E7 - The Magician

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SIGN    KEEP OUT
SIGN    POLICE
[00:04] Rozan
    You'd better have a good
    explanation for all this.
[00:09] Polka
    First, could we have some privacy?
[00:17] Rozan
    I could've sworn they didn't
    give themselves away.
[00:19] Rozan
    Can you see through walls or something?
[00:22] Polka
    That's part of what I have to tell you.
[00:26] Rozan
    Hey! You heard the man!
[00:27] Xiayu
    But... Your Lordship—
[00:29] Rozan
    Beat it!
[00:35] Rozan
    I'm pretty sure they're all gone.
    Now, you were saying?
[00:39] Polka
    Well, sir...
[00:42] Polka
    I don't expect you to believe me,
[00:44] Polka
    but I'm not from this world.
[02:20] Takeru
    Well done, Nezu.
[02:23] Takeru
    I'm grateful.
[02:25] Takeru
    Hm? What is it?
[02:30] Takeru
    Polka reached the twins before you did?
[02:35] Takeru
    Would you care to elaborate on that?
[02:41] Rozan
    I see.
[02:42] Rozan
    That's certainly a hard pill to swallow.
[02:45] Rozan
    But after what I've seen, well...
[02:49] Rozan
    Now, then.
[02:51] Rozan
    Based on what you just told me,
[02:55] Rozan
    it sounds like you slit 
    Polka's throat, young lady.
[03:00] Misaki
    Yup. That's true.
[03:02] Rozan
    Admitting that to my face takes guts.
[03:05] Rozan
    Are you prepared for a messy death?
[03:08] Rozan
    Or are you trying to show
    you're not afraid of me?
[03:16] Misaki
    Well... both, I guess.
[03:20] Misaki
    You're a good person, so you don't scare me.
[03:23] Misaki
    And I figure I can't
    complain if you kill me.
SIGN    Wait, Dad!
    Don't kill her!
[03:29] Rozan
    Whoa! What the hell?!
[03:33] (Flashback) Polka
    Wait, Dad! Don't kill Shiro!
[03:40] Rozan
    Are you... Polka?
[03:43] Polka
    What?!
SIGN    NOD NOD
[03:45] Rozan
    You said his soul is safe.
[03:48] Rozan
    Does this mean he's not
    asleep inside his body?
SIGN    NOD NOD
SIGN    Shark Metronome
SIGN    
    m 0 0 l 150 0 150 25 0 25
SIGN    Pretty cool, huh?
[03:54] Rozan
    Why the Sharkborg From Hell, of all things?
[04:00] Polka
    Well, this is only temporary, so...
[04:06] Rozan
    Damn it, that was a low blow!
[04:08] Rozan
    And to top it all off, 
    Polka seems to like it!
[04:13] Rozan
    How am I supposed to stay mad?!
[04:16] Rozan
    Still, if you think I'm a good person,
[04:19] Rozan
    you need your eyes checked, missy.
[04:23] Rozan
    Oh, well. Where were we?
[04:26] Rozan
    You, the... Corpse God? Is that it?
[04:30] Rozan
    You can turn Polka back to normal as long
    as you've got another body to possess.
[04:35] Rozan
    In that case, I wouldn't mind
    hooking you up with one of these.
[04:39] Polka
    What an exquisite golem.
[04:42] Polka
    There were experiments
    with them in my homeland,
[04:44] Polka
    but this is quite—
SIGN    TAP TAP TAP
[04:49] Polka
    What? If one of us becomes a robot,
    you want it to be you?
[04:52] Rozan
    No. What would be the point 
    of you possessing it?
[04:55] Polka
    You also want a rock drill
    and the power of flight?
[04:58] Polka
    Why do you want mining equipment?
[04:59] Rozan
    Well, he seems... I can't say healthy, 
    but I'm glad he's not suffering.
[05:05] Rozan
    Anyway, if someone is out to kill Polka,
[05:09] Rozan
    he should be safer with you in his body.
[05:12] Polka
    Then...
[05:13] Rozan
    Don't get me wrong.
[05:15] Rozan
    I haven't let this young lady off the hook.
[05:18] Rozan
    But she did save two of my grandkids.
[05:31] Rozan
    Whelp.
[05:33] Rozan
    I didn't press for details
    about their "intermediary,"
[05:36] Rozan
    but they mentioned Shinjuku,
    so it's probably the Kuraki girl.
[05:40] Rozan
    She's got heavy hitters in her corner,
    so I'd rather avoid a fight.
[05:45] Rozan
    And I don't want to believe anyone
    in my family would go after Polka...
[05:51] Rozan
    But...
[05:53] Rozan
    Well, I guess that's my karma
    catching up to me.
[05:57] Polka
    So, we'll leave once we look
    in on the real Polka's pet.
[06:01] Takumi
    Wait, you actually told them?
[06:04] Polka
    Yes, but only Rozan-san.
SIGN    My textbooks... 
    My game consoles...
[06:07] Takumi
    Well, I guess it's your call.
[06:09] Polka
    I got permission to live in
    Shinjuku for the time being.
[06:14] Misaki
    Um... I know it's too late for an apology,
[06:19] Misaki
    but I'll say this anyway.
[06:21] Misaki
    Sorry.
[06:23] Misaki
    And thanks.
SIGN    Don't worry about it.
[06:30] Polka
    That's unusual.
[06:32] Polka
    Not many souls are so open
    with their murderers.
[06:37] Polka
    The last one I met was...
[06:40] Shizuki
    W-Wait up! Misaki-oneechan!
[06:47] Shizuki
    Uh... Um...
[06:49] Shizuki
    Thanks... for saving us.
[06:54] Kazuki
    E-Earlier, well, we were scared, but...
[07:00] Misaki
    Don't sweat it.
[07:02] Misaki
    You kids wouldn't live long 
    if that didn't freak you out.
[07:05] Shizuki
    Are you a martial artist?
[07:08] Misaki
    I'm not telling!
[07:11] Kazuki
    E-Excuse me! Uncle Polka!
[07:14] Kazuki
    Thank you... very much.
[07:18] Shizuki
    Thank you.
[07:19] Polka
    I'm not the one you
    should be thanking.
[07:22] Polka
    I didn't come to your rescue earlier.
[07:25] Polka
    That was a fortune teller from
    Shinjuku called the Corpse God,
[07:28] Polka
    along with your guardian spirit.
[07:33] Misaki
    I can't see any spirit, but what's the plan?
[07:35] Misaki
    Are you gonna make a contract with her?
[07:39] Polka
    Eventually, but not now.
[07:50] Polka
    It's not time yet.
SIGN    Tokyo  Detention  House
[07:53] Iwanome
    I just heard from the station.
[07:56] Iwanome
    The real Fire-Breathing Bug showed up.
[07:59] Solitaire
    Really? What impeccable timing.
[08:03] Arase
    What's the damage?
[08:04] Iwanome
    The fire took out one patrol car and
    the arsonist it was transporting.
[08:09] Solitaire
    The Bug merely preyed on its imitator.
[08:12] Solitaire
    I find those skeletons far more intriguing.
[08:16] Solitaire
    Would you mind giving me
    another look at the video?
[08:20] Iwanome
    Sorry, but if you want more,
    you'll have to trade info for it.
[08:23] Solitaire
    I see. What a shame.
[08:27] Solitaire
    In that case, I'll go see for myself.
[08:33] Arase
    Here.
[08:33] Iwanome
    Oh, hey. You came prepared.
[08:35] Arase
    That mess at the club taught me a le—
[08:40] Iwanome
    You've gotta be kidding me.
[08:42] Iwanome
    I planned for a lot, but not for this...
SIGN    Tokyo
    Detention
    House
[08:46] Iwanome
    Phantom Solitaire!
[08:48] Solitaire
    Now, it's time for Ten'a Sorimura
    to stage a comeback.
[08:54] Solitaire
    If no one comes to watch, I'll just
    have to sob alone in the moonlit night.
SIGN    Well, it
    is white...
[09:01] Misaki
    It's Shiro! What a big cutie-pie!
[09:05] Polka
    The real Polka is no slouch.
SIGN    Investigation Report
SIGN    Ten'a Sorimura
[09:12] Iwanome
    The Phantom Solitaire
[09:14] Iwanome
    escaped from Tokyo Detention House
    at approximately 5:30 p.m. today.
SIGN    EMERGENCY MEETING!!
[09:19] Comps-3 Member A
    E-Excuse me, sir?
[09:20] Comps-3 Member A
    I thought you and Arase-san
    went there to question him.
[09:24] Iwanome
    We did! He up and vanished in
    the middle of our interview!
[09:28] Iwanome
    It was timed like a practical joke!
SIGN    HEE HEE HEE...
[09:29] Aikawa
    Seriously? That's hilarious.
[09:31] Iwanome
    It's not funny.
SIGN    EMERGENCY MEETING!!
[09:33] Iwanome
    For us, at least, it's not funny in the least!
[09:36] Iwanome
    He started causing trouble three years ago
[09:40] Iwanome
    when he stole a painting from a museum
    and left it outside Alta in Shinjuku.
[09:44] Iwanome
    His motive was that he "wanted to
    give Shinjuku's YouTubers a scoop."
[09:48] Iwanome
    His next crime
[09:50] Iwanome
    was making the Metropolitan
    Government Building disappear.
[09:53] Iwanome
    In one night, he covered it in pictures
    of the sky and other buildings,
[09:56] Iwanome
    using trick art to make it look
    like the whole place had vanished.
[10:01] Iwanome
    We think he was also behind
    a long list of other crimes,
SIGN    Teleporting jumbo jet!
SIGN    Shinjuku dream fireworks!
SIGN    Disappearing
    government building!
SIGN    Shinjuku
[10:04] Iwanome
    including suspected murders, but we
    don't have enough to pin those on him.
[10:09] Iwanome
    Then came the case that
    made him world-famous.
[10:13] Arase
    Kidnapping the prime minister?
[10:16] Iwanome
    Exactly.
[10:17] Iwanome
    A black cloth was suddenly dropped onto
    Prime Minister Yumenosuke Kubikigawara.
[10:22] Iwanome
    When his panicked security pulled it off,
    he was gone without a trace.
[10:27] Solitaire
    Ladies and gentlemen! I commit
    crimes for the thrill!
[10:30] Solitaire
    I do not endorse any political ideology!
[10:33] Solitaire
    And today, I'll prove it to you!
[10:36] Iwanome
    Then, for one day, he abducted the heads
    of all the opposition parties, too.
SIGN    m 0 0 l 200 0 200 25 0 25
[10:42] [SONG] Text
    SCOOP!
SIGN    m 0 0 l 100 0 100 20 0 20
SIGN    PM: "It was a blast."
SIGN    m 0 0 l 450 0 450 55 0 55
[10:43] Iwanome
    When the PM was released
    that evening, he said:
[10:45] Iwanome
    "The next thing I knew, I was in 
    a manga cafe reading Murciélago."
[10:50] Iwanome
    He added, "It was a blast,"
[10:52] Iwanome
    but we don't know if he meant
    the manga or the kidnapping.
SIGN    That's crazy  funny~
[10:57] Iwanome
    Inevitably, Japanese security became
    an international laughingstock.
[11:02] Iwanome
    Then Solitaire turned himself in.
[11:05] Iwanome
    And, to no one's surprise,
    he had a screw lose.
[11:09] (Flashback) Iwanome
    What brought this on?
[11:11] (Flashback) Solitaire
    Audience indifference got
    to be too much for me.
[11:14] (Flashback) Iwanome
    What? Everyone's talking about you.
[11:17] (Flashback) Solitaire
    I don't mean them.
[11:19] (Flashback) Solitaire
    I wanted to use my magic
    to hoodwink the real thing.
[11:23] (Flashback) Iwanome
    What do you mean?
[11:24] (Flashback) Solitaire
    I perform tricks and illusions,
[11:27] (Flashback) Solitaire
    but I believe that the
    fantastic does truly exist.
[11:31] (Flashback) Solitaire
    My crimes are a message to those
    genuine sorcerers and psychics!
[11:37] (Flashback) Solitaire
    If one of them reaches out to me as
    a fellow wizard, I'll have proof!
[11:43] (Flashback) Solitaire
    Proof that there is such a thing
    as magic with no trick behind it!
[11:49] (Flashback) Iwanome
    What?! You disturbed the whole
    country for that childish crap?
[11:55] (Flashback) Solitaire
    A dreaming child lives inside
    each and every one of us.
[12:00] (Flashback) Solitaire
    I looked at those imaginary
    children and thought to myself:
[12:04] (Flashback) Solitaire
    How free and pure they are!
[12:09] (Flashback) Solitaire
    As a responsible adult,
    I'll make their dreams come true!
[12:13] (Flashback) Solitaire
    And I don't care if I become a
    criminal and a nuisance to do it!
[12:18] (Flashback) Iwanome
    I see.
[12:20] (Flashback) Iwanome
    Restrain him.
[12:22] (Flashback) Solitaire
    Have you forgotten your childhood dreams?!
[12:24] Cop (male)
    Shut up!
[12:24] Iwanome
    I don't know how much of his last speech
    was true and how much was bullshit.
[12:25] Solitaire
    Take that! Mysterious pellet!
SIGN    Shinjuku  Police Station
SIGN    EMERGENCY MEETING!!
[12:30] Iwanome
    His technique and energy are superhuman,
    but that's not the worst thing about him.
SIGN    Ten'a Sorimura
[12:38] Iwanome
    Not even close.
[12:42] Takumi
    What's this?
[12:43] Polka
    A modern convenience.
[12:44] Polka
    I bought it in a secondhand shop
    on that street for 2,000 yen.
SIGN    Corpse God, thou
     hast found a radio!
SIGN    m 0 0 l 150 0 150 60 0 60
SIGN    Money:
    
    20,000 yen
    →
    18,000 yen
SIGN    m 0 0 l 90 0 90 100 0 100
[12:48] Polka
    It will help me gather intelligence.
[12:51] Takumi
    Y'know, with 20 grand, you could
    at least afford a cheap tablet.
SIGN    My dress
    is ruined...
[12:58] Announcer (female)
    And now, our next story.
[13:00] Polka; Takumi; Misaki
    Ooh.
[13:02] Announcer (female)
    A police vehicle caught fire this afternoon,
[13:02] Misaki
    The sound works.
[13:03] Announcer (female)
    resulting in the confirmed death
    of one suspect it was transporting.
[13:07] Announcer (female)
    The suspect, an unidentified male,
    was arrested for suspected arson.
[13:12] Polka
    What?
[13:12] Announcer (female)
    Police are currently working to identify him.
[13:13] Takumi
    You've gotta be kidding me.
[13:15] Takumi
    That's the guy who tried
    to torch the Shinoyamas.
[13:19] Announcer (male)
    And now, more breaking news.
[13:21] Announcer (male)
    Do you all remember a man
    named Ten'a Sorimura?
[13:25] Yamada
    Goodness gracious!
SIGN    25-Year Shinjuku
    Precinct Veteran
    
    Fumiyo Yamada
SIGN    m 0 0 l 150 0 150 75 0 75
[13:27] Yamada
    Tsubaki-chan! Everyone! Look what's on TV!
[13:31] Comps-3 Member A
    Who's Tsubaki-chan?
[13:32] Arase
    That's Inspector Iwanome's first name.
[13:35] Iwanome
    What's up?
[13:37] Yamada
    Quick! Check the TV!
SIGN    Public Nuisance Escapes!!
[13:38] Yamada
    They're reporting on Solitaire's escape!
[13:41] Iwanome
    What?!
[13:42] Arase
    Didn't you impose media restrictions?
[13:44] Iwanome
    I sure thought I did!
[13:45] Announcer (male)/Solitaire
    This handsome fellow swiftly committed
    and solved the crime of the century
SIGN    Public nuisance escapes
[13:50] Solitaire
    by abducting and releasing the PM and
    opposition leaders in a single day.
[13:55] Solitaire
    The police call him by the code
    name, "the Phantom Solitaire,"
SIGN    My, this is laid-back for breaking news. 
    Could it be a commercial disguised as a report?
[13:59] Solitaire
    and he's performed feats thought
    to be humanly impossible.
[14:02] Takumi
    Did he just say "Solitaire"?
[14:03] Solitaire
    Famed as a genius illusionist
    since childhood,
[14:04] Polka
    You know him?
[14:05] Takumi
    I've never met him, but he's famous.
[14:06] Solitaire
    he grew conceited and became a
    wicked discredit to the profession.
[14:08] Takumi
    Almost everyone knows who he is,
    at least in Japan.
SIGN    I've never heard of him...
[14:13] Takumi
    Oh, right. You've been trapped
    here as a ghost for five years.
[14:17] Takumi
    Like Lemmings, Solitaire's an urban
    myth that started in Shinjuku.
[14:20] Takumi
    'Course, he's been in the media too much
    to really be called a myth.
[14:25] Misaki
    Speaking of media, why did the
    person reading the news change?
[14:30] Iwanome
    Hey, what channel is this?!
[14:32] [SONG] Text; banner
    Guaranteed truth!
    
    The legend of Ten'a Sorimura!!
[14:32] [SONG] Text
    Guaranteed truth!
    
    The legend of Ten'a Sorimura!!
[14:32] Iwanome
    Every channel's the same?
[14:33] [SONG] Text
    Guaranteed truth!
    
    The legend of Ten'a Sorimura!!
[14:33] [SONG] Text
    Guaranteed truth!
    
    The legend of Ten'a Sorimura!!
[14:34] Solitaire
    Is this tragic news for the world?
[14:37] Solitaire
    Or could it be cause for celebration?
SIGN    Public nuisance escapes!!
[14:40] Solitaire
    Viewers of Japan!
[14:42] Solitaire
    Your beloved nemesis,
    Ten'a Sorimura, has returned!
SIGN    Public nuisance escapes!!
SIGN    Public nuisance escapes!!
[14:46] [SONG] Text
    SCOOP!!
[14:46] Solitaire
    Or rather, has re-debuted as the Phantom
    Solitaire! Never forget this moment!
[14:51] Solitaire
    And to the police, who christened me,
    I award a special grace period!
[14:58] Solitaire
    My public performances
    will resume in one week!
[15:01] Solitaire
    Till then, savor your
    dull yet beautiful lives!
[15:07] Solitaire
    Adios? Ciao?
[15:09] Solitaire
    Those don't feel quite right.
SIGN    I'll work on it!
SIGN    I'll work on it!
[15:11] Solitaire
    Well, I'll work on my
    sign-off before next time.
[15:13] Solitaire
    Good night!
SIGN    We sincerely apologize
[15:16] Announcer (male)
    W-We, er, apologize for that
    disruption in our broadcast.
[15:19] Arase
    He jacked the signal?
    Is there anything he can't do?
[15:22] Iwanome
    No, I'm guessing he bought
    airtime from the Grocer.
[15:26] Arase
    I thought the Grocer was in prison.
[15:28] Iwanome
    It doesn't matter.
    They don't care where they are.
[15:33] Grocer
    Come again.
[15:35] Iwanome
    Oh, right.
[15:36] Iwanome
    This is what makes Solitaire a problem.
[15:39] Iwanome
    He's the same type of person as Lisa Kuraki.
[15:41] Iwanome
    They naturally attract other troublemakers.
[15:45] Iwanome
    Even ones you'd think have
    nothing to do with them.
[15:49] Solitaire
    Life is full of surprises.
[15:52] Solitaire
    I was in despair, thinking magic was a myth,
[15:56] Solitaire
    when a new possibility was
    thrust in front of me.
[16:00] Solitaire
    Wouldn't you agree,
[16:02] Solitaire
    Fire-Breathing Bug?
SIGN    Fire
    Safety
SIGN    Fire
    
    
    Safety
[16:06] Solitaire
    Still, I'm shocked that you answered my call.
[16:12] Solitaire
    Ah, what a soothing ringtone.
[16:15] Solitaire
    I may be a disgrace, but what
    magician doesn't love this tune?
[16:19] Solitaire
    But, even though it's so famous,
[16:22] Solitaire
    surprisingly few people know its name.
SIGN    Number Withheld
[16:25] Solitaire
    I'm sorry, but would you wait a moment?
[16:29] Solitaire
    It must be the Grocer calling to confirm.
[16:31] Fire-Breathing Bug
    "El Bimbo."
[16:34] Fire-Breathing Bug
    The most famous recording is by Paul Mauriat.
[16:39] Solitaire
    Ah. Setting aside the question
    of how you learned this number,
[16:44] Solitaire
    why would you make a phone call
    when we're standing so close?
[16:48] Solitaire
    Isn't that a waste of money and bandwidth?
[16:51] Fire-Breathing Bug
    You're one to talk. You're wasting your life.
SIGN    Fire
    Safety
[16:58] Fire-Breathing Bug
    How did you discover me?
SIGN    Fire
    Safety
[17:06] Solitaire
    That—
[17:08] Solitaire
    Oh, my. Are you going to burn me, too?
[17:12] Solitaire
    Like you burned your pitiful,
    stunted imitator?
[17:22] Polka
    Is this Ten'a Sorimura really
    such an amazing criminal?
[17:26] Misaki
    Even I know his name!
[17:28] Takumi
    Weren't there any people like
    that back in your world?
[17:32] Takumi
    You know, famous enemies of the state?
SIGN    Aieee!
SIGN    Delgar, the Pirate Mayor
SIGN    BWAH HA HA
SIGN    Silk, the Highborn Vampire
[17:35] [SONG] Text; center; purple
    Medion, the Rampaging Invisible Golems
[17:35] [SONG] Text; right; black
    PLOP
    PLOP
[17:35] [SONG] Text; right; brown
    Pani, the Alchemical Scholar
    of the Floating Workshop
SIGN    La'dial, the Slime Witch
SIGN    MUNCH
    MUNCH
SIGN    I wanna
    know more
    about
    Silk-san!
[17:36] Polka
    I never left my coal mine,
    but I did still hear some rumors.
[17:40] Polka
    For example, the Kingdom of
    Nyanild had the "King Killer,"
[17:44] Polka
    Pirawizzo, the Venomous
    Dragon of Destruction.
[17:46] Polka
    It fled the kingdom after a man called
    the Calamity Crusher fought it to a draw.
[17:52] Polka
    That rumor might be what gave me the idea
    that the Calamity Crusher could kill me.
[17:57] Takumi
    The Venomous what now?
[17:59] Polka
    Dragon of Destruction.
[18:00] Polka
    It was only as big as a car, but it
    killed a dragon emperor worm with ease.
[18:05] Polka
    Speaking of which, I took
    control of that worm later.
SIGN    This thing
SIGN    Pirawizzo
[18:10] Takumi
    I guess it shouldn't surprise me now,
    but your world had dragons?
[18:14] Polka
    Oh, right. This one doesn't.
[18:17] Polka
    They're in so many stories and look so similar,
    I thought you must have them.
SIGN    Hmm... Fascinating.
SIGN    Perhaps we should make 
    a thorough comparison
SIGN    of creatures from Polka's 
    world with those from our 
    myths.
[18:27] Polka
    Good idea. We might find
    other things in common.
[18:32] Polka
    You seem to have wind and fire
    elementals, for one thing.
[18:37] Solitaire
    Amazing! Like a real fire elemental!
SIGN    Fire
    Safety
[18:42] Solitaire
    Honestly, would it kill
    you to just hear me out?
SIGN    Fire
    Safety
[18:48] Fire-Breathing Bug
    What do you mean?
[18:52] Solitaire
    What do I mean?
[18:56] Solitaire
    A foolish question!
[18:59] Solitaire
    I'm just wasting my breath, of course.
[19:03] Solitaire
    I asked if you were wasting
    bandwidth earlier,
[19:07] Solitaire
    but I didn't mean to criticize you!
[19:09] Solitaire
    Because I
[19:11] Solitaire
    adore the concept of waste!
[19:14] Solitaire
    The trick to enjoying life is to enjoy waste!
[19:17] Solitaire
    Wasted time!
[19:18] Solitaire
    Wasted effort!
[19:20] Solitaire
    Wasted money!
[19:24] Solitaire
    Get rid of waste, and ultimately
[19:26] Solitaire
    you become a machine that does
    nothing but breathe, eat, and sleep.
[19:32] Solitaire
    To simply go on living, aren't
    human emotions themselves a waste?
SIGN    Number Withheld
[19:38] Fire-Breathing Bug
    A specious argument.
[19:42] Fire-Breathing Bug
    It's nonsense.
SIGN    Fire
    Safety
[19:46] Fire-Breathing Bug
    Simply continuing to live
    includes joy and pain.
[19:54] Fire-Breathing Bug
    Emotions are not a bug.
SIGN    Fire
    Safety
[19:57] Fire-Breathing Bug
    They're a system built into life.
[20:02] Solitaire
    Exactly!
[20:03] Solitaire
    Or so I'll say for now!
[20:06] Solitaire
    I don't have the answers,
[20:09] Solitaire
    and I've never actually thought
    about the meaning of life!
[20:11] Solitaire
    A specious argument?
[20:12] Solitaire
    No! I'm playing with words!
[20:15] Solitaire
    But you're right—it is nonsense!
[20:18] Solitaire
    I strung plausible-sounding words together
[20:20] Solitaire
    and tried to make it so
    bombastic you wouldn't notice!
[20:22] Solitaire
    Well done seeing through me!
SIGN    Number Withheld
SIGN    Fire
    Safety
[20:28] Solitaire
    You must be wondering why
    you don't feel my weight.
[20:32] Solitaire
    But this is another illusion.
    There's a trick to it.
[20:36] Solitaire
    Just like your fire.
[20:38] Solitaire
    I'm so disappointed that your
    powers aren't magical or psychic.
[20:43] Fire-Breathing Bug
    I'm not interested in fairy tales.
[20:47] Solitaire
    But what if fairy tales become reality?
[20:51] Solitaire
    What if something foreign entered
    this "buggy program," as you call it?
[20:57] Solitaire
    Don't you need to find out whether
    this new presence in Shinjuku
[21:03] Solitaire
    is a "bug" you must eliminate?
[21:05] Fire-Breathing Bug
    What will you do, if I do decide
    it's a bug that needs to burn?
[21:10] Solitaire
    I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
SIGN    Fire
    Safety
[21:14] Fire-Breathing Bug
    Did you not say that you
    long for the occult?
[21:17] Solitaire
    It's like I said earlier...
[21:19] Solitaire
    I love it when things go to waste.
[21:24] Takumi
    Anyway, man.
[21:25] Takumi
    A dragon, huh?
[21:26] Takumi
    That's an enemy of the state for sure.
[21:29] Misaki
    I bet our criminals must seem
    tame compared to guys like that.
[21:34] Polka
    I can't be sure of that.
[21:36] Polka
    Everything is so different
    in a world without magic.
[21:40] Polka
    And Lemmings would have been a
    real threat, even in my homeland.
[21:50] Takumi
    That can't be Lemmings, can it?
SIGN    SQUEEZE
[21:55] Takumi
    Huh?
[21:56] Sayo
    Evening.
[21:58] Sayo
    How's it going, Polka?
[22:00] Polka
    Huh? Um...