# E18 - Fractal Androgynous
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR09N54ER/fractal-androgynous)
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Rukako...
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Please calm down and
listen to what I have to say.
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You used to be a man.
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You're saying this again?
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Wait! Don't cry...
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Just let me finish!
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All of this is for Mayuri's sake.
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I need you to go back to being a guy.
***SIGN*** Fractal Androgynous
**[02:18] ---**
What's wrong?
**[02:19] ---**
You're making a face, like you screwed up
your yakisoba noodles,
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and tossed them all into the sink.
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I'd prefer you to say
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I look like someone who tried to use
all their discount card stamps,
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but discovered the card had expired.
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I guess you aren't so depressed,
you can't make a joke.
**[02:39] ---**
Okarin! Mayushii is very disappointed in you!
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Wh-What are you talking about?
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Don't try and fool me!
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You made Ruka-chan cry, didn't you?
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H-How did you know...
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When I asked her to come to the lab,
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she just started crying.
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And when I asked her about it,
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she said you told her she's a guy!
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You heard about the D-mail?
**[03:02] ---**
D-mail?
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I told you not to try and fool me!
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You should apologize to her.
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Okabe...
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You said something that awful to Urushibara-san?
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Wait! It isn't what it seems.
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There's a reason for it...
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I don't care-
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Come with me, assistant...
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Come on!
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Wh-What is it?
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So the next D-mail I need to erase is the one
**[03:34] ---**
Rukako sent to her mother's pager,
before she was born.
**[03:39] ---**
Urushibara-san actually was a guy?
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I can't believe it.
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But it's true.
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It was true...
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She was a guy...
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Was she like Hashida?
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Fail.
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No! She looked just like she does now.
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Then it's okay.
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Anyway, to save Mayuri,
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I have to get Rukako back to being a guy.
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But you already know
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what the D-mail she sent said, right?
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Then you don't have to tell her.
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You could just do it yourself.
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I don't know the number for her mom's pager.
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And I thought it would be better for her
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if I told her the truth, instead of trying to lie.
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Your guess at what's better made her cry, right?
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*That's just your usual thing, right?*
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*Some kind of joke...*
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*That's mean!*
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I never expected you would say that to me.
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Isn't that a flag there?
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A flag?
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I never said anything like,
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"Once this battle is over, I'm getting married."
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That's a death flag!
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I'm talking about a love flag.
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Love?
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Her beloved Okabe told her she's really a guy,
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and it damaged her maiden's heart.
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No... But Rukako is a guy.
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That was in the last world line, right?
**[05:22] [Messenger] ---**
Sender: Rukako
No Subject
Dear Okabe-san,
I've something important to say.
Would you come to the shrine?
I'm waiting. I'm waiting, okay?
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"I've something important to say..."
**[05:27] ---**
Would you come to the shrine?
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Okabe-san.
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I'm sorry about earlier.
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No, I'm sorry for crying.
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And?
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What did you want to talk about?
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Right. Well... I have a request.
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A request?
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I believe what you told me.
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And so, um...
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I'll become a guy again, but in exchange...
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P-Please...
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Be my boyfriend!
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B-Boyfriend?
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Why would I be your boyfriend?
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Because I love you.
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Because I love you, Okabe-san!
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So, tomorrow, just for one day...
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Won't you be my boyfriend?
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N-No, but... You're a gu—
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Fine...
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I'll do it. Don't cry!
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Very well.
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I'll be your boyfriend for a day,
if it's really what you want.
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Really?
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Why are you crying?
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Because I'm so happy...
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*That was actually pretty cute.*
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So, you'll be going out
with Urushibara-san tomorrow?
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Yes.
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A mad scientist on a date with a high school girl.
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Don't say it...
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That's why I'm enduring the mortification
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of asking a mere assistant for dating advice.
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I told you I'm not your assistant!
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You're going on a date with someone, Kyouma?
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Here you are!
**[07:09] ---**
Two iced coffees.
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Are you going out with Mayushii?
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Or with her?
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No, this is my assistant.
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Even if it helps you obtain
your ultimate technique,
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you're chasing too many girls.
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Too many girls, huh?
**[07:30] ---**
Hey! Don't say stuff people will misunderstand,
right before you leave!
**[07:38] ---**
Hey... Would you...
**[07:42] ---**
Would you do anything to obtain
your ultimate technique?
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I-I mean, would Hououin Kyouma do anything?
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Why are you talking about this, too?
**[07:53] ---**
I don't understand.
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J-Just curious!
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I just wondered if you would do anything,
to obtain your ultimate technique,
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even if you already had someone you loved...
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There's no real meaning behind it, okay?!
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Why are you getting mad?
**[08:07] ---**
I'm not mad!
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Anyway, if that's how you're supposed to be,
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why not go on a date with her?
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I already told you that I was going to!
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Okarin...
**[08:18] ---**
I'd really appreciate it
if you'd fill me in on the details.
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If you want to know where to go on a date,
**[08:26] ---**
I've kissed dozens of girls.
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I'll tell you everything you need to know!
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Nene-chan, Shiori-chan, Honoka-chan, Rinko-chan...
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All those girls are from games.
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I'm talking about a real date.
**[08:42] ---**
I've heard you go to Aoyama, or Omotesandou,
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or Nishiazabu...
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Fashionable and trendy...
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A premium night...
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A special dinner...
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It's hopeless.
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This is a different world...
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None of it exists in reality.
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What do you get by denying it?
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I, Hououin Kyouma, was born
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with an IQ of 170, just like Isaac Newton.
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I am a mad scientist,
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and care more for research than girls—
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Definitely a virgin!
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Thank you very much.
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So, what about you?
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Do you have enough dating experience
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to talk down to me?
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See?
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You've been so busy with studies and research,
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you've never been on a single date, right?
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You had a lonely youth, didn't you?
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Shut up! Is it wrong to be a virgin?!
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With first dates, the most important thing
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is making yourself attractive to your partner.
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Regarding clothing,
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there's no need to wear expensive brand names,
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but something clean...
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I'm fine there.
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There's nothing as clean as a lab coat.
**[09:56] ---**
Who goes on a date in a lab coat?
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The same applies to your destination.
**[10:01] ---**
There's no need to pay for an expensive,
high-end restaurant.
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The places you normally go are fine.
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Normally go...
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This place is out of the question.
**[10:10] ---**
Of course it is.
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You can't take her somewhere gloomy like this!
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I suppose, the other places I frequent would be...
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May Queen.
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A maid café, for a first date?
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The weapons store.
**[10:23] ---**
Why are you buying a weapon?
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You're just reading from a dating book!
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So stop shooting everything down,
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American virgin.
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Who's an American virgin?
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Who else but you?!
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Right, right. And you're a virgin, too.
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Hey, wouldn't this be a better book to read?
**[10:41] ---**
That's an H-game walkthrough!
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Who cares?!
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Ecchi stuff happens on dates.
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Like holding hands and stuff... That's ecchi!
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Or when she takes your arms,
and presses her breasts against you...
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That's ecchi as hell!
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And at the end of the date, there's a kiss.
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Damn it all!
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Screw all of you, normals!
**[11:03] ---**
So, it's morning and I have no plan...
**[11:09] ---**
Stop complaining and get dressed!
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Take off the tags.
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Who ties their necktie like that? I can't believe you.
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You're a mess, you know that?
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Here you go.
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I feel like someone just put a chain around my neck.
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Here's a handkerchief, too.
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You know how to use that, right?
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"I'm still waiting for you."
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That's for the yellow one,
the handkerchief of happiness.
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Where did you learn these things?
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And that's old, anyway.
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You knew it.
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Sorry.
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The right answer is,
**[11:42] ---**
"You spread it out, before she sits on a bench."
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Whatever.
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I'll tail you and message you advice.
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You're coming with me?
**[11:53] ---**
So is Hashida.
**[11:57] ---**
Operation Valkyria begins!
**[12:00] ---**
Why Norse mythology?
**[12:03] ---**
*It is critical that you not be late.*
**[12:06] ---**
*Be fifteen minutes early, minimum.*
**[12:14] ---**
Okabe-san!
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I'm sorry!
**[12:19] ---**
I thought I'd left early.
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Were you waiting long?
**[12:24] ---**
No... I just got here.
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Oh, good...
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Th-Then, want to go?
**[12:35] ---**
Yes!
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I've never seen you without a lab coat on.
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Th-This is a date...
**[12:52] ---**
*When you're walking with a girl,*
**[12:54] ---**
*you should subtly take the side
with the oncoming cars.*
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Is something wrong?
**[12:58] ---**
No... It's nothing.
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What is that?!
**[13:04] ---**
That wasn't subtle at all!
**[13:06] ---**
*When a bike or car approaches, subtly protect her.*
**[13:11] ---**
Did he protect her?
**[13:13] ---**
Okabe-san!
**[13:16] ---**
Are you okay?
**[13:17] ---**
No, he just tripped...
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And then a maid helped him up
and gave him tissues!
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What are you doing?
**[13:25] ---**
Miss Makise, you seem upset.
**[13:32] ---**
I-It's nice out today, isn't it?
**[13:34] ---**
Yeah.
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But there are some clouds.
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Yes...
**[13:46] ---**
This cake is very good.
**[13:50] ---**
The coffee is, too.
**[13:56] ---**
*Why?*
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*My whole life, I've spoken normally with her.*
**[14:00] ---**
*But now, the moment we're on a date...*
**[14:02] ---**
This is a wonderful restaurant.
**[14:04] ---**
Do you come here often?
**[14:05] ---**
No.
**[14:07] ---**
*This is bad.*
**[14:09] ---**
*A smoothly flowing conversation
is the important thing.*
**[14:12] ---**
Th-This is actually my first time here.
**[14:15] ---**
He actually answered her question?
**[14:17] ---**
Today, August 14th, is Patent Day,
**[14:20] ---**
to celebrate when the first patent
was issued in Japan.
**[14:24] ---**
What kind of conversation is that?
**[14:25] ---**
You sure know a lot of things, Okabe-san.
**[14:28] ---**
I-I guess.
**[14:36] ---**
Wanna go home, Miss Makise?
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We're just watching. We can't help at all.
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No, we witness this to the end.
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Thank you.
**[14:49] ---**
Um...
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Is it boring?
**[14:53] ---**
Going on a date with me?
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What are you talking about?!
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Next up, we'll walk around town.
**[14:59] ---**
Come with me!
**[15:04] ---**
Ruka-chan?
**[15:06] ---**
So hot...
**[15:11] ---**
He's just walking the whole way to Ueno and back?
**[15:19] ---**
Okabe-san...
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Do you remember the first time we met?
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Yeah...
**[15:29] ---**
You saved me, after some men
with cameras accosted me.
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Yeah.
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*Thank you!*
**[15:44] ---**
*But I'm really sorry.*
**[15:47] ---**
*Why are you apologizing?*
**[15:49] ---**
*Because...*
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*I look this way, but I'm a guy!*
**[15:57] ---**
*Who cares if you're a girl or a guy?*
**[16:02] ---**
*That doesn't matter at all!*
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Back then,
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the words you said made me so happy.
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It was those words that made me start to like you.
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"That doesn't matter at all," huh?
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Wait! Aren't those memories
from when you were a guy?
**[16:26] ---**
I... What am I saying?
**[16:29] ---**
I feel kind of strange...
**[16:32] ---**
*It's just like it was with Feyris.*
**[16:35] ---**
*She's remembering the last world line.*
**[16:41] ---**
Thank you for today.
**[16:46] ---**
I was so happy... So happy...
**[16:51] ---**
So happy you were my boyfriend for today.
**[16:54] ---**
Hey...
**[16:55] ---**
This is the number for my mom's pager.
**[17:08] ---**
"Meat meat vegetables vegetables
meat meat vegetables vegetables."
**[17:13] ---**
If she sees this, I'm sure Urushibara-san's mom
**[17:16] ---**
will assume the last one was a prank.
**[17:20] ---**
We're ready!
**[17:24] ---**
What's wrong, Okabe?
**[17:27] ---**
Hey, hey...
**[17:29] ---**
Mayushii saw Ruka-chan on a date with someone!
**[17:34] ---**
That was Okarin.
**[17:37] ---**
No way.
**[17:39] ---**
It definitely wasn't Okarin...
**[17:41] ---**
He was wearing normal clothes,
**[17:45] ---**
and he looked like a gentleman—
**[17:46] ---**
She's right...
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It wasn't me.
**[17:49] ---**
That wasn't a date with the real me!
**[17:53] ---**
Okarin?
**[17:57] ---**
The date isn't over...
**[18:00] ---**
But Okabe-san...
**[18:02] ---**
Kyouma!
**[18:03] ---**
Have you forgotten my name, Rukako?
**[18:05] ---**
Guys, girls, boyfriends...
**[18:08] ---**
I was the one who got confused.
**[18:12] ---**
All that doesn't matter!
**[18:15] ---**
I finally realized...
**[18:17] ---**
I am me. And you are Rukako... My student!
**[18:26] ---**
Right!
**[18:27] ---**
So bring me the Dark Blade Samidare!
**[18:31] ---**
That's right!
**[18:33] ---**
That's just right!
**[18:34] ---**
Yes!
**[18:36] ---**
Listen, Rukako...
**[18:38] ---**
Listen well.
**[18:39] ---**
The legend of this dark blade goes back
**[18:42] ---**
to the age of Yoshitsune.
**[18:45] ---**
One night, with a full, blood-red moon,
**[18:48] ---**
a traveler was lost on the roads...
**[18:49] ---**
Look at him go.
**[18:51] ---**
Good.
**[18:53] ---**
He made up with Ruka-chan.
**[18:56] ---**
I guess he doesn't need us anymore.
**[19:03] ---**
Please save Mayuri-chan.
**[19:08] ---**
The old PC you're looking for...
**[19:12] ---**
The IBN 5100?
**[19:15] ---**
Until last New Year's, it was in our storehouse.
**[19:20] ---**
But I broke it...
**[19:23] ---**
While I was cleaning the storehouse...
**[19:26] ---**
So it's my fault!
**[19:28] ---**
Okabe-san, please...
**[19:31] ---**
Save Mayuri-chan!
**[19:35] ---**
I was so happy to have
the chance to train with you.
**[19:42] ---**
Ruka—
**[19:43] ---**
Go.
**[19:45] ---**
If you don't, I think I'm going to cry...
**[19:51] ---**
I should say the words, shouldn't I?
**[19:55] ---**
El Psy Congre.
**[19:59] ---**
Congroo.
**[20:02] ---**
El Psy...
**[20:07] ---**
I really don't want to go back...
**[20:10] ---**
Because... Because...
**[20:13] ---**
If I go back,
**[20:15] ---**
I'll have to seal away these
feelings I have for you!
**[20:19] ---**
I think I won't be able to love you if I'm a guy...
**[20:25] ---**
Rukako.
**[20:27] ---**
If I go back to being a guy,
**[20:28] ---**
I'm going to forget all about today.
**[20:31] ---**
That we went on a date...
**[20:34] ---**
That the two of us trained...
**[20:38] ---**
That I was able to touch you this way.
**[20:42] ---**
If I had to suffer like this,
**[20:45] ---**
I should have never wished to be a girl!
**[20:50] ---**
Even if you go back to being a guy...
**[20:53] ---**
You'll still be Rukako to me.
**[20:55] ---**
Nothing will change!
**[20:58] ---**
That's right...
**[20:59] ---**
It doesn't matter if I'm a girl or a guy, does it?
**[21:05] ---**
But just for a little while...
**[21:08] ---**
Please remember me
**[21:11] ---**
when I was a girl...
**[21:16] ---**
I'll never forget it.
**[21:26] ---**
What's wrong, Okabe-san?
**[21:30] ---**
*Urushibara Ruka.*
**[21:32] ---**
*The mannerisms and voice of a woman...*
**[21:34] ---**
*No... More feminine than any woman.*
**[21:38] ---**
Hey, Rukako...
**[21:40] ---**
Yes?
**[21:41] ---**
Do you like me?
**[21:44] ---**
Wh-What are you saying?
**[21:46] ---**
Do you?
**[21:47] ---**
Um... Well, I respect you!
**[21:52] ---**
*But he's a guy.*
**[22:04] ---**
*Just one message left.*
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