# E23 - My old friend, why...?
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**[00:00] Wrath**
We'll keep Shun... keep the Hero occupied.
**[00:03] Ariel**
I appreciate that.
**[00:05] Wrath**
That way, you'll be able to focus on
getting rid of your target, Ariel-sama.
**[00:09] Ariel**
And that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
**[00:12] Ariel**
Potimas...
**[00:14] Ariel**
We're here to kill you.
**[00:27] Elf Comms Officer**
Potimas-sama...
**[00:28] Elf Comms Officer**
We've confirmed a second force approaching
from behind the imperial army.
**[00:32] Potimas**
I know. The imperials are nothing
more than an opening act.
**[00:36] Elf Comms Officer**
Does that mean you know who it is, too?
**[00:41] Potimas**
The demon army.
**[00:42] Elf Comms Officer**
The demons?
**[00:44] Elf Comms Officer**
Why is the demon army marching on the
elf village? We're in inside human territory.
**[00:48] Potimas**
Who can say?
**[00:50] Elf Comms Officer**
Should we redirect the Hero and other
reincarnations to the front line?
**[00:53] Potimas**
Let them do what they want.
**[00:55] Potimas**
At this point, they've already
served their purpose.
**[00:57] Potimas**
More importantly, get preparations
underway for deployment.
**[01:00] Potimas**
I want them all in the field.
**[01:02] Elf Comms Officer**
Every single unit, sir?!
**[01:04] Elf Comms Officer**
Isn't that a bit excessive?
**[01:07] Potimas**
If the demons are invading,
**[01:10] Potimas**
I intend to give them the
greeting they deserve.
**[01:13] Potimas**
That means no holding back.
**[01:15] Elf Comms Officer**
Understood, sir.
**[01:18] Potimas**
You obsessive little girl...
**[01:22] Potimas**
It's finally time for our
feud to come to an end.
**[01:26] Potimas**
This assumption of yours,
that you can stop me...
**[01:30] Potimas**
will finally be corrected once you're dead.
**[01:32] Elf Comms Officer**
Activate all units!
***SIGN*** My Old Friend, Why......?
**[03:27] Fei**
He's been all momentum...
**[03:29] Fei**
And Shun's leading him by the nose.
**[03:31] Katia**
It seems that, as Heroes,
Hugo doesn't compare to Shun.
**[03:46] Shun**
Do you want to keep going?
**[03:51] Hugo**
It's useless, y'know.
**[03:53] Hugo**
Useless, useless, useless, useless,
useless, useless, useless!
**[03:57] Katia**
Magic... I believe of the Jinx variety.
**[04:01] Fei**
And it's not working at all.
**[04:04] Katia**
Hugo's magic just isn't potent enough.
**[04:07] Katia**
Or perhaps it's better to say that
Shun's defenses are too strong?
**[04:11] Katia**
There's also the skill that he gained
**[04:13] Katia**
after defeating that Earth Dragon
in the Great Elroe Labyrinth...
**[04:17] Katia**
Dragon Power.
**[04:21] Katia**
As long he has that skill,
which weakens the strength of magic...
**[04:24] Katia**
Hugo's magic won't affect him.
**[04:27] Shun**
Give it up!
**[04:28] Hugo**
God damn you!
**[04:35] Hugo**
This can't be happening! It can't!
**[04:38] Katia**
That's not swordplay, it's flailing.
**[04:40] Hugo**
Damn it! Damn it, damn it, damn it!
**[04:46] Hugo**
You bastard...
**[04:51] Hugo**
This can't be...
**[04:54] Hugo**
This world belongs to me!
**[04:56] Shun**
You seriously still think that?!
**[04:59] Shun**
This world doesn't belong to you.
**[05:02] Shun**
It belongs to all the people who live in it!
**[05:06] Fei**
Oh, Shun's got him!
**[05:10] Hugo**
Asshole...
**[05:15] Sophia**
Nicely said.
**[05:17] Sophia**
But when I think about how ignorant
you are, it also sounds like a joke.
**[05:24] Hugo**
Sophia! Kill them all!
**[05:28] Sophia**
Should I, though?
**[05:31] Hugo**
This is no time for jokes!
**[05:33] Sophia**
I seem to remember you telling
me to stay out of it.
**[05:38] Hugo**
You bitch...
**[05:40] Sophia**
Besides, you've served your purpose already.
**[05:45] Hugo**
What?
**[05:48] Sophia**
Merazophis, what's the situation?
**[05:50] Merazophis**
The demon army has begun
to advance on the village.
**[05:55] Sophia**
I love it when a plan comes together.
**[05:58] Kunihiko**
Wh-What is *he* doing here?!
**[06:01] Shun**
You know him?
**[06:02] Kunihiko**
He's a commander with the demon army.
**[06:04] Shun**
The demon army?!
**[06:06] Katia**
And a commander?
**[06:08] Asaka**
Merazophis, Commander of
the 4th Demon Army Corps.
**[06:13] Shun**
Then...
**[06:15] Shun**
You're with the demons, too?
**[06:16] Sophia**
Got it in one!
**[06:18] Hyrince**
That's it... the demon army used
the imperials as a distraction!
**[06:22] Fil**
They infiltrated their ranks in
order to invade the elf village!
**[06:29] Hyrince**
And while the elves are fighting
against the imperials...
**[06:33] Hyrince**
They'll be ambushed by the demons!
**[06:35] Fil**
Oh, no...
**[06:37] Hugo**
You used me, Sophia?!
**[06:42] Sophia**
Does anyone else hear that buzzing sound?
**[06:46] Sophia**
It's so annoying.
**[06:47] Hugo**
You...
**[06:50] Katia**
What should we do, Shun?
**[06:52] Shun**
We have to stop her.
**[06:54] Sophia**
Oh, someone's feeling ambitious!
**[07:02] Sophia**
I guess you're serious, huh?
**[07:05] Sophia**
Get that girl out of here. She's in the way.
**[07:12] Shun**
Wait!
**[07:14] Sophia**
You managed to stomp my little puppet,
**[07:18] Sophia**
but you're gonna be in trouble
if you think I'm anything like him.
**[07:22] Hugo**
You called me a puppet?!
**[07:26] Hugo**
No one's getting away with this.
None of you...
**[07:30] Hugo**
I'll tear you all apart, and...
**[07:39] Sophia**
Bring it on, then.
**[07:44] Shun**
Here I come!
**[07:47] Katia**
Shun, don't!
**[07:55] Sophia**
Oh, that light is adorable. But...
**[08:01] Sophia**
Not very strong.
**[08:03] Fil**
She has something just like
Shun-kun's Dragon Power...
**[08:06] Fil**
No, her magic negation is even stronger!
**[08:10] Sophai**
This isn't going to be much fun
if you can't do a little better.
**[08:14] Shun**
Damn it... I'm not through yet!
**[08:20] Shun**
Katia?
**[08:22] Katia**
You can't possibly win on your own!
**[08:25] Fil**
Shun-kun! I'm fighting, too!
**[08:28] Shun**
Everyone...
**[08:30] Hyrince**
Shun, you're not alone!
**[08:37] Sophia**
Oh, it's a whole party now.
**[08:40] Shun**
I'm not alone...
**[08:43] Shun**
If we all work together,
**[08:45] Shun**
we can beat her!
**[08:47] Sophia**
Winning with the power of friendship, huh?
**[08:52] Kunihiko**
Asaka and and I will keep
Merazophis occupied!
**[08:56] Sophia**
You heard them. Be careful.
**[08:59] Merazophis**
I appreciate the concern.
**[09:02] Merazophis**
Do be careful, miss.
**[09:13] Hyrince**
I know it's six on one, but we're
pretty desperate on our end!
**[09:17] Hyrince**
No complaints!
**[09:18] Sophia**
None at all.
**[09:20] Sophia**
You can go grab some more help, if you want.
**[09:23] Katia**
You seem to think this will be easy.
**[09:25] Sophia**
That's because it will be.
**[09:39] Shun**
Okay!
**[09:39] Katia**
Now!
**[09:48] Fil**
Katia-san!
**[09:50] Sophia**
Still don't get it?
**[09:53] Sophia**
It should've been clear when I knocked
Sensei's arrows away with two fingers
**[09:58] Sophia**
that you guys can't measure up to me.
**[10:02] Shun**
Even if... the difference in
strength... seems insurmountable...
**[10:08] Shun**
There are some battles you can't run from!
**[10:11] Sophia**
Very cool!
**[10:13] Sophia**
But you don't think
**[10:15] Sophia**
that you managed to defend against
that last attack on your own, do you?
**[10:20] Sophia**
Because you didn't.
**[10:22] Sophia**
I was aiming for your sword.
**[10:25] Sophia**
That's hard to do, y'know?
**[10:27] Sophia**
Someone's weapon is usually so
much smaller than their body.
**[10:31] Sophia**
Especially when my sword is so big.
**[10:34] Sophia**
But my master told me not
to kill any reincarnations.
**[10:43] Sophia**
Come to think of it, I'm not sure
if that applies to your half-elf.
**[10:57] Hyrince**
Good, Shun!
**[10:59] Hyrince**
A sword that big can't be
used to attack continuously!
**[11:02] Hyrince**
If you attack quickly and persistently enough,
you can force her back!
**[11:05] Sophia**
You're pretty fast.
**[11:08] Hyrince**
And that'll mean she has
to focus on defense.
**[11:20] Shun**
I've got you!
**[11:27] Hyrince**
Are you all right?!
**[11:28] Shun**
Yeah... thank you.
**[11:33] Sophia**
It wasn't a bad plan, but your swordplay's
a little too clean, y'know?
**[11:39] Sophia**
Though I think that might apply
to your whole state of mind.
**[11:42] Sophia**
Which is why you have trouble
dealing with unexpected attacks.
**[11:47] Hyrince**
She's got a definitive edge when
it comes to combat experience.
**[11:51] Shun**
But even so!
**[11:57] Sophia**
You said that you could win with the
help of your friends, didn't you?
**[12:02] Sophia**
I don't think the situation
has changed much.
**[12:17] Sophia**
It'd be so much easier
and faster to kill you.
**[12:21] Sophia**
And since I can't, and because
you guys are so stubborn,
**[12:25] Sophia**
this is taking forever.
**[12:29] Shun**
Why aren't you killing the reincarnations?
**[12:32] Shun**
Why wouldn't you kill us?!
**[12:36] Sophia**
Our real goal here is to wipe out the elves.
**[12:40] Sophia**
Oh, but if we're killing all
the elves except Sensei...
**[12:45] Sophia**
How's that work with your half-elf?
**[12:49] Shun**
In the demon forces... is that
woman in white among them?!
**[12:53] Sophia**
You wanna know?
**[12:55] Shun**
Of course I do!
**[12:56] Shun**
She killed Julius-niisama...
**[12:58] Shun**
I will avenge my brother!
**[13:01] Hyrince**
That goes for me, too!
**[13:02] Hyrince**
I'll have revenge for my best friend!
**[13:06] Sophia**
That sounds like kind of a drag to me.
**[13:32] Katia**
He's got her!
**[13:35] Sophia**
You are seriously soft to not aim for
my head or some other vital point.
**[13:43] Shun**
Why?
**[13:50] Sophia**
You must've really racked your brain to
figure out a way around my magic negation.
**[13:56] Sophia**
And you're right.
**[13:57] Sophia**
Using the ground or other things that
already exist in the environment can work.
**[14:03] Sophia**
Not that it's necessarily effective.
**[14:08] Hyrince**
Shun!
**[14:11] Shun**
*Magic and weapons won't work on her...*
**[14:17] Shun**
Fei?
**[14:19] Sophia**
Oh, are you done spectating?
**[14:21] Fei**
I think I am.
**[14:23] Fei**
So if we surrender,
will you spare our lives?
**[14:27] Fei**
That goes for Hyrince-san and Anna, too.
**[14:30] Shun**
Fei?!
**[14:33] Sophia**
You actually realized what was
going to happen if you fought me?
**[14:37] Fei**
Well, yeah.
**[14:39] Sophia**
So why didn't you stop your friends?
**[14:43] Fei**
Because Shun wouldn't have listened.
**[14:49] Sophia**
Why not?
**[14:50] Fei**
You know how boys are with their pride.
**[14:56] Shun**
*Pride?*
**[14:57] Shun**
*Fei... you knew that all along,*
**[15:00] Shun**
* and were waiting for the*
* right timing to surrender?*
**[15:04] Shun**
* While I dragged my friends into a*
* battle we had no chance of winning?*
**[15:07] Shun**
*I'm so pathetic!*
**[15:08] Sophia**
Pride, huh?
**[15:10] Sophia**
So some people would rather do
the "die before dishonor" thing?
**[15:15] Sophia**
Can't say that I relate.
**[15:20] Sophia**
You've got a deal, though.
**[15:21] Sophia**
I won't batter that pride of yours any more.
**[15:25] Kunihiko**
Thanks for that. Not that I ever asked...
**[15:29] Shun**
Tagawa?!
**[15:30] Sophia**
Oh, did they get you?
**[15:33] Merazophis**
My apologies.
**[15:35] Asaka**
It'd be one thing if he was actually here.
**[15:38] Asaka**
But did you seriously think a projection...
**[15:41] Asaka**
would be enough to stop us?!
**[15:44] Merazophis**
I beg your forgiveness in my failure
to successfully protect you, miss.
**[15:49] Sophia**
You've always protected me, Merazophis.
**[15:53] Sophia**
You're not a failure.
**[15:55] Merazophis**
I am unworthy of such praise.
**[15:57] Sophia**
We're basically done here, anyway.
**[15:59] Sophia**
Focus on commanding your troops.
**[16:01] Merazophis**
As you wish.
**[16:05] Sophia**
The main force is probably
gonna be on the attack by now.
**[16:08] Sophia**
If you want to keep fighting, go find them.
**[16:10] Kunihiko**
After we take you down...
**[16:13] Fei**
Even with you two helping,
we can't beat her.
**[16:17] Fei**
I think you both know that, Kuni.
**[16:20] Shun**
Fei, I'm sorry... but I just can't give up.
**[16:25] Fei**
Shun...
**[16:27] Shun**
We have to get past her.
**[16:30] Shun**
Even if we don't have a chance,
**[16:32] Shun**
we still need to stand against her!
**[16:36] Shun**
That's the kind of fight this is!
**[16:41] Shun**
I know that Julius-niisama wouldn't
run in a situation like this!
**[16:47] Shun**
So I can't, either!
**[16:55] Fei**
I guess we're doing this.
**[16:59] Sophia**
I don't mind having a little more fun.
**[17:03] Wrath**
Sorry, but the clock's ticking.
**[17:09] Asaka**
Kuni—
**[17:14] Katia**
Tagawa! Kushitani-san!
**[17:20] Sophia**
That was fast.
**[17:22] Wrath**
You were taking too long, Sophia-san.
**[17:25] Sophia**
You didn't kill them, did you?
**[17:27] Wrath**
They're not dead, no.
**[17:29] Wrath**
But wasting any more time is a bad idea,
so I forced them to quiet down.
**[17:35] Shun**
You're...
**[17:37] Wrath**
It's been a while.
**[17:40] Wrath**
Maybe so long that you've
forgotten all about me?
**[17:43] Shun**
Kyouya!
**[17:44] Wrath**
Oh, you did remember.
**[17:47] Wrath**
I thought maybe you wouldn't
recognize me with the new look.
**[17:52] Katia**
Is that really you, Kyouya?
**[17:56] Wrath**
Sure is.
**[17:57] Wrath**
Kyouya Sasajima himself,
in the all-new flesh.
**[18:01] Wrath**
Shun... Kanata.
**[18:03] Katia**
And you're in the demon army?
**[18:06] Kyouya**
Yep.
**[18:07] Shun**
Why?!
**[18:10] Kyouya**
It's obvious, isn't it?
To wipe out the elves.
**[18:15] Kyouya**
From where I'm standing,
**[18:17] Kyouya**
I seriously can't understand why
you all would side with them.
**[18:22] Shun**
That's...
**[18:24] Kyouya**
If I had to guess, it's probably because
they duped you into doing it.
**[18:28] Shun**
What are you talking about?
**[18:29] Kyouya**
The elves are a threat to
the entire world, man.
**[18:32] Kyouya**
Defending them is crazy.
**[18:35] Fil**
Don't let him deceive you!
**[18:36] Fil**
I don't know what the
administrators are planning,
**[18:39] Fil**
but it can't be good.
**[18:42] Fil**
You haven't forgotten what they
did in the kingdom, did you?
**[18:46] Fil**
What they manipulated Hugo into doing?
**[18:48] Wrath**
Well...
**[18:49] Fil**
And the Hero, Julius,
was killed by the demon army!
**[18:53] Fil**
Isn't that right, Commander of
the 8th Demon Army Corps, Wrath?
**[18:58] Shun**
Kyouya's... a commander?
**[19:01] Wrath**
I guess I can't convince you, huh?
**[19:07] Hyrince**
He brought reinforcements?!
**[19:10] Fil**
There're too many!
**[19:16] Sophia**
Don't you remember what Master said?
**[19:19] Sophia**
Sensei's fully bought into their crap,
**[19:21] Sophia**
so she's not going to listen
to anything we say.
**[19:24] Katia**
Shun...
**[19:25] Shun**
What's the actual truth?!
**[19:32] Elf 1**
Sir Hero! Please, head back this instant!
**[19:35] Elf 2**
The Demon Lord is headed for the village!
**[19:37] Elf 2**
Only you, who has the Hero title,
stands a chance against her!
**[19:41] Shun**
The Demon Lord?!
**[19:42] Elf 1**
Let us handle this,
and return to the village!
**[19:49] Shun**
But...
**[19:50] Elf 1**
Hurry!
**[19:51] Elf 2**
We'll teleport you! Come this way!
**[19:53] Kyouya**
That's not happening.
**[20:00] Elf 1**
Fire at will!
**[20:04] Sophia**
You're in the way.
**[20:17] Wrath**
I can't let you leave, Shun.
**[20:21] Elf 1**
The teleportation is complete!
**[20:23] Elf 1**
Activate the Gloria units!
**[20:31] Sophia**
Oh, this sucks.
**[20:33] Wrath**
Things just got a lot more complicated.
**[20:36] Elf1**
Fall back!
**[20:38] Elf1**
Have the Gloria units advance!
**[20:42] Sophia**
They're probably just big and clunky, right?
**[20:48] Wrath**
That didn't work.
**[20:50] Sophia**
So annoying.
**[20:55] Hyrince**
The elves were hiding weapons
like this all along?
**[20:59] Katia**
Those are machines!
**[21:00] Katia**
What are they doing in this world?!
**[21:03] Fei**
Feels kinda like I'm not gonna
get to do much this time.
**[21:07] Sophia**
I'm not sure I like how the
odds have shifted here.
**[21:10] Wrath**
It wouldn't have been a problem if you
hadn't goofed off for so long.
**[21:14] Sophia**
Oh, shut up.
**[21:16] Elf 1**
Aim!
**[21:19] Shun**
Wait!
**[21:20] Elf1**
Fire!
**[21:24] Shun**
Kyouya!
**[23:06] W**
Demon Lord...
**[23:07] Ariel**
If these things are out in the field,
I guess Potimas has decided to get serious.
**[23:16] Ariel**
They seem to be having a real party.
**[23:20] Ariel**
What? Are you curious?
**[23:23] Ariel**
You wanna check it out? I can handle
things over here on my own.
**[23:28] W**
I think I'll go... just to be sure.
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