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E23 - Open the Steins Gate

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    World War III.
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    By 2036,
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    it will have resulted in 5.7 billion casualties worldwide.
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    And this is what starts it.
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    Huh? What is it?
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    It's only a model.
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    Maybe it transforms or something?
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    A time machine.
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    Seriously?
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    I knew you'd recognize it, Uncle.
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    Then that makes this easy.
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    Come with me.
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    I refuse...
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    Okarin?
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    I've come here from the alpha world line.
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    Over the past three weeks,
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    I changed that world line again and again,
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    sacrificing Kurisu to return here,
    to the beta world line.
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    I can't let all of that count for nothing!
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    Kurisu-san?
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    Kurisu?
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    Wasn't that the name of the scientist
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    who was stabbed at the Radio Building?
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    Okabe Rintarou,
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    what if I told you that the way
    to avoid World War III
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    is to prevent Makise Kurisu's death
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    on July 28th, 2010?
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    What do you mean?
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    I don't know the details.
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    But I have one mission...
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    To save Makise Kurisu,
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    and to go to the one world line unaffected
    by the Attractor Field:
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    The Steins Gate!
SIGN    Open the Steins Gate
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    Steins Gate?
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    The architects of this plan were
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    my father and your future self.
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    None of it is anything more than a hypothesis.
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    It's possible the theory is wrong,
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    and there is no Steins Gate world line.
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    But I'm going anyway.
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    I'll bet on the chance that
    a bright future's waiting for me.
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    If you're coming with me,
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    then take my hand.
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    Um,
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    Mayushii didn't really understand any of that.
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    But if this person,
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    this Kurisu-san, is important to you,
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    shouldn't you try to help them?
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    World War III sounds too much
    like one of your fantasies.
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    No one else could handle it.
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    I don't care about 5.7 billion people in the future.
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    But...
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    Thank you.
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    Board now.
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    Two people can get in it?
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    Of course!
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    This is my father's masterpiece.
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    Okarin!
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    Leave your phone.
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    It might get crossed with your
    phone in the past.
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    I'll return.
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    Good luck.
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    This is a time machine.
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    Yeah,
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    I stopped in 1975 and 2000.
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    It's working fine.
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    But it's running out of fuel...
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    Wait, it can go from past to future?
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    Of course it can.
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    It's a time machine.
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    I see...
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    Is that because we're in a different world line now?
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    Sit down.
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    We'll head to just before noon, on July 28th.
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    We can't change location,
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    so if we arrive too early, it'll spread
    panic at the Radio Building,
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    possibly affecting Makise Kurisu's actions.
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    Your first time, the Gs are pretty tough.
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    Get ready.
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    Okarin...
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    What is this?
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    These always show up.
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    I guess they're like fragments of time.
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    Pretty, huh?
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    Let's go!
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    W-Wait.
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    I think I'm going to throw up...
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    You're a wimp...
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    Hurry!
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    Don't let your other self encounter you.
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    It'll cause a serious time paradox.
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    How long until her stabbing?
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    Twenty minutes or so, I guess.
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    I'll ready the time machine.
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    You protect her, Uncle.
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    Stop calling me that.
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    July 28th.
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    The day I saw Kurisu lying in a pool of blood,
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    I'd come with Mayuri to see
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    Professor Nakabachi's press conference.
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    I heard a noise on the roof.
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    That's right. After this, Mayuri goes
    to the 7th-floor Upa machines.

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    Oh, no!
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    You called me here for this?
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    There aren't many left of this series,
    and Mayushii's...
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    Oh well.
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    I'll take the back stairs to the 8th floor.
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    It's a metal... A metal Upa!
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    Is it rare?
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    Really!
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    If I make it here...
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    I'm sorry.
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    K-Kurisu?
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    H-How do you know my name?
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    Kurisu is alive...
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    Have we met somewhere?
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    Kurisu...
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    Are you listening...
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    What's wrong?
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    Answer me.
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    I... You...
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    Professor Nakabachi's press conference
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    will now begin in the 8th Floor Hall.
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    Wait!
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    Wait!
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    In the handouts, you can read about
    the time machine's basic design.
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    I will use this conference as an opportunity
    to discuss the fundamental theory behind it.
SIGN    Professor Nakabachi
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    The operation notes said that
    you'd be able to identify Makise Kurisu.
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    Can you do it?
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    Yeah.
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    Also, it's dangerous to take her outside.
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    If we can't find out who stabbed her,
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    then it's very likely that the
    world line will converge to her death.
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    The same as with Mayuri?
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    Doctor!
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    What is it?
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    You know exactly what!
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    What is this "time machine theory" of yours?
[09:04] ---
    Kerr Black Holes?
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    World lines?
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    You stole all this from John Titor!
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    Kurisu will be stabbed right here soon.
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    Is she really going to be here?
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    Wait! Maybe she was stabbed elsewhere
    and brought here.

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    Yeah... That's possible!
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    Kurisu?
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    So, it does happen here.
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    What's she reading?
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    A time machine?
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    Is that why she's the key to changing world lines?
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    Stupid kid.
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    What do you want?
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    Daddy, I wanted you to read this.
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    Daddy?
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    Professor Nakabachi?
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    You contacted me for the first time in seven years.
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    You asked me to come to
    your press conference, right?
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    That was my inspiration...
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    Wait, so Kurisu's dad is...
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    So I thought I could use it to theorize a time machine.
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    I wanted to hear your theories.
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    If this is accepted, you can use it
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    to show everyone who kicked you out of academia...
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    I wasn't kicked out!
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    I got sick of them and left.
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    Sorry...
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    It's not bad.
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    Really?
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    If you're okay with it,
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    I thought we could put both
    our names on the paper.
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    Because you inspired me...
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    Don't be stupid.
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    Leave!
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    I'll publish this paper under my name.
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    Wait!
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    You wouldn't steal it, right, Daddy?
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    I thought, no matter what, you'd never do that...
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    Shut up!
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    How dare you call it stealing!
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    Why are you so smart?
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    A girl shouldn't be smarter than her father!
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    If it weren't for you, I'd have been smart, too!
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    If it weren't for you...
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    I...
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    You're that kid from earlier.
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    So that's it?
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    You were plotting to ruin
    my conference together, right?
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    I see...
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    So that's it.
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    Daddy!
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    I'll protect her!
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    How dare you insult me?
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    Why, you...
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    Stop it, Daddy!
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    Please!
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    Don't even speak to me!
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    Oh no!
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    What do you know?
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    You don't know how I feel.
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    You don't know how I've been humiliated...
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    The hell I've been through!
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    If it weren't for you...
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    Don't...
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    If it weren't for you...
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    Don't do it!
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    Kurisu...
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    K-Kurisu!
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    Fools.
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    This is the perfect end for you.
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    I'm sorry for involving you...
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    Why?
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    Because he's my dad.
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    I wanted him to accept me.
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    That's all.
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    Kurisu...
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    I'm scared...
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    I... I don't want to die.
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    I don't want to die.
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    I don't...
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    Kurisu...
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    Kurisu!
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    They're back already!
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    Okarin!
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    I killed Kurisu. I killed Kurisu. I killed Kurisu.
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    Okarin, that blood...
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    It's all right.
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    It's not his.
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    I was the one who killed Kurisu...
[14:15] ---
    I was the one who killed Kurisu...
[14:18] ---
    I was the one who killed Kurisu...
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    Okarin?
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    I know it hurts, but you can't give up yet.
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    We have enough fuel to go back once more...
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    Shut up!
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    It'll just be the same!
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    The Attractor Field convergence will
    kill her all over again.
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    It's your phone.
[14:42] ---
    A message?
[14:44] ---
    Open it.
[14:45] ---
    But...
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    Just do it.
[14:49] [Messenger] ---
    Turn on the TV.
[14:50] ---
    Turn on the TV?
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    The TV?
[14:56] [Messenger] ---
    Mysterious Fire in Cargo Bay
    Professor Nakabachi Defects to Russia
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    The plane carrying Professor Nakabachi
    made it to Russia,
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    despite a mysterious cargo bay fire.
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    We were very fortunate.
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    If this hadn't triggered the metal detector,
SIGN    Mayushii
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    the paper would have gone up.
[15:13] ---
    W-what?
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    That's Mayushii's metal Upa!
[15:15] ---
    Look. It has Mayushii's name on it!
[15:19] ---
    She's right.
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    But what's it doing in Russia?
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    That paper is the start of everything.
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    Next comes the international,
    time machine arms race.
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    To rule time is to rule the world.
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    And that begins a world war.
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    5.7 billion lives are at stake.
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    Save Makise Kurisu, and change this world line!
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    It's impossible...
[15:52] ---
    It's just like with Mayuri.
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    No matter what I do, it'll end up the same.
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    Kurisu will die.
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    How can you say that after only one time?
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    One time?!
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    It's more than that...
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    How many times...
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    How many times do you think I've failed?!
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    I can tell...
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    How insane this time loop is...
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    What a cruel fate it has in store...
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    I knew this...
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    I knew this would happen.
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    I'm tired.
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    I'm so tired...
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    You're not the kind of person to quit halfway.
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    Mayushii knows this!
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    You're not the kind of person to ever give up.
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    Even when Mayushii couldn't
    say goodbye to her grandmother,
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    you never stopped going to her grave.
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    That's why I could say goodbye.
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    That's why I got better!
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    So don't give up.
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    You should have received a video file on July 28th.
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    July 28th...
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    You should be able to watch it,
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    now that you've failed once
    to rescue Makise Kurisu.
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    What do you mean?
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    I'm sorry I lied to you.
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    The plan called for you to fail once.
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    So that you would see this.
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    What is this?
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    Nice to meet you, myself fifteen years ago.
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    It's Okarin!
[17:51] ---
    If you've opened this message,
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    then you've failed to rescue Kurisu.
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    It must have been painful.
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    But that pain gave rise to my obsession.
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    So it had to happen.
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    You might say it was a part of the preparation.
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    Now we can begin the plan for real.
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    The plan to save Makise Kurisu,
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    and enter Steins Gate.
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    We have two objectives.
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    First, to destroy the paper on time machines,
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    which Professor Nakabachi took to Russia.
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    Second, to save Makise Kurisu.
[18:36] ---
    If I could do that...
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    But avoiding her death and
    changing the past are impossible
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    because of the Attractor Field convergence.
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    Right?
[18:47] ---
    I'll be as clear as possible.
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    Saving Makise Kurisu is possible.
[18:51] ---
    You're just approaching it the wrong way.
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    Listen well.
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    You must not change the past,
    once it's been established.
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    You must not undo what you saw that day.
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    If you do either, the past will change,
    and all will be lost.
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    Remember your experiences
    in the alpha world line.
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    It was only three weeks,
[19:16] ---
    but you should have memories
    of your time with Makise Kurisu.
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    Of all you and she sacrificed to save Mayuri.
[19:26] ---
    Of everything that happened.
[19:31] ---
    You must not waste those three weeks.
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    You must not undo them.
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    The only reason you wish so desperately to save her
[19:43] ---
    is because of the world lines you experienced.
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    And it's the sole reason
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    I devoted my life to developing a time machine.
[19:52] ---
    The reason you've managed to get
[19:55] ---
    as far as you have is that
    we both want to save Kurisu.
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    So you must deceive your other self.
[20:05] ---
    Save her without changing the past where she died.
[20:08] ---
    Make your past self
[20:10] ---
    mistake a living Kurisu for a dead one.
[20:13] ---
    If you do, the past won't change.
[20:17] ---
    I get it...
[20:19] ---
    What does he mean?
[20:20] ---
    Okarin, do you know?
[20:22] ---
    I know you'll understand me.
[20:24] ---
    By the way, the time machine's ID is C204.
[20:28] ---
    I'm sure you know what that stands for.
[20:32] ---
    Christina...
[20:34] ---
    And I was the one who named
    the target world line Steins Gate.
[20:40] ---
    You know why I named it that.
[20:45] ---
    It doesn't really mean anything.
[20:48] ---
    Right?
[20:52] ---
    I will now explain the parameters
[20:54] ---
    of the final mission, Operation Skuld.
[20:57] ---
    Change the result without changing
    the established past.
[21:01] ---
    The past consists of Makise Kurisu,
    lying in a bloody pool,
[21:04] ---
    and Okabe Rintarou seeing her there.
[21:07] ---
    Change the past without changing that.
[21:11] ---
    Deceive your other self.
[21:13] ---
    Deceive the world.
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    That is what you must do to reach Steins Gate.
[21:22] ---
    Good luck.
[21:24] ---
    El Psy Congroo.
[21:30] ---
    What was that?
[21:32] ---
    Was that you, fifteen years from now?
[21:35] ---
    The voice was so deep!
[21:45] ---
    Operation Skuld?
[21:47] ---
    El Psy Congroo?
[21:50] ---
    I still talk like that when I'm thirty-three years old?
[21:55] ---
    I sound like an otaku who's read
    too many bad light novels.
[21:59] ---
    Okarin?
[22:01] ---
    I'll do it.
[22:04] ---
    If that is the choice of Steins Gate.
[22:08] ---
    I am the mad scientist, Hououin Kyouma!
[22:13] ---
    Deceiving the world is nothing to me!
[22:21] ---
    He's back to the usual Okarin.
[22:23] ---
    But Mayushii likes Okarin better
    when he's like this.
[22:28] ---
    I'll say it once more.
[22:30] ---
    I am the mad scientist, Hououin Kyouma...
[22:40] ---
    And the world is in the palm of my hand!