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86 [Eighty-Six] Ep.13- It's Too Late · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess I'm back and
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Speaker 1: not happy because I don't know what's going on with
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Speaker 1: my body, and I probably have something wrong with me.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I always think I have something wrong with me.
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Speaker 1: But the thing I thought was a food allergy probably
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Speaker 1: isn't a food allergy. So I need to figure out
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Speaker 1: what that is. And it's stressing me out and it
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Speaker 1: makes me not feel good. So it's hard to do
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Speaker 1: things like this, but I'm doing it because I have to.
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Speaker 1: Why do I have to, I don't know, because I
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Speaker 1: put an incredible amount of pressure on myself all the
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Speaker 1: time to get things done. Yeah, I guess thank you
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Speaker 1: for listening. I'm hoping that you are and that I'm
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Speaker 1: not doing this for nothing. But I think that people
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Speaker 1: might listen sometimes, so as long as like oneish person
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Speaker 1: is listening, I guess it's fine that I'm doing this, right,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Sorry, again, not having a really good
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Speaker 1: week so far. But that's not what we came to discuss, right.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about eighty six, and specifically the thirteenth episode
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Speaker 1: of eighty six, which is called It's Too Late. I
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Speaker 1: just realized as I said that that I don't know
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Speaker 1: where the title drop is in this episode, so hopefully
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Speaker 1: we'll find it together, but it doesn't sound super promising anyway.
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Speaker 1: If you remember from the last episode, we ended with
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Speaker 1: Shin looking at that piece of his brother's juggernaut that
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Speaker 1: Ernest gave back to him and just being like totally
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Speaker 1: freaked out about it. So we start probably not exactly there.
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Speaker 1: In fact, we don't start there at all. We start
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Speaker 1: with the opening theme. Oh my god, I think that's
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Speaker 1: like the first time in the show that we put
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Speaker 1: the opening theme first. So it's kind of nice because
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Speaker 1: I didn't have to do anything for like three minutes
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Speaker 1: or however many minutes that was two minutes, who knows.
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Speaker 1: Once we are done with the opening, we see a city.
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Speaker 1: We're kind of like relatively high up, like maybe equivalent
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Speaker 1: of like three or four stories up, like not totally
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Speaker 1: above the city, but not on the ground, and just
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Speaker 1: looks like a nice, well maintained city. And we're kind
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Speaker 1: of over like what looks like a park, like almost
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Speaker 1: like Central Park because there's buildings all around it. And
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Speaker 1: it says that this is sancd Jetter. I guess in
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Speaker 1: the geodveedteracy, we hear a voice, Ay, the festival of
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Speaker 1: the Holy Birth is next week, and the whole city's
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Speaker 1: getting ready. We see a church with a you know,
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Speaker 1: huge decorated pine tree out front, and there are some
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Speaker 1: statues near it, like a statue of like a man
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Speaker 1: and a woman I think maybe, and they're wearing coats,
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Speaker 1: so everybody's getting all in the spirit of I guess Christmas.
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Speaker 1: And then we see a Christmas market with like lots
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Speaker 1: of like booths and stalls like up along walkway and
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Speaker 1: all sorts of decorations, and the voice continues, today we'll
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Speaker 1: show you just how much fun everyone's happening. The screen
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Speaker 1: kind of wipes, which it does a lot in this episode,
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Speaker 1: and we see the exterior of Ernst House. Then we
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Speaker 1: cut to a TV and on the TV it says
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Speaker 1: is the President's lunch lie. The loser has to give
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Speaker 1: the winner whatever they want as a presence. That sounds
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Speaker 1: pretty dumb. And then we see that Frederica is watching
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Speaker 1: the TV and this splond haired woman on the screen says,
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Speaker 1: this is a special ornament that you can only get
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Speaker 1: in this market. So it's cuter, right. Frederica is totally
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Speaker 1: mesmerized by this and the guy on the screen says
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Speaker 1: it's kind of expensive, and this brown haired girl is like,
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Speaker 1: I want it though, and she's like kind of leaning
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Speaker 1: in to the guy, and the guy's like, oh fine,
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Speaker 1: I'll take it. Frederica's like what and she turns around
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Speaker 1: to where Teresa is vacuuming and says, Teresa, where's shine.
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Speaker 1: The screen then wipes to a truck driving down the
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Speaker 1: street with a like a bunny with a blue hat
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Speaker 1: on it and like a green arrow and some like
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Speaker 1: yellow circle with another circle behind it or something, and
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Speaker 1: we hear someone say I'm tired. Ride In is inside
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Speaker 1: the truck, like in the front of the truck with
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Speaker 1: these two other guys, one of them has brown and
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Speaker 1: one of them has a mohawk, and the brown haired
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Speaker 1: guy is driving, and the guy with the red mohawk
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Speaker 1: has his feet up on the dash and Righting's like really,
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Speaker 1: The mohawk guy says, you're really tough. You loaded that
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Speaker 1: fridge all by yourself, right right, And it's like, oh, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's easy if you know the trick, tell me the
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Speaker 1: trick riding. The mohawk guy says, no, no, no, and
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Speaker 1: the brown haired guy is like, but that delivery of
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Speaker 1: the seventh floor with no elevator. Yesterday was really rough,
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Speaker 1: right right, and it's like it was a three ring
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Speaker 1: circus filled with fun and excitements. The guy with the
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Speaker 1: mohawks says what, and they all just kind of laugh,
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Speaker 1: I guess. Then we see buildings and two women like
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Speaker 1: walking down the streets, and the first woman says, want
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Speaker 1: to go to that cafe? And the second woman's like, okay.
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Speaker 1: We see a young couple walking down the street holding hands,
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Speaker 1: and the girl's like, where are we going now? And
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Speaker 1: the guy says, hmm, maybody try on some clothes. Karina
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Speaker 1: is walking past them, reading a magazine that but I
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Speaker 1: cannot read because it's clearly not in English, and she
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Speaker 1: is very much evesdropping on that couple, and she looks
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Speaker 1: a little bit pissed off actually. Then she sees something
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Speaker 1: and we see that it is a dress, I think,
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Speaker 1: or a skirt in the top. It's hard to see
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Speaker 1: because there's a reflection on it in a window, like
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Speaker 1: in a window display. And she smiles like really slightly,
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Speaker 1: and then gasps as she realizes that the woman inside
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Speaker 1: is waving at her to come in. She turns bright
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Speaker 1: red and hides her face in the magazine. The screen
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Speaker 1: then swipes to a park by a building with a
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Speaker 1: clock tower. We see THEO who is sitting on a
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Speaker 1: bench with his sketchbook and he is like using his
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Speaker 1: pencil to measure the distances between things, like holding it
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Speaker 1: up so he can see how big things have to
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Speaker 1: be so we can make them relatively the right size.
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Speaker 1: And then he goes to draw some more and we
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Speaker 1: hear someone say oh. THEO looks behind him and there's
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Speaker 1: this middle aged guy standing there just looking over his shoulder,
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Speaker 1: which I guess is fine because he's drawing. Sure, And
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Speaker 1: the man says, you've got a nice touch. Theo's like,
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Speaker 1: thank you. We then swipe to a building with a
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Speaker 1: sign on it that says cooking class, and then to
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Speaker 1: two plates of what might be French toast I think,
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Speaker 1: with some blueberries and whipped cream on the side, and
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Speaker 1: anju is staring at them and she looks like she
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Speaker 1: feels pretty accomplished about her work. This girl's like hey,
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Speaker 1: and Anjue looks up and the girl says, you only
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Speaker 1: ever learn to make desserts? Right onju, I don't think
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Speaker 1: that's true. You'll want to learn normal cooking, or you'll
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Speaker 1: have problems in the future, are says Future, and the
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Speaker 1: girl's like, when you cook for your kids, for example,
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Speaker 1: that is sexist anyway. An's like kids, no way. And
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Speaker 1: then we wipe to a large, modern looking building and
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Speaker 1: we see that it is the Imperial Capital Central Library. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: your library. Sin is walking down the stairs inside, and
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Speaker 1: we hear a voice say, there he is, and then
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Speaker 1: a second voice say he's always so cool. Shin looks
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Speaker 1: over and sees two women staring at him, I guess
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the stairs, and they like gasp
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Speaker 1: and smile, like super embarrassed, and they're like, hi, there.
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Speaker 1: Shin just kind of blinks and nods because he is
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Speaker 1: absolutely just me and doesn't even know how to say
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Speaker 1: anything when people say things to him. Now further into
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Speaker 1: the library, Shin walks past a book that is kind
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Speaker 1: of laying on top of like a low shelf that
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Speaker 1: I think has children's books in it, and it's like
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Speaker 1: the back cover of the book is facing up and
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Speaker 1: it has like evergreen trees on it and a moon
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Speaker 1: and stars, and it also looks like it's probably a
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Speaker 1: kid's book. It's kind of like large and thin. He
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Speaker 1: stops and looks back at it, and then he goes
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Speaker 1: to pick it up, and as he does, this really
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Speaker 1: small child runs over and tries to reach for the
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Speaker 1: book but can't because Shin has already picked it up.
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Speaker 1: And from this angle, which is behind the kid, we
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Speaker 1: don't know what they look like except they're wearing a
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Speaker 1: coat and a hat, but they seem pretty upset that
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Speaker 1: Shin got the book that they wanted. Shin, of course
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Speaker 1: notices and turns and holds the book out towards them.
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Speaker 1: We see that it is a little Alba girl wearing glasses,
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Speaker 1: and she looks so happy when she actually takes the
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Speaker 1: book from Shin, but then she looks scared, and we
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Speaker 1: see that Shin has this incredibly cold stare on his face,
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Speaker 1: and she turns and runs away. I don't think Shin
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Speaker 1: was trying to be mean. I understand Shin. I get it.
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Speaker 1: Shin puts his hands in his pockets and continues in
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Speaker 1: the other direction, and we hear someone say, oh hey,
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Speaker 1: Shin stops, but he doesn't really turn back, like he
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Speaker 1: just kind of glances back over his shoulder. And there's
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Speaker 1: this guy who's also Alba with glasses and he has
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Speaker 1: the little girl standing next to him, who does not
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Speaker 1: look happy at all. The guy says, Nina, when someone
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Speaker 1: does something for you or lets you have something, you
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Speaker 1: say thank you. He starts like to push Nina towards
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Speaker 1: Shin and says, sorry, my sister was very rude. Shin
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Speaker 1: turns slightly more and says, no, it's fine reading it.
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Speaker 1: The guy's like, it's not fine. You need to have
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Speaker 1: them learn that at a young age. He pats Nina
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Speaker 1: on the back and says, come on. Nina is looking
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Speaker 1: at the floor, clearly upset and scared of Shin, and
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Speaker 1: just says thank you and runs for it. The guy's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: oh man, that girl. Thanks, sorry for getting you involved
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Speaker 1: in that. Shin's like, no, it must be rough being
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Speaker 1: a big brother. The guy says, I don't know where
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Speaker 1: she got it from, but she's really shy. He sighs.
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Speaker 1: This may be rude, but you're here a lot at
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Speaker 1: this time of day. Don't you have school? Sin's like,
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Speaker 1: what about you? The guy says, uh. Shin continues, if
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Speaker 1: you see me a lot, that means you're here a
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Speaker 1: lot too. The guy says, oh yeah, he looks at
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Speaker 1: the ground. I don't go to school. I can't. We're
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Speaker 1: not that wealthy. There's a little pause and then he says,
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Speaker 1: sorry for just talking to you out of no way.
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Speaker 1: I'm Eugene Rance. Nice to meet you. Shin says, Shine
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Speaker 1: knows him. Then we hear Frederica say Frederica Rosenfort. I
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Speaker 1: didn't even know she was there, but now she's standing
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Speaker 1: in front of Nina, and Nina says Nina Rance, Shin says,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing. Frederica's like, I read her book
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Speaker 1: and she took a liking to me. She makes like
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Speaker 1: a really weird face, and she says it was a
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Speaker 1: story for little kids with lots of princes and princesses.
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Speaker 1: And then Tanina, she says, I'll read you the rest
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Speaker 1: some other time. Shin to Eugene says sorry, and Eugene's
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Speaker 1: like your little sister. Shin says, not a chance. Frederica's like, Sinnay,
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Speaker 1: you're not doing anything right, come with me. Shin stares
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Speaker 1: at her with so much contempt. Then we see that
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Speaker 1: Christmas village from earlier, and Frederica is looking around at
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Speaker 1: like all the stalls, and she's like super happy, and
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Speaker 1: she gets like really really excited and blushes because she
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Speaker 1: sees what is possibly the ugliest purple stuffed I have
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Speaker 1: ever seen. It is so ugly, guys, I was just amazed,
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Speaker 1: Like it's purple, but then it has like an arm
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Speaker 1: that's a different color. It's like patchwork a little bit,
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Speaker 1: which could be really cute. Normally I like that stuff
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Speaker 1: when it's not perfect and looks handmade. But I just
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Speaker 1: thought this was literally the ugliest abomination ever. But she's
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Speaker 1: just in love with it, guys. And the guy who
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Speaker 1: is working at this booth says, it's a little early,
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Speaker 1: but why not get it for her as a festival present.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you a discount since your little sister so cute.
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Speaker 1: Sin's like, not a chance. Frederica, in a very childish way,
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Speaker 1: with like some mispronounced words, I think, is like big brother,
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Speaker 1: I want it. Shin just stares at her, and Fredrika says,
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Speaker 1: I I want it, and she starts to like blush
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Speaker 1: so hard that steam is coming off her, and then
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Speaker 1: she kind of makes a squeal, but Shin looks totally unfazed.
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Speaker 1: But then we cut to them walking away and she's
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Speaker 1: holding the bear, so I guess it did work. Frederica
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Speaker 1: is like you're more gullible than you look. Shinn says,
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Speaker 1: where did you learn to do that stuff? Frederica kind
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Speaker 1: of splits off from him, and Shin stops and looks
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Speaker 1: over to where she went, and she is holding her
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Speaker 1: hands up to the sky excitedly because it's just started snowing.
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Speaker 1: We cut to Ern's house, the exterior of it, and
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Speaker 1: it's still snowing, but it's night now, and Earth is
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Speaker 1: walking up to it and he chuckles as he passes
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Speaker 1: like a really cute little snowman that one of them made,
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Speaker 1: like right by the front steps. Then we transition from
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Speaker 1: the snowman at night to the morning after snowman, which
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Speaker 1: just has a little bit more snow on it, but
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Speaker 1: it looks like it stops snowing now, and we start
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Speaker 1: to get like still shots of what everyone's doing. So
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Speaker 1: we have a shot of Brydon carrying some boxes. I
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Speaker 1: think this is a moving company job that he's doing
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Speaker 1: a shot of Onjuw in cooking class, Theo standing in
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Speaker 1: the park with his sketchbook, Korna in a mall, and
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Speaker 1: then we see Shinn in the library with Eugene waving
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Speaker 1: to him. We cut to some really really big building,
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Speaker 1: like really big, Like it's just long, like I think
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Speaker 1: it's like three stories tall, but it just kind of
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Speaker 1: wraps around like a central courtyard area. And it is night,
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Speaker 1: and we hear Ernst say, I want to go home
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Speaker 1: early tomorrow, so I'll stay a little bit longer tonight.
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Speaker 1: He's sitting at a desk typing into a laptop and
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Speaker 1: he says, it's the eve of the Holy Birth tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I think you guys should just say Christmas. This woman
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Speaker 1: who's there says the Republic has a tradition of exchanging
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Speaker 1: presents as well. Earns this like presence. Huh, that'd be good,
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Speaker 1: I wonder. Next we see Ryden sitting at a counter
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Speaker 1: at some sort of restaurant or diner, eating with his
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Speaker 1: work crew, and we hear Ernst's say they've been here
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Speaker 1: a month and they've all found friends and things to do.
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Speaker 1: We see Karina holding up some clothing in a clothing
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Speaker 1: store to a mirror and just looking not very happy honestly,
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Speaker 1: and Ernest continues, they're fitting in well. Then we see
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Speaker 1: Theo sitting alone in the house with his sketchbook, just
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Speaker 1: kind of like tapping his pencil onto the paper. Ernest continues, Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's a good sign that they've made friends. Anju is
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Speaker 1: looking at the messages in her phone as she stands
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Speaker 1: at the bus stop, and we hear Ernest say they'll
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Speaker 1: be fine. Sure, Anju looks so fucking depressed, and Ernest continues,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to find a real path for them
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Speaker 1: to take in life. When spring rolls around, Shin is
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Speaker 1: lying in bed. He has a book on his chest
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Speaker 1: and he's starting to fall asleep and his eyes close,
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Speaker 1: and the scene fades to black. Shin's hand then appears
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Speaker 1: in the darkness, and some cherry blossom pedals kind of
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Speaker 1: falled into it, and we're seeing him from behind, and
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Speaker 1: also from behind him somewhere, we hear a voice, which
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Speaker 1: is Kaye's voice, say, I know it's an awful thing
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Speaker 1: to ask. Shin stirs slightly. Then we see a pair
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Speaker 1: of army boots walking towards him, and Kaye continues, you've
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Speaker 1: gone as far as you can go. Now there are
15:14
Speaker 1: multiple boots walking towards him. You've taken us with you.
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Speaker 1: We now see Kaye her face and Necker in frame,
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Speaker 1: but nothing else. She continues, So you should be able
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Speaker 1: to forget about us. Shin is now slightly peering back
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Speaker 1: over his shoulder, but not completely turning around, and cherry
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Speaker 1: blossoms are drifting through this blank space, and Kaye continues,
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Speaker 1: but knowing that it still hurts. The cherry blossom pedal
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Speaker 1: that landed on Shin's hand just melts into a puddle.
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Speaker 1: Kaye says, staying here hurts. A pair of hands enter
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Speaker 1: the frame and pick up Kaye's head. Kay says, I'm dead.
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Speaker 1: I want to go home. The hands carry her head,
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Speaker 1: just her head off screen. The background kind of morphs
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Speaker 1: into this whitish color, and Shin's bandana drifts across it,
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Speaker 1: and Kaye says, so Shin. The bandana reaches Shin. We
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Speaker 1: have this weird kind of above shot where it wraps
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Speaker 1: around his neck. She continues, our reaper. Shin finally turns
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Speaker 1: around and he sees a bunch of Legion mechs with
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Speaker 1: just a ton of his fallen comrades standing in front
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Speaker 1: of them. They're all holding their own heads in their arms.
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Speaker 1: Their eyes are glowing blue. I guess like the Legion's
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Speaker 1: eyes do. And Kaye continues from her head, which she
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Speaker 1: is cradling in her arms. Please save us. Shin stares
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Speaker 1: at them from the train tracks. Now the background behind
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Speaker 1: him is most white except for the shadows of the Juggernauts,
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Speaker 1: like they're off in the distance, like they're in a fog.
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Speaker 1: He then raises his arm towards his fallen comrades, like
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Speaker 1: he's gripping something, and then he pulls it back, realizing
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Speaker 1: that he no longer has his gun. He closes his
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Speaker 1: eyes briefly and then opens them with resolve, and we
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Speaker 1: hear a voice say, Shin. We cut to him opening
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Speaker 1: his eyes, but with the same basic shot from the dream.
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Speaker 1: He's in the library and looks like he fell asleep
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Speaker 1: sitting up, and Eugene is sitting at a table like
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Speaker 1: directly behind him, and he says, I know the sunlight's
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Speaker 1: nice and warm, but the librarians will get mad at
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Speaker 1: you for sleeping. I don't think so. I think the
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Speaker 1: librarians would just think he was having a nice dream.
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Speaker 1: Eugene continues, did you stay up too late? We see
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Speaker 1: that it is December twenty fourth, twenty one forty eighth,
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Speaker 1: so they've only been with Ernst for like twenty three
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Speaker 1: days at this point, and Shinn says no. Eugene kind
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Speaker 1: of laughs, and he's like, it's about time. Want to
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Speaker 1: go see he stands. Shin's like what. Eugene picks up
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Speaker 1: his jacket and starts to put it on. The Military's
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Speaker 1: Holy Birth Festival leave parade. Fuck, that's so many words
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Speaker 1: just say Christmas. This year it's the Western Theatre's twenty
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Speaker 1: fourth Mechanized Infantry Division, so we should be able to
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Speaker 1: see the latest model of third generation Vanigander. Shin just
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Speaker 1: kind of exhales, and Eugene's like, Oh, are you not interested?
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Speaker 1: Shin says no, it's just you don't seem like the
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Speaker 1: type who'd care about that. Eugene's like, oh, no, I'm
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Speaker 1: actually joining the service. Shin's eyes twitch, and Eugene continues,
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Speaker 1: I volunteered for the Mechanized Infantry, so I wanted to
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Speaker 1: see them. I thought you were the same. You were
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Speaker 1: looking at military documents yesterday and the day before, so
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Speaker 1: I just thought you were trying to get into the
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Speaker 1: Special Officers School too. There's a pause, and then he's like,
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Speaker 1: this place is peaceful, but they're fighting at the border
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Speaker 1: and we don't know when the war's gonna come here.
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Speaker 1: If there's something I can do to prevent that to
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Speaker 1: protect my sister, I want to do it, and someday
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Speaker 1: I want my little sister to see the ocean. So
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Speaker 1: I need this war to end. Shin's like yeah. Nina
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Speaker 1: walks over to where Eugene is standing, and Eugene says, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're off, come if you're curious. They start to walk away,
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Speaker 1: and as they do, Nina glances back at Shin, but
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Speaker 1: she still looks very scared of him, and Shin very
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Speaker 1: quietly says, I've rested too long. Fuck Sin, It's been
19:29
Speaker 1: twenty three days, but it's not very long. He looks
19:33
Speaker 1: down at the book in front of him on the
19:35
Speaker 1: table and we see that it is The Skull Night. Yeah.
19:39
Speaker 1: Just can't get away from it, huh. We get this
19:42
Speaker 1: really cool shot of Shin looking to the side. There's
19:45
Speaker 1: a window right behind him, and there are flags outside,
19:48
Speaker 1: and there's one like right behind him flapping in the breeze,
19:50
Speaker 1: and it just looks pretty cool. And then we go
19:52
Speaker 1: to the title card episode thirteen. It's too late. It
19:56
Speaker 1: is December twenty fourth, twenty one forty eight. Still we
20:00
Speaker 1: see Karina, who is like walking past this really large
20:03
Speaker 1: crowd of people who are gathered right along the street.
20:06
Speaker 1: She notices two girls standing next to each other and
20:09
Speaker 1: then glances at herself in the window and realizes she's
20:12
Speaker 1: wearing the exact same outphit as one of the girls,
20:15
Speaker 1: and she looked kind of sad about it, because I
20:17
Speaker 1: guess she wants to be cool and original. And then
20:20
Speaker 1: she realizes that the window that she's looking at her
20:23
Speaker 1: reflection in is that shop again, and the woman is
20:26
Speaker 1: again motioning for her to come inside. Next, we have
20:30
Speaker 1: a close up on THEO drawing and we hear Ani
20:32
Speaker 1: say there you are. We see that THEO is sitting
20:35
Speaker 1: inside a gazebo in a park right near this like
20:38
Speaker 1: really fucked up building, like part of the third and
20:41
Speaker 1: the fourth floors are just gone, like a bomb hit
20:43
Speaker 1: it maybe so there's just like a big open hole.
20:46
Speaker 1: So obviously it's not used anymore. And Anjie was walking
20:49
Speaker 1: over to the gazebo and she says, you said you
20:51
Speaker 1: were going to Republic Plaza, so I thought you might
20:53
Speaker 1: be here. You thought he'd be in the place he
20:57
Speaker 1: told you he'd be, Like why is that a part
20:58
Speaker 1: of the dialogue? THEO says, yeah, what is it AND's like,
21:03
Speaker 1: I want your help with something. I need to carry
21:05
Speaker 1: some things, but I can't do it all on my own.
21:08
Speaker 1: THEO says, sure, need anyone else. Shin's probably free Shin
21:13
Speaker 1: and he stops because he was about to tap on
21:15
Speaker 1: his power rade, but they don't have them anymore. He
21:17
Speaker 1: just kind of groans, and Andrew laughs and points down
21:20
Speaker 1: at the bench. THEO reaches down and he says, these
21:24
Speaker 1: things sure are convenient, aren't they. He grabs his cell
21:27
Speaker 1: phone and it's like, even though you got to carry
21:30
Speaker 1: them everywhere, and they don't work if the other person
21:31
Speaker 1: turns them off. And he's staring down at the phone
21:34
Speaker 1: and says, and you gotta punch in the number every
21:36
Speaker 1: time or register its and On's like you preferred the implants.
21:41
Speaker 1: THEO just kind of huffs and taps the phone to
21:43
Speaker 1: his ear, and we hear it kind of ring in
21:46
Speaker 1: the background throughout this scene as he's trying to get
21:48
Speaker 1: in touch with Shin, and Andrew says, it's weird how
21:51
Speaker 1: the Federacy wanted those things. She sits down. I know
21:54
Speaker 1: it's odd to say after we use them for so long,
21:56
Speaker 1: but we basically knew nothing about them. Theo's like, well,
22:00
Speaker 1: they're probably useful on the battlefield. These things get jammed easily.
22:04
Speaker 1: I guess. As for the Juggernauts, I don't know what
22:06
Speaker 1: they expect to learn from those walking coffins. Andre's like,
22:11
Speaker 1: there wasn't anything I wanted to take from them. Theo's
22:14
Speaker 1: like same, he's not answering. He lowers his head dramatically
22:18
Speaker 1: in sighs on you laughs again, and THEO says, you know,
22:22
Speaker 1: sh'd wanted his scarf and pistol back or its ended
22:25
Speaker 1: up holding onto the pistol though, oh that's his Andrew says,
22:31
Speaker 1: it's the pistol that he used to end everyone's lives.
22:33
Speaker 1: Sin never let anyone else do it. Geez. THEO size
22:38
Speaker 1: I'm sure he had to because of the voices, but
22:40
Speaker 1: I don't think it would kill him to take it easier.
22:42
Speaker 1: On's like, there's probably times when being trapped by it
22:45
Speaker 1: helped him survive. THEO stares at her and a big
22:49
Speaker 1: clump of snow falls from the roof of the gazebo
22:51
Speaker 1: behind him, and on U continues, in a way, it
22:56
Speaker 1: kept him alive, maybe having the goal of killing his
22:59
Speaker 1: brother kept here with us without that. Now he's some
23:04
Speaker 1: more snow falls off the roof, this time behind Anju,
23:07
Speaker 1: and she doesn't finish her sentence. Yeah, Theo's like, this place,
23:13
Speaker 1: Republic Plaza is where the Republic's embassy was. Oh okay,
23:17
Speaker 1: so that's probably the blown up building that's like on
23:20
Speaker 1: the side over there. Also in front of that building,
23:23
Speaker 1: I guess there's a statue that only has feet left.
23:26
Speaker 1: So we got blown up too, I assume. THEO continues,
23:29
Speaker 1: I didn't know that when I came here. Maybe I'm
23:31
Speaker 1: still trapped too. We finally get to see his sketchbook,
23:35
Speaker 1: and it's just kind of doodles. I mean, nice doodles,
23:39
Speaker 1: but it's not a complete picture. There's Shins Undertaker logo,
23:43
Speaker 1: his laughing Fox, the Cat, Tepi, Fido, Aldrich, I think
23:49
Speaker 1: Kujo maybe, and possibly Kaye. He draws really well, but
23:53
Speaker 1: they look more realistic, so I'm not one hundred percent
23:56
Speaker 1: sure that that's who they are. Anju just kind of
23:59
Speaker 1: looks at him sad, and THEO continues, what about you,
24:02
Speaker 1: onjuw Andrew says, hmmm. Theo's like, you were supposed to
24:07
Speaker 1: die on that battlefield, but you're still alive. They want
24:09
Speaker 1: us to think about our futures. Have you decided on yours.
24:13
Speaker 1: Onju sighs and looks at the ground. I thought about
24:15
Speaker 1: it a lot, but it's always the same, the things
24:18
Speaker 1: we should be doing. She kind of laughs, you're asking
24:21
Speaker 1: me now, isn't it too late for that? Theo's like right.
24:25
Speaker 1: There's a pause, and they both kind of look very introspective,
24:28
Speaker 1: and then Onu claps her hands together and says anyway,
24:31
Speaker 1: and Theo's like, oh right, and they both stand up.
24:34
Speaker 1: THEO starts to dial on his phone again and says,
24:37
Speaker 1: come on, shin, we got to a mechanized foot hitting
24:40
Speaker 1: the ground hard, and they both look over like mildly shocked,
24:45
Speaker 1: and we see on like a big giant screen a
24:50
Speaker 1: broadcast of a bunch of mechs walking down a street
24:53
Speaker 1: to music like parade music, obviously, and then we cut
24:57
Speaker 1: to those mechs walking past crowds on the per root
25:00
Speaker 1: and they're like kind of dark gray color and they
25:03
Speaker 1: have little red bands around their arms and legs and
25:06
Speaker 1: big gun. We see the side of Rydon's work truck.
25:10
Speaker 1: It's kind of driving away from the parade, or possibly
25:13
Speaker 1: stopped at a light because it's not moving right now,
25:16
Speaker 1: and the guy with the brown hair has his head
25:18
Speaker 1: kind of like out of the truck looking behind him,
25:20
Speaker 1: and he's like, wow, the Vaniganders are huge. The mohawk guy,
25:24
Speaker 1: who is like half out the door as well, is like,
25:26
Speaker 1: how do you drive one of those? Ryden has not
25:30
Speaker 1: turned around. He is just staring forward kind of solemnly,
25:33
Speaker 1: but his hand has kind of started to mimic the
25:36
Speaker 1: controls of the Juggernauts, and the mohawky continues, I'd love
25:41
Speaker 1: to give it a try. Another Vanigander foot hits the
25:44
Speaker 1: ground and we see Karina's eyes like totally wide and
25:49
Speaker 1: filled with terror. She is standing in that clothing store
25:53
Speaker 1: and the woman who's showing her a blue dress and
25:56
Speaker 1: also a pink dress says, how about this one. I'm
25:59
Speaker 1: sure you'd look in it, and then she very quietly says,
26:03
Speaker 1: if you wait until next week, it'll be twenty percent off.
26:06
Speaker 1: Carna says next week. The woman's like yeah, and she's
26:11
Speaker 1: like really really hovering over Karina, and Carna says, I
26:17
Speaker 1: don't really know. She's totally avoiding this woman's glance, and
26:22
Speaker 1: the woman kind of frowns and then is like, come
26:24
Speaker 1: back if you change your mind. Carna says, okay. The
26:28
Speaker 1: woman walks off to help somebody else, and Karina glances
26:31
Speaker 1: back towards the door at the mach parade, and then
26:36
Speaker 1: we see like a gun salute, and we cut to Frederica,
26:40
Speaker 1: who is lying on the couch hugging that bear abomination
26:44
Speaker 1: and groaning. Rydan is standing in the doorway and he says,
26:47
Speaker 1: what's wrong. Frederica's like ride in welcome back. She tries
26:52
Speaker 1: to get up, but you can't. She just kind of
26:54
Speaker 1: falls back down, and Rydan's like, where's Teresa. Frederica says
26:58
Speaker 1: she went shopping and she hasn't come back Rightan's like,
27:03
Speaker 1: no one's here, so Frederica cuts him off. I'm really hungry.
27:09
Speaker 1: She looks incredibly pathetic, and ryd In looks kind of disgusted,
27:14
Speaker 1: and Fredrika starts to blush, but she's also like sweating,
27:17
Speaker 1: like she doesn't know if she's doing a good enough
27:19
Speaker 1: job and being pathetic. I don't know, and she says
27:23
Speaker 1: I'm and Ryan's like just wait. He walks away. Next
27:28
Speaker 1: we see an omelet I think probably on a plate,
27:31
Speaker 1: and Frederica's like, it's delicious, and she has just a
27:35
Speaker 1: mouth full of omelet and she says, you have my
27:37
Speaker 1: gratitude ride in. Rydan is sitting at the table with her,
27:40
Speaker 1: and he's like yeah yeah. Frederica says, weren't you drinking
27:45
Speaker 1: with your work buddies today right? AND's like, oh, I canceled.
27:49
Speaker 1: Frederica kind of stops mid chew and stares at him,
27:53
Speaker 1: and Rydan says, You're lucky I was the one who
27:55
Speaker 1: came home Marley. If it was Shin, things would have
27:57
Speaker 1: turned out quite differently. He points to the omelet. Frederica's like, what, so,
28:02
Speaker 1: Shine is a bad cook? Brighten's like, not bad, he
28:05
Speaker 1: just doesn't care and it shows he only cares about fighting.
28:08
Speaker 1: Frederica says, I see sounds like a man who dedicated
28:12
Speaker 1: everything to killing his brother. What. She takes a bite right,
28:17
Speaker 1: and it's like, how do you know about Shin's brother?
28:21
Speaker 1: Frederica gasps well, and then Shin just basically materializes in
28:27
Speaker 1: the doorway with a bag of groceries and says, eat
28:29
Speaker 1: your carrots too. He sets the bag down on the
28:32
Speaker 1: table and I guess the omelet has carrots in it,
28:35
Speaker 1: because I'm really confused. Frederica gasps and says, how did
28:39
Speaker 1: you get here without making any noise? Shin's just like habit.
28:43
Speaker 1: Frederica says, habit, stop it. It scares me. Anju and
28:48
Speaker 1: THEO are also in the room now with bags, and
28:50
Speaker 1: I think THEO is carrying a box, and Rydon says,
28:54
Speaker 1: what's all this stuff Onju's like, we went shopping with
28:57
Speaker 1: Teresa and the car broke down. And at the same time,
29:00
Speaker 1: Shin is talking to Fredrika and says, just get used
29:04
Speaker 1: to it, it won't be a problem. Frederica is squealing
29:07
Speaker 1: at Shin's response, and THEO says, and since there was
29:10
Speaker 1: a lot to carry, and says, we looked, and Theo's
29:15
Speaker 1: like we called him. He looks over at Shin. Shin
29:18
Speaker 1: holds a bottle of looks like alcohol up to show
29:21
Speaker 1: that he has helped. Brandon looks kind of maybe perplexed,
29:24
Speaker 1: and he's just like, welcome home. We now see Corna
29:27
Speaker 1: walking out in the hallway of the house with her
29:30
Speaker 1: hand on her missing pararade and we hear it Teresa
29:34
Speaker 1: say thank you everyone. Theo's like, I wasn't doing anything anyway.
29:38
Speaker 1: You should have asked from the start. Corna lowers her
29:41
Speaker 1: hand and she just looks totally lost emotionally, that is,
29:46
Speaker 1: And Teresa says I'm a servant here. I can't expect
29:49
Speaker 1: the master's children to carry my things. Theo's like, no, no,
29:53
Speaker 1: he's not our dad. Karina kind of winces, and then
29:56
Speaker 1: Teresa says, oh, welcome home. Karna like yeah, she's standing
30:02
Speaker 1: in the doorway of the dining room now. Then Teresa
30:05
Speaker 1: walks into the kitchen, probably with one of the bags,
30:08
Speaker 1: and AJ's like, what's wrong. Corna says, well, she looks
30:13
Speaker 1: at the floor. Everyone is just quietly waiting for her
30:16
Speaker 1: to speak, and then she says, I think I've seen
30:19
Speaker 1: everything I need to see. Andrew ride in a theo smile.
30:24
Speaker 1: Shein's like you've had enough. Karna, who is now smiling
30:28
Speaker 1: at least a little bit, says yeah, let's go back
30:30
Speaker 1: where we belong. Oh, sure, that's fine. We see the
30:36
Speaker 1: exterior again, and the light comes on outside on the steps,
30:40
Speaker 1: and the snowman is now gone, and in it's placed,
30:42
Speaker 1: some daisies have started to grow. We cut too ernest,
30:45
Speaker 1: I think, pulling a blanket off of something, probably the
30:48
Speaker 1: presence in the room. And he's wearing like a pink
30:51
Speaker 1: party hat, or maybe it's supposed to be a Santa hat.
30:53
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. And he says why They're all
30:58
Speaker 1: together in the living room and there's a Christmas tree
31:01
Speaker 1: and gifts and everything, and THEO says, why right, AND's like,
31:05
Speaker 1: We're sorry for being suspicious at first. This is a
31:08
Speaker 1: good place. So we stayed here a little too long.
31:12
Speaker 1: And J's like, we had our rest and we want
31:14
Speaker 1: to keep going. Karina says, so we're going back. Ernest
31:19
Speaker 1: is like, but why go back to the battlefield. THEO says,
31:23
Speaker 1: we said we wanted to from the start, and Ernest
31:26
Speaker 1: says like, yeah, but Shin cuts him off. We were lucky,
31:30
Speaker 1: that's all he stands. If we use that as an
31:32
Speaker 1: excuse to stay here, what can we say to all
31:35
Speaker 1: those who died fighting until the end. At this point,
31:37
Speaker 1: they're all standing up. Shin continues, we can't pretend to
31:41
Speaker 1: be at peace when we're not. Even if we're gonna
31:43
Speaker 1: die either way, we can choose how If we're gonna
31:46
Speaker 1: die someday, we'll fight to the end. That's the life
31:49
Speaker 1: we chose. Please don't take that from us. Ernest is
31:53
Speaker 1: like just shaking his head, and he's like, that's not true.
31:55
Speaker 1: It's not you made it here because you fought to
31:57
Speaker 1: the end. You have the right to enjoy your reward.
32:01
Speaker 1: That's what your comrades would want. It's not something to
32:04
Speaker 1: be ashamed of. Theo's eyes narrow, Frederica says silence. Ernst
32:09
Speaker 1: Ernest looks over at her. She continues, they finally escaped
32:13
Speaker 1: a cage of oppression, and now you want to trap
32:15
Speaker 1: them in a cage of pity. WHOA, you're not so
32:18
Speaker 1: stupid as to miss that. That would make you the
32:20
Speaker 1: same as the republic. Ernst kind of groans, and he
32:23
Speaker 1: looks upset. She continues, they're not young, ignorant children. If
32:28
Speaker 1: they want to go, let them go. She's really interesting, Honestly,
32:33
Speaker 1: why is she making so much sense? Anyway? Rydan puts
32:38
Speaker 1: his hands on the back of his neck and glances
32:40
Speaker 1: over at Chin and says, and it wouldn't do to
32:43
Speaker 1: say you're going on ahead and only to have someone
32:44
Speaker 1: else go first. Ooh, Lena. Ernst sighs and puts his
32:51
Speaker 1: hands on his hips and says, all right. He takes
32:54
Speaker 1: off his party hat. But on one condition, you need
32:58
Speaker 1: to go through this special Officers trainings and become officers. Otherwise, no,
33:03
Speaker 1: when you leave the service, officers will have more opportunities
33:06
Speaker 1: than enlisted soldiers. I want you to have as many
33:09
Speaker 1: choices as possible available to you when this war's over.
33:12
Speaker 1: THEO kind of looks off to the side, and he
33:13
Speaker 1: says when the war's over, and she's like, I never
33:18
Speaker 1: thought about that. Er says, this war will end someday.
33:23
Speaker 1: If you want to fight till the end, you'll need
33:25
Speaker 1: to think about what will happen when it's over. They
33:29
Speaker 1: all sit back down, and Frederica says, you should be
33:32
Speaker 1: able to accept that. I understand that you've got nothing
33:34
Speaker 1: but your pride to keep you together, but that's no
33:36
Speaker 1: way for a complete human being to live. What the
33:39
Speaker 1: fuck Frederica, She stands, it's blood and soil that makes
33:43
Speaker 1: a person who they are. If you have neither, and
33:45
Speaker 1: try to define yourself by just who you personally are,
33:47
Speaker 1: she's walking over them. When you lose sight of that,
33:50
Speaker 1: you'll quickly fall apart. Never forget that. Sin's like, who
33:55
Speaker 1: are you talking to, princess? What the fuck? I guess
33:58
Speaker 1: he remembers from his vision, Frederica's like, I'm not a princess.
34:02
Speaker 1: Ernest tries to stop her, but he's not fast enough,
34:05
Speaker 1: and she says, my true name is Augusta Frederica adele Adler. Hey,
34:11
Speaker 1: we share a last name, the last empress of the
34:14
Speaker 1: Empire of giod WHOA. She looks like she's ten. I
34:19
Speaker 1: don't know if that's possible. We now have a really
34:22
Speaker 1: cool shot of her standing in front of the fireplace
34:25
Speaker 1: and just fire burning behind her, and she continues, who
34:29
Speaker 1: ordered the legion to invade the rest of the continent
34:31
Speaker 1: ten years ago? Huh? What was she like two when
34:37
Speaker 1: she did that? I don't think that counts. She continues,
34:40
Speaker 1: I'm the one who took your families and homes from you.
34:43
Speaker 1: If there's anything you want to say to me, go ahead,
34:46
Speaker 1: right and puts his hands on his knees. I don't
34:48
Speaker 1: know if you're the last empress or whatever, but it
34:51
Speaker 1: was the republic that took everything away from us. We're
34:54
Speaker 1: not gonna suddenly forget that now. Don't insult us. Also,
34:58
Speaker 1: how old were you ten years ago? Exactly? Frederica kind
35:03
Speaker 1: of gasps, and she's like, I'm sorry. She grips her
35:07
Speaker 1: dress tightly with her hands and continues, I admire your pride,
35:10
Speaker 1: so let me make a request of you. Eighty six,
35:13
Speaker 1: we see the flowers growing outside again, and now it
35:16
Speaker 1: is January seventh, twenty one, forty nine, and we hear
35:20
Speaker 1: Frederica say, if you're going back to the battlefields. She
35:25
Speaker 1: comes outside wearing a military uniform and she's standing on
35:28
Speaker 1: the steps with her hands on her hips, still holding
35:31
Speaker 1: that abomination of a bear, and she says, take me
35:34
Speaker 1: with you. We got back to now in the living room,
35:37
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, huh, Frederica says, and help me destroy
35:42
Speaker 1: my night's ghost. Sen's like he was taken by the Legion.
35:47
Speaker 1: Frederica says, yes, the legion who attacks you just before
35:51
Speaker 1: you reach this country. Sen's like, how do you know?
35:55
Speaker 1: Frederica says, the power of the blood I inherited allows
35:59
Speaker 1: me to see glimpses of the president past, of those
36:01
Speaker 1: I meet. Oh, we see Shin reflected in her eye,
36:05
Speaker 1: and then her eye turns bright red for a second
36:07
Speaker 1: and then back to normal, and then we cut to
36:09
Speaker 1: Shin standing in the dark, I think, in his room
36:12
Speaker 1: and he flinches and he has cut his finger looks
36:15
Speaker 1: like a little stab wound, like he stabbed it with
36:18
Speaker 1: a pin or something, and it's bleeding. And we hear
36:20
Speaker 1: Fredrika say, the wound your brother gave you hurt didn't it.
36:24
Speaker 1: Shin pulls back his hand and we see the raised
36:27
Speaker 1: piece of scrap metals just kind of lying on his
36:30
Speaker 1: bed in a plastic bag. Now, and then we go
36:32
Speaker 1: back to now again in the living room and Shin
36:35
Speaker 1: is standing and just staring at her, and Fredrika says,
36:40
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I saw, but seeing is all I can do.
36:43
Speaker 1: I can't save Kria alone. We now see Shin in
36:46
Speaker 1: his bedroom putting his arm through the sleeve of a
36:49
Speaker 1: new uniform, and we hear Fredrika say, so please help me.
36:54
Speaker 1: Shin picks up his bandana and raise piece of juggernauts,
36:59
Speaker 1: and Frederica continues like the weather you saved and who
37:02
Speaker 1: saved you? In turn back to the living room, Fredrika says,
37:07
Speaker 1: save my night. Shin places the piece of scrap metal
37:11
Speaker 1: into his pocket and kind of smiles. Then we go
37:14
Speaker 1: to the ending theme, which is al Camila by Rigo Lily.
37:18
Speaker 1: It is my favorite ending song. I love this song
37:23
Speaker 1: mostly probably because I can understand some of the words.
37:26
Speaker 1: It says oh yasumi seki and oh ya sumi e seki,
37:30
Speaker 1: so good night world, good night other worlds. But then
37:34
Speaker 1: it also says syonara, and it's like really upsetting to me.
37:36
Speaker 1: I really really like the song. That's all I got
37:38
Speaker 1: about that. So the ending theme is very similar to
37:41
Speaker 1: the way things were set up last Core, where it's
37:44
Speaker 1: like a picture that's slightly in stop motion and it's
37:48
Speaker 1: like one color and then there's a part of it
37:50
Speaker 1: that's in a different color. So with this ending we
37:52
Speaker 1: have I guess, five different pictures. So first we see
37:55
Speaker 1: ride In with his crew as they're watching the parade
37:58
Speaker 1: and it's just kind of in this bidish Sapia color.
38:01
Speaker 1: Then we see Correna in Sapia on a blue background.
38:05
Speaker 1: Then we see THEO sitting in the gazebo in Sapia
38:07
Speaker 1: and his notebook is like really deep blue. Then on
38:11
Speaker 1: Ju in the gazebo in Sapia and a couple walking
38:14
Speaker 1: behind them in blue, and then we get that really
38:16
Speaker 1: cool shot of Shin looking to the side as that
38:18
Speaker 1: flag flies behind him and he is in blue and
38:21
Speaker 1: the flag is red. The flag, by the way, kind
38:23
Speaker 1: of just looks like it's an extension of his bandana.
38:27
Speaker 1: So pretty cool. That's over, and I believe the ending
38:31
Speaker 1: theme is still playing here, and we see Shin walking
38:35
Speaker 1: down the front steps of Ernst's house, and the rest
38:39
Speaker 1: of the group is already outside in uniform waiting for him.
38:42
Speaker 1: They're all wearing like really dark blue navy uniforms, except
38:45
Speaker 1: for Frederica, who is obviously coming. Her uniform is white
38:48
Speaker 1: with like navy blue accents, and Fredrika is waving at
38:52
Speaker 1: him and is like, shin, hurry up. Ernst and Teresa
38:55
Speaker 1: are standing in front of the door, and Ernest says,
38:58
Speaker 1: have a good trip, Teresa about and Frederica is like,
39:01
Speaker 1: we're off. They all turn and we end as we
39:06
Speaker 1: see one of their feet stepping off the ground to
39:09
Speaker 1: move forward, and that's it. Yeay, okay. Closing thoughts, I
39:14
Speaker 1: thought that was a pretty good episode, much slower and
39:17
Speaker 1: different than we're used to, so it's actually probably one
39:20
Speaker 1: of my least favorite of the season. I guess. It's
39:24
Speaker 1: just a little bit slow and contemplative, but not in
39:26
Speaker 1: a bad way. And it was really interesting to see
39:28
Speaker 1: how everybody dealt with having quote unquote normal lives, I
39:32
Speaker 1: guess because they were very very clearly not happy. And
39:36
Speaker 1: I love Ernest going like, oh, they all made friends
39:38
Speaker 1: and they're doing things. It's like, no, actually, they're alone
39:41
Speaker 1: a lot. It kind of looks like the only one
39:44
Speaker 1: who actually was hanging out with other people was ride
39:48
Speaker 1: In with his like work buddies. But everyone else seemed
39:51
Speaker 1: like totally alone. And I guess maybe Onju because she
39:54
Speaker 1: had all those people texting her. But they weren't happy either.
39:57
Speaker 1: It's not like they were having a good time. You know.
40:00
Speaker 1: They come from such a different world than these kids
40:02
Speaker 1: that are their ages in the Federacy that, like, I
40:06
Speaker 1: can't imagine that there's much that they could have in common.
40:09
Speaker 1: Oh and I guess Shin had Eugene too, like he
40:12
Speaker 1: actually was hanging out with Eugene sort of maybe, But
40:17
Speaker 1: they just seemed really really isolated and like they couldn't
40:22
Speaker 1: get what they want because they didn't expect to have
40:25
Speaker 1: a future, so they don't have any idea of what
40:28
Speaker 1: they should even be doing, like at all. And I
40:31
Speaker 1: think that we've seen that in the past with Shin,
40:33
Speaker 1: who seemed kind of like just an empty shell more
40:37
Speaker 1: or less after he killed his brother or his brother's legion.
40:41
Speaker 1: That is, because he just didn't have a goal anymore.
40:44
Speaker 1: But we hadn't really seen it with the rest of Spearhead,
40:47
Speaker 1: and now we kind of are. There's just nothing they
40:50
Speaker 1: didn't expect to live this long. They've never made any plans.
40:53
Speaker 1: They don't even know where to start. So it makes
40:57
Speaker 1: sense that they would just go back to war because
41:00
Speaker 1: because they're so changed and this is what they've gotten
41:04
Speaker 1: used to, and it's not even like they're going back
41:06
Speaker 1: to their regular country and they have connections, like they're
41:09
Speaker 1: just totally alone in this except for each other. So
41:12
Speaker 1: I get it. It's probably not a great idea because
41:16
Speaker 1: they could get killed, but they like no longer fit
41:19
Speaker 1: in a normal society, which isn't good, honestly, And I
41:24
Speaker 1: think that's what that book was about that Chin was
41:27
Speaker 1: reading all quite on the Western Front. I remember back
41:31
Speaker 1: when he was at the Spearhead Barracks. So yeah, I
41:36
Speaker 1: don't know, they're not happy. I don't know that war
41:41
Speaker 1: is going to make them happy because it's scary and
41:45
Speaker 1: they're going back to what they were originally forced into.
41:47
Speaker 1: And I do think that Frederica's point about forcing them
41:52
Speaker 1: into a cage of pity was pretty cool, like, yeah,
41:55
Speaker 1: of course they should be able to decide what they
41:57
Speaker 1: want to do. They're almost adults or else now, so
42:01
Speaker 1: if they want to be part of this battle, I mean,
42:04
Speaker 1: I want to say, like that's very heroic and self
42:08
Speaker 1: sacrificing of them, but I don't really think it is.
42:11
Speaker 1: I think they just want to go back where things
42:12
Speaker 1: make sense, and that's pretty fucked up. I also wanted
42:16
Speaker 1: to talk like briefly about Chin's dream with Kaye holding
42:20
Speaker 1: her head and everyone holding their heads. Fucking Shin like
42:25
Speaker 1: he's just shouldering so much. I mean, they all are,
42:28
Speaker 1: but like Shin is, he feels like he is responsible
42:32
Speaker 1: for all of these souls and for saving all of
42:34
Speaker 1: them because he's the only one who can hear them,
42:36
Speaker 1: I guess, and that's terrible. I mean, he needs like
42:40
Speaker 1: some just real downtime without his brain constantly doing this
42:44
Speaker 1: to him, and he can't get it. You know, he's
42:47
Speaker 1: just constantly exhausted from hearing all of these voices saying
42:52
Speaker 1: that they're hurt or they want to go home. It's
42:55
Speaker 1: real fucked up. So I understand why he wants to
42:58
Speaker 1: go back, because he will always hear them until they
43:02
Speaker 1: no longer exist. So he's never going to be able
43:05
Speaker 1: to get away from war and from the suffering that
43:09
Speaker 1: was caused by the Republic, So it makes sense to
43:13
Speaker 1: just go right back in there and try to end
43:16
Speaker 1: as much of it as possible, but I wish he
43:19
Speaker 1: didn't feel like it was all on him because it's
43:22
Speaker 1: not a great place to be mentally. Also, Frederica can
43:26
Speaker 1: see people's pasts. Yay, I guess. And also, really, how
43:30
Speaker 1: old is she supposed to be because she does not
43:33
Speaker 1: look like she's twenty, she doesn't look like she's fifteen.
43:36
Speaker 1: So we're talking how old was she? Maybe at the
43:39
Speaker 1: most maybe she's thirteen or fourteen, So she was three
43:42
Speaker 1: or four and she's the one who said invade these
43:45
Speaker 1: other countries. I'm pretty sure that's not what happened, I hope.
43:48
Speaker 1: And if it is what happened and someone took her guidance,
43:52
Speaker 1: they're still responsible because you don't listen to a four
43:56
Speaker 1: year old when they say go destroy other countries, right,
44:00
Speaker 1: So interesting, I'm gonna try to look into like how
44:03
Speaker 1: old she's supposed to be because I don't understand. Okay,
44:06
Speaker 1: I'm back, I just looked it up. She's ten. She's ten,
44:09
Speaker 1: so she couldn't have done anything ten years ago because
44:12
Speaker 1: she was not alive or she was just a little
44:14
Speaker 1: bit alive. She could not even talk, So that's all bullshit. Honestly,
44:19
Speaker 1: I guess she just feels responsible because it's her lineage says, yeah,
44:24
Speaker 1: there's no way that makes any sense. And also Frederica,
44:30
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's some really cool things about her,
44:32
Speaker 1: like she's really childish, but then she'll like say really
44:35
Speaker 1: profound things, which I guess probably comes from seeing people's
44:38
Speaker 1: pasts all the time. But I am in the camp
44:41
Speaker 1: of people who don't really like her or want her
44:44
Speaker 1: as a character in this I just find her kind
44:46
Speaker 1: of annoying. And I get it, she's ten. She's annoying,
44:49
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean I want to see it, which
44:53
Speaker 1: kind of sucks. I think it's like, one of the
44:54
Speaker 1: only things I don't like about this core is there's
44:57
Speaker 1: just so much Frederica. But whatever, that's just my dumb opinion.
45:01
Speaker 1: And I know there are people who really like her probably,
45:04
Speaker 1: and I don't think she's a terribly written character. I
45:06
Speaker 1: just kind of wish she wasn't there. So yeah, So
45:09
Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna go see them go to Special
45:12
Speaker 1: Officer School and join the military, which should be really
45:16
Speaker 1: a breeze for them to get through since they've done
45:18
Speaker 1: all of this before. And I guess they're gonna go
45:22
Speaker 1: back to fighting yay. It's kind of hard because it's
45:26
Speaker 1: kind of like I don't really want them to have
45:28
Speaker 1: to fight anymore. I feel like Ernest like go and
45:31
Speaker 1: like live normal lives, but it's not what they want,
45:35
Speaker 1: so we just gotta let them be them and go
45:38
Speaker 1: get themselves into more trouble and pain. Anyway, I think
45:41
Speaker 1: that's really all I got. Still not feeling very good,
45:45
Speaker 1: and I don't know why. Please help me, not you.
45:49
Speaker 1: You don't have to help me. You don't even know
45:51
Speaker 1: me except for this talking thing that I do. But
45:53
Speaker 1: I hope this episode sounded okay because I'm just real stressed.
45:57
Speaker 1: And also it was really hard to read because there's
45:59
Speaker 1: like all all of these weird things where there's juxtapositions
46:02
Speaker 1: where like you've got things switching back and forth, like
46:05
Speaker 1: at the end, we're like have like three different scenes
46:07
Speaker 1: going on at the same time. So I like, hope
46:10
Speaker 1: it's coming out okay. So I am going to go
46:13
Speaker 1: now because I'm all stressed out and scared, and I
46:17
Speaker 1: hope you have a really good whatever and I will
46:21
Speaker 1: see you next week as long as something terrible doesn't happen,
46:25
Speaker 1: which it might, so yeah, I don't know. Later webs