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- Chapter 3
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- Title: Chapter 3
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- Kuroyoru: What's this? Remember something unpleasant?
- Kuroyoru: Like a friend...
- Kuroyoru: perhaps?
- Kakine: What's going on?
- Kuroyoru: Ringo-chan's friend died here a while back.
- Ringo: No.
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- Kuroyoru: No? What do you mean no?
- Kuroyoru: Then tell me what did happen.
- Kuroyoru: Back then...
- Kuroyoru: What did...
- Kuroyoru: you do...
- Ringo: I...
- Kuroyoru: to that girl?
- Ringo: I...
- Ringo: I...
- Ringo: Ahhhh
- Ringo: Ahhhh
- SFX: Burst
- Kuroyoru: Oh, how scary. What was her name again?
- Kuroyoru: I never bothered learning it.
- Kakine: Hey.
- Kuroyoru: Hold your horses.
- Kuroyoru: Her stress is building.
- Kuroyoru: Let me dig into that wound a little more and you might just see the fruits of the Dark May Project.
- Kakine: Weren't you, Ringo,
- Kakine: and that dead girl...
- Kakine: all specimens in that experiment?
- Kuroyoru: What, you were hoping for some camaraderie?
- Kuroyoru: Get real, mister.
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- Kuroyoru: You're the #2 and you're neck deep in the dark side, so I know you know...
- Kuroyoru: how silly an idea that is in this city.
- Kuroyoru: Ringo-chan was traumatized by what happened with her friend...
- Kuroyoru: but Academy City uses kids up and throws them out...
- Kuroyoru: all the time, right?
- Kuroyoru: That was just one of countless tragedies.
- Kakine: Those are the normal rules of this city, huh?
- Kuroyoru: What?
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- SFX: Boom
- SFX: Crash bam
- SFX: Thoom
- SFX: Crumble crumble
- Kuroyoru: Whoa, whoa, whoa!! What's got your panties in a bunch!?
- SFX: Click click
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- SFX: Thoom thoom thoom
- SFX: Rumble
- Kuroyoru: Like I said.
- Kuroyoru: This place was built to resist espers.
- Kuroyoru: It won't be that easy to-
- SFX: Boom
- Yobou: Geh.
- SFX: Clatter clatter
- SFX: Whoosh
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- Kuroyoru(thought): What?
- Kuroyoru: But we're underground.
- Kuroyoru(thought): The moon?
- SFX: Crash
- SFX: Crack snap
- SFX: Thunk
- SFX: Cough cough
- SFX: Alight
- Kakine: Did you really think you could stop me with this junk?
- Kakine: I don't care how you view this city's systems...
- Kakine: or how you choose to live within those systems.
- Kuroyoru: But don't underestimate a Level 5.
- SFX: Thud
- Kuroyoru: This...
- Kuroyoru: can't be.
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- Kakine: The normal rules don't apply to me.
- SFX: Press
- SFX: Squeeze
- Kakine: Did you get the data?
- SFX: Fade
- Yobou: I did.
- Ringo: Kakine.
- Ringo: You're...
- Ringo: so...
- Ringo: cool.
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- Ringo: And your wings...
- Ringo: are...pretty...
- Kuroyoru: So that's a real Level 5.
- SFX: Clench
- Kuroyoru: Normal powers just can't compare.
- Kuroyoru: Which means...
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- Kakine: How is she?
- Kaibi: The head wound was minor.
- Kaibi: But I can't measure her DISTANCE until she wakes up, so I can't speak to any psychological wounds.
- Kakine: So we have to wait. It is getting late.
- Ringo: Kakine.
- Kakine: You woke up?
- Kakine: You must be tired. Get some sleep.
- Ringo: No.
- Ringo: I want to tell you now...
- Ringo: while "I" still have a clear head.
- Kakine: Fine.
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- Ringo: The Dark May specimens had a portion of Accelerator's mind implanted in their brain.
- Ringo: Like his pride or his suspicion.
- Ringo: I had his "attachment" implanted in me.
- Kaibi: The #1's attachment?
- Kaibi: He doesn't seem the type to get attached.
- Ringo: Maybe that's why...
- Ringo: but my power would never stabilize.
- Ringo: But few of our powers improved, so they continued my experiments.
- Ringo: They found I produced some results when under pressure...
- Ringo: so maybe that made me worth observing.
- Ringo: There was so much pain and suffering.
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- SFX: Cough cough
- SFX: Drip drip
- SFX: Cough cough
- Researchers: Her values aren't growing. Is this her peak?
- SFX: Pant pant
- Researchers: We can't expect any more drugs to help.
- Researchers: Her body started adapting to the drugs this month.
- SFX: Cough cough
- Researchers: And she's one of the few showing any improvement, so we can't let her die.
- Researchers: Then should we stimulate the implanted "attachment"?
- Researchers: How? Has she grown attached to anything?
- Researchers: She showed no interest in the books or music we gave her.
- SFX: Pant pant
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- SFX: Cough cough cough
- Researchers: Okay, that concludes today's experiment. You may leave.
- SFX: Rumble
- SFX: Wobble
- SFX: Step step
- Tomoka: Ringo-chan.
- Tomoka: Are you okay?
- Ringo: ...Yeah.
- Tomoka: Today must have been rough.
- Tomoka: Did you set a new record?
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- Ringo: I don't really remember.
- Tomoko: Oh, yeah. You barely remember anything from when your power is active, do you?
- SFX: Munch munch munch
- Tomoka: Wait, so you don't remember what they did to you!? Are you okay?
- Ringo: I'm alive, so I'm okay.
- Tomoka: Let's aim for a higher standard of "okay" than that!
- Tomoka: You have food on you again.
- Box: Tomoka was always smiling.
- Box: The experiments scared me...
- Box: but I was okay when I was with her.
- Box: She was always smiling...
- Box: and looked so happy.
- Box: But.
- SFX: Cough
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- SFX: Cough cough
- Ringo: Tomoka.
- Tomoka: I'm fine, I'm fine. Don't worry.
- SFX: Cough
- Box: She had a weak heart.
- Ringo: You should tell the researchers.
- Tomoka: Maybe so. But I "show no promise"...
- Tomoka: and my power hasn't ever shown itself...
- Tomoka: so they aren't even measuring my vitals lately.
- Tomoka: They've given up on me, so telling them won't help.
- Tomoka: I'm more worried about you, Ringo-chan.
- Tomoka: They aren't doing experiments on me, but you always look so beat up after yours.
- SFX: Tug
- Tomoka: Oh? It's usually the other way around.
- Tomoka(outside): This is new.
- Ringo: I am worried about you, Tomoka.
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- Tomoka: Thanks.
- Tomoka: I'm so glad to have someone here who's worried about me.
- SFX: Smooch
- Tomoka: The kids here just disappear so often.
- Tomoka: And I hate how I've gotten used to it.
- Tomoka: I've accepted that I might disappear...
- Tomoka: but it scares me to think no one would remember me.
- SFX: Squeeze
- Tomoka(edge): Oh.
- Tomoka: Isn't it time for your experiment?
- Tomoka: I'm feeling better, so I'm fine.
- SFX: Let go
- Ringo: But...
- Tomoka: They wanted to see me for something too.
- Ringo: Okay.
- Tomoka: Be careful and don't overexert yourself!
- Tomoka(outside): See you later.
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- Ringo: Huh?
- Tomoka: Ringo-chan?
- Ringo: Why?
- Researcher: A Level 0 with no sign of improvement?
- Researcher: An insignificant loss. Begin the experiment.
- SFX: Click
- Tomoka: An experiment?
- Tomoka: What am I supposed to-
- SFX: Zap
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- Tomoka: Ah.
- Tomoka: Kah.
- Ringo: Eh?
- Ringo: What?
- Ringo: What are they-
- SFX: Zap
- Tomoka: Agh!
- Ringo: No!!
- SFX: Dash
- SFX: Jangle
- SFX: Tug
- Ringo: Ah.
- SFX: Tense
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- SFX: Glare
- SFX: Clatter clatter
- Researcher: Look, the values are rising!
- SFX: Burst
- Researcher: This is a new record.
- SFX: Grind grind
- Researcher: Then she is indeed the specimen's "target of attachment". Continue the experiment.
- Researcher: These values are incredible! Try turning up the power!
- SFX: Click click
- SFX: Zap zap
- Tomoka: Ahhhhhhhh!
- Ringo: S-stop!!
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- Researcher: What's wrong, specimen? Use your power on the target.
- Ringo: Stop...
- Ringo: Stop!!
- SFX: Jangle
- SFX: Tense tense
- Researcher: Come on, resume the experiment.
- Ringo: She's in pain.
- Ringo: Stop that.
- Ringo: I can do it...
- Ringo: on my own.
- Researcher: Your values rose when we stimulated your target of attachment.
- Researcher: You just proved that yourself.
- Tomoka: Gasp
- Ringo: It's my fault?
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- Ringo: Because I'm like this.
- Ringo: Because she was with me.
- Ringo: Me.
- Ringo: Me me
- Ringo: Because of me me me me me.
- Ringo: Tomoka will die.
- Ringo(spoken): Tomo-
- Ringo(spoken): Ah
- Ringo: Noooo!
- Ringo: Noo!
- Ringo: Ahhhh!
- Researcher: Let's try adding in some physical stress too.
- SFX: Click click
- SFX: Grab
- Tomoka: Cough
- Tomoka: Gasp
- Tomoka: Gasp
- Tomoka: Don't you dare...
- SFX: Gasp gasp
- Tomoka: torture Ringo-chan...
- Tomoka: any more.
- Researcher: Torture? We're just running an experiment. Mind your own business.
- SFX: Pull away
- SFX: Zap
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- SFX: Thud
- Researchers: Hold on. Don't kill the attachment target.
- Researchers: She's not moving.
- Researchers: I did raise the power, but not enough to kill her.
- SFX: Jangle
- Ringo: Ah.
- Researchers: Was she sick or something?
- Researchers: We hadn't been running her physical exams since she showed no promise.
- Ringo(thought): Why?
- Ringo: Ah...
- Ringo: Ahh.
- Ringo(thought): Why, why?
- Tomoka: Ah...
- Tomoka: Ringo-chan.
- Ringo: Tomo-
- Tomoka: Will you...
- Tomoka: remember me?
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- Researchers: The specimen's mind is-
- Researchers: But the attachment target is too-
- Researchers: Then find another attachment target to-
- Ringo: Why?
- Ringo: Why?
- Ringo: Why?
- Ringo: Go to hell.
- SFX: Snap
- Researchers: Whoa, these values!
- SFX: Grind grind
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- Researchers: Incredible!!
- Researchers: I've never seen growth like this.
- Ringo: All of you.
- SFX: Roar
- Researchers: Oh, her power keeps rising.
- Researchers: I don't even need the data to tell!
- Researchers: This much power is unbelievable!
- Ringo: Ahhhhhhhhhh!
- SFX: Crack crack
- Researchers: Gweh!
- SFX: Wham
- Researchers: Wait!
- Researchers: This is too much!
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- SFX: Pshew
- SFX: Zap zap zap
- Ringo: Gwah!
- Researchers: Phew.
- Researchers: Could she not control her power?
- Researchers: Not with how rapidly those values rose.
- Ringo: Ugh.
- Researchers: Hey, are you okay?
- Researchers: Ow.
- Researchers: You lost a lot of blood.
- Researchers: Eh? That's not my blood.
- SFX: Rumble
- Amata: Ahh, ahh. I come all the way out here...
- Amata: and this is all you have to show me?
- Researchers: Kihara-san.
- Souji: Oh? This place looks neat.
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- Souji: Did she do it? She might be fun to work with. Right, Amata-san?
- Amata: Do you ever stop with this?
- SFX: Thunk
- SFX: Drag
- Ringo: Tomo-
- SFX: Click
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- Ringo: I don't know what happened after that.
- Ringo: But the Dark May Project continued.
- Ringo: And my memories started cutting out more often.
- Kakine: But the project came to a sudden end?
- Ringo: When that Kuroyoru girl went on a rampage.
- Yobou: The data I collected had nothing on a Kuroyoru...
- Yobou: but it did record Yuzuriha's accident, albeit incompletely.
- Ringo: It wasn't an accident!!
- Ringo: I killed her.
- Ringo: So...
- SFX: Squeeze
- Kakine: I understand your tragedy now.
- Kakine: But a terrible experience in the past does not mean you have to live the same way in the future.
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- Kakine: Besides, we only need the data on Accelerator's calculation patterns.
- Kakine: And we got some decent data from your battle with Kuroyoru.
- Ringo: I want to visit that lab again.
- Kakine: What?
- Ringo: My memories don't just cut out completely. There are bits and pieces missing.
- Ringo: Eventually, I might not be able to control my power at all.
- Yobou: That experiment sure left its mark.
- Ringo: I want to give you everything before that happens.
- Kakine: Why would you want to help us?
- Kakine: This is a bit much for some food and a bed.
- Ringo: It has to be you.
- Kakine: So what is it you want that only a Level 5 can get you?
- Ringo: Money? Food?
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- Kakine: Or a way out of Academy City?
- Ringo: Save...
- Ringo: me.
- Kakine: Save you,
- Kakine: huh?
- Kakine: Then go find yourself a hero.
- SFX: Rinnng
- Kaibi: Hello?
- SFX: Beep
- Souji(outside): Um.
- Souji: Is this School? Are you all together?
- Yobou: They know School? Are they with the dark side?
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- Kakine: Who the hell are you?
- Souji: Oh, pardon me. I forgot to introduce myself.
- Souji: I am a researcher gathering data on that specimen - Yuzuriha Ringo, was it?
- Souji: The name's Kihara Souji.
- Kakine: Kihara!?
- Souji: I wanted more raw data here...
- Souji: so I sent some people to pick her up.
- Souji: Wrap her up for me if you don't mind?
- SFX: Crash
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- SFX: Step step step
- DA: Justice!
- DA: Absolute justice!!
- Kakine: You again?
- SFX: Zwoosh
- Kakine: Shut up and get a clue, you annoying pricks!
- SFX: Wham
- SFX: Stand up
- Kaibi: Wait!
- Kaibi: Their minds are unnaturally identical.
- Souji: Yeah, that was me.
- Souji: I gave them a substitute for their obsession with justice or whatever the hell.
- Kakine: A substitute?
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- SFX: Gulp gulp
- Souji: Ooh, this stuff's good! Yet it has almost no real fruit juice.
- Yobou: What's with this guy?
- Souji: Such a fruity flavor with just artificial flavors and sweeteners!
- Souji: I'm talking about substitutes.
- Carton: I Can't Believe It's Not Orange
- Souji: Everything can be replaced. Nothing in this world has no substitute.
- SFX: Creak
- Souji: An arm, a leg, your deepest held beliefs? There's a substitute for them all.
- Souji: So they're convinced my orders ARE their deepest held belief.
- Souji: Nothing is truly unique, don't you think?
- Souji: Teitoku-san.
- Kakine: You don't know me. Did you think I would agree with that?
- Souji: Huh? I really, really did think you'd understand.
- Souji: I mean, you're...
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- Souji: The Spare Plan.
- Souji: You're Accelerator's substitute.
- SFX: Boom
- Yobou: Blehhh
- Kakine: You little bitch.
- SFX: Crack crack
- SFX: Grin
- SFX: Turn on
- SFX: Ksshhh
- SFX: Kiiiiii
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- SFX: Ksssshhhhh
- Kakine: Is that a distraction?
- Ringo: Ahhhhhhhhh!
- SFX: Crack
- Kakine: What's happening?
- Souji: Neat, worked like a charm.
- Souji: I combined a buncha sounds to make a substitute for the one that stresses Yuzuriha Ringo-san's brain.
- Ringo: Ah
- Ringo: Ahh
- Ringo: Ah
- SFX: Rumble rumble
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- Kaibi: Kyah!
- Souji: It really is just her brain reacting to external stimuli, after all.
- Souji: The exact stimulus doesn't matter.
- Souji: Below you...
- Souji: Floors 2-6 are full of ordinary guests.
- Souji: If Ringo-san goes berserk and the building collapses...
- Souji: who knows how many of them will die.
- SFX: Rumble
- Woman: An earthquake?
- Kakine: And that's supposed to stop me?
- Souji: Isn't it, though? You aren't moving.
- Souji: Maybe you don't care if they die, but you don't want Ringo-san to kill them, do you?
- Souji: You old softy!
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- Kakine: You can shut up now.
- Kakine: You've already convinced me to kill you.
- Souji: Have I? Then if you'll excuse me...
- SFX: Click
- SFX: Boom
- Kakine: It's nothing but tricks with you people.
- SFX: Mad
- SFX: Zwoosh
- Kakine: It's annoying as hell.
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- Kakine: Damn.
- Souji: There, Ringo-san is mine now.
- Souji: Thanks for the diversion, DA Arouse!
- Souji: You may slaughter the innocents now.
- Souji: Do it.
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- SFX: Rush in
- Man: Eh? Anti-Skill?
- Man: U-um!
- SFX: Step step step
- Yobou: DA Arouse is on the 1st floor too!
- Kakine(edge): Damn
- Kakine: They're like roaches.
- Souji: Substitute, substitute.
- SFX: Step
- Souji: Gonna make me a substitute.
- Souji: A substitute for Accelerator!
- Souji: Yeah!
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