# 23 - Renton Thurston
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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*
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*Sora miagereba michibiite-kureru you na*
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*Natsukashikute atsui hikari o*
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*Kureru anata wa chiisaku te o furu yo*
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*Ikanakucha mou nakanai yo Shangri-La*
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*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*
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"Episode 23"
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If we can just get to the harbor...
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A world reliant on trapars...
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How frail...
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Wh-Wh-What are you doing?!
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How does it feel?
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What are you guys doing here?
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I asked you, how does it feel?!
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Want me to tell you?
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Okinawa flying high on the
trapar business ticked me off,
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but I never wanted
something like this to happen.
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What did it mean to gain independence?
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Was it to become Japanese?
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Or was it to ally yourselves with the Secrets?
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Was it to protect the Scub Corals?
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Is the independence you want
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something you'll find if you just
keep throwing tantrums like Truth?!
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Gazelle...
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That's you, isn't it?
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Shut up! It's the same thing!
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You listen to me. In the world of business,
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we do not do silly things like
temporarily lay down arms
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just because a common enemy
has appeared on the scene.
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If we run a PR campaign that Truth
is an accomplice to the Secrets,
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public opinion will sway towards us...
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Silly, huh?
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Sorry, but soldiers are the
biggest romantics in the world.
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No one wants peace for this world
more earnestly than we do.
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The experiment with the Coral
Carriers ran into some problems,
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so you're rushing over to
surrender to the Secrets?
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You think it odd, Stanley Fry?
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Why are you so surprised?
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Do you find it so strange
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that the talks with the
US government went smoothly?
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S-Secret, weren't you destroyed?
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The being that I am...
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...has already assimilated as Georg
and exists in countless numbers.
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Oh, no!
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Ao!
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Fleur?!
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What are you doing, Ao?!
Hurry up and return fire!
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Elena?!
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Damn it...
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Do I have no choice but
to use this guy, after all?
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Just now, that was...!
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Elena, you handle Truth!
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I'll get this white one!
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Who the hell are you?
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Who the hell are you to Ao?!
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Elena!
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Oh, no!
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Stop it!
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Naru, why?!
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Why are you taking his side?!
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Because there's no winning against Truth.
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You're no match for my Nirvash, either, right?
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It's because you have no Archetype.
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So what the hell is this Archetype thing?!
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T-Trapars...
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This Nirvash is alive.
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Inside him lives an Archetype,
which is the same as a Coralian.
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Yours is just a machine.
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Naru!
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Blanketed by Scub Corals, a new era will come.
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A world where no one will
have to suffer ever again.
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Ao, that place will be our world.
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Scubs and Secrets...
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Does it have to be one or the other?!
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Fleur! Behind us!
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What is it?!
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That's...
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No way...
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I thought Harlequin switched
sides to the Allied Forces.
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The Allied Forces have entered
into peace negotiations with Japan.
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There's a situation going on
where Coral Carriers
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are being hospitalized
with hyperacute symptoms.
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Depending on the country, some are rushing
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to make the areas surrounding
Coral plants off limits.
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Coral Carriers? What about Naru?
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What's going to happen to Naru?
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She may be in danger, too.
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And you as well.
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Naru!
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Ao?!
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But even so...
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Right now, the world has no
choice but to depend on you.
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If Nirvash defeats Truth,
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the world will have to
acknowledge that Nirvash...
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In other words, us.
That our side was in the right.
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Even if it's only a fleeting peace,
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it's better than war.
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The year 1096, the First Crusade is launched.
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--I know how you feel.
--The year 1206, Genghis Khan unites the Mongols.
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--Even the Secrets rejected you.
--The year 1521,
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--Only I know the truth about you.
--Hernando Cortes conquers the Aztec Empire.
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The year 1801, Ireland is
annexed by the United Kingdom.
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--You're the same as me, kept alive by the Scub Corals.
--The year 1803, outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars.
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You are a Secret.
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But the Scubs got into you
and became half of your life.
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Hey, do you remember?
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When we first met,
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it became easier to breathe for each of us,
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thanks to the trapars the other exhaled.
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Since that moment,
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we've been beings that fight
for the sake of the Scubs.
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The year 1896,
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--the first modern Olympic Games are held.
--Truth, your powers as a Secret will aid us.
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The year 1911, the Xinhai
Revolution erupts in China.
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The year 1945, the Manhattan Project.
Hiroshima. Nagasaki.
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That is the correct history.
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That is the world I saw.
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And there!
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No!
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No! No! No!
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You're wrong, Naru!
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Ao?
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Ao, everything's fine now.
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Because Truth is on the side of the Scubs.
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Get away from there, Naru!
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What?
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Truth...
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Why?
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It is wrong.
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Mankind comes to possess nuclear
power and progresses forward.
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The Soviet Union becomes Russia, the US uses
its military might to meddle in world affairs,
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and Okinawa never declares
independence from Japan.
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That is the correct world.
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There are no Scub Corals there.
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Nor are there Secrets.
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I am neither one of those two.
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Therefore, this power is power
wished for by the correct world!
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Naru!
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Naru!
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Naru...
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Truth!
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Come, Ao Fukai!
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The trapar concentration is rapidly rising.
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Rajkumar, take Miss Naru and get away.
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As far as you can get!
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Will Ao be all right?
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You said it has an adverse
effect on Coral Carriers...
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If you did it for yourself anyway,
then shouldn't you stay true to that?
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Answer her! You're Mom Hannah,
who knows everything, right?!
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Th-They're...
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Liu... Lerato...
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Fire, Ao! Your gun!
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What?
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It's okay.
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All this time, we've been waiting...
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...for this moment.
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I can't! If I do that, you'll both
get blown to bits along with him!
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Truth destroyed the Poseidon!
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We can never let him get away with it!
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He almost stole away someone
you cared about, too.
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But dragging you guys into this would be...
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To fire on you guys would be...!
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You're too soft, Ao Fukai.
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Liu! Lerato!
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Are you scared of learning the truth?
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I can't allow a scaredy-cat
like you to wield that power!
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I thought the Secrets were our enemy.
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But they weren't.
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Then, the Scubs were the bad guys.
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And next, it's Truth who's the most evil...
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What's with that?
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Is that the truth?
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Have I only been looking for an enemy?!
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You're neither a Secret nor a Scub,
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so you're not allowed to exist in this world?
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Get real!
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Who decided that?!
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Is it the sort of thing that you can
just draw a line and say what's what?!
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Make it disappear, vanish,
zero it out, and that's the end of it?!
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Truth!
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Nothing's been resolved.
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Nothing... Nothing...
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That's why I said you're too soft.
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Quit making me repeat myself.
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Truth!
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Damn it!
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I wound up learning of the correct world.
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I cannot undo that.
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What he wants...
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...is to vanish.
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From this world, which won't allow him to exist.
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What's correct...
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The one and only truth...
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Who cares about that?!
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How much do you plan to sacrifice
for something stupid like that?!
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Will you die?
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Or will I have to lose all sorts
of things all over again?!
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Th-This is...
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Ao, you did it!
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Did it?
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You defeated that guy with the Quartz Gun.
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That guy...
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Did... Did I get Truth...?
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Truth? What are you talking about?
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The Coral Relic IFO that
the Allied Forces had stolen
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has been confirmed destroyed.
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Remainder gauge, 23.
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Which means...
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This world really is...
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...the world after the Quartz Gun was fired.
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We've won, Ao.
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Mankind will no longer have to fight,
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divided between the Secrets and the Scubs!
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It seems Naru Arata's Nirvash
has also been incapacitated.
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What?
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Is that you, Naru?
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After everything, what kind of joke is that?
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I'm sorry for shooting Truth.
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Truth?! Is that another new girlfriend of yours?!
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What?!
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Come on, finish me off!
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That'll be your final shot, right?!
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What kind of premise is that?!
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The Quartz Gun releases the
energy in the Quartz themselves.
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It'll be used up soon.
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If you won't... I will!
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What?
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H-Huh?
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I won...
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Like hell!
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Naru!
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Naru! Where's Naru?!
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She's in the hospital on this base.
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Some of the military personnel
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who attacked the Gen Bleu Headquarters
and stole the prototype IFO
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and the eco-terrorists who
tried to protect the Scub Corals
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will both be placed under investigation after this.
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Th-The US put them up to it to begin with!
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But the entire world finally understands
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that the Scub Corals are dangerous.
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Only, we're getting a reading
from inside Miss Naru's body
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that's the same as for Quartz.
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Hurry up and return to duty.
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Nah, I'm still not healed up, man.
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When I fired it the first time,
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it made it so the Coral plant in
Norway never existed to begin with.
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And Team Goldilocks disappeared, too.
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And the second time,
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it made it so that Truth
never existed to begin with.
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The Allied Forces stole the Canon
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and tried to fight against the
Secrets alongside Naru's people.
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That's how things have been rewritten.
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The trapar business will
be under reconsideration.
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What will happen to the Quartz?
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There are Quartz inside Naru
and the others, too, and...
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That's...!
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Keep an eye on Naru for me!
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Did something happen?!
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It's nothing.
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We won't have to make
someone the enemy anymore.
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Come on, cheer up.
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It's become the world that you wanted, right?
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But in the end, Japan is still a minor power.
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Hey...
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I wonder if something's up.
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The Coral plant in Okinawa?
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Its Quartz is scheduled to
be removed by tomorrow.
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Could it be a Secret?!
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It's him.
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He has come.
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This guy...
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Mr. Soga, no Secrets
should be appearing, right?
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That's the deal.
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But this craft isn't from any country.
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It's a Scub Coral.
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As I suspected, this era also...
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Ao, what happened?! Ao!
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We'll go out there, too!
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Eureka!
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This is her?
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He's...
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The remainder gauge is at 48.
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The Quartz went and did it again...
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Huh?
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Damn it! At close range like this...
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That's...
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Who is that?
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What?
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Whoa, whoa! How does this guy
know about the shut-off cock?!
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Are you the one who tampered
with the Nirvash Neo?
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Where's the real pilot?
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The pilot of this Nirvash Neo should
have been a woman named Eureka.
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You...! Those eyes...
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Ao! Can you hear me, Ao?!
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Eureka has appeared on the Triton!
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Anma has?!
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I see... So you're...
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I understand.
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--I'll work something out over here and get right...
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--Time to go, Ao.
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What?
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Take me to Eureka.
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In Okinawa, you disappeared
along with the Quartz.
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And you've been wandering
through time ever since then.
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Isn't that right?
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I can't remain in the same
place or time for long.
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Which is why I've run across things
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like kids being a lot older
when I see them again.
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H-Hey! Wait...
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I'm sorry.
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This guy undid the lock on his own and...
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Eureka...
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Eureka!
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Don't!
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I'm like this.
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Eureka...
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Did you have no other choice?
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I'm sorry.
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I'm the one who should be apologizing.
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So... you met Ao.
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He's a good boy. Very energetic.
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And more open and honest than you.
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Ao has what you've been looking for.
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That's also what summoned you here.
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Anma!
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Could it be that you are Ao's...
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You can't be...
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My name is Renton Thurston.
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I'm Eureka's husband.
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"To Be Continued"
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To be continued.
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*Futashika na boku no sekai ga ima*
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*Matataku ma ni kawari-hajimete hirogaru*
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*Ano hi mitsuketa yume no tsuzuki wa doko*
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*Sugu ni sagashite-miseru yo*
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*Ima mo boku dake wa oboete-irunda*
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*Natsukashii nukumori*
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*Saa mou ikou ka*
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*Machi-uketeru unmei ni*
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*Tachi-sukumi obieteta*
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*Mou keshite mayowanai you ni*
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*Tsuyoku natte yuku yo*
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*Nidoto modorenai kako mo*
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*Ashita kara kate ni shite*
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*Sou yatte norikoete-yuku no sa*
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*Sou shite boku wa boku ni naru*
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"Preview"
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Next time on *Eureka Seven AO*.
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The blue planet the parents strive to protect.
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The deep skies the child strives to fly.
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Having chosen to search
for his mother and fight,
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where will the boy find himself
beyond the brilliant shaft of light?
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"Next Time" "The Door into Summer"
*Eureka Seven AO*, final episode.
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Hear the cry of the children of the stars.
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