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9 - Godspeed of the East

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    Freezing!
[00:21] ---
    Volt Weapon: deploy!
[00:30] ---
    Halcyon!
[00:32] ---
    Double Acceleration!
[00:36] ---
    Triple Acceleration!
[00:42] ---
    Quadruple Acceleration!
[01:00] ---
    That's the Godspeed of the East...
[01:03] ---
    She is the top-ranked third-year
    here at East Genetics:
[01:09] ---
    Cathy Lockharte.
[01:40] ---
    If coming to a halt isn’t allowed
[01:43] ---
    Then let's keep walking like this
[01:45] ---
    "I want you to remember
    that you're not alone"

[01:51] ---
    Even if these emotions that can't be shaken
[01:54] ---
    Are laughed at as weakness,
[01:57] ---
    I don't care. I want to
    tell you straightforwardly

[02:02] ---
    Keep the faith
[02:03] ---
    Because I made a promise
[02:13] ---
    To live as I am
[02:22] ---
    Inside that gale
[02:25] ---
    Oh, true color
[02:28] ---
    So that clear sky
[02:31] ---
    Can be freely repainted in color
[02:37] ---
    Oh, true color
[02:39] ---
    There is no distinct scenery
[02:43] ---
    Just don't forget
[02:48] ---
    Every happy day
[03:13] ---
    Satellizer!
[03:16] ---
    Are you thinking of Kazuya or something?
[03:19] ---
    Wh-Why would I spend all
    my time thinking of Kazuya?
[03:23] ---
    I was correct, was I?
[03:24] ---
    Why would you be?
[03:27] ---
    Right now, Kazuya is...
[03:30] ---
    It's an honor!
[03:31] ---
    Thank you for inviting me to East Genetics.
[03:34] ---
    Thank you.
[03:36] ---
    I am so grateful that you
    accepted my invitation.
[03:40] ---
    P-Please, I'm your junior.
[03:42] ---
    You shouldn't speak so politely.
[03:45] ---
    But...
[03:46] ---
    She, Cathy Lockharte, is
    one of the chosen Pandora.
[03:50] ---
    She received Sacreds, the
    Stigmata of Kazuha Aoi,
[03:56] ---
    heroine of the Eighth Nova Clash.
[03:59] ---
    My sister's Stigmata are... inside you?
[04:06] ---
    When I heard that Kazuha Aoi's younger
    brother was at West Genetics,
[04:12] ---
    I knew I wanted to pay my respects.
[04:14] ---
    Thank you very much.
[04:17] ---
    Uh, not at all! I didn't do anything.
[04:23] ---
    You're the top in your school year...
[04:26] ---
    "A girl like you," you're thinking?
[04:28] ---
    N-Not at all! Your Quadruple
    Acceleration was incredible!
[04:32] ---
    I never knew someone could move that fast!
[04:34] ---
    And you got two Nova!
[04:36] ---
    That would never happen in an actual fight.
[04:40] ---
    There have been no previous examples
[04:43] ---
    of multiple Nova appearing at once.
[04:45] ---
    Oh. Oh, yes.
[04:47] ---
    Also, I plan on retiring.
[04:55] ---
    You're not going to become a fourth-year
[04:57] ---
    and join the reserve forces of
    Chevalier, the anti-Nova organization?
[05:02] ---
    I would like to give the Sacreds to
    someone fitting and then leave here.
[05:09] ---
    But why?
[05:10] ---
    I have... another goal.
[05:14] ---
    Goal?
[05:17] ---
    I want to be a novelist.
[05:20] ---
    What did you just say?
[05:22] ---
    I want to be a novelist.
[05:24] ---
    Sorry?
[05:26] ---
    I want to be a novelist!
[05:33] ---
    Of course, I think that facing
    the grave danger the Nova pose
[05:36] ---
    is extremely important.
[05:39] ---
    However... it's been my
    dream since I was young.
[05:46] ---
    Is that strange?
[05:50] ---
    It's strange, isn't it?
[05:52] ---
    It's a wonderful dream.
[05:56] ---
    I look forward to the day I
    can read one of your novels.
[06:06] ---
    Okay!
[06:14] ---
    And your decision? It hasn't changed?
[06:20] ---
    I'm very sorry, Miss Milena.
[06:26] ---
    Well... A novelist, huh?
[06:30] ---
    It's a shame.
[06:32] ---
    She is a unique talent, on
    par even with your sister.
[06:40] ---
    Your sister Kazuha Aoi had
    20 Stigmata in her body.
[06:47] ---
    She was the Heroine Pandora, able to
    make abstract high-end skills a reality.
[06:52] ---
    Following your sister Kazuha Aoi's death,
[06:54] ---
    Cathy Lockharte received some of her Sacreds.
[06:57] ---
    She was a rare Pandora, with
    a 90% compatibility rate.
[07:02] ---
    In all the Genetics spread across the globe,
[07:05] ---
    no one else has shown such
    a degree of compatibility.
[07:12] ---
    We thought you would be one of
    those to lead the Pandora...
[07:18] ---
    To lead Chevalier.
[07:20] ---
    I am not worthy.
[07:25] ---
    Even entering Genetics was for
    my father, who is in politics.
[07:30] ---
    If he hadn't wanted to
    say that I had completed
[07:34] ---
    the basic three-year curriculum,
    then I would never have...
[07:42] ---
    I am not against combating the Nova.
[07:46] ---
    Even after I graduate,
[07:48] ---
    should the Nova appear, I can
    fight for my friends and family.
[07:53] ---
    But continuing on to Chevalier,
[07:56] ---
    to be praised as one who leads the Pandora...
[08:00] ---
    That is frightening beyond belief.
[08:02] ---
    Frightening?
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    Because I lack the true
    strength of a Pandora.
[08:12] ---
    The strength of will to face
    any threat, unyielding...
[08:16] ---
    ...and a belief in oneself with
    a heart resolute as steel.
[08:21] ---
    Those are the strengths of a Pandora.
[08:24] ---
    If that's the case, then you--
[08:26] ---
    No.
[08:28] ---
    I do not have those things in me.
[08:31] ---
    Someone has already taught me that.
[08:35] ---
    "Someone"?
[08:36] ---
    To be precise, my fight with
    her drove that point home.
[08:43] ---
    One year ago, when Brooks Leevon
    was permanently injured...
[08:48] ---
    Yes.
[08:49] ---
    What are you doing?!
[08:52] ---
    Satellizer el Bridget.
[08:58] ---
    That day, she taught me all too well
[09:00] ---
    just what a terrible coward I am.
[09:08] ---
    Cathy...
[09:10] ---
    The Sacreds...
[09:12] ---
    My sister's Stigmata. Has someone
    other than Cathy received them?
[09:22] ---
    But she had Sacreds, just
    like you. Six of them, even.
[09:27] ---
    Satelli has them, too?
[09:33] ---
    However, an exam before she transferred
[09:35] ---
    showed a compatibility rate of not even 5%.
[09:40] ---
    So Satelli looked to me like my sister
[09:44] ---
    because she had the Sacreds grafted onto her?
[09:48] ---
    Aoi...
[09:50] ---
    Yes, Ma'am.
[09:51] ---
    I've heard that you wish
    to become her Limiter.
[09:56] ---
    Y-Yes! I haven't received baptism
    yet, but I'm her Limiter.
[10:00] ---
    Sort of...
[10:01] ---
    Is that so?
[10:03] ---
    I've worried about this,
    following the incident at East,
[10:07] ---
    but it seems my fears were groundless.
[10:09] ---
    The incident at East!
[10:11] ---
    When Satelli permanently injured a
    student who wanted to be her Limiter?
[10:15] ---
    Did that really happen?
[10:17] ---
    Yes. But later, the boy who was injured
[10:22] ---
    acknowledged his fault
    for trying to force her.
[10:26] ---
    Oh. Really?
[10:30] ---
    If Cathy Lockharte hadn't been there,
[10:34] ---
    they say he would have been hurt even more.
[10:38] ---
    If Cathy hadn't been there?
[10:40] ---
    Satellizer's family runs the El Corporation.
[10:43] ---
    There are rumors that she used
    her influence to get the Sacreds.
[10:46] ---
    But why fear her?
[10:54] ---
    To be sure, the difference in
    power between us was clear.
[11:11] ---
    But even when the fight
    seemed to have been settled,
[11:15] ---
    she refused to show any sign of giving up.
[11:19] ---
    Though beaten again and
    again, she came at me.
[11:22] ---
    Such strong will...
[11:24] ---
    That, truly, was someone
    with a heart of steel,
[11:27] ---
    one that would be beaten by no one.
[11:31] ---
    Our reason for fighting-- what
    we carried in our hearts--
[11:37] ---
    was clearly different.
[11:42] ---
    In the end, another third-year who
    showed up finally finished her off.
[11:48] ---
    But I... I had lost my nerve!
[11:53] ---
    Someone like me is not fit to
    lead comrades to fight the Nova!
[11:59] ---
    Cathy...
[12:18] ---
    Under East's jurisdiction?
[12:19] ---
    Correct.
[12:21] ---
    The dimensional interference noticed
    recently is, sure enough...
[12:29] ---
    Level 1 Alert! Level 1 Alert!
[12:33] ---
    All Pandora and Limiters currently on campus!
[12:37] ---
    Pandora, equip Volt Textures
    with powered weaponry
[12:40] ---
    and Limiters, equip battle uniforms
    and assemble in the auditorium.
[12:44] ---
    Volt Texture: equip.
[12:44] ---
    Repeating... All Pandora and
    Limiters currently on campus!
[12:49] ---
    Pandora, equip Volt Textures
    with powered weaponry
[12:52] ---
    and Limiters, equip battle uniforms
    and assemble in the auditorium.
[13:02] ---
    This is footage from the ground.
[13:09] ---
    This is unheard of...
[13:16] ---
    Four Nova Type S are now
    confirmed to have appeared!
[13:21] ---
    Four of them?
[13:24] ---
    Target 1 has entered the defensive line.
[13:26] ---
    Evacuation of civilians and
    noncombatants is 97% complete.
[13:31] ---
    Intercept attack will begin
    in 1 minute 30 seconds.
[13:55] ---
    All units were destroyed.
[13:58] ---
    Sure enough, conventional firepower...
[14:01] ---
    Can't even slow them down, huh?
[14:09] ---
    Yes?
[14:13] ---
    Understood.
[14:16] ---
    A message from general headquarters.
[14:19] ---
    You all are to move out and serve
    as reserve Pandora and Limiters.
[14:32] ---
    Kazuya!
[14:34] ---
    Did you hear?
[14:36] ---
    Yeah.
[14:36] ---
    Four Nova at once... Just what's going on?!
[14:40] ---
    Do you think they'll come here?
[14:41] ---
    L-Let 'em come!
[14:44] ---
    If Ganessa and I move out together,
[14:48] ---
    we can get one or two Nova!
[14:50] ---
    Now hold on!
[14:51] ---
    Ganessa is a second-year.
[14:53] ---
    There's no way they'd
    mobilize the second-years.
[14:56] ---
    We don't know that! East
    doesn't have enough firepower,
[15:01] ---
    so even Pandora not assigned to
    Chevalier were ordered to move out!
[15:06] ---
    Not assigned to Chevalier, meaning...
[15:08] ---
    The second- and third-years, of course!
[15:12] ---
    Then she is...
[15:17] ---
    We will reach the mission area in 15 minutes.
[15:20] ---
    All personnel, prepare for descent.
[15:31] ---
    Chevalier Platoons 3, 7 and
    8 have completed deployment.
[15:36] ---
    Intercept attack will begin in 180 seconds.
[15:42] ---
    Target 1 continues to move.
[15:52] ---
    Decoys are now in place.
[15:57] ---
    Strikers are now in place.
[16:06] ---
    Finishers are now in place.
[16:09] ---
    Operation commencing in ten seconds.
[16:14] ---
    Five... Four... Three...
[16:17] ---
    Two... One...
[16:19] ---
    Decoys, spread out!
[16:22] ---
    Get it flustered enough for
    the Strikers to get up there!
[16:34] ---
    Freezing!
[16:36] ---
    Now! Strikers, launch a direct attack!
[16:40] ---
    Expose the core!
[16:44] ---
    Finishers, destroy the core!
[16:47] ---
    Quadruple Acceleration!
[16:51] ---
    We're counting on you, Cathy Lockharte!
[16:55] ---
    She's got it!
[16:56] ---
    I'm finishing this!
[17:02] ---
    Miss Cathy!
[17:09] ---
    It timed its movement to
    my Quadruple Acceleration?
[17:15] ---
    That monster!
[17:19] ---
    Decoys, again! Disrupt the target!
[17:23] ---
    "High-Energy Alert"
[17:24] ---
    Picking up high energy
    readings from Target 1!
[17:27] ---
    It can't be!
[17:39] ---
    The Nova released a beam?
[17:42] ---
    Another first...
[17:45] ---
    This type is entirely different
[17:47] ---
    from those that have previously appeared.
[17:51] ---
    Incoming message from GHQ.
[17:52] ---
    West has been ordered to mobilize.
[17:58] ---
    So it's true-- the personnel at East
    isn't enough to stop them, huh?
[18:03] ---
    They're making our fourth-years move out?
[18:05] ---
    There are four Nova. That's a lot.
[18:08] ---
    Saying this may make me sound like a coward,
[18:11] ---
    but I'm glad I'm a third-year.
[18:13] ---
    It's so scary...
[18:17] ---
    What is occurring?
[18:19] ---
    Everyone looks anxious, and is
    speaking in whispered tones.
[18:26] ---
    What are you angry about?
[18:29] ---
    She's frustrated.
[18:31] ---
    Miss Student Council President!
    Miss Vice President!
[18:34] ---
    Frustrated at her own situation, able to
    do nothing in this state of emergency.
[18:38] ---
    State of emergency?
[18:41] ---
    Do you not know what's going on right now?
[18:45] ---
    Correct!
[18:49] ---
    What will you do if we're
    ordered to move out?
[18:52] ---
    What do you mean?
[18:54] ---
    I mean, would you pair up
    and fight with Satellizer?
[18:59] ---
    You haven't received baptism, right?
[19:03] ---
    Oh. You don't need the Ereinbar Set,
[19:08] ---
    so you could pair up with anyone.
[19:14] ---
    I will fight... with Satelli.
[19:18] ---
    She's a special person.
[19:22] ---
    Special?
[19:24] ---
    What do you mean?
[19:27] ---
    The day I transferred here...
[19:30] ---
    ...Satelli looked like my sister to me.
[19:39] ---
    Your sister? You mean the Heroine Pandora...
[19:43] ---
    ...Kazuha Aoi?
[19:46] ---
    Yes.
[19:49] ---
    Now I know why.
[19:53] ---
    Satelli received Sacreds...
[19:56] ---
    My sister's Stigmata.
[19:59] ---
    S-So the reason you wanted
    to be her Limiter...
[20:03] ---
    ...is because she was like your sister.
[20:09] ---
    I didn't even notice it myself.
[20:25] ---
    My eyes!
[20:26] ---
    I can't see!
[20:30] ---
    Get the medics out here!
    How many? All of them!
[20:41] ---
    Target 1 is repeatedly performing
    some kind of unknown attack.
[20:46] ---
    What is this?!
[20:49] ---
    Th-They're fusing!
[20:51] ---
    It's penetrating via the point of contact,
[20:53] ---
    fusing with the Pandora's Stigmata framework!
[20:55] ---
    The Volt Texture is being neutralized!
[20:59] ---
    Miss Cathy!
[21:04] ---
    Must get away... Quickly!
[21:09] ---
    Ma'am!
[21:18] ---
    Quadruple Acceleration!
[21:23] ---
    It's no good. From deep inside my body...
[21:28] ---
    ...my will is being stolen!
[21:35] ---
    Miss Cathy!
[21:45] ---
    Satelli received Sacreds...
[21:47] ---
    My sister's Stigmata.
[21:50] ---
    S-So the reason you wanted
    to be her Limiter...

[21:55] ---
    ...is because she was like your sister.
[22:17] ---
    In a future that will break
    down, I want to protect you

[22:24] ---
    In a world of darkness, become the
    star that will illuminate tomorrow

[22:38] ---
    On lonely, anxious nights, even
    if it seems you'll lose hope

[22:41] ---
    Remember that I'll always be there
[22:45] ---
    Don't lose it, that spark that only you have
[22:48] ---
    Try it over and over, and
    then overcome, yeah yeah!

[22:51] ---
    Emerge from that maze in your heart
[22:55] ---
    Because surely it makes a person stronger
[23:01] ---
    One more chance
[23:05] ---
    With you, I want to find a
    future that gives off light

[23:12] ---
    O tears that spill forth, become
    the wind that will dry them

[23:19] ---
    That's right, none of us can live alone
[23:25] ---
    Stand up for you
[23:26] ---
    All of us, break free of
    the darkness of solitude

[23:31] ---
    Don't look back again
[23:40] ---
    Giving birth to the Pandora meant
[23:41] ---
    planting the Nova's framework upon humanity.
[23:41] ---
    Four Nova have appeared.
[23:44] ---
    The Pandora that fused at East, eh?
[23:47] ---
    Next time: "Nova Form."
[23:50] ---
    "Watch again next time!"
    "Margaret is the best!"