# E22 - Return of the Alchemist III
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**[00:12] Kou**
The deterioration has progressed
this far, and still...
**[00:15] Kou**
Damn, that sage is such a slave driver.
**[00:20] Kou**
Just a little more...
**[00:22] Kou**
You will give me back the other half
of my body as you promised, Wiseman!
**[00:29] Nagisa**
Yukina-chan?
**[00:31] Yukina**
I forgot something. Go on without me.
**[00:37] Yukina**
* This feeling... I hope I'm*
* just over thinking it...*
**[02:14] Kojou**
So this is the act of someone who's
as close to perfect as you can get?
**[02:22] Kojou**
Bones?
**[02:23] AsaNina**
They are the sister and children
who were devoured by Amatsuka.
**[02:27] AsaNina**
I don't know that man...
**[02:29] AsaNina**
But he was most likely a
decoy to host the dummy core.
**[02:33] Kojou**
"Sister"?
**[02:34] Kojou**
You mean the nun who was
running the monastery
**[02:36] ---**
when the incident happened five years ago?
**[02:38] AsaNina**
When I first awakened,
my memories were still in disarray...
**[02:43] AsaNina**
But I finally remember now.
**[02:45] AsaNina**
About five years ago, and about Amatsuka...
**[02:52] Kojou**
H-Hey, Nina...
**[02:56] AsaNina**
Fragments separated from the
control of the Wiseman...
**[03:00] AsaNina**
They might not be quite enough
to reconstruct my body, but...
**[03:07] Kojou**
Nina?
**[03:12] Yukina**
*What was that overwhelming presence I felt?*
**[03:18] Yukina**
Kanase-san? Did you feel it, too?
**[03:21] Kanon**
Yes. I sensed something unpleasant
surrounding the boat.
**[03:27] Yukina**
I thought so...
**[03:28] Kanon**
Um... This sensation is familiar to me.
**[03:32] Kanon**
I think I've felt it at some point before...
**[03:35] Kou**
Are you referring...
**[03:38] Kou**
to me?
**[03:40] Yukina**
Amatsuka Kou?!
**[03:41] Kou**
I haven't seen you in
five years, Kanase Kanon.
**[03:45] Kanon**
Now I remember.
**[03:47] Kanon**
That man attacked the
monastery five years ago.
**[03:50] Kanon**
He said he needed a powerful spirit
medium to act as an offering...
**[03:54] Yukina**
An offering?!
**[03:55] Yukina**
Are you saying he pursued you so
he could use you for his alchemy?
**[04:00] Kanon**
So if I'm not close to them,
everyone will be safe.
**[04:05] Yukina**
Kanase-sa—
**[04:06] Yukina**
Kanon-chan!
**[04:08] Kou**
Whoa, there.
**[04:18] Yukina**
*What do I do?*
**[04:20] Yukina**
*Senpai... Akatsuki-senpai...*
**[04:37] AsaNina**
Well, I suppose this will do.
**[04:39] Kojou**
You're back, Nina?
**[04:41] Kojou**
But why are you using Asagi's body... And...
**[04:45] Kojou**
What's up with your chest?!
**[04:47] AsaNina**
There was not enough blood
to fully reconstruct my
**[04:50] ---**
original ample-breasted figure,
**[04:52] AsaNina**
so I tried regenerating only one part.
**[04:56] AsaNina**
What do you think?
**[04:59] Natsuki**
So, you're Nina Adelard, huh?
**[05:04] Kojou**
Natsuki-cha— Ow!
**[05:07] Natsuki**
I heard the gist of the story
**[05:08] ---**
from Kanase Kensei,
who regained consciousness.
**[05:11] Natsuki**
But why does the great alchemist of old
**[05:15] Natsuki**
look like Aiba with fake breasts?
**[05:18] Natsuki**
Is this what you're into, Akatsuki Kojou?
**[05:20] Kojou**
No!
**[05:22] Kojou**
Anyway, this isn't the time for that!
**[05:24] Kojou**
Please! You have to help
me find Amatsuka, fast!
**[05:27] Kojou**
This Wiseman he's trying to
resurrect is seriously bad news!
**[05:31] Natsuki**
I have a pretty definite idea where he is.
**[05:34] Natsuki**
He headed toward the ocean,
**[05:37] Natsuki**
looking for the spirit medium
**[05:38] ---**
he wants to use as an offering
in the resurrection.
**[05:41] Kojou**
Spirit medium? You can't mean...
**[05:44] Natsuki**
The ferry that departed the
island at 7:00 AM for Tokyo,
**[05:47] Natsuki**
carrying the students attending
the Saikai Academy training camp.
**[05:50] Kojou**
He's after Kanase?
**[05:52] AsaNina**
No, not necessarily.
**[05:54] AsaNina**
That girl called Yukina is also a
powerful spirit medium, is she not?
**[05:59] Kojou**
Please, Natsuki-chan!
Fly to that ferry for me!
**[06:02] Kojou**
Himeragi doesn't have
Schneesturm Wolfin with her!
**[06:04] Natsuki**
I can't. It's too far.
**[06:08] Natsuki**
Relax. I figured you'd ask that
of me, so I've secured a means.
**[06:13] Kojou**
Then take me there!
**[06:16] Natsuki**
I hope you don't regret this.
**[06:23] Kojou**
What is this? An airship?
**[06:26] Folia**
It's the armored airship Veswield,
pride of the kingdom of Aldeigia.
**[06:31] Folia**
Long time no see, Kojou.
**[06:34] Kojou**
La Folia! You're gonna help me?
**[06:37] Folia**
I'd love to catch up with you,
but time is of the essence.
**[06:42] Folia**
I've arranged the fastest means
of transportation in Aldeigia.
**[06:47] Justina**
Allow me to show you aboard.
**[06:50] Justina**
This way.
**[06:52] Cat**
Wait a moment,
Fourth Progenitor boy.
**[06:56] Kojou**
Cat-sensei!
**[06:57] Kojou**
And your shikigami is fixed? That was fas—
**[07:05] Sayaka**
H-How long are you gonna have
your hands on me, you groper?!
**[07:08] Sayaka**
Pervert! You Pervert Progenitor!
**[07:10] Kojou**
Kirasaka... You're the real one?
**[07:13] Sayaka**
Something wrong with being real?!
**[07:14] Cat**
Stop whining, Sayaka. He didn't hurt you.
**[07:18] Cat**
You've let him suck your
blood before, haven't you?
**[07:21] Sayaka**
I-I didn't let him suck my breasts!
**[07:23] Cat**
Just hurry and give that to him.
**[07:26] Sayaka**
Yes, ma'am.
**[07:31] Kojou**
This is...
**[07:33] Cat**
Pass it along to Yukina for me.
I'm counting on you.
**[07:39] Folia**
It looks like you're all ready.
**[07:41] Folia**
Then, please look at this.
**[07:44] Folia**
You should be able to withstand this, Kojou.
**[07:48] Folia**
This is Hrotti, the prototype aircraft
of the Order of the Sacred Ring.
**[07:58] Kou**
This game of tag is over.
**[08:01] Kou**
I need an offering in order to
resurrect Wiseman completely.
**[08:06] Kou**
And it needs to be a
powerful spirit medium.
**[08:09] Kou**
Don't hold this against me.
**[08:12] Kanon**
You still don't remember?
**[08:14] Kou**
What?
**[08:16] Kanon**
I remembered you,
**[08:19] Kanon**
and the time you killed
everyone at the monastery.
**[08:22] Kanon**
I feel sorry for you.
**[08:24] Kanon**
You haven't noticed that
you're being deceived.
**[08:27] Kou**
What are you talking about?!
**[08:29] Kanon**
What did you hope to accomplish
by resurrecting Wiseman?
**[08:33] Kou**
That's obvious! I want to be human again!
**[08:36] Kou**
I'm going to have him restore the
half of my body that was devoured!
**[08:40] Kanon**
Then please tell me.
**[08:42] Kanon**
Who were you, exactly?
**[08:44] Kanon**
When, and where, were you born?
**[08:47] Kanon**
What kind of life have you lived?
**[08:50] Kou**
I wondered what you were
going to ask. I am—
**[08:56] Kou**
I... am...
**[08:59] Kanon**
Wiseman will not grant your wish.
**[09:03] Kanon**
Because...
**[09:04] Kou**
Shut up...
**[09:05] Kanon**
You have never been human.
**[09:08] Kou**
Shut up!
**[09:16] Kanon**
Yukina-chan...
**[09:18] Kou**
How dare you keep interrupting
me, Sword Shaman?!
**[09:22] Kou**
That knife... Is is enchanted meteoric iron?
**[09:26] Kou**
That will be a bit of a nuisance,
but you still can't beat me!
**[09:32] Kou**
And you have nowhere to run.
**[09:36] Kou**
Now, give up! It's over for you!
**[09:43] Kou**
No!
**[09:44] Kou**
A cruise missile?!
**[09:47] Kou**
That can't stop me!
**[09:59] Kojou**
Looks like I got here in time.
**[10:03] Yukina**
Senpai!
**[10:04] Kojou**
Himeragi...
**[10:06] Kojou**
Ouch!
**[10:07] Yukina**
What on earth are you thinking,
**[10:09] Yukina**
blasting in here on a missile?!
**[10:11] Kojou**
Well, it *is* a prototype
aircraft, technically...
**[10:14] Yukina**
Don't tell lies that I can
see through immediately!
**[10:17] Kojou**
I'm not lying!
**[10:18] AsaNina**
That's enough. Kanon is
standing there dumbfounded.
**[10:25] Yukina**
Senpai, who is that?
**[10:27] Kojou**
The great alchemist,
Nina Adelard, so she says.
**[10:31] Yukina**
Why does she look like Aiba-senpai?
**[10:34] Yukina**
And... her chest...
**[10:36] Kojou**
A lot of stuff happened.
**[10:38] Kojou**
Anyway, Himeragi... here he comes.
**[10:42] Kou**
Fourth Progenitor...
**[10:45] Kojou**
This is from Cat-sensei and Kirasaka.
**[10:49] Kou**
Bastard!
**[10:52] Yukina**
Schneesturm Wolfin!
**[10:57] Kojou**
Come, third Familiar,
**[10:59] Kojou**
Al-Maisan Mercury!
**[11:07] AsaNina**
Stop this now, Amatsuka-kun.
**[11:10] AsaNina**
You've lost.
**[11:11] AsaNina**
Give the remains of Wiseman to me.
**[11:14] Kou**
Nina... Adelard?
**[11:17] AsaNina**
You've realized it, haven't you?
**[11:19] AsaNina**
You are a homunculus made by Wiseman.
**[11:23] AsaNina**
He instilled the desire to
become a perfect human in you
**[11:26] AsaNina**
just so he could use you.
**[11:28] Kou**
Even you are telling me such things, Master?!
**[11:33] AsaNina**
It is not your body that determines
whether or not you are human.
**[11:36] AsaNina**
It's the nature of your heart.
**[11:38] AsaNina**
That vampire and myself
have lost our human bodies,
**[11:43] AsaNina**
but we still struggle to
live as humans should.
**[11:47] AsaNina**
You have no reason to obey Wiseman.
**[11:50] Kou**
Reason?
**[11:52] Kou**
My reason... to obey...
**[12:01] Skull**
Imperfect beings, you are too late.
**[12:05] Kojou**
That's Wiseman?
**[12:06] AsaNina**
No...
**[12:08] AsaNina**
That's not him, Kojou!
**[12:09] AsaNina**
If that's Wiseman, then where
is the Wiseman's Blood?
**[12:14] Yukina**
A liquid metal life form is comprised
of large amounts of precious metal.
**[12:19] Yukina**
Wiseman didn't come after this ship
in pursuit of me or Kanon-chan...
**[12:25] AsaNina**
Seawater?
**[12:37] AsaNina**
Seawater?
**[12:39] AsaNina**
Seawater contains trace
amounts of precious metals.
**[12:44] AsaNina**
With his magic power,
**[12:45] AsaNina**
he is capable of gathering
enough of it together.
**[12:50] Wiseman**
The world shall become
one with my perfect form!
**[13:07] Kojou**
I won't let you do that!
**[13:27] Yukina**
Is this... Wiseman's Blood?
**[13:31] Yukina**
Nina-san...
**[13:32] Yukina**
She did this to protect us...
**[13:42] Yukina**
Sen... pai?
**[13:52] Yukina**
No...
**[13:54] Yukina**
Senpai...
**[13:58] AsaNina**
For just a moment,
**[14:00] AsaNina**
Kojou turned the boat into mist
to save it from the attack.
**[14:04] AsaNina**
But as a result, he was unable to escape it.
**[14:09] Yukina**
But he'll be okay, right?
**[14:12] Yukina**
I mean, Senpai is... immortal...
**[14:15] AsaNina**
Though he bears the curse of
immortality as the Fourth Progenitor,
**[14:19] AsaNina**
if he hasn't been killed,
he can't come back to life.
**[14:23] Yukina**
Senpai... you're terrible...
**[14:27] Yukina**
After you did all those
indecent things to me...
**[14:30] Yukina**
You can't just...
**[14:41] Yukina**
*Freezing magic... on this scale?*
**[14:50] Nagisa**
What an unsightly form to take
in the face of the scrap
**[14:54] ---**
steel created by those alchemists.
**[14:57] Nagisa**
But you have my praise for attempting
to protect this girl to the end.
**[15:02] Nagisa**
Out of consideration for that,
I'll lend you just a little strength.
**[15:07] Nagisa**
Awaken, Sadalmelik...
**[15:24] Yukina**
* The Familiar that she just awakened hasn't*
* acknowledged him as its master yet!*
**[15:48] Yukina**
Senpai... please, hurry...
**[16:01] Kojou**
Looks like I made trouble for you again.
**[16:04] Kojou**
Sorry, Himeragi.
**[16:06] Yukina**
You couldn't help it.
**[16:08] Yukina**
You really are an indecent person.
**[16:11] Kanon**
That was amazing...
**[16:14] Kanon**
You looked so grown-up, Yukina-chan...
**[16:18] Yukina**
Kanon-chan!
**[16:19] AsaNina**
You can chat about the details later.
**[16:21] AsaNina**
Wiseman's rebirth is nearly complete.
**[16:25] Kojou**
Don't worry.
**[16:27] Kojou**
I'll end that nightmare you've
been having for 270 years
**[16:30] Kojou**
by shattering that shiny gold body of his.
**[16:34] Kojou**
From now on...
**[16:36] Kojou**
This is my fight!
**[16:37] Yukina**
No, Senpai.
**[16:39] Yukina**
This is our fight!
**[16:48] Wiseman**
Foolish! You imperfect beings dare resist me?
**[16:51] Kojou**
Shut up, Shiny. Get a clue already!
**[16:54] Kojou**
You're the one who's far from perfect!
**[16:58] Kojou**
Come, Regulus Aurum!
**[17:00] Kojou**
Al-Nasl Minium!
**[17:01] Kojou**
Natra Cinereus!
**[17:03] Kojou**
Al-Maisan Mercury!
**[17:11] Yukina**
After learning that you're just being
used, you still intend to fight?
**[17:15] Kou**
Sorry. I don't know what else I should do.
**[17:20] Yukina**
Amatsuka Kou, you are no longer...
**[17:23] Kou**
I'm scared that I'll cease to be me.
**[17:28] Kou**
Just who am I?
**[17:30] Kou**
Why was I born, and what should I do?!
**[17:34] Yukina**
I believe searching for that answer
**[17:38] Yukina**
is what it means to live as a human!
**[17:43] Yukina**
I, Sword Shaman of the High God,
as a priestess of the Lion, beseech thee...
**[17:47] Yukina**
Dawn light of exorcism,
spirit wolf of snowy mist...
**[17:49] Kou**
*I see... all I had to do was wish for it...*
**[17:54] Kou**
*I only needed to want to be human...*
**[18:00] Yukina**
Grant me the divine might of thy steel,
**[18:01] Yukina**
that I may smite a
hundred evil spirits!
**[18:18] Wiseman**
Imperfect beings, why do you defy me?
**[18:21] Wiseman**
Why do you refuse to become
a part of my perfect world?
**[18:27] Kojou**
Yeah, I might be imperfect.
**[18:29] Kojou**
So if you can't defeat me,
that makes you worse than imperfect!
**[18:33] Wiseman**
Impossible! I am perfect!
**[18:37] Wiseman**
Inferiority to an imperfect being
is a contradiction that cannot be!
**[18:41] Kojou**
You might be strong,
**[18:43] Kojou**
but being strong isn't the
same as being perfect.
**[18:47] Kojou**
Even if you have an indestructible body
and can shoot beams from your mouth,
**[18:51] Kojou**
what have you done with that power?
**[18:53] ---**
Who acknowledged you?
**[18:55] Kojou**
Why didn't you use that
power to benefit others?!
**[18:59] Kojou**
Anyone who doesn't understand
that can't be perfect!
**[19:04] Wiseman**
Be silent! Obey my perfect
command and be silent!
**[19:12] Kojou**
I, Akatsuki Kojou, successor to
the blood of Kaleid Blood,
**[19:16] Kojou**
now release your constraints.
**[19:18] Kojou**
Come, eleventh Familiar,
**[19:21] Kojou**
Sadalmelik Albus!
**[19:34] Wiseman**
It can't be!
**[19:35] Wiseman**
I'm disappearing... my perfect body is—
**[19:41] Yukina**
*It's melting him? No, that's not it...*
**[19:43] Yukina**
*It's as though it's turning back time.*
**[19:47] Yukina**
*Is this rebirth?*
**[19:49] Yukina**
* A healing Familiar that symbolizes*
* the vampire's powers of recovery?*
**[19:52] Yukina**
*But this is...*
**[19:54] Yukina**
*It's taking it all back.*
**[19:57] Yukina**
*Back to before it was born...*
**[20:00] Yukina**
*To perfect nothingness.*
**[20:04] Wiseman**
I understand now... This power...
is for fighting against...
**[20:14] Yukina**
Senpai!
**[20:15] Kojou**
Himeragi, are you hurt?
**[20:17] Yukina**
Senpai! Are you all right?
**[20:20] Kojou**
Sorry. I am a little tired.
**[20:23] Yukina**
Then I guess there's no choice.
**[20:26] Yukina**
Just for a little while, okay?
**[22:08] Nina**
You fought magnificently, Kojou.
**[22:11] Nina**
You, as well, Yukina.
**[22:12] ---**
Thanks to you, I am finally freed
from my burden of 270 years.
**[22:17] Kojou**
Nina? You look...
**[22:19] Nina**
Pay no mind to that.
**[22:21] Nina**
I gathered together all the
remaining Wiseman's Blood,
**[22:24] Nina**
but this size was the most I could manage.
**[22:26] Kanon**
But this is perfect.
**[22:28] Kanon**
I'll ask Minamiya-sensei if I
can keep her in my apartment.
**[22:32] Asagi**
Hey! Don't talk as though I'm a pet!
**[22:35] Nagisa**
Kojou-kun?!
**[22:36] Nagisa**
What are you doing here?
**[22:37] Nagisa**
And what happened to that boat?!
**[22:39] Nagisa**
Did it run into an iceberg?!
**[22:44] Nagisa**
What is that? An airship?
**[22:46] Nagisa**
It's so big!
**[22:51] Kojou**
Too bad your vacation had to end
up like this, huh, Himeragi?
**[22:56] Yukina**
Yes...
**[22:57] Yukina**
But I truly understand now.
**[23:00] Yukina**
If I take my eyes off you for even a moment,
**[23:03] Yukina**
you really will jump into
dangerous situations
**[23:07] Yukina**
and get close to women I don't know...
**[23:09] Kojou**
Hey, wait a minute!
**[23:11] ---**
There's something wrong with that logic!
**[23:13] Yukina**
I've learned my lesson.
**[23:15] Yukina**
From now on, I'll have to
intensify my observation.
**[23:19] Kojou**
Gimme a break...
***SIGN*** Next Time
**[23:26] Yukina**
Um, Senpai?
**[23:28] Yukina**
May I ask you something?
**[23:30] Yukina**
If... that's "if"...
**[23:32] Yukina**
...I were to leave your side,
what would you do?
***SIGN*** Empire of the Dawn I
**[23:37] Yukina**
"Empire of the Dawn I."