# 10 - Conjectures and Refutations
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**[00:06] Kiri**
This wall is what's keeping this
town trapped 34 years in the past.
**[00:10] Mina**
But who did this? And why?
**[00:13] Blaze**
Hey, hang on! There's a movie
I want to see next week!
**[00:16] Kiri**
Blaze...
**[00:18] Kiri**
Whether or not that'll be
possible depends on this wall,
**[00:21] Kiri**
and on whoever put it here.
***SIGN*** March 29 15:07
**[02:27] Mina**
The one who made it?
**[02:28] Blaze**
What do you mean?
**[02:29] Kiri**
Doesn't it seem odd to you?
**[02:31] Mina**
What?
**[02:33] Kiri**
This strange time wall...
**[02:38] Kiri**
Life in this town seems
so peaceful at a glance.
**[02:42] Kiri**
But there are numerous Horologues
in the forest surrounding it.
**[02:46] Mina**
Now that you mention it...
**[02:48] Kiri**
Thinking back, it's almost as if the
Horologues are protecting the town.
**[02:52] Kiri**
Life for its residents
is just that peaceful.
**[02:55] Mina**
You're right. I guess you
might call that mysterious.
**[02:58] Blaze**
Nothing mysterious about it.
**[03:00] Blaze**
It just means those Horologue
wimps are scared of me.
**[03:04] Mina**
Are you that stupid?
**[03:05] Mina**
Why do you think it attacked us
the moment we entered the forest?
**[03:08] Blaze**
Huh? That was, you know...
**[03:11] Blaze**
Its way of saying hello?
**[03:13] Kiri**
That's what I mean. It's as if the
Horologues are letting us do as we please,
**[03:17] Kiri**
and observing us every step of the way.
**[03:21] Kiri**
And the other thing that's bothering me
**[03:23] Kiri**
is that this town keeps repeating
the same day for some reason.
**[03:28] (Flashback) Eve**
Huh? You...
**[03:32] (Flashback) Eve**
Oh, you're...
**[03:35] Mina**
So that's why even when we
saw her the second time,
**[03:38] Mina**
she acted like we'd never met before.
**[03:40] Kiri**
Yeah.
**[03:41] Kiri**
If time really is going backwards,
**[03:44] Kiri**
she wouldn't remember us because
she hadn't met us yet.
**[03:49] Kiri**
If we assume the town's time was
eaten the moment we entered it,
**[03:53] Kiri**
the pieces fit together.
**[04:02] Kiri**
What do you think of my deduction?
**[04:06] Kyosuke**
You're exactly right.
**[04:09] Kyosuke**
That's some sharp intuition you have,
**[04:11] Kyosuke**
little brat.
**[04:22] Kyosuke**
We've got nothing against you,
and we don't want to hurt you,
**[04:27] Kyosuke**
but now that you've figured out the truth...
**[04:30] Kyosuke**
We can't let you live.
**[04:35] Kiri**
*One of the rings that controls a Horologue?*
**[04:37] Mina**
So you guys are behind all this?
**[04:39] Kyosuke**
Sadly, you're wrong there.
**[04:42] Kyosuke**
His Majesty is a busy man.
**[04:45] Kyosuke**
He won't be going to the
trouble of coming to see you.
**[04:48] Mina**
Oh, so you guys just strolled out here
because your leader told you to?
**[04:53] Kyosuke**
You see, I'm not a very gutsy guy.
**[04:57] Kyosuke**
His Majesty is a much more frightening
being than you guys think!
**[05:08] Kyosuke**
Oh, dear. I forgot to introduce myself.
**[05:11] Kyosuke**
I'm Fujibayashi Kyosuke.
**[05:14] Kyosuke**
I thought I'd lured you all here,
but it looks like one got away.
**[05:18] Kyosuke**
Still, that'll make this even easier for me.
**[05:21] Kiri**
That's my line!
**[05:29] Raiko**
My name is Raiko.
**[05:31] Raiko**
I bear no grudge against the lot of you,
**[05:33] Raiko**
but if you stand in the way
of His Majesty's experiment,
**[05:36] Raiko**
I will not hold back.
**[05:39] Blaze**
Keep your hands off my little brother!
**[05:46] Raiko**
Who are you?
**[05:49] Blaze**
Hey, Gramps, are you the type that likes
to let your fists do the talking?
**[05:53] Blaze**
So am I! And I'm the worst villain around!
**[05:56] Blaze**
I'll take you—whoa!
**[06:00] Blaze**
Hey! Don't dodge me!
**[06:02] Kiri**
*He's tougher than I thought.*
**[06:04] Kyosuke**
You three aren't half bad.
**[06:07] Blaze**
Enough talk! Hurry up and face me, old man!
**[06:10] Blaze**
Let's duke it out over there! Come on!
**[06:20] Kyosuke**
By the way, young lady...
**[06:22] Kyosuke**
I thought you looked familiar.
**[06:25] Kyosuke**
It's been twelve years, uh...
what was your name again?
**[06:29] Kyosuke**
Let's see now...
**[06:31] Kyosuke**
Oh! Nana! Little Nana!
**[06:39] Kiri**
*Nana? That was Mom's name!*
**[06:41] Kiri**
*So is Mina really my mother?*
**[06:45] Kiri**
*But why a fake name?*
**[06:48] Kyosuke**
You were all over Victor back then.
**[06:52] Kyosuke**
You still look exactly the same, though.
**[06:55] Kyosuke**
Why don't you tell me the secret
behind your youthful looks?
**[07:04] Mina**
He's...
**[07:09] Kyosuke**
Here I come!
**[07:13] Kyosuke**
Come on, is that all you've got?
**[07:15] Kyosuke**
And little lady, where's that
fury you had a moment ago?
**[07:18] Kyosuke**
Did I say something wrong?
**[07:28] Mina**
Your attacks are repulsive, old man.
**[07:31] Kyosuke**
Isn't my Horologue fast?
**[07:34] Kyosuke**
And it's got more than speed.
It can extend and contract at will.
**[07:38] Kyosuke**
It's the perfect partner
for a lazy guy like me.
**[07:41] Mina**
You talk too much!
**[07:45] Kiri**
* Calm down. Focus on the*
* enemy in front of me first!*
**[07:48] Kyosuke**
I haven't seen you in so long.
Of course I'm sentimental.
**[07:53] Kyosuke**
Is the boy with the glasses your son?
**[07:55] Kyosuke**
What happened to that
precocious little boy?
**[07:58] Kyosuke**
He used to cling to you all the time!
**[08:04] Kiri**
Mina!
**[08:40] Victor**
Oh, it's you.
**[08:42] Victor**
Is something wrong?
**[09:01] Victor**
Oh, it's you.
**[09:04] Victor**
Is something wrong?
**[09:09] Victor**
Thanks for earlier.
**[09:13] Aiks**
Why?
**[09:15] Aiks**
Why do you suffer?
**[09:19] Aiks**
You saved Eve's life.
**[09:22] Aiks**
Why aren't you happy?
**[09:26] Aiks**
Why did you hit Vic?
**[09:29] Aiks**
Why?
**[09:31] Aiks**
I truly can't understand.
**[09:36] Victor**
Don't be so nosy.
**[09:38] Victor**
Every family has its problems.
**[09:43] Aiks**
Problems? What problems?
**[09:46] Aiks**
What kinds of problems?
**[09:48] Aiks**
What's the answer to the problem?
**[09:50] Aiks**
Won't you tell me?
**[09:53] Victor**
What are you talking about?
**[09:55] Victor**
* Who is this guy?*
* Something's odd about him.*
**[10:05] Bill**
I finally found you.
**[10:10] Bill**
I heard His Majesty had ordered you
**[10:13] Bill**
to come here on a mission,
so I went looking for you.
**[10:17] Victor**
Bill... Reidan?
**[10:21] Bill**
Give me another ring.
**[10:24] Bill**
I won't disappoint His Majesty this time.
**[10:28] Victor**
*His Majesty?*
**[10:29] Bill**
This time, I will turn
reality into a video game.
**[10:33] Bill**
For my mother.
**[10:35] Aiks**
A game? Your mother?
**[10:38] Aiks**
What do those have to do with one another?
**[10:41] Aiks**
I don't understand.
**[10:45] Aiks**
Allow me to observe your memories.
**[10:49] Aiks**
I want to understand.
**[10:52] Bill**
Huh? Observe?
**[10:55] Bill**
Fine. You just want me to tell
you what happened, right?
**[10:59] Bill**
I want to make these guys—
**[11:01] Aiks**
No, there's no need for
anything so troublesome.
**[11:05] Aiks**
I need only eat you, and I'll know.
**[11:50] Aiks**
I see.
**[11:52] Aiks**
He drowned himself in video games to
avert his eyes from his mother's death.
**[11:57] Aiks**
Now that I know the course of events,
**[12:00] Aiks**
I still can't understand.
**[12:03] Victor**
What are you?!
**[12:05] Aiks**
It seems I may never understand
these creatures known as "humans."
**[12:12] Victor**
It can't be...
**[12:21] Aiks**
This is the third time we have met.
**[12:27] Aiks**
You don't remember?
**[12:29] Aiks**
Or don't you recognize me?
**[12:33] Aiks**
Then what if I do this?
**[12:41] Victor**
You're...
**[12:43] Victor**
Impossible! Horologues act only on
their instinct to devour human time!
**[12:49] Aiks**
As Horologues devour vast
amounts of human time,
**[12:53] Aiks**
they are gradually influenced
by the humans' memories.
**[12:56] Aiks**
Eventually, they come to possess an ego.
**[12:59] Aiks**
And my ego disguised itself as a human
in order to learn more about them.
**[13:04] Aiks**
It is now among the humans, observing them.
**[13:09] Victor**
* How is it possible? The target*
* of my revenge came to me itself,*
**[13:13] Victor**
*but I haven't gotten my strength back yet!*
**[13:16] Victor**
*And my cards are...*
**[13:19] Aiks**
There are many things I wish to ask you.
**[13:23] Aiks**
I have performed experiments over and over,
**[13:26] Aiks**
but I simply cannot
understand human emotions.
**[13:30] Victor**
Experiments?
**[13:31] Aiks**
For instance...
**[13:34] Aiks**
Experiment 1.
**[13:35] Aiks**
The kind-hearted Alex always
uses his money to help others.
**[13:40] Aiks**
So I gave him more money than
he knew what to do with.
**[13:44] Aiks**
But he didn't even make a
move to take any of it.
**[13:47] Aiks**
He only kept giving his own wealth.
**[13:50] Aiks**
I truly can't understand it.
**[13:54] Aiks**
Experiment 2.
**[13:55] Aiks**
In another experiment, I pushed Vic
and Eve into a lake at the same time.
**[14:01] Aiks**
Alexander tried to save them both,
**[14:04] Aiks**
but all three ended up drowning.
**[14:09] Aiks**
I truly can't understand it.
**[14:18] Kiri**
What?
**[14:19] Mina**
You idiot! Watch your back!
**[14:22] Mina**
He won't think twice about
using cowardly tricks.
**[14:26] Kira**
Mina, why...
**[14:28] Kyosuke**
A mother's love is a remarkable thing.
**[14:32] Kiri**
A mother's...
**[14:33] Mina**
Don't take it the wrong way.
**[14:35] Mina**
I did it because my darling
would be sad if you died.
**[14:39] Mina**
Remember what I told you?
I don't want to see him sad.
**[14:43] Kyosuke**
My goodness. The plan was to
get rid of you two quickly
**[14:47] Kyosuke**
and then move on to Victor, but...
**[14:50] Kiri**
What are you saying?!
**[14:52] Mina**
Kiri, go.
**[14:55] Mina**
You're the only one who can save my darling.
**[14:58] Mina**
Go! Hurry!
**[15:11] Raiko**
It is clearly true that heroics
spring from the young.
**[15:15] Raiko**
How impressive that you prove
an equal match for me.
**[15:18] Blaze**
Don't make me laugh.
**[15:20] Blaze**
You think that little mosquito-bite
punch will work on me?
**[15:24] Blaze**
Don't make me laugh!
**[15:30] Raiko**
In order to repay His Majesty's kindness,
**[15:33] Raiko**
I must defeat all of you.
**[15:36] Blaze**
Now I'm gonna show you just how bad I am!
**[15:49] Aiks**
There is no need to worry.
**[15:51] Aiks**
Once my experiment is over,
I will return the flow of time.
**[15:55] Aiks**
They will come back to life
as if nothing happened.
**[15:58] Aiks**
The power to consume time affords
great freedom in its use.
**[16:02] Aiks**
I can repeat my experiments infinitely.
**[16:05] Aiks**
Now, let me tell you about some
more experiments of mine...
**[16:10] Aiks**
Experiment 3.
**[16:12] Aiks**
I killed Eve in front of Vic.
**[16:16] Aiks**
Little Vic is normally so calm
and outwardly emotionless,
**[16:19] Aiks**
but he showed an anguished expression then.
**[16:24] Aiks**
Do you not find it strange?
**[16:26] Aiks**
I killed the mother he
saw as such a nuisance,
**[16:30] Aiks**
so why was he not happy?
**[16:32] Aiks**
Experiment 4.
**[16:34] Aiks**
Driven by curiosity,
**[16:36] Aiks**
I killed both Eve and Alexander.
**[16:39] Aiks**
I thought, perhaps, killing only
Eve was not enough to please him.
**[16:44] Aiks**
But on the contrary,
Vic was even more distraught.
**[16:50] Aiks**
Is that not strange?
**[16:52] Victor**
Shut up.
**[16:54] Aiks**
Then there was... Ah, yes.
**[16:56] Aiks**
Eve's brush with death today
was also an experiment.
**[16:59] Victor**
Stop it!
**[17:00] Aiks**
I don't understand why you look so mournful,
**[17:04] Aiks**
even though you saved your mother.
**[17:06] Aiks**
And why did you hit Vic?
**[17:09] Victor**
That's enough!
**[17:10] Aiks**
Then tell me.
**[17:12] Aiks**
What makes you suffer so?
**[17:15] Victor**
Shut up!
**[17:16] Victor**
Not only did you take my memories,
but you toyed with my family's lives!
**[17:20] Victor**
I won't forgive that!
**[17:20] [SONG] Text**
Speed Up
**[17:28] Aiks**
Do not attack me with your emotions.
**[17:31] Aiks**
I did not come here to fight you.
**[17:35] Victor**
He stopped my fastest attack,
**[17:37] Victor**
Sped Up three thousand times,
with one hand?!
**[17:41] Aiks**
If my use of the people you care about
in my experiments displeases you,
**[17:47] Aiks**
then why don't you serve as the
subject of my experiments?
**[18:05] Aiks**
Can you see it?
**[18:07] Aiks**
This is the organ I use to eat.
**[18:10] Aiks**
As you and your friends guessed,
**[18:11] Aiks**
I have been eating this town's time.
**[18:16] Aiks**
If I may complain a bit,
**[18:17] Aiks**
the amount of time here is so
vast that it's all I can do
**[18:23] Aiks**
not to spit it up.
**[18:26] Aiks**
Eating such a large amount
drains my strength, as well.
**[18:30] Aiks**
At present, I can only use about thirty
to forty percent of my strength.
**[18:35] Aiks**
If you used your power to the fullest,
**[18:37] Aiks**
perhaps you could damage my eating organ
**[18:40] Aiks**
and force me to spit up the time I've eaten.
**[18:46] Aiks**
That's the way.
**[18:47] Aiks**
That expression tells me you
understand my intentions.
**[18:52] Aiks**
If I spit up all that time,
**[18:55] Aiks**
this town will return to the present.
**[18:58] Aiks**
But at the same time,
**[19:00] Aiks**
you will never see your dead parents again.
**[19:09] Aiks**
This is a very simple experiment.
**[19:11] Aiks**
All you must do is choose
one of two options.
**[19:14] Aiks**
The first option
**[19:16] Aiks**
is to keep things as they are and
continue to enjoy your happy family.
**[19:20] Aiks**
The second option
**[19:22] Aiks**
is to uphold your conviction
as a Chronos Ruler,
**[19:25] Aiks**
defeat me, and return everything to normal.
**[19:29] Aiks**
How truly fascinating.
**[19:31] Aiks**
Victor Putin, the very man who has always
said time doesn't flow backwards
**[19:35] Aiks**
and that one mustn't be
overtaken by regret...
**[19:37] Aiks**
What choice will he make?
**[19:40] Aiks**
I will be patiently observing this.
**[19:49] (Flashback) Victor**
Your brother is no longer in this world,
**[19:52] (Flashback) Victor**
but you haven't lost the memories of
the time you had with him, have you?
***SIGN*** Memories of Your Time
**[19:56] (Flashback) Victor**
That means your mother can live
forever inside your heart.
***SIGN*** Inside Your Heart
**[20:01] Victor**
*Koyuki... Bill...*
**[20:03] (Flashback) Victor**
Pull yourself together!
**[20:05] (Flashback) Victor**
You're the only one who can save Eve!
***SIGN*** You're the Only One
**[20:08] Victor**
Dad...
**[20:09] (Flashback) Eve**
I'm very proud that Vic has grown
to be such an independent boy.
***SIGN*** An Independent Boy
**[20:17] Victor**
Mom...
**[20:20] Aiks**
Which will you choose? Give me your answer.
**[20:23] Victor**
You shouldn't have to ask!
**[20:25] Victor**
I won't let you toy with my parents again!
**[20:26] [SONG] Text**
Speed Up
**[20:30] Victor**
And I will be taking back my memories!
**[20:33] Aiks**
I understand a Chronos Ruler's ability
**[20:35] Aiks**
is proportionate to the
strength of his will.
**[20:39] Aiks**
It appears you still harbor
some doubt in your heart.
**[20:52] Kyosuke**
Now, this is a fine sight!
**[20:58] Kyosuke**
You didn't want your son to
hear me say any more, did you?
**[21:04] Mina**
So what?
**[21:06] Mina**
If you keep spouting nonsense,
**[21:09] Mina**
I'll shut your mouth forever.
**[21:19] Aiks**
What's the matter? Are you done already?
**[21:22] Aiks**
You do give up quickly.
**[21:26] Aiks**
Goodness... You disappoint me.
**[21:37] Kiri**
I can't believe you're my father.
**[21:41] Victor**
Kiri?
**[21:44] Kiri**
It's so pathetic, I could cry.
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