine-tune
how forcefully I grab the merchandise?
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So it's an imperfect ability!?
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She doesn't even have any female friends,
though she's the student council president?
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Her ability is to become invisible
to one person she chooses.
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Which means, everyone other than
that one person can see her.
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Such imperfection is what caused
the situation she is currently in.
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Even though she had valid reason to...
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What would people around her think after
seeing her use her ability
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to take violent actions?
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And on top of it, the surveillance cameras show
nothing more than an ordinary fight.
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If she kept doing something like that,
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it's pretty obvious that people
would come to hate her.
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But her personality apparently wasn't like that
until she got into middle school.
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Oh, she's coming towards us.
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A comrade will show up soon.
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What the hell?
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That means, everyone gather
at the student council room.
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You figured it out with just that?
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What in the world is going to begin..?
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What is this guy?
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The ability... is thoughtography..
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What was that just now?
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A comrade that tells us the location and power
of someone who possesses a special ability.
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Nanba High School... I guess we'll do a stakeout.
Let's go, we're going to leave school early.
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To do what?
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To do some investigation, of course.
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Even though we're not the police?
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If the police you mention
finds this person before us,
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that person's life is completely done for.
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Seriously..?
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Start asking around!
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Okay!
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We should begin as well.
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What should I be doing?
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Basically, ask whether or not something strange
has been going on lately.
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Also, since the ability
has been determined as thoughtography,
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it might be good to ask about
any rumors that involve photographs.
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See ya!
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Like I have time for this...
they're nothing more than lunatics.
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There was someone acting suspiciously.
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I want you to take over his body with your ability,
and look through his belongings.
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For what purpose?
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To protect the one who
has the special ability!
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....Fine! Which guy is it?
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Dammit, don't make me spend so much time!
I lost sight of him!
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Found him! That's the guy!
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Hurry!
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Dammit, why do I have to
do something like this...
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H-Hold on...
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I wonder what this is!
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Hey, what are you doing?
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Photographs of a female student
attending this school?
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She's rather pretty.
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Next up... well... a girl in her lingerie.
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So this is thoughtography?
You sure use it for something stupid.
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Did you take these pictures?
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N-No, I bought them...
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Who did you buy them from?
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I don't intend of leaking any of this to a third party.
Please tell me just the truth.
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If you don't tell us, I'll tell the girl in this photograph
that this was in your possession..
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Udoh... in class 2-E.
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Thank you very much.
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We're going in!
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We're out to capture Udoh from 2-E!
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Okay!
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Has Udoh gone home yet?
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Udoh is...
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Captain, I'm going to
excuse myself before you.
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Yeah, good work.
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Well, if this isn't a surprise.
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Who are you? Where did you come from?
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Who'd have though that the culprit
that takes lewd photographs
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like this with his thoughtography ability,
and selling them off...
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...was the captain of the archery team?
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Photograph? Thoughtography?
I don't know what you're talking about.
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One of your customers spilled the beans.
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Oh, and we did look through your locker, too.
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A ton of photos came out,
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so I recorded them all on this video camera as evidence.
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I can easily open something
like a locker inside a clubhouse.
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Why did you do such a thing?
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Of course it's because I
can make money with it...
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Is it something involving
your family's finances?
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Your parents wouldn't be happy
receiving money made in such a way.
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They're sick! There's nothing else I can do!
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I projected you in your lingerie here.
The image includes your face.
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If you don't want this photo
distributed everywhere,
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pretend like none of this ever happened!
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That's all you have to do for a thoughtography?
That sure is something!
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But, nobody would ever
need something like that.
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No matter who looks at you,
you're an attractive one.
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Seriously?
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I got a compliment! All right!
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Yeah, so hurry up and get lost.
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Nice!
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The photo is... gone?
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It's right here.
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How did you—
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Sheesh.
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Checkmate. Just give up.
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Pretend like none of this ever happened!
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You're the worst kind of person
to point an arrow at someone else.
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So how much martial arts
spirit you possess...
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...is nothing at all!
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We really don't plan on tossing you over
to the police or anything.
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However, if you keep using those powers,
your life will be completely ruined.
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Do you want to be an experimental sample
to be dissected by scientists or something?
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Dissected!?
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So this is a warning. Those powers will be gone
once your adolescence has passed by.
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As for money, please earn some
by working legitimate part-time jobs.
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We took care of that successfully.
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Yes.
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Hey, do you guys always do things like this?
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Yes, so that no one with special abilities
end up facing what my big brother has faced.
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Well... so, what actually happened to your big brother
after he got caught by the scientist?
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It's nothing worth hiding in the end.
Would you like to visit tomorrow?
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Where?
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To where my big brother is.
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Then, let's go.
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Yeah. What about you?
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I'll have to pass. Take care.
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You haven't eaten lunch yet, right?
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Right.
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Then, let's buy station-specific
lunches at the kiosk!
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Beef Tongue Lunch Box
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This one! This one!
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The beef tongue bento box lunch
that warms up when you pull a string!
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Isn't this just amazing?
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Yeah, I know about that.
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I didn't think it would
be an express train...
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How can she eat in a situation like this...
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It's totally ill-mannered to do so.
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What? You're not going to eat your sandwich?
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My big brother was the first
to have a special ability.
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It was back when I passed the
middle school entrance exams
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for a magnet school of a national university.
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I did it! Mom, I did it! I got accepted!
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You really did do your best, Nao!
That truly means you'll end up an expert doctor!
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Yup!
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Big Brother, look at this! I got accepted!
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Seriously? You're so amazing, unlike me!
[15:16] ---
No, no, you're more amazing
than me, Big Brother.
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I heard that the record companies
are taking note of your band!
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Since we're poor,
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I want to hurry up and debut
from a major record label and live on my own.
[15:29] ---
Hey, did you listen to
the CD I lent you before?
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It would get in the way of my studies
so I didn't listen to it at all!
[15:35] ---
Your entrance exams are over now,
so listen to it. I want to create sounds just like it.
[15:41] ---
I'm not that interested
in rock music and stuff...
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It's different! ZHIEND is not
rock music! It's post-rock!
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You boasted that before, too.
Like, I don't understand what you mean at all...
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But, I wasn't able to enter that school.
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I have something important to talk about.
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I decided I'd have both of you enter a boarding school
to further develop your talents.
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I'm just about to sign with
a record label, you know?
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Can't you put that off for a little while?
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I don't get this at all!
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If I can live on my own,
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you should be grateful of that
because of our family's financial situation!
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It's actually the reverse... we'll be
better off financially if you both go to this school.
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What do you mean, the reverse?
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Nao is good at studying,
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but I'm an idiot that only
knows how to play a guitar!
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I think that's exactly
what they acknowledged you for.
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Then, is that place a specialized school for music?
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What's up with both of us going together?
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That day, we saw my mother grovel on the ground
and beg for the first time in our lives.
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My mother, who raised us
for the longest time by herself...
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That place looked like a school on the outside,
and I immediately made a few friends.
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However, every day after classes were over,
I was forced to take something like a physical exam.
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We were supposedly in the same school,
but I couldn't see my brother at all.
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Every time I tried to look for my brother,
my friends would always stop me from doing so.
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Meanwhile, my brother had been turned
into an experimental subject the entire time.
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My brother's ability was to
make air vibrate to his will.
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He used that ability
during a live performance
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to change the sound of his guitar
into all sorts of sounds.
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That's how they found him.
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Scientists believed that the ability can be used
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to jam communications, or
even jack the airwaves.
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I finally was able to meet
my brother a year later.
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By then, he was no longer
the big brother I remembered...
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He couldn't even recognize
that I was his little sister.
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The friends that were trying
to distance me from my brother
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were all fake friends
prepared by the scientists.
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The reason why they were
examining me every day...
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...was because if one sibling has an ability,
chances are high that the other sibling will too.
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That was the only reason.
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I swore in my heart
that I won't trust anyone ever again.
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I snuck out of that school.
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What happened after that?
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I have met the one person I can put
my trust in, and that's how I'm here now.
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That person is—
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We're getting off at the next stop.
[18:38] ---
I'm Nao Tomori. I'm here
to see my big brother.
[18:41] ---
So her first name is Nao.
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He's in room 12. Go ahead.
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Can I take him outside?
[18:49] ---
As long as it's within our
grounds, there are no issues.
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Thank you so much.
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This way.
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He's here.
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The painkillers have worn off again...
[19:16] ---
This guy... what in the
world is he trying to do?
[19:19] ---
He's composing.
[19:22] ---
This is my big brother thinking
he is playing a guitar.
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The grunts you hear is the main melody line.
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Oh man, he ruined another futon.
[19:38] ---
Would you like to go outside?
This time of day is when you see the best scenery.
[19:51] ---
So amazing...
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Isn't it amazing?
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Yeah...
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But this special an environment...
how in the world did you...?
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It's all thanks to the
one person I can trust.
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He transferred my brother to the hospital
in the most beautiful location free of charge.
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There is someone out there
that will go this far...?
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He shows no interest after all...
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But, perhaps there will be a drug soon
that can cure this.
[20:25] ---
Nobody is researching how
to save patients like this.
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Why?
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For the scientists,
people with abilities are like batteries.
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If it runs out of power, they can just experiment
with another person who has an ability.
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There is no merit for them to help
previous holders of abilities that end up like this.
[20:43] ---
That can't be...
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We don't know whether or not
something will happen to us tomorrow, either.
[20:49] ---
Don't say scary stuff like that...
[20:51] ---
How about you choose your words a bit?
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Sorry.
[20:57] ---
Well then, let's go back.
[21:00] ---
You really have a hard time, don't you...
[21:03] ---
Are you sympathizing?
Stop that. You're nothing but a cheater.
[21:09] ---
Indeed... this is so unlike me.
[21:14] ---
I'm home!
[21:16] ---
I didn't think the student council was
something that keeps me this busy...
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I can't do anything about it.
[21:21] ---
Big Brother Yu, you're part
of the student council?
[21:25] ---
Didn't I tell you!
[21:27] ---
This is the first I'm hearing of it!
[21:28] ---
Then, please eat Ayu's special
Rolling Vegetable Curry
[21:31] ---
to refresh yourself and rid today's fatigue!
[21:36] ---
If I have a special ability, there is the possibility
that Ayumi has an ability as well...
[21:41] ---
If I were to be captured...
Ayumi will end up just like Tomori...
[21:47] ---
It's done!
[21:49] ---
I'll have some.
[21:50] ---
I'll have some!
[21:52] ---
So sweet!
[21:54] ---
Well, um... this curry...
can it be that the secret ingredient...
[21:58] ---
It's the secret recipe of the
Otosaka household - the pizza sauce!
[22:04] ---
At this point, I can't think this tastes
any different from the omelet rice...
[22:13] ---
I don't know if it's part of your daily routine
or not, but hurry up and go to sleep.
[22:15] ---
I was able to see a comet today,
so I am deeply moved, and go to sleep in excitement!
[22:20] ---
That's pretty skillful of you.
[22:21] ---
But, the comet I really want
to see is a different one!
[22:25] ---
I see...
[22:26] ---
It's a comet with a long orbit!
[22:29] ---
What's that?
[22:30] ---
It's a comet that swings by
only once every few centuries!
[22:34] ---
They have comets like that, huh...
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