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?
[14:09] ---
    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!
[15:07] ---
    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.
[15:20] ---
    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!
[15:47] ---
    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!
[16:20] ---
    It's actually the reverse... we'll be
    better off financially if you both go to this school.
[16:25] ---
    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?
    
[16:37] ---
    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.
[18:28] ---
    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.
[18:44] ---
    He's in room 12. Go ahead.
[18:46] ---
    Can I take him outside?
[18:49] ---
    As long as it's within our
    grounds, there are no issues.
[18:51] ---
    Thank you so much.
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    This way.
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    He's here.
[19:13] ---
    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.
[19:25] ---
    The grunts you hear is the main melody line.
[19:33] ---
    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?
[19:59] ---
    Yeah...
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    But this special an environment...
    how in the world did you...?
[20:04] ---
    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.
[20:13] ---
    There is someone out there
    that will go this far...?
[20:19] ---
    He shows no interest after all...
[20:21] ---
    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.
[20:39] ---
    There is no merit for them to help
    previous holders of abilities that end up like this.
[20:43] ---
    That can't be...
[20:45] ---
    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?
[20:55] ---
    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!
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    This is the first I'm hearing of it!
[21:28] ---
    Then, please eat Ayu's special
    Rolling Vegetable Curry
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    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...
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    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...