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10 - the pied piper of Hamelin

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    Escape
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    On this wind,
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    I let my tears ride
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    Speeding up until they dry
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    I can fly over and go on
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    I just know that the answer
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    Is out there, on the far side of that distant sky
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    In this place, where I can't find the answer
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    I sigh and look at the sky
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    Shining deep in these eyes suffused in blue
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    Is a dreamer, who can go anywhere
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    That's me, you see
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    Escape
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    On this wind,
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    I let my wish ride
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    My outstretched hands paint the future
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    I'm not afraid anymore
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    Of the trace of tears
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    Suffused in rainbow colors, I fly on
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    To the far side of that sky
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    A Scub Burst occurred in the
    suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona.
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    That was eight hours ago.
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    The US military made a concerted
    effort to intercept the Secret,
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    but the operation ended in failure.
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    This is the first time, right?
    That a Scub showed up in America?
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    Is it?
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    Scub Bursts themselves have occurred
    several times within the US.
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    --However, no appearance has been confirmed
    --If their operation failed...
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    --in the last ten years.
    --...is it going to come?
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    --The first Scub Burst to occur in the US was...
    --A request from America for us to mobilize?
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    I doubt that country will
    seek Generation Bleu's help.
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    Well, that's a separate issue.
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    It's not as if there aren't ways around that.
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    Team Pied Piper is currently
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    on standby in Mexico across
    the border from Arizona.
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    Now, as the state governor, you just
    have to invoke your state's authority
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    and issue a request for us to mobilize.
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    It's simple, isn't it?
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    The simpler the matter, the more
    opposing opinions there are.
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    This is where I'd like to take my time
    and thoroughly consider my options.
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    After you've kept us waiting
    all this time? That's just not right!
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    What do you think, Rebecka?
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    It's nice to see you looking so well.
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    Yes.
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    Hey, what's this?
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    If you work directly under your CEO,
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    then you must know.
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    That she was assigned to her post from above.
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    What about it?
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    As you know, Generation Bleu's parent company
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    is the largest PR firm in the United States.
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    The truth is, I was also with
    them before I got into politics.
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    She and I worked there together.
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    We had the best possible partnership.
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    Our greatest accomplishment
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    was wiping an entire country off the map.
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    Smoldering antagonism between two
    ethnic groups in the Balkan Peninsula
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    turned into a full-blown conflict
    when a Scub Burst occurred.
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    The side that lost ended up with
    their very country dismantled.
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    With not a single country in
    the world coming to their defense.
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    I know that story.
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    That country was trying to commit genocide.
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    Defend them? Please.
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    The genocide was nothing more than an illusion
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    manufactured by us, the PR firm.
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    What?!
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    There was no good or evil side in that conflict.
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    Hey...
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    But the world will not act unless a
    distinction is made between good and evil.
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    And you had a hand in that?
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    You haven't changed.
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    And you have?
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    I would like to think that I have.
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    That's impossible.
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    What you did then is no
    different than what you do now.
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    In fact, even now,
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    you're working behind the scenes,
    trying to get me to take action.
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    Noa...
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    You're not supposed to be here.
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    The Pied Piper of Hamelin...
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    That story about the violinist?
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    No, wrong.
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    The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a
    folktale based on actual events
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    --I wonder why our team is named
    --that occurred in Germany.
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    for the pied piper of Hamelin.
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    The person who came up with the name was...
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    ...the Chief, wasn't it?
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    Why?
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    No idea.
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    Continuing on!
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    I will explain the different
    interpretations of this story.
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    One interpretation is that the
    pied piper is the grim reaper,
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    and that the story is a metaphor
    for the high death toll of children
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    due to a plague or some other cause.
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    There is a separate theory
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    that it represents the participation
    of children in a pilgrimage,
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    or some military action,
    or possibly the Children's Crusade.
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    Furthermore, in the latter
    half of the twentieth century,
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    a theory has been set forth
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    that the children left the
    town of their own accord.
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    Several villages and cities founded
    in Eastern Europe during this period
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    show evidence of having been
    developed by the children of Hamelin.
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    --I didn't know he was still talking.
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    --It is surmised that the pied piper was their leader...
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    The US military is on the move.
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    They've begun their second wave of attack.
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    A direct attack initiated by infantry?
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    The ZOA area created by this Secret
    is believed to be extremely large.
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    Their primary attack force approached
    it carelessly and was wiped out.
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    With their inexperience in anti-Secret combat,
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    they would want to avoid further IFO losses.
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    And so, they thought,
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    if the Secret reacts to IFOs and other aircraft,
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    they should just approach it
    with flesh and blood soldiers.
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    I'm leaving my post.
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    Where do you think you're going?
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    I'll rendezvous with the US
    forces deployed at the site
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    and directly offer my advice to them.
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    Hey, now. Don't joke like that.
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    You're an employee of this company.
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    I'm taking independent action.
    You'll have to forgive me.
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    Hey, wait! Ivica!
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    Once we cross the border,
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    fabricate an identification code
    and dodge immigrations.
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    It can be done, but it will be against the law.
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    As stipulated under United States
    Immigration Control Law, Section--
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    Save the unnecessary chitchat.
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    Roger that, Sir.
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    Sorry about this.
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    I'm the one who volunteered.
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    And either way, you need a driver, right?
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    Besides...
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    What is it?
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    I thought it was unusual.
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    For you to defy our CEO and the others.
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    Even the US military isn't foolish
    enough to set up an operation
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    based on an off-the-cuff idea.
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    Their tactic of sending in
    infantry against the Secret
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    must have been considered in advance.
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    Then, they're basing it on evidence
    from an experiment or something?
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    I have a bad feeling about this.
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    You, too, right?
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    Chief! Over there!
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    We are Generation Bleu.
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    You should have orders to evacuate.
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    What are you doing here?
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    Chief, something's wrong.
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    Yeah.
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    That man is crazy!
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    That bastard made threats to gather us here!
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    Why are you doing this?!
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    Through your sacrifice,
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    the truth about the Secrets will be revealed.
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    Truth...
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    --Give Naru back!
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    --Ao!
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    It seems the second wave of attack
    has ended in failure as well.
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    They say they were met
    with an unexpected attack
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    and the unit was wiped out.
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    So? You're finally interested
    in talking to us seriously?
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    What unexpected attack?
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    I haven't received the details yet, either.
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    Now...
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    The authority to decide whether
    to request aid from Generation Bleu
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    still lies with me...
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    After everything that's happened,
    you're still going at it?!
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    Truth!
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    I can't believe this!
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    What's going on?
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    Chief, where'd that bastard...
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    What is this?
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    Did that bastard do this?
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    Hide inside the building!
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    Everyone! Hurry! Inside the building!
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    Stay calm!
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    Secrets only react against
    fighter planes and IFOs!
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    But against flesh-and-blood humans...
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    W-We can do this.
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    What?
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    What are you doing?! Pull it together!
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    Secrets are not anything like
    what you people think they are.
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    Those things are still looking for us.
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    Hurry up and call for help!
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    We can't contact our main unit unless
    we can get back to our choppers.
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    It's okay. It's going to be okay.
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    No matter what happens,
    Mommy will protect you.
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    The Secret attacked humans?!
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    Yes, that's right.
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    After being attacked by the infantry unit,
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    it seems the Secret learned to
    identify humans themselves as hostile.
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    It doesn't discriminate,
    regardless of the shape of the weapon.
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    So this is the unexpected attack
    that he was talking about.
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    And what about Ao and the Chief?
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    We haven't heard from them.
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    At any rate, speed up the
    negotiations with the governor.
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    I'll leave it entirely up to you what
    conditions you compromise on.
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    Conditions...
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    This isn't like you.
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    What are you so panicked about?
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    I am not panicking.
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    So this is about Ivica.
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    I've heard about that guy's homeland.
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    I've brought you to a terrible place.
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    I'm sorry.
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    I'm the one who named the team Pied Piper.
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    My homeland no longer exists.
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    We'd neglected the importance of information,
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    and before we realized it,
    the entire world had turned against us.
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    Both my wife and child died,
    caught in the fighting.
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    Many other lives were lost as well.
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    But I have no right to blame our enemy.
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    Because we did the same thing.
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    I took Generation Bleu's offer
    in order to atone for that.
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    But only children could pilot the IFOs.
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    The pied piper is me.
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    I play my pipe and send you kids into battle.
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    But the pied piper will
    never allow you kids to die.
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    I will serve as bait.
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    Use that opportunity to
    lead everyone out of here!
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    But if you do that...!
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    Ao!
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    I-I did it!
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    What were you thinking?!
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    It was an experiment.
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    Experiment?
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    Upstairs, I saw mannequins
    that had been destroyed.
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    Mannequins?
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    Could it be that those things
    identify humans by shape?
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    That's what I thought, too,
    so I did that experiment.
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    That was beyond reckless!
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    Because...
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    ...I don't want to see any more people die.
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    Everyone, trust us and follow our lead.
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    Between the Chief and me, we can
    get you all out of here for sure!
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    Because we're Pied Piper!
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    Everyone, follow after me.
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    Let me talk to him alone.
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    Hey.
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    Please.
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    We had the power to erase an entire country.
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    You are not going to tell me
    that things have changed.
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    This time, we'll be the ones
    to manipulate the world.
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    I don't mind issuing the request
    for Generation Bleu to mobilize.
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    However...
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    I've got some conditions.
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    From now on, Generation Bleu will support my--
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    You were saying about conditions?
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    The Arizona state governor
    has requested our mobilization.
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    The Triton will take off at once.
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    After picking up Ivica, Rebecka,
    and Ao, destroy the Secret.
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    Get away from here as quickly as
    you can and get everyone to safety.
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    Roger.
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    And again, Generation Bleu has our
    gratitude for the aid you've given us.
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    The Triton is approaching.
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    So they managed to get
    the mobilization request.
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    We have to hurry up and defeat the Secret.
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    If that thing gets into the
    urban area, it'll be a disaster.
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    I've got an idea, too.
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    We're already inside the ZOA at this distance?
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    Are we at the rendezvous point yet?
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    Just a little farther!
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    Here it comes!
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    Just as we thought,
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    they've recognized the
    human-shaped Nirvash as hostile.
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    Damn it! I can't get through to the Secret!
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    As we feared, he can't get close to it.
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    But there is a way.
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    Can you both hear me?
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    When that thing releases its options,
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    it opens its mouth, and that's our chance!
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    Hit it with all the firepower you've got!
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    But how...
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    Leave it to me!
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    Chief, you're not going to...
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    Chief!
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    Good! Now!
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    Chief...
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    Never speak lightly of her past again.
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    Not even to Rebecka herself.
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    So, nothing gets by you, huh?
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    People change.
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    That's all there is to it.
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    Don't get the wrong idea.
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    She's only hung up on you
    out of her sense of guilt.
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    What are you talking about?
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    What's wrong?
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    These children need their pied piper.
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    Please don't act recklessly.
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    The pied piper, huh?
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    The ones playing the pipe...
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    ...may actually have been the children.
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    "To Be Continued"
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    To be continued!
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    The pounding beat of my heart
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    Had become a familiar part
    of me before I knew it

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    Even if there's a stiff wind blowing
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    I'll always be looking ahead, eyes wide open
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    If you ever feel like crying, remember
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    The promise we silently swore to one another
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    The song of a fledgling taking wing
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    Even now, still unable to fly well
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    But over time that comes and goes
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    Single-mindedly
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    Following those joined hands
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    "So I never let you go!!" Those words
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    Even if they only vanish into the sky
[23:52] ---
    Inside the scattering lights
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    Unwaveringly
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    I know I can find you
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    "Preview"
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    Next time on Eureka Seven AO.
[24:14] ---
    Tiny intruders bring the
    girl's past to the surface.
[24:18] ---
    Soon, her other aspect reflected
    in the mirror begins to stir.
[24:22] ---
    As her real self continues to waver,
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    who will be the one to grasp
    the truth in her hands?
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    Eureka Seven AO, Episode 11.
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    Hear the cry of the children of the stars.
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