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Kamitsubaki Academy
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...Even how to believe in myself
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Finding my true self may be a lost cause
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Teller of stories, I have a question for you
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Can you teach me the secrets of this world?
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About my true, true, true, true self...
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About pain...
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About pain...
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About pain...
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We're running and we're living
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I want the answer
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I want the answer
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I want the answer
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And I don't know why I want it!
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We're all looking for meaning in our lives
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Looking for the meaning that's—
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Oh, it's you, Laplace.
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Here by yourself?
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I couldn't be here the day
we were all supposed to do it.
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Very diligent of you.
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No, I just like cleaning days.
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Yeah, you seemed to enjoy singing.
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How long have you been there?
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Since "my true self" or thereabouts.
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Jeez...
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But the fun's over now.
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Kamitsubaki City Reconstruction Division
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To Area 0 City Hall
Warning: Traffic Restricted
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Kamitsubaki City Area 0
Metropolis
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Expect to find the enemy near city hall.
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Ms. Kafu, please work with Ms. Rime
to nullify the tesseractor.
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Witchling:
Part 2
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Ms. Haru and Ms. Sekai are en route to
Area 1 to quell the collateral damage.
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Area 0
Outside City Hall
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The Region hasn't started distorting yet.
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It's close.
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Yeah.
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...wanted... to...
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Area 1
Outside Psychiatric Hospital
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Kamitsubaki City Police Do Not Enter
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Looks like quite a mess.
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They said the damage was quite severe.
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So this is...
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...where the tesseractor spawned.
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This Region's distortion is quite advanced.
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At this scale...
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Yes, there will be quite a number of them.
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So let's wipe the floor with 'em, right?
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Agni!
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Please.
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You're weak...
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Way too weak!
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A consciousness so weak that
it can't even hold itself together
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deserves to die from shame!
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Completely lacking in refinement, as usual.
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Until recently, they were ordinary
people going about their lives.
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Now look at them. They're...
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Incomprehensible Regions
cause a person's desires to swell
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so large that they can
no longer maintain human form.
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I wonder what their desires were...
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Sekai?!
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Ms. Sekai, it seems a bit
dangerous here. Come this way.
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Anemos, I'll be fine.
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But...
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I'd prefer to put them to rest
as quickly as possible.
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As you wish.
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...wanted to... together...
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Kafu! Get back!
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...together...
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Rime?!
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Kafu! Watch it, okay?!
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But... But that person...
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They've all been pacified.
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Ms. Sekai, if you please.
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Right.
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The day passed by, you know
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And I still kept it safe
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Kept inside a little pencil box
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That fragrant memory
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How many times have we
searched for an answer?
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Laughing together about that
is part of the memories
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Riding on ever-changing feelings
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Deep in eyes as big as space
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When nothing can be written down,
I trace the contours
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Yet still, I know nothing
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Listen to my selfish request
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Don't waste a single night
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Come to see me, come to see me
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We're alive, we're alive
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If the color of my life becomes so faded
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I root myself to a hollow hospital bed
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I'll use the power of imagination
to dream the pain away
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and escape it, that's all
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A white bouquet and a love letter
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I know you're there
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But my eyes can't see you
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My heart just flits and dances
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Swimming in a sea of memories
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Filled with transparent goldfish
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One snatched me from above my bed
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And took me away
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I woke up with wet cheeks
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A moment's dream and the scent of death
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That's my miniature garden
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My heart is still going...
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Area 0
The Schild
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2300. Lift all traffic
and media restrictions.
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This concludes today's Q-85 Twilight Stories.
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Sounds like you guys had way more fun.
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Wish you wouldn't always make us run cleanup.
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You seemed to enjoy cutting loose.
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Besides, Laplace and Hastur
outperform us against airborne opponents.
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Plenty of ways to bring 'em down to earth.
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Better to take them out first.
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We have to protect reckless witchlings
trying to get themselves killed.
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It requires great delicacy and care.
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Right, Kafu?
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Yeah.
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Hastur.
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The goldfish is right.
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She'd be dead if I hadn't fired.
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You are the only witchlings we have.
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Without the Songs of Purification,
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tesseractors would have
corrupted this world long ago.
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See that you do not forget that.
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I won't.
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Thank you.
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Now, as I believe you know,
Q occurrences have been increasing rapidly.
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If things continue at this rate,
it could trigger another Blackout.
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Blackout...
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I make this request of all
of our witchlings and familiars:
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stay alert and ready to respond
to summons as swiftly as possible.
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It's been seven whole years, but you
still see scars from the Blackout everywhere.
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That tesseractor today?
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Yeah.
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He said he wanted to die... to disappear.
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I think maybe I felt the same way.
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If I hadn't met Erry, Laplace,
and all of you guys...
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When people can't control their desires,
they become a tesseractor.
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That's what my father told me.
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What do you think "human desires" are?
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Do you think powerful wishes and
despair both count as "desires"?
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A powerful wish... to die.
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We've got school again tomorrow.
Better get to bed soon.
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Yeah. Good night.
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Good night.
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Like a beam of light in
a dirty alley littered with scrap
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"Is there any point in staying here?"
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I ask everyone but nobody knows
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Hey, girl!
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You look awesome!
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Will it all end with the winner—
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I'm afraid he's not in the picture.
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I see him with someone else.
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Really?! Ma-kun's not the one?!
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I'm afraid not.
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Oh, no!
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What's wrong?
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Will something happen to Ma-kun?!
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Ma-kun!
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I'm closing up for today.
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Area 0
The Schild
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Sorry I'm late.
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This is usually my most profitable time.
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Why'd you call us?
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It was Ms. Sekai who called.
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I saw an image.
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A vision of the future?
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Yeah.
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Like tesseractors pouring from
the sky in the direction of Area 3.
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In the morning?
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It was still a little dark.
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Pouring?!
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Tesseractors attacking en masse?
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Yes.
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They were all heading the same way.
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There are currently no signs
of such an event...
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The fact remains that tesseractors
have been more active lately.
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We should stay on high alert—
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What is it?
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An Incomprehensible Region
has spawned in Area 3.
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It's rapidly expanding!
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Hurry to the scene at once.
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What's going on?
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A sudden mass influx of tesseractors?
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But Area 3 is the agricultural sector.
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Given the population density,
it's hard to imagine a mass event there.
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Yeah. It's a quiet place.
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Sekai. You were born in Area 3, weren't you?
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The rapid expansion of an Incomprehensible
Region in a place like that...
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Agni, what do you think?
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How should I know?
We'll see when we get there.
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"Know your enemy, know yourself,
and you'll never fear a hundred battles."
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Should we attempt to concoct a preliminary
strategy based on what we know?
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And if our predictions are all wrong?
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It could delay our initial response.
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Hastur.
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What?
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It's just, you're always
so testy at times like this.
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I am not. Don't talk to me
unless you need something.
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I was just worried.
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Please hurry. We're heading out now.
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Wait for me!
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Q Mystery Server
Momiji
I saw it too.
Chinchoge
Friend of mine said the RD's
put out an evac order.
Fuji
Is that the mass-scale disaster
they mentioned on the news?
Momiji
Can I get a TLDR?
Yuzu
>Fuji
Your friend okay?
Chinchoge
Made it as far as the Area 0
bridge thanks to mass evac.
Super crowded RN.
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Theories have started up on Dimcord, too.
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None of the information is reliable, though.
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But there are those who can
use it to perceive the truth.
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The Reconstruction Division takes
this information seriously.
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Based on that evidence,
the alarm level has been raised to 6.
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Six?!
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In just ten minutes?
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Yes. We're cordoning off Area 3 and
taking measures to evacuate the populace.
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What's going on?
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A level-6 alarm has been issued in Area 3.
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A large-scale disaster may occur.
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All residents are asked to leave
Area 3 as quickly as possible.
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Do not use the emergency shelters.
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Leave Area 3; go to other sectors.
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Mist?
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Is this an Incomprehensible Region?
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It feels weird.
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Everyone, we never know what we might find.
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Be careful.
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Huh?
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What is that?!
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Something's coming out.
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A tesseractor being born?
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Is that possible?
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Looks like a big guy.
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Kinda reminds me of someone...
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Y'know?
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What do you mean?
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Just what it sounds like.
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It looks just like you and Hastur.
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Don't compare me to that giant lump.
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Laplace?
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So, what do we do about it?
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As the scale of the ongoing Q
remains unknown,
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it would be inadvisable to split our forces.
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But it's moving toward the evacuating people.
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I'll stop this one! Go on, I'll catch up!
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Haru!
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They just keep coming.
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Do you think Haru can handle it?
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Kugel.
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Kugel can support Haru and
the rest of us from here.
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I'm getting off!
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Koko!
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Hastur!
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Anemos. If you please.
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As you wish.
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The readings should be
centered on this point, yet...
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I don't see anything.
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Not even an Incomprehensible Region.
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I was certain that this was the source.
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Just a moment. I'll recalculate.
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We should go support Haru and Koko.
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Let's all go.
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Who knows what might happen next.
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It's not safe to split up.
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It's huge!
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There are still people...
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Laplace!
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Laplace
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Anemos
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Kugel
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Agni
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It's almost like...
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Like the tesseractors are
luring the witchlings in.
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They're clearly cooperating.
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I thought tesseractors were lone operators.
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Could it be the result
of a spontaneous mutation?
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Is anybody there?!
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This sector is currently
under a level 6 disaster alert!
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Please evacuate quickly!
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We have to get them out
before the tesseractors come.
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Kafu. Why aren't you singing?
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I can't hear it.
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This tesseractor... its heart is empty.
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Caller
KCRD Chief
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RD Chief?
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What?
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Head for VALIS!
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The tesseractor horde is a diversion!
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Huh? VALIS?!
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The barrier that protects the city!
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Huh? Doesn't VALIS protect us
from cosmic radiation or something?
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Isn't that what they taught us?!
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Kugel!
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The current curriculum teaches that
to students in 6th grade.
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I'm impressed you remembered.
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I didn't ask for your praise!
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Previous tesseractors were believed
to operate independently,
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but these show behavior patterns
reflective of social insects.
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What does that mean?
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It appears as if the whole group
is moving as one, as ants and bees do.
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Ants? Bees?
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Having recalculated based on that assumption,
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we have determined the goal of this Q to be
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the Area 3 Barrier Relay Point,
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Laplace
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a large, former farm
on the western side of Area 3.
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But people haven't finished
evacuating, have they?
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Even if it's a diversion, pulling out now
means leaving them for dead.
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Either way, it's not exactly
like we can leave right now!
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The KCRD is focused on
leading the evacuation.
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You need to defend VALIS!
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This is your top priority!
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If VALIS is lost, the damage
will be far greater!
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But seriously, how do we—
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I'll go!
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Let me investigate.
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Laplace! Please!
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I can't get in.
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What's happening in there?
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Laplace!
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Kafu!
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Right!
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Huh?
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Hey! Wait!
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Hang on!
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You're not goin' anywhere!
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What's with these things?
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Kugel?
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What could it be?
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Is this it?
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They can't approach it.
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Is it... that barn?
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A feed plant?
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It's emitting Fragments at a tremendous rate.
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Then that's the third relay point?
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Who's there?! It's not safe!
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Laplace!
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Laplace
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Kugel
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Agni
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They suddenly turned back!
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Koko and Agni are chasing them!
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We have eyes on it too.
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There's a 98% chance that
their destination is the farm.
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Kafu's there too, right?
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Laplace
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Yes.
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Hurry!
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This takes priority over
purifying the Region!
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I don't see much influence
from the Incomprehensible Region...
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It never ends, does it?
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Clear the way. I'll show 'em what's what.
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Agni!
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Haru! Koko!
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Thank goodness.
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Kafu's in there?
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A-A person?
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It's warm.
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No!
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No... No!
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No!
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What's... going on?
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VALIS?
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Kafu?
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Song of purification