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<b><i>The SDF was dispatched
to the Special Region.</i></b>

2
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<b><i>In Japan, the prime minister is forced to
decide whether or not to rescue</i></b>

3
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<b><i>the Japanese citizens and pro-peace senators
trapped in the Jade Palace by Zolzal's army.</i></b>

4
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<b><i>The 300 Rose Knights face
about 1000 Imperial soldiers.</i></b></font>

5
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<b><i>Meanwhile, Itami and the girls are 
being chased by the Pied Piper,</i></b>

6
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<b><i>a mysterious assassin who can 
manipulate hearts at will.</i></b>

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{\an8}They're just girls in armor
 playing at knighthood!

8
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="24" color="

9
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{\an8}They're no match for veteran
Imperial soldiers.

10
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<b>Slaughter them!</b>

11
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<b>There's no need to fear them,
no matter who they are!</b>

12
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<b>We are fighting to uphold
the Emperor's orders!</b></font>

13
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<b>Be ready!</b>

14
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<b>Yes, ma'am!</b>

15
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<b>Why do we have to fight our own allies?</b>

16
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<b>Shut up!</b>

17
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<b>If the Oprichnina hears you, 
they'll kill your family, too!</b>

18
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>It's a reign of terror!</b></font>

19
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<b>Draw swords!</b>

20
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{\an8}Charge!

21
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<b>Hey, you.</b>

22
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<b>You the boys from the Sea of Books?</b>

23
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<b>She's here.</b>

24
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>You're the only one whose face
they won't recognize.</b>

25
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<b>So I want you to do recon.</b>

26
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<b>Listen.</b>

27
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<b>I'm going to pretend to be 
under the Pied Piper's influence.</b>

28
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<b>I'll attack Lelei on the 
day of her presentation.</b>

29
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>You warn Lelei about this,</b></font>

30
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<b>and have her wear armor under her clothes.</b>

31
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<b>What happens then?</b>

32
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<b>We'll have her pretend to be dead.</b>

33
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<b>And then the Pied Piper will come
himself to see if she's really dead.</b>

34
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>I see! And then we catch him!</b></font>

35
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<b>You remember his face, right?</b>

36
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<b>Of course!</b>

37
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<b>We'd never forget it!</b>

38
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<b>Well? This is your chance 
to restore your honor.</b>

39
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<b>You in?</b>

40
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Of course we are!</b></font>

41
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<b>They were tricked again.</b>

42
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<b>Okay, follow the plan!</b>

43
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<b>Bye-bye!</b>

44
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<b>You ready?</b>

45
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<b>Yes.</b>

46
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>A new Master outfit, huh?</b></font>

47
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<b>Apparently the stains Arpeggio
caused wouldn't wash off.</b>

48
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<b>I see.</b>

49
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<b>But this looks good, too.</b>

50
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<b>Excuse me.</b>

51
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Shandy's only been missing for four days.</b></font>

52
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<b>I think it's too early 
to give up, personally.</b>

53
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<b>I'd like to go search the area again.</b>

54
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<b>I'm sorry I'm late!</b>

55
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<b>Shandy?</b>

56
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>W-Water...</b></font>

57
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<b>Sorry.</b>

58
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<b>I was chasing a girl named Nonra,</b>

59
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<b>and I was late.</b>

60
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<b>Couldn't you have at least 
sent a message, then?</b>

61
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<b>There wasn't time!</b>

62
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>So did the boys come to talk to you?</b></font>

63
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<b>Yeah.</b>

64
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<b>They told Lelei to wear armor.</b>

65
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<b>I'm sure you noticed, but this Nonra
is a puppet of the Pied Piper.</b>

66
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<b>I knew it.</b>

67
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Armor won't help.</b></font>

68
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<b>She's probably going to aim for her neck.</b>

69
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<b>If she shows up, our only hope is to catch her
before she approaches Lelei-san.</b>

70
00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:38,430
<b>You're right.</b>

71
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<b>So, Shandy, did you reach the Pied Piper?</b>

72
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Yes.</b></font>

73
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<b>Just like the servant boys said, it was 
a man dressed like a bounty hunter.</b>

74
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<b>I tailed him to the town of Pairan,</b>

75
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<b>but I lost him when I took 
my eyes off him for a second.</b>

76
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<b>It's a two-day journey there,
and she was tracking him all by herself.</b></font>

77
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<b>I can't blame her.</b>

78
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<b>To be honest, all we needed you to do is see
who was making contact with the servant boys.</b>

79
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<b>You mean to say I just wasted four days?!</b>

80
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<b>That's not true.</b>

81
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>It's a big help that you were able 
to confirm his appearance.</b>

82
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<b>Thank you.</b>

83
00:06:19,210 --> 00:06:22,030
<b>You haven't eaten, right? 
Go eat downstairs.</b>

84
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<b>Okay!</b>

85
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<b>Shall we tell the boys?</b>

86
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>No, let's just let them be tricked.</b></font>

87
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<b>They'll work harder.</b>

88
00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:37,900
<b>Then we follow the plan.</b>

89
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<b>We find the Pied Piper when he 
appears at the presentation.</b>

90
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<b>Good luck.</b>

91
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>I'm getting nervous.</b></font>

92
00:06:46,950 --> 00:06:48,750
<b>Look at all these people.</b>

93
00:06:48,750 --> 00:06:53,550
<b>There may be others here
who've been tricked by the Pied Piper.</b>

94
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<b>We'll need to be careful.</b>

95
00:06:56,370 --> 00:06:57,040
<b>Yeah.</b>

96
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<b>There they are!</b>

97
00:06:58,810 --> 00:07:00,450
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Over here!</b></font>

98
00:07:01,730 --> 00:07:03,570
<b>You're late, Lelei!</b>

99
00:07:03,570 --> 00:07:04,830
<b>I'm not late.</b>

100
00:07:04,830 --> 00:07:07,900
<b>They should still be accepting entrants.</b>

101
00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:10,150
<b>You're such a brat.</b>

102
00:07:13,340 --> 00:07:15,670
<b>Oh, so the outfit made it in time.</b>

103
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>My, my, my. Arpeggio!</b></font>

104
00:07:19,690 --> 00:07:21,330
<b>What is it, Grand Master?</b>

105
00:07:21,330 --> 00:07:22,850
<b>Oh, my.</b>

106
00:07:22,850 --> 00:07:27,830
<b>You stayed up all night adjusting your robe
so she could have it if she needed it.</b>

107
00:07:27,830 --> 00:07:29,970
<b>But I guess she didn't!</b>

108
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Grand Master!</b></font>

109
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<b>I told you to keep that a secret!</b>

110
00:07:35,370 --> 00:07:38,180
<b>Oh, my! I'm sorry!</b>

111
00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,120
<b>Anyone taking the Master's 
Examination, gather here.</b>

112
00:07:43,550 --> 00:07:44,720
<b>Arpeggio-san,</b>

113
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<b>is there a limit to how
many applicants can succeed?</b></font>

114
00:07:48,860 --> 00:07:51,890
<b>No. Sometimes everyone passes,</b>

115
00:07:51,890 --> 00:07:54,180
<b>and sometimes no one does.</b>

116
00:07:54,180 --> 00:07:55,320
<b>Why?</b>

117
00:07:55,590 --> 00:08:03,540
<b>I was thinking the Pied Piper might've put one of them up
to getting rid of someone who was in their way.</b>

118
00:08:03,780 --> 00:08:05,710
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>That's impossible.</b></font>

119
00:08:05,710 --> 00:08:10,450
<b>They're all sages trying to
become doctors or masters.</b>

120
00:08:10,450 --> 00:08:13,190
<b>Every one of them is an upstanding person.</b>

121
00:08:17,540 --> 00:08:22,200
<b>What if someone stole the research
you'd spent years and years on?</b>

122
00:08:22,590 --> 00:08:27,520
<b>And that someone was about to
announce it as their own?</b></font>

123
00:08:28,670 --> 00:08:33,030
<b>And if that person was right in front of you,
acting as if nothing were wrong?</b>

124
00:08:34,070 --> 00:08:37,640
<b>Well, if it were me, that thief would be...</b>

125
00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:44,870
<b>Don't move.</b>

126
00:08:54,540 --> 00:08:56,350
<b>It's not my fault!</b>

127
00:08:56,350 --> 00:08:59,720
<b>It's this girl's fault for
stealing my research!</b></font>

128
00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,950
<b>How could a little girl like this
be trying for Master status, anyway?</b>

129
00:09:05,950 --> 00:09:07,940
<b>Of course she stole research!</b>

130
00:09:08,410 --> 00:09:11,020
<b>You can talk about that somewhere else.</b>

131
00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,120
<b>He's probably been tricked, like the others.</b>

132
00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,100
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>So explain things to him.</b></font>

133
00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:17,560
<b>Understood.</b>

134
00:09:19,910 --> 00:09:21,120
<b>What are you doing?</b>

135
00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:22,400
{\an8}Please come this way.

136
00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:22,700
<b>You saved me.</b>

137
00:09:24,980 --> 00:09:25,970
<b>Thank you.</b>

138
00:09:27,610 --> 00:09:31,300
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Yeah, you can rest assured
we'll keep you safe.</b>

139
00:09:34,890 --> 00:09:37,130
<b>Good luck with your presentation.</b>

140
00:09:41,850 --> 00:09:45,140
<b>Er, um, and thus,</b>

141
00:09:45,140 --> 00:09:47,520
<b>by following the path on this diagram,</b>

142
00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,860
<b>y-you can explain the
retrograde motion of the planets.</b>

143
00:09:50,170 --> 00:09:51,860
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36">{\an8}Fool!</font>

144
00:09:52,150 --> 00:09:54,340
<b>What backwater hole did you crawl out of?</b>

145
00:09:54,340 --> 00:09:56,970
<b>That theory's been around forever!</b>

146
00:09:56,970 --> 00:10:01,080
<b>Mokuri's heliocentric theory
makes much more sense!</b>

147
00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,930
<b>That's right! You stupid child!</b>

148
00:10:03,220 --> 00:10:04,750
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36">{\an8}Get lost!</font>

149
00:10:04,750 --> 00:10:06,610
<b>Failure! Failure!</b>

150
00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:12,340
<b>Mommy!</b>

151
00:10:12,340 --> 00:10:13,750
<b>I see.</b>

152
00:10:13,750 --> 00:10:16,840
<b>So that's why you wear
white clothes for the exam.</b>

153
00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:20,840
<b>I'll be fine.</b>

154
00:10:22,250 --> 00:10:25,560
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Yeah. That'll make security easier.</b></font>

155
00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:28,760
<b>If we can understand the cause 
of these world distortions,</b>

156
00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,060
<b>it may bring us closer to
the secrets of this world's creation.</b>

157
00:10:32,060 --> 00:10:33,380
<b>That is what I believe.</b>

158
00:10:34,860 --> 00:10:35,900
<b>Not bad.</b>

159
00:10:38,430 --> 00:10:40,790
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>It's finally your turn.</b></font>

160
00:11:06,420 --> 00:11:08,890
<b>I wish she would've waited 
until after the presentation.</b>

161
00:11:13,510 --> 00:11:15,270
<b>"She's on our side."</b>

162
00:11:15,830 --> 00:11:17,990
<b>Which means that's Nonra?</b>

163
00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:30,240
<b>I won't make it!</b>

164
00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:50,770
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Why did all that magic go off at once?</b></font>

165
00:11:52,350 --> 00:11:56,440
<b>Oh, the whole town was talking about
how there might be an assassin after Lelei.</b>

166
00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:59,690
<b>Everyone was just waiting for this chance.</b>

167
00:12:01,490 --> 00:12:03,980
<b>I wish the SDF had magic, too.</b>

168
00:12:05,150 --> 00:12:07,380
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>But, well, now you're safe.</b></font>

169
00:12:07,980 --> 00:12:09,590
<b>Good luck with the rest.</b>

170
00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:40,320
<b>Lelei!</b>

171
00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:46,550
<b>Princess Pina?</b>

172
00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:49,660
<b>You again?</b>

173
00:12:50,340 --> 00:12:51,490
<b>What is it?</b>

174
00:12:52,020 --> 00:12:54,040
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Unfortunate news.</b></font>

175
00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,380
<b>We'll have to ask you to 
change into this.</b>

176
00:13:02,970 --> 00:13:07,760
<b>{\an8}And so, the Self Defense Force fought</b>

177
00:13:18,550 --> 00:13:21,100
<b>General, is the order here yet?!</b>

178
00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:23,530
<b>At this rate, the Jade Palace will fall!</b>

179
00:13:24,210 --> 00:13:26,030
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>I know.</b></font>

180
00:13:26,690 --> 00:13:28,670
<b>For now, hang in there.</b>

181
00:13:32,190 --> 00:13:34,540
<b>The order will come.</b>

182
00:13:44,010 --> 00:13:46,270
<b>There's only 300 of them.</b>

183
00:13:46,270 --> 00:13:49,700
<b>And they're all girls and old men.</b>

184
00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,930
<b>How many days are you going
to spend destroying them,</b></font>

185
00:13:52,930 --> 00:13:54,980
<b>Vice-Praetor Luflus?</b>

186
00:13:55,850 --> 00:13:57,330
<b>I'm sorry.</b>

187
00:13:57,700 --> 00:14:01,820
<b>But the morale of the soldiers
we mobilized is unexpectedly low...</b>

188
00:14:01,820 --> 00:14:05,270
<b>I'm not here to listen to excuses.</b>

189
00:14:05,580 --> 00:14:08,700
<b>Prince Zolzal's waiting
for a report of victory.</b></font>

190
00:14:08,950 --> 00:14:09,620
<b>Yes...</b>

191
00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,890
<b>Bring more troops if you need them.</b>

192
00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,950
<b>If you let these enemies of the 
Empire stay loose any longer,</b>

193
00:14:16,950 --> 00:14:20,080
<b>you'll be deemed incompetent.</b>

194
00:14:21,220 --> 00:14:22,130
<b>Understood?</b>

195
00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,390
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Even we're starting to show signs of fatigue.</b></font>

196
00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:34,640
<b>How are our provisions?</b>

197
00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:37,970
<b>We weren't expecting to be under siege here,</b>

198
00:14:37,970 --> 00:14:39,850
<b>so we probably didn't bring much.</b>

199
00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:41,420
<b>That's right.</b>

200
00:14:41,910 --> 00:14:45,080
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>We've got the well in the Jade Palace, 
so there's water.</b>

201
00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,860
<b>But we're almost out of food.</b>

202
00:14:47,580 --> 00:14:49,610
<b>Bozes, what do we do now?</b>

203
00:14:51,020 --> 00:14:53,340
<b>If we can get the OK from the Japanese side,</b>

204
00:14:53,340 --> 00:14:56,850
<b>I'm planning on taking everyone 
and breaking through.</b>

205
00:14:57,410 --> 00:14:59,330
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Where will we go if we 
break through the cordon?</b>

206
00:15:00,420 --> 00:15:01,330
<b>Italica.</b>

207
00:15:02,420 --> 00:15:03,520
<b>I see!</b>

208
00:15:03,890 --> 00:15:06,920
<b>Half the Yellow Roses and 
our infantry are there.</b>

209
00:15:07,370 --> 00:15:10,340
<b>If we can meet up with them, 
we can restore the knights.</b>

210
00:15:10,340 --> 00:15:10,960
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Yes.</b></font>

211
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<b>But I'm worried about Princess Pina.
She's still at the Imperial Palace.</b>

212
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<b>Even they wouldn't hurt a 
member of the royal family.</b>

213
00:15:19,620 --> 00:15:21,930
<b>No, we can't be sure of that.</b>

214
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<b>We need her with us when 
we leave the capital.</b>

215
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>But it won't be easy to 
sneak into the palace.</b>

216
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<b>And do we even know where she is?</b>

217
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<b>No.</b>

218
00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:37,960
<b>We'll have to wait for word from Hamilton.</b>

219
00:15:39,870 --> 00:15:41,730
<b>Enemy attack! Enemy attack!</b>

220
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>To your positions!</b></font>

221
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<b>So they won't even let us take a break, huh?</b>

222
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<b>It should be hard for them, too.</b>

223
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<b>No matter what, we need to defend this place
until we hear from Pina-sama.</b>

224
00:15:53,130 --> 00:15:55,300
<b>Yeah, you're right.</b>

225
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Stop it!</b></font>

226
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<b>Stop it, please!</b>

227
00:16:03,660 --> 00:16:06,160
<b>Hey, are you listening?</b>

228
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<b>Wait!</b>

229
00:16:14,750 --> 00:16:15,900
<b>Wait!</b>

230
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<b>You ignored multiple warnings from Zolzal-sama,</b>

231
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>and interfered with our actions.</b></font>

232
00:16:39,590 --> 00:16:44,600
<b>Thus, you will be judged in accordance with
the Oprichnina's special law.</b>

233
00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:46,900
<b>Know your place, warrior bunny!</b>

234
00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,900
<b>Say what you like.</b>

235
00:16:50,430 --> 00:16:54,420
<b>That room is the one where
I was locked away forever.</b>

236
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>It's a wonderful room.</b></font>

237
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<b>Perfect for you!</b>

238
00:17:00,350 --> 00:17:02,210
<b>Oh, right.</b>

239
00:17:02,210 --> 00:17:07,680
<b>Zolzal-sama has a message
 he wanted me to give you.</b>

240
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<b>You lose, Pina.</b>

241
00:17:21,230 --> 00:17:22,860
<b>Lelei, are you okay?</b>

242
00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:33,750
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>How?</b></font>

243
00:17:36,950 --> 00:17:39,440
<b>Wh-Why are you wearing armor?</b>

244
00:17:46,950 --> 00:17:48,210
<b>How'd it go?</b>

245
00:17:48,850 --> 00:17:51,620
<b>They were impressed by her paper,</b>

246
00:17:51,620 --> 00:17:56,220
<b>but she can't become a Master
until this trouble's resolved.</b>

247
00:17:56,630 --> 00:17:58,610
<b>That's a shame.</b>

248
00:17:59,530 --> 00:18:02,380
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Was there any sign of the 
Pied Piper at the scene?</b>

249
00:18:02,380 --> 00:18:03,940
<b>None.</b>

250
00:18:04,340 --> 00:18:08,600
<b>Of course, there's no guarantee that
the man Shandy met was really him.</b>

251
00:18:09,070 --> 00:18:11,900
<b>He might've been there unbeknownst to us.</b>

252
00:18:13,070 --> 00:18:14,610
<b>It's not fair!</b>

253
00:18:14,610 --> 00:18:18,450
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>If you were going to wear armor under 
your clothes, you should've told me!</b>

254
00:18:18,910 --> 00:18:23,960
<b>Uh, you were the first one who heard
that it would be better to wear armor.</b>

255
00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,610
<b>You warn Lelei about this,</b>

256
00:18:27,610 --> 00:18:29,960
<b>and have her wear armor under her clothes.</b>

257
00:18:32,380 --> 00:18:34,420
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>That's right!</b></font>

258
00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,570
<b>I'm glad that it was an 
idiot who got tricked.</b>

259
00:18:38,570 --> 00:18:42,550
<b>Of course we're going to take precautions
when her life's in danger.</b>

260
00:18:42,550 --> 00:18:45,310
<b>They say better safe than sorry, right?</b>

261
00:18:45,310 --> 00:18:47,890
<b>You just messed up by
not going for her neck.</b></font>

262
00:18:48,770 --> 00:18:50,850
<b>No...</b>

263
00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,730
<b>So? Why did you do that?</b>

264
00:18:54,170 --> 00:18:57,170
<b>To save Princess Pina, obviously!</b>

265
00:18:57,490 --> 00:18:58,550
<b>Pina?</b>

266
00:18:59,220 --> 00:19:02,740
<b>How does attacking Lelei save her?</b>

267
00:19:05,180 --> 00:19:09,000
<b>It's Prince Zolzal who's
after Lelei-san's life.</b></font>

268
00:19:11,980 --> 00:19:15,300
<b>So I tried to show Princess Pina's loyalty</b>

269
00:19:15,300 --> 00:19:17,940
<b>by bringing him Lelei's head.</b>

270
00:19:18,850 --> 00:19:20,490
<b>I see.</b>

271
00:19:20,790 --> 00:19:24,000
<b>So he used your loyalty to Pina!</b>

272
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,850
<b>No! I wasn't tricked!</b>

273
00:19:26,850 --> 00:19:30,710
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>The princess is in big trouble right now!</b></font>

274
00:19:31,290 --> 00:19:34,360
<b>Crown Prince Zolzal's dictatorship...</b>

275
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,770
<b>...has put even her life in danger.</b>

276
00:19:45,110 --> 00:19:48,340
<b>I can't believe a battle's 
started at the Jade Palace.</b>

277
00:19:48,970 --> 00:19:53,640
<b>At this rate, the princess herself will be
punished under the Oprichnina law!</b></font>

278
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:54,770
<b>Knight Vice Commander Grey,</b>

279
00:19:54,770 --> 00:19:57,510
<b>if you have any loyalty to the princess,</b>

280
00:19:57,510 --> 00:19:59,130
<b>kill Lelei-san!</b>

281
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,380
<b>I don't know about that...</b>

282
00:20:04,330 --> 00:20:06,890
<b>It's too much of a task for me.</b>

283
00:20:07,370 --> 00:20:10,290
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Besides, doesn't it seem far more realistic</b></font>

284
00:20:10,290 --> 00:20:14,150
<b>to raid the palace if we 
want to save the princess?</b>

285
00:20:14,150 --> 00:20:15,680
<b>What are you saying?</b>

286
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,120
<b>There are tens of thousands of soldiers 
and royal guards protecting it!</b>

287
00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:23,530
<b>But to stop the Pied Piper
and the other assassins,</b></font>

288
00:20:23,530 --> 00:20:25,740
<b>we need to cut it off at the source.</b>

289
00:20:25,740 --> 00:20:28,330
<b>You intend to kill the crown prince?</b>

290
00:20:28,330 --> 00:20:30,610
<b>This is the most effective way</b>

291
00:20:30,610 --> 00:20:33,080
<b>to save Princess Pina, I believe.</b>

292
00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:37,990
<b>Come to think of it, Itami-dono.</b>

293
00:20:37,990 --> 00:20:40,770
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Have you made contact with the SDF?</b></font>

294
00:20:41,110 --> 00:20:44,580
<b>If I go outside Rondel, there are 
places where I can connect,</b>

295
00:20:44,580 --> 00:20:46,890
<b>but honestly, it's not going well.</b>

296
00:20:46,890 --> 00:20:48,980
<b>I thought that might be the case,</b>

297
00:20:48,980 --> 00:20:52,980
<b>so I've used the newly-repaired
bridge to summon a messenger.</b></font>

298
00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:54,650
<b>Excuse me!</b>

299
00:20:54,990 --> 00:20:56,890
<b>I've been waiting!</b>

300
00:20:57,190 --> 00:20:57,820
<b>Trouble!</b>

301
00:20:58,450 --> 00:20:59,680
<b>Princess Pina is—</b>

302
00:21:07,370 --> 00:21:08,900
<b>Understood.</b>

303
00:21:15,130 --> 00:21:16,380
<b>It's a go!</b>

304
00:21:20,150 --> 00:21:20,820
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Spin 'er up!</b></font>

305
00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:21,630
<b>Spin 'er up!</b>

306
00:21:22,110 --> 00:21:26,050
<b>Secondary parachute check, okay. 
Primary parachute check, okay.</b>

307
00:21:26,430 --> 00:21:27,610
<b>Tie bands check, okay.</b>

308
00:21:27,610 --> 00:21:28,750
<b>Hooks check, okay.</b>

309
00:21:28,750 --> 00:21:29,810
<b>Automatic grommets!</b>

310
00:21:29,810 --> 00:21:31,240
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Automatic grommets, okay!</b></font>

311
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:32,560
<b>All okay! Good to go!</b>

312
00:21:32,820 --> 00:21:34,520
<b>Boarding now.</b>

313
00:21:40,150 --> 00:21:42,870
<b><i>All units in the Special Region,
this is Staff HQ.</i></b>

314
00:21:43,170 --> 00:21:46,650
<b><i>At 0630 tomorrow, Special Region forces
will execute a parachute drop</i></b>

315
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<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b><i>into the southwest of the imperial capital,
as well as a helicopter operation.</i></b>

316
00:21:51,020 --> 00:21:55,370
<b><i>The mission is to rescue the ambassadors
and asylum seekers in the Jade Palace</i></b>

317
00:21:55,370 --> 00:21:57,670
<b><i>and protect the possibility of
peace with the Empire.</i></b>

318
00:21:57,670 --> 00:21:58,690
<b><i>Repeat...</i></b>

319
00:22:01,020 --> 00:22:01,800
<font face="Open Sans Semibold" size="36"><b>Hurry...</b></font>

320
00:22:03,140 --> 00:22:04,130
<b>To the capital!</b>

321
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<b><u>{\an3}Episode 23  Paradrop</u></b>

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{\an8}Next time on <i>Gate</i>: "Paradrop."


