# E12 - The Sophie Series (Part 2)
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**[00:02] King**
I received this notice that she is
withdrawing from the academy.
**[00:08] Earnest**
Why didn't you stop her?!
**[00:10] King**
Enrolled students hold the right to
receive instruction to become a hero.
**[00:16] King**
They are also at full liberty
to relinquish that right.
**[00:20] King**
It is not my duty to stop those
who choose to leave the academy.
**[00:25] Earnest**
How can you be so heartless?!
**[00:27] King**
Every child must one day
leave their parents' nest.
**[00:31] King**
I do consider myself an adult, you see.
**[00:33] King**
I wouldn't be so uncouth as to stop her.
**[00:36] Earnest**
Your Majesty!
**[00:37] Earnest**
I'm not done here yet! Also...
**[00:38] Blade**
Calm down a bit.
**[00:40] Blade**
Take a good look at him.
**[00:41] Earnest**
Huh?
**[00:45] Earnest**
Your Majesty.
**[00:47] Earnest**
We'll make sure we bring Sophie back.
**[00:50] King**
Oh?
**[00:51] King**
And do you know where she's headed?
**[00:54] Blade**
She'll be looking for her five sisters.
**[00:57] Yessica**
According to my investigation,
**[00:59] Yessica**
it looks like they go between
a number of different bases.
**[01:02] Yessica**
Should we start looking
at the most likely ones?
**[01:05] Blade**
Okay!
**[01:05] Blade**
Let's get going, then.
**[01:06] King**
Not so fast!
**[01:08] King**
Have you thought about
why she went by herself?
**[01:14] Earnest**
Well...
**[01:16] King**
Sophie didn't want any of
you to sully your hands.
**[01:20] Earnest**
What?
**[01:21] King**
The only way to stop those five...
**[01:26] King**
is to kill them.
**[01:27] Earnest**
That can't be!
**[01:28] Earnest**
There must be some other
way to convince them...
**[01:31] King**
Those girls will stop at nothing.
**[01:34] King**
Sophie went alone precisely
because she realized that.
**[01:40] King**
The world is more than what
we see in the light of day,
**[01:43] King**
and she knows that she existed
in the shadows to begin with.
**[01:49] King**
That's why she wants to put an
end to this with her own hands.
**[01:54] King**
So her friends will not dirty theirs.
**[01:58] King**
You all need to think long and
hard about this until dawn.
***SIGN*** Episode 12
**[02:04] [SONG] Sign**
The Sophie Series (Part 2)
**[02:11] Cu**
Parent!
**[02:13] Iona**
Master, you are going to
search for Sophie?
**[02:16] Blade**
Yeah.
**[02:17] Cu**
I'll go, too!
**[02:19] Cu**
Sophie is my friend!
**[02:21] Iona**
I shall be by your side,
wherever you go, Master.
**[02:24] Blade**
Just the three of us, huh?
**[02:26] Mao**
Hm? I'm going, too.
**[02:32] Blade**
Did Maria agree to this as well?
**[02:33] Mao**
That crybaby said that she
can't abandon a friend.
**[02:38] Blade**
I see.
**[02:39] Blade**
So that makes five of us.
**[02:41] Mao**
Shall we get going, Great Hero?
**[02:43] Blade**
I'm not the Great Hero anymore.
**[02:58] Earnest**
Blade, you're late!
**[03:00] Yessica**
See, didn't I tell you?
**[03:01] Yessica**
I figured Blade was just waiting
around the dorm entrance.
**[03:06] Clay**
What, Blade?
**[03:07] Clay**
Couldn't make up your mind?
**[03:09] Leonard**
How sluggish for a superorganism.
**[03:11] Kassim**
It only took me five minutes to decide!
**[03:15] Blade**
My bad for being so late!
**[03:18] Blade**
Okay, let's go!
**[03:38] Earnest**
Sophie!
**[03:41] Earnest**
Eliza, I found her.
**[03:43] Eliza**
*That's a relief.*
**[03:44] Eliza**
*I'll send everyone your way.*
**[03:47] Earnest**
Please!
**[03:47] Earnest**
Stop running away!
**[03:51] Earnest**
Please, let's talk about this.
**[03:54] Sophie**
I have a request as well.
**[03:56] Sophie**
Please let me be.
**[03:58] Earnest**
Sophie.
**[03:59] Earnest**
We all understand how you feel,
and what you're trying to do.
**[04:07] Earnest**
So there's no need to worry...
**[04:09] Sophie**
You've got it wrong.
**[04:10] Earnest**
What?
**[04:12] Sophie**
There's something I haven't told you.
**[04:20] Sophie**
I am a human who was created for
the Artificial Great Hero Project.
**[04:27] Earnest**
Artificial... Great Hero?
**[04:29] Sophie**
During the war, research was conducted
to try and artificially produce a human
**[04:33] Sophie**
with powers equal or greater
to the Great Hero's.
**[04:37] Sophie**
I was the twelfth test subject.
**[04:40] Sophie**
Everyone who took part in the
research was supposedly arrested,
**[04:45] Sophie**
but I hear that some samples and
research data have been stolen.
**[04:48] Eliza**
Those five girls are the samples in question.
**[04:51] Sophie**
Someone continued the research,
incubating them and giving them commands.
**[04:56] Sophie**
The reason they exist...
**[04:58] Sophie**
is to surpass the Great Hero.
**[05:00] Kassim**
The Great Hero...
**[05:02] Clay**
You mean the one and only?
**[05:04] Earnest**
But if that's the case,
why are they after Blade's life?
**[05:08] Sophie**
Well...
**[05:09] Earnest**
Oh, I get it!
**[05:11] Earnest**
They want to test their capabilities
on this superorganism!
**[05:14] Leonard**
If they can't even defeat a superorganism,
**[05:17] Leonard**
they stand no chance against
the Great Hero himself.
**[05:19] Leonard**
That must be it.
**[05:21] Sophie**
U-Um...
**[05:23] Blade**
Yeah, sure, that's gotta be it.
**[05:25] Mao**
They can be quite dense, huh?
**[05:28] Sophie**
I've caused you all so much
trouble by getting you involved.
**[05:33] Claire**
That's not true...
**[05:34] Sophie**
My past has finally caught up with me.
**[05:39] Sophie**
I wondered all along whether it was okay
to have so much fun... to be so happy.
**[05:45] Sophie**
Was it okay for a human impostor like me
to live happily as a real person?
**[05:51] Sophie**
That's why I'm going back
to where I used to be.
**[05:56] Sophie**
I'll protect all of you.
**[05:59] Sophie**
Even if it costs me my life.
**[06:03] Sophie**
It may not have been for long,
but being able to walk out in the sun...
**[06:08] Sophie**
made me happy.
**[06:11] Sophie**
Ow.
**[06:13] Sophie**
Ow... that hurts.
**[06:16] Earnest**
How ridiculous.
**[06:17] Earnest**
If walking in the sun makes you happy,
then keep doing it.
**[06:23] Earnest**
I mean, I also used to...
**[06:25] Earnest**
have eyes like *this*,
**[06:26] Earnest**
and I never looked like I was
happy or having fun, right?
**[06:29] Blade**
That's true.
**[06:30] Earnest**
Huh?!
**[06:32] Earnest**
But look, thanks to Blade,
I was able to change.
**[06:36] Yessica**
You turned into a bit too
much of a lost cause, though.
**[06:42] Earnest**
Besides, if killing them is the
only solution, then we'll also...
**[06:50] Blade**
No, we won't do that.
**[06:52] Earnest**
What?
**[06:53] Earnest**
But His Majesty said...
**[06:55] Blade**
I know what the king said,
but killing them isn't the answer.
**[07:00] Sophie**
It's impossible.
**[07:02] Sophie**
Thanks to their neural programming,
their creator's orders are absolute.
**[07:07] Maria**
Is there nothing we can do?
**[07:10] Sophie**
Even if there were...
**[07:12] Sophie**
Because of all the harsh
modifications they've undergone,
**[07:14] Sophie**
they don't have much longer to live.
**[07:17] Claire**
How awful...
**[07:18] Earnest**
You have a plan, right?
**[07:20] Blade**
Nope, not at all.
**[07:21] Earnest**
What?!
**[07:23] Blade**
Still, I want to do something.
**[07:25] Blade**
I want to save Sophie's sisters.
**[07:27] Sophie**
Sisters...
**[07:30] Blade**
Which is why I want all of you to help.
**[07:39] Earnest**
Sophie, are you okay with that?
**[07:44] Blade**
Sophie.
**[07:45] Blade**
Give your life to me.
**[07:48] Earnest**
What?!
**[07:49] Sophie**
Okay.
**[07:49] Earnest**
That was fast! Are you sure?!
**[07:51] Earnest**
I mean... that's... He just....
**[07:52] Blade**
What are you getting
worked up about, Earnest?
**[07:54] Earnest**
I-I get it!
**[07:55] Earnest**
You want to be friends
with those girls, right?
**[07:58] Earnest**
Okay, let's do it.
**[08:02] Blade**
So, do you have any good ideas?
**[08:05] Eliza**
You're leaving it all to me?!
**[08:07] Eliza**
Well, sure, I don't mind.
**[08:09] Eliza**
I've come up with a plan.
**[08:19] Une**
Let me know when you can't move anymore.
**[08:21] Une**
I'll dispose of you.
**[08:23] Deux**
Huh?!
**[08:24] Deux**
You know I'm still good to go!
**[08:25] Deux**
I'll crush you!
**[08:27] Cinq**
I still wanna destroy more!
**[08:29] Cinq**
Destroy! Destroy!
**[08:32] Researcher**
Yes, very good.
**[08:37] Researcher**
The only reason you exist is
to transcend the Great Hero.
**[08:42] Researcher**
Kill the Great Hero.
**[08:44] Researcher**
Kill, kill, kill.
**[08:50] Quatre**
Une.
**[08:51] Quatre**
I found this outside.
**[08:53] Trois**
A letter of challenge.
**[08:55] Trois**
It must be a trap.
**[09:04] Une**
We'll put an end to this.
**[09:17] Earnest**
Do you really think they'll
answer that challenge?
**[09:21] Sophie**
It's fine.
**[09:22] Sophie**
I know I would go for sure.
**[09:24] Claire**
I-I see...
**[09:26] Cu**
Sniff, sniff...
**[09:27] Cu**
I smell the same scent as Sophie!
**[09:31] Iona**
They have arrived.
**[09:34] Blade**
I've been waiting.
**[09:37] Une**
We'll kill you.
**[09:39] Une**
That is what we exist to do.
**[09:41] Blade**
I see.
**[09:42] Blade**
I was hoping I could be
friends with all of you.
**[09:46] Eliza**
*You understand the plan, right?*
**[09:48] Eliza**
*You will be the only one fighting.*
**[09:51] Eliza**
* If we attack as a group,*
* they're sure to run away.*
**[09:54] Eliza**
*However, with only one target,*
**[09:57] Eliza**
* they should continue to fight,*
* even knowing that it's a trap.*
**[10:03] Sophie**
Blade...
**[10:04] Earnest**
I know the plan,
but not being able to help...
**[10:12] Eliza**
*Listen up!*
**[10:13] Eliza**
* The goal is not to defeat them,*
* but to deplete their energy.*
**[10:13] Deux**
C'mon, die!
**[10:15] Blade**
Adamantine Body!
**[10:17] Eliza**
*Please endure all of their attacks.*
**[10:19] Cinq**
Destroy! Destroy!
**[10:27] Blade**
Easy for you to say!
**[10:29] Eliza**
*I know the superorganism can pull it off!*
**[10:31] Eliza**
If you manage to deplete their energy...
**[10:33] Dione**
Be on constant lookout,
and don't break the blockade!
**[10:37] Siren**
There must be someone
giving orders to the five of them.
**[10:40] Siren**
Make sure you capture them.
**[10:43] King**
Now *this* is a realistic exercise!
**[10:46] King**
No, it's the real deal!
**[10:48] Eliza**
We'll arrest the person who created them.
**[10:50] Eliza**
Then, we'll make them tell us the
parameters to reprogram and save them!
**[10:54] Eliza**
*So... please don't die!*
**[10:59] Deux**
Hi-yah!
**[11:02] Quatre**
Hey, teach me again.
**[11:05] Quatre**
How to kill you!
**[11:07] Blade**
Oh, no!
**[11:13] Earnest**
Blade!
**[11:15] Sophie**
Have faith in Blade.
**[11:17] Earnest**
I know!
**[11:18] Earnest**
I know that...
**[11:19] Earnest**
But still!
**[11:30] Leonard**
He can still use moves like that?
**[11:33] Earnest**
Not being able to do anything...
**[11:35] Earnest**
Other than sit and watch...
**[11:37] Claire**
Anna.
**[11:38] Yessica**
There's still something
we can do, isn't there?
**[11:46] Deux**
Artificial Great Hero Power.
**[11:51] Deux**
Deadly Earth Crash!
**[11:56] Blade**
What?! The ground...
**[11:57] Deux**
Be crushed by the planet, and die!
**[12:02] Deux**
Three! Two! One!
**[12:12] Quatre**
I'll send you to heaven.
**[12:13] Quatre**
Artificial Great Hero Power!
**[12:19] Blade**
Are they all real?
**[12:23] Yessica**
Blade!
**[12:24] Yessica**
Take this!
**[12:31] Clay**
Blade!
**[12:34] Blade**
Dragon Smash!
**[12:39] Quatre**
Too bad.
**[12:40] Quatre**
This is the end.
**[12:43] Trois**
Artificial Great Hero Power.
**[12:46] Trois**
I'll wipe you out, jackass!
**[12:49] Leonard**
Blade!
**[12:54] Leonard**
This is the Super God Technique,
Absolutely Unbreakable Barrier.
**[12:57] Yessica**
Ugh, *that* sure is a name.
**[13:00] Trois**
So this is it...
**[13:05] Blade**
Ah...
**[13:06] Earnest**
No way!
**[13:11] Blade**
Earnest, hand that over!
**[13:13] Earnest**
Huh? But your sword...
**[13:14] Blade**
Believe in me!
**[13:16] Earnest**
Okay!
**[13:19] Cinq**
Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!
**[13:23] Earnest**
Ah!
**[13:23] Sophie**
I've got this.
**[13:25] Sophie**
Artificial Great Hero Power.
**[13:30] Sophie**
Blade.
**[13:31] Sophie**
Take control of this power.
**[13:34] Sophie**
It should be easier for the
real Great Hero, right?
**[13:38] Blade**
Are you sure?
**[13:39] Blade**
It'll be pretty painful.
**[13:41] Sophie**
My life belongs to you.
**[13:44] Sophie**
Use it all you want.
**[13:49] Cinq**
Artificial Great Hero Power!
**[13:50] Blade**
Great Hero Power!
**[14:02] Blade**
You did well, Sophie.
**[14:05] Sophie**
Blade...
**[14:06] Sophie**
Take this.
**[14:18] Blade**
Um, what was that move called again?
**[14:21] Blade**
Well, whatever works, I guess.
**[14:23] Blade**
Earnest Monster Beam!
**[14:26] Earnest**
Hey! Don't give it a weird name!
**[15:04] Blade**
What's wrong?
**[15:05] Blade**
Not gonna finish me off?
**[15:08] Une**
My time is up.
**[15:10] Blade**
Time?
**[15:12] Blade**
What does that mean?
**[15:14] Blade**
Huh?
**[15:18] Blade**
H-Hey!
**[15:19] Blade**
By time, you don't mean...
**[15:23] Blade**
Snap out of it!
**[15:24] Blade**
Hey!
**[15:25] Une**
Our lifespan... measured in days...
**[15:30] Une**
is fourteen days.
**[15:33] Une**
Until... sunset today.
**[15:39] Une**
How beautiful...
**[15:41] Blade**
Eliza!
**[15:42] Blade**
You heard her, right?!
**[15:44] Blade**
There's no time left!
**[15:45] Blade**
We're out of time!
**[15:48] Eliza**
I just finished looking over
the research data from
**[15:52] Eliza**
the modification facility
where they were born.
**[15:55] Eliza**
What atrocious workmanship.
**[15:57] Eliza**
I'd say they were lucky to
last fourteen whole days...
**[16:02] Claire**
Blade...
**[16:03] Claire**
It's not working!
**[16:05] Claire**
I can't heal them!
**[16:07] Eliza**
The powers of the Great Hero and
Demon King defy the laws of physics.
**[16:11] Eliza**
They disrupt the laws of cause and effect.
**[16:13] Eliza**
Claire's powers work by decreasing entropy.
**[16:17] Eliza**
They won't work when
causality has been severed.
**[16:19] Blade**
Isn't there some way to save them?!
**[16:22] Blade**
That's right!
**[16:24] Blade**
There's the person who made
Une and the others, right?!
**[16:26] Blade**
If we ask them...
**[16:27] Eliza**
It's no use.
**[16:30] Eliza**
We did find their creator.
**[16:32] Eliza**
However...
**[16:34] Eliza**
He's dead!
**[16:37] Eliza**
And not within the last fourteen days!
**[16:39] Eliza**
Long before that...
**[16:40] Eliza**
By the time they were born,
he was already dead!
**[16:44] Eliza**
The truth is... that there
never were any commands...
**[16:48] Blade**
Can't you do something with
that science of yours?
**[16:52] Eliza**
I could do research.
**[16:54] Eliza**
With my intellect, I might be able
to find a way to reprogram them.
**[16:59] Eliza**
But there's not enough time.
**[17:03] Eliza**
*Science has its limits as well.*
**[17:06] Eliza**
* It can't solve everything*
* in the snap of your fingers!*
**[17:12] Eliza**
*Damn it all!*
**[17:13] Eliza**
*If only I was more of a genius!*
**[17:17] Sophie**
Blade.
**[17:19] Sophie**
Bring all of them... my sisters, here.
**[17:25] Sophie**
Une.
**[17:26] Sophie**
Wake up.
**[17:29] Sophie**
You still haven't used your
Artificial Great Hero Power.
**[17:36] Sophie**
You will all die,
**[17:38] Sophie**
but there's a way for you to keep living.
**[17:44] Une**
I failed to carry out my orders.
**[17:46] Une**
What point is there in living?
**[17:50] Blade**
You can surpass me.
**[17:51] Blade**
Keep on living, and try to surpass me.
**[17:55] Blade**
If you can, that is.
**[17:58] Deux**
Hmm, that sounds pretty fun.
**[18:01] Trois**
There's no way...
**[18:03] Trois**
But the chances aren't zero.
**[18:07] Quatre**
I might win if it was a different activity.
**[18:11] Cinq**
Destroy, destroy...
**[18:14] Sophie**
Une.
**[18:18] Une**
I understand.
**[18:20] Une**
Artificial Great Hero Power.
**[18:24] Sophie**
Blade.
**[18:26] Sophie**
Take control of her power.
**[18:29] Sophie**
So that their souls...
their minds... enter me.
**[18:34] Blade**
Okay.
**[18:35] Blade**
Leave it to me.
**[19:15] Blade**
Um... are you Une?
**[19:19] Une**
That's right.
**[19:20] Blade**
What's wrong?
**[19:21] Une**
I just came to see if
you were feeling better.
**[19:24] Une**
When you are, I'll be the one to kill you.
**[19:27] Une**
Don't forget it.
**[19:28] Blade**
Yeah.
**[19:30] Blade**
That's what you all say.
**[19:32] Blade**
What about the others?
**[19:34] Une**
They say they want to talk to you.
**[19:37] Une**
But before that...
**[19:42] Blade**
Sophie?
**[19:43] Sophie**
Yes.
**[19:44] Sophie**
It looks like my sisters let me take control.
**[19:47] Blade**
Sounds like you have it rough.
**[19:49] Blade**
Is everything okay?
**[19:51] Sophie**
Well...
**[19:52] Sophie**
It feels like having six children.
**[19:56] Blade**
Six?
**[19:57] Blade**
Isn't that one too many?
**[20:04] [SONG] Sign**
The sunny disposition that
brings a smile to your face
**[20:09] [SONG] Sign**
As well as the heroic sense of justice
**[20:14] [SONG] Sign**
They may be a part of me,
but that's not all there is
**[20:20] [SONG] Sign**
That image of me
**[20:22] [SONG] Sign**
Has taken on a life of its own
**[20:25] [SONG] Sign**
Hey, wait up
**[20:28] [SONG] Sign**
Won't you be friends with me?
**[20:30] [SONG] Sign**
Let's shake hands, another self of mine
**[20:35] [SONG] Sign**
The wounds we cannot bear alone
**[20:38] [SONG] Sign**
The dangers that we keep hidden
**[20:41] [SONG] Sign**
We're all hiding them within
**[20:43] [SONG] Sign**
Standing ready to strike
**[20:46] [SONG] Sign**
The shadow lurking beneath the light
**[20:49] [SONG] Sign**
The muffled sounds coming from my lips
**[20:53] [SONG] Sign**
They make me feel that I am alive
**[20:59] [SONG] Sign**
It's a sign
**[21:25] Yessica**
Ah, it's hopeless!
**[21:28] Cu**
It's *my* turn!
**[21:34] King**
Now this is a *true* realistic exercise!
**[21:38] Siren**
Gil.
**[21:39] Siren**
About the magical beast brought here today...
**[21:42] Siren**
I received word that there's been a mix-up.
**[21:46] Dione**
It seems they delivered a different
beast than the one you ordered.
**[21:49] Dione**
I thought it was a little too powerful.
**[21:53] Doctor**
Looks like I'm going to be busy.
**[21:57] King**
Knock 'em dead!
***SIGN*** Final Ep!! Good Work!!
**[22:03] Cu**
Blargh...
**[22:05] Earnest**
Hi-yah-yah-yah!
**[22:09] Earnest**
Hi-yah-yah-yah...
**[22:12] Earnest**
Hey, Asmodeus!
**[22:14] Earnest**
You can do better than that!
**[22:16] Asmodeus**
No more...
**[22:18] Asmodeus**
I'm really done for...
**[22:19] Leonard**
My lord!
**[22:21] Leonard**
Let us fight in tandem!
**[22:22] Leonard**
Why me?!
**[22:28] Sophie**
Please, everyone.
**[22:32] Une**
I've got this.
**[22:33] Une**
Dragon Smash!
**[22:34] Deux**
Hi-yah!
**[22:37] Trois**
Like this.
**[22:38] Cinq**
Destroy!
**[22:38] Sophie**
Artificial Great Hero Power!
**[22:43] Leonard**
How many does that make?
**[22:45] Kassim**
I'll land the final blow—
**[22:49] Mao**
Bow before me!
**[22:51] Iona**
According to my high-spec calculations...
**[22:55] Iona**
No effect.
**[23:00] Siren**
It really doesn't look good.
**[23:09] King**
Oh, there's no need to worry.
**[23:21] King**
After all, he's the Great Hero!
**[23:25] Blade**
Hmm?
**[23:26] Blade**
What's wrong, everyone?
**[23:30] Blade**
Mmm! This tonkatsu curry's so good!
**[23:32] Earnest**
You lousy...
**[23:34] Group**
Superorganism!