# 18 - The Logic of Those Who Leave
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The Logic of Those Who Leave
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Oh, you're Hajiki's mother.
**[02:15] ---**
May I extend our sympathy...
**[02:18] ---**
Never mind the formality.
**[02:20] ---**
Please return Hajiki to me.
**[02:23] ---**
I know he's here.
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Make it quick.
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We're making a concentrated
effort to find him, as well...
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but we can't locate him.
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Don't lie to me!
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He has no other place to go!
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I have no excuse.
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I should have supervised him better.
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Please knock it off.
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It's not your fault.
**[02:46] ---**
Well, um, actually...
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I have a general idea what you
had him do with that Heavy Metal.
**[02:53] ---**
Yes, it would be simple
to blame it on you, but...
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it doesn't work that way.
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It would only be an excuse
to say I had a hands-off policy.
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I'm to blame for being too busy
to watch his activities properly.
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A 16-year old is still a child.
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Mrs. Sanada...
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We will inform you the
moment we locate him.
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I swear.
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It's strange, isn't it?
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You're a machine, but when I'm with you...
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It's me.
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You guys eat, too.
**[03:48] ---**
I can't eat this all.
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I feel too dreadful to do that.
**[03:52] ---**
We're the ones who got
you to do all sorts of jobs.
**[03:55] ---**
Pardon?
**[03:57] ---**
Your mother and sister have
rented a room at Shun Pu Rou.
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After you've eaten, go home.
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Please try not to make it sound so simple.
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How am I supposed to show my face to them?
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Because of me...
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There's no way I can go home.
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Don't worry about your mother.
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She said the three of you would
start over from the beginning.
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I know it must be awkward to go home.
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But you have no other place to call home.
**[04:38] ---**
I'll ask Larry to handle
Lightning's disposal for you.
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So hurry home to your mother.
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Lightning's disposal...
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Aiko...
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Good afternoon.
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May I use your kitchen?
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I can't do that.
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Doing what you can't...
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will make Katana allow
you to live in Night Town.
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I lost, you know.
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He has no interest in me anymore.
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I wonder.
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Do you think he'll let
Techodes other than Zero exist?
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Come on, Hajiki.
**[05:45] ---**
It's a lot better than the way
Takumi parted with Thunderbolt.
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You'll have to part with
Lightning sometime.
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This is the time.
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I'll think about it.
**[05:59] ---**
There are only two options.
**[06:01] ---**
Abandon Lightning and
return to your old life...
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or challenge Katana to a return
match and get killed this time.
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Do you think so?
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Do you really think there
are only two ways?
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A suicide over a pessimistic future
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would only please the papers.
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Oh, yeah.
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There's always that.
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Hajiki, where are you going?
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For a walk.
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It's all right.
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I'll go via the sewer.
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Don't tell me you're going to meet Katana?
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I said I was going for a walk, just a walk.
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Please forgive him.
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He is an unhappy lamb who lost his way.
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I should bear the sin,
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as the one who didn't notice
the devil lurking inside him.
**[06:54] ---**
Please find it in your heart
to forgive Hajiki Sanada's sins.
**[06:57] ---**
It's kind of cold to keep
it a secret from his buddies.
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It kind of pisses me off that
he put on an honest front with us,
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but in reality he was a
criminal who used a Heavy Metal.
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So what's Hajiki gonna do now?
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Who knows.
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It's impossible.
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I can't part with Lightning.
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I'd rather just...
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If I were him...
What would you do?
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He either has to hit rock
bottom or face off with Katana.
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Hajiki hasn't got the courage to.
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It would be his own doom if he did that.
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That's stupid.
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That stuff is nothing more
than a cockfight in a hen house.
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Win or lose, the sky will be blue,
and the world won't even twitch.
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What do you mean?
**[07:58] ---**
That's philosophic. So not you!
**[08:02] ---**
Hajiki just might have beaten me to it.
**[08:17] ---**
The city is changing.
**[08:22] ---**
It looks like the balance
of evil is starting to crumble.
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Thanks to him.
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Hoods being pushed into
the streets by the mob wars.
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Police starting to put effort
into capturing those criminals.
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And the group who's after that boy.
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With egos and motives amuck,
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a three-sided war is beginning to unfold.
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Centering around the kid named Katana.
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Hajiki, huh?
**[09:06] ---**
You said it again. That's the
17th time since this morning.
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Katana, you actually
like Hajiki, don't you?
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Perhaps.
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I thought so!
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He's my pet.
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Not as good as a dog or cat.
A pet in the insect family.
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A pet that doesn't realize who
his master is, or who's stronger,
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and throws around his horns
or pincers to charge at me.
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It's incredibly fun to torment him.
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Night Town is my ant farm.
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I'll have as much fun with it as I can.
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If you like him, you should
try to get along with him.
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I'm sorry.
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It ended up taking half a day to make.
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But I can guarantee it tastes good.
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Sorry, but...
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You have no appetite?
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I guess it's because of Thunderbolt.
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Gads...
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Techodes...
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expose people's hearts.
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I can't believe that was my real intent...
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The real me...
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I haven't repaired Messah yet.
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Messah is still broken.
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You came here just to tell me that?
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To say it's my fault?
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I can fix Messah if I want.
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I just haven't.
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But it doesn't feel that strange.
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I don't plan to throw Messah away
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but it's like it isn't lonely.
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It kind of feels strange to say it.
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Of course you shouldn't throw it away.
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What a luxurious worry that is.
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I knew you'd say that.
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But for some reason,
I think it's okay like this.
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Make a move, Hajiki.
**[11:33] ---**
What the hell are they doing?
**[11:35] ---**
That's my house.
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They're from the crushed mobs.
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They're so pathetic.
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The moment they lost
their roost. Just look at them.
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Jack...
**[11:47] ---**
We've got a strong link...
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to run into each other
again like this at the very end.
**[11:52] ---**
I'm about to leave Unit Blue.
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We'll probably never meet again.
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Thanks for your help.
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Be well.
**[12:04] ---**
Jack!
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Jack, take me with you!
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I'll leave Unit Blue, too!
**[12:11] ---**
I don't want to be in
this city anymore, either...
**[12:14] ---**
As long as I'm with Lightning,
I can go anywhere!
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So please!
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Don't be stupid! You have family!
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You're serious?
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You probably have a lot to prepare.
**[12:37] ---**
At midnight...
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I'll be waiting at the water
tower on the outskirts of town.
**[12:45] ---**
I'll be there.
**[12:56] ---**
How did the order go?
**[13:00] ---**
No go.
**[13:01] ---**
Everyone's too afraid of
Katana to give us any work.
**[13:05] ---**
The starvation tactics
will continue awhile.
**[13:08] ---**
I see.
**[13:09] ---**
Where's Hajiki?
**[13:10] ---**
He's back.
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So did he say what he'd do?
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He asked to borrow a pen and paper.
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He just left with it.
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Give me a break.
**[13:19] ---**
Is he going to write a will or something?
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I doubt it.
**[13:27] ---**
Hajiki?
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Hajiki...
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It says to please give this to his mother.
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My goodness.
**[13:54] ---**
He's the good son 'til the bitter end.
**[13:56] ---**
That's chop logic!
**[13:58] ---**
It's only an excuse to run away.
**[14:00] ---**
He said he'd work to buy
back his house in another unit...
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or his family'd be safer without him...
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What the hell is that kid thinking?
**[14:09] ---**
What a display of passion.
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I guess seeing his mom really got to you.
**[14:14] ---**
He understands.
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If he's making excuses, he's prepared,
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and that's his conclusion.
**[14:23] ---**
Come on, don't just stand there...
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Help me, Satsuki.
**[14:27] ---**
Get that bag.
**[14:31] ---**
It's heavy.
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Don't complain.
**[14:35] ---**
I'll make up for my negligence
and be strict from now on!
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What? No way!
**[14:42] ---**
Just get moving!
**[14:43] ---**
Yes, ma'am...
**[14:53] ---**
Shall we go, Lightning?
**[15:12] ---**
Who's there?
**[15:15] ---**
Shinozuka...
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What's wrong with you?
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What are you doing here?
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Why are you running away?
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That's got nothing to do with you.
**[15:26] ---**
It's cowardly to talk like that!
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Who cares if you don't buy back the house?
**[15:31] ---**
If you want to protect
your mother and Satsuki
**[15:35] ---**
you should stay with them!
**[15:38] ---**
You know I can't abandon Lightning.
**[15:42] ---**
I understand that, but you could go back...
**[15:46] ---**
to how it was before, without Lightning.
**[15:49] ---**
I can't possibly go back!
**[15:51] ---**
It was too late the moment we met.
**[15:54] ---**
Actually, I don't want to go
back to the way I used to be.
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I don't plan to.
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Why?
**[16:01] ---**
Was losing to Katana
that painful? That frustrating?
**[16:05] ---**
Katana?
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Come to think of it,
I completely forgot about him.
**[16:11] ---**
Well, yeah, it came as
a shock when he beat me...
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but everything is kind of different now.
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I don't care about Katana whatsoever now.
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I don't understand.
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How can you expect me to understand that?
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We'll see each other again.
**[16:30] ---**
It's not like I'll never
come back or anything.
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See you around.
**[16:36] ---**
Let me go.
**[16:44] ---**
What the hell?
**[16:45] ---**
I won't let you leave.
**[16:47] ---**
I won't let you go and
abandon Satsuki and your mother!
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Get up.
**[16:56] ---**
Shinozuka...
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Say it, Hajiki.
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Say you won't go anywhere.
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Go on, say it!
**[17:12] ---**
I told you it has nothing to do with you.
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It does!
**[17:17] ---**
If you left this city...
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Don't go...
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Shinozuka...
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Thank you, Shinozuka.
**[17:45] ---**
But I've already made my decision.
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What a sensual moment.
**[18:02] ---**
So you forgot about me?
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You don't care about me anymore?
**[18:06] ---**
That's a lie, and you know it.
**[18:08] ---**
The loser shouldn't put
himself on a pedestal.
**[18:11] ---**
Were you listening?
**[18:12] ---**
When did I give you permission to run away?
**[18:16] ---**
I told you to stay and watch
as this city becomes mine.
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Shut up.
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Leave me alone.
**[18:24] ---**
You go and do whatever
you want in your rotten world.
**[18:27] ---**
I'm sick of your games.
**[18:33] ---**
Run, Shinozuka!
**[18:40] ---**
Lightning!
**[18:47] ---**
You won't get away!
**[19:02] ---**
Hajiki, huh?
**[19:04] ---**
Well, I guess I'll get going.
**[19:09] ---**
Sharks!
**[19:14] ---**
You have guts to show your
face in front of me, Sharks.
**[19:20] ---**
It's not good the way it is...
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Move.
**[19:26] ---**
B-But I can still start over if I act now.
**[19:29] ---**
Move it!
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If I have a gift, I can start over!
**[19:33] ---**
I said move it, you piece of shit!
**[19:53] ---**
You have to stay under
my thumb for eternity!
**[19:58] ---**
Don't run from me! Fight me, Hajiki!
**[20:10] ---**
Yes... That's good.
**[20:13] ---**
When I tell you to fight me, you fight me!
**[20:27] ---**
Zero!
**[20:49] ---**
You lost something
important to you, didn't you?
**[20:54] ---**
Hajiki was important to you, you know.
**[21:00] ---**
As long as you're with me...
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I'm good.
**[21:11] ---**
Hajiki...
**[21:23] ---**
Yujiro Sanada, huh?
**[21:27] ---**
The kid always said he
would never be like his dad,
**[21:32] ---**
but he's the same in the end.
**[21:34] ---**
He left his family and vanished
to the end of the stars like his dad.
**[21:39] ---**
It'd be nice to isolate oneself,
leaving past and present behind...
**[21:44] ---**
just charging forward.
**[21:48] ---**
Well, every man faces
something like this in his lifetime.
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