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!