# E14 - What life do you choose?
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6XJ0QP0R/what-life-do-you-choose)
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**[00:08] ---**
Akechi-kun!
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A comment on the Phantom Thieves' arrest!
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Is it true you aided in the investigation?
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Driver, are you familiar with back streets?
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I'd like to lose this crowd.
**[00:23] ---**
How about I circle the block
over there a bit?
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After that, where to?
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Ohoribata, near Sakuradamon, please.
**[00:33] ---**
The Phantom Thieves...
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A mysterious group that made waves nationwide
after first appearing in the spring.
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Rather than possessions,
they stole their targets' hearts.
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Their methods are unknown.
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For some reason, one after another,
their targets have a change of heart
**[00:48] ---**
and confess the crimes they've committed.
**[00:51] ---**
However, the Phantom Thieves
made a decisive mistake.
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You were caught red-handed,
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and are now receiving the third degree
under the authority of the police.
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I'm only here to fulfill my role
as public prosecutor.
**[01:07] ---**
But now I'm past that, and I'm wrapped up
in this Phantom Thieves case.
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It's become personal.
**[01:14] ---**
I'm at the point where I believe you.
**[01:18] ---**
I'm starting to believe that
everything you've told me is true.
**[01:22] ---**
The Phantom Thieves aren't just criminals,
**[01:25] ---**
a social ill that should be despised.
**[01:27] ---**
Ren Amamiya, that is what
you would claim, isn't it?
**[03:04] ---**
Net stalker?
**[03:05] ---**
Yeah, I guess she goes to our school.
**[03:09] ---**
Mishima is weighing in, too.
**[03:10] ---**
There's a dangerous psycho blog.
**[03:13] ---**
She goes on and on about killing.
She's delusional that she has a boyfriend.
**[03:17] ---**
Sounds pretty serious, right?
**[03:18] ---**
I think the Phantom Thieves
should pay a visit!
**[03:21] ---**
Sheesh! Don't get in the way of romance!
**[03:27] ---**
Here we go! Captain Kidd!
**[03:33] ---**
How's that?!
**[03:35] ---**
Dance, Carmen!
**[03:39] ---**
B-Bastards!
**[03:42] ---**
Kneel before me!
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Show them your might, Zorro!
**[03:51] ---**
It's scary how good I am!
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It ends here.
**[04:03] ---**
My love and my passion...
I can't believe it was all wrong...
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Just tell him face to face,
and don't write weird stuff in your blog.
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It'll take courage, though.
**[04:13] ---**
I'm scared, but I'll do it.
**[04:16] ---**
Wait for me, Ikesugi-kun!
**[04:23] ---**
All right!
**[04:24] ---**
That's the bud of a Treasure. So now...
**[04:28] ---**
U-Um... I-I... That is, I...
**[04:33] ---**
I'm not sure, but we should
speak plainly to each other,
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if we're going to be friends.
**[04:39] ---**
F-Friends!
**[04:41] ---**
Change of heart: accomplished.
**[04:48] ---**
One yakisoba bun left...
**[04:50] ---**
We're sold out. Come back next week.
**[04:52] ---**
Is that the new kid?
**[04:54] ---**
I heard there was a lawsuit against him...
**[04:59] ---**
Fancy seeing you here. Care to sit?
**[05:02] ---**
Anyway, it sure is humid.
Though I suppose it's to be expected in July.
**[05:07] ---**
Final exams are almost here,
so I hope everyone is studying.
**[05:11] ---**
Even though we're Phantom Thieves,
we can't forget about our grades.
**[05:15] ---**
You do sound like a
student council president, Makoto.
**[05:18] ---**
Well, I'm already in the habit
of chaining myself to the desk.
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I've been an honors student for years.
**[05:26] ---**
And I believe I carried out my duties
as president without issue, as well.
**[05:31] ---**
I'm not being sarcastic.
It's just been on my mind. But...
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The transfer student...
**[05:38] ---**
Ryuji, the problem child...
**[05:41] ---**
and Ann, who didn't fit in...
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were all awakened to the power of Personas.
**[05:47] ---**
You made Kamoshida, who secretly controlled
the school, undergo a change of heart,
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while I couldn't do a thing.
**[05:54] ---**
All I did was gauge the reaction of adults
and stand by doing nothing.
**[05:59] ---**
An honors student who just does as she's told
is useless when it matters.
**[06:04] ---**
But anyway, I've got another favor to ask.
**[06:12] ---**
Last time you took me
to an arcade in Shibuya, right?
**[06:16] ---**
I learned a lot then and want
to expand my horizons even more.
**[06:19] ---**
Is this your first time here?
**[06:21] ---**
Yes. Seeing is believing.
**[06:23] ---**
I'd like to have a look around,
**[06:25] ---**
but would you follow me
from a distance, Ren?
**[06:29] ---**
I want it to feel real.
**[06:32] ---**
That feeling of what it's like for a teenage girl
to get lost by herself in the red-light district.
**[06:37] ---**
Gotcha.
**[06:41] ---**
Girl, you're cute!
**[06:43] ---**
Are you in high school?
Maybe an office worker?
**[06:45] ---**
Excuse me?
**[06:46] ---**
I can set you up
with a nice, high-paying job.
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You can wear all the cute dresses you want.
**[06:51] ---**
What kind of work would it be?
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The number one job girls want these days,
'cause it's a clean environment,
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easy tasks, and they can make
a ton of money on the first day!
**[07:00] ---**
Come on, come on, come on!
Come on, let's go!
**[07:01] ---**
Hey!
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I mean, a ton of money...
**[07:03] ---**
Let's run. Follow me!
**[07:04] ---**
Huh? H-Hey!
W-W-Wait a second!
**[07:05] ---**
R-Right!
**[07:11] ---**
That guy was so persistent...
**[07:13] ---**
If you hadn't been there to rescue me, I...
**[07:17] ---**
You're a pushover, huh?
**[07:18] ---**
I didn't mean to be,
but he kept going on and on, I just...
**[07:29] ---**
A Shujin uniform?
**[07:31] ---**
She's the same year as me.
I've seen her before.
**[07:34] ---**
"The After School Salon"?
**[07:38] ---**
Hey.
**[07:39] ---**
Eiko Takao, right? Please, have a seat.
**[07:42] ---**
STUDENT COUNCIL
**[07:43] ---**
After School Salon?
**[07:45] ---**
It's just a normal café.
**[07:47] ---**
I wear my uniform and
serve customers, that's all.
**[07:49] ---**
But with that glitzy sign...
**[07:52] ---**
Are you gonna rat on me?
**[07:53] ---**
Actually, doesn't that mean
you two were there together?
**[07:57] ---**
What does that mean?
**[07:59] ---**
You're a real badass, Miss Prez!
**[08:02] ---**
Hey, that's Buchimaru-kun, isn't it?
**[08:05] ---**
You know it?
**[08:06] ---**
I had tons of Buchi stuff when I was a kid.
**[08:10] ---**
What a blast from the past!
But that's so beat up!
**[08:12] ---**
W-Well, it was given to me
when I was still in elementary school...
**[08:16] ---**
You've had it for so long!
**[08:18] ---**
But it's hilarious that the student council
president has an adorable pencil case!
**[08:22] ---**
I always thought you were
kinda like a robot.
**[08:24] ---**
I thought you were totally
unapproachable 'til now!
**[08:28] ---**
I'll send you pics of
my Buchimaru-kun collection,
**[08:31] ---**
so let's exchange IDs!
**[08:34] ---**
That was like a storm...
**[08:36] ---**
She thought I was a robot...
**[08:38] ---**
Totally unapproachable...
**[08:40] ---**
I suppose everyone
feels that way about me.
**[08:44] ---**
But, surprisingly, you two
found common ground.
**[08:47] ---**
Yeah, true.
**[08:49] ---**
My dad bought this for me a long time ago...
**[08:51] ---**
I've been using it because
I can't bring myself to get rid of it.
**[08:54] ---**
Thank you. It was a huge help
having you with me.
**[08:59] ---**
Hey. I felt like seeing "Sayuri."
**[09:02] ---**
Take your time.
**[09:03] ---**
Eh? Not what you ordered?
**[09:06] ---**
Something cuter?
**[09:08] ---**
All right, then.
Hold on, I'll be right over.
**[09:12] ---**
Close up the shop.
**[09:14] ---**
If you're both hungry, help yourself to curry.
**[09:24] ---**
I've been thinking,
ever since the last competition.
**[09:27] ---**
About him...
**[09:29] ---**
The authority on traditional Japanese art,
**[09:31] ---**
honest man and renowned painter,
Ichiryusai Madarame,
**[09:36] ---**
But just under the surface,
he was a vulgarian awash in dirty money.
**[09:40] ---**
I had no family, but Madarame took me in
and raised me as if I were a son.
**[09:45] ---**
But even that was so he
could use me as a slave.
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I realized that after meeting the group,
obtaining the power of Persona,
**[09:54] ---**
and imposing a change of heart.
**[09:56] ---**
I thought everything would be resolved
after that, but I was wrong.
**[10:01] ---**
Whether I like it or not,
Madarame was my family.
**[10:04] ---**
I can't cut him out of my life so easily.
**[10:14] ---**
Even now, I can't believe it...
**[10:16] ---**
Is Makoto really a member
of the Phantom Thieves?
**[10:20] ---**
I dunno. What do you think?
**[10:23] ---**
If it is true, then what did I see
when I looked at her?
**[10:28] ---**
I got my sense of justice from my father,
**[10:31] ---**
but I don't want to compare her with that.
**[10:36] ---**
Sticking to your own sense of justice
**[10:38] ---**
and ignoring others
will only lead to self destruction.
**[10:41] ---**
She's still a child,
so she doesn't understand.
**[10:49] ---**
Actually, my mock exam rank dropped.
**[10:51] ---**
Due to Thieves work?
**[10:53] ---**
No, I've been studying as much as ever.
**[10:57] ---**
But I've been questioning the point of
getting good grades to fulfill the expectations
**[11:01] ---**
of my teacher and sister.
**[11:06] ---**
I tried talking to Eiko...
**[11:08] ---**
Eiko?
**[11:09] ---**
The girl from the other day.
**[11:10] ---**
We've been texting each other since then.
**[11:12] ---**
She told me to just call her Eiko.
**[11:18] ---**
Eiko asked me the benefit from
going to a top university,
**[11:22] ---**
but I couldn't come up with a good answer.
**[11:25] ---**
Before, I had a vague goal
of majoring in law, like my sister...
**[11:29] ---**
...but that was ultimately just to
satisfy what others expected of me.
**[11:33] ---**
What do I want to do?
**[11:36] ---**
What do I want to be in the future?
**[11:39] ---**
When Eiko asked me what kind of
hand cream I used, I sent her a picture.
**[11:44] ---**
She replied, saying it's the same brand
they use in the nurse's office.
**[11:51] ---**
It's kind of retro.
**[11:52] ---**
Yeah, my father used to use it all the time,
**[11:55] ---**
so I've been using it since I was a kid.
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Did I ever tell you he was a police officer?
**[12:03] ---**
This is the first I've heard.
**[12:04] ---**
He detested the corruption in our society,
and worked tirelessly to bring it to justice.
**[12:09] ---**
And then...
**[12:11] ---**
I hope Eiko is okay,
working at a place like that.
**[12:14] ---**
NEWCOMER
**[12:17] ---**
Are you Ichiko?
**[12:19] ---**
Yep, that's me.
**[12:21] ---**
It's a pleasure to meet you.
**[12:22] ---**
Give me all the deets.
About Shujin Academy.
**[12:27] ---**
Lala, the usual!
**[12:28] ---**
Tap water, right?
**[12:30] ---**
Amamiya, I'll get you for this!
**[12:34] ---**
I hate to say it, but at this rate,
the near future looks to be bleak.
**[12:40] ---**
But I can recommend something
to avoid such misery.
**[12:46] ---**
No way I'm gonna be miserable!
**[12:48] ---**
That's right! The princess and I
are seriously soulmates.
**[12:51] ---**
No problems for us!
**[12:53] ---**
But what I'm saying is...
**[12:57] ---**
A text from Makoto!
**[12:59] ---**
Makoto? Who's that?
**[13:01] ---**
We exchanged ID's recently.
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She's my school's Student Council president.
**[13:07] ---**
Huh...
**[13:09] ---**
*You think I'm going out with her?*
**[13:12] ---**
*Come on, gimme a break.*
**[13:15] ---**
*That's terrible!
You said you loved me!*
**[13:16] ---**
Foreign high schoolers are way ahead of us.
**[13:17] ---**
*I know I said that, but it's not like
you're the only one for me.*
**[13:21] ---**
Mishima?
**[13:22] ---**
What did you do to me?!
**[13:23] ---**
That Ohya person is the epitome
of a roaring drunkard!
**[13:26] ---**
What's your relationship to her?!
How do you know a lush like that?!
**[13:31] ---**
I see. So Mishima's finally been
contacted by that reporter.
**[13:36] ---**
In order to get info
on our third target, Kaneshiro,
**[13:40] ---**
we reached out to that reporter.
**[13:43] ---**
She gave us information in exchange for
an introduction to a Shujin Academy student.
**[13:47] ---**
Kaneshiro was the boss of
a crime syndicate based in Shibuya.
**[13:51] ---**
We discovered his Palace,
and even gained Makoto as a comrade!
**[13:56] ---**
The Phantom Thieves gained more notoriety.
Luck was really on our side.
**[14:02] ---**
Speak of the devil!
**[14:04] ---**
A message from Makoto.
**[14:05] ---**
A favor?
**[14:08] ---**
Does it look kind of stylish?
**[14:11] ---**
Are you going somewhere?
**[14:13] ---**
No...
**[14:13] ---**
I think it looks fine, but...
**[14:15] ---**
Whoa, pricey!
**[14:18] ---**
Time to go to work.
**[14:20] ---**
Sorry.
**[14:21] ---**
Not at all. Thanks.
**[14:23] ---**
This was nothing.
**[14:27] ---**
Maybe I'll look for a part-time job.
**[14:28] ---**
Shaggy man! What a mop top!
**[14:31] ---**
Aw, man! That fuzzball is hilarious!
**[14:33] ---**
Enough, Tsukasa!
That's being rude to Makoto.
**[14:37] ---**
This is supposed to be a double date!
**[14:38] ---**
Sorry. Apparently Eiko is
convinced you're my boyfriend.
**[14:43] ---**
Makoto, it seems like you're
a serious Student Council prez.
**[14:46] ---**
That's awesome.
I wanna "joy" the Student Council, too!
**[14:50] ---**
"Joy?"
**[14:51] ---**
Sorry, I'm going to the bathroom.
**[14:54] ---**
Um, you're seriously
going steady with her, right?
**[14:58] ---**
Is that anti-host bias,
thinking we're all playboys?
**[15:01] ---**
We're totally seriously, head-over-heels
in pure love with each other.
**[15:06] ---**
Caring about your friends, huh?
**[15:07] ---**
Well, a friend of my girlfriend
is a friend of mine.
**[15:10] ---**
How 'bout sharing your ID?
**[15:13] ---**
That's a little...
**[15:14] ---**
How about mine?
**[15:15] ---**
Nobody asked you, four-eyed mop-head.
**[15:17] ---**
Anyway, Princess already
gave me your number.
**[15:22] ---**
Princess? You're talking about her?
**[15:24] ---**
Yeah, you got it.
**[15:26] ---**
She's important to me, y'know?
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That's why she's like a princess.
**[15:29] ---**
"I love you! You're my number one!"
**[15:33] ---**
See you!
**[15:35] ---**
Will those two be all right?
**[15:40] ---**
So the Meiji literary master,
Ogai Mori, studied in Germany...
**[15:43] ---**
Are you free after school?
**[15:46] ---**
I'm worried Eiko may be getting played
by her host boyfriend.
**[15:52] ---**
I've heard of lying hosts who trick women
into debt, then force them to sell their bodies.
**[15:57] ---**
It does sound like a TV drama.
**[15:59] ---**
I hate to face up to that,
but those things really do exist.
**[16:04] ---**
Why do you have such strong suspicions?
**[16:07] ---**
Can I tell you what happened to my father?
**[16:15] ---**
That really happened?
**[16:19] ---**
My dad died in an accident.
**[16:22] ---**
It was during an investigation into
a criminal group that preyed on young girls.
**[16:27] ---**
Our mother passed away many years back,
**[16:30] ---**
so my sister was forced to take on
responsibilities, hardships and everything.
**[16:35] ---**
Is that why she talked down on your father?
**[16:38] ---**
In the end, she said death
was the same as surrender...
**[16:41] ---**
But I still look up to him.
**[16:46] ---**
He would often say, "the most important part
of your life is how you choose to live it."
**[16:53] ---**
Help me. I want to figure out how
I want to live my life.
**[17:03] ---**
Eiko wanted to talk to me during lunch.
**[17:07] ---**
She was obviously acting strange.
**[17:09] ---**
Okay?!
**[17:10] ---**
Lend me money! I swear I'll pay you back!
**[17:14] ---**
Tsukasa dropped an expensive bottle of sake
at work, so the club's making him pay for it.
**[17:18] ---**
I promised I'd go with him today.
**[17:22] ---**
I'm positive it was a lie!
**[17:24] ---**
I have to catch that man in the act
and wake Eiko up!
**[17:30] ---**
You'll loan me the cash?!
**[17:32] ---**
Your boyfriend is infamous for tricking girls
into debt and forcing them to sell their bodies.
**[17:38] ---**
It's possible he's connected to a gang, too.
**[17:41] ---**
Don't give me that crap!
**[17:43] ---**
Anyway, like I told you at school,
**[17:45] ---**
I have to go with Tsukasa to that club!
**[17:48] ---**
Yo! Have you been waiting long?
**[17:51] ---**
I came a little later like you said, but...
**[17:54] ---**
Huh? Your friends are here, too?
**[17:57] ---**
They were talking trash about you, Tsukasa!
**[17:59] ---**
They said you're scamming me!
**[18:01] ---**
What the hell is that?
I would never lie to you, Princess.
**[18:05] ---**
Look me in the eyes.
**[18:06] ---**
It's always "Princess" with you.
Why don't you call her by her real name?
**[18:12] ---**
Or are there too many princesses
in your life to remember?
**[18:15] ---**
Tsukasa?
**[18:16] ---**
Oh, come on! You're Makoto, right?
**[18:19] ---**
You just texted me!
**[18:22] ---**
I knew it.
**[18:24] ---**
I'm the one who texted you.
**[18:26] ---**
I said that I would be
five minutes late to our meeting.
**[18:29] ---**
I even added tons of emojis at the end,
just like Eiko would've.
**[18:33] ---**
Every girl you get money from
is your "Princess".
**[18:36] ---**
You can't even remember names anymore.
**[18:38] ---**
Don't you see, Eiko?
**[18:40] ---**
This is who your "boyfriend" really is!
**[18:43] ---**
Don't stick your nose in my business.
**[18:46] ---**
What do you know?!
**[18:48] ---**
I'm sick of hearing you talk!
**[18:54] ---**
Wake up!
**[18:56] ---**
You already know the truth,
you just don't want to believe it!
**[18:59] ---**
Stop lying to yourself!
**[19:04] ---**
But Tsukasa is all I have...
**[19:07] ---**
No one else will look at me.
**[19:10] ---**
Whoever I go out with, wherever I work...
**[19:13] ---**
My parents, my classmates...
**[19:16] ---**
Nobody cares about me!
**[19:19] ---**
A council president who lives up to everyone's
expectations could never know how I feel!
**[19:24] ---**
Don't butt in with your honor student crap!
**[19:27] ---**
This has nothing to do
with being an honor student.
**[19:29] ---**
But I can't just abandon a friend!
**[19:33] ---**
After all, Eiko, you sent me this, remember?
**[19:41] ---**
What the hell are you doin', bitch?
**[19:44] ---**
You're gonna get hurt.
**[19:45] ---**
I got serious muscle backing me up.
**[19:51] ---**
What the hell?!
**[19:52] ---**
Your fight's with me.
**[19:54] ---**
Wh-What's with you?
**[19:56] ---**
I ain't wastin' my time on you!
**[20:01] ---**
Gather round!
I found curious posts on the Phan-site!
**[20:04] ---**
Multiple women have suddenly posted
complaints about the same host.
**[20:09] ---**
Is that unforgivable or what?
**[20:11] ---**
Yes, I agree to that.
**[20:15] ---**
We're all in agreement. Then it's settled.
**[20:21] ---**
Money-money-money!
**[20:22] ---**
I got a pure love-killing Champagne call!
**[20:31] ---**
Go, Goemon!
**[20:40] ---**
Not beautiful...
**[20:43] ---**
Come, Johanna!
**[20:51] ---**
Male scum get punished with fists!
**[20:54] ---**
Suzaku!
**[21:01] ---**
You're not even in our league!
**[21:06] ---**
Have you heard back from her?
**[21:08] ---**
Yeah. She apologized.
**[21:11] ---**
*Come to my house next time.*
**[21:13] ---**
*I'll show you my
Buchimaru-kun collection up close!*
**[21:17] ---**
...she said.
**[21:20] ---**
You're the first person
I've talked to about my father.
**[21:24] ---**
Thanks to that, I think I've finally decided
on how I'll live my life.
**[21:29] ---**
I'm going to become a police officer.
**[21:31] ---**
I want to help the weak,
like my father did.
**[21:36] ---**
But right now,
I'm a member of the Phantom Thieves,
**[21:39] ---**
and I can't very well capture myself, right?
**[23:18] ---**
Makoto isn't an ignorant child anymore.
**[23:24] ---**
Let's move on to the next case.
**[23:26] ---**
We have no pictures. Even their
names and identities are unknown.
**[23:29] ---**
Even your "Nav" thing you've mentioned
wouldn't have worked in this case.
**[23:33] ---**
On top of that, with this fourth case,
unlike the others,
**[23:36] ---**
your target got the jump on you
**[23:38] ---**
and made a declaration of war
against the Phantom Thieves.
**[23:42] ---**
Then we'll celebrate
by shooting off fireworks!
**[23:45] ---**
We have to study for finals first, right?
**[23:48] ---**
Don't you dare fail any of them!
**[23:53] ---**
Who is this?
**[23:55] ---**
How did you escape that predicament?
**[23:58] ---**
Answer me!