# E5 - The Splendid Aleshma
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The Magnificent
KOTOBUKI
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Flying through the mesh of clouds
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Our dancing wings wrap up in the wind
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Stars fall right before our eyes
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The blue of all blues that drew us in
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We kicked up off the blurring ground
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Let me hear the sound of the sky you know
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Take flight make gravity your ally
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One more time, however many
times, laughing all along
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We would never look back when we fly
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An everlasting dream we
live in pursuit of tomorrow
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Amid rising despair I locked away my love
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I hate my weak self
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Here and now passes by as
we head towards the future
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Oh, great. Here I was ready for my chance to meet her,
but all I get is you, Saneatsu.
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The Madame stayed behind in Rahama.
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The place is just buzzing
with air pirates right now.
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You want me to believe they
just fly right into town?
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They really do lately, that's the thing!
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The Splendid Areshima
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I wish we could just do runs between
Rahama and Areshima forever!
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Or even just move to Areshima for good!
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It's quite an orderly, well regulated place.
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It's beauty is in its righteousness.
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Is it, now?
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Tell me though, Chika.
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Surely you don't plan on keeping
that in our quarters, yes?
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Absolutely not.
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If just because it is unreasonably bulky.
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What? But it's so fluffy! Look at this fluff!
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It's an anomalocaris.
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In ancient times, it thrived
in the oceans, vast
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expanses of water rich in
salt and other minerals.
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Cool! Oceans, huh?
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How could you not know that?
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Well, oceans haven't existed
for a long time now, after all.
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Chika's subconscious might have driven her
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to seek something ocean related
without her realizing it.
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Bingo! Kate, you sure know your stuff!
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And just how much did that cost you?
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498 pounds and 98 sen!
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Wha...?!
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Oh let her be.
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We all use our earnings in different ways.
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Be it to buy stuffed animals, to drown
in some good drink, or simply stuff our faces.
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And speaking of that, where's Kylie?
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Delish!
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A flavor unlike the pancakes of
either Rahama or the Hagoromo!
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Heya dimwit!
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I'm certain I told you all of us needed to
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submit flying
applications to the Areshima airway authorities.
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We never used to have to.
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That's so totalitarian.
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Like it or not, the law is the law and you
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cannot just go ignoring it
and doing whatever you want.
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I had a feeling it wouldn't fly.
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But once I saw the word
"pancakes" I just lost control!
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I'm sure you know how it can be, right?
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I do not.
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You ever get so caught up in something that
you lose sight of everything else?
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I do not.
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Or just set off headstrong
down the wrong path?
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No!
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No...
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Reona would never ever get caught
up in something and rush on
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ahead without thinking, now would you?
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Would you?!
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No!
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At any rate, you need to let someone know
before you go running off like that.
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Yeah, yeah!
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What a lame excuse for a fighter pilot!
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What's the deal with that hideous doll?
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It's an anomalocaris!
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The subconscious of all ocean life!
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Sounds like gibberish.
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Woosh! Smash!
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One down!
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What's your deal, you doofus?!
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Hey! Stop it!
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Get back here!
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Stop!
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Oh my, a passenger vehicle?
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A modified Tudor Model AA.
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To think we'd see a non-cargo automobile.
Areshima sure is full of surprises.
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Oh my goodness!
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Are you all right? Are you hurt?
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How are you feeling?
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Uhh...
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Oh thank goodness you're okay.
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I'm so relieved, and super sorry!
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Think of this as an apology.
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That's chump change!
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But I'll take it!
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Woah! How did you do that?!
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A little giftey for you!
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Sir, we must be going.
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Yeah, yeah, just a minute.
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From now on, make sure you look
right, left, down, and right again! Got it?
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Okay!
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Thank you! Wonderful! You have my gratitude!
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And that anomalocaris! I'm a fan.
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Don't run off like that!
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Don't shout like that!
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Quit causing such a ruckus!
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Quit causing trouble for the rest of us!
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Can't you just be quiet for a change-
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Somebody! Do something about this bird!
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That "bird" is Captain Dodo.
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I don't care!
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It's a message from First Officer Saneatsu.
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"Head for the Ocean Sunfish Hotel ASAP."
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My goodness, just where were you
Kotoboofy Fright Snore girls off wandering?
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What can we do for you, Councilor Julia?
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Take a seat.
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You're making it look like
I'm just picking on you.
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Two days from now I have
a god-awful sort of meeting here.
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You can get the details
from my chief of security.
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You'll be handling the air situation.
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What sort of "meeting" might this be?
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And who is it with?
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I cannot simply promise our services
without knowing the details as to-
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I will be meeting with the
head of View Trading, Isao.
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A man dubbed likely to be
the next head of Ikesuka.
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What?
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"Isao?"
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Never heard of him!
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He has plans to deal with the air pirate
and energy problems.
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Insisting on using the capital and connections of
major corporations,
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making himself a hero to the public.
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But I can't stand him.
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He's trying to influence politics with
his idealist words and assumption of intrinsic good.
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Traveling the world thanks to a seemingly lucky streak
and a massive fortune alone.
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The most devious man you'll ever meet.
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And I absolutely despise those
awful magic tricks of his.
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I've about had it with this useless excuse of
a man poking his nose into political affairs.
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And this "meeting" is the worst of it!
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I wish I could tell him to shove it and be done,
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but I'd never hear the end,
so I'm going through with it.
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All he proposes about national unification,
mutual benefits, justice, safety, duty, and power--
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It's all garbage!
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And if he really does believe in all that,
then he's got crap for brains!
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And now we live in the darkest
of timelines where even
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people on the council have
begun yielding to him.
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If I'm gonna sit through this meeting,
he's going to get a nice solid choking out of it!
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Sounds rough...
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Anyway that's why I need to prepare
in case these air pirates-
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-if they are even air pirates at all...
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Aren't apt to like this arrangement one bit.
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I don't plan to get all friendly with Isao,
but I certainly don't need air pirates interfering.
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Especially when they seem to get
their hands on whatever intel they want.
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And if that means I need to protect
that good-for-nothing Isao, so be it.
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Surely you could ask Areshima
security for assistance?
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Of course I can, but I'd rather not be left
with a debt to any city in Ikesuka.
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And so you want our help instead.
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Are we finally on the same page?
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Without the Madame present,
this decision rests with our First Officer.
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Not like he's the brightest bulb...
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I too am a bulb!
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One that shines day and night,
only to light the way before you!
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Hey! You're the flower guy!
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What's this? Do I have a fan?
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Really? Why? What do you like best?
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My face? My voice? My charm? All of it?
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How embarrassing! How wonderful!
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I'm so happy I feel I could just burst!
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Look at all that glitter!
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You never cease to disgust me.
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Do you ever run out of your
street corner tricks, Mr. Isao?
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Lady Councilor, your meeting is with him...?
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I'm quite shocked.
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Oh, you're familiar?
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That makes things easier, then.
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Let me introduce you, Isao.
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These are the girls of the KOTOBUKI Flight Corps
who will be handling security.
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And their leader, Reona.
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Well, well! Well met there, Miss Leader!
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Here's a little giftey for ya!
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What? Oh... Thank you.
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Gotcha! Gotcha good!
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Woops, sorry, did that hurt?
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It shouldn't be that bad, what's wrong?
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Yeowch!
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Just kidding!
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What's the plan?
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The problem will be with how we coordinate
with the security units.
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What?!
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Reona, are you seriously
thinking of doing this?
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No thanks!
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I'm in! I wanna see some action this time!
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We don't even know how many people
we'll be up against or where they're
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coming from. Isn't this a tad rash?
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I already have plans that day.
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Plans I cannot change.
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So that's one "yes" and two "no".
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And counting me that's two
of us with some reservations.
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No, we should take this.
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We need it.
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Why?
**[07:55] ---**
Defending Rahama cost us lots
in repairs and maintenance.
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We need to make up for that.
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Well...
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Why?!
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You never gave Chika trouble
when she went down!
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I thought we were supposed
to be treated equal here!
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I'm not blaming you.
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I'm simply saying we should do this.
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This is tyranny!
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We're supposed to talk these things out!
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Stupid Reona!
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Leave my lil' Malo alone!
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Stop it!
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Change of schedule.
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Tomorrow I will wake up at 0700.
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I will spend fifteen minutes
on breakfast instead of thirty five.
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And I will no longer spend an hour and
forty five minutes staring off into space.
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What's the deal, Reona?
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This isn't like you.
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I almost forgot.
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Here's the ten sen I borrowed today.
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I don't like to stay in debt.
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That's our tenacious Reona.
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Maybe she's in love?
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Love?!
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She started acting strange as soon
as he came into the picture, right?
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Woah... "Love"...
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She should've just said something.
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I cannot say it is a feeling I am familiar with,
but it is a necessity of species survival.
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If it's true, I'd love to support her.
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But it's tough to imagine someone like
Reona succumbing to such.
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Why don't you simply ask?
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You don't know or do you?
Or do you know, but don't want us to know? Which is it?
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I'll go with answer one.
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That means she doesn't know.
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What?!
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Oh, but I can tell you
something she sure hates.
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What's that?
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She hates being in debt.
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I'm fairly certain everyone does.
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Yeah, except maybe brainless
dolts like Chika!
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Who you calling a dolt?
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Debts are meant to be shirked!
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An astonishing view on finance.
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What's this?
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What's our thunderbolt Kylie doing
with that sort of look on her face?
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Are you okay?
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Aren't you on the clock?
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Can love drive one to despotism?
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What?!
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That's the girl from the Hagoromo...
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Jeez, just what we don't need.
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And she's not alone.
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That's one, two, three...yikes!
You're kidding!
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With everyone quitting or getting
shot down, we're the only
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two left in the Nazarin, but look at them...
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I'm not even sure we can
call ourselves a "squad" anymore.
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Oh, hey...
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Who are you again? What was it...
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The Nazarin Air Squad!
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Oh yeah! That's it!
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You're looking good! That's great!
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We're just here filling in...
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Hey, so tell me.
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Can love drive someone to despotism?
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The Magnificent
KOTOBUKI
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I see, I see.
**[10:23] ---**
So you want to put the priority on free will,
is it, Lady Julia?
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I take it you've got your
own thoughts on the subject?
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Well, is one really free with freedom?
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It's hard to do anything when
you're free to do everything.
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Plus we still have limits
and responsibilities.
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You'd be surprised how many people can't keep up with
those.
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In the end, people just go on about all
they want to do, and it gets out of hand.
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To put it simply!
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It's like going out for a barbecue, trying to grill everything
at once, and just ending up with burnt food!
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And if we were to decide the order the food
was to be cooked, who would make those rules?
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You'll find there are many who would like to use
the rules and power to their own advantage.
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You tell 'em!
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Down with all rules!
**[10:58] ---**
Kylie, you and the councilor
might actually get along.
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Lady Julia, you need to have more faith!
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Ew, no way!
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I think, I believe, and I'm sure
the world is a better place!
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And?
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Huh?
**[11:09] ---**
My my! What might this be?
**[11:11] ---**
Perhaps someone here has made
some unfortunate enemies?
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What?! Lady Julia, what have you done? Oh no!
**[11:16] ---**
Huh?
**[11:17] ---**
Wait, do you mean me?
**[11:18] ---**
Could it be?!
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Six bogeys spotted incoming
from the northwest.
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The Council Security Force and
**[11:24] ---**
the Areshima Private Air
Security Squad are moving out to intercept.
**[11:27] ---**
Wait. What should the Nazarin do?
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Patrol to the southeast.
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This is why I hate these government types.
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Always clinging to each other.
**[11:37] ---**
There are only six targets.
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They probably just didn't want to crowd up.
**[11:41] ---**
I bet they just want to score
more hits for themselves.
**[11:46] ---**
Adolfo, look to your two o'clock.
**[11:48] ---**
What? Is there some babe
or something out there?
**[11:51] ---**
Huh?
**[11:59] ---**
Areshima! The real fight is here!
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So we fell right for the bait, then?
**[12:10] ---**
Mind if I share some more bad news?
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What might it be?
**[12:13] ---**
This incoming group's got twenty 52s,
and probably two bombers.
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How wonderful!
**[12:19] ---**
There are eight of us, including the Nazarin.
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So while those government boys make their way back,
you think you can hold 'em off?
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"Hold 'em off"?!
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Sorry!
**[12:28] ---**
But...
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We're gonna take 'em all down!
**[12:42] ---**
No matter how you go about this,
we're way outnumbered!
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Once the KOTOBUKI squad gets here...
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Then what? Look how many there are!
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We can't go down here!
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This is to rebuild the Nazarin Air Squad!
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Yeah, but we gotta survive first!
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Dammit!
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Oh my! I never thought
we'd be facing off against air pirates!
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Who are they even after?
**[13:09] ---**
It's got to be you, Lady Julia!
**[13:10] ---**
Someone as big and famous
as you, you've gotta be it!
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I'm sure of it!
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What kind of awful excuse
for flattery is that?
**[13:16] ---**
Or do you really just have dirt for brains?
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Yup! Sure do!
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Look at that glare!
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That's scarier than any pirate out there!
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I almost peed myself in fright!
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How'd you hold up?
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It was a close call.
**[13:27] ---**
How far off are the KOTOBUKI girls?
**[13:29] ---**
They should make contact in seven minutes.
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I'm outta ammo!
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I'm dry, too!
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I'm taking off!
**[13:38] ---**
No point in dying out here!
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This is not good.
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KOTOBUKI?!
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Is that her?!
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Are you all right?
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Looks like they tore
quite a hole through you.
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Dammit!
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You girls just wanted us to take a beating,
so you could come in
**[14:03] ---**
and sweep up after, didn't you?!
**[14:05] ---**
Precisely!
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We can't carry you back to the airport, but do take
care!
**[14:09] ---**
Gimme a break!
**[14:10] ---**
Bye-bye!
**[14:11] ---**
Those 52s are faster than your Hayabusas.
**[14:13] ---**
And those bombers...
**[14:15] ---**
My guess is Type 4 Heavy Bombers.
**[14:17] ---**
They may be heavy bombers, but they're plenty
maneuverable.
**[14:19] ---**
Stay sharp.
**[14:20] ---**
Why thank you!
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Kylie!
**[14:21] ---**
You're late.
**[14:22] ---**
Stay in position!
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Sorry!
**[14:24] ---**
What? I coulda swore that was Little Miss Pancake
who flew in a second ago.
**[14:29] ---**
FUEL
**[14:29] ---**
An ally who breaks formation
is worse than any enemy.
**[14:33] ---**
The KOTOBUKI girls know that well enough.
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What's their deal?
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Damn!
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What's your problem, Reona?
**[15:38] ---**
You're doing exactly what
you always tell me not to!
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She is gunning plenty of them down, though...
**[15:43] ---**
Something's not right!
**[15:43] ---**
I mean, Reona's always the one
to fight all by-the-books!
**[15:48] ---**
That's because she's our leader.
**[15:50] ---**
This is how she really flies.
**[15:52] ---**
Once an enemy is in her sights,
she thinks of nothing but taking them down.
**[15:55] ---**
That's why she's called
the "Tenacious Reona".
**[15:57] ---**
It's been a long time
since I've seen this side.
**[15:59] ---**
Enemy coming in at six o'clock.
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The Type 4 Heavy Bomber, AKA Hiryu.
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Fitted with machine guns on its sides.
**[16:19] ---**
Analysis? Danger!
**[16:24] ---**
Kate!
**[16:31] ---**
Kate, fall back!
**[16:35] ---**
What are you doing?!
**[16:36] ---**
Go ahead and get yourself hurt, Reona,
but don't let Kate take your fall!
**[16:40] ---**
Kylie...
**[16:41] ---**
If you're gonna go crazy, at least say so!
**[16:43] ---**
We'll follow you!
**[16:47] ---**
Sorry, Kylie...
**[16:49] ---**
If you're gonna apologize
do it to everyone else!
**[16:50] ---**
Now then Reona, what's the plan?
**[16:53] ---**
Isao, sir. Lady Julia. We
must begin our evacuation.
**[16:57] ---**
Not happening.
**[16:57] ---**
And why, pray tell?
**[16:59] ---**
I'm not evacuating.
**[17:01] ---**
If I did, all I'd hear from all those assholes
once this is over is how I ran away.
**[17:05] ---**
Well, no thanks.
**[17:07] ---**
I'd have to agree. I'd hate
to be called a coward.
**[17:10] ---**
Then what shall we do?
**[17:12] ---**
Voilà!
**[17:14] ---**
What did I used to do, again?
**[17:16] ---**
You drove a car.
**[17:18] ---**
And you almost ran over
two stupid little girls.
**[17:21] ---**
That was just the other day.
**[17:22] ---**
I'm talking like long, long ago.
**[17:23] ---**
You used to be a magnificent flying ace.
**[17:25] ---**
Which just might mean...?
**[17:27] ---**
Might mean...?
**[17:28] ---**
Maybe I can head out there and fight?
**[17:31] ---**
Wh-what?
**[17:33] ---**
So be it.
**[17:35] ---**
Yay! That settles it!
**[17:36] ---**
The Soaring Magician is back in action!
**[17:38] ---**
Hold it right there!
**[17:40] ---**
Don't you worry!
**[17:41] ---**
It's like riding a bike, Lady Julia!
**[17:43] ---**
Listen to me when I speak to you!
**[17:44] ---**
What is a "bike", anyway?
**[17:46] ---**
I will tell you all about them later on.
**[17:48] ---**
Very well!
**[17:49] ---**
Let's go, then.
**[17:52] ---**
What? No way!
**[17:53] ---**
How is a doof like that a pilot?
**[17:56] ---**
But there's only one man with the name Isao
**[17:58] ---**
who went on from being a pilot
to run a massive corporation.
**[18:01] ---**
Does he have no recollection of you, Reona?
**[18:04] ---**
I don't know.
**[18:05] ---**
Well then there's really no need
to repay him then, is there?
**[18:08] ---**
Time to shirk!
**[18:09] ---**
Not gonna happen!
**[18:10] ---**
Reona hates being in debt, you see!
**[18:13] ---**
All right. Find me an opening!
**[18:15] ---**
I'll fly in there and aim for those Hiryu!
**[18:17] ---**
Roger!
**[18:18] ---**
Don't let them anywhere near Areshima!
**[18:35] ---**
Now!
**[19:06] ---**
You did it!
**[19:07] ---**
Not yet! There's still another bomber!
**[19:18] ---**
It's fast!
**[19:18] ---**
I'll get it!
**[19:20] ---**
It's all yours!
**[19:34] ---**
Gosh darn it!
**[19:36] ---**
Kylie! Chika! Don't push your luck!
**[19:38] ---**
If we don't Areshima's done for!
**[19:44] ---**
What's that?
**[19:45] ---**
More enemies?
**[19:46] ---**
No!
**[19:54] ---**
Man, nothing beats flying!
**[19:56] ---**
Indeed, sir.
**[20:00] ---**
He was known as the Soaring Magician.
**[20:03] ---**
An ace pilot from a squad in Ikesuka.
**[20:06] ---**
Back during the Rinouchi
Air War, he supposedly shot
**[20:10] ---**
down twelve fighters in a single skirmish.
**[20:12] ---**
Never heard of him!
**[20:13] ---**
I haven't seen him for eight whole years.
**[20:16] ---**
Reona, you were there at Rinouchi?
**[20:19] ---**
I was. And I got so worked up
that I flew right into danger.
**[20:22] ---**
And got myself shot down.
**[20:29] ---**
The only reason I made it out alive...
**[20:30] ---**
was thanks to him.
**[20:42] ---**
What is he doing?
**[20:43] ---**
He shoulda taken the shot!
**[20:49] ---**
Firing from above is what
anyone else would have done.
**[20:53] ---**
I know!
**[20:55] ---**
He's going at it from below!
**[21:02] ---**
Excellent, sir.
**[21:05] ---**
You truly are…
**[21:06] ---**
The Soaring Magician!
**[21:09] ---**
Shoot! I can't see!
**[21:10] ---**
It's because you get so carried away.
**[21:13] ---**
I swear I'll stop! Just help me!
**[22:04] ---**
I wanted to try and soar through that sky
**[22:08] ---**
So I wished upon the winds right before me
**[22:12] ---**
Our aspirations build us scenery
**[22:16] ---**
I wonder how that wind is now
**[22:25] ---**
Why do we fight, I wonder
**[22:29] ---**
What is our purpose here?
**[22:33] ---**
I asked, but the skies do not answer
**[22:42] ---**
We all have wings
**[22:49] ---**
Far away at the end of all lament
**[22:53] ---**
The stories we found
**[22:58] ---**
No one can steal these skies away
**[23:05] ---**
We will soar unafraid of anything
**[23:10] ---**
Because happiness is right here
**[23:25] ---**
Preview
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Next time on The Magnificent KOTOBUKI,
"No Place to Return"!
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No Place to Return