E23 - Dead or Alive – In the Rift between Revival and Dazzlement?

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    A sound "soul"
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    dwells within a sound mind
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    and a sound body.
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    It's... back there...
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    Tsunaida tamashii no hi ga
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    mune wo sasu nara
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    kotoba yori motto tsuyoi hibiki ga
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    ima kikoeru ka?
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    Roku ni me mo awasazu
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    unmei ni made karande'ku
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    Yukisaki moro kabutte'ru
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    kuenai yoru wo hashire
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    Fukaoi shi sugita mabushisa ga
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    warui yume ni tsuzuite mo
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    Tsunaida tamashii no hi ga
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    mune wo sasu nara
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    kotoba yori motto tsuyoi hibiki ga
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    ima kikoeru ka?
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    Deatta wake wa dou datte ii
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    Hikitsukerarete
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    Fureta shunkan no kizu no bun dake
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    tashika ni nareru
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    There's no time.
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    We need to defeat Medusa and
    hurry to the Kishin at once, but…
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    Got you!
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    Stein!
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    No matter what swinging technique she uses,
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    the snakes under her
    always keep her balanced!
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    This woman leaves no openings!
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    What do we do?!
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    Medusa hasn't made any
    attempts whatsoever to end this fight.
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    She's simply trying to buy time.
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    She probably knew from the start
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    that I can't beat her with my
    head filled with bothersome thoughts.
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    Stein! Are you out of it?
    You have no edge to you anymore.
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    The clear sense of danger
    you used to give off is gone now!
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    Be quiet. I'm trying to bring it back now.
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    I'm seeing too much of
    what's around me right now...
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    Get rid of everything that's unimportant.
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    What drives me is curiosity.
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    What's most important is what intrigues me.
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    Focus on that...
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    The tension in his body is leaving...
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    DWMA's greatest meister
    sure is an easy guy to read...
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    What is it I want to do, you ask?
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    Isn't that obvious?
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    He's just a sadistic pleasure-seeker...
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    I want to dismantle!
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    "Dead or Alive... In the Rift
    between Revival and Dazzlement?"
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    How adorable. It makes
    me want to tease you.
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    Yes...
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    I almost forgot that it's my
    job to control this insane fool.
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    Please, no more...
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    I'm gonna tear you up!
    Now, what shall I do?
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    Cut? Gouge? Rip out?
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    All right, for now, I'll
    give you a painless death!
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    Quit it.
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    I think that's enough.
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    You stay out of this, Spirit.
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    I'm going to do things my way.
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    You're planning on breaking
    DWMA's rules and policies?
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    What is it you want to do?
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    Did you think you could do
    anything you wanted once in DWMA?
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    I wish I'd been born in a godless world.
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    Hey, now. Are you seriously saying that?!
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    Of course not.
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    Such a world would be diseased.
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    I'll say it again. Join me.
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    This never-changing,
    repetitive world doesn't suit you.
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    Let us use the inconceivable
    power of the Kishin
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    to bring change and
    evolution to this dreary world.
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    Long ago, I was analyzed by foolish doctors
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    who feared my violent
    tendencies and selfish thoughts!
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    They had elated looks on their faces,
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    as if they were solving
    the puzzle in a mystery novel!
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    They'd theorize their hearts out,
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    wondering if something happened in my past,
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    or if I'd come into contact
    with a bad influence of some sort!
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    What a bunch of nonsense!
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    I've always wanted to break
    things apart from the very start!
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    Are you trying to say I'm
    the same as those doctors?
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    When I was in kindergarten,
    I would get nauseous
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    whenever I saw the kids listen
    to the teacher and play games.
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    I would almost piss my pants
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    at the sight of everyone focusing
    on the chalkboard and taking notes!
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    What kind of story is that?
    Talk about boring.
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    It almost makes me nauseous.
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    Are you mocking me?
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    Your tiresome attacks
    have no flair to them at all...
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    I'm so bored I could piss my pants.
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    Now, now. Don't say that. This
    is my answer to your invitation.
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    As I matured and grew stronger,
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    the bounds of the madness
    inside me expanded.
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    Do you know what it was that stopped me?
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    Fear.
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    Yes, I was afraid. Afraid of
    what kind of person I would become.
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    Even though the only thing
    I cared about was that I had fun!
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    That's why I needed it.
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    Not the frustrating rule
    of a greedy despot...
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    but the rule of a god without an ego.
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    So let us create rules for a new world.
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    That's your ego talking, isn't it?
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    No, but that will become
    the standard before long.
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    A standard that you will follow, too.
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    Stein!
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    You'll just get struck back like
    this if you attack with sheer force!
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    What will happen to my
    immoral feelings for gods
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    before ego becomes the standard?
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    I cannot go along with you!
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    I guess there's no getting through to you.
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    I want to rip things apart
    without immoral feelings!
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    So that's how you use your madness, huh?!
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    What?!
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    Soul Force!
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    He did it...
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    But he took too much
    damage for that one hit...
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    I think I might have
    overestimated you a little...
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    This is the most you could do
    after turning down my invitation?
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    It's all over. I'll
    remove your head for you.
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    Senpai. Not one move.
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    What?! My tail snake stopped?!
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    No, my whole body has!
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    Soul-thread Diffusion Sutures.
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    What are you talking about?
    You haven't sewed me anywhere...
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    Take a closer look.
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    The threads are inside your body as well.
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    I've blocked every nerve
    in your body with it.
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    So what?
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    Why don't you strike me down
    now with the scythe in your right hand?
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    There's no time to waste, right?
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    It takes real accuracy to control
    such an enormous wavelength.
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    Focusing on that takes all of my effort.
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    I can't move a single finger.
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    As a last-ditch effort,
    don't you think this is pathetic?
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    Did you invent these
    rules for fighting yourself?
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    Do you plan to have a cowboy-like shootout
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    the instant you release the threads?
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    It's pointless. My snake
    is already at your neck.
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    It'll lop your head off long
    before your scythe can reach me.
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    I somehow doubt wavelength-control
    of this magnitude can last long.
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    As soon as it’s released, you
    will die and the Kishin will live again.
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    You haven't the slightest
    chance against me.
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    That's it.
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    That?
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    Yeah. The bag.
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    It was probably originally
    an object of worship
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    but wound up looking like this
    after sucking up the Kishin's madness.
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    Fribbit rog cribbit frog! Ribbit ribbit!
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    All set.
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    This is it.
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    The black blood is in that syringe!
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    Take this!
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    Eruka!
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    What the...?!
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    Damn it!
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    What is this guy?!
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    He's hallucinating too! Now's our chance!
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    Yeah!
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    Damn... Not again! I feel
    like I'm about to go crazy...
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    I'm getting sick of this!
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    Calm down.
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    What you’re feeling is the
    Kishin's madness wavelength,
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    which you've felt plenty
    of times on your way here!
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    This is a hallucination!
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    Where's the black blood?!
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    Out of the way!
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    Definitely smarts more than before!
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    The werewolf can't move if
    I keep aiming for the black blood!
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    Now, Black☆Star! Go!
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    You got it!
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    Be careful! The Kishin's
    madness can make you hallucinate!
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    Don't worry about me!
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    My sixth sense sucks!
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    I practically don't feel
    any madness at all!
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    Excellent!
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    Yahoo!
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    Heads up, Eruka!
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    Enchanted Sword Mode!
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    Fribbit rog cribbit frog!
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    A fresh-made Tadpole Bomb!
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    Alright!
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    No, you don't!
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    It's a hallucination!
    Hallucination! Hallucination!
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    Alright!
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    That's no fair! Time-out!
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    Gotcha!
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    What?!
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    Good boy!
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    You damn amphibian,
    getting in the way! Take that!
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    Tadpole Jackson!
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    I won't let your bravery be in vain!
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    Dammit! No, you don't, frog girl!
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    Hurry, Eruka!
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    Stop her, Black☆Star!
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    Enchanted Sword Mode is at its limit...
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    No, I don't care if my muscles rip!
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    Please... Go in!
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    Too late, you damn girl!
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    Gotcha!
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    I did it...
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    We won...
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    No revival for the Kishin!
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    This is a gamble.
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    And the odds are really against us...
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    Medusa is focused on defense,
    so the only way to bring her down
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    is to go on the offensive halfway.
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    We've managed to come this far.
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    However, the instant the sutures
    come undone, there will be a clash...
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    And, just as Medusa says,
    I'll be the most likely to lose.
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    But instead of imagining
    myself being beaten,
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    all I'm able to imagine now
    is Medusa being dismembered.
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    My only choice is to bet
    on what little odds I have!
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    W-What's that?
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    What's going on?!
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    The madness is taking control...
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    It couldn't be!
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    Kid's group failed?!
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    The Kishin is reviving?!
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    Now we've done it...
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    This can't be...
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    Hey, wait! We won, didn't we?!
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    Your desperate strength
    wound up working against us...
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    Look closer! What you cut
    was the thing itself!
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    What?!
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    What irony...
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    You were so focused on
    destroying the black blood
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    that your sixth sense
    kicked in when it shouldn't have.
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    At the very end, you
    started hallucinating...
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    That... can't be...
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    We failed?
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    They weren't able to stop it...
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    Too bad. We win.
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    He did it!
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    I missed it...
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    Disappointing, isn't it?
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    The moment you were certain
    the Kishin revived,
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    your sense of accomplishment
    gave me an opening.
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    How ironic. I managed
    to win thanks to the Kishin.
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    But now the Kishin has revived.
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    In the end, I lose.
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    Even so...
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    it feels very refreshing!
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    Damn it!
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    Die!
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    It's no use...
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    I-it's coming out...
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    The bag... It's attaching to it!
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    Hajimaru yo Kimi to boku wo
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    tsunagu tobira nokku sureba
[22:05] ---
    donna mirai ga bokura wo matte iru no?
[22:14] ---
    Otona ga sou motomeru no wa
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    kanpeki na sutairu
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    itsuka haguruma no you ni
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    subete ga kasanaru you ni
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    Kamisama iru nara kiite yo
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    Itsuitsu made mo kono shunkan
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    ripiito dekinai mainichi wo
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    miokuranakucha
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    Dakara ato mou sukoshi dake tte
[22:52] ---
    kodomo de itai
[22:55] ---
    boys & girls ga nannin mo
[22:58] ---
    kono yo ni kakurehisonde
    wa yume wo mite iru
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    tte iu sutorii
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    Thank you all so much.
    As of today, I, Medusa, am retiring.
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    I'm sad to be leaving,
    but I have no regrets.
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    After all, I did accomplish my goal.
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    So, I have no regrets at all,
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    though I do wish I could've
    caused a bit more mayhem.
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    I have no regrets, but I do wish
    I could've talked with the Kishin
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    and toyed with Stein a little more!
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    And then, and then...
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    Sounds like you have plenty of regrets.
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    Next time on Soul Eater, episode 24:
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    "The Battle of the Gods...
    Death City on the Verge of Collapse?"
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    Your soul is mine!