# 245 - Tartaros Arc: Hell's Core
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**[00:03] ---**
What is this?!
**[00:05] ---**
It's in response to Face!
**[00:08] ---**
Dammit!
**[00:10] ---**
You probably have about three more minutes.
**[00:13] ---**
Then magic will disappear
from the entire continent!
**[00:16] ---**
In three minutes?!
**[00:18] ---**
Magic is going to disappear?!
**[00:20] ---**
How much is the worth of a wizard
without magic? How much?
**[00:29] ---**
This is a true demon...
**[00:33] ---**
She and Mira-nee are evenly-matched?! How?!
**[00:38] ---**
I'm your opponent!
**[00:42] ---**
What's with this one?!
**[00:43] ---**
A cute face and cat ears!
Who are you, the belle of the ball?!
**[00:55] ---**
Has it begun?
**[00:58] ---**
Say goodbye, humans...
**[03:20] ---**
Face has gone off!
***SIGN*** Tartaros Arc: Hell's Core
**[03:43] ---**
I've still got my magic...
**[03:50] ---**
Me, too!
**[03:51] ---**
Wendy and Carla did it!
**[04:00] ---**
The tremors... have stopped?
**[04:04] ---**
Face's activation erased all magic!
**[04:08] ---**
It's over, humans!
**[04:17] ---**
Requip!
**[04:31] ---**
Magic hasn't gone anywhere yet!
**[04:34] ---**
How...?!
**[04:39] ---**
A quiet sound...
**[04:43] ---**
It can't be!
**[04:48] ---**
This is as far as your plot goes.
**[04:52] ---**
How much will this failed
plan cost? How much?
**[04:57] ---**
Now give us Mira back!
**[04:59] ---**
How much? How much?
**[05:02] ---**
How much? How much...?
**[05:05] ---**
100,000 of your bastardly souls!
**[05:10] ---**
Give me your soul! I'll start with your soul!
**[05:14] ---**
Then I'll get more souls!
**[05:19] ---**
Man, this guy...
**[05:23] ---**
I've gotta do something!
**[05:25] ---**
But he absorbs people,
Celestial Spirits, and magic, too!
**[05:31] ---**
Don't forget, I also possess
all of Hades's magical might!
**[05:36] ---**
What is this?!
**[05:37] ---**
A magic ring?!
**[05:41] ---**
You will not beat me!
**[05:43] ---**
Amaterasu: Formula 28!
**[05:53] ---**
Magic hasn't disappeared?!
**[05:56] ---**
The Face plan failed?
**[05:59] ---**
You intend to escape?!
**[06:01] ---**
I'm leaving this to you!
Obliterate the fairy!
**[06:05] ---**
That goes without saying.
**[06:09] ---**
We meet again on an exquisite stage,
Erza Scarlet...
**[06:13] ---**
Minerva!
**[06:15] ---**
I am Neo-Minerva.
**[06:17] ---**
Neo-Minerva?!
**[06:20] ---**
I have been reborn as a demon.
Let me show you my newfound power.
**[06:25] ---**
What did you do to her?!
**[06:28] ---**
I didn't calculate for Face's failure.
**[06:32] ---**
There's no choice. I'll have to awaken him.
**[06:35] ---**
Master END...
**[06:44] ---**
Natsu!
**[06:48] ---**
Have you forgotten that
Hades dances with magic?
**[06:56] ---**
Lucy! Happy! I'm gonna...
**[06:59] ---**
How much is consuming all of
your power worth? How much?
**[07:05] ---**
Natsu!
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And Hades can do this, too!
**[07:18] ---**
Let go of Lucy!
**[07:31] ---**
This is Hades's power...
**[07:33] ---**
This time for sure,
I'm going to absorb your souls!
**[07:41] ---**
Natsu!
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Connection!
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And you, too...
**[07:54] ---**
What is this?! My strength...
**[07:57] ---**
...is gettin' leached away!
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You're going to be part of my new collection!
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So I need your souls!
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Get stuffed!
**[08:15] ---**
You're not... gettin' jack!
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You're not gettin' my soul!
It stays right here!
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Resistance is futile!
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Lucy! Happy! Don't you dare give up!
**[08:30] ---**
Our souls are our own!
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Remember it! They're ours!
**[08:36] ---**
That idealism can't stand up to Curse power!
**[08:40] ---**
My soul is right here!
**[08:43] ---**
Until I can see Igneel again...
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...no one's takin' my soul!
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You can't have my will!
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Why are you so stubborn?!
**[08:55] ---**
Focus, you two!
On what's most important to you!
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Focus on what you'd never
let anybody take away!
**[09:01] ---**
That'll become the power
that anchors your soul!
**[09:05] ---**
For... For me...
**[09:08] ---**
Carla and fish, Carla and fish,
Carla and fish...
**[09:12] ---**
It's too late! I'm almost
done absorbing them!
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What's most important to me...
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...are my comrades... the guild...
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...and the Celestial Spirits!
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I'm gonna see Igneel!
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Carla and fish, Carla and fish...
**[09:47] ---**
Carla and fish, Carla and fish!
**[10:01] ---**
This guy absorbed Taurus and Aries...
**[10:06] ---**
I want to at least return them
to the Celestial Spirit World!
**[10:10] ---**
Anyone who steals the Celestial Spirits'
freedom or hurts them will pay!
**[10:14] ---**
Taurus! Forced gate closure!
**[10:18] ---**
W-What is this?! M-My body...
**[10:24] ---**
What's happening to me?! My body! My body!
**[10:29] ---**
Don't tell me he's going to the
Celestial Spirit World, along with Taurus?!
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Why, you... This won't do!
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Taurus expulsion!
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Mooo...
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He's out!
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Taurus! Forced gate closure!
**[11:02] ---**
W-What is this?! M-My body...
**[11:08] ---**
What's happening to me?! My body! My body!
**[11:13] ---**
Don't tell me he's going to the
Celestial Spirit World along with Taurus?!
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Why, you... This won't do!
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Taurus expulsion!
**[11:23] ---**
Mooo...
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He's out!
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Aries! Forced gate closure!
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Aries expulsion!
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I'm sorry!
**[11:36] ---**
Natsu! Forced gate closure!
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He's a Celestial Spirit?!
**[11:44] ---**
Nice one, Lucy.
**[11:46] ---**
Curses! It was the woman's ruse!
**[11:55] ---**
Still, magic doesn't work on me!
**[12:14] ---**
Something he can't absorb!
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Not immaterial like a soul...
but physical matter!
**[12:21] ---**
D-Don't you dare!
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W-Wait...
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He did it...
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H-He's not beaten yet?!
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All the souls he absorbed are moving on...
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Aye...
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Hey, what were you thinking of
as your most important thing?
**[13:35] ---**
My comrades in the guild
and the Celestial Spirits.
**[13:40] ---**
I see. That fits you, Lucy.
**[13:43] ---**
What about you, Happy? "Carla and fish"?
**[13:46] ---**
I don't know, is that what
you'd call "fixated"?
**[13:55] ---**
It's not over yet.
**[14:00] ---**
Tartaros's true objective isn't Face.
**[14:04] ---**
Tell Makarov...
**[14:07] ---**
...to release the light now.
**[14:15] ---**
What was that?
**[14:18] ---**
The ghost of Master Hades?!
**[14:20] ---**
I think it was his soul.
**[14:22] ---**
"Release the light."
I wonder what that's about.
**[14:26] ---**
He told us to tell the Master, right?
**[14:29] ---**
It looks like Face is out of commission
thanks to Wendy and Carla,
**[14:33] ---**
but we still have to find Mira-san.
**[14:37] ---**
And I ain't gonna be satisfied 'til
I kick the ass of every bad guy here.
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I'll pass on that message to the Master!
**[14:46] ---**
Be careful!
**[14:47] ---**
You, too!
**[14:51] ---**
The fools. For us,
there is no "failure" or "death."
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We can be resurrected again and again.
**[14:59] ---**
As long as we've got the lab, we can be reborn
endlessly. We're functionally immortal!
**[15:04] ---**
Well, I guess I'll be heading
over to the lab now.
**[15:34] ---**
Mira-nee!
**[15:36] ---**
Do you really have time to be a spectator?
**[15:40] ---**
Let go of me, weirdo!
**[15:44] ---**
What are you?
**[15:47] ---**
My Macro doesn't work on you...
**[15:49] ---**
Macro?
**[15:50] ---**
I think that's the magic that
controlled Elf-nii-chan!
**[15:53] ---**
Curse, actually...
**[15:55] ---**
It may not work on you,
but it worked on your little brother.
**[16:00] ---**
I'll tell you one special
characteristic about my Curse power.
**[16:04] ---**
Once a person falls under my spell, I can
take control over them at any time remotely.
**[16:08] ---**
You don't mean...
**[16:10] ---**
I mean that I can make your brother
commit suicide right now, if I like.
**[16:14] ---**
Don't!
**[16:21] ---**
Ezel-sama...
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Hurry! Bring me back!
**[16:26] ---**
That brat! That brat! That brat! That brat!
**[16:30] ---**
Then he's...
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Dammit! I can't believe a whelp
and her cat did this to me!
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I won't get careless next time!
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I'll tear them apart and
grind their bones to powder!
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Wendy and Carla...
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...beat him?
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Then what's he doing here all of a sudden?
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Hurry up, Lamy!
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Seilah!
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I'm in the middle of a battle
right now. You'll have to wait.
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Forget that! Just bring me back!
**[17:02] ---**
Bring him back?
**[17:03] ---**
That's right! This is Tartaros's
respawning site, Hell's Core.
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It's in our contract with the King of the
Underworld. If we lose our physical body,
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we're reborn here.
We're a guild of immortals!
**[17:19] ---**
King of the Underworld? Reborn?
What is she talking about?
**[17:23] ---**
You shouldn't say more than
you need to, Lamy-sama.
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My bad!
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That's a nuisance.
**[17:32] ---**
Then I should start by destroying
all of this equipment, huh?
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Do you think you can do that?
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It's simple.
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Ta-daaa!
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All right, I'm ready to be reborn, please!
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My... My lab!
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Awesome, Mira-nee!
**[18:10] ---**
What is this?!
**[18:12] ---**
H-How? How could she...
**[18:15] ---**
Take Over.
**[18:17] ---**
Before you got here, I took control
of all these tentacle-like demons.
**[18:23] ---**
The power to absorb demons?!
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Is that why Macro doesn't work on you?
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We're in the same boat.
**[18:32] ---**
Since you're a demon, I thought
I could win by absorbing you.
**[18:37] ---**
But it seems my Take Over
doesn't work on you.
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Then...
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...neither of them can use
their signature ability.
**[18:44] ---**
In other words, the battle will
be decided by physical strength!
**[18:51] ---**
Hand-to-hand combat, then. Very girly!
**[18:54] ---**
There it is! Mirajane's Sitri!
The strongest demon ever!
**[18:58] ---**
Strongest demon ever?
**[19:00] ---**
You've got nerve saying that in front
of demons of the Books of Zeref.
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You people really have no idea how
fearsome the Nine Demon Gates are.
**[19:09] ---**
I order you.
**[19:10] ---**
It won't work.
**[19:12] ---**
Release my limiter!
**[19:18] ---**
She ordered herself?
**[19:56] ---**
What... is she?
**[20:08] ---**
So stupid...
**[20:09] ---**
You mean to continue fighting when
there's no chance of winning?
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It's not over until it's over!
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It may as well be over!
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You see, Tartaros has many left...
**[20:25] ---**
Many cards left to play
that you don't even know about!
**[20:28] ---**
Fairy Tail... and all humans... are finished.
**[20:53] ---**
There are many crevices in this area,
so let's walk a little more slowly.
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Right. Sorry.
**[20:59] ---**
Love... yes?
**[21:02] ---**
No!
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What is this?
**[21:06] ---**
This is tiring.
**[21:07] ---**
There's no sense of tension here.
**[21:13] ---**
Meldy, are you okay?
**[21:15] ---**
Hm? I'll be fine if we can rest a bit first,
**[21:18] ---**
but how could you tell?
**[21:19] ---**
Somewhat, by your footsteps.
**[21:21] ---**
That is also a skill made possible with love.
**[21:25] ---**
There he goes again.
**[21:30] ---**
Hey, are you guys really gonna
follow him? I'm not interested.
**[21:35] ---**
And he wants to defeat Zeref, huh?
He's ambitious.
**[21:39] ---**
Hey, I say we try to take Jellal
down one more time.
**[21:43] ---**
I'm sick of you flapping your gums.
**[21:45] ---**
What?!
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Then you're gonna follow him
like some apostle?
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Who knows? I haven't decided yet.
**[21:54] ---**
But I can hear something.
**[21:58] ---**
The voices of countless people...
**[22:00] ---**
No, not voices.
**[22:04] ---**
Screams.
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You're scaring me.
**[22:08] ---**
Screams? From where?
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I don't know, but if I follow him,
I might find out.
**[22:18] ---**
I wanna confirm what I hear
with my own eyes.
**[23:55] ---**
While Fairy Tail and Tartaros
continue their fierce battle,
**[23:59] ---**
Oracion Seis begrudgingly follows Jellal.
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At the end of their journey,
they encounter
**[24:07] ---**
Rusty Rose, survivor of the
defunct Grimoire Heart.
**[24:11] ---**
He's changed completely,
and shares a shocking truth with them.
**[24:16] ---**
Next time:
Tartaros Arc: King of the Underworld.
***SIGN*** Tartaros Arc: King of the Underworld
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We still can't see the bottom of hell.