# 9 - Joshua
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*Let's fly in the prettiest sky*
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*Towards a definite future, try*
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*Wishes are reflected in your eyes,
smiles overflowing with brilliance*
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*Entrust your wings to the current,
right now, without looking back*
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*The miracle we met
by chance is the pleasure line*
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*We made a promise, right?*
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*Let's fly to the prettiest sky*
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*No matter how often you fall, try*
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*The tomorrow you grab
hold of as you're being hurt*
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*I will never forget you,
telling this gently and strongly*
**[01:58] ---**
The Sinner!
**[02:00] ---**
The Sinner has come!
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Aion!
**[02:05] ---**
Aion has come!
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You certainly gave me a hard time.
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It doesn't matter, because in
the end, you'll be destroyed by Aion!
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There's no place for you humans to run!
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Aion...
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The darkness has been growing
more turbulent ever since that day.
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What is Aion?
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Joshua
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So you finally found him?
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It's been so long.
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The papers themselves
were in their hands at one point,
**[02:53] ---**
so we can't be entirely sure about this,
**[02:55] ---**
but it looks like we can
uncover his tracks with these.
**[02:58] ---**
Speaking of which, where is Rosette?
**[03:01] ---**
She went to the place
where all of this began.
**[03:04] ---**
At Seventh Bell?
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I see...
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Wow...
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This place would draw too many eyes
if we had left it as it was. That's why.
**[03:25] ---**
Wait up, please!
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Where was the switch?
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I have a feeling that it was this way.
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Well... Wait, you two!
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Rosette?
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Rosette, where are you?
**[04:12] ---**
Please answer me...
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Rosette? Are you over there?
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Oh, it's just a board.
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A board?
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Azmaria!
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Oww...
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Are you all right, Azmaria?
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It hurts.
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That's because you screamed
all of a sudden when you saw my face.
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But...
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It was four years ago.
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Winter, four years ago.
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This place is still just
like that time, that night.
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It will remain
unchanged from here on as well.
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A world where everything is frozen.
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Joshua did this?
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It wasn't Joshua!
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It was Aion!
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Aion did this!
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Azmaria, if you've decided to fight,
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then it would be wise for you to
take a good look at what Aion has done.
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At what he was trying to start.
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Hey! Wait!
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Oh, you guys! Cut it out already!
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Moron! That's against the rules!
**[06:05] ---**
Rosette's serious!
**[06:08] ---**
This is bad, she's going to kill us!
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What are you going
to do about the laundry?!
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If you're going to play around,
then play around over there!
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Hey! Wait!
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Rosette, that's enough!
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Rosette, go for it!
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Why, you...
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You're not getting away!
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Ow ow ow...
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Billy, you're going to be
taking responsibility for this!
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Responsibility?
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That's right!
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You're going to wash
the things that you got dirty!
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Yay!
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But it's your turn today, Rosette!
**[06:49] ---**
After what just happened,
you're still saying that?
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Hey, what happened to the bucket?
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It's over there.
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Joshua, Joshua, hold on!
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The bucket!
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Joshua, Joshua!
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That wasn't me,
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Rosette's the one who did it!
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Joshua, Joshua!
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Should I go get the teacher?
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Oh, Joshua!
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I got you! I got you!
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There's no way a wild throw
like that would hit anything!
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Oh, that was fun!
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Why, you...
**[07:36] ---**
Are you all right, Joshua?
Did you take your medicine?
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Yeah.
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I feel good today,
so let me stay outside a little more.
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Joshua...
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Please, Rosette.
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Okay.
**[07:56] ---**
Rosette, isn't the Minister
coming this afternoon?
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Then why don't we be daring
and go even further outside?
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Rosette!
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Joshua again?
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Well, it can't be helped.
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After all, if we're not careful
around him, Miss Jean gets annoying!
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Then today, as well...
**[08:19] ---**
Yes, when I had taken
my eyes off of her for just a moment...
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I'm sorry.
**[08:25] ---**
It can't be helped.
**[08:27] ---**
And you say that you wish to take Joshua?
**[08:31] ---**
Yes, he possesses a special talent.
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Because of that, we would most
certainly like to bring him into our Order.
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We have been searching for quite some time
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for people who have
the same special abilites as he does.
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I was thinking that it would
be nice if I could actually meet him.
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I think that it is a very good offer.
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But more than Joshua himself, Rosette is...
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It does seem that his sister really hates me.
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Those siblings really do get along well.
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She probably believes that
her younger brother will be taken away.
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Hey, Rosette, how far are we going to go?
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Is it all right for us to stay
out like this and not go back?
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It's all right! We're not going
back until the Minister gives up!
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In the first place, he's strange!
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If you trust someone like that,
what do you think will happen?!
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You might get put into
a strange experimental device,
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get experimented on mercilessly,
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and end up pickled in formalin!
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Rosette, you read too many strange books.
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Really? I got all of that
out of your dime novels.
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But he came here from New York, right?
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It might be more fun than
being out in the countryside here.
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It's a convent! It's not like
you'd be living in the city.
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But when we turn fifteen,
we have to leave here anyway,
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so I don't think that there's
any difference in going there now.
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I don't want to.
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Your body is weak, so it would be
dangerous to leave you by yourself.
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You're being a busybody.
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Oh, but that's my duty as your older sister.
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I can't breathe...
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I'm sorry, Rosette.
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Owww!
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The water is...
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Where is this?
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Oww...
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Rosette! Are you all right?
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I'm not all right, it cut me to the bone!
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You just scraped your knee, is all.
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But it hurts!
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You're hopeless.
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Thank you.
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This is all I have that's
deserving of thanks, right, Rosette?
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Don't say such
foolish things. Let's find the exit.
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Why...
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Why can't I heal my
own injuries or sicknesses?
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If I could...
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It's all right!
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You use your power for other people,
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and I'll protect you, no matter what!
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Now, let's go.
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What a huge door. It's got to be the exit!
**[12:08] ---**
There's something written here.
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"An eternal... becoming...
saint... magda... sleeping?"
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Do you understand it?
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It's no use. It's worn away, so I can't read...
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It opened.
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Yeah.
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Is this really the exit?
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Now that I think about it,
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Miss Jean said something about this before.
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That deep in the forest was someone's grave.
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A grave?!
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It's a coffin.
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Then this place really is...
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Who?
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Who is the one that has awakened me?
**[13:13] ---**
Who is the one that has awakened me?
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Well, who are you?
**[13:19] ---**
I'm Chrono.
I'm what you people call a devil.
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What do you mean by devil?
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Just what I said.
A thing that you humans fear.
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Hey, are you all right?
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It looks like I don't
have enough spiritual energy.
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I don't really understand,
but do you mean that you're hungry?
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Wait just a second.
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Here you are, eat up!
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T-Thank you.
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And that's how I met Chrono.
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I'm Rosette.
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At first, I thought,
**[14:00] ---**
This is my younger brother Joshua.
**[14:00] ---**
"Who is this guy, calling himself a devil?"
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Nice to meet you.
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Would it be all right if I shook your hand?
**[14:05] ---**
That's mean!
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You guys were pretty strange yourselves.
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But you know, becoming
friends with a devil was cool, right?
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Especially for Joshua,
since he liked the occult.
**[14:19] ---**
Right.
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But I wonder why?
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When I first met Chrono,
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I was so afraid I couldn't help myself,
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but it went away, like it had never been.
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Well...
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Whose coffin was it?
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The holy woman, Magdalene.
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It's a name that makes
us Sinners feel very uneasy.
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Why were you at that person's grave?
**[14:50] ---**
I'm sorry, I didn't
mean it like that at all.
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That is... well...
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Chrono!
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Over here!
**[15:19] ---**
Yesterday, they finally
said we could go outside.
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It's funny!
**[15:24] ---**
Even though he was sick in bed, he didn't
talk about anything but your stories, Chrono.
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But Chrono's stories are really interesting.
**[15:30] ---**
Even you looked like
you were going to cry during
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"The Wind Master"
and "The Thunderbird's Story."
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Well, those will make you cry.
**[15:36] ---**
If that story didn't make you cry,
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it just goes to show
your personality's too twisted.
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I don't want to hear
that from *you*, Rosette.
**[15:42] ---**
What do you mean by that?
**[15:47] ---**
A great river that flows in the Heavens?
**[15:49] ---**
A great river in the heavens...
Do you mean the Milky Way?
**[15:52] ---**
No, I'm talking about
the invisible Astral Line.
**[15:56] ---**
Astral Line?
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Right, it flows very far away,
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and is made up of the source of all life.
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You might be able to
call it fragments of life force.
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Those fragments fall
to the Earth, combine with a life,
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become a soul, and are born.
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And a soul whose life has
ended goes back into the Heavens,
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returns to being a fragment,
and goes back into the great river.
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They say that this giant cycle has been
continuing on this planet for billions of years.
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Then, if we go there,
we can meet people who have died?
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I wonder?
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Actually, I'm just repeating
what I heard someone else say.
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Incredible!
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That's incredible, Chrono! It's the
first time I've heard something like that!
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Most people don't realize it,
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but it's certain that people's
souls continue to flow in this world.
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All right! This settles it!
**[17:06] ---**
Settles what?
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Actually, it's our dream to become explorers.
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Africa, the Amazon, the Antarctic,
**[17:16] ---**
the two of us will go to
places no one else has ever been.
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And we're going to
write our records in books!
**[17:23] ---**
And if we can find the Astral Line too,
then that would be a great discovery!
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And he was so excited.
**[17:35] ---**
I think he got tired because
he was running around too much.
**[17:40] ---**
But thank goodness.
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He hasn't been talking
about his dreams lately,
**[17:45] ---**
so I thought that he
might have given up on them.
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Since he started
being able to use his power,
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he's been prone to getting sick,
and his fits have gotten worse.
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It's strange, isn't it?
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Joshua can't heal his
own injuries or sicknesses.
**[18:04] ---**
Chrono, I'd rather
become a doctor than an explorer.
**[18:10] ---**
For Joshua's sake?
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Yeah.
**[18:14] ---**
You're so kind.
**[18:16] ---**
But I wonder if it's impossible.
There's no way for me to become one.
**[18:19] ---**
God is pretty unfair, isn't he?
**[18:22] ---**
Chrono, keep this
a secret from Joshua, okay?
**[18:26] ---**
Okay.
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Thank you.
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Go, go! Go, go!
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Just a little more! Go for it, Chrono!
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You did it!
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Rosette!
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Chrono!
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*Why? Why am I so warm?*
**[19:17] ---**
*It's just like lying in the sun.*
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*I'd like to stay like this forever.*
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*Forever...*
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*But what is this?*
**[19:35] ---**
*Is someone watching me?*
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What's wrong, Rosette?
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He...
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Joshua decided by himself!
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There are some minor formalities,
so I'll come again tomorrow.
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You'll be leaving in one week.
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Until then, it would be best
to take it easy and recuperate.
**[20:04] ---**
Yes, Sir.
**[20:06] ---**
We won't know until
we do a full examination,
**[20:09] ---**
but it looks like the power is
putting a strain on your body.
**[20:13] ---**
But why, all of a sudden?
**[20:18] ---**
She's strong.
**[20:23] ---**
Always energetic and running around,
shouting out at the top of her loud voice.
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But she's gentle, just to me.
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She's the kind of
person who never holds back,
**[20:37] ---**
but it's been so tough for me.
**[20:39] ---**
That's why I don't
want her worrying so much.
**[20:46] ---**
Minister...
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If I go, will I be able to become strong?
**[20:56] ---**
Rosette...
**[21:05] ---**
What's wrong?
**[21:07] ---**
Chrono!
**[21:07] ---**
Stay back!
**[21:09] ---**
You mustn't come any closer, Rosette!
**[21:12] ---**
Yo, Chrono.
**[21:15] ---**
Long time no see. Have you been well?
**[21:20] ---**
Aion!
**[21:24] ---**
Let's do it together again, Chrono.
**[21:37] ---**
*It's because I think I love you*
**[21:44] ---**
*That I get hurt and I get bewildered*
**[21:50] ---**
*When our cold cheeks met, a heart was born*
**[22:04] ---**
*I always want to see you right away*
**[22:12] ---**
*I love you so much
I end up not being able to talk*
**[22:18] ---**
*How can I see gentleness?*
**[22:25] ---**
*Hold me more tightly,
I believe in your warm heart*
**[22:37] ---**
*Farewell, solitaire, I go to tomorrow*
**[23:01] ---**
*Look, Rosette!
This is my power! I'm one of the Chosen!*
**[23:05] ---**
*Joshua, what are you saying?!*
**[23:08] ---**
*Why are you looking at me like that?*
**[23:11] ---**
*Stop it! Stop it! Stop the noise!*
**[23:14] ---**
*Yo, Chrono. How about
we have some fun together again?*
**[23:18] ---**
*Answer me! What did you do to Joshua?!*
**[23:21] ---**
*Next episode, "Horn."*
**[23:22] ---**
*Rosette Christopher,
I will make a contract with you.*
**[23:27] ---**
Horn
**[23:29] ---**