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Episode 8

Hey, it's dangerous to climb up so high, you know.

Episode 8: Be Careful Around Open Flames, and Senpais, Too!

Well... I'm stuck!

I can't move! I can't move!

Are you kind of a ditz?

Grab my hand.

Thank you.

She's incredibly cute!

Is she secretly a monster?

No, just a cute little junior.

An IC card for Cassel?

And you actually responded to something I said?

I'm Lu Mingfei, from the history department!

I'm Xia Mi. I'm new.

Chu Zihang. Engineering.

Why were you climbing around up there?

Because of the one-week strike, I can't get to school,

and I don't have the money to stay in a hotel.

So, I was going to sleep in the park and use this sign as a tent.

Wouldn't someone have stopped you?

My plan was to say I'm supporting the strikers.

Xia Mi, right?

If they arrest you before you get to the school, there'll be trouble.

Want to stay with us?

Are you serious?

Was that a bad idea?

Even if she's our junior, we're guys.

She might think we have ulterior motives for offering to let her stay with us.

Sorry, I...

A hotel room...

Thank you!

Well, if it's for our junior!

I'm hungry. Let's go eat.

Oh, I'll get you a cola to say thanks.

We can buy one at the hotel.

No, it doesn't cost money.

I found this out.

They shut down the store but forgot to kill the electricity.

You're right.

Free, all-you-can-drink cola!

Okay, if I ever get in trouble, help me out!

Of course! Leave it to me!

What's wrong?

No, Xia Mi! Don't let your guard down!

Be careful around open flames, and Senpais, too!

"We rose from the earth into heaven, and then came back down to earth."

What are you doing?

Don't read that weird book. Let's watch some TV.

The Emerald Tablet.

One of the founding texts of alchemy.

Like I said, weird.

Hey, Senpai.

The disciplinary committee won't get mad at us for staying in the same room as a girl, right?

Don't worry about that.

She said herself that if we got her a separate room,

it would feel like she was imposing on us.

"Gain the glory of the world, and all darkness shall fade."

Fine, read your book, but at least sit down.

It's good for my posture.

Standing up 30 minutes a day is good for the spinal cord.

Want to try?

Senpai, Newton's translation into English said,

"It ascends from the earth to the heavens, and again."

Translated, "It rises from the earth into the heavens and falls to the earth,

gaining the greater and the lesser."

"Thus, you shall gain the glory of the world, and all darkness shall fade."

You know it?

If you want to understand this, you have to interpret what "it" stands for properly.

"It" is forged metal in alchemy.

Hold it! Why are you standing too?!

To dry my hair and improve my posture.

Anyway, Senpai, the Emerald Tablet is a dragon text.

They added a note later. So...

Hey!

You know about the dragons even though you haven't enrolled yet?

I went to one of the college's affiliated schools, so I've already taken the 3E test.

So I've known about the dragons.

Affiliated schools?

The college has affiliated schools.

They select high schoolers from all over Shin.

If you meet the requirements, you enter the college after graduation.

Yup! I got good grades on my 3E test.

Xia Mi. From Shin. Born 1/22.

Graduated from an affiliated middle school in the capital city.

Lives in the capital city.

Has a mom, a dad, and an older brother.

How mean. You investigated me?

I needed to know who you were.

This is the data Norma has.

Look, it's on that tablet.

Give it to Xia Mi.

Why? Do it yourself.

I'm still doing my training.

Were you always like this?

Training? Right, I'm still in the middle of that!

I forgot!

Okay, Senpai. Will you get it for me?

Lu Mingfei, will you give it to her?

Are you two messing with me?

Please, Senpai.

It won't be that easy!

Please!

Okay.

She knows exactly what she's doing...

You're the best, Senpai.

Right, right.

Here you go.

This, huh?

I've never seen my own data before.

Is... this you?

That's kind of a unique look.

How rude!

Sorry, I won't laugh at you anymore.

Anyway, the Emerald Tablet sounds like a Shin novel, huh?

The Emerald Tablet dates back to before the Shin calendar began.

It's called that because it was carved onto Emerald.

It's one of the founding texts of alchemy. It was found inside the pyramids.

Who wrote it?

It was written by the ancient mythological god Hermes.

"God"?

Well, dragons are real, so why not gods?

By the way, if "It" refers to the mind,

then the greater and lesser may refer to the mental worlds of dragons and humans.

Yes, that's one way to look at it.

When mankind evolves into dragons, they will be perfected.

That's what the book said, too. That humans evolve into dragons.

I'm not so sure.

Researchers studying the Emerald Tablet claim

the author got close to godhood and stole those laws,

then hid them in code so people couldn't figure them out.

So we can't be 100% sure the symbols are translated correctly.

By symbols, you mean ancient hieroglyphs from Tou?

By the 7th century of the Shin calendar, Arabic was the official language of Tou.

So not many people could interpret them.

What you've got there is a translation by Newton.

So it's full of mistakes.

Mistakes?

For example, the translation you read:

"It rises from the earth into the heavens and falls to the earth,

gaining the greater and the lesser."

By that interpretation, if humans evolved into dragons,

they wouldn't need to go back to Earth

if they wanted to avoid the darkness.

So the darkness is like, bad, right?

There's no reason to return to Earth, is there?

They're probably climbing to heaven for the sake of alchemy.

Go from Earth to heaven, and then fall back to Earth...

That's...

Thus, you shall gain the glory of the world, and all darkness shall fade.

Shall fade!

You sang along!

I'm pretty good, right?

What? Weren't we debating interpretations?

Why did you start singing?

'Cause I'm young!

When you're young, you sing to debate!

Join in, Senpai.

I don't know many songs.

Well, you must know this.

Let me sing first.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

I know this one.

How I wonder what you are.

...what you are.

Up above the world so high.

Like a diamond in the sky.

I'm surprised to see Chu Zihang playing along with something so dumb.

Back then...

Lao Tang was all I had.

Lao Tang...

If he were here...

If...

If he were still alive...

You awake?

Yeah.

Did I wake you?

I'm just not used to sleeping next to someone.

Oh.

If you really can't sleep, shall we play a game?

I don't play a lot of games.

How about chess?

One, two, three, four...

He's got long eyebrows...

Never mind.

If you don't play games, you're wasting your life.

Sorry.

If all the girls who like you knew I was in the same bed as you,

they'd be jealous.

Senpai...

Senpai?

Where is he?

What? How mean...

They ditched me first thing in the morning to go have fun?

Actually, Xia Mi might like Senpai.

The pretty new student and the cool Senpai.

They might make a good pair.

What a quiet morning.

What a quiet morning...

Wait a second.

Bring me my breakfast!

I'm so tired this morning.

I'll eat in bed.

Whole wheat bread with caviar.

Raisin croissants.

Chicken with lemon sauce.

Which would you prefer, Brother?

Some fried bread, then.

As you wish.

Is this really fried bread?

Does a French chef make fried bread and ankake tofu?

It's not all for you. Half is mine.

You can eat first.

I'm suspicious. There's something going on.

It just looks like fried bread, but it's actually a video game controller?

Of course not.

You're my guest. And the guest is a god.

We devils need to be appropriately welcoming.

No way. I don't need your customer service.

I didn't ask for you to show up today, so this is free.

Of course.

You'll need money for today's event.

I know you're broke, so I've come to lend you some.

I refuse.

You refuse?

You want a fourth of my life, right?

I don't need money.

This is a present. No strings attached.

You'll want that money.

You're awfully kind today.

That's right.

I'm the only one who can understand your heart.

Because I'm your little brother.

Don't touch my head.

Brother! Brother! Brother! Brother! Brother!

What was that just now?

What's wrong, Brother?

Thinking back, whenever I was feeling lost...

He was always there for me.

If I want to make a trade, he'll always be willing.

He's the closest person to me in the world.

Like family.

You okay?

Never mind.

Okay... let's talk about this money.

It's the same as ever.

Use a Yanling.

"Show Me The Money."

It'll only work this once.

Think of it as an updated version of "Show Me The Flowers."

What happens if I use it?

Your net worth increases by 10,000 dollars.

And you can use it as much as you want!

That's nice of you!

This one's good!

I'm being generous, so will you summon me more often?

Nope. I still want to live.

Well, whatever. I'm leaving.

Remember. Danger is approaching.

Stay on guard. Keep that phone with you at all times.

Oh, and a message was left for you at the front desk.

I brought it with me. Check the cart.

He's always so mysterious.

Let's see...

I'm back, but nothing's changed.

There's something there...

"I've got something to do, so I'm heading out."

"I ordered you some fried bread!"

From Your Pretty Junior

The cart's still here.

The food's real?

Achoo! He put red pepper sauce on the bread!

Hey, Lu Mingze! That's going too far!

I knew I couldn't let my guard down around you!

Wait...

If he messed with my breakfast, maybe the Yanling was a lie, too.

Damn it!

It's for me.

"This is a notification about a mission.

Come down to the first floor immediately upon receipt.

A black car is waiting at the entrance to the hotel.

The details will be provided to you there."

Danger is approaching.

Stay on guard.

Oh, and a message was left for you at the front desk.

Check the cart.

The seal's intact.

It hasn't been touched.

It should've just been sent to the board.

Now we have to wait for them to pick it up.

I gave the order to Chu Zihang.

I needed to see what's inside for myself.

What are you doing?

Those are secret documents for the board!

You can't just—

Sheesh.

This is a record of crimes involving the supernatural,

collected by the Shin police over the last five years.

So the Shin police know about the hybrids?

I don't know.

But they know these incidents go beyond human understanding.

This one, for instance.

July 15th, several years ago.

A typhoon brought terrible rains for three days.

An expensive car was found abandoned.

But there were many unusual scratches on it.

And the driver had simply vanished.

The driver was Chu Zihang's biological father.

Hence, their refusal to make him an executor...

Even if they send him on a mission, they don't trust him.

Anyway, you were the one who did this.

You'll be punished according to college rules.

No, the party's rules.

This concerns you as well.

Look at this.

Nibelungen.

The land of the dead in myths...

An artificial reality created through alchemy, right?

Normally created by Dragon Emperors...

What does that have to do with me?

The Nibelungen Plan is also being pushed by the school board.

To choose and train elite students of A-rank and greater.

Their goal is to train the ultimate hybrid and kill the Dragon Emperor

that dwells within Nibelungen.

But the college president has already decided the one they train

will be Caesar Gattuso.

If they have their candidate, what's the point of this list?

This plan has another goal.

To purge suspicious bloodlines.

Including some on this list.

My student, Chu Zihang.

Yours, Chen Motong.

And Lu Mingfei.

Knowing this,

would you still say this has nothing to do with you, comrades?

What's the definition of a "suspicious bloodline"?

When the dragon blood is more dominant than the human blood,

the individual is considered closer to a dragon.

But when dragon blood is passed down as DNA, it becomes a recessive trait,

so the hybrids can, little by little, become closer to dragons.

Once they cross that threshold, they become our enemies.

So if the board feels their bloodlines are dangerous, what happens to them?

They likely would not kill them.

But in the past, they've used lobotomies to purify the bloodline.

A lobotomy is a type of surgery where the prefrontal cortex is severed to destroy the mind.

The loss of the prefrontal cortex

will make the mental resonance that is most important for a hybrid impossible.

To protect our students, we must eliminate their files.

What will you do?

Mingfei is a good kid.

I won't let them do that to him.

What about you then, Klein?

My response is self-evident.

I've prepared a new case and a new seal.

With a new envelope, even the board won't be able to tell.

But Professor Klein, this isn't like you.

Why protect Chen Motong?

Because Lars asked me to look after her.

Though I can't say why.

Then remember this well.

None of this has anything to do with us.

The Hunters took some of the papers before we received them.

The ones we just burned.

Dispose of this, quickly. I'll open the door.

Hello, are you Professor Klein?

I'm Parsi, a board secretary.

I've come to collect the case.