E12 - If this Battle Ever Ends
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I saw on the news that there's
a new smartphone out,
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and people are lining
up at the shops to get it.
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That's weird, isn't it?
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It's a smartphone,
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but that isn't smart at all.
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They should be able
to put together some kind of
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online reservation system
so you don't have to stand in line.
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But the fact that they didn't do that
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means that the stores want lines!
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They're deliberately making their
customers waste time standing in lines.
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Like, is it really worth it just
for the free advertising?
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Those moments where you can just tell what
somebody's thinking ruin everything.
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So?
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So I thought up an idea.
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A way to keep yourself in the news
while not making people stand in line.
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An amazing idea!
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Get this...
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You sell virtual tickets in virtual reality,
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and make them stand in a virtual line!
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Well, that was a waste of five minutes.
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I feel stupid for listening for that.
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The hell you say?
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I want a new phone...
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Once things calm down.
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Calm down?
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Oh, hey, girls!
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What will you do when this battle is over?
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After we defeat the enemy Disas Beast!
SIGN If This Battle Ever Ends
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Sacchuu's lucky.
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All he has to do is float in
the air while he eats junk food.
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He doesn't need to write reports.
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Chu!
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I sent a report to the Spirit World's
Multidimensional Observation Army, chu!
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I heard that fairy reports are just
a few paw prints on a piece of paper.
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That's racist, chu!
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I mean, you're right, chu...
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I am?
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I'm gonna make some coffee, chu!
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He ran.
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Lucky him.
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You're almost done.
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Hang in there.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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That's from a Kubrick film, isn't it?
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The firepower a Magical Girl generates
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isn't the kind of thing an individual
would ordinarily be allowed to possess.
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And then there's the fact that magical
combat itself is an underdeveloped field.
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After action reports
are extremely important.
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I understand.
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Those reports are used
to analyze the enemy's forces,
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and find their weak points.
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They save lives.
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I know that.
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I do...
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But it's still exhausting, huh?
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It's a mental exhaustion,
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not a physical one.
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I've got the perfect medicine for that!
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It makes all that exhaustion just disappear.
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Stop it.
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You guys get less than most of us, you know.
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I'm done.
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I've got a lot to go.
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Should I help?
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I'm fine.
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You can go home.
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I see...
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Sorry.
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Resting when you can
is part of a soldier's job.
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Sorry for making you write the report.
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It's fine.
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They all look basically the same
no matter who writes them.
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Hey,
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that corpse that
was turned into a cube...
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Dr. Greenburg.
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While you were fighting in Okinawa,
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I went through all of his things,
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and his data that still remained in the cloud.
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Find anything?
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No solid leads.
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But enough to form a hypothesis.
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Which is?
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He was being forced to calculate something.
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What is the Babel Brigade?
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They made him calculate something,
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then started committing
terrorist acts all over the world
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and gathering magic items.
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Magic is like physics in their world.
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It seems strange to us,
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but it has its rules and laws.
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If what Greenburg was calculating
was some kind of equation
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involving the Disas and their world...
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Some new way to commit terrorism,
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or maybe summoning magic?
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It'd be nice to have
more information, regardless.
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Okay, I'm heading to the hotel.
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I'll be there soon.
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That hotel...
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It's got a glass-walled shower
room that's really naughty!
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Why do you say stuff like that?
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I was talking like Francine.
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You're going to torture me?
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Make it hurt.
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I'm used to it.
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Sorry.
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I don't think you know anything.
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But I need to torture you at least
once to be sure you're not lying.
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First,
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a drug to sharpen your senses.
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I'll inject it directly into your brain.
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I told you in Okinawa
that I'd kill you, right?
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That was wrong.
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I let my feelings get the best of me.
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Your torture and pleasure
are about to begin.
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You may want to die.
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You may try to bite your tongue off,
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or hang yourself.
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You may try lots of things.
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But I won't let you die.
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I'll heal any injuries you have.
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Hey,
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have you ever seen the movie Red Scorpion?
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I always replay the torture scene
from that movie over and over again.
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Well done, Tamara.
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Thank you.
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Your sister is happy as well.
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I have returned, Sister.
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I'm so happy...
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that you'd say that about me.
SIGN Shanghai
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Okay.
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All the security cameras in the
area are under my control.
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The target for this job is in the back room
on the restaurant's third floor.
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Got it, my astrologer.
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Once this is over,
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I hope you and I can go have some fun!
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Your "fun" always ends up
being something involving sex.
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And you know you love it!
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Dummy!
[08:07] ---
Shuang Tou Long Peipei of the Magical Five.
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Right now she uses the alias
"Liu Lang Zhe" in her job
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as a freelance mercenary and assassin.
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Die for my wallet's sake!
SIGN Bangkok, Thailand
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This is what you used to look like, Peipei?
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I remember that old photo.
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You've changed a lot.
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I think I like your old hairstyle better.
[08:37] ---
Aw...
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I didn't change my face because I wanted to.
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I see.
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You've got a lot going on, huh?
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Sorry.
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Everyone...
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I brought a doggy.
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Woof! Woof!
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When you make a naughty
girl see the error of her ways,
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she can end up being pretty cute.
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Eventually, this little doggy
will help us in our fights.
[09:25] ---
Fights?
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Magical Girls are rare and precious.
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Without a certain level of latent magic,
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you can't synchronize
properly with the fairies.
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There are about 30
Magical Girls in the world
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designated as weapons by the
UN Magical Security Council.
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But several terrorist groups
that use illegal Magical Girls,
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like the Babel Brigade,
have been confirmed as well.
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Some speculate that there
may be over 300 of us out there.
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I see...
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I'm one of those illegal
Magical Girls too, aren't I?
[10:01] ---
But 300 is the high-end estimate.
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There are far fewer of them than
there are special forces or jet pilots.
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It would be a waste to
completely break your mind here.
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Um...
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Hmm?
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Aah! I'm sorry!
[10:17] ---
But there's something I want to tell her!
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Well, fine.
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Um...
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No matter what state you're in,
I think it's important that you're alive.
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You can kinda see the shape I'm in now,
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but this is my punishment
for doing bad things.
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And...
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I feel a lot more relaxed now than
I did when I belonged to a criminal gang.
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I...
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I suffer so much just being alive.
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I thought I finally found hope, and...
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It was fake.
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I can't go on!
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Just kill me!
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I'm not going to kill you,
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you stupid bitch.
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Even if you go through 99 painful things,
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you can keep going as long
as there's one fun thing.
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You gather those things up,
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and carry them with you throughout
your life like precious jewels.
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As long as you're alive,
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the pain will continue.
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But in exchange,
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there'll always be at least
one fun thing out there.
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I...
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killed people.
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I hurt so many people.
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So you'll just have to save that
many lives, then, won't you?
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Magical Girls don't die so easily.
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This is such a happy ending, woof!
[12:01] ---
You want Public Safety's Foreign Affairs
section to help you?
[12:04] ---
Yes.
[12:05] ---
The JSDF has groups that gather
information from overseas,
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but the Foreign Affairs section has more
connections and has had far more past success.
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So you want Public Safety to cooperate
unofficially with a JSDF special forces group.
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What's in it for us to justify the danger?
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Commissioner Miura,
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I understand your goal is to
establish a magical artillery platoon
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within the Metropolitan Police
Special Assault Team unit.
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I have a suggestion as to who
you might want to hire.
SIGN One Week Later
[12:44] ---
That choker contains a magical drug.
[12:48] (Flashback) ---
I'm letting you go,
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but if you plan to escape or betray us,
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the choker will pick it up immediately,
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and give you such intense pain,
you won't be able to move.
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Remember that.
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Liar.
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Let's go to a maid café!
[13:16] ---
Why?
[13:18] ---
We got that business card
from them during the festival!
SIGN Maid Cafe
Mitsuya
[13:21] ---
Those idiots.
[13:23] ---
I'll make it clear before we start.
[13:25] ---
This place is expensive and the food is bad.
[13:27] ---
Well, we can't do anything
about it being bad,
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but don't you think they'll give us
a discount 'cause they know us?
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Maybe.
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Yeah.
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We've never paid, have we?
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See?
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We have to go, then!
[13:44] ---
They say nothing's more
expensive than free, you know.
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Welcome.
[13:50] ---
You...
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They're our new employees.
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Is that a good idea?
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Yeah.
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They say they've changed their ways.
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Thank you for what you did for me.
[14:03] ---
What?
[14:04] ---
Did I do something?
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Actually,
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I was the one who referred them here.
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I feel like we've met.
[14:15] ---
You're probably mistaken.
[14:17] ---
I get that a lot.
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This really is bad.
[14:57] ---
They said they could make it taste worse.
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Wow.
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I have no idea what that means!
[15:02] ---
Well, the ice was cold,
so I guess that's something!
[15:06] ---
It would be hard for it to be anything else.
[15:09] ---
It's really hot outside now.
[15:14] ---
Actually...
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Did you two get tans?
[15:19] ---
I don't know...
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I've got delicate skin,
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so even when we were in Okinawa,
I put sunscreen on.
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Okinawa, huh?
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In Okinawa...
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The Magical Girl you met in Okinawa...
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What was she like?
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Well...
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She was strong. Noble.
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But she was still in pain.
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She was willing to put her life at risk
fighting for people she'd never met.
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And it wasn't just because
she was a Magical Girl.
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In our world,
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there are always people like
that out there somewhere.
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People who can risk their lives
in battle for people they've never met.
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And I think that's the only reason
we can have something like peace,
[16:12] ---
or a normal life.
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I'm sorry for talking so much!
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No...
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I'm sure if they heard that,
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the Magical Girls would
say it was all worth it.
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Yeah.
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My queen! My queen!
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We've got all we need.
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Now all that's left is the vessel.
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For an even greater war...
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Abby,
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do you know what you need for a war?
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Umm...
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Soldiers and weapons?
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The answer is...
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an enemy.
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Without an enemy, you can't start a war.
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And a big war needs a strong enemy.
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We need the Magical Girls
to get a little stronger.
[17:53] ---
It's about time for summer break, huh?
[17:55] ---
And after that,
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it's time to get ready for cultural festival.
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It's hard to believe we were ever at war.
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Sometimes it's the other way around.
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And it's hard to believe that
our daily life ever existed.
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Asuka-san...
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What you said to me in the last battle...
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That everyone who died would be mad.
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That hurt.
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It felt like it woke me up.
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Thanks to Sayako and Nozomi,
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I can finally understand what
it was that everybody protected.
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The ones who died...
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What they all protected
wasn't "peace" or "humanity,"
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or anything big and important like that.
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Having a normal life...
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A tomorrow that always comes...
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What really matters is keeping
the things we consider ordinary going.
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This war might never end.
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I'm sorry, Kurumi.
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I turned your life into something terrible.
[19:18] ---
That's not...
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Let's keep fighting forever.
[19:23] ---
Wherever!
SIGN Iizuka-san
Incoming Call
[19:32] ---
Yes.
[19:42] (Flashback) ---
Calm down?
[19:45] (Flashback) ---
Oh, hey, girls!
[19:47] (Flashback) ---
What will you do when this battle is over?
[19:50] (Flashback) ---
After we defeat the enemy Disas Beast!
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You see scenes like that
in all the war movies.
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The guys who talk about the
future are always the first to die.
[20:00] (Flashback) ---
"When this battle's over,
I'm getting married!"
[20:02] (Flashback) ---
Something like that, chu!
[20:04] (Flashback) ---
That's not what I meant.
[20:06] (Flashback) ---
Who cares?
[20:07] (Flashback) ---
There's nothing wrong with tempting fate.
[20:09] (Flashback) ---
Francine...
[20:10] (Flashback) ---
Without a future,
there's nothing worth fighting for.
[20:13] (Flashback) ---
Yeah, that's true.
[20:15] (Flashback) ---
Once the war's over, huh?
[20:19] (Flashback) ---
Well, there'll still be a
war going on somewhere,
[20:21] (Flashback) ---
so I'll be a soldier.
[20:22] (Flashback) ---
Your father was a soldier too, right?
[20:25] (Flashback) ---
Yeah.
[20:26] (Flashback) ---
He died in a terrorist attack,
but I want to follow in his footsteps.
[20:28] (Flashback) ---
I want to go back home and find success there.
[20:31] (Flashback) ---
How, exactly?
[20:33] (Flashback) ---
I've fought for humanity's sake.
[20:35] (Flashback) ---
Now I want to fight
for money's sake. For money!
[20:40] (Flashback) ---
I'm thinking of joining
a PLA Special Forces unit.
[20:43] (Flashback) ---
Tamara, you're...
[20:45] (Flashback) ---
joining the Russian army, of course.
[20:47] (Flashback) ---
Yes.
[20:48] (Flashback) ---
A foolish question.
[20:49] (Flashback) ---
What about you, Kurumi?
[20:51] (Flashback) ---
I...
[20:55] (Flashback) ---
When it's all over,
[20:56] (Flashback) ---
I'm thinking of falling in love, maybe?
[21:00] (Flashback) ---
No time like the present!
[21:02] (Flashback) ---
Let's lock ourselves in a room
[21:04] (Flashback) ---
and go at it like animals
for three days straight.
[21:06] (Flashback) ---
I just bought lots of lube.
[21:09] (Flashback) ---
If you keep talking like that,
[21:11] (Flashback) ---
I'll mess with your brain
and destroy your libido.
[21:15] (Flashback) ---
I wouldn't mind having a cute
girl operate on my brain.
[21:18] (Flashback) ---
Well, you should.
[21:21] (Flashback) ---
So what about you, Asuka?
[21:24] (Flashback) ---
I can't think about that now.
[21:27] (Flashback) ---
I don't mind fighting,
[21:29] (Flashback) ---
but I don't know what I'll
do when the war's over.
[21:34] (Flashback) ---
It feels like I don't have
anything left to do but fight.
[21:44] (Flashback) ---
Just keep trying things.
[21:47] (Flashback) ---
People can change.
[21:49] (Flashback) ---
I'm sure you'll be fine.
[21:56] (Flashback) ---
Here we go!
[22:01] ---
Three years ago,
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we defeated the leader of the enemies
that were trying to wipe out humanity.
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Usually, that would be the happy ending.
[22:13] ---
But there are no endings in the real world.
[22:17] ---
Even after we defeated the last boss,
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the world wasn't at peace.
[22:23] ---
Our new battlefield is...
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international crime,
[22:28] ---
terrorism,
[22:29] ---
civil war,
[22:30] ---
and other conflicts.
[22:35] ---
The battles of the Magical Girls...
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will never end.
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