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E53 - HADLAR'S CHALLENGE

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    With your bonds with your friends
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    nakama tono kizuna wo
[00:22] ---
    Embraced in your heart
[00:22] ---
    sono mune ni idaite
[00:26] ---
    Like a flash, in an instant
[00:26] ---
    hikari no you ni isshun ni
[00:30] ---
    You risk it all
[00:30] ---
    subete wo kaketeku
[00:33] ---
    Time and time again
    Against your burning destiny

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    nanndo mo moeagaru sadame ni
[00:40] ---
    You will face it again
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    tachimukatte ikunnda to
[00:45] ---
    If that's what you choose
[00:45] ---
    kakugo wo kimetanara
[00:48] ---
    Oh even when hurt
[00:48] ---
    Oh kizutsuite mo
[00:52] ---
    Oh even if you stumble
[00:52] ---
    Oh tsumazuite mo
[00:56] ---
    Continue on
    To your journey's end

[00:56] ---
    susume kono tabi no hate
[00:59] ---
    Again and again
    To the future you make
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    kimi no egaku mirai e nando mo
[01:04] ---
    Oh Oh
[01:04] ---
    Oh Oh
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    You can stand up
    You're The Bravest

[01:07] ---
    tachiagareru
    You're The Bravest

[01:11] ---
    Oh Oh
[01:11] ---
    Oh Oh
[01:14] ---
    You can stand up
    You're The Bravest

[01:14] ---
    tachiagareru
    You're The Bravest

[01:18] ---
    Fly up to the world
    Never let it go

[01:18] ---
    Fly up to the world
    Never let go

[01:22] ---
    Make you more strong
    You're The Bravest

[01:22] ---
    motto Make you strong
    You're The bravest

[01:26] ---
    Fly up to the world
    Never let it go

[01:26] ---
    Fly up to the world
    Never let go

[01:30] ---
    Make you more strong
    You're The Bravest

[01:30] ---
    motto Make you strong
    You're The bravest

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    You're The Bravest
[01:37] ---
    You're The Bravest
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    HADLAR'S CHALLENGE
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    Got you!
[01:55] ---
    Baran... falls!
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    What was that?!
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    An Avan Strash?!
[02:18] ---
    Was that... the Hero brat?
[02:22] ---
    H-How can there be this many
    people out there stronger than me?!

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    Damn... it all!
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    I've never drawn my sword
    without thinking before.

[02:39] ---
    I felt my sword's will
    and my own will as one!

[02:43] ---
    I completely forgot about the seal!
[02:45] ---
    All I could think about was saving...
[02:51] ---
    So that's your sword.
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    Impressive.
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    With our blades, not even
    the Dark Citadel Gate will hold.

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    Let's go, Dai!
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    Focus all of your strength into this blow!
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    Okay!
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    We did it!
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    This rumbling...!
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    They breached it.
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    That gate that was sealed
    by the Dark King's power.

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    Send for another.
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    Yes, my king.
[04:01] ---
    How very impressive.
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    We did it! The entrance
    to Vearn Palace is open!

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    We were bound to succeed.
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    The combined might of two Dragon Knights
    is a force that normally should not exist.

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    Shattering the gate is not our goal.
    Keep your guard up.

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    Come! Our target is Dark King Vearn!
[04:29] ---
    This shaking can only mean...
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    Dai and Baran have breached
    the Dark Citadel Gate!
[04:45] ---
    Fenbren is dead!
[04:47] ---
    Damn it!
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    Wait! Where are you going, Hym?!
[04:52] ---
    To avenge Fenbren!
[04:54] ---
    You will not!
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    But...!
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    Have you forgotten, Hym,
    your vow to Lord Hadlar?
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    With Fenbren's insubordination,
    how can we abandon our position now?!
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    You're right.
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    Our purpose here is to allow Lord Hadlar
    to fight Dai and Baran whole-heartedly!
[05:24] ---
    What?!
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    That means...!
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    We'll take care of you here!
[05:35] ---
    Hadlar intends to fight Dai and Baran,
    two Dragon Knights, at once?!

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    Hadlar?!
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    He's alone?!
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    Impossible! How is he here?!
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    Perfect. I wouldn't have it
    any other way!
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    Hyunckel!
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    Pick yourselves up. We need to
    take them out and follow Dai and Baran!
[06:28] ---
    All that damage and he still shows up
    on the battlefield?
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    Is he really human?
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    He must be immortal. Just like us.
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    This is crazy, Hyunckel.
    You can barely even stand!

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    That magnificent, reckless fool!
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    Hey, big brute!
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    I've had just about enough of you!
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    Hyunckel, are you sure about this?!
    Coming here couldn't have been easy!
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    Don't worry about me.
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    That's right!
    All he can do is stand around anyways!
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    Don't bother worrying!
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    Popp!
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    Just stand right there.
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    Having you stand behind us is enough.
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    You're still our senior Disciple of Avan.
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    Popp...
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    Even if you can't do anything...
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    just by showing up,
    you've given us plenty of courage.
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    We won't lose.
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    Just relax and stand there.
[07:52] ---
    I appreciate it, but standing still
    is actually more exhausting.
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    I'll take my chances.
[07:59] ---
    Hmph! Learn to take a compliment!
[08:05] ---
    The bishop's missing.
[08:08] ---
    Is it dead?
[08:09] ---
    Probably. Dai and Baran must have won.
[08:12] ---
    Dai and Baran?
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    It looks like they had
    already figured out our plan.
[08:18] ---
    Hadlar is waiting for Dai and Baran.
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    He plans to fight two Dragon Knights?
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    Is he sure of his victory?
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    Or does he intend to die?
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    Or...
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    could it be both?
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    We have to hurry!
    Focus on taking them out!
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    That's our line!
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    You aren't the only ones
    who can't afford to lose here!
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    We'd like to wipe you all out right now!
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    So, let's see who gets
    to go to their leader!
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    So, who will go first?
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    I don't have much time.
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    Is this some sort of game, Hadlar?
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    Do you really think us so weak
    that you could easily win?
[09:13] ---
    Of course not.
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    Dragon Knights are the ultimate creatures
    created by the gods.
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    Knowing one served under me, Baran,
    made me live in fear.
[09:25] ---
    I was petrified that you'd come
    for my throne.
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    Then when I learned Dai was
    a Dragon Knight, I was terrified.
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    I imagined the two of you working together
    to come and defeat me.
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    And now that fear has become a reality.
[09:46] ---
    And yet, I find myself looking forward
    to this fight. Life can be strange.
[09:54] ---
    He intended to fight both of us
    from the start.

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    Fenbren's insubordination was unexpected.
[10:02] ---
    It seems that inside me,
[10:05] ---
    there was still some lingering
    narcissism and desire for glory.
[10:11] ---
    These were manifested in Fenbren's
    personality through the Forbidden Magic.
[10:17] ---
    Children tend to grow up
    to be their parents.
[10:23] ---
    Now I shall defeat Dai, the Hero!
[10:26] ---
    And Baran, if you intend to defend Dai...
[10:31] ---
    I will take both of you out!
[10:35] ---
    Fool!
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    Save your overconfidence!
[10:40] ---
    It seems you've grown in power somewhat.
[10:43] ---
    But don't assume you can take on
    two Dragon Knights at once!
[10:48] ---
    I shall slay you here myself!
[10:58] ---
    TWIN SWORD PINNING
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    AVAN STRASH
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    Wait! Hadlar isn't being overconfident!
[11:15] ---
    He's become a Superior Being!
[11:17] ---
    A Superior Being?
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    He really is strong enough
    to fight both of us!
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    We have to fight together!
    It's the sure way to defeat him!
[11:28] ---
    Ridiculous.
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    After what he said,
    you'd choose to fight him together?!
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    Have you no pride as a Dragon Knight?!
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    If I could win with just pride, I would.
[11:41] ---
    You already said our target
    is Dark King Vearn!
[11:51] ---
    So it begins. The climax of this battle.
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    Which has the upper hand?
[12:00] ---
    Hadlar may have become quite powerful,
[12:04] ---
    but against Dai and Baran
    at their full power, he cannot win.
[12:09] ---
    Separating from his Royal Guard
    was pure suicide.
[12:14] ---
    Suicide, you say?
[12:16] ---
    It seems to me,
[12:19] ---
    he intends to draw out his own power
    to its limit through desperation.
[12:24] ---
    A clever ploy by Hadlar.
[12:27] ---
    But, should Hadlar be defeated,
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    the two Dragons will gain entrance
    into the citadel.
[12:34] ---
    That won't happen.
[12:36] ---
    Sire?
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    That is an impossibility, Mystvearn.
[12:42] ---
    Those two will never see my face.
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    I misjudged you, Dai.
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    I thought you had grown as a warrior...
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    but you're still far from ever being
    a true Dragon Knight!
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    If worrying about pride
    keeps me from doing what has to be done,
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    then I don't want to be
    a true Dragon Knight.
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    Besides, I'm part human.
[13:09] ---
    I have the blood of my mother.
[13:14] ---
    I've always fought for those around me,
    doing the best that I could.
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    For me, making sure we defeat Hadlar
    and Vearn is more important than my pride!
[13:28] ---
    Dai...
[13:30] ---
    Hurry up. Who will fight?
[13:34] ---
    Or will you both fight me?
[13:40] ---
    I'll fight you, Hadlar!
[13:43] ---
    You won't listen to reason,
    so I don't have a choice.
[13:47] ---
    You'll see in just a few seconds.
[13:51] ---
    So Dai comes first.
[13:54] ---
    Here goes!
[13:58] ---
    Hadlar has a sword?!
[14:13] ---
    Good, Dai! You've improved
    since our last fight!
[14:29] ---
    Dai isn't weak!
[14:31] ---
    The power of the attacks
    he unleashes rivals that of my own!

[14:36] ---
    How very generous.
[14:38] ---
    To fight in place of your father
    who has no experience fighting me.
[14:44] ---
    However, Dai...
[14:46] ---
    it's not as though you know
    the extent of my powers either!
[14:55] ---
    A weapon in his left hand?!
[14:57] ---
    Hell's Chain!
[15:05] ---
    Boom!
[15:23] ---
    Avan Strash!
[15:25] ---
    Kaboom!
[15:34] ---
    Dai!
[15:37] ---
    Dai!
[15:40] ---
    Are you alright?!
[15:46] ---
    What did I tell you?
[15:48] ---
    I see now.
[15:50] ---
    Hadlar has become a formidable enemy.
[15:58] ---
    Well done, Dai.
    You never cease to surprise me.
[16:05] ---
    I could say the same.
[16:07] ---
    He completely nullified my Strash
    with his Kaboom spell.
[16:12] ---
    A wound like that
    will regenerate in no time.
[16:18] ---
    That... It can't be!
[16:21] ---
    I'm sure of it!
    The Coal of Hell! A Black Core!
[16:26] ---
    What's wrong?!
[16:27] ---
    How could Dark King Vearn
    do something so barbaric?!
[16:32] ---
    To implant such a thing
    in his own servant!
[16:36] ---
    A Black Core?!
[16:38] ---
    You had such a thing
    hidden in Hadlar's body?!
[16:42] ---
    Now do you see?
[16:45] ---
    I said those two will never see my face.
[16:52] ---
    Even if Hadlar falls,
[16:55] ---
    if the Black Core
    in his body is detonated,
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    at the very least,
    we can bring it to a draw.
[17:05] ---
    A draw? It will blow away
    the whole Field of Death.
[17:11] ---
    Perhaps, but it won't mean anything
    to Vearn Palace.
[17:18] ---
    They're fighting
    in the exterior perimeter after all.
[17:28] ---
    That thing's... a bomb?!
[17:30] ---
    That's right.
[17:32] ---
    An Underworld super-powerful bomb
    called a Black Core.
[17:36] ---
    No, it's a nightmare weapon
    beyond the definition of a bomb.
[17:42] ---
    How do you know that?
[17:44] ---
    I once saw one in the Underworld.
[17:48] ---
    Black Cores are made
    from a stone called Black Crystal.

[17:53] ---
    It's found deep in the Underworld,
    and absorbs power endlessly.

[17:57] ---
    They're weaponized using Old Magic.
[18:00] ---
    But, due to their
    extreme destructive power,

[18:03] ---
    even evil creatures that casually use
    Forbidden Magic fear using Black Cores.

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    Thirteen years ago, when Hadlar rampaged
    the surface world as Dark Lord,

[18:17] ---
    I fought Velzar, King of the Abyss
    in the Underworld.

[18:23] ---
    Velzar used a Black Core while battling
    on a certain Underworld Continent.

[18:30] ---
    What happened?
[18:32] ---
    The entire continent was vaporized.
[18:38] ---
    In his attempt to kill me,
    he destroyed his own territory.
[18:44] ---
    Even Velzar refused to use
    a Black Core after that.
[18:51] ---
    It makes sense, considering his ambitions
    to rule the Underworld and surface world.
[18:58] ---
    What's the point
    if there's nothing left to rule?
[19:02] ---
    But for Vearn to use a Black Core...
[19:06] ---
    It seems his plan
    is not to rule the surface world

[19:12] ---
    but to annihilate it.
[19:15] ---
    I never intended for Hadlar
    to be a sacrificial pawn.
[19:20] ---
    But when I saved him
    from the brink of death,
[19:23] ---
    I implanted it in him as insurance.
[19:28] ---
    But then he went and
    turned himself into a Superior Being.
[19:34] ---
    This was something even I did not expect.
[19:38] ---
    The power increase beyond his limits
    had an adverse effect on the Black Core.
[19:45] ---
    That bomb could be set off at any moment.
[19:50] ---
    This must be manifested in Hadlar
    as bouts of extreme pain.
[19:57] ---
    Of course, he assumes it's merely
    due to his conversion to a Superior Being.
[20:05] ---
    Knowing the outcome to a battle...
[20:09] ---
    is a boring thing indeed.
[20:12] ---
    But we must see it through.
[20:17] ---
    For my dear right-hand man,
[20:19] ---
    it could be his final grand performance.
[20:27] ---
    Hadlar...
[20:29] ---
    Awakening as a true warrior
    ultimately shortened your life.

[20:34] ---
    How ironic.
[20:37] ---
    I would prefer that you win and survive...
[20:42] ---
    but should you fall,
    at least go out in a blaze of glory.

[20:46] ---
    Be honored to know that your death
    shall be for the great King Vearn.

[20:57] ---
    If it explodes, we'll be in trouble.
[21:00] ---
    What do we do?
[21:01] ---
    I don't know.
[21:03] ---
    What?!
[21:03] ---
    But we can't use spells or Magic Swords.
[21:08] ---
    Fight only using blunt force.
[21:10] ---
    That's impossible! We can't win like that!
[21:14] ---
    Just listen to me!
[21:17] ---
    That Black Core has been imbued
    with great Magic Power.
[21:21] ---
    It must have absorbed Hadlar's
    increased Magic Power to its limit.
[21:27] ---
    Simply hitting it with a powerful spell
    might set it off.
[21:33] ---
    Are you done planning?
[21:36] ---
    I'll take you both on! Here I come!
[21:50] ---
    That's...!
[21:51] ---
    Oh no! He's coming!
[22:07] ---
    To be honest I was clumsy
[22:07] ---
    omoeba boku wa bukiyou de
[22:12] ---
    And it took me forever to get here
[22:12] ---
    shouganaikurai tomawarishita
[22:19] ---
    I used even loneliness as a weapon
[22:19] ---
    kodokukannsura mo buki ni shite
[22:24] ---
    I searched the dungeon for a simple answer
[22:24] ---
    tannjun na kotae wo sagashita dannjon
[22:30] ---
    Even if I cast aside
    Rightness and kindness

[22:30] ---
    tadashisa yasashisa nagedashite mo
[22:35] ---
    I just want to be there for you
[22:35] ---
    tada hitori kimi no mikata de itai
[22:42] ---
    To call out your name
[22:42] ---
    kimi no namae wo yobu koto ga
[22:47] ---
    Is harder than any magic spell
[22:47] ---
    ari to arayuru mahou yori muzukashikute
[22:53] ---
    Even though you're so close to me
[22:53] ---
    konnani mo chikaku ni itanoni
[22:59] ---
    I love you
[22:59] ---
    aishiteiru
[23:02] ---
    I finally realized it
[23:02] ---
    imasara kizuitanosa
[23:05] ---
    To call out your name
[23:05] ---
    kimi no namae wo yobu tame ni
[23:10] ---
    Must be the reason I was born
[23:10] ---
    boku wa kitto umarete kitannda
[23:17] ---
    I shake off the clinging night
[23:17] ---
    shigamitsuku yoru furihodoite
[23:22] ---
    And go to see you
[23:22] ---
    ai ni iku
[23:25] ---
    Right now to where you are
[23:25] ---
    ima sugu kimi no moto e
[23:33] ---
    To avoid setting off the Black Core
    and alerting Hadlar of its presence,

[23:38] ---
    Dai and Baran must
    hold back their attacks.

[23:41] ---
    Meanwhile, Hadlar hounds
    Dai and Baran relentlessly.

[23:45] ---
    Hadlar gets in position
    for his Ultra Combustion Slash.

[23:48] ---
    Against the overwhelming odds,
    Baran makes a deadly gambit.

[23:53] ---
    DRAGON QUEST The Adventure of Dai*,
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"Hadlar Versus Baran"*
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    The adventure continues!
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