E8 - Visitor Arc VIII

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    "FEBRUARY 16, 2096"
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    Early this morning...
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    the JMDF secured a small USNA Navy-affiliated
    vessel in Japan's offshore territory.
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    "SMALL USNA NAVY-AFFILIATED VESSEL
    DRIFTING BECAUSE OF ENGINE TROUBLE"
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    Apparently, it had begun drifting
    because of engine trouble...
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    but a high-ranking military attaché at
    the USNA's Tokyo embassy was aboard the ship,
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    "JMDF CURRENTLY VERIFYING THE FACTS"
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    so the JMDF is currently verifying
    all the facts with the USNA military.
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    It doesn't seem as though
    it ran afoul of any poor weather.
[00:35] ---
    Maybe the issue
    was with their power source.
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    After all, with how far automation
    has come in this day and age,
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    a simple human error wouldn't have
    caused them to lose their steering.
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    I see. That makes sense.
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    It's a country's regular army.
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    This response was too fast...
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    even assuming
    our aunt issued a direct order.
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    Which means...
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    their forces were already in position
    by the time I contacted her.
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    Well, I'm going to change into my uniform.
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    Sure, go ahead.
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    Our aunt had already called me
    earlier about that news.
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    And yet, I pretended
    to be ignorant of the situation.
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    But I don't care if he thinks of me
    as a useless sister...
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    if that's what it will take
    for him to stay at my side.
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    If it's decided that I can do my job
    independently as leader of the Yotsuba,
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    he might leave me.
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    And I'll eventually
    have to get married soon enough, too.
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    They'll expect me to have children.
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    Those are the requirements of a candidate
    for the next leader of the Yotsuba.
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    But...
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    I don't want that.
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    I don't want anyone
    but my brother to touch me.
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    Because...
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    I belong to my brother, body and soul...
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    Pixie... Cancel suspend mode.
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    What do you require?
[04:03] ---
    I want to ask you
    about the vampire incidents.
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    First, were the parasites responsible
    for the victims' blood loss?
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    Yes.
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    Why did you need blood
    from a living person?
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    Blood loss was not our intent.
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    It was a side effect of mistaken propagation.
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    Our propagation process starts
    by cutting off part of ourselves...
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    and sending it into a recipient.
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    The separate body spreads through blood vessels
    while absorbing Psions and Pushions
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    in the bloodstream.
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    It permeates the recipient's physical body
    by exchanging itself for their blood.
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    Wait. You are bodies of information.
    You don't have mass.
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    Where does the exchanged blood matter go?
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    It is used to modify their body
    during assimilation.
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    Should assimilation fail,
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    the separate body is expelled
    from the recipient's body as vitality.
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    So, that's how it works.
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    Should permeation of the body succeed,
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    we can control its information body,
    its ethereal body.
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    An interplay between physical bodies
    and information bodies?
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    The same basic tenet as magic.
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    If we can access the recipient's mental body
    through their ethereal body and merge with it,
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    our propagation succeeds.
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    Unfortunately, however,
    we have had no successes.
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    Why not?
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    Unknown.
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    I wanted to know this, as well.
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    For some reason,
    the idea alone remains within me.
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    Before you inhabited that body,
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    you all appeared to move as an organized group
    with a common objective in mind.
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    Does one of you correspond
    to a leadership position?
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    There exists no command structure among us.
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    Strictly speaking, each one of us
    is not a perfectly autonomous individual.
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    We are both individuals and the whole.
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    We possess the ability to think individually,
    but we share our consciousness.
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    Is that how you communicate
    with each other?
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    Yes.
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    Where are the other parasites right now?
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    Current locations unknown.
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    However, I sense their thought waves,
    searching for me.
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    We have finally awoken.
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    Chinese necromancy is certainly something.
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    Then, even if our flesh is destroyed,
    we can quickly resume activities.
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    Now, we just need to get back
    the one who is missing.
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    Let us take back our missing comrade.
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    Let us search for our missing comrade.
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    Pixie, change into this.
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    At once, sir.
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    Brother!
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    How can you watch that so calmly?
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    Why? Miyuki, Pixie is a robot, you know.
[08:13] ---
    She may be a robot,
    but she's still a girl!
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    Well, she may be shaped
    like a person, but--
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    It's not right!
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    Please turn around, Brother!
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    It's okay now, Tatsuya.
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    Pixie, come with us.
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    Yes, Master.
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    Brother, where are we headed to?
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    Aoyama Cemetery.
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    Aoyama Cemetery...
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    I'm sure we're not going there
    for an off-season test of courage.
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    Is it just that ghosts
    tend to crop up in places like that?
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    You're quick on the uptake. I'm sure
    no one will be around to interfere with us.
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    Well, it was something
    you thought of, Brother.
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    Um, Tatsuya, it's late,
    so won't it be closed?
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    We probably can't get inside.
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    But if we get close,
    they'll come out for us.
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    That's why we brought Pixie along.
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    And if anyone stops and questions us,
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    you'll be here
    to do something about it, right?
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    Please leave it to me!
[09:37] ---
    I guess I'll let Leo, Erika and
    Mikihiko know where we're going.
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    "THE PLACE IS AOYAMA CEMETERY."
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    "VISITOR ARC VIII"
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    Aoyama Cemetery...
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    The mission begins now.
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    The destination is Aoyama Cemetery.
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    Let's get going.
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    Yes, ma'am!
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    What a huge failure.
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    Excuse me, ma'am.
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    Enter.
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    There is someone who wishes
    to meet with you, Colonel.
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    Who is it?
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    Her name is Ayako Kuroba, ma'am.
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    She says she's an agent of the Yotsuba Family.
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    Yotsuba?
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    The Yotsubas, known and feared
    as "Untouchables."
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    What do they want with me?
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    It is an honor to make
    your acquaintance, Ms. Balance.
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    My name is Ayako Kuroba.
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    Colonel Virginia Balance,
    USNA military JCS.
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    I know how busy you must be,
    so thank you for agreeing to see me.
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    I've come here today to make a request
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    as an agent of Maya Yotsuba, leader of
    the Yotsuba Family, one of the Ten Master Clans.
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    Go on.
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    Very well, then.
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    Colonel, we would like you
    to cease the interference
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    with our country's magicians
    being carried out at your command.
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    Our leader, Maya Yotsuba, has concerns
    over your excessive interference.
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    She said that since our nations
    are allied with each other,
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    she did not want to make this affair
    into a trigger for any sort of conflict.
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    Is that a warning?
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    Will you light the trigger if we don't withdraw?
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    Colonel...
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    Did you sleep well last night?
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    That was you?
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    What do you mean?
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    Respectfully, your face doesn't look well,
    so I simply offered my concern.
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    Colonel, please allow your nerves to settle.
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    If at all possible, we would like to build
    a friendly relationship with you.
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    A friendly relationship?
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    You are aware of the power of the Yotsuba.
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    And we are well aware of yours, Colonel.
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    Our leader has said that if you would arrange
    to withdraw from this incident,
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    we will not forget
    our gratitude to you personally.
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    And that, if there is an opportunity
    in the future, we would be able to assist you.
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    Fine.
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    "JGDF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
    DEPARTMENT SECTION THREE "
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    Observation target
    currently moving toward the city.
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    His sister and two others with him.
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    Running video verification with their photos
    before getting on the train.
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    A classmate.
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    Odd tastes, bringing his sister along
    on a date like that. Who's the other one?
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    She's not a human.
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    It seems to be a type P94
    Humanoid Home Helper.
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    Where could he be bringing it?
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    Chief, the train with the target on it
    has changed course.
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    Akasaka... No, Aoyama?
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    Position operatives disguised
    as police officers along Aoyama Road!
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    If the target group uses magic,
    pretend to arrest and capture them!
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    What's wrong, Brother?
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    Someone is spying on us.
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    It feels like Counterintelligence Section Three.
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    Wh-What am I picking up?
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    Tatsuya!
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    I put everyone
    who was watching us to sleep!
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    Nice work.
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    Let's get away from here
    before their friends come running.
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    What a troubling young lady.
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    But what splendid skill,
    taking down four foes at once.
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    Her name is Honoka Mitsui, right?
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    That's right...
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    Grandfather.
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    Considering her name
    and her specialty type of magic...
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    I wonder if she's part
    of the Elements bloodline of light.
[15:14] ---
    Master, three parasites are approaching.
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    So, they did come.
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    Tatsuya Shiba, we want to talk.
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    What should I call you?
[15:41] ---
    Marte.
[15:43] ---
    Then, Mr. Marte, what on earth do you want?
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    We demons have no further intent
    to engage in any hostile actions toward you,
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    the magicians of Japan.
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    In exchange for promising
    to end hostilities against you...
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    we want you to hand that robot over to us.
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    Would you mind talking
    a little more politely?
[16:09] ---
    I don't have any way to answer unless
    you explain why you want us to hand it over.
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    I hadn't thought explanation necessary.
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    In fact, you should have no reason
    to take that robot's part.
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    We're the ones who decide
    if we have a reason or not.
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    We wish to release our comrade
    who is imprisoned inside that robot.
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    Is your comrade not allowed
    to have a robot for a host?
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    Our mutual connections
    are much stronger than you humans'.
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    Is the fact that we want
    to get our comrade, a living creature,
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    out of a lifeless vessel
    so difficult for you to understand?
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    No, I understand it.
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    But how?
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    We will destroy the machine.
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    Should the current host be lost,
    we can move to a new one.
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    I see.
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    That's his offer, Pixie.
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    Do you wish to be released from there?
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    No, I don't, Master!
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    I am me!
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    My wish is to belong to you, Master.
    That is who I am!
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    I do not care any more
    what sort of being I originally was
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    nor where I received
    the wish constituting my core!
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    I do not want to stop being me!
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    That's what she says, Brother.
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    Yeah.
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    Anyway, I expect
    you can guess our answer already,
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    but before I spell it out for you,
    there are two or three things I want to ask.
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    It seems you are more foolish
    than we thought, Tatsuya Shiba.
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    We are disappointed.
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    Fine, then.
    Say what questions you have.
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    Before, you said
    you didn't have any intention
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    of engaging in hostilities
    against magicians, right?
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    Why wasn't it against people
    instead of against magicians?
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    If we had accepted your request,
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    you demons wouldn't have
    acted hostile toward magicians.
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    Then, how would you act
    toward non-magician people?
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    After you destroyed Pixie's body...
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    what would you have her inhabit next?
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    Answer me.
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    You possess only superficial cunning
    that requires no real wit.
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    We're telling you we won't be your enemies
    anymore. Why are you not satisfied with that?
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    We demons are not compatible with humans
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    in the same way that you magicians
    are different from other people, am I wrong?
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    Really, now?
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    My host was a magician, as well.
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    That is why I understand
    the way humans treat magicians.
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    To humans, magicians are tools and lab rats.
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    A magician's wishes are too trivial
    for humans to take notice of.
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    Why do you do right by people
    who think of nothing more than using you?
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    You have your own wishes
    and your own hopes. Don't you?
[19:24] ---
    This all sounds like by-the-book stuff.
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    For someone who just treated me like a fool...
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    you sure are stupid.
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    You won't harm magicians.
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    That's fine. It really is.
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    But you've already hurt
    my magician friends.
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    Do I have any reason to believe
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    that you won't hurt them in the future
    when you haven't given even a word of apology?
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    It's no different from
    the catchphrases that proclaim
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    to protect a magician's human rights.
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    Come to think of it,
    I never gave you my answer.
[20:05] ---
    Well, it's "no."
[20:08] ---
    You impudent little...
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    So easy to understand.
[20:14] ---
    I'll make this easy
    for you to understand, too.
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    Put down your weapons
    and surrender peacefully.
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    If you do, we won't have to hurt you.
[20:26] ---
    I promise you'll be happy lab rats.
[20:29] ---
    You... human dog!
[20:33] ---
    The signs of magic activation...
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    But...
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    What?
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    If I destroy his physical body,
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    the parasite will scatter
    in search of a different host.
[21:01] ---
    If I had Miyuki freeze him with magic,
    he'd self-destruct and escape.
[21:06] ---
    The parasites don't possess
    physical organs but a person's mind.
[21:13] ---
    Therefore, there's no real reason
    to strike one part of the body over another.
[21:17] ---
    So, it's best to strike at the place
    most deeply connected to the rest of the body.
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    Brother!
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    Honoka!
[22:01] ---
    I'm all right!
[22:03] ---
    After all... I want to...
[22:06] ---
    I want to be able to help Tatsuya, too!
[22:25] ---
    That's...
[23:42] ---
    "VISITOR ARC IX