# E10 - Bygone Banyue Days
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GD9UVXPJX/bygone-banyue-days)
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General Millstone, try to stay calm!
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Is that the Grand Preceptor
hanging over the Sinners' Pit?
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That's right!
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I made sure to drag that
traitor to the grave with me!
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Whenever I get
my hands on her, I hang her!
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So for all these years, every time
you caught the Grand Preceptor,
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you would hang her over the Sinners' Pit?
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Yes, and hanging was too good for her!
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After she died, that witch hunted
down my Wrath soldiers
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and threw them into the pit!
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She set up a magical formation around it
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to ensure that none who fell
in could ever climb out again.
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I had to listen to their
howling night after night.
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All I could do was toss down a few Central
Plains merchants from time to time,
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so they could feed.
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I had no other choice.
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What about that half-buried face
in the royal palace?
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Was that your handiwork?
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We had to fertilize the
Good-Moon herb somehow.
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Otherwise, we'd have no way
to deal with those vile snakes.
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It seems that even though Millstone
and his soldiers were no longer human,
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they still feared the
scorpion-tailed snakes.
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So why didn't the Grand Preceptor
wield her snakes against them
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instead of letting herself
be hanged so easily?
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Besides, it's rather strange that she let
her snakes out of the city to attack humans.
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It's almost as if she wanted
to lure people back into the city,
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so that Millstone could
feed them to his soldiers.
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But if they're enemies,
why would she help him?
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And there's another thing
that's troubling me...
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General Millstone,
when we entered the city just now,
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we saw two figures,
one in black and one in white--
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What happened, Millstone?
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"What happened"?!
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You pushed them all off!
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You demon Daoist!
You killed them!
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I should hang you a thousand times over!
Ten thousand times!
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Demon Daoist?
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So she's the Half-Moon Grand Preceptor?
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Wait. Who are these people?
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All right.
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"All right"?! Are you happy now?
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They're all dead, finally!
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Millstone, it's all over at last.
We're finally free.
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Was it you who killed those soldiers?
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That was an accident.
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Nonsense!
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Who are you?
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I'm a heavenly official. And this is...
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This is a friend of mine.
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No heavenly officials
have ever come here before.
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I thought you'd given up on us.
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Do you want to leave?
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Of course we do.
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But there's a magical formation here.
We can't get out.
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It's gone now. You're free to go.
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So she was the one who put it there.
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Then who were those
black- and white-robed figures?
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Hello?
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If no one's down there, I'm leaving!
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Fu Yao! Down here!
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What else is down there?
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Come see for yourself!
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He really is down there?
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They're all dead!
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These piled-up bodies... Are they all...?
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San Lang...
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Weren't you supposed
to look after the caravan?
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You've been gone for six hours.
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So I drew a protection circle
around them and came to find you.
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They must have thought
you'd abandoned them.
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If they want to risk their lives,
there's not much I can do about it.
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Who are these people?
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This is the Half-Moon Grand Preceptor,
and that is General Millstone.
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--Now they--
--Yah!
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You demon! I'll kill you!
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You'll pay for this in blood!
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You despicable traitor!
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Where's your scorpion-tailed snake now?
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Go on, bite me!
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Millstone, I can't control
the snakes anymore--
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Nonsense! Then why don't they bite you?
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I'm sorry.
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I'm... I'm sorry.
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You're sorry?
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Will your apologies bring
my men back to life?
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But I--
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Traitor!
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I'll hang you every time I catch you!
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General, take it easy!
Let's talk this out.
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It's you!
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G-General Hua?
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Let him cool off for a bit.
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Do you two know each other?
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Half-Moon?
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You still remember me, General?
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Of course I do. But...
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...what happened to you?
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I'm terribly sorry, Captain.
I... I made a mess of things.
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General? Captain?
What's he on about?
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Hold on. Are you that
general from the tombstone?
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Yes, that was my tomb.
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What exactly is going on here?
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Well... It's a long story.
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Two hundred years ago, I had to lie low
for a while, for one reason or another.
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So I took my compass and headed south.
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But my compass broke, and I ended up
wandering until I reached a desert.
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There, I ran into an army
that was conscripting troops.
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So you were drafted into the army?
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Later, I took part in a few
missions to drive off bandits.
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Somehow or other,
I was promoted to captain.
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Some of my men called me
General, out of deference.
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But why "General Hua"?
That's not your surname.
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Back then, I went by an alias-- "Hua Xie."
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The frequent border skirmishes
made orphans of many children.
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Half-Moon here was one of them.
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One day, when I was cooking a meal...
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Ugh! What the hell is that?
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I was just cooking up something to eat.
Don't be angry at the food.
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Look at that garbage!
Who in their right mind would eat that?
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Wait a minute, kid! Don't--
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Little girl, you really shouldn't
eat things you find on the ground.
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Where are your parents?
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Hey! What are you doing?
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You can have this.
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After that, the child would
follow me around quietly.
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I got to know her after a while.
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I had no idea where she came from.
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She knew how to speak the language,
but she rarely talked.
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She had no friends,
other than one Yong An boy.
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In my spare time,
I taught her to sing and wrestle.
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We got along pretty well.
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But all good things must come to an end.
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One day, a riot broke out,
and I got caught up in the crowd.
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I was trampled in the
stampede and couldn't get up.
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I had to play dead.
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The rest is a bit of a blur.
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When I awoke, I found myself
back in Yong An Kingdom.
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Afterwards, I lost track of Half-Moon.
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I thought the "Half-Moon"
in "Half-Moon Grand Preceptor"
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referred to the name of the kingdom.
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I didn't realize it was you.
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I'm sorry.
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General Hua, you were only trampled
because you were trying to protect me.
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It wasn't that bad, really!
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How could you have been trampled?
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Even on your worst day,
you should have been able to get away.
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Well, I seem to recall that the two sides
wouldn't listen to me and began fighting.
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I saw that Half-Moon had
been swept up by the crowd,
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so I tried to carry her to safety.
But before I could--
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You seem to recall?
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How could you forget something like that?
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Everyone's memory has limits.
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I'd rather remember the delicious
pork buns I had yesterday
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than how I got trampled 200 years ago.
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I'm sorry.
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Half-Moon, it was my choice to save you.
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It's not me you should be apologizing to.
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Let's get back to the point.
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So, why did you open the gates
and let the enemy massacre your city?
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Who were you working with?
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What else were you scheming?
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You--
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Has she lost her voice?
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The Half-Moon I remember would never have
sought revenge on or betrayed anyone.
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So what happened?
Why did you open the gates?
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Can you tell us?
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Hmph!
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If you don't want to talk about that,
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can you at least explain why you
sent your snakes to attack people?
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She's a Wrath. What is there to explain?
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I didn't send the snakes.
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They disobeyed me and escaped.
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What?
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It's the truth, General Hua.
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That's what they all say!
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All those people who took the pass
were bitten by your snakes.
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Enough talk. Stick out your hands.
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We've accomplished our task. Let's go.
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Wait a moment, Fu Yao.
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Are you really going to
listen to her nonsense?
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She has no reason to lie.
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You can't summon
the snakes at all anymore?
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I can summon them,
but they don't always obey me.
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Then summon them.
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No!
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You see? She was lying.
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Did you really think the snake
could touch him? How foolish.
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It wasn't me! That snake
wasn't acting on my orders!
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There's no way for us to know whether
it was obeying or disobeying you!
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I didn't even summon that one!
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You still say it isn't you?
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It's not me!
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Who else could it be?
Tell them to back off!
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Wait a minute!
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Don't tell me you believe her!
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Those snakes...
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Come on now! Can there be any doubt?
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Let's get out of here first!
We'll talk about this later.
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Why are you coming back down?
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The formation's gone now.
Get back up there!
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The hell is this?
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It was you all along!