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[dramatic music plays]
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[footsteps approaching]
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You look like you're up to something.
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[Shigatera] Huh?
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Get lost.
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Wanna be allies?
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[theme song in Japanese plays]
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[Kamuro] Release of Core number 3
has been confirmed.
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"Pico" is now uninstalled.
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[sighs]
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Hmm. [chuckles]
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What's that stupid girl doing?
Shouldn't take this long.
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Whatever. I'm gonna make her pay
all the start-up fees for the new guild.
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Just get back here, Pico. Now!
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Finally, I'm free again!
Nothing can stop me now!
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- Look out, Ichi!
- Aah!
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[gasps]
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Grand Admiral's Wrath!
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[Kamuro] So far, three of the Black Bird's
power sources have been deleted.
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George, Jutaro, and now Pico.
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And I've been monitoring the actions of
the other cores,
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including Iris, ZEAL, and Julia.
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Very well. We need to uninstall them
as quickly as we can.
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[grunts]
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- [Kamuro gasps] Sir!
- [groans]
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[grunts] Don't! I'll be fine!
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[groans]
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- [sighs]
- A side effect of the Synchro.
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You had reached the limit.
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That's it. Five minutes 13 seconds.
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That's the longest you can stay focused
on synching with your avatar.
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[Kojiro] It almost matches the estimate.
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That'll work. It'll be just enough time
to enable me to kill the AIs, one by one.
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[poignant music plays]
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You got your wish to talk to an AI.
How'd that feel?
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[Kojiro sighs]
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[Kamuro] What was it like,
seeing Pico's emotional state
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in the last moments before her death?
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[sighs]
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Uh...
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[sighs]
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[grunts]
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As soon as I get my strength back,
we'll proceed with the plan.
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I'm still going to need your help.
Just a little longer.
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Understood.
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[roars] Pico!
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Huh? She's not in here...
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- Hmm.
- [footsteps approach]
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Where the hell'd she disappear to?
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Not here? That's weird.
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Maybe her internet connection went down
or something.
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Otherwise, she wouldn't have left
without taking the flag.
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Probably.
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Hmm. Maybe Shiro got her.
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What? Shiro Akabane's here?
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- Mmm-mmm?
- New plan, forget about Pico.
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Shiro's the main problem.
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We have to get this done
before he figures out what we're up to.
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[laughs]
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At least I've already
eliminated any resistance!
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Shiga, you backstabbing traitor!
I hate your guts!!
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Captain Pico trusted you!
You're gonna pay for this!
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Long before that happens,
I'll be done playing this shitty game.
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[grumbles]
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[Shigateru] Hurry up and take
your dead body back to the main menu.
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[Ichi] Shit.
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So one of the cornerstones of the
almighty game-addict group
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was nothing special after all.
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[Ichi grumbles]
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This Guild Weapon, on the other hand,
is really somethin' else!
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My current stats just went over 30,000!
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Hah! It's almost like cheating!
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I mean, even the best martial artist
doesn't stand a chance
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against a combat vehicle!
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- [Ichi] Listen.
- [Shigatera] Huh?
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[Ichi] Don't quit PLANET.
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That's not fair. It's unfair as shit!
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What?
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It's not fair, 'cause I'm...
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I'm gonna make a Guild Weapon too.
And when I do, then we'll battle.
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[melancholy music plays]
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What exactly are you saying?
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[whirring]
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Pico and I are gonna gather up
10,000 guild members,
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and I'm gonna make
the most powerful Guild Weapon ever!
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So don't you dare quit
while you're ahead!!
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Promise you won't!
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Ugh. You're so pathetic.
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Damn it! Do you hear me?
I mean it! Damn it!
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[Shigatera] The Black Bird.
300 million yen in hard cash.
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If it weren't for that, there'd be
no point in even bothering with all this.
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Right, Leon?
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Provided you're not planning on
double-crossing me or anything,
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I'll be able to quit PLANET today!
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I'm trusting you.
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I've done everything you asked of me
up to now, so don't screw this up!
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[Leon] Hmph!
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[gasps]
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[wind gusting]
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[Sasumata] As promised,
we will summon the Black Bird.
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It's very powerful.
Don't let your guard down. Understand?
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Just do it. I'm ready.
I'm not about to lose!
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[Leon] Wanna be allies?
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You might be interested to hear that
we know how to summon the Black Bird.
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[Shigatera gasps]
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[ominous music playing]
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[rumbling]
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[gasps]
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Oh!
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[gasps]
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[thudding]
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I've been wanting this thing for so long!
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Just look at it! It's beautiful!
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[dramatic music plays]
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[gasping]
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Taichiro...
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Asuma...
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Forget about trivial things like that,
sir, and try to get some rest.
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[baroque organ music plays]
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[Shigatera] Who are those guys?
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[Sasumata] PLANET's white blood cells.
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Like in the human body,
they come out whenever they detect
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something that doesn't belong
in this world.
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They came out quick!
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{\an8}[gabbling]
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They disappeared!
How'd the bastard do that?
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[groans]
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Pico?
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That's too bad.
You were just a bit too late.
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Hmm...
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[Shigatera] All right, you!
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Now I'm gonna cash in
for all the work I've done!
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[roars]
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Huh?
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[gasps]
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You bastard!
You're worth 300 million yen to me,
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and I'm gonna get it!
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[groaning]
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{\an8}And now... for Good World.
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[Shigatera yelling]
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Damn it!
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[gasps]
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[grunting]
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- Sir.
- How long was I asleep?
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Wh... what's the situation?
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[groans]
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Huh? Huh?
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[panting] What the hell was that thing?
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[groans] That pain, I swear...
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[gasps] It felt like it actually
touched me. What the hell?
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[groans]
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Ugh, I feel sick. It's like a hangover
where you can't even stand up!
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[groans]
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This stupid-ass game! I've had it!
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[yells]
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But I'm not giving up 300 million yen!
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[sighs] I gotta log back in.
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[growls]
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Just a bit longer and it'll be over.
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Huh?
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- [rustling]
- Huh?
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[silence]
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[chuckles]
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[sighs]
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The Black Bird. Of the AI's I've created,
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it's the most powerful and evil
of them all.
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No. It's more than that. It's a life form,
and an ultimate computer virus.
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Now that it's loose, the Black Bird
is going to infect people's minds,
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and completely fill the world with malice.
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Three people have been killed already,
and it's just getting started.
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[screaming]
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Huh?
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I'm losin' it. [shudders]
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Goin' without sleep must be gettin' to me.
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Huh? Uh...
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Hmm. Must've fried when I dropped it.
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[groans]
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What the hell am I doin'?
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Think there was a net café
next to the station.
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JOB APPLICATION NOTICE: REJECTED
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While in university, what were you
particularly passionate about?
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While in university?
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All I can even remember doing
was online gaming.
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More interested in fun than in learning.
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[chuckles]
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It's too late now to try
and make anything of myself.
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Whatever...
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Huh?
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THE DURABILITY TEST WILL NOW COMMENCE
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Durability?
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[glass smashing]
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[groaning shakily]
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Much too weak. Next one.
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[screams]
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A dream! No way in hell that was real!
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[whimpering] I feel... No way... No way!
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[gasps] Hmm?
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DURABILITY TEST NO. 2 WILL NOW COMMENCE
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Who the hell is sending me these?
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What! Oh shit!
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No, no, no, no, no, no!
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[screams]
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Aah! It's spreading!
I've gotta get outta here!
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Hey! What the hell is this? It's locked!
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Somebody help me! Help!
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Anybody! Get me outta here, please!
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[gasping]
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Help, I'm burning up in here!
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[screaming]
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[gasps]
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[groans]
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What?
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You never listen.
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- [gamer] Huh?
- I told you to turn down the music.
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But still... night after night!
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You're that guy from next door, aren't...
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[neighbor cackling]
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DURABILITY TEST NO. 19
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[groaning]
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- [spluttering]
- [growling]
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DURABILITY TEST NO. 288
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Anyone who gets directly infected
by the Black Bird dies on the spot.
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It's instant.
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When that happens, their minds get
ripped away from their bodies
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and converted into data.
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Apparently, they're then taken
to a different world,
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which is neither the real world
nor PLANET.
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[Kojiro] If we don't delete it now,
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both the Internet and the real world
will become a nightmare.
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[Leon] There's no end to a digitized mind.
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I don't know what happens
in that eternal world,
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or what the Black Bird does
to those who end up there.
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And I know it's in the process
of accumulating more power.
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The banks, military,
governments everywhere...
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It will soon build nests
in all of those institutions.
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Before that happens, I have to stop it!
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- [groans]
- Sir!
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[Leon] One thing's for sure...
We won't be seeing Shigatera again.
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DURABILITY TEST NO. 1,872,800
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[groaning]
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Where's the Black Bird?
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[Sasumata] I'm not sure.
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Maybe it was satisfied
after it devoured Shigatera?
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I kind of feel sorry for Shigatera.
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[Leon] You shouldn't.
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He was using his position
as the Pirates' treasurer
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to secretly make a fortune
in the real world with virtual money.
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RMT's a despicable practice that
causes big problems in the in-game world.
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[Sasumata] Fair enough, Leon, but...
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is that really a crime that's
deserving of a death penalty?
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[Leon] Hey, it's not like I killed him.
He challenged the Black Bird.
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His death was just
the natural outcome of that.
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[Sasumata] Hmm.
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[Leon] Plus, Shigatera
was telling everybody
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this whole world was
"nothing but a shitty game."
256
00:15:52,910 --> 00:15:56,372
That probably warrants
the death penalty all by itself.
257
00:15:57,456 --> 00:15:59,416
[Sasumata] Yeah. I guess you're right.
258
00:16:00,459 --> 00:16:04,004
Anyway, if that's the way you see it,
Leon, then it's probably true.
259
00:16:12,137 --> 00:16:13,305
[Leon] It'll be fine.
260
00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:15,516
No need to worry.
261
00:16:15,599 --> 00:16:19,061
There's a great gap now between
the online world and the real world.
262
00:16:19,687 --> 00:16:22,523
But I'm going to make sure
to get rid of it.
263
00:16:25,567 --> 00:16:26,610
[Sasumata] Okay.
264
00:16:37,329 --> 00:16:38,998
[explosion]
265
00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:45,671
[buzz of voices]
266
00:16:47,006 --> 00:16:49,883
No way! Is it true the Pirates disbanded?
267
00:16:49,967 --> 00:16:51,885
Nah, that's just fake news.
268
00:16:51,969 --> 00:16:55,305
I looked it up today, and all the data
on the Pirates is still up.
269
00:16:55,389 --> 00:16:57,891
Although, even though
they still exist as a guild...
270
00:16:57,975 --> 00:16:58,975
What?
271
00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,520
Pico's not the guildmaster now.
272
00:17:02,146 --> 00:17:03,313
Huh?
273
00:17:03,397 --> 00:17:06,692
Maybe she stepped down because
she lost to the Akabane Family.
274
00:17:06,775 --> 00:17:09,028
Well, that would be
the honorable thing to do...
275
00:17:09,111 --> 00:17:11,739
[man 1] Word is, Pico even
deleted her whole character!
276
00:17:12,322 --> 00:17:14,992
Oh, wow. Pretty lame way to go out, huh?
277
00:17:15,075 --> 00:17:18,912
At least without her and the Pirates,
things will be a lot more peaceful now.
278
00:17:18,996 --> 00:17:21,498
Yeah, with Pico and all her BS,
279
00:17:21,582 --> 00:17:24,376
it felt like she was ruining
half the fun of PLANET.
280
00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:26,545
[man 2] Yeah, you got that right.
281
00:17:26,628 --> 00:17:28,922
I heard Granada might have
been involved in it too.
282
00:17:29,006 --> 00:17:31,175
That makes me even more relieved!
283
00:17:31,258 --> 00:17:32,885
[all laughing]
284
00:17:38,432 --> 00:17:39,792
[man 3 whispers] Did you see that?
285
00:17:40,350 --> 00:17:42,436
- [man 4] Yeah.
- [man 5] Did you see that?
286
00:17:44,813 --> 00:17:45,814
{\an8}PICO
287
00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:48,067
{\an8}CHARACTER DOES NOT EXIST
288
00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:51,236
[grunts]
289
00:17:53,030 --> 00:17:54,948
[ominous music playing]
290
00:17:55,032 --> 00:17:56,033
[sighs]
291
00:18:02,748 --> 00:18:03,791
[groans]
292
00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:10,297
[Taichiro thinks]
It's an emergency situation.
293
00:18:10,380 --> 00:18:11,380
[whimpers]
294
00:18:12,007 --> 00:18:13,884
The real world is less...
295
00:18:16,095 --> 00:18:17,679
It's less suffocating.
296
00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:21,934
{\an8}[moaning]
297
00:18:32,694 --> 00:18:34,321
[sobbing]
298
00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,542
Huh?
299
00:18:46,625 --> 00:18:47,625
[floorboard creaks]
300
00:18:48,168 --> 00:18:49,168
[gasps]
301
00:18:52,464 --> 00:18:54,716
I'm home now, Taichi.
302
00:19:00,556 --> 00:19:02,683
[Taichiro] Mom... [sobs]
303
00:19:02,766 --> 00:19:04,768
[gentle music plays]
304
00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:07,604
What's the matter?
305
00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:12,651
[Taichiro crying]
306
00:19:12,734 --> 00:19:15,404
Nothing. Welcome back, Mom.
307
00:19:33,589 --> 00:19:35,674
[Taichiro] Where have you been staying
this month?
308
00:19:35,757 --> 00:19:38,051
- [Mom] Take a guess.
- [Taichiro] Some guy's place?
309
00:19:38,635 --> 00:19:42,389
[Mom] Come on, what guy would let
an old lady like me crash at his place?
310
00:19:42,472 --> 00:19:44,057
I'm a... what d'you call it?
311
00:19:45,017 --> 00:19:47,144
- Net café refugee.
- [kettle whistling]
312
00:19:51,148 --> 00:19:52,900
- I found this.
- Hmm?
313
00:19:53,525 --> 00:19:55,777
[Mom] It fell right out of the sky.
314
00:19:56,987 --> 00:19:58,113
[Taichiro] Hmm.
315
00:19:58,197 --> 00:20:00,199
Were you cut by the glass?
316
00:20:01,533 --> 00:20:03,368
No, and I'm sorry for doing that.
317
00:20:04,328 --> 00:20:07,998
It's great that you're grown up
enough to apologize for things, Taichiro.
318
00:20:09,374 --> 00:20:10,374
[gasps]
319
00:20:10,918 --> 00:20:13,045
There isn't anything great about me.
320
00:20:13,128 --> 00:20:16,632
You're doing better than your mom!
A hundred times better, in fact.
321
00:20:19,801 --> 00:20:21,762
[Taichiro] Just divorce him already.
322
00:20:22,387 --> 00:20:24,223
[Mom] Oh! The croquettes.
323
00:20:24,306 --> 00:20:26,892
Take the plastic wrap off
before you heat them up.
324
00:20:26,975 --> 00:20:28,560
They'll get soggy otherwise.
325
00:20:31,438 --> 00:20:33,732
[Taichiro] So, you're leaving again?
326
00:20:37,194 --> 00:20:38,194
The croquettes.
327
00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:40,697
Take the plastic wrap off
before you heat them up.
328
00:20:40,781 --> 00:20:43,033
Because they'll just
get all soggy otherwise.
329
00:20:44,034 --> 00:20:45,034
Mmph...
330
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:47,704
Will you... come back?
331
00:20:48,288 --> 00:20:51,041
Probably,
I'll be back the Friday after next.
332
00:20:51,124 --> 00:20:52,793
Your room'll be a mess by then.
333
00:20:54,002 --> 00:20:55,212
[sighs]
334
00:20:55,754 --> 00:20:58,423
- [Mom] Say hi to Dad and Asuma for me.
- [grunts]
335
00:21:01,593 --> 00:21:03,387
- [Taichiro] Um, about Asuma...
- [Mom] Hmm?
336
00:21:03,470 --> 00:21:05,764
- He's in the hospital.
- What do you mean?
337
00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:08,684
That piece of shit
had to go to the hospital too.
338
00:21:09,184 --> 00:21:10,269
Needed back surgery.
339
00:21:10,936 --> 00:21:14,147
I wish he could have stayed there forever,
but he's already out.
340
00:21:15,148 --> 00:21:18,860
Which hospital's Asuma in?
I should go visit him right away, yeah?
341
00:21:19,361 --> 00:21:21,113
You want to come with me, Taichi?
342
00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:23,073
[sighs]
343
00:21:24,157 --> 00:21:27,953
Huh. Okay, just stay
and look after the house, then.
344
00:21:28,662 --> 00:21:31,665
The croquettes. Take the plastic off
before you heat them.
345
00:21:31,748 --> 00:21:34,084
Because they'll just
get all soggy otherwise.
346
00:21:34,167 --> 00:21:35,167
Mom, wait!
347
00:21:36,461 --> 00:21:38,338
I'll come along, if you want.
348
00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:40,966
[chuckles]
349
00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:43,844
That's the way, Big Brother.
350
00:21:44,886 --> 00:21:45,929
[Taichiro] Oww!
351
00:21:46,513 --> 00:21:50,392
But, hey! When it comes to your father?
No more calling him a piece of shit.
352
00:21:51,184 --> 00:21:52,519
- Oww!
- Got that?
353
00:21:52,602 --> 00:21:53,895
[Taichiro sighs]
354
00:21:55,564 --> 00:21:56,565
Yeah.
355
00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:03,447
[Taichiro] Don't look so worried.
He's all right.
356
00:22:03,530 --> 00:22:05,741
It was a shock
to see him collapsed on the floor,
357
00:22:05,824 --> 00:22:08,035
but he's recovered a lot since then.
358
00:22:08,118 --> 00:22:09,328
[Mom sighs]
359
00:22:09,411 --> 00:22:11,997
[Taichiro] The doctors all say
he'll be just fine.
360
00:22:15,542 --> 00:22:16,960
- [gasps]
- [wind gusting]
361
00:22:17,044 --> 00:22:18,170
Asuma?
362
00:22:20,922 --> 00:22:22,799
[dramatic music plays]
363
00:22:23,383 --> 00:22:25,761
[gasps] Asuma?
364
00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:32,517
[screams]
365
00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:36,563
- What the hell? Mom!
- [Mom wailing]
366
00:22:37,147 --> 00:22:38,940
[Taichiro] Asuma! No!
367
00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:41,234
[yells] Somebody, help!
368
00:22:43,153 --> 00:22:45,155
[theme song in Japanese plays]