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"Ninjago confidential"
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Ninjago City. My city.
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I know it like the insides
of my own circuits.
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Which is why I know...
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it has a dark side.
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My best friends are trapped
inside an immersive video game
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called "Prime Empire".
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Yeah, you heard that right.
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They're being held there
by a villain named Unagami.
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But "Unagami" isn't his real name.
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It's as fake
as a used car salesman's smile.
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His true identity is Milton Dyer,
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the computer programmer
who designed Prime Empire.
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The only hope for getting
them out of the digital world
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rests on finding Dyer in the real world.
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My world.
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I was fishing for leads,
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but now, I find myself adrift
on a sea of dead ends...
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Then she walked in.
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There you are, Zane.
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She said, shining the only ray
of light into my dreary world.
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Who are you talking to?
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And why are you dressed like that?
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Since we are engaged in detective work,
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tracking down a missing person,
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I have downloaded thousands
of detective books
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and movies as research.
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And that has to do with... hats?
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According to my analysis,
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100 percent of successful detectives
wear trench coats and hats
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while narrating their thoughts.
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Thus I have adopted the same methodology.
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It seems improbable
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that hat choice
and overly descriptive monologues
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are significant factors
in an investigative outcome.
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I've tried everything else to no success.
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This method has to work.
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Well... Okay, I guess.
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I do have a new possible avenue
of inquiry.
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-A lead.
-What?
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Detectives call it a "lead."
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Okay... I have a "lead".
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A source willing to share information.
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Ah... So a "canary" wants to "sing?"
Who is it?
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Remember this photo
from Dyer's childhood home?
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I was able to track his friend
to Laughy's Karaoke Club.
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Perhaps he knows Dyer's whereabouts.
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So...
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the rumble on the street gave us a hot tip
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about a goon we needed to shake down.
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It was time for these
two gumshoes to beat feet.
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Ugh.
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I'd been here before.
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It was a low-class joint
that served cheap boba tea.
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As soon as we walked in,
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every palooka in the place
pointed their ugly mugs at us.
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Hey, Is he talking to us? Or about us?
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I don't likes it either way!
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Perhaps that is enough
detective narration for now...
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She said, nervously.
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Because from the looks of these
rowdy nogoodniks,
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it was clear we were in for trouble.
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Zane! Pixal!
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Wow! So good to see you guys!
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What brings you to my karaoke club?
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Oh. Dareth. Hello.
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My memory now accesses the fact
that you own this establishment.
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Don't tell me! I know!
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You need the Brown Ninja's help
on a mission?
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"Brown ninja?"
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Let me guess...
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The other ninja are lost
in some crazy realm somewhere
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and you need to find something
to bring them back?
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Your guess is... surprisingly accurate.
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Yea, It happens a lot to those guys.
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Gotta love 'em.
Hold on, I'll get my stuff!
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Hey. You twos.
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I got a bone to pick
wit' youse ninja-guys.
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You locked my brudder up
in Kryptarium prison.
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That is quite possible.
Who is your brother?
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Fugi-Dove.
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Who?
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Fugi-Dove!
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You know, his cry fills the night!
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That name is unfamiliar to me.
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The lug was as big as an ox,
and smelled like one too.
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Oh, what did you just say?
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He wasn't the sharpest
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-crayon in the box...
Hey!
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...but if it was a fight he wanted,
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I was happy to give it to him.
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Oh yeah? Let's see about that!
Get 'em, boys!
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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That is why I decided to throw
an uppercut to his glass jaw!
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Uppercut, huh?
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Blocked!
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The old suit must have shrunk in the dyer,
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cause it's a little tight around the...
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Wait, you started without me?
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Well, don't worry guys, I got your--
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...back!
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His power to predict
my every move was unnerving,
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but I figured a sharp
right-cross would stitch him up.
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Right-cross?
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Blocked!
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Now you're mine, ninja-guy!
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Huh?
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The good news was
she had saved my nindroid bacon.
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The bad news
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was, whoever we were looking for
was probably long gone.
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Who were you looking for?
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A childhood friend of Milton Dyer's.
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Dyer, huh? Haven't heard
that name in a long time.
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Jackpot.
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You were Dyer's friend?
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Yeah, that's right.
When we were kids. Name's Tony.
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We would appreciate anything
you might know
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about Milton Dyer's current location.
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You're not the first to ask
about him over the years.
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Reporters come by every so often, but...
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I never told them anything
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because old Milty deserves his privacy.
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But you're ready to speak now?
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With this Prime Empire stuff happening?
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Those kids missing?
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I guess it's time to talk.
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Spill it, where is Dyer?
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I don't know exactly, but I know this...
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You should check out Buddy's Pizza.
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-Why?
-It's where Milton played
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his first videogame.
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That's where he found his life's calling
as a game programmer.
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He'd call it "Videogame City".
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Always went back there
as an adult. For inspiration.
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Buddy's Pizza was no different
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than any other hole-in-the-wall
pizza joint.
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Except it had the best games in town.
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It had been shut down
by the fuzz due to the disappearances.
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Someone's coming! Let's go!
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-Ugh! I almost had a high score!
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Kids had been sneaking into the place
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to get their fill due
to the city's "Videogame Prohibition."
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You are beginning to get
on my nerve-circuits.
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Are you going to talk
in that voice the whole time?
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Her eyes showed annoyance,
but her heart revealed
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that she respected
my unorthodox techniques.
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My heart did not reveal that.
Every part of me is annoyed.
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I had my work cut out for me.
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I had to prove I knew what I was doing.
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Pixal! Hit the dirt!
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I got wind'a you sniffin' around
Dyer's old haunts.
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Was only a matter of time
before you two buttons showed up here.
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Is The Mechanic doing
your Detective thing too?
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This is just weird.
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Let's paste these palookas!
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Zane!
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-We must--
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Unagami will be pleased as punch.
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Zane?
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Zane!
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I was desperate
and willing to try anything.
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Even Zane's detective theory.
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So I put the hat on and went for broke.
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There had to be a clue somewhere
in this rundown crazy world.
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I might have lost my partner,
but not my resolve.
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The answer had to be somewhere here
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in this place Dyer
called "Videogame City."
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Voice activation password,
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"Videogame City" accepted.
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I was as surprised as anyone
to discover...
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Zane was right.
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Talking aloud in a funny voice
seemed to help.
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I decided to stick with it.
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Milton Dyer, I presume?
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I knew it was only a matter of time
before someone found me.
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I assume this isn't a social visit?
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No, Mr. Dyer. Or should I call you...
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Unagami?
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I'm not Unagami.
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"Unagami" was what we called the game.
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It was our working title.
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Before we called Prime Empire,
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It was "Unfinished Adventure Game One."
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But the Artificial Intelligence
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that ran the game was so dangerous,
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even I realized
I should never complete it.
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Then who did?
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No one.
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We locked that program
under so much security,
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it won't ever see the light of day.
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The only way the program
could have been finished would be if--
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If Unagami completed programming itself.
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Oh, no.