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8 - Like the Truth

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    Looking back on our memories in order to
    move forward is not a pointless exercise.
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    But sometimes, memories are
    bedecked so beautifully,
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    that they become a miniature garden,
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    that traps a person's mind,
    and does not let go.
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    Once bound by their memories,
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    a person's mind can
    no longer move forward.
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    Are my scars a beautiful past to me?
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    Or is it just childish sentimentality?
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    I still cannot see the answer.
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    I may have a habit of running away
    whenever anything bad occurs,

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    but no matter what happens,
    I'm not going to run away now.

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    I may have a habit of bursting into tears,
    even though I understand it in my mind,

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    but since I am aiming higher,
    I'm not going to cry now.

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    I'm tired of hearing that
    things will turn out all right.

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    Don't bury your head in your hands.
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    Instead give your positive gauge a clip!
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    In time it will all feel
    just like it should!

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    Deeply, deeply, it's becoming
    etched in my mind

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    that someday, this will all be real.
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    Both the unchanging mornings
    and the never-ending nights.

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    I'm off and running for tomorrow's sake.
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    7th Ship has been lost!
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    It's no use! The fleet on
    the battle lines is relentless,
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    and we can't get near
    the territorial ship!
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    We cannot allow them to get any closer!
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    Break through the enemy fleet,
    no matter what it takes!
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    Fire! Give chase! Blast them!
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    Forgive me for saying so, Excellency sir,
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    but be sure not to forget that
    we are to apprehend Michel Volban.
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    Gouda is correct.
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    Girls, let's be sure to remember that.
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    Sorry we're late!
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    Michel!
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    Our course is for
    Bardeaux Territory, right?
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    Yes. Hector is leading the fleet,
    but the tide of war is going against us.
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    You should hurry up and get out of here.
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    All right.
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    Where are you going?
    You know what's going on.
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    What about you? You're going
    to live up to your obligations
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    for talking so big in front of everyone.
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    What?
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    Why don't you show me
    how you would fight?
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    Those of us who are born under
    the Black Star Cross are all sinners.
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    From times of old, in exchange for the
    blessings that God doth bestow upon us,
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    He desireth that we offer Him
    a grand atonement,
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    and hath required us to make sacrifices.
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    And now, behold the maiden,
    clad in a visage of iron, before you.
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    Her true face hath been sealed
    under the law of sacrifice,
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    thus, ye cannot be too grateful
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    for the forgiveness and blessings
    ye have obtained.
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    My daughter, Rachel,
    hath been offered in sacrifice.
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    However, thy father knoweth
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    --Now, let's see if it's an
    ogre or a snake that appears.
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    --that thy soul is of God.
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    --I wonder if she's got a sea monster's
    face hidden behind the mask.
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    --Thy soul hath been purified by God,
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    --He hath driven out the
    impurities of this world,
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    --Yeah, the kind where anyone who
    looks at it would be terrified of it.
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    --and hath absolved us, as well.
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    --You have to feel sorry for his daughter.
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    --And now, on this blessed day,
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    --To have to wear a mask like
    that, even if it is the custom...
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    --the prolonged days of
    sacrifice come to an end.
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    Rachel is born to purge all of the impurity
    from this world in God's name.
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    Thus, with her serving as
    an atoning goddess for all of you,
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    we now perform this
    coming-of-age ceremony.
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    Now, be ye born beneath
    the light of the stars!
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    Open your eyes, Rachel,
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    and speak to the people
    for whom you have atoned,
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    and saved, beneath your mask.
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    Yes, Father.
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    5th Ship has gone down!
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    Our side is the only one
    being beaten, isn't it?!
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    If this keeps up, we'll be wiped out!
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    Please stand firm! Stir up
    your pride as the People's Army!
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    W- we're going down! It's all over!
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    Stop that! Saying that will turn a battle
    we can win into one we cannot!
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    Hector, I'm receiving unrelenting
    communications from the other ships,
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    saying "Give us instructions, now!"
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    What do we do?!
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    I'm thinking right now!
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    L- launch a barrage, directly ahead!
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    Receiving a message
    from the glass battleship!
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    "Move it! What are you, asleep?!"
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    Amazing!
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    F- fire! Fire! We're going to follow them!
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    Don't sell the royal family's
    fighting spirit short!
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    I gotta say, the People's Army
    is not good for a whole lot.
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    I'm surprised they even thought they
    could launch a revolution like this.
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    What?!
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    My glasses!
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    Oh, no! I hit them!
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    Hey, what were you doing?!
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    But look!
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    The glass battleship
    isn't slowing down one bit!
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    What the hell are you doing?!
    We're on your side, you know!
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    Receiving a message from Hector's ship.
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    It says, "Sorry about that."
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    Sorry, I apologize too.
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    That's enough! I'm taking over!
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    Your father's talk was most wonderful.
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    All of us at the Ministry of Supplication
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    wish the Cross-Star religion
    continued growth.
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    May you have joy
    in the light of the Cross.
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    Next, from the 10th Wing of the Ministry
    of Supplication, Sir Lance Beloiel.
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    You have truly grown up beautifully.
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    This is wholly thanks to
    the purification of God.
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    May you have joy in the light of the Cross.
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    All of us at the Ministry of Supplication
    offer our sincerest blessings...
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    ...upon Our Lady on your
    coming-of-age ceremony.
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    Next, His Excellency, the Holy Emperor,
    Vetti Sforza-sama.
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    It is a pleasure to meet you, Rachel-sama.
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    That the Holy Emperor should
    deign to stand on the same level
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    as a commoner such as myself,
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    let alone kneel down before me...
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    I am just a person,
    the same as everyone else,
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    and I have come here as the clown
    who loves you, even in my dreams.
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    Deciphering code...
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    A full salvo from
    the enemy fleet is coming.
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    Submerge.
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    You got it!
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    To have this kind of
    maneuverability underwater...
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    It worked. We've lured them under.
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    Make them regret it.
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    Don't sell the royal family's
    submersibles short!
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    There isn't anything this ship can't do!
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    Incoming.
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    There's no end to them! What do we do?
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    Cleo...
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    There's a soleil facility near here, right?
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    Huh?
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    Yes, there's a relay subunit at 7 o'clock.
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    All right, let's blow it away!
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    What?! Wait, that's pivotal
    to the soleil supply!
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    If you do that,
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    --the lives of the people-
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    --It's the only way to bring
    down all of them together.
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    But...
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    You wanted to see how
    I would fight, didn't you?
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    Salvo!
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    What's that?!
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    W- what have they done?!
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    Splendid!
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    Wiped out?!
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    There is no response from
    any of the ships of the line!
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    What happened to them?!
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    It looks like they blew up
    a soleil facility!
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    Don't tell me... Michel!
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    Incoming message
    from the glass battleship.
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    "Keep quiet and follow me!"
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    We're following them! We're going to
    attack the enemy territorial ship!
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    T- the glass battleship is too daunting!
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    Excellency sir! Please take flight at once!
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    --Sir!
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    --Sir, please hurry!
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    You must have collected
    donations all day today, huh?
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    I am not fond of such
    a secular manner of speaking.
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    Forgive my rudeness.
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    What do you think of my daughter?
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    She truly is a goddess.
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    I would be proud to have the honor
    of exchanging vows with her.
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    My daughter will be pleased that
    the Holy Emperor said as much about her.
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    However that may be...
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    Mm-hmm, I know.
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    Excuse me, Your Eminence...
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    There is a visitor here
    for the Holy Emperor.
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    Cut out that "visitor" business!
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    Vetti-sama!
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    Ralph? You're being rude
    in front of His Eminence.
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    Oh, the masked woman's father?
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    Ralph, I told you not
    to come here, didn't I?
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    I don't like being away from you like that.
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    I'm terribly sorry.
    This is my Imperial Guard.
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    No, not at all. Do not let it bother you.
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    You are the daughter of the
    Cross-Star religion, Rachel-sama, yes?
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    Who are you?
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    If you would be so kind
    as to come with us,
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    we will not do anything to hurt you.
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    Know only that we are those who reject
    the teachings of the Cross-Star religion.
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    Let me go!
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    Please remain quiet.
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    This may inconvenience you, but please
    bear with it for the time being.
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    Rachel-sama, are you hurt?
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    I'm all right.
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    Stay back!
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    Just you try to put
    a single mark on Rachel-sama.
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    I will pickle you alive in salt.
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    This rose that does not achieve its desires
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    Was given to us by
    the gods we believe in and...
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    Let's pull out of here! Pull out!
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    Are you unhurt?
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    Oh, Rachel! What happened?
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    Father...
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    Your Eminence,
    something dreadful has occurred.
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    Allow me to explain what happened.
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    Those who disbelieve the Cross-Star
    religion attempted to kidnap me,
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    but thanks to Vetti-sama,
    nothing came of it.
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    What?!
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    However, it was all a sham.
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    A sham?
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    It was an amateurish put-on,
    to allow Vetti-sama to win my heart.
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    Not even as good as a child's skit.
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    Rachel, you're being rude.
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    Father, you should be
    ashamed of yourself, as well.
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    Did you think that I could be made to be
    someone else's over a stunt like this?
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    How did you know?
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    Today is not the first time that
    the night breeze has touched my bared face.
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    What?
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    I took advantage of the fact that
    no one knew my face up until now,
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    and went around to numerous places,
    to see what the world was really like.
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    This universe, which your teachings,
    Father, and Vetti-sama's power, control.
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    Well then, have a pleasant evening.
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    Rachel!
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    You have been shown a side of her
    you never knew, huh?
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    Indeed, it is most amusing.
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    Perhaps my acting is only convincing
    when I am delivering my sermons.
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    Rachel, wait! Rachel!
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    Come on out.
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    I'm sorry. It was my fault, huh?
    If I had played it more seriously...
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    You were serious enough about
    meaning to kill her, weren't you?
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    This performance was a success.
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    In her humiliation
    over being thought of
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    as a woman easily swayed
    by such a clumsy act,
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    she has removed her mask
    in a truer sense.
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    She seeks the truth,
    more than anyone else.
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    How about just the two of us,
    the next day off I get?
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    No, you should definitely come with me!
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    No, no... Mama said
    that men are all wolves.
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    You're planning to do something,
    aren't you? Oh, no!
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    So, overnight, they have
    become heroes, have they?
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    They as good as shot down
    an entire enemy territorial ship
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    with just one vessel, after all.
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    I deeply apologize for having
    fired upon your ship. I am truly sorry.
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    Hey, Cleo!
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    You went off and acted on your own again!
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    We may have managed to
    confiscate an enemy territory,
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    but if we hadn't been lucky, our lives
    wouldn't have had any light for a while.
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    So?
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    Don't be offended.
    I mean, look around you.
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    Look at how happy everyone is.
    You truly are our savior.
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    You people, all of you! Fight for me!
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    --Cleo! Cleo! Cleo! Cleo!
[21:36] ---
    --Cleo! Cleo! Cleo! Cleo!
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    "Like the Truth"
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    It's twilight already in the
    glass city of mistaken notions

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    where we exchanged farewells
    among the countless lights.

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    After making that pinky promise,
    the finger that lied to you

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    developed a hangnail,
    and still hurts a little even now.

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    We called each other's names,
    we spoke each other's names,

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    and the world where you and I
    once met keeps spinning around.

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    After these tears fall,
    will they be forgotten?

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    After the sadness melts away,
    will I be able to see?

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    Quivering and shimmering
    in this glistening world,

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    they grow cold and dry up
    as I grasp them in my hands.

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    Even if this world were made of nothing
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    but lies and nonsense,
    I probably wouldn't care.

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    Somewhere on this world,
    I am here singing,

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    so please, may you be
    here on this world, smiling.

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    A brief time of peace brings with it
    quiet bargaining for love and hatred.
[23:19] ---
    Who will be the last one left
    laughing at the center of the galaxy?
[23:22] ---
    Next time on Glass Fleet,
    "Like Constant Change"
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    The galaxy in revolution. Renaissance.
[23:26] ---
    "Like Constant Change"