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Shizuka
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Charu, you woke up?
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Chiharu
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Shizuka-chan! Great, you are all safe!
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Shizuka
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Now that you said so, I guess they were real.
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Shizuka
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Both sinking to the bottom of the water and being purified by Charu...
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Chiharu
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Then, it is real, given that rule.
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Chiharu
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But, where am I...?
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Shizuka
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I don't know either. I am sure that we are alive though...
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Shizuka
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Or maybe the Heaven that looks like one?
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Chiharu
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Ehhhh, no way! See it as we are alive.
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Sunao
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You are both alive.
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Sunao
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And this is my home.
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Chiharu
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So, Sunao helped us.
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Shizuka
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I would like to express my gratitude too. Thank you, Sunao.
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Shizuka
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Anything wrong with you, Sunao...
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Sunao
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The same question to Shizuka and Charu. Like, being drifted away.
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Shizuka
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If you put it that way...
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Sunao
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Sorry. I didn't. I wasn't trying to help you...
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Sunao
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Instead, I attempted to kill you...
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Shizuka
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Huh? What are you talking about...?
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Sunao
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Anyway, take it easy, okay?
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Sunao
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I have a lot to say and a lot to ask about.
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Sunao
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And I prepared breakfast too.
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Shizuka
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I don't feel like eating anything...
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Chiharu
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... Sunao-chan was going to...?
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Chiharu
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The things you said just now, are they true...?
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Sunao
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It's true that I attempted to kill you both.
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Chiharu
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But why... I don't understand...
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Sunao
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I play a role that eliminates anyone who goes against the village's will...
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Sunao
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Therefore, I was attempting to kill you. Mainly... Charu...
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Sunao
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If Charu wavered over the contract or said she wanted to go back...
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Sunao
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Or tried to eliminate the Holy Wavering Deity...
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Sunao
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Went deep into the sanctuary of the shrine...
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Sunao
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Being drifted away in the river with Shizuka was out of my expectation.
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Sunao
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The conditions put forward by Mikoshiba-sama was satisfied for several times.
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Sunao
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But Charu narrowly escaped from those moments.
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Sunao
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Because of Shizuka's intervention...
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Shizuka
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In short, Sunao is Mikoshiba's puppet...
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Shizuka
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An assassin that executes those who disagree with her.
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Shizuka
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So Charu who went beyond her expectation, and I who wanted to guard her, were targeted.
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Shizuka
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I can't believe that you are her puppet...
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Sunao
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But, it is the truth...
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Sunao
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I didn't want to do it either.
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Sunao
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I treated you two as my friends, so I didn't want to hurt you.
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Sunao
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But the unexpected thing happened...
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Sunao
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Charu became sensitive to weird atmospheres,
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Sunao
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and Shizuka wanted to guard Charu, which raised Mikoshiba-sama's vigilance...
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Chiharu
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But you didn't kill us.
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Chiharu
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You didn't. Sunao-chan helped us.
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Sunao
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I heard what Shizuka said besides the river, and that stopped me from doing so...
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Shizuka
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What did I say...?
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Sunao
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You said... "I will also become a dead body at the bottom of the water."
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Shizuka
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What did I say...?
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Sunao
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You said... "I will also become a dead body at the bottom of the water."
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Shizuka
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How did that very sentence stop you, Sunao...?
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Sunao
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... As you said, I am a puppet.
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Sunao
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What I know about myself is confined to my usefulness to the Land of the Rising Sun
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Sunao
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and my duty to deal with situations that threaten the village.
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Sunao
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I didn't know what would happen when I no longer fight as a diviner...
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Sunao
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Or not exactly, I didn't dare to think even if I was doubtful...
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Sunao
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I did know that a diviner will go out someday.
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Sunao
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But, even if I live outside the village... In the nearest village,
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Sunao
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I have never seen any other diviner...
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Shizuka
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At that point, my words...
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Sunao
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Yes, an awful scene suddenly flashed through my mind…
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Sunao
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Could all of those who went out... became the dead body at the bottom of the water...
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Shizuka
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That's the reason you helped us...
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Sunao
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Yes, to ask you about what happened...
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Shizuka
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Then, it's my turn to talk... About what I heard during the coming-of-age ceremony.
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Chiharu
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In other words, from the person that I witnessed...
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Shizuka
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Yeah, Mikoshiba said these shamelessly to me...
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Mikoshiba
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Let me tell thou the truth before thou departest.
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Shizuka
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The truth, right?
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Mikoshiba
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Exactly. The truth about ye diviners.
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Shizuka
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... Please tell me.
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Mikoshiba
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Diviners are existences that shatter devils,
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Mikoshiba
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and the existences that will become devils in the future as well.
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Shizuka
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Eh, that means...
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Mikoshiba
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That literally means ye will become devils in the future.
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Shizuka
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No way, is it a joke...?
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Shizuka
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If that's true, why did you withhold such an important thing.
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Mikoshiba
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Such a harsh thing shouldn't be let out easily.
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Shizuka
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... Does my mother or anyone in the village know that?
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Shizuka
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And knowing so, you still turn us into diviners?
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Mikoshiba
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People who know are limited to us priestesses and dancers.
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Shizuka
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I don't understand...
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Shizuka
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If we who shatter devils are going to become devils,
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Shizuka
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isn't that a vicious circle? It's meaningless for us to become diviners.
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Mikoshiba
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That said, the wishes made in order to save the Land of the Rising Sun do come true.
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Shizuka
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Then, after that, we are...!?
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Shizuka
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............ It's too cruel...
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Shizuka
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Didn't we just literally sacrificed our souls...!
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Shizuka
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Yeah... No... It's not time to cry...!
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Shizuka
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If I literally sacrificed my soul to the Land of the Rising Sun...
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Shizuka
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my honor can be maintained...!
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Shizuka
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Even if I become a devil, what I have achieved won't be wasted.
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Shizuka
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Proud of that, I can fight till I eventually fall...!
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Shizuka
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I see, the last ceremony was about acknowledging this truth and enduring till the end...
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Shizuka
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Then why should you tell the truth!
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Mikoshiba
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Thou art becoming a devil before long.
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Mikoshiba
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The reason? Because it happeneth when thy jewel loseth its shine.
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Shizuka
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............ Wait...
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Shizuka
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What is the ceremony of coming of age about...?
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Mikoshiba
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Discarding the diviner that hath made the wish fulfilled and protected the village, and turning her into a devil.
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Mikoshiba
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No diviner ever goeth out of the village.
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Shizuka
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Mikoshibaーーーーーー!!
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Mikoshiba
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Be drown in the waterfall basin... Be stifled and agonized... And become the game of the next diviner...
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Shizuka
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These are all that I heard...
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Shizuka
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I have told you what you want to know, Sunao.
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Shizuka
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As you have worried, no one ever goes out or anything.
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Shizuka
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Everyone was trapped at the bottom of the water and never made it...
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Shizuka
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Now that you heard it... Are you gonna kill me?
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Sunao
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... I don't want to kill.
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Sunao
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Neither do I enjoy being a puppet from whom everything is concealed...
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Shizuka
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Then, please be with us.
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Sunao
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But my dad and mom may be killed by Mikoshiba!
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Shizuka
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What... You mean you were threatened that way...?
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Sunao
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So I had to choose who to kill...
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Sunao
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Shizuka and Charu... Or my dad and mom...
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Sunao
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I dwelled in Mikoshiba's home, tried searching it, attempting to find a vital point to hold over her...
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Sunao
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I tried to find things like documentation, passbooks,
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Sunao
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or anything that could be utilized to threaten her in turn...
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Sunao
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But I found nothing...
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Shizuka
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I know I won't be killed... I know Sunao is kind...
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Shizuka
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Actually, you are not going to kill, and I don't know what's behind it.
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Chiharu
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What I know is just the kind Sunao!
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Sunao
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Sorry, Shizuka... Charu...
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Chiharu
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And even when left unattended, a diviner will be killed anyway, right!?
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Chiharu
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If so, let's launch a preemptive strike!
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Chiharu
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The old woman doesn't know I and Shizuka are well, right?
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Chiharu
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If so, let's go back and scold her secretly!
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Chiharu
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Then pump her for all the secrets!
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Chiharu
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About diviners and devils, the reason to sink diviners,
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Chiharu
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and about Sunao-chan, everything!
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Chiharu
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It'll be great if everyone can be saved that way!
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Sunao
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... Quite straightforward. But what if we keep unfound...
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Shizuka
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Wait, I agree to punish her,
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Shizuka
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but this time, I think the picture may be a bit more complex.
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Shizuka
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Charu and I fought against some followers, right...?
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Chiharu
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Yeah, those without a labyrinth?
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Sunao
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Without a labyrinth...?
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Shizuka
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Yeah, I thought so when I fought before too,
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Shizuka
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but now I think the case might just be the opposite, which means it actually had a labyrinth.
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Chiharu
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It didn't have, but it had...
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- Todoriki (Chiharu) -
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Because the so-called truth may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity.
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Chiharu
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In, the vicinity...
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Chiharu
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Shizuka-chan... You mean the village is a labyrinth...?
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Sunao
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How can that be...!!
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Shizuka
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It could, as Charu said.
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Shizuka
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At some point, a devil swallowed the whole Tokime's Village,
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Shizuka
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and under Mikoshiba's manipulation, it is eroding us diviners' power...
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Shizuka
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If so, the picture that we will be killed eventually,
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Shizuka
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the villainy of threatening Sunao and eliminating the undesirable,
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Shizuka
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the presence of followers without a labyrinth can all be explained.
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Sunao
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... Indeed they can be explained.
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Sunao
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However, if that's the case, everything should have been circulating inside...
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Sunao
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Luring people unfamiliar with the conventions like me and Charu in
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Sunao
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could only cause unexpected things like what's happening now.
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Shizuka
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That could be owed to the devil's stupidity
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Shizuka
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or impatience for something.
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Shizuka
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These are no more than some guesswork though...
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Chiharu
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However, this is probably the evidence that the village is a labyrinth.
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Shizuka
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What is that plate?
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Shizuka
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The rumored telephone...
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Chiharu
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This is a map, but Tokime's Village is missing in the image.
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Sunao
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In that case, the village really already fell into the hand of a devil...?
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Chiharu
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Yeah, there must be an enemy to defeat!
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Shizuka
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Though I don't know about the smartphone, I believe so as long as you believe.
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Shizuka
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Let's hurry up...!
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Sunao
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You don't know what will happen if it detects your power and knows you are alive...
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Chiharu
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Before everyone is involved in, let's defeat the village's devil!
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Shizuka
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Right, let's hurry to the village.
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Sunao
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I should tell my dad and mom to escape soon too.
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Chiharu
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Shizuka-chan, Sunao-chan, the devil's reaction is getting stronger...
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Sunao
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Shizuka's reasoning may be correct...
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Sunao
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Is everyone fine...
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Chiharu
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My mother and the man in the village...
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Sunao
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Devils are existences that consume humans by nature. Since things have gone beyond expectation...
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Shizuka
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We should first confirm the village's situation...
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Shizuka
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No sign of human...
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Shizuka
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Everyone in the village is wiped out.
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Shizuka
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Even before things about the village is leaked to the outside...?
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Chiharu
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But considering the devil is still here, it might not be the case that it has already done so...!
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Sunao
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This place would have been useless if it had finished feeding itself.
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Sunao
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Let's stop thinking pessimistically.
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Chiharu
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Besides, can it be that it is waiting for us?
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Sunao
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... Thinking from the devil's perspective,
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Sunao
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since a diviners meal is more appealing for a devil,
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Sunao
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it might want to entomb us here and reset the situation...
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Chiharu
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Yeah, it already anticipated our return...!
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Shizuka
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The devil would be alright with some people involved absent...
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Shizuka
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If so, it's meaningful to keep the village and spare the villagers' lives...
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Chiharu
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However, you can't get the answer by just thinking...
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Shizuka
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Unfortunately, the only fact that we know is that
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Shizuka
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the devil is still alive, and the villagers' situation remains unknown...
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Shizuka
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What's wrong, Sunao?
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Sunao
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Nah, I just have some ill feelings.
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Sunao
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(I am probably just anxious because of the contingency...)
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Sunao
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(I thought too much...)
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Sunao
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Shizuka felt it too!?
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Shizuka
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Yeah, I did... But from where...
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Shizuka
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What about you, Chiharu?
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Chiharu
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I have absolutely no idea... But it surely lies somewhere nearby!
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Shizuka
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Other followers also emerge from the shadow...
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Shizuka
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Sunao, that way Charu might later be—!
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- Sunao -
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I should have known this, but why...
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Sunao
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(It reminds me about that, Mikoshiba...)
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Mikoshiba
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But I heard from the daughter of the head family.
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Mikoshiba
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It seemeth that Hiroe's daughter gained a troublesome power...
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Mikoshiba
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Tokime's daughter...
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Mikoshiba
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I am really counting on thee, but thou couldst not help if thou still treatest this emotionally.
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Mikoshiba
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Thou art just a little girl after all.
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Sunao
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Then, how can I eliminate Hiroe Chiharu...
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Mikoshiba
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Even if thou just leavest her alone, the shadow will devour her.
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Sunao
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Shizuka, Charu! Your shadows!
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Shizuka
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Charu, behind you!!
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Chiharu
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It evaded my hit...!!
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Chiharu
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Sorry, Sunao-chan, but I can't believe that they just evaded...
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Sunao
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I didn't recall it until just now either.
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Shizuka
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But you realized that they came from the shadows anyway.
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Sunao
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Mikoshiba's word came to my mind.
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Sunao
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She said the shadow would devour Charu...
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Chiharu
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Exactly, they are the same kind of followers that Shizuka fought...!
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Shizuka
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It was at night, so it shouldn't be related to shadows...
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Shizuka
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However, Mikoshiba knew that, which means...
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Sunao
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Everything, including the center of the clan, is apparently under manipulation...
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Chiharu
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More importantly, we have to anyhow make it before the nightfall, right?
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Shizuka
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Yeah, but we don't even know the location of the devil at this point...
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Shizuka
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So, let's go to check if everyone is safe.
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Shizuka
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Maybe we can feel the power of the devil during our action.
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Sunao
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Then, I am going to Mikoshiba's home...
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Chiharu
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Won't that be dangerous...?
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Sunao
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There is possibly some information I can collect.
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Sunao
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As the center of the village, her home may be where the devil hides too.
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Shizuka
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... Please don't force yourself.
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Shizuka
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this may be dangerous, but let's go separately.
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Shizuka
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Time before the sunset is precious.
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Shizuka
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Then, let me teach you how to use telepathy.
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Shizuka
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That's the technique that we diviners can use to transmit what we think.
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Chiharu
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(That's the same thing to the voice I heard under the waterfall.
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Chiharu
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(Did everyone escape...)
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Chiharu
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(or are they killed by the devil...?)
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Chiharu
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(If so, my mom would be in big trouble too!)
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Chiharu
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Nah—! No way no way no way!
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Chiharu
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(Because it somehow feels weird...)
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Chiharu
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(If a devil is an existence that hurts people, and if it manipulates the village,)
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Chiharu
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(then the narrative of "wishing for the Land of the Rising Sun" sounds weird.)
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Chiharu
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(Yeah, it feels contradictory.)
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Chiharu
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(Plus, if it wants to consume diviners, why not do so straightforward?)
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Chiharu
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(Instead, it formulates the trivial rules like the coming-of-age ceremony...)
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Chiharu
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(And made a phone call to my home...)
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Chiharu
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The phone call was made by the old woman...
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Chiharu
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Ah, that's enough! They messed up my mind.
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Chiharu
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How would Todoriki Kouichi think in this situation...
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- Todoriki (Chiharu) -
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You need to accept weird truths.
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Chiharu
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That's the triumphal line after the case is closed. How is that supposed to help the current situation...
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Chiharu
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(However, with weirdness intermingled...)
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Chiharu
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(Designating the scope, that's what matters...!)
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Chiharu
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Huh... Is it even meaningful to keep searching this way?
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Chiharu
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I already searched everywhere that I know. It must have escaped. Yeah.
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Chiharu
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(This... is not a follower of the devil...)
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Chiharu
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(The smell of the strange case from the shrine's direction...?)
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Chiharu
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(It seems stronger...)
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Chiharu
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Ah, I can't, I can't do that!
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Chiharu
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It's not time to be distracted by other things.
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Chiharu
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... The next would be the devil's followers!?
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Chiharu
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I am going to impose punishment on y'all!
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Chiharu
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A chink in the armor!
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Chiharu's voice
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Execution!
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Chiharu
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Good, good, it feels great.
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Chiharu
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Uwawa... Are, are you okay...!?
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Chiharu
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Well, this person, yeah, is the person who danced!
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Chiharu
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(Did she just fall off as the devil's follower was defeated...?)
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Chiharu
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(Not that, but Shizuka-chan's mother said that a devil manipulates people...)
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Chiharu
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(A person being manipulated...)
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Chiharu
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Correct, there is a devil's imprint on her.
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Chiharu
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Sorry, but I have to go...
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Chiharu
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Hmn—? No, there isn't, seemingly...?
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Chiharu
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(Is she actually someone escaping?)
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Chiharu
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(I thought there should be nobody by then, yet there are people who escaped slower...)
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Shizuka's mother
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Come here, Ms. Hiroe! An open field is a better place for fighting!
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Chiharu's mother
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The place is better for fighting, but Ms. Tokime, this sword isn't, right!
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Shizuka's mother
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We have no choice but to do it ourselves anyway!
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Chiharu
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Mom and Shizuka's mom!
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Chiharu's mother
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Chiharu!?
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Shizuka's mother
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Chiharu-chan!?
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Shizuka's mother
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Before that...
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Shizuka's mother
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Tokime Isshin Style... Meter-Leap Decapitation!!
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Chiharu
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Meter-Leap Decapitation—!?
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Shizuka's mother
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Ah, the sword...
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Chiharu
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Aah, it's okay! I'll defeat it!!
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Chiharu
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After that, we should contact Shizuka's mother and Sunao-chan!!
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Chiharu
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Is mom okay!? What about Shizuka's mother?
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Chiharu's mother
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Yeah, I am fine. Thanks, Chiharu...
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Shizuka's mother
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You are such a diviner... There's an untraversable gap between us.
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Chiharu
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No, you did an awesome job just now!
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Shizuka's mother
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Ha, thanks.
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Chiharu
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Haven't you both escaped?
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Chiharu
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I searched over and over but found no one.
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Chiharu's mother
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Of course, we evacuated with others...
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Chiharu's mother
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However, monsters emerges from shadows on our way,
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Chiharu's mother
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and then we were left behind.
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Shizuka's mother
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Why did they target us, I don't understand at all...
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Chiharu's mother
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Anyway, Chiharu
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Chiharu's mother
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I am not requiring your "hmn"! Where did you go!!
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Chiharu's mother
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You just suddenly disappeared, and never came back.
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Chiharu's mother
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Even monsters like that emerged, do you know how concerned I was...!
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Chiharu
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Ah... I'm sorry...
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Chiharu
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I was worried about the coming-of-age ceremony, so I went to see.
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Chiharu
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Then I fell into the waterfall basin with Shizuka...
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Chiharu's mother
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Into the waterfall basin...!?
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Chiharu's mother
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Who did so...!? Is your body alright...!?
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Chiharu
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As for the body, it's as healthy as you see, and I can even fight with it quite well...
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Shizuka's mother
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Well, you said you fell into the waterfall basin during the ceremony...?
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Chiharu
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It's like, the coming-of-age ceremony is akin to a ceremony that kills diviners...
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Chiharu
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During which we are turned into devils...
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Shizuka's mother
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It's a bit beyond my comprehension. Is Shizuka alright?
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Shizuka's mother
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She said she would contact me...
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Chiharu
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Yeah, we came together.
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Shizuka's mother
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... Just leave the details untill we evacuate to home.
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Chiharu
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Then we should also take the dancer I met just now.
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Chiharu
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Yeah, a dancer that fell off just now...
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Shizuka's mother
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But there is nobody...?
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Chiharu's mother
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Was there actually anyone...?
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Shizuka's mother
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Disappeared all in a sudden...
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Shizuka's mother
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Though it's incredible, there is yet another incredible thing...
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Chiharu
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Why they always follow and target us?
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Shizuka's mother
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That's what I am talking about.
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Shizuka
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But, from now on, we have to spare no effort.
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Sunao
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Okay, let's go inside.
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Shizuka's mother
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Shizuka...
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Shizuka
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I'm back, mom. I'll talk about the situation later.
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Shizuka's mother
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We are talking precisely about that.
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Shizuka 3
Shizuka
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A devil is lurking in my hometown.
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Shizuka
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(I am trying to explain it myself, yet I find it growingly confusing...)
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Shizuka
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(The customs that we have observed so far, as wells as the wishes made for the Land of the Rising Sun,)
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Shizuka
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(I don't know if they are still trustworthy, just because of the devil's lurking in ...)
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Shizuka
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(Even our becoming devils, was because it wants to kill us in a nefarious manner...?)
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Shizuka
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(It was kept secret from us because of that...?)
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Shizuka
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(Nah, that thing itself might be made-up...)
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Shizuka
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(The hometown that I have always love, now seems completely fake...)
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Shizuka
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(I was fettered by the diviner-consuming rule in the fake world...)
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Shizuka
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(No, I can't... I can't think negatively...)
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Shizuka
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(Even if I was born in a fake world...)
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Shizuka
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The existence of my mom is real...
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Shizuka
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So other people... can't be fake either!
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Shizuka
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That house... is illuminated...!
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Shizuka 4
Welcome back, Shizuka-chan!
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I wondered if you won't come back after the ceremony.
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Shizuka
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I was worried if any contingency would happen, so I came back with Charu and Sunao.
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Then we will soon be saved.
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Shizuka
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But why are you all gathering here?
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Mikoshiba-sama suddenly came,
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saying that monsters were emerging, and ordered us to hide before things would cool down.
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Shizuka
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(Noticing that we were back and then ordered the villagers to evacuate...?)
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Shizuka
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(As expected, she was trying to wipe us out and revert to the original condition...)
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Shizuka-chan, what's up...?
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Shizuka
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(However, everyone is possibly forged... just like the followers...)
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Shizuka
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... Is everyone real...?
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Shizuka
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It's the first time that the village becomes like this, so I became anxious.
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It's fine, because Shizuka has always been protecting us.
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That's it. We also know that you became restless after getting injured.
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I believe in you all, so please rest assures.
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Shizuka
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(They are probably real... I'm justified to think so...)
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Shizuka
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It will be fine, thanks, madam.
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Shizuka
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Okay! After getting rid of the anxiety, I am fine now!
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Shizuka
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I am gonna defeat the devil!
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Sorry for counting fully on you at this point, but please do your best!
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Shizuka
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We diviners are born for this moment!
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Shizuka
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By the way, have all the villagers gathered here?
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Shizuka
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Since this is an emergency, has anyone evacuated to the Great Sanctuary?
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No, everyone should have been here.
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Shizuka
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... Then even if any contingency happens, it should be fine with my mother here...
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Indeed, with the head family here, we feel much more relieved.
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Shizuka
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Can anyone call my mother?
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Nah, wait... I haven't seen the head family's people.
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Shizuka
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Eh... Nobody saw them...!?
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Shizuka
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It can't be true...
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Shizuka
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And also, yeah... Where's Chiharu's mother!?
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The one who works as a nurse?
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Shizuka
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Yeah, she gave treatment to me!
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Shizuka
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But, what about when she is evacuating!?
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We should have been together till then.
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Yeah, we witnessed that too.
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But I don't think I ever saw her since evacuated to this house...
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Shizuka
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How can that be, only my mother and Chiharu's mother aren't evacuating...
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Shizuka
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The only explanation I can come up with is they got targeted...
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Sunao
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... Thinking from the devil's perspective,
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Sunao
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since a diviners meal is more appealing for a devil,
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Sunao
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it might want to entomb us here and reset the situation...
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Shizuka
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Killing all relatives involved...?
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Shizuka
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Telepathy... From Sunao...?
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Sunao
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(Making the situation so complicated, it's probably all my bad...)
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Sunao
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(Because I became a diviner without Mikoshiba's permission...)
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Sunao
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(And I was punished by bearing the role of a murderer...)
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Mikoshiba
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What, she already became a diviner!?
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Sunao's father
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But Sunao did nothing wrong!
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Sunao's father
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It's our negligence that we didn't tell her about the diviner...!
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Mikoshiba
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It's a grave crime...
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Mikoshiba
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Have ye forgotten that ye are born in the branch family of Tokime Clan!
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Sunao's father
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We are fully aware of that...!
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Mikoshiba
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If so, things shouldn't have become like this.
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Mikoshiba
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Though ye are too naive, with a daughter entering the age of menarche,
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Mikoshiba
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for what reason ye dare not telling her about that...
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Sunao's mother
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............
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Sunao's mother
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We wanted to make her interested in that, about diviners...
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Sunao
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Papa and mama did nothing wrong either!
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Sunao
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It's me, it's me who willfully made a wish and became a magical girl.
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Mikoshiba
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Were they called like that in the modern world?
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Mikoshiba
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Then, what did thou wish for?
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Sunao
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... For my papa and mama.
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Mikoshiba
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Trivial... Wasteful...
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Sunao
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How is that trivial...!?
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Sunao
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Is it so bad to make a wish for important people!?
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Mikoshiba
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Thou under the bloodline of Tokime, let me tell thou what's after that wish.
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Mikoshiba
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... Come and listen
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- Mikoshiba -
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"Thou wouldst have to redeem thy parents' crime with thy own behavior."
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- Mikoshiba -
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"Even if thou hast become a diviner wastefully There are mountains of things thou canst do in the village."
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- Mikoshiba -
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"If anyone going against my intension appeareth, Thou shalt kill that person. "
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- Mikoshiba -
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"Thou cannot refuse to do so."
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- Mikoshiba -
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"Kill others to redeem your crime or thy parents die to redeem your crime thou shalt choose one between the two."
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Sunao
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(Still, quite scary...)
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Sunao
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(But if I dealt with the devil faster, maybe I can help my parents too...)
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Sunao
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Ensure Mikoshiba there if she is alive, and question her after the devil is defeated...
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Sunao
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When returned to sanity, ask her about what she thought before that...
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Sunao
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I'm coming in! I got things to do!
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Sunao 5
Sunao
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She really evacuated with other villagers...?
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Sunao
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(Or, maybe, became a puppet of the devil...)
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Sunao
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(Take this chance to search the shelves that I couldn't when Mikoshiba is here...)
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Sunao
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(... A gap in the wardrobe.)
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Sunao
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(Something is leaking out faint light...)
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Sunao
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... This is an old computer...
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Sunao
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(This absolutely shouldn't be found in this village...)
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Sunao
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There are many followers in this room... and outside too...
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Sunao
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which shouldn't be surprising since this is Mikoshiba's home...
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Sunao
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It's like the followers don't come out until they gather in groups...
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Sunao
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(Anyway, I'm contacting Shizuka for help when fighting...)
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Sunao
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And I must defend the computer to the last.
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Sunao
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Disappear from here!
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Sunao
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Though I messed pretty much everything up...
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Sunao
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The computer... seems... intact...
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Sunao
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(Of course it isn't...)
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Sunao
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(But I guess at such an age, what she can remember is limited...)
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Sunao
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(The common sense when people used computers this old should be pretty outdated too...)
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Sunao
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(Somehow I don't think it should be that complex...)
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Sunao
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(Information that I have collected for revenging someday...)
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Sunao
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(Seemingly complex things that I have remembered somewhere, like words... numbers...)
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Sunao
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(The number of the safe box...)
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Sunao
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(There aren't many files...)
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Sunao
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(It's connected to the internet...)
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Sunao
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(Nothing... Neither any in the recycle bin...)
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Sunao
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(But there isn't much free space left...)
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Sunao
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(Commonly accessed folders)
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Sunao
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(A lot of audio files...)
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Sunao
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............ It's muted?
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Shizuka
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I'm sorry, Sunao! There are many followers on my way too!
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Sunao
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It's okay. Take it easy. I already defeated them here...
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Shizuka
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... But, you don't sound well?
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Sunao
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Because I underwent a struggle.
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Sunao
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(Is it something that I can say out easily...?)
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Shizuka
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Can you help me with my searching later...?
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Shizuka
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My mom and Charu's mom went missing...
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Sunao
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How coincidental that they are you two's...
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Sunao
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That aside, do you have any idea about where to search...?
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Shizuka
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That's exactly what I want to know...
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Shizuka
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Wait, I got telepathy from Charu...
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Sunao
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(May as well... carry it to the grave ...)
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............ Hah
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Shizuka's mother
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Ms. Hiroe...
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Chiharu's mother
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The existence of both diviners and Tokime Clan... I haven't settled for them till just now.
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Shizuka's mother
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... I understand your feeling.
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Shizuka's mother
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It's hard for me to imagine that the whole village lies inside a labyrinth...
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Chiharu
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I'm sorry for the abrupt comment...
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Chiharu's mother
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You don't have to, Chiharu. We are just a bit surprised.
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Chiharu's mother
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As your mother, I already prepared for the worst the time when you became a diviner.
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Chiharu's mother
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It's okay for me to challenge my common sense to accept them.
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Shizuka's mother
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Plus, it is harsher for you diviners...
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Shizuka
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However, we still have no idea about how real they are...
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Shizuka
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Though I know it clear that I was almost killed my Mikoshiba,
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Shizuka
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that Sunao was threatened by Mikoshiba to become an assassin,
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Shizuka
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and, that followers suddenly emerge from nowhere in the village...
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Sunao
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What about that we may... someday become devils...
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Shizuka
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Just read it as that Mikoshiba was fooling us and attempting to kill us in a nefarious manner...
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Shizuka
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It makes sense to think so, so I don't think it is the fact.
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Shizuka's mother
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What's wrong, Shizuka...?
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Shizuka
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... Just now, I became worried after some consideration.
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Shizuka
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If, I mean if the village really is a labyrinth of the devil,
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Shizuka
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The sceneries and people that I have seen might be no more than phantoms...
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Chiharu
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I and my mother came from outside, I can guarantee we are real!
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Chiharu
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And Shizuka-chan's mother was also attacked by followers,
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Chiharu
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so she can't be fake either!
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Shizuka's mother
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Then from whose womb were you born?
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Sunao
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Don't think too much about the weird stuff, just focus on the here and now.
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Chiharu
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Anyway, there is a devil, make no mistake.
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Chiharu
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Let's punish it hard and find out the old woman!
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Chiharu
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Or we may lose the chance to question her.
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Shizuka
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If manipulated by the devil, she might lose her memories.
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Shizuka's mother
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... You all should go now.
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Chiharu
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It's evening already...!
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Chiharu
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If we don't defeat it before the sunset, it will turn out the way that night did!
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Shizuka
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Right, when darkness falls, it enables the devil to do whatever it wants...
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Chiharu
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But, is it okay to leave behind our mothers?!?
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Shizuka's mother
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If it just comes the devil's followers, I am fully capable of dealing with them.
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Chiharu
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Even when the sword is broken!?
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Shizuka's mother
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So I want you to do me a favor before leaving
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Chiharu
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A lot of swords... In the wardrobe...
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Shizuka's mother
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Can you infuse the power of diviners into these swords?
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Chiharu
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What does it mean?
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Shizuka
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The power of diviners can be infused to different items.
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Shizuka
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If you infuse the power to weapons like these,
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Shizuka
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they become weapons that can be used to fight against the devil.
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Shizuka's mother
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So please come and infuse your power before leaving
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Shizuka's mother
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We have techniques, but not your power.
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Chiharu
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I see! We'll put it all in!
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Shizuka
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Sunao, you can come and help too!
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Shizuka
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The only question left is where is the devil...
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Sunao
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Well, there is one sword left though.
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Shizuka's mother
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It's the treasure, so I guess we should leave it there?
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Shizuka
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It was infused the power of generations of Tokime's diviners.
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Sunao
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I see. It's an important thing.
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Shizuka's mother
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But the further story of the sword
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Shizuka's mother
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shall be told to Shizuka when she comes back.
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Shizuka
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What is that feeling of being "halfway" there...
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Shizuka's mother
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Be cautious.
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Shizuka
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... Okay, I understand.
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Shizuka
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So, got any idea after you both patrolled around the village...?
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Chiharu
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Nothing at all here...
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Chiharu
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Still, I feel the shrine smells wrong.
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Sunao
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I went to Mikoshiba's home and find nothing in particular either...
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Shizuka
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The same to me, actually.
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Shizuka
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I checked if it was safe and patrolled there, but found nothing worth mentioning...
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Shizuka
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Do all of us really feel nothing...?
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Sunao
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I did feel the atmosphere of the devil.
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Sunao
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But, how can I put it properly... I think it's flat or even...
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Sunao
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It has some weeny changes, but the intensity of the reaction remains the same...
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Chiharu
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I guess feel the same.
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Chiharu
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Just feel "it doesn't quite change" and meanwhile search for everybody.
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Chiharu
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What about Shizuka-chan?
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Shizuka
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Unfortunately, the same...
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Shizuka
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Even an idea about whether it is approaching or leaving would be good...
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Chiharu
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Yet the distance remains the same even when we are moving...
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Sunao
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It doesn't make sense with three of us all feel so...
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Sunao
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It has some weeny changes because it is hiding somewhere...
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Chiharu
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Hiding... Hiding... Hmm, it somehow feels right.
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Chiharu
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It is time to ask Todoriki Kouichi
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Sunao
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Ah, a character in a drama?
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Chiharu
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Sunao-chan knows him!?
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Sunao
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Just the name and nothing else.
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Shizuka
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So, what can that Mr. Todoriki do?
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Chiharu
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Become Mr. Todoriki who solves cases in my mind and then ask him.
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Chiharu
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Mr. Todoriki, the reaction remains the same however I move,
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Chiharu
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what should I do at this point!?
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- Todoriki (Chiharu) -
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The culprit is lurking around you That's for sure You can try removing the map in your mind
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- Todoriki (Chiharu) -
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The world perceived as a flat plain actually comprises three-dimensional structures like mountains and the sky You should know that
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- Todoriki (Chiharu) -
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Try considering based on that
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- Todoriki (Chiharu) -
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In this world the so-called truth may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity
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Chiharu
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Huh... That's what Todoriki told me.
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Shizuka
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You said "told"... But it's all your self-performance...
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Chiharu
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I feel impersonating make my mind smarter.
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Sunao
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But I do believe that there are some perspectives that we have so far missed out...
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Sunao
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Considering the differences between two- and three-dimension...
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Sunao
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To be frank, I think it's underground.
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Sunao
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If you think about it from a two-dimensional perspective,
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Sunao
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your distance to the devil should have been approaching zero meters sooner or later,
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Sunao
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yet, if it is somewhere 200 meters below the ground,
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Sunao
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The difference of the reaction as you move, if any, won't feel quite significant.
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Chiharu
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With nothing in the sky, so it must be underground.
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Shizuka
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But, under the ground of the village...
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Sunao
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Do you know that...?
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Shizuka
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Yeah... Just one...!
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Shizuka
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By the way, have all the villagers gathered here?
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Shizuka
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Since this is an emergency, has anyone evacuated to the Great Sanctuary?
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No, everyone should have been here.
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Shizuka
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The Great Sanctuary...
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Shizuka
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Deep inside the Holy Music Stage that Charu entered, that's where the ancient sanctuary locates...
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Chiharu
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The place that smells awful...!
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Shizuka
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Charu probably felt something at the very beginning...
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Shizuka
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The so-called truth may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity
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Shizuka
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Okay, we are running out of time. Hurry to the Great Sanctuary.
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Chiharu
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It smells stronger just as expected...
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Shizuka
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Is the smell Charu talked about exactly a case-related feeling?
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Shizuka
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For example, feeling the power from a devil, is it relevant?
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Chiharu
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Well... Not something that should be called power.
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Chiharu
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It's a feeling that awful things are going to happen, and the unpleasant feeling nauseates my chest.
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Shizuka
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You have always felt it from here, right...
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Sunao
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We can't know what it really is until we go inside...
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Chiharu
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By the way, what is the Great Sanctuary Shizuka talked about...?
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Shizuka
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The Great Sanctuary is a place to worship the god,
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Shizuka
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like Cubey who realizes wishes
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Shizuka
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and diviners that have fought for the Land of the Rising Sun.
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Sunao
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Have you Shizuka entered it?
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Shizuka
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People who became dancers have been summoned in,
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Shizuka
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but I don't think most people have been there.
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Shizuka
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Though it was designated as an emergency shelter, the emergency has never happened until today...
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Shizuka
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We've arrived. Go into the sanctuary and we should be able to go downstairs.
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Chiharu
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Ue... It sucks...
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Sunao
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Wait, are you okay!?
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Chiharu
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Sorry... But I think I will be able to get used to it a bit later...
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Chiharu
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I don't understand... What is this... ...It's malice, probably.
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Chiharu
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You feel disgusted when seeing a person who does bad things, right?
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Chiharu
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I guess, it feels just like that...
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Shizuka
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If there's no reaction from the devil, can that be someone to arrest...
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Sunao
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Not only the devil, but also Mikoshiba might be there...
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Chiharu
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... I am well now. I've calmed down
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Sunao
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Then, let's start descending...?
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Shizuka
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The reaction can be felt right in front of the staircases.
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Chiharu
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We did it. This is the right place...
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Sunao
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How far should we go down...
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Shizuka
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I don't know... It's the first time for me to go in too...
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Sunao
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There are a lot of things that Tokime Clan's head family don't know either...
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Shizuka
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Rather, nobody but Mikoshiba know them all...
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Chiharu
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Maybe because the old woman is manipulated.
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Chiharu
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It will be a formidable enemy.
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Sunao
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True, we must be prepared...
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Shizuka
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If we die, everything will be buried into darkness...
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Shizuka
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It's our duty to go back alive and expose everything under the sun.
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Chiharu
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... I can see the light.
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Chiharu
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... Formidable malice and
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Shizuka
|
... formidable... power of the devil...
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Chiharu
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............ What is this place...
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Shizuka
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Such a magnificent place... built without anyone knowing...
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Mikoshiba
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Little girls... Ye actually know it's here...
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Shizuka
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Charu has long felt the smell.
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Mikoshiba
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Troublesome, it's troublesome.
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Mikoshiba
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I should have killed thou earlier.
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Shizuka
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Don't ever talk about killing at ease.
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Shizuka
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Tell us, everything so far, no one less!
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Mikoshiba
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Even if thou never askest, I shall tell thou at thy last breath.
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Mikoshiba
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Well, why not come and play with the devil to decorate the conversation?
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Sunao
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Shizuka, Charu! Behind Mikoshiba!
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Mikoshiba
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Oh, the devil, bury them for me...
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Mikoshiba
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And then it will be their parents' turn.
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Chiharu
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The old woman is manipulating the devil...!?
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Sunao
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It looks so, and it turns out to be a trick of manipulating devils...
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Shizuka
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Our enemy is Tokime's priestess.
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Shizuka
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This isn't too weird considering that even diviners can exist.
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Chiharu
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But... It's possible that she is actually being manipulated.
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Mikoshiba
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Go, crush them!
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Shizuka
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Ough...! This is really the devil overwhelming the whole village...
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Shizuka
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Not a critical hit...
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Mikoshiba
|
Ye little girls are generations behind
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Mikoshiba
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the devils trained for so many years. Go and melt them altogether...
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Sunao
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What is that water...!
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Shizuka
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Sunao, step back!
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Chiharu
|
It's still spraying like crazy!
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Chiharu
|
If we can ascend...!
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Shizuka
|
Alongside the wall...
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Sunao
|
Kick the walls and hit the devil outright...
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Shizuka
|
If so, we will touch its water at the moment we fall.
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Mikoshiba
|
The crying voices of the little girls are pleasing and really good.
|
Shizuka
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Here, I can stop it with my power...
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Sunao
|
The water flow stop...!
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Shizuka
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Sunao! Escape to its top now!
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Sunao
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But Shizuka, you can't move, can you!
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Shizuka
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Escape to its top when it stops!
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Chiharu's voice
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Shizuka-chan! Sunao-chan!
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Shizuka
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Na, the body is wrapped by ropes...
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Sunao
|
A jitte at its end...
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Chiharu
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I'm pullingーーーー!!
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Shizuka
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Thanks, we are saved.
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Sunao
|
There is such a way of making a difference.
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Mikoshiba
|
Petty tricks...
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Chiharu
|
The stage where we fight is here!
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Chiharu
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If we occupy the top of the sanctuary, the pouring water won't be threatening!
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Sunao
|
Right. Let's attack it here!
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Shizuka
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We just narrowly escaped from death.
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Mikoshiba
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It's useless to escape around.
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Mikoshiba
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collapsing the sanctuary isn't a matter. Be sure to exterminate them all.
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Chiharu
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Suffer yourself to be bound!
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Shizuka
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I bound it successfully...
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Shizuka
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Septuple Swords, finish the devil up!
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Shizuka's voice
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Finally, it's your turn, Sunao!
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Sunao
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If you want to melt us, we will in turn purge you!
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Mikoshiba
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What, can't thou move! Art thou a devil like that and no more!
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Mikoshiba
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Let me see thy potential power!!
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Chiharu
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Getting so angry will blow up your head's blood vessels......
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Mikoshiba
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Dammit... Hiroe's fxxking daughter...
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Shizuka
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Old woman... Wake up.
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Shizuka
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You probably didn't manipulate the devil. Instead, you were actually manipulated.
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Shizuka
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If so, you are just killing meaninglessly...
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Mikoshiba
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Stop talking nonsense, Tokime's daughter.
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Mikoshiba
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Can I ever be manipulated?
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Mikoshiba
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All I have done is to follow the Shaman Deity's rules.
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Mikoshiba
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Everything is real,
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Mikoshiba
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my manipulating the devil, and the fact that ye will become devils,
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Mikoshiba
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and in addition,
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Mikoshiba
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that those who go out shall be abandoned; that those come from outside shall be killed...
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Mikoshiba
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For they are necessary for the village... Nothing more and nothing less.
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Mikoshiba
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For the sake of the shadow of the Land of the Rising Sun, all these are necessary.
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Shizuka
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If so, that thing is too...?
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Shizuka
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Is it also the village's convention that we became useless after having our wishes granted
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Shizuka
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and will be killed after being used up?
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Mikoshiba
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For that reason, ye should be buried
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Mikoshiba
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so as to make sure that the existence of Tokime is never exposed under broad daylight!
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Chiharu
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Whatever you say to the old woman, it's useless now...
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Shizuka
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Yeah... But I still hold the hope
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Shizuka
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that she will return to normal after the devil is eliminated...
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Shizuka
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Though Mikoshiba is an annoying old woman, there were times when she was kind...
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Sunao
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Don't hold that kind of hope on Mikoshiba.
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Shizuka
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... It's really just a faint hope.
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Mikoshiba
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Oh, devil. This is thy last chance. Don't fail it this time...
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Shizuka
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Sunao, Charu, let's give it the coup de grâce.
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佛色佛諸 應故至貧 以諸靡乃 彼地如國 意聞淨佛 如甚修覆
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Chiharu
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We—we defeated it... Victory...
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Sunao
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Though we consumed much energy...
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Sunao
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It dropped its ghost, so I think it's fine...
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Shizuka
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What about Mikoshiba...
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Mikoshiba
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Ough... Nu...u...
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Chiharu
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Is the old woman fine...?
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Shizuka
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It would be a big trouble if she dies here.
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Sunao
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Yes, leaving mountains of questions that we want to ask unanswered...
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Shizuka
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... Apparently she has just fainted.
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Chiharu's mother
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Chiharu! Shizuka-chan!
Sunao-chan!
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Shizuka's mother
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The devil was defeated, right?
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Shizuka's mother
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I suppose so because the followers suddenly vanished.
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Chiharu
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It was pretty tough, but we three endeavored and defeated it!
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Sunao
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It was nice teamwork.
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Shizuka
|
Yeah. What about mothers...?
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Shizuka's mother
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As you can see, exhausted...
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Shizuka's mother
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Only one sword survives. Another second, and everything would have been over...
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Shizuka
|
Fortunately, we made it in time...
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Shizuka's mother
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So, did you see Mikoshiba-sama with the devil...?
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Sunao
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She was manipulating the devil...
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Shizuka's mother
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In other words, they are collusive...?
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Chiharu
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That is still unknown.
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Chiharu
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It looked so, but it's possible that she was actually manipulated.
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Shizuka
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Chiharu, we will talk about that later.
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Shizuka
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Just ask Mikoshiba after she wakes up.
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Chiharu's mother
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Then, let's go back to my home for now...
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Shizuka's mother
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May I also go to the house Ms. Hiroe rented?
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Chiharu's mother
|
Ms. Tokime's home was almost devastated after all...
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Shizuka
|
Finally she woke up...
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Chiharu
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Old woman, are you fine...?
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Mikoshiba
|
... Ye are diviners'—
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Chiharu's mother
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Though there is no injury in particular, do you feel unwell?
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Shizuka's mother
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Ms. Hiroe, you don't have to take care of her too much.
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Mikoshiba
|
Tokime's and Hiroe's...
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Mikoshiba
|
Was that like, I got injured and then fell asleep?
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Chiharu
|
... Don't you remember anything?
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Mikoshiba
|
Sorry... My recent memories are blur...
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Chiharu
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Huh... Can it be...?
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Shizuka
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It's possible for one who got a devil's cursing seals to have things forgotten...
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Mikoshiba
|
Thou mean'st, I, by the devil...?
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Sunao
|
... But, rather, it looked like you were manipulating the devil...
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Mikoshiba
|
I can't remember that... Sorry...
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Mikoshiba
|
But it's true that ye saved me, right?
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Mikoshiba
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I have to express my gratitude to ye three diviners. Thank ye.
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Shizuka
|
Anyway... We have things to ask from you...
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Shizuka
|
Whether your memory is blurred or not, I just want you to let us know.
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Shizuka
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About us diviners...
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Mikoshiba
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... They are all that I have said, correct...?
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Shizuka
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Yeah, you said so.
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Shizuka
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At the coming-of-age ceremony, you said a diviner eventually becomes a devil.
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Shizuka
|
You also said that as the shadow of the Land of the Rising Sun, a diviner can never go out...
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Mikoshiba
|
They are all things I don't know...
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Mikoshiba
|
But I don't think thou art a dishonest girl...
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Mikoshiba
|
So please allow me to make an apology.
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Chiharu
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The old woman is lying...
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Mikoshiba
|
That's troublesome...
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Mikoshiba
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Considering what I have done, it's natural for thou to say so...
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Chiharu
|
It smells wrong... Still...
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Sunao
|
It's no longer possible. I can't tolerate anymore...
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Mikoshiba
|
Toki's daughter...
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Sunao
|
I thought you might admit all of them, but now it seems impossible...
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Sunao
|
To protect Shizuka and Charu from being hurt by the truths, I had held back from telling about them...
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Sunao
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I thought if Mikoshiba would be punished, may as well bring them to the grave.
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Sunao
|
But, but no longer!
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Mikoshiba
|
What—what arr thou talking about...
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Shizuka
|
What are those things that you held back from telling us...
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Sunao
|
I, I went to Mikoshiba's home, right?
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Sunao
|
At that point, of course, I didn't find Mikoshiba there.
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Mikoshiba
|
If so, where was I...
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Sunao
|
At the Great Sanctuary...
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Mikoshiba
|
You fool, you mean I was there...!? At the holy place, with the devil!?
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Sunao
|
Don't avoid the topic!
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Sunao
|
You don't remember threatening to kill my parents, do you?
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Chiharu's mother
|
Then, you shouldn't remember asking me to come and threatening me either...
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Mikoshiba
|
That's... true...
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Sunao
|
Since when...? Since when did your memories become blurred?
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Mikoshiba
|
I see... Since Sunao's case, I guess.
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Mikoshiba
|
One year... Or maybe... as long as two years if not less...
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Sunao
|
If so, at least you should remember one case as normal...
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Mikoshiba
|
Which... one...?
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Chiharu
|
Sunao-chan... What are you talking about...?
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Sunao
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I went to Mikoshiba's home, and found something...
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Sunao
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A computer, which shouldn't be here in this village...
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Sunao
|
I entered the same number to the number of the safe box and logged in it.
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Sunao
|
Then, I found some audio files...
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Sunao
|
The files were at least 2 years old...
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Mikoshiba
|
... Thou listenedst to them?
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Sunao
|
Yes... Clearly with my ears...
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Mikoshiba
|
So... So... Thou listenedst to them...
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Sunao
|
What are they... Tell me...!!
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Mikoshiba
|
Thou'd better not to know.
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Mikoshiba
|
Ignorance is bliss.
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Sunao
|
Are you trying to bluff it out!
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Mikoshiba
|
... Yeah, I shouldn't have allowed people from outside in...
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Mikoshiba
|
Let me tell ye, there is no written documentation,
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Mikoshiba
|
so no villager would be able to read about them.
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Shizuka
|
Wait, what's up...!?
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Chiharu's mother
|
Leave this house!
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Chiharu
|
The old woman, is dead, really...?
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Shizuka's mother
|
Poison was put between her back teeth.
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Shizuka's mother
|
Perhaps she attempted to escape to Hades.
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Chiharu
|
Even if she didn't...
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Chiharu's mother
|
Charu...
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Sunao
|
That means she admitted them... Her wrongdoings...
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Chiharu
|
But... but... He said any bad guy can be reformed...
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Chiharu
|
Mr. Todoriki said so...
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Shizuka
|
It's quite possible that people who can't exist...
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Sunao
|
I can't forgive that...
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Sunao
|
Doing malicious things at her will, and even burying them in the darkness when dying...!
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Sunao
|
Sorry... I shouldn't have said like that...
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Sunao
|
I should have... ask more from Mikoshiba before saying that...!
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Shizuka's mother
|
Sunao-chan, calm down...
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Shizuka
|
Probably, I would have interrogated even if Sunao wouldn't...
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Shizuka
|
Because the dead bodies I saw underwater weren't accumulated within just a couple of years.
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Shizuka
|
She had always... always...
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Shizuka
|
been simply killing diviners, regardless of devils...
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Shizuka
|
...Son Sunao, what did your heard about...?
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Sunao
|
... I don't even want to talk about that.
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Shizuka
|
Something to do with me and Chiharu, right...
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Shizuka
|
Just let me know...
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Sunao
|
Don't. You will regret it!
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Shizuka
|
But it's about us, right?
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Shizuka
|
It's unfair if you carry it to the grave.
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Chiharu
|
We want to know about our things, so let us bear it too.
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Sunao
|
What I heard... what I heard was
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Sunao
|
The pricing of lives...
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Chiharu
|
The pricing of lives...?
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Shizuka
|
Which means, the pricing of my and Chiharu's lives...?
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Sunao
|
A conversation with an unknown man was recorded...
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Sunao
|
Though it was hard to understand at the beginning,
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Sunao
|
the topic gradually shifted to about the wish made when becoming a diviner...
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Chiharu
|
Who is on the other side...?
|
Sunao
|
I heard only his voice in the file at that moment. As for his name...
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Sunao
|
Anyway, he must be a celebrity...
|
Sunao
|
She talked about the pricing of the wish... and the trend of the time... with that person...
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Shizuka
|
In short, our wishes... Our lives were sold out...
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Shizuka
|
Sorry for telling you straightforward... You are more tolerant than I expected...
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Chiharu
|
We didn't wish for the Land of the Rising Sun...?
|
Sunao
|
... That fact doesn't change.
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Chiharu
|
But, the old woman received money and asked us to make the wishes...
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Chiharu
|
I didn't sacrifice my life to the god...
|
Chiharu
|
My life was just sold to an unknown man...
|
Chiharu
|
... My wish... What did I wish for...
|
Shizuka
|
Indeed, it was probably sold. Even so... Even so, Charu...
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Shizuka
|
Your wish was indeed realized, and foiled the evil nesting within justice...
|
Shizuka
|
So, it was meaningful... It was... Charu...!
|
Chiharu
|
By the way, Sunao-chan... How much was I...?
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Chiharu's mother
|
Wait, Charu... You don't have to ask about that...
|
Sunao
|
Yeah, it's not about price.
|
Sunao
|
We are friends, and that's priceless.
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Sunao
|
Charu and Shizuka have always been the greatest people.
|
Sunao
|
How much are they... I don't know...
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Shizuka
|
Sorry for making you bear that... You are the greatest person too...
|
Sunao
|
Even if I attempted to kill you...?
|
Shizuka
|
It turned out that Mikoshiba knew everything and manipulated the devil too...
|
Shizuka
|
And this village has long been selling lives since ancient times...
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Shizuka, not exactly...
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Shizuka's mother
|
This is Tokime's village. It knows nothing about how things were before Mikoshiba came...
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Even if you want to ask, the dead men tell no tales...
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Chiharu
|
If that's the case... If that's the case, just do it till the very end...!
|
Chiharu's mother
|
Charu, what are you doing! Stop!
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Shizuka's mother
|
As my mom said, however bad she was, a dead person is dead!
|
Chiharu
|
It still smells wrong, didn't I say that just now!
|
Chiharu
|
The old woman still smells like a bad person even when she is dead!
|
Chiharu's mother
|
So what can you do?
|
Chiharu
|
The so-called truth may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity.
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Chiharu
|
If it could lie in the computer Sunao-chan found
|
Chiharu
|
the real important things may be carried with her, right?
|
Chiharu's mother
|
I see... Let me search...
|
Chiharu's mother
|
... I'm sorry.
|
Chiharu's mother
|
............
|
Chiharu
|
Is there... nothing...?
|
Chiharu's mother
|
Something inside the pocket...
|
Chiharu's mother
|
... This is
|
Shizuka
|
a book...? What... what is the weird script...
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Nothing can be done if it is unreadable...
|
Chiharu's mother
|
A brain is essential to becoming Mr. Todoriki.
|
Chiharu's mother
|
You promised that you will study and learn the classics now.
|
Chiharu
|
H'm. Why the classics?
|
Chiharu's mother
|
You have to, it is the Hiroe family's tradition.
|
Chiharu
|
I'll change this from my generation...
|
Chiharu's mother
|
We... can read it...!
|
Shizuka
|
You're kidding...
|
Chiharu
|
Our family has the rule of remembering this script...
|
Chiharu's mother
|
But we never expected it to appear in such case...
|
Shizuka
|
It can be... deciphered?
|
Chiharu
|
Quite possibly...!
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Then I'll leave the deciphering to you. We are going to summon other people.
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Other villagers are still in shelters.
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Anyhow, Mikoshiba should be carried home too...
|
Shizuka
|
Then, Charu... Please...
|
Chiharu
|
Okay. I'll try. Mom, try reading this.
|
Chiharu's mother
|
Yeah. We probably have to stay overnight.
|
Sunao 7
Sunao
|
(A lot of audio files...)
|
Sunao
|
............ It's muted?
|
'About the person to realize the wonder realized is she prepared yet?'
|
- Mikoshiba -
|
"Please wait a bit longer, I can guarantee that will be done within several days."
|
'Things will be screwed up if you don't hurry up. If it goes well, it will be an incident that could change the political situation.'
|
- Mikoshiba -
|
"I know thy circumstances. Dost thou know how many times I have traded with people like thee? It's not the first time for thee to ask us for help"
|
'I got your contact information from my teacher, but whether I will trust you depends on how this case turns out.'
|
- Mikoshiba -
|
"Thy political rival hath come to contact me too, but the price thou suggest is much more favourable"
|
'Please don't be late I already paid for the wish'
|
- Mikoshiba -
|
"Let me tell thee, it will be just several days' wait"
|
- Mikoshiba -
|
"When that moment cometh the wish thou paid for will be granted and thou shalt be thankful to thy teacher too"
|
'Thanks. I'm counting on you'
|
- Mikoshiba -
|
"Besides, thou shouldst know that our conversations are all recorded as evidence and will become each other's Achilles' heels"
|
- Mikoshiba -
|
"Thou shalt never forget that for thy political career may end because of it."
|
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Shizuka
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Thanks for your hard work, Charu.
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Chiharu
|
It's my first time to stay overnight...
|
Chiharu
|
Was it much harder for you to deal with?
|
Sunao
|
It's because Mikoshiba died...
|
Shizuka
|
And on top of that, the dancers died too, creating a fuss...
|
Chiharu
|
That's the reason why people were gathering...
|
Shizuka
|
Perhaps only people linked to diviners knew the fact...
|
Shizuka
|
The dancers were said to be adopted as Mikoshiba's successors.
|
Sunao
|
Then, what about Charu's side?
|
Chiharu
|
Here is it: though we didn't dig into every detail, it's comprehensible overall.
|
Chiharu's mother
|
Though almost all read by your mother.
|
Chiharu
|
Ur... I will learn it hard...
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Sunao
|
But why should we come here?
|
Chiharu
|
This shrine is the root of Tokime, a good place to start things,
|
Chiharu
|
except it isn't — The Wavering Deity is nearby.
|
Shizuka
|
Why the Wavering Deity?
|
Chiharu
|
Just listen to it and you will understand.
|
Shizuka's mother
|
So can we listen to it now?
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Don't just give us cliffhangers and make us impatient.
|
Chiharu's mother
|
Okay, the story is divided into two chapters.
|
Chiharu
|
One is Mikoshiba's story, another Tokime's.
|
- Chiharu -
|
Let me begin with Mikoshiba's story She used to be a warrior dispatched to protect Tokime who managed to come into power when there happened to be no diviners in the village
|
- Chiharu -
|
Since then Mikoshiba altered many rules creating rituals like Nation's Guard's Holy Music, the ceremony of diviners, and the coming-of-age ceremony
|
- Chiharu -
|
By having the village's girls have their wishes granted she obtained the ability to manipulate devils
|
- Chiharu -
|
Then she hid the village in a labyrinth
|
- Chiharu -
|
Which is to say, Mikoshiba hid the village in which diviners are created for money in a labyrinth killing diviners in order to monopolize it so that no information would be leaked out
|
Shizuka
|
What Mikoshiba had done on me...
|
Chiharu
|
seems to have been long followed...
|
Shizuka
|
Then, we might one day become devils...
|
Chiharu
|
Seems to be true too...
|
Shizuka
|
How can that be...
|
Shizuka
|
... What followings that!
|
- Chiharu -
|
The following writes about the Wavering Deity
|
- Chiharu -
|
It is a devil formed by the dumped diviners who could neither go out nor return to the village hence becoming a drifting existence
|
- Chiharu -
|
The Wavering Deity would return to the village as soon as Mikoshiba and the labyrinth of the devil are eliminated
|
- Chiharu -
|
Ultimately, it will devour the village and erase all evidence of the diviners — That's all it writes
|
Chiharu's mother
|
It feels like an obsession that she would never surrender Tokime to anyone else...
|
Shizuka
|
Since there is already no labyrinth covering the village...!
|
Chiharu
|
Yeah, the Wavering Deity must be returning...
|
Chiharu
|
At that time, we must defeat it.
|
Sunao
|
We'll attacking our ancestors head-on...
|
Chiharu
|
We are going to liberate the diviners who have always suffered...
|
Chiharu
|
By us the rules Mikoshiba had set up will be smashed...!
|
Shizuka
|
But, since our ancestors have grown for so many years,
|
Shizuka
|
are we three capable of defeating them...?
|
Shizuka
|
Though we know a battle is inevitable.
|
Chiharu
|
This reaction... It's the Wavering Deity...
|
Shizuka
|
Now I understand the reason to get all the trouble to take up positions here.
|
Shizuka
|
We will attack it head-on here, right?
|
Shizuka's mother
|
I know it's a bad timing, but can you all return to my home...?
|
Shizuka's mother
|
I'll tell you about the sword I talked about last night while walking.
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Whew, it still raise my pulse despite my life experience.
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Shizuka
|
So what are you gonna inform me?
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Shizuka's mother
|
Firstly, Hiroe family is the descendant of Mikoshiba, make no mistake.
|
Chiharu
|
Huh... By Mikoshiba, you mean the old woman?
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Exactly.
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Only Mikoshiba's people can read that kind of script.
|
Chiharu
|
Though I heard from my mom that we came out from Tokime's Village
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Chiharu's mother
|
I never expected that to be Mikoshiba...
|
Chiharu
|
It's complicated...
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Don't say so,
|
Shizuka's mother
|
because we Tokime's family have been waiting for you
|
Chiharu
|
You know we didn't come for that, right?
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Even I wasn't aware of that until last night.
|
Shizuka's mother
|
But finally, I understood the meaning of the story that has been passed down by Tokime's...
|
Shizuka's mother
|
When the ones who can read Mikoshiba's script appear, Mikoshiba will collapse.
|
Shizuka's mother
|
Before the collapse, diviners should sharpen a sword.
|
Shizuka's mother
|
There is a legend goes like this in Tokime's family.
|
Shizuka
|
This time we decided to decipher the book after witnessing the situation of the village.
|
Shizuka
|
Actually, could we read the book in the first place, we would be able to see the big picture of the plan...
|
Shizuka
|
And to annihilate the plan, we will battle against the Wavering Deity...
|
Sunao
|
Maybe Shizuka's and Charu's families used to cooperate with each other?
|
Sunao
|
And the plan was leaked, so one was banished and lived outside as Hiroe family...
|
Shizuka
|
My family has been sharpening the knife...
|
Chiharu
|
My family has been passing down Mikoshiba's script...
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Shizuka's mother
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Shizuka! Accept this!
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Shizuka's mother
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This is the treasured sword to which Tokime's diviners' power has infused.
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Shizuka's mother
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Use the power incorporated during the 100 years, 200 years, or even 300 years,
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Shizuka's mother
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and liberate the Wavering Deity.
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Shizuka
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I'll use it properly.
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Sunao
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This will be the final battle
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Chiharu
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Those who infused their emotions into the sword must be wandering as the Wavering Deity.
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Shizuka
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Go and welcome them back, as well as the bright feeling they once had.
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Chiharu
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At the end of the centuries-long time!
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Chiharu
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The Wavering Deity is pretty close...
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Sunao
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No, it's still far away...
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Chiharu
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Will it become excited when seeing the village?
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Shizuka
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After hundreds of years of wandering, it will finally see its hometown...
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Shizuka
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Though they are no longer humans they used to be, but just a devil.
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Shizuka
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Still, seeing the place where it beloned
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Shizuka
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should make it happy, right?
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- Chiharu -
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-Chiharu- However, even if it wants to return happily it is just a venomous devil now
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- Sunao -
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-Sunao- We can't allow Tokime's village surrendered to it as its living space
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Shizuka
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That's why we should liberate it with our hands, right!
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Chiharu
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Their real destination is the Heaven.
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Chiharu
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The first shot — nah, the first jitte is mine!
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Shizuka
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Let us go your boss' place!
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Sunao
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Go inward at one fling!
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Chiharu
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Huh... Huh... Hey, Shizuka-chan!
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Shizuka
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What's up, Charu?
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Chiharu
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What's next after liberating the Wavering Deity!
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Shizuka
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Though we don't know, I guess we will have to rebuild the village first,
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Shizuka
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then explain things that have happened so far.
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Shizuka
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Everyone will definitely be shocked just like what happened yesterday.
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Chiharu
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I mean what should we do as diviners!
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Shizuka
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Well, what should we do...?
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Shizuka
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We won't know until we defeat it.
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Shizuka
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You see, finish up what's right in front of you first!
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Shizuka
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We are entering the deepest part.
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Chiharu
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The devil's power feels overwhelming...
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Shizuka
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It's existence per se... seems oppressive...
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Sunao
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Sorry, the strong power suddenly feels...
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Chiharu
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Really, my head... feels dizzy now...
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Shizuka
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Even the followers are bluffing...?It's hard to even stand up, why...
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We kill people after becoming a devil We didn't become the existence that saved the Land of the Rising Sun We want to tell others, but we can no longer do anything
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Shizuka
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What, is that voice...!
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- ??? -
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Though 'twas a diviner's body, as a devil, becometh tantamount to death Even if I save one person tomorrow may kill a hundred the day after
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Shizuka
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Don't look at me...
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- ??? -
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Tainted, stained, we became unclean
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Shizuka
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Stop... Don't say that...!
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- ??? -
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'Tis a body for price evaluation
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- ??? -
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One silver coin, two silver coins, forty grammes, eighty grammes, price label'd, display'd in shops
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Shizuka
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(From within my body...!)
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- Shizuka -
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My life isn't mine I was kept, sold, then became a devil, staining this hateful mortal world
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Shizuka
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Ye... Yeah... I don't know about what's next.
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Shizuka
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Because we are existences that will become devils...
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Shizuka
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We didn't fight for the Land of the Rising Sun, so we are designed to be killed.
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Shizuka
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Even pricing lives...
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Shizuka
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Even what Mikoshiba had done might be right.
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Shizuka
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And that's why we have been living within the confine of these conventions...
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Shizuka
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I really don't want to consider about what's next after defeating it.
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Shizuka
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Because, isn't it too horrible!
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Sunao
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Pricing lives is wrong...!
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Sunao
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As you Shizuka said to me, I am the best person,
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Sunao
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there is no difference between lives!
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Sunao
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Wouldn't Shizuka be admirable if she maintains her honor, never surrendering it, and always does her best?
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Sunao
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Even if we become devils someday,
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Sunao
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won't it be good if we fight for the Land of the Rising Sun till the very end!
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Sunao
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Meanwhile, we may be able to find out...
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Sunao
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a new path for us, right!
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Sunao
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Let's find it out together, Shizuka!
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Sunao
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To compensate your forgiveness for me,
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Sunao
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I will heal your heart, always...!
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Sunao&Shizuka
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Ouuuugh! Aaah!
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Chiharu
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I am too weak to be the cushion...
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Chiharu
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Hey, listen to me...
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Chiharu
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I didn't finish Tokime's story in the book, did I?
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- Chiharu -
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Before Mikoshiba came... Tokime's people think about national affairs on their own They made their wishes on their own mind too
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- Chiharu -
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Though when the war became fierce and nobody was trustwrothy and also when there were no diviners left they became under Mikoshiba's control
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- Chiharu -
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Those who became coming-of-age seemed to really have departed and gone out
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- Chiharu -
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After that, they knew their relationship with devils However, here's how Tokime's people thought
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- Chiharu -
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"Honor can be maintained as long as souls were sacrificed to the Land of the Rising Sun"
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- Chiharu -
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"Even if I become a devil, what I have achieved won't be wasted"
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Shizuka
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If I literally sacrificed my soul to the Land of the Rising Sun...
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Shizuka
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my honor can be maintained...!
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Shizuka
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Even if I become a devil, what I have achieved won't be wasted.
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Shizuka
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Proud of that, I can fight till I eventually fall...!
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Shizuka
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That's what I said to Mikoshiba...
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Chiharu
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You did say so...
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Chiharu
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So, here's what I think:
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Chiharu
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there is no place for Mikoshiba inside Shizuka-chan's soul, which has always been Tokeme's.
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Chiharu
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Thus, as Sunao-chan said, let's find it out together!
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Shizuka
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I was the one who was beaten by the devil...
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Shizuka
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But I have woken up...!
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Shizuka
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Let us three keep some distance!
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Shizuka
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Fortunately, we are a trio.
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Shizuka
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I want us three to win together and find our new future!
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Shizuka
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Let's watch over where our ancestors will be liberated!
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Shizuka
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Oh, Tokime's sword...
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Shizuka
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Open a future for us...!!
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- Chiharu -
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Time elapsed hurriedly after the Wavering Deity was liberated
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- Chiharu -
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That's because we had to tell everyone the history of Tokime and Mikoshiba
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- Chiharu -
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As well as to search Mikoshiba's home and investigate into her background so far
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Chiharu
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Is your family fine, Sunao-chan?
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Sunao
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Papa and mama also apologized more than before.
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Shizuka
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I'm glad that everything returned to normal.
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Shizuka
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Now we have broken free from Mikoshiba's curse.
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Chiharu
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And we will be together from now on too, right?
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Sunao
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Of course. Why not?
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Shizuka's mother
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Ah—, I'm tired; I'm tired...
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Chiharu's mother
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It is a feeling of done and dusted though.
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Shizuka's mother
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Actually, everyone is so unfamiliar with modern society.
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Shizuka's mother
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Without you, Ms. Hiroe, we couldn't have made clear anything.
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Chiharu
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Welcome back, mom.
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Shizuka
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You must be tired.
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Shizuka's mother
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On the case of Mikoshiba, everything finally fell into place.
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Shizuka's mother
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Let Ms. Hiroe tell that.
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Chiharu's mother
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Eh, ah, okay...
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- Chiharu's mother -
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The root of this incident was indeed the village's convention but it seems that what triggered it was the Mikoshiba's debt
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- Chiharu's mother -
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After a huge investment failed she seemed in trouble of cash flow Therefore, she took advantages from diviners hurrily
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Chiharu's mother
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Regardless of reasons, she used others' kids...
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Chiharu's mother
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I can't forgive that, not even if I am dead...
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Chiharu's mother
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I don't want to say like that before my daughter, but it's such a feeling of holding a grudge until the doomsday.
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Chiharu's mother
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Definitely...
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Shizuka's mother
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That being said, Ms. Hiroe, the doomsday hasn't come yet, right?
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Chiharu's mother
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... Don't carp at me pointlessly.
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Sunao
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Then, the reason she reached out to me and Chiharu was...
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Chiharu's mother
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Sunao-chan's becoming a diviner should be out of Mikoshiba's expectation.
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Chiharu's mother
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So she turned to us, triggering an unexpected chain of incidents.
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Sunao
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If so, had I never become a diviner, Charu wouldn't have to bear all of these.
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Chiharu
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There is no such thing!
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Chiharu
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We already decided to be together. Don't dither over such thing!
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Sunao
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O—okay, I know that.
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Shizuka
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By the way, what about other villagers? It seems that they never calm down...
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Shizuka's mother
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Eventually, the village has been blessed by diviners.
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Shizuka's mother
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In the past, people could grow their own crops and live good lives.
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Shizuka's mother
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In other words, adults become worried when losing their financial support.
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Shizuka's mother
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Of course, I am no exception.
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Shizuka
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Please don't say that indifferently...
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Shizuka's mother
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What Mikoshiba worried about included the funding of the village too.
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Shizuka's mother
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We have to take it into consideration.
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Shizuka
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... The same way we also worry everything about the future of diviners...
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Shizuka
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People in the village have their things to worry about in the future too.
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Shizuka's mother
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That's true.
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Shizuka
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Didn't you find anything else?
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Shizuka's mother
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Hmm, if you mean something interesting, I found something like Tokime's family tree.
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Shizuka's mother
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Actually, Tokime's bloodline seems to have scattered all around.
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Shizuka's mother
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It looks like our blood relatives live in other mountains and seaside areas too.
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Chiharu's mother
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On top of that, what will you do? That's what I concerned about.
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Chiharu
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We have a clear answer in our minds.
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Chiharu
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We already knew what we would fight for in our hearts and what we would aim at!
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Shizuka's mother
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Oh, you became pretty reliable.
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Shizuka's mother
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Then, what's your first step?
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Chiharu
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Firstly, we will have a conversation with Cubey-sama!
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Shizuka's mother
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With Cubey-sama?
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Sunao
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Yes, about any method for us to avoid becoming devils,
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Sunao
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we want to know if he knows anything about that.
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Shizuka
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Then, we will plan our future living according to the answer.
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Chiharu's mother
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Anyhow, we three will be together from now on.
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Chiharu
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Because we must change us diviners' fate!
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Sunao
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Can we summon it out without dancers?
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Shizuka
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It is the god, but we are not the priestess. I'm afraid we can't.
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Chiharu
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We won't know unless we try!
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Chiharu
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Then, let's try shouting loudly!
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- Three people -
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"Kyu———be————sama————"
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Kyubey
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Hey, it's you who called me out, right?
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Shizuka
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Then what's the meaning of the dance...?
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Sunao
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Probably a performance to make it felt solemn...
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Kyubey
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Did you summoned me for no reason?
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Shizuka
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Ah, no! We have things to ask you!
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Kyubey
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I'll answer anything I can.
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Kyubey
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Then, Shizuka, what do you want to ask from me?
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Shizuka
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Well, we know that we will become devils...
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Shizuka
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Do you know any method to avoid that?
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Shizuka
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The means that we can keep living as diviners.
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Shizuka
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Because we fight for the Land of the Rising Sun and don't want others to suffer!
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Kyubey
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I'm sorry, but I cannot satisfy your expectation.
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Chiharu
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You don't know any...?
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Kyubey
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At least I don't know any method to avoid it.
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Kyubey
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There haven't been many successful cases so far.
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Chiharu
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Did you just say "many"!?
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Chiharu
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Then it means it's just Cubey-sama doesn't know,
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Chiharu
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but the method exists, right!?
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Sunao
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Yet, Cubey-sama doesn't know, right...?
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Kyubey
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True. It's hard for me to tell you by myself.
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Kyubey
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But you can see how it works and obtain it.
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Kyubey
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Do you know a place called Kamihama City or not?
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Sunao
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Ah, I once heard about it!
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Kyubey
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There is an automatic purification system in Kamihama City.
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Kyubey
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Thus, if you manage to obtain it,
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Kyubey
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I think you will be able to avoid becoming devils.
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Kyubey
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Of course, I cannot say I am sure about that.
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Shizuka
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That trivial thing doesn't matter...! I suddenly feel the overwhelming hope...!
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Shizuka
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Let's go! To Kamihama City!
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Sunao
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Yeah, I'll guide you using a map!
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Chiharu
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I will explain everything about modern society to Shizuka-chan!
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Shizuka
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That—that's not quite necessary.
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Chiharu
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Can you use an IC card...?
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Shizuka
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... Haven't even heard the name.
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Kyubey
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If you feel like to go to Kamihama, I have several things to explain.
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Kyubey
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First, there are dozens of girls like you in Kamihama City.
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Kyubey
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You'd better keep that in mind.
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Kyubey
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Second, they have some different terminology.
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Kyubey
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For example, except around Tokime's territory, girls like you
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Kyubey
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aren't known as diviners.
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Shizuka
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Then, how they call us?
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Kyubey
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You are called magical girls.
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Epilogue
Chiharu
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Well! Grief seed!
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Chiharu
|
While I remembered it well.
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Shizuka
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I am too familiar with the old names.
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Shizuka
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It's pretty hard to switch away...
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Sunao
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That's because of your long experience.
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Shizuka
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Speaking of which, Charu hasn't since felt the village's awful smell?
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Chiharu
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No. It's completely away. Now I breathe more freely.
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Sunao
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Eh, was that a real smell?
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Chiharu
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Actually not. It was like something from intuition?
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Shizuka
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It doesn't seem to have anything to do with witches, but is really like a power specialized for any case.
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Chiharu
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Yeah, I might have felt malice at that time.
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Sunao
|
It somehow sounds like a power that may be useful in the future too.
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Chiharu
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I'll do my best for that!
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Shizuka
|
That's reassuring.
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Chiharu
|
But it still feels incredible.
|
Chiharu
|
It hasn't been long since I met with Shizuka-chan and Sunao-chan,
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Chiharu
|
but we three are actually departing together.
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Sunao
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Looking back, I couldn't imagine it at all.
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Chiharu
|
It's so exciting!
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Shizuka
|
It's been just a couple of days since Charu became a magical girl.
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Shizuka
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But for me, it was quite a radical change?
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Sunao
|
Shizuka is more like confused.
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Shizuka
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Nah, actually not quite.
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Shizuka
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I don't really understand it, but I think something finally started,
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Shizuka
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and that's my life.
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-Chiharu- We will obtain it someday The means for not becoming witches!
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-Sunao- And we will keep fighting for the Land of the Rising Sun till death
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-Shizuka- That's us Tokime Clan's long-maintained honor
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-Chiharu- To do so, first, we have to?
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-Shizuka- I already got the answer
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-Chiharu- Great, Shizuka-chan!
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-Sunao- Then, what's the answer?
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-Shizuka- We should read the family tree remained in Mikoshiba's home and get into contact with people from Tokime clan and its branches
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-Shizuka- We will recruit people who are willing to join us and found a group of Tokime clan
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-Shizuka- When prepared let's go to the other side of this landscape!
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-Sunao- Exactly over the mountains to the place beyond them
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-Three people- To Kamihama City!
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