E9 - The Core

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    "Prologue: The Great Cataclysm"
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    A long time ago, mankind was
    touched by the planet's anger,
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    and the world was engulfed in flames.
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    It was the Day of the Cataclysm.
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    The flames burned ferociously,
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    with an intensity threatening to
    incinerate the places mankind lived in,
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    the languages they spoke,
    and the culture they had built up.
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    "Chapter One: Holy Fire"
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    As the world was being covered in ash,
    one man appeared.
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    He would later be called Raffles I.
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    Raffles took his disciples and
    left on a journey in search of light.
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    At the end of his journey,
    he found an "unsullied flame,"
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    and brought forth the light that
    would be mankind's salvation.
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    "Chapter Two: Amaterasu"
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    Raffles and his disciples used the flame
    bestowed by the great Sol
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    and the technology cultivated
    by mankind to create "Amaterasu."
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    The sacred flame of Amaterasu
    benefited the lives of mankind,
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    and ended up establishing the foundation
    of a state in the Far East.
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    Pi?!
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    These numbers?
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    Yeah.
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    See? It's easy to tell
    from the numbers on this wall.
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    "I'm going to cry, Brother Goya" [79458213].
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    Arthur-kun, you've memorized pi?
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    The fact that the word "pi" came out
    of Arthur's mouth is surprising enough.
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    Though, to be sure,
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    this is a random, irregular sequence of numbers.
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    It's well within the realm of possibility.
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    How is it that you've memorized pi?
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    Because I'm a Knight of the Round Table.
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    I did some checking into circles.
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    The Round Table? A ridiculous reason like that?
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    That's just like you, Arthur-kun.
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    By the way...
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    What is pi?
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    What is...
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    ...the Round Table?
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    Everything I've had, I've lost,
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    but I won't let go of this remaining spark
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    No, I won't let it go, not ever
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    Though there may be no right answers
    in my ill-defined tale,
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    once I'm able to step forward...
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    They say something's wrong with me,
    but I'll do something with them
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    I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be
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    But if my dreams have
    resolved themselves to be by your side
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    then there's nothing left
    for me to doubt anymore
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    Sparks fly as things kick off
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    until "black and white" turns to ashen gray
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    If there's a choice crown to be had
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    I want it, I want it
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    I'll whizz my way toward you
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    until "double or nothing" gets zeroed out
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    If the clowns are melancholy
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    then nothing will get anywhere
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    I'll show you a love that
    burns hot enough to scorch ashes
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    I just spark again
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    "Episode 9:
    The Core"
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    Pi is the value representing how many times
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    the diameter of a circle
    can go into its circumference.
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    It's generally known as the number 3.14,
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    but its precise value is still
    under calculation, with no answer yet.
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    It's not as though
    I don't trust you, Arthur-kun,
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    but until we get back to Tokyo
    and check these tablets against pi...
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    Could these tablets be the switch
    for the Tabernacle's destructive energy?
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    I have trouble believing
    that lining up these tablets
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    will make the Tabernacle go into overload,
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    but there may be something else in here
    that acts as a startup key.
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    Let's look around.
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    That was...
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    ...another Adolla Link.
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    A devilish woman...
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    Yoruba Forge!
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    Don't flip your lid about
    putting the demon to rest,
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    and then just stand around!
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    --S-Sorry!
    --Kotatsu-san! They're coming
    from this way, too!
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    Well of course they are!
    We're surrounded, after all!
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    Fire-Cat's Tails!
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    The flame is the soul's breath.
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    The black smoke is the soul's release.
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    Ashes thou wert and art. May thy soul...
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    ...return to the great flame of fire.
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    She's begun the prayer. Let's do this, Shinra!
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    Yeah!
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    Wah! You missed some of them!
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    Yoruba Brand!
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    Finish them off!
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    Return to the great flame of fire.
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    Nice going, hero!
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    How dare you eliminate my servants!
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    Kotatsu-san!
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    That's one down.
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    Juggernaut!
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    Ah! How could this happen?!
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    Treat him right away!
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    --Good. You're safe, Kotatsu-san.
    --No it's not! Juggernaut! This is... This is...
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    Oh,
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    no, no, there's nothing
    inside there where the hole is.
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    Eh?
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    Huh?
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    Whew. It's a good thing
    I'm wearing extra layers.
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    This isn't a question of extra layers!
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    What have you got going on inside there?!
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    --Juggernaut!
    --Juggernaut!
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    Yoruba Spears!
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    --Gah! Juggernaut!
    --He's had it for sure this time!
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    No he hasn't!
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    Lucky for me, I dress warmly.
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    --Are you for real?
    --He's a quasi-unkillable character.
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    You seem to be quite tough.
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    But I am done playing games with you.
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    I will personally send you
    into the afterlife now.
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    Die, and become mine!
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    How do you like this?!
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    He's strong. Even using Corna,
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    I don't have enough firepower
    to put this demon to rest.
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    What do we do, Shinra?
    We'll all be wiped out at this rate--
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    Damn it!
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    Protect...
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    You again?!
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    I am protecting it!
    Scop and the others asked me to!
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    "Protect the forest--"
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    Protect the forest--
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    Look, I get it, all right?
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    But I don't have the means!
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    The devilish woman...
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    You're the one who's calling out
    to me, right? Where are you?!
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    Scop and the others
    are waiting for you to return!
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    Protect...
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    ...the forest...
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    You cut right through that sturdy lock!
    I'm not going onto sacred ground!
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    Don't go ravaging everything you see!
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    This...
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    ...is the Tabernacle's central core.
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    Is that a mechanical sound? It's almost
    like the pulse of a living creature.
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    What is inside there?
    I'm sensing an incredible energy.
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    That area with the stone tablets
    encircled the whole central core.
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    "Current location"
    "Stone tablet corridor"
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    Imagine, such simple architecture
    giving rise to such tremendous energy.
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    If there is an Adolla Burst inside that door,
    then this is as far as we can go.
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    What's that?
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    A white-feathered arrow. It looks like
    an arrow is stuck in the keyhole.
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    There are more of them lined up over there.
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    Seven of them in all.
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    And the arrowheads look like keys.
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    Including the one stuck in the keyhole,
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    there are a total of eight of them.
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    Eight of them...
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    Pillars... white-feathered arrows...
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    And the word suggested by both of them is...
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    "Sacrifices."
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    In the old proto-national culture,
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    it's said that houses of those
    who would become sacrifices
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    were marked by a white-feathered arrow.
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    This pulse sounds like it
    must be from something alive.
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    If the Tabernacle...
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    ...and Amaterasu...
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    ...both have an Adolla Burst powering them...
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    ...then it's just as Joker's
    secret investigation uncovered--
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    The source of Amaterasu's power...
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    ...is a person possessing an Adolla Burst!
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    Sacrifices? You're not saying
    that inside there is...?
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    Yes. There's a good chance that it's
    the Woman in Black that Scop mentioned.
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    No way. Scop is waiting for her, right?
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    But then, if that Woman in Black is in here,
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    it would explain why Shinra
    is Linking with this building.
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    You're here, aren't you?
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    That's you, right? The woman that Scop
    and the others have been waiting for?
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    I can sense Adolla.
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    It's just like with the Evangelist,
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    except that it's an amazingly gentle feeling.
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    Who exactly are you?
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    Hey, Shinra!
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    Give me a hand! I'm getting
    my ass handed to me over here!
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    Sorry, Ogun, but you have to buy me some time!
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    If this works, I may be able to
    put that demon to rest!
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    Huh?!
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    Please.
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    You are...
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    ...the woman that Scop says...
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    ...is the one who built
    the Tabernacle, aren't you?!
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    Grace!
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    Can you grant me the kind of Grace
    that the Evangelist offers?!
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    I don't completely get it, but all I
    have to do is buy some time, right?
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    Ogun, I'll help, too!
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    No. I can handle this by myself.
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    Time to crank things up!
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    Flamy Ink!
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    If all I have to do is buy time...
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    ...I can just keep chaining combos like this...
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    ...shooting hoops off to the side, right?!
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    Whoa!
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    I-Incredible!
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    I see now.
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    Those stories were about Ogun!
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    The ones about there being
    a new recruit at the 4th
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    who could temporarily produce
    firepower that rivaled Captain Burns!
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    Dam! Dam! Dam! Dam! Dam! Dam!
    Dam! Dam! Dam! Dam! Dam! Dam!
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    It's incredible, all right, but I can't
    make heads or tails of what's going on.
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    From the stories I've heard,
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    while he has those flame bands
    circling his body,
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    he is apparently able to forcibly
    increase his physical abilities. But...
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    ...is he really going to be okay,
    putting out so much firepower?
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    I wish there was something
    that I could do to help,
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    but I'm not sure I could
    keep up with that speed.
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    You slippery little...
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    Ogun...
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    You never give up, do you?
    But it is about time we finished this--
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    Nya! I'm over here, too!
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    Tamaki!
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    Nekomata!
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    You fight, too, Juggernaut!
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    Huh?
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    Eh?!
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    We all have to buy time together!
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    Stop, Tamaki!
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    You cannot defeat me.
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    I know that!
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    But there is still something that I can do! Nya!
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    Wah! Here he comes!
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    Stay away!
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    Hey! Don't trash the forest!
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    S-Sorry!
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    Oh yeah!
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    Any more than that will be dangerous for you!
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    I'll be fine.
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    I'm gonna...
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    ...crank it up even higher!
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    Here goes!
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    Shoot!
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    Aren't you ready yet, Shinra?!
    I said I would buy you some time,
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    but I can't keep this up long!
    Do something before I Overheat!
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    Y-Yeah!
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    Don't think that you can
    press your luck forever!
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    Take this!
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    Hold it!
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    Come on, I know you're there! Answer me!
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    Scop and the others are waiting for you!
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    What's going on, Shinra? Is she there?
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    Yeah. The woman you're waiting for
    is in there, making the Tabernacle run.
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    She's what?! You mean, she's been
    burning for the sake of our forest?
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    Scop, you call out to her, too!
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    If we can use her power,
    we can put that demon to rest!
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    You have worked a miracle
    here in this wasteland!
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    I, too, want to preserve the forest
    and animals that you have been protecting!
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    Shinra...
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    I'm asking, too, lady! All we've ever done
    is be saved by you in every way,
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    but I'm begging you, help us out once again!
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    Your call... has been... heard...
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    However... I only have...
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    ...enough power left...
    to preserve... the forest...
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    I am... unable to...
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    ...provide you with an
    ample amount... of Adolla Grace...
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    Ample? It doesn't have to be ample!
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    But... in my current condition...
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    ...if I were to give you Grace...
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    One second...
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    What can you do in a single second...?
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    Such a small sliver of Grace
    would be... meaningless...
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    Just one second?
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    I am sorry that I... could not be...
    of any more help...
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    One second will be plenty.
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    "To be continued"
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    Most incidences have their own name
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    But no one knows and I'm upside down
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    Billions of people exist
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    But not anybody tells me what that is
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    Sacrificing my limited life
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    Am I moving forward or not
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    I just want to believe
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    Nothing goes to waste
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    I question myself
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    Why I can't be who I want to be
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    tangled and translucent
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    It drains me
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    Pretending and overextending myself
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    Wish one day I could love pathetic myself
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    Hoping for a dazzling future to come
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    Don't over decorate smile clumsily
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    Just live life the way I am
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    This world is cruel
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    Can't choose how to be born
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    Stick up the middle finger then
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    Let's shoot off to the other side
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    "Fire Force, Season 2"
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    "Next time"
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    Shinra can only obtain the Woman in Black's
    Adolla Grace for one second.
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    But that second is their one and only hope.
    Please hurry, Shinra-san!
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    Shinra, how long are you
    going to leave me hanging?!
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    "Episode 10:
    The Woman in Black"
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    Next time on Fire Force, Season 2,
    episode 10, "The Woman in Black."
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    Return to the great flame of fire. Látom.
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