E5 - Prelude to an Explosion of Madness
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[00:00] Komekko
It all started when I went to
where I usually go to play...
[00:04] Komekko
I found something.
[00:15] (Flashback) Komekko
That's one big goblin!
[00:19] (Flashback) Host
Listen up, kid. Don't mix me
up with some damned goblins.
[00:23] (Flashback) Komekko
My name's not "kid"! It's Komekko.
[00:26] (Flashback) Komekko
Whatcha doing, Mr. Not-Goblin?
[00:28] (Flashback) Host
Mr. Not-Goblin?
[00:31] (Flashback) Host
All right, runt, I'm the Dark God Wolbach's
right-hand man, the high-level demon, Host!
[00:38] (Flashback) Host
Remember the name.
[00:40] (Flashback) Komekko
So cool!
[00:41] (Flashback) Host
Y-Yeah? You think so?
[00:44] (Flashback) Host
I like the cut of your jib, kid.
[00:47] (Flashback) Komekko
Thank you very much!
[00:51] (Flashback) Host
Watch it there. I need that to undo
the seal on Lady Wolbach's... eh?
[00:58] (Flashback) Host
Whoa, are you kidding me?
[01:01] (Flashback) Komekko
Here!
[01:06] (Flashback) Host
Hell yeah!
[01:14] (Flashback) Host
Hey, Komekko. Good to see you again.
[01:17] (Flashback) Host
Did you bring what I asked for?
[01:19] (Flashback) Komekko
Yep! Here's the offering.
[01:20] (Flashback) Host
Nice! Well done. I knew you had it in you.
[01:27] (Flashback) Host
What the hell is this?
[01:28] (Flashback) Komekko
Sacrificial chicken, egg, and rice!
[01:31] (Flashback) Komekko
I got it from that stalker guy.
[01:35] (Flashback) Bukkorori
Wait!
[01:38] (Flashback) Host
Stupid! There's no way you
can break a seal with a lunch.
[01:43] (Flashback) Host
It's gotta follow the inscription:
you need a hen and its chick!
[01:50] (Flashback) Host
Maybe I'm better off grabbing it myself...
[02:18] (Flashback) Megumin
I'm home!
[02:20] (Flashback) Komekko
Welcome home, Sis!
[02:22] (Flashback) Megumin
You caught something?
[02:25] (Flashback) Komekko
Yep! A big one.
[02:26] (Flashback) Komekko
Look! A fierce ebon beast that I
felled after a battle to the death!
[02:31] (Flashback) Komekko
Wanna eat it?
SIGN Episode 5: Prelude to an Explosion of Madness
[02:46] Megumin
Ko... Komekko!
[02:55] Megumin
K-K-K-K-K-K-K-Kome... Komekko is...!
[02:59] Yunyun
M-M-M-M-Megumin, calm down!
[03:00] Yunyun
Just c-c-calm down for a sec!
[03:02] Megumin
There is no way that my sister,
[03:05] Megumin
clever and tough as she is,
became a monster's meal that easily!
[03:09] Megumin
Komekko!
[03:17] Megumin
Sh-She's done for. We should give up.
[03:21] Megumin
We'll need to make a grave for her so that
her noble sacrifice is never forgotten.
[03:26] Megumin
Don't worry. She'll never truly be gone.
[03:30] Megumin
Yes, she'll live on inside my heart forever.
[03:33] Yunyun
She's still alive!
[03:35] Yunyun
Open your eyes a sec!
Because she's still alive!
[03:37] Yunyun
Aren't you giving up a little too soon?!
[03:39] Megumin
I'm not sure what's going on,
but this is our chance!
[03:42] Megumin
We should escape from
here and find my sister!
[03:44] Yunyun
Hang on!
[03:44] Yunyun
Please, can we at least try and save Inky?!
[03:47] Megumin
At a time like this?!
Are you kidding me?!
[03:50] Yunyun
Megumin!
[03:55] Megumin
Oh, of all the annoying...
[03:57] Megumin
Hey!
[03:59] Megumin
Take that cat and incur the
wrath of my little sister,
[04:02] Megumin
who's waiting for it to get
some meat on its bones.
[04:05] Megumin
Now, you bear witness to
my projectile combat!
[04:18] Megumin
I didn't anticipate that they would
have a shield of wind around them...
[04:21] Yunyun
They don't! That was pretty clearly
just you having lousy throw control!
[04:31] Yunyun
Inky!
[04:37] Megumin
She must have been a
servant from the heavens.
[04:40] Megumin
She's simply returned from whence she came.
[04:43] Megumin
That's why we shouldn't cry,
but instead, bid her a warm farewell.
[04:46] Yunyun
Please don't make up weird
justifications for abandoning Inky!
[04:50] Yunyun
What are we gonna do now?
[04:52] Megumin
We'll address the missing Ink later.
[04:55] Megumin
Komekko is the priority here.
[04:57] Megumin
Despite how she might seem,
my little sister is made of hardy stuff,
[05:00] Megumin
and she has a good head on her shoulders.
[05:03] Megumin
I'm sure she's out there somewhere.
[05:05] Yunyun
Y-You're right...
[05:06] Yunyun
Can you think of anywhere she might go?
[05:10] Megumin
Places she'd go...
[05:14] (Flashback) Komekko
I found a toy, too,
so I've been playing with it!
[05:17] (Flashback) Komekko
You wanna try?
[05:18] (Flashback) Megumin
A toy?
[05:20] Megumin
I figured it out!
[05:21] Megumin
I hate that I have, but I did!
[05:30] Yunyun
Come on, Megumin, she can't possibly have...
[05:33] Komekko
Gimme my food back!
[05:41] Yunyun
How in the world did this happen?
[05:43] Yunyun
What do you think Komekko is doing?
[05:46] Megumin
I think she's trying to take Ink back.
[05:49] Megumin
I believe that's a threatening posture.
[05:56] Yunyun
I don't know where to start here!
[05:59] Yunyun
She's picking a fight
with a pack of monsters!
[06:01] Yunyun
And she's not even a little afraid!
If anything, they seem scared of her!
[06:06] Megumin
It seems my little sister may,
in fact, be a big deal.
[06:10] Yunyun
Come on, Megumin!
[06:11] Megumin
There's no time.
[06:13] Megumin
I had hoped to avoid
resorting to this, but...
[06:18] Yunyun
Your adventurer card?
[06:23] Megumin
A-A genius of my caliber should be
able to hunt monsters with ease,
[06:28] Megumin
earning enough points again in no time.
[06:31] Megumin
No matter how long it takes...
[06:33] Megumin
Even if it takes decades...
[06:36] Megumin
I can still learn explosion magic!
[06:40] Megumin
It's fine... I can just start over...
[06:44] Yunyun
You're shaking, you know.
[06:49] Yunyun
Having a hard time letting go, right?
[06:59] Yunyun
Lightning!
[07:04] Megumin
Komekko!
[07:05] Megumin
Yunyun?
[07:06] Yunyun
I'll save Inky, too!
[07:08] Yunyun
Hurry and find the adults!
[07:18] Komekko
Yunyun was pretty great back there, huh?
[07:20] Komekko
That lightning was like "whammo"!
[07:22] Megumin
Indeed she was.
[07:23] Megumin
Very impressive.
[07:24] Megumin
Although it bothers me how I've
been surpassed by Yunyun.
[07:29] Megumin
I'm so used to the sight of her cowering...
[07:33] Megumin
Lightning is intermediate magic.
[07:36] Megumin
And now Yunyun has learned it.
[07:38] Megumin
She'll graduate school now.
[07:40] Megumin
Which means she no longer has a source
of valuable skill-up potions.
[07:45] Megumin
For her to learn advanced magic, from now on,
[07:49] Megumin
she'll have to engage in combat
against monsters to level up.
[07:54] Megumin
My rival is going to be treated like
[07:56] Megumin
an intermediate-skilled underachiever
in the foreseeable future,
[07:59] Megumin
in spite of her diligence as the chief's
daughter, and all of her academic excellence.
[08:07] Komekko
Sis? Are you crying?
[08:10] Megumin
I am not! I'm just so angry that my
magic power is flowing from my eyes!
[08:17] Komekko
What's up, Sis? You tired of running?
[08:23] Megumin
Komekko, do you love your big sister?
[08:26] Komekko
Yeah!
[08:29] Megumin
Even if I can't learn the ultimate magic?
[08:32] Megumin
Even if I can't be the
strongest big sister ever?
[08:34] Komekko
I can become the strongest
instead, so it's okay!
[08:42] Megumin
Listen closely! You need to stay
at my side the whole time!
[08:46] Komekko
Got it!
[08:47] Megumin
Do not go after the monsters
who've caught Ink!
[08:50] Megumin
I'll make sure to get her back!
[08:53] Megumin
Understood?
[08:54] Komekko
Got it!
[08:56] Komekko
I'll try my best.
[08:57] Megumin
You can't just try!
[08:58] Megumin
You have to promise not to go after them!
[09:01] Komekko
Got it!
[09:10] Yunyun
Blade of Wind!
[09:16] Yunyun
Inky!
[09:20] Megumin
Well, this is no good.
[09:23] Megumin
It looks like Yunyun can
handle them all by herself.
[09:26] Komekko
Is that a bad thing?
[09:28] Megumin
It is! It'd make a total waste of the
resolve I gathered to turn around...
[09:38] Megumin
Okay! Now I can pay her back!
[09:42] Komekko
I am called Komekko!
[09:44] Komekko
Watcher of the house, and the Crimson
Demon's foremost lovable li'l sis!
[09:49] Yunyun
Komekko?!
[09:51] Megumin
Komekko!
[09:52] Megumin
Wh-What is wrong with you?!
[09:54] Megumin
Did you seriously just try to steal your
sister's brightest spotlight ever?!
[09:58] Komekko
I'm not sorry!
[09:59] Megumin
K-Komekko...
[10:00] Yunyun
What are you two even doing
here? I thought you ran!
[10:06] Megumin
It should be obvious that I would never
flee in debt to my self-proclaimed rival.
[10:11] Yunyun
Could you please put less emphasis
on the "self-proclaimed" part?!
[10:14] Yunyun
Besides, I'm already a real mage
who's learned real magic!
[10:19] Yunyun
Lightning!
[10:22] Yunyun
I'm not a pending-in-parentheses
mage like you!
[10:25] Megumin
Pending-in-parentheses?!
[10:26] Yunyun
Blade of Wind!
[10:28] Megumin
A bold statement from someone
using intermediate magic!
[10:31] Yunyun
Don't say that! It makes me sound
like a failure of a Crimson Demon!
[10:36] Yunyun
Fireball!
[10:44] Yunyun
Now you won't need to learn magic, Megumin.
[10:50] Megumin
This girl is unbelievable.
[11:02] Megumin
Didn't you lecture me about
not learning explosion magic?
[11:07] Megumin
What made you change your mind?
[11:10] Yunyun
I-I haven't, exactly.
[11:14] Yunyun
I still don't think learning
explosion magic is a good idea,
[11:17] Yunyun
but giving up on your dream because
of this mess would be a little sad...
[11:22] Komekko
Hey, you're alive, ebon magical beast!
[11:22] Yunyun
B-Besides, you're in my debt since I
learned intermediate magic to save you!
[11:25] Komekko
They hurt you?
[11:26] Yunyun
It'd be a waste if you
paid me back right away.
[11:26] Komekko
This proves you survived the
deathmatch for a reason!
[11:28] Yunyun
You've never owed me one before.
[11:31] Megumin
I'm pretty sure any debts
I've incurred will be squared
[11:34] Megumin
after I haul your immobile self back home.
[11:38] Yunyun
Come on, Megumin! I learned
intermediate magic to help you!
[11:41] Yunyun
Calling it even after something
like that is no fair!
[11:44] Megumin
Never satisfied, are you?
[11:46] Megumin
I could leave you here, at the mercy
of whatever other monsters come by.
[11:50] Megumin
By helping you avoid that fate, I do
believe I've saved your life, Yunyun.
[11:55] Yunyun
You're just twisting things to suit you!
[11:57] Yunyun
I risked my life to stand up
to those monsters, but you...
[12:01] Komekko
Sis!
[12:08] Yunyun
What? Why are there so many?!
[12:13] Megumin
Could it be they're attracted
to my immense magical power?
[12:20] Yunyun
I get it.
[12:21] Yunyun
The adults and our teachers
are herding them this way.
[12:25] Yunyun
Once they're all in one place,
they'll blow them all away.
[12:28] Yunyun
There's no one around here, so they can let
loose with really powerful advanced magic.
[12:33] Megumin
But we're here!
[12:35] Yunyun
They don't know that.
[12:39] Megumin
Yunyun, this is your big chance
to say that famous line.
[12:44] Megumin
"Leave me behind, and go on ahead."
[12:46] Megumin
I won't stop you.
[12:48] Yunyun
D-Don't leave me!
[12:50] Yunyun
You were the one who said it!
[12:52] Yunyun
We're not even until you get me safely home!
[12:56] Megumin
Well, I regret saying it now.
[13:10] Megumin
Is it you?
[13:13] Megumin
I've only been attacked by
monsters when Ink was with me.
[13:18] Megumin
Komekko was playing with the puzzle—er,
[13:20] Megumin
the fragments that kept
the Dark God sealed away.
[13:23] Megumin
Not only that, but the appearance
of the Dark God's minions
[13:27] Megumin
matches the timing of Ink's arrival.
[13:32] Yunyun
What's wrong?
[13:33] Megumin
My head is killing me!
[13:35] Megumin
My brain is trying to keep me from thinking
any further, as a self-defense mechanism!
[13:39] Yunyun
This is really not the time
for escaping reality!
[13:42] Komekko
Sis, look at all that chicken!
[13:45] Komekko
Let's catch a whole bunch and take it home!
[13:54] Yunyun
Oh, no. This is really bad, isn't it?
[13:58] Megumin
Yunyun can't move anymore.
[14:01] Megumin
I'll have to learn magic so we can escape.
[14:16] Megumin
Yunyun, please stay with Komekko.
[14:23] Komekko
Sis, what's wrong?
Your eyes are redder than usual.
[14:26] Yunyun
Megumin!
[14:30] Megumin
I've never used magic before,
[14:33] Megumin
but my Crimson Demon instincts let me
understand how it flows through my body.
[14:38] Megumin
It's okay. I know what I have
to do, and I won't regret it.
[14:43] Megumin
I can do this!
[14:45] Megumin
I've got plenty of skill points.
[14:47] Megumin
For advanced magic...
Maybe Crimson Laser or Light of Saber.
[14:52] Megumin
Or maybe...
[15:02] Yunyun
Wh-What's wrong?
[15:04] Yunyun
Megumin, have you actually
lost it this time?
[15:14] (Flashback) Megumin
"Megumin found tonight's dinner!"
[15:21] Komekko
My sister snapped!
[15:24] Megumin
Yunyun! Komekko!
[15:25] Megumin
Keep your heads low, and brace yourselves!
[15:29] Megumin
Utilizing all skill points!
[15:39] Komekko
She's crackling! And popping!
[15:43] Yunyun
M-M-M-Megumin, what is this? What's going on?
[15:45] Yunyun
That doesn't usually happen!
[15:48] Yunyun
Wait, did you—
[15:54] Megumin
The magic that I've been seeking for so long,
despite knowing how foolhardy it was.
[16:00] Megumin
This incantation, which I've practiced every
day since I learned it all those years ago!
[16:15] Megumin
The sparks of genesis.
[16:18] (Flashback) Wolbach
The embers of oblivion.
[16:20] (Flashback) Wolbach
Past, present, and future,
[16:22] (Flashback) Wolbach
a forbidden force that
subsumes all creation.
[16:25] (Flashback) Wolbach
Flame, I am become destruction,
without mercy.
[16:30] (Flashback) Wolbach
By my blood, by my flesh,
[16:33] (Flashback) Wolbach
the commandments set by the
old gods are now shattered.
[16:36] Megumin
I am called Megumin.
Foremost prodigy among Crimson Demons,
[16:40] Megumin
and master of explosion magic.
[16:43] Megumin
The sorcery I have single-mindedly
sought for so long is now mine!
[16:48] Megumin
I will never forget this day!
[16:52] Megumin
Heavens! Earth!
You will never forget my name!
[16:56] Megumin
I am called Megumin!
Foremost prodigy among Crimson Demons,
[17:00] Megumin
and master of explosion magic!
[17:04] Megumin
Behold my power!
[17:05] Megumin
Explosion!
[17:21] Megumin
This is it!
[17:23] Megumin
This is what I wanted to see!
[17:25] Megumin
What an explosion! What power!
[17:30] Megumin
What a feeling... of satisfaction...
[17:38] Komekko
She blew up all the chickens!
[17:44] Megumin
The adults who saw the
explosion rushed over to us,
[17:48] Megumin
and it was apparently quite the commotion.
[17:51] Megumin
After all, what they saw was me
and the chief's daughter collapsed,
[17:55] Megumin
with Komekko and Ink standing
watch, as if to protect us.
[18:11] Yunyun
Megumin, what're you gonna do?!
[18:14] Yunyun
It's supposed to be a goddess of vengeance
and domination with a forgotten name!
[18:18] Yunyun
They said the seal on her has been
broken because of that explosion!
[18:21] Yunyun
The one you fired off!
[18:24] Yunyun
No one knows where she is!
What're you gonna do?!
[18:26] Megumin
The adults of the village, understandably,
[18:27] Yunyun
Seriously, what?!
[18:27] Megumin
didn't believe that Komekko was
the one to break the seal.
[18:29] Yunyun
Come on, say something, would you?!
[18:31] Megumin
And they don't know that I've
mastered explosion magic, either.
[18:33] Yunyun
Megumin! Are you listening?!
[18:35] Yunyun
Do you seriously not care?!
Please, Megumin!
[18:44] Soketto
Well, that was quite an ordeal.
[18:47] Soketto
Megumin, you need to buy your
sister some actual toys.
[18:54] Soketto
I think I'll tell your fortune today.
[19:00] Soketto
The town of rookie adventurers, Axel.
[19:06] Soketto
After enduring many hardships, you will
encounter wonderful new friends there.
[19:12] Soketto
They are very capable and...
[19:15] Soketto
Capable? Huh?
[19:21] Soketto
Woop.
[19:21] Megumin
What was that?! What did you see?!
[19:24] Megumin
And, since we had learned magic,
[19:29] Megumin
we were told to come to school that weekend,
as we would be graduating by ourselves.
[19:40] Yunyun
Megumin... congratulations on graduating.
[19:43] Yunyun
Congratulations to me, too.
[19:45] Megumin
I have no idea what you're crying about.
[19:48] Megumin
All they did was hand us a slip of
paper and tell us not to come back.
[19:53] Yunyun
Don't be mean! It's their way
of saying we did a good job.
[19:57] Megumin
Sure, sure.
[19:59] Yunyun
So, Megumin, what are you going to do now?
[20:04] Megumin
Isn't it obvious? Now that I've
mastered explosion magic,
[20:08] Megumin
I need to depart on a journey to make
the world aware of my supremacy!
[20:13] Yunyun
A journey?
[20:14] Megumin
Granted, before that happens, I'll need
to save enough money to actually leave.
[20:24] Megumin
She really is an impertinent one, isn't she?
[20:27] Megumin
Aren't kittens supposed to
be more cute than bold?
[20:31] Yunyun
Are you going to keep her
at your house, Megumin?
[20:34] Megumin
I don't know if that's wise.
[20:36] Megumin
There's no telling when Komekko
might make a meal of her.
[20:40] Megumin
But abandoning her feels wrong...
[20:42] Yunyun
I know! Maybe you should form a pact
to really make her your familiar?
[20:48] Yunyun
Even Komekko wouldn't eat her then.
[20:54] Megumin
A familiar?
[20:57] Megumin
I do like the idea of a mage
with a dark god as a servant.
[21:02] Yunyun
Dark... Wait, what?
[21:05] Megumin
I was just saying making her
my familiar was a good idea.
[21:10] Megumin
Yes, and if she's to be my familiar,
she'll need a proper name.
[21:16] Yunyun
Is... Ink not her name officially?
[21:18] Megumin
Of course not!
[21:20] Megumin
I'd feel sorry for her if she was stuck
with such a bizarre, unfashionable name.
[21:26] Yunyun
It's bizarre and unfashionable?
[21:28] Yunyun
But, look, I think she
likes her current name...
[21:34] Megumin
I've got it!
[21:37] Yunyun
Y-You know she's a female, right, Megumin?
[21:40] Yunyun
So maybe keep that in mind,
and go with a cute—
[21:42] Megumin
Your name is Chomusuke!
[21:45] Megumin
Yes, Chomusuke it is!
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[23:25] Yunyun
Big trouble, Megumin!
[23:26] Yunyun
We worked so hard to graduate, but now
have to spend every day job hunting!
[23:29] Megumin
Society just doesn't know what to do
with someone of my massive talents!
[23:32] Megumin
But I know exactly how to make some money.
[23:34] Megumin
I'll sell Chomusuke at a high price!
[23:35] Yunyun
Y-You better not!
[23:36] Yunyun
N-Next time, we'll spice up
your bed time with an...
[23:38] Megumin
Explosion.