# 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!
**[01:48] ---**
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...
**[01:57] ---**
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.
**[03:39] ---**
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
**[04:21] ---**
involving the Disas and their world...
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Some new way to commit terrorism,
**[04:27] ---**
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*?
**[06:06] ---**
I always replay the torture scene
from that movie over and over again.
**[06:22] ---**
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.*
**[07:22] ---**
* 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!*
**[07:37] ---**
Your "fun" always ends up
being something involving sex.
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And you know you love it!
**[07:42] ---**
*Dummy!*
**[08:07] ---**
*Shuang Tou Long Peipei of the Magical Five.*
**[08:10] ---**
* Right now she uses the alias*
* "Liu Lang Zhe" in her job*
**[08:13] ---**
*as a freelance mercenary and assassin.*
**[08:17] ---**
Die for my wallet's sake!
***SIGN*** Bangkok, Thailand
**[08:26] ---**
This is what you used to look like, Peipei?
**[08:29] ---**
I remember that old photo.
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You've changed a lot.
**[08:34] ---**
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!
**[09:15] ---**
When you make a naughty
girl see the error of her ways,
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she can end up being pretty cute.
**[09:20] ---**
Eventually, this little doggy
will help us in our fights.
**[09:25] ---**
Fights?
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Magical Girls are rare and precious.
**[09:29] ---**
Without a certain level of latent magic,
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you can't synchronize
properly with the fairies.
**[09:35] ---**
There are about 30
Magical Girls in the world
**[09:38] ---**
designated as weapons by the
UN Magical Security Council.
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But several terrorist groups
that use illegal Magical Girls,
**[09:48] ---**
like the Babel Brigade,
have been confirmed as well.
**[09:50] ---**
Some speculate that there
may be over 300 of us out there.
**[09:56] ---**
I see...
**[09:57] ---**
I'm one of those illegal
Magical Girls too, aren't I?
**[10:01] ---**
But 300 is the high-end estimate.
**[10:04] ---**
There are far fewer of them than
there are special forces or jet pilots.
**[10:09] ---**
It would be a waste to
completely break your mind here.
**[10:13] ---**
Um...
**[10:14] ---**
Hmm?
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Aah! I'm sorry!
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But there's something I want to tell her!
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Well, fine.
**[10:25] ---**
Um...
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No matter what state you're in,
I think it's important that you're alive.
**[10:32] ---**
You can kinda see the shape I'm in now,
**[10:35] ---**
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.
**[11:04] ---**
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.
**[11:19] ---**
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.
**[11:48] ---**
*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,
**[12:09] ---**
but the Foreign Affairs section has more
connections and has had far more past success.
**[12:14] ---**
So you want Public Safety to cooperate
unofficially with a JSDF special forces group.
**[12:18] ---**
What's in it for us to justify the danger?
**[12:22] ---**
Commissioner Miura,
**[12:24] ---**
I understand your goal is to
establish a magical artillery platoon
**[12:27] ---**
within the Metropolitan Police
Special Assault Team unit.
**[12:31] ---**
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,
**[12:50] (Flashback) ---**
but if you plan to escape or betray us,
**[12:52] (Flashback) ---**
the choker will pick it up immediately,
**[12:55] (Flashback) ---**
and give you such intense pain,
you won't be able to move.
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Remember that.
**[13:10] ---**
Liar.
**[13:14] ---**
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,
**[13:29] ---**
but don't you think they'll give us
a discount 'cause they know us?
**[13:32] ---**
Maybe.
**[13:34] ---**
Yeah.
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We've never paid, have we?
**[13:39] ---**
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.
**[13:55] ---**
Is that a good idea?
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Yeah.
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They say they've changed their ways.
**[14:00] ---**
Thank you for what you did for me.
**[14:03] ---**
What?
**[14:04] ---**
Did I do something?
**[14:06] ---**
Actually,
**[14:07] ---**
I was the one who referred them here.
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I feel like we've met.
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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...
**[15:20] ---**
I've got delicate skin,
**[15:22] ---**
so even when we were in Okinawa,
I put sunscreen on.
**[15:27] ---**
Okinawa, huh?
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In Okinawa...
**[15:35] ---**
The Magical Girl you met in Okinawa...
**[15:38] ---**
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.
**[16:09] ---**
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!
**[16:22] ---**
No...
**[16:24] ---**
I'm sure if they heard that,
**[16:26] ---**
the Magical Girls would
say it was all worth it.
**[16:29] ---**
Yeah.
**[16:59] ---**
My queen! My queen!
**[17:18] ---**
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?
**[17:31] ---**
Umm...
**[17:33] ---**
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.
**[17:45] ---**
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,
**[17:57] ---**
it's time to get ready for cultural festival.
**[17:59] ---**
It's hard to believe we were ever at war.
**[18:02] ---**
Sometimes it's the other way around.
**[18:05] ---**
And it's hard to believe that
our daily life ever existed.
**[18:08] ---**
Asuka-san...
**[18:10] ---**
What you said to me in the last battle...
**[18:14] ---**
That everyone who died would be mad.
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That hurt.
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It felt like it woke me up.
**[18:24] ---**
Thanks to Sayako and Nozomi,
**[18:26] ---**
I can finally understand what
it was that everybody protected.
**[18:50] ---**
*The ones who died...*
**[18:53] ---**
* 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...*
**[19:02] ---**
*A tomorrow that always comes...*
**[19:04] ---**
* What really matters is keeping*
* the things we consider ordinary going.*
**[19:10] ---**
This war might never end.
**[19:14] ---**
I'm sorry, Kurumi.
**[19:16] ---**
I turned your life into something terrible.
**[19:18] ---**
That's not...
**[19:20] ---**
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!
**[19:55] (Flashback) ---**
You see scenes like that
in all the war movies.
**[19:57] (Flashback) ---**
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,*
**[22:02] ---**
* we defeated the leader of the enemies*
* that were trying to wipe out humanity.*
**[22:10] ---**
*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,*
**[22:19] ---**
*the world wasn't at peace.*
**[22:23] ---**
*Our new battlefield is...*
**[22:26] ---**
*international crime,*
**[22:28] ---**
*terrorism,*
**[22:29] ---**
*civil war,*
**[22:30] ---**
*and other conflicts.*
**[22:35] ---**
*The battles of the Magical Girls...*
**[22:39] ---**
*will never end.*