# 17 - Johansson's book
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*Hikaru suiheisen*
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*Hajimari to owari no tokeau soko wa*
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*Namida no furusato nano*
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*Furueteru te de*
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*Shinjirareru mono poketto ni tsumekonda*
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*Kanata de yurameiteru shinkirou*
**[01:00] ---**
*Sora miagereba michibiite-kureru you na*
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*Natsukashikute atsui hikari o*
**[01:08] ---**
*Kureru anata wa chiisaku te o furu yo*
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*Ikanakucha mou nakanai yo Shangri-La*
**[01:19] ---**
*Arata na sekai e to daibu shiyou*
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*Ao-iro ni dakareta boku wa*
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*Kono mune no takanari to tomo ni*
**[01:46] ---**
Even if it were some sort of an
aftereffect of the Nirvash's gun,
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how probable is it that it still hasn't
gone away after a whole week?
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The Quartz Gun. That's what we're calling it.
**[01:56] ---**
You heard him.
**[01:57] ---**
But don't you all think it's odd?
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In the Arctic Circle, this light has been sighted
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off the coast of Norway's
Vesterålen Islands since the olden days.
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It's what people call the North Pole Light.
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According to legends,
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this has been a known phenomenon
since the era of the Vikings.
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What are you saying is the problem here?
**[02:20] ---**
Isn't it conceivable that the Quartz Gun
has not only touched the present,
**[02:25] ---**
but also made its mark on the past?
**[02:28] ---**
What are you saying?
**[02:29] ---**
If it had also affected the past,
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then some kind of change
should have befallen us as well.
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Perhaps we *are* seeing the effects of it already.
**[02:37] ---**
But everything we have now,
including our memories,
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is an extension of the altered past.
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There's no way for us to
confirm what was altered.
**[02:49] ---**
Ao, what are you doing?
**[02:52] ---**
Uh, um, about what you just said...
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This discussion is not for children.
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Ao, it's nothing to worry about.
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I never imagined that it
would transform like that,
**[03:03] ---**
but you made the right call
when you used it as a weapon.
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A weapon...
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Also, the staff members whose health
screenings turned up anomalies the other day...
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Are we making progress on quarantining them?
**[03:31] ---**
According to Mom Hannah,
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it looks like an increase in white blood cells,
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but their make-up differs.
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Also, the x-ray scans
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show infestations composed of
the same material as Scub Corals.
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It has been known for several decades
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that allergic reactions can be
triggered by trapar intake.
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This is completely different from that.
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Additionally, since the
recent outbreak of Secrets,
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there have been similar cases all over the world.
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All right.
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I'll start by contacting the US government
and the WHO for their opinions.
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I trust that's satisfactory?
**[04:07] ---**
I believe the first case
of this that the world saw
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will likely be the girl from
the Okinawan island of Iwato.
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Her, huh?
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The Scub Corals are the enemy
of mankind and of Earth!
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Trapars invade our bodies!
They are trying to destroy mankind!
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Yeah!
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The root of all evils
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--is none other than the Scub Corals!
--We're starting to see them more again lately.
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--Now is the time for us to pay heed to Johansson's teachings
--Those aren't folks from Okinawa.
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--and we must correct the wrong in this world!
--Huh? They're not here to demand
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--Yeah!
--the mineral rights to the trapars?
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--We of Clean Gaea cannot overlook the Coral plants!
--They're saying the G-Mons
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--We of Clean Gaea cannot overlook the Coral plants!
--are gods that came to save this world.
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--Yeah!
--And apparently,
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--The Secrets are the true saviors
--the Scub Corals are not good.
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--of mankind and of our universe!
--Huh. So the G-Monsters are gods?
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Yeah!
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This world never had trapars
or Coral plants to begin with!
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That's what Johansson said!
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Yeah!
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Calm down! It's just smoke!
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It's just a scare tacti--
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Damn it! Those bastards killed him!
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Johansson, my ass!
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What country is that environmental group from?!
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We'll look them up right away and...
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Wh-What the...?!
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You're...!
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He's alive?!
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We've met before...
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Ao's girlfriend, was it?
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Where's the injured worker?!
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What's a child doing here?
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Hey, she's that terrorist!
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What?!
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Stop!
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Please move aside.
**[06:32] ---**
What?
**[06:33] ---**
For your safety.
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You... What are you planning to do?
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Can't you hear?
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The voice of the Scub Coral...
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The trapars belong to no one.
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The Scub Corals, as well.
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Okay! Here we go with the camera test!
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Looking good!
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Oh, Miss Fleur, give us a smile!
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You really are the best! You're both so cute!
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Like you just jumped out of the Pi-Pi anime!
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Please stop calling it "Pi-Pi"!
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The fans have no interest in the 3-dimensional.
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Forget about us.
Have Mr. Kanzaki do some original art...
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You two are special!
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Yup, yup. Rather than models
for Pi-Pi, you're like Pi-Pi itself.
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Like Pi-Pi come to life...
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Stop calling it "Pi-Pi."
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There are rumors that it's getting
canceled after this season,
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but we're all about "HUs-Pi" all the way!
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Canceled? You mean, they're ending it?
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But I believe it's still getting
top download numbers?
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You check on that stuff?!
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Oh, no, no, it's a rumor! Just a rumor!
**[07:57] ---**
Something about the sponsors
coming under pressure...
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Pressure?
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Because of that thing where
Gen Bleu kept the Quartz a secret...
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They're suggesting it's a propaganda
anime for a terrorist organization.
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"Ga"
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Then you believe what the
Secret says is true, Gazelle?
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Well, well.
**[08:28] ---**
You're looking gloomy for someone
who saved the world, brat.
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I'm not a brat.
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Sure you're a brat.
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No matter how many times you ask,
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the only IFO teams we have
are Pied Piper and Harlequin.
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I've never even heard of this Goldi-whatever.
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I... ended up erasing them.
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Huh?!
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That gun made it so the Coral
in Norway never existed.
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And it made it so Chloe and
the others were never born...
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I've had enough of this! You've been
acting weird since the other day!
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Eh?!
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"Revised Complete Translation of the Johansson Book"
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It sounds a little like what's in this book.
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Hey, that's the book you got in Japan.
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A world where neither
Scub Corals nor Secrets exist.
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My country believes that such a world
is not relegated to the realm of fantasy.
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Johansson is like some sketchy prophet, right?
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He claims that our world--
or rather, our history--
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is being twisted out of shape by
the Scub Corals and the Secrets.
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And his conspiracy theory is that at
least some governments know this.
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It seems he'd long had
hallucinations of "another world."
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And ten years ago, in Okinawa...
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Okinawa?
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He met a boy near the stabilized Scub.
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The boy, too, knew of another history.
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Johansson adopted that boy
and recorded his stories.
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Please tell me you're not going to say
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that Germany and Japan won World War II.
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Nothing so drastic.
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But without the Scub Bursts,
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he says the world would have been
more peaceful and more prosperous.
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For example, in the history that he saw,
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the population of Earth has surpassed 7 billion.
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What?
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Right now, Earth has...
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Just over 3.5 billion.
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The series of Scub Bursts that
occurred across Siberia in 1908
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was a terrible blow to the
Soviet Union and northern China.
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And after the war,
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the Burst that took out Japan's
capital delayed their recovery.
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But the other history
apparently had none of that.
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It kind of sounds like all good things.
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There are other things, like religion...
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Oh, and of course, no trapars.
**[10:47] ---**
But it seems they use nuclear fission energy.
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Nuclear fission...
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If a Scub Burst occurred
at a nuclear fission facility,
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it would do irreparable harm,
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so we gave up developing them.
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"The Clean Energy We Dreamed of--
Nuclear Reactors"
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A crazy delusion.
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Johansson says that their
world is the correct one.
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And that Japanese official called Nakamura, too.
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Then, the third team that Ao says he
saw was also from that other world...
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Georg, can you do a search?
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Chloe McCaffrey. Maeve McCaffrey. Ireland.
**[11:34] ---**
Okay. Then, can we ask for
the three of you together?
**[11:37] ---**
Ao? He's in the manga, too?
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Why, of course.
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Even as the new male pilot has you on your toes,
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the two of you waver in uncertainty,
and that's what's so great!
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We do not waver.
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But Ao has a childhood friend
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and she becomes an enemy pilot...
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Why do they even know about that?
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Because I supervise the story.
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What?! You do?!
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So, um, where is Mr. Ao?
**[12:06] ---**
Hey, Elena, the way you've
been towards Ao lately is...
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Shh!
**[12:11] ---**
That's right! Chloe said that they
moved in order to work at the plant!
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Chloe?
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These sisters exist in Belfast, Ireland.
**[12:21] ---**
With regards to Maggie Kwan,
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there are many with the same name
in Hong Kong and Singapore...
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Because Nirvash erased the
Scub Coral and changed history,
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they never became IFO pilots to begin with.
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That would be what Johansson prophesied.
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The possibility of another history.
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Interesting.
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Georg, has your personality changed somehow?
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Another history... A choice of worlds...?
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What's gotten into you?
Suddenly asking for time off...
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Please! Even if it's just half a day!
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Then we'll go with him
to keep an eye on things.
**[13:08] ---**
What?
**[13:09] ---**
Yay! Vacation! Vacation!
**[13:16] ---**
Then wait here for a bit.
**[13:19] ---**
I had *no idea* that Ao had
an e-mail friend in Ireland.
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Navigation complete.
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This is the McCaffrey's Bakery.
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If... Chloe and Maeve...
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...had chosen a life that
didn't involve piloting IFOs,
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they'd never have known me
and they'd be happy...
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That is not being logical.
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Assuming that they never became IFO pilots,
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that does not necessarily equate
to them having happy lives.
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You two, if you're done with
your homework, come help out!
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Come along now!
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Coming!
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Ao, what's the matter?
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I thought you wanted to ascertain
the outcome of your actions.
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Whether you had made Chloe
and her sister happy. Or unhappy.
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Ao, I'm the only one who can understand you.
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Our country did not request
Generation Bleu to mobilize.
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You are not authorized
to remain in these waters.
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I believe no country ever claimed
ownership of this Scub Coral
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due to the fact that it used to
be at the bottom of the ocean.
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Now that its becoming active again
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has made it possible to mine
for trapars on the surface,
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our country lays claim to it.
**[14:57] ---**
Please go take up that discussion
with the surrounding nations.
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However, with it becoming active again,
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a Burst could occur at any time.
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So you intend to collect its
Core substance, called Quartz,
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and hide it again--or rather,
secretly hoard it away again?
**[15:14] ---**
Generation Bleu had the whole world duped!
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What do you plan to do if a Secret shows up?
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Some scholars say that the
Secrets have gone extinct.
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Scholars who'll say anything for a buck!
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Ooh!
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Pull out of there.
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I've been served with a summons
by the UN over the Quartz issue.
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There will be limits placed on our activities.
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Even though there are Scubs that have become
active again being neglected across the globe?!
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Are we under attack?!
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The Quartz Gun is thrashing about.
**[15:54] ---**
Thrashing about?!
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You will have to release it, or the
ship will not last long... I would say.
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They make it sound like we're
the enemy of this world.
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Fleur!
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Ao! You haven't been authorized
to use the Quartz Gun!
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You saw, didn't you?!
This thing just came flying at me--
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Wh-What's this thing doing?!
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So you mean to ignore our warning?!
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It swallowed the Quartz?!
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This is clearly an act of provocation!
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Go away! Go away!
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Ao!
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What's up with this thing?
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Maybe this is something we shouldn't use...
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This is it! It's what I've been looking for!
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Truth, stop! Give it back!
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I thought you threw it away, Ao Fukai.
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That thing is dangerous!
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It's not just a weapon! It'll change the world!
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That's what I want!
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Oh, crap...
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Ao.
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Anma...
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We got to see each other again...
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You've grown so big!
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Anm... It really is you, isn't it, Mom?
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Ao, you understand now, don't you?
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What happened to me...
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Ten years ago, you extracted a giant Quartz...
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And together with the Quartz,
I leapt to a different time.
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A different... time...
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To the Quartz, time and space are the same.
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But I was unable to control it.
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So I've become haphazardly caught up in time,
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unable to remain in one place.
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For me, it's still only been a few
days since I leapt with the Quartz.
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But the Quartz ended up coming back.
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Then, Mom, you could come with me, too...
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That's impossible.
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I'm only in the same time
as this moment right now.
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No! That doesn't work for me!
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I'm going to get you back, Mom!
**[19:43] ---**
As long as I have that gun,
I can get there, right?
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I don't know.
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I think that's something Renton...
**[19:50] ---**
Something your father has
been seeking for a long time.
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But it's not complete.
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I'll give it a try.
**[19:59] ---**
I'll make that gun complete and...
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When that time comes,
I'll go to where you are, Mom!
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I won't let anyone else have it!
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Well, well...
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Mom, please tell me...
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Where are you?
**[20:41] ---**
So you'll shoot me...
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Go ahead, shoot! Shoot me!
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And change the world for me!
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You're a child of the Scub Corals.
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I'm Johansson's son.
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Then we have no choice but to fight!
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That's our destiny!
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Destiny has nothing to do with this.
**[21:01] ---**
I'm not fighting because of anything like that!
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Allied Forces, huh?
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I can't fire it...
**[21:45] ---**
If I fire it, something else will change again.
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I don't want to do that.
**[21:49] ---**
I'm Niki Tanaka of the Allied Forces,
stationed at the Okinawa Base.
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Ao Fukai.
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We are prepared to take
you in under our protection.
**[21:59] ---**
Protection...
**[22:01] ---**
Your presence has become more than
what Generation Bleu can handle.
**[22:06] ---**
Don't you think so?
**[22:09] ---**
Ao, move! We'll open fire!
**[22:11] ---**
It's okay! Elena! Fleur!
**[22:13] ---**
Ao...
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The Allied Forces...
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The US fought with us against
the Secrets, remember?
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We can't fire on them after that.
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"To Be Continued"
**[22:36] ---**
To be continued.
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*Futashika na boku no sekai ga ima*
**[22:43] ---**
*Matataku ma ni kawari-hajimete hirogaru*
**[23:00] ---**
*Ano hi mitsuketa yume no tsuzuki wa doko*
**[23:06] ---**
*Sugu ni sagashite-miseru yo*
**[23:11] ---**
*Ima mo boku dake wa oboete-irunda*
**[23:17] ---**
*Natsukashii nukumori*
**[23:22] ---**
*Saa mou ikou ka*
**[23:27] ---**
*Machi-uketeru unmei ni*
**[23:33] ---**
*Tachi-sukumi obieteta*
**[23:38] ---**
*Mou keshite mayowanai you ni*
**[23:43] ---**
*Tsuyoku natte yuku yo*
**[23:47] ---**
*Nidoto modorenai kako mo*
**[23:52] ---**
*Ashita kara kate ni shite*
**[23:57] ---**
*Sou yatte norikoete-yuku no sa*
**[24:03] ---**
*Sou shite boku wa boku ni naru*
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"Preview"
**[24:11] ---**
Next time on *Eureka Seven AO*.
**[24:14] ---**
With the strange-looking weapon in hand,
**[24:16] ---**
Ao joins the Allied Forces of his own volition.
**[24:18] ---**
The boy's choice greatly disturbs
the girls he leaves behind,
**[24:22] ---**
and for Elena and Fleur, the flood
of emotions opens up their hearts.
**[24:27] ---**
*Eureka Seven AO*, Episode 18.
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Hear the cry of the children of the stars.
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