# 7 - Age Before Beauty
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9P7MP06/desert-punk)
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"Sunabouzu - Desert Punk"
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*I am the one!*
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*Push on ahead as you like, yeah*
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*Oh, listen closely to me*
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*and speak the name
of the desert god*
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*Clench your teeth*
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*When your heart starts
to tremble with heat...*
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*Stop it! It'll only
bring destruction*
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*Let's do it, oh, angel*
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*Now is the time to
stand up and be strong*
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*A sad history, a
hidden big story*
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*That's the mystery*
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*There's nothing certain
about what tomorrow holds*
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*so living through this moment*
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*is my mission alone*
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Die!
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My left arm...!
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It jammed...!
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Huh?
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Huh?!
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It wasn't me?
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I saved the Sunabozu's life!
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You...!
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Who're you, again?
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Taiko! Koizumi Taiko!
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"Master and Pupil"
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You didn't notice me following you?
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That's what you get for working
before you're fully recovered...!
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After all, you did get stranded!
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What a lost cause!
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You not only got stranded,
but had to be rescued
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by your rivals, the Kawaguchi brothers!
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You're sure well-informed...!
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Well, you are my master!
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Get lost! You'll never be my pupil,
even if you follow me everywhere!
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No! I'll keep following you
even if you don't make me your pupil!
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Why do you wanna be my pupil anyway?!
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Isn't it obvious?
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To be stronger than any man!
To be more beautiful than anything!
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And to possess a wise and
clear intellect and beat up bad guys!
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Yes! To be the most skilled beauty
in the Great Kanto Desert!
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Oh, my future self is so wonderful...!
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Hey! Wait for me, Master!
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"Water Station ♪30"
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Welcome!
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Come on in!
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Yo, Kan-chan! Sounds like
you had a tough time! You ok?!
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Hey, Sunabozu! Don't get yer ass stranded!
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Life's long, so all
kinds of things will happen!
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Don't listen to 'em,
even if you did get stranded!
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It's that Sunabozu guy who got stranded!
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Let's go before we get dumb too!
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You're quite the celebrity, Master!
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Why?! Why?!
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The Sunabozu?
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Yep! We saved his butt!
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The minute he saw us, he was all crying
and saying how he was saved!
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Haruo! Are you the one spreading rumors?!
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--Damn you!
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--Eh?! Despite being a handyman?!
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He's so completely pathetic.
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If he had any sense of shame,
he'd never set foot in this town again.
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How lame!
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He even pissed off the villagers
who hired him as a bodyguard!
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And then he gets stranded...!
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How dare you brothers
spread untrue rumors about me...!
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What's so funny?! Huh?!
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You know it's funny, loser!
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How uncool!
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Yeah, loser!
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This calls for another bomb
in their toilet...!
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Wow! That was pathetic, Master!
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Anyway, Master, about being your pupil--
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Oh! If it isn't Kanta-kun!
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I hear you had a rough time.
Are you all better now?
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Oh, Mizuta-kun...!
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I'm so envious!
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How I'd love to live a life of
thrills and adventure as you do!
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No!
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Mizuta-kun! Don't do anything dangerous!
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Hey! You're too close to Wataru-san!
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Calling him by his given name?!
You suck-up!
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Come, now! Let's all just get along!
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See you later, Kanta-kun!
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You really must tell me
about your adventures sometime!
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Who was that pompous man?
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I'm so jealous...
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Eh?
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Mizuta Wataru, 20, unemployed.
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Always has over 10 girlfriends.
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Also known as the Harem Prince.
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A miracle man who's
supported by his women!
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Ick! How pathetic!
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Fool! How can you say that?!
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Living every single day in happiness,
surrounded by gorgeous women!
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The ultimate male dream!
Such romanticism!
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Lame.
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A real man...
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...works and fights as he sweats blood!
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He protects his family from the
cruel environment and vile fiends!
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He wins his food and brings it home!
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Ooh, oily...!
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Yes, that is a real man!
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You're hardcore in more ways than one...
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I'm not at full strength,
and now I'm a laughingstock...
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Man, I am so jealous of Mizuta-kun...!
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That's just it! If you make me
your pupil, you'll never be lonely!
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Plus I can help take care of you!
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Maybe I'd consider one
of Mizuta-kun's hotties,
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but not some puny,
flat-chested runt like you...!
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It appears the time to show it has come!
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Stop! I don't wanna see your no-boobs!
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Here it is!
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She's one hot mama!
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Isn't she?
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W-who is she?!
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My mother!
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Understand now? I'm the
daughter of this "hot mama"!
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Which means that I have
the same genes as her...!
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Alright! I'll test you!
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Get your bug dumplings here!
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30% off all used items today!
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Exactly how are you
going to test me, Master?
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Uh huh...
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Master...!
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Master...?
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Master?!
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That alright?
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I suppose...
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Master! What're you doing? Why--
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Things're all set here.
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Eh?
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Oh, is that her?
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Eh?
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She's a tiny one,
but there's plenty of work for her...
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Eh?
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I'm not fully better after all,
so you can do some jobs for a while...
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Eh?!
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Let's see, first off
is Hashimoto-san's request!
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W-w-wait!
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I want to be a super-skilled beauty...!
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Fool!
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Didn't you say you
wanted to be my pupil?!
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Yes...!
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Didn't you say you'd
do anything I say?!
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Yes!
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Then listen...!
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Being a handyman is the coolest
and most hardcore job in the desert!
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Whether or not I make you my pupil
depends on how you handle it!
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Understood! I'll do it! So I can
be a super-skilled beauty...!
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Alright, then!
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It's too much...!
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That's a might
lotta fertilizer ya gathered!
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Thank you...!
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Oh, could I also ask ya
to deliver somethin'?
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Eh?!
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Oh? I'd done heard handymen'll
do anythin' for money...
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A-all right!
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This is the life!
Raking it in just sitting here!
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Yeah. Yeah!
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It's obvious why I've had
no luck with girls so far!
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They were all strong, independent women!
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But this time I'll take that
lower-than-garbage, genderless brat
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and reforge her mind, body, and spirit!
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I can't reach the button in back...
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I'll mold her into a
proficient assistant handyman!
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Oh, you! Don't touch me there!
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Sorry...!
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I, with my own two hands,
shall raise my ideal woman!
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Oh, Wataru-san! Kiss me!
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No, me!
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Oh, my! Whatever shall I do?
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You're thinking way too small,
Mizuta-kun...!
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First, I'll use that runt
as a guinea pig,
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and then in the future,
gather all the ideal women I raised!
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In this desert, I shall build
an Amusement Land all my own!
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Delivery for you...!
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Delivery for you!
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Delivery for you!
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Um, delivery from Hashimoto-san!
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Yes, this year I am 89 years old...
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I can't see inside...!
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Hey, runt! Take this one too!
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This job'll be a cinch!
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Hey! Start shoutin' your spiel!
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Right!
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Come one, come all!
Always 30% to 40% off!
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The newly-renovated Insect Shop!
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Not loud enough.
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Right! Always 30% to 40% off!
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Can't hear you!
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The newly-renovated Insect Shop!
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Louder!
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Always 30% to 40% off!
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Say it louder!
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Um, there's no one around...
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I don't care! Now start from the top!
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Always 30% to 40% off!
The newly-renovated Insect Shop!
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Always 30% to--
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"Water Parlor"
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Well?
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It's horrible! And uncool...!
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What are you doing?
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Master! I can't go on...!
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You're a handyman. Handymen are
handy 'cause they do anything.
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Yes, but...!
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But I want to do real jobs
like help you get rid of bandits!
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Taiko. Do you know why
I was able to beat Onuma Jiro?
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'Cause I'm a super-skilled handyman!
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At the time, the conditions
were in his favor.
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But it was because I'm a handyman
that I'm alive today!
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He was definitely
a top-class sharpshooter.
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He must've trained quite a lot.
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But that's all he had going for him.
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Yes! Fighting and living are the same!
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Ever-changing conditions!
Unpredictable storms of change!
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One must promptly and accurately
ascertain situations during these
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and move with swiftness and flexibility!
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Confidence backed up by your
flexible brain and abundant experience!
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The only way to achieve that
is to experience many things!
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And the ones who can do that
while earning money
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are those known as handymen!
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Well? Cool, huh?
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V-v-very!
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Master! I'll go work my very hardest!
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Good! Think of it all as
personal fertilizer as you do so!
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Right!
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Now to use this chance
to spend a bunch of money!
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Oh, Kan-chan!
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Yo. I'm here to pick up Taiko's pay.
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Oh, right.
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What should I buy first?!
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Here you are.
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What's this?
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Her bill.
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Eh?
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I advanced the money,
so I'll need you to pay immediately.
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W-wha--
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What?!
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I'm not so sure
about that girl, Kan-chan.
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She trips and scatters fertilizer,
fills chimneys with soot,
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and breaks goods she's delivering.
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She's a real mess!
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Eh?! Really?!
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Yep! He's all talk! He's really
nothing great, that Sunabozu!
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Yeah, that girl took jobs
under your name...
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That can't be good.
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And you got stranded the other day,
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so your reputation's
taken a big nosedive lately.
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Where is she?! I heard she's
walking the Heracles Goldion Beetle
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for Kawahara-san on 4th Street, but...!
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What's that smoke...?
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That smells great...!
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Master!
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You dumbass...!
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But I was hungry!
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He told you this Heracles Gol-- Um...
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This bug with the complicated
name is a legendary insect
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that's dear to our client,
the rich Kawahara-san!
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But aren't bugs meant to be eaten?!
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It's not normal to feed them
and take them for walks!
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Rich people are weirdos! And yet, you--
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Don't hit me!
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Ouch! Stop!
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Hello...!
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Oh! Tama-chan! Did you
enjoy your little walkie?
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What are you doing?
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You'll break, err, uh...
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Hand her here this instant!
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No!
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What have you done
to my poor Tama-chan...?!
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I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
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--Tama-chan was pedigreed
and very expensive!
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--Just endure it!
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--What on earth do you
have to say for yourself?!
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--It's for my big long-term plan...!
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--I did have my doubts, seeing
as you were stranded recently...!
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I should've known better!
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I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
I swear I'll make it up to you!
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On my honor as the Sunabozu!
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I'm in huge debt again...
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Oh, if it isn't Kanta-kun!
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What're you doing here?
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Oh, Mizuta-kun...!
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Just watching the sun go down...
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Ah...
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What a pretty sunset...
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Yeah...
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You don't seem in very high spirits.
And what happened to your face?
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Well, you see...
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I'll kill you first, and then me!
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Stop!
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So I was just your toy...
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And me...
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And me...
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And me...
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W-wait! I can explain!
My love is eternal!
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Eternal...!
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I tried to love them all equally,
but things turned a bit sour...
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I'd say more than "a bit"...
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Whoops. I gotta go
apologize to Izumi-chan next.
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See you, Kanta-kun.
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Yeah. See you later...
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Hmm. I guess even
Mizuta-kun has it tough...
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Yeah. I'll hafta work hard, too...!
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For my dream...
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Found ya!
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Soon after, people began to spot
an odd pair in the Great Kanto Desert.
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Ok! We attack on my signal!
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Right, Master!
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The Sunabozu and his pupil, Kosuna.
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But between them was
neither respect nor trust...
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...only revolting desires
and devious selfishness.
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May happiness come
to this wretched pair...!
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Let's do it, Kosuna!
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Right, Master!
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*One circle... Two circles...*
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*One more big circle...*
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*A billowing raincoat...
(It's a cape!)*
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*Oh, let's not forget
the sunshade now...*
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*(His heart is pitch black!
His heart is pitch black!)*
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*Give him a Winchester and
suddenly you have Sunabouzu!*
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*He'll run again
today! (Run again)*
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*Through the desert!
(Even if forced to do jobs)*
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*He'll go forth again tomorrow!
(Go forth again)*
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*(Until he gets the Boobie Lady)*
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*(Until he gets the Boobie Lady)*
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*(Until he gets the Boobie Lady!)*
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*He'll rush on ahead, life
on the line! Rush on ahead!*
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Yo! Ghost of the Desert, Sunabozu here!
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Sorry about this episode!
There were no boobies to be had!
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That's all right, Master!
Having none has its advantages, too!
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--Like that makes me any happier!
--You're hopeless...
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On the next Sunabozu-
"Dog-Girl and Rock"
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Miss it and there'll be
even less boobies!