Shinjitsu wo mitsukeru tame ni
Yoru no nyuusu ga shirasenai
Nagasanai koto wa dore kurai aru
Dare ga ushinai
Dare ga te ni ireteru ka dare no tame nano ka
Junsui de iru no wa kirei de kiken na koto
Bokura wo meguru sekai wa sugata wo misenai de
Kinou to chigau shinjitsu wo oshitsukeru dake
Me no mae ni aru genjitsu no tezawari dake wa
Tashika na mono ni boku ga kaete miseru kitto
Episode Fourteen Solitary Shooting Star
Good morning!
Shen-Lon, I was waiting for you!
Let's go together.
Together?
Shen-Lon, you're going to rehabilitation and testing, right?
Today is the day for my routine examination!
The doll... The thing on your door said "sleeping"...
What's with that? You check that? I wonder if I forgot to change it?
Though you normally don't look at it, you know.
I do.
You thought I was asleep, so you tried to get ready quietly?
That's not it.
That's not like you, Shen-Lon, it's weird.
You're the one that's weird.
Hey, Shen-Lon.
If I had actually been awake, and in the living room like always,
would you have said "good morning"?
Just kidding!
I'm just testing your brotherly love!
It's nothing!
It's just that I was a little worried about you, because you were down, Shen-Lon.
Wasn't it because you realized that I have doubts about you?
Why are you saying things that test me like that?
She's different than how she was up until yesterday.
But she's not different from how she was a long time ago.
What's different?
Who's the person in front of me?
I should be able to answer that,
It's still early, so let's go and have breakfast somewhere! I should be able to answer that,
It's still early, so let's go and have breakfast somewhere! but it seems like there's a stranger I don't know.
It's still early, so let's go and have breakfast somewhere!
Let's do that, Shen-Lon.
A stranger...
She's not a stranger.
I won't accept that she's a stranger!
Absolutely not!
Didn't you say that you don't eat on examination days?
But you're here, right, Shen-Lon?
As your older sister, I have to keep you company!
That's incredibly stupid.
They don't measure your weight at a psychic examination, you know.
What was that?
It might matter in the levitation test if I got fat, right?
There's no way.
And in the first place, I'm on the verge of being late, so I don't have time.
No way! Why are you so calm?!
Ever since I was a kid, the reason I could feel like "I'm alive today", every day
was because my double was there, right before my eyes.
Quickly, quickly! Come on, hurry up!
Even if something in Shin-Lu has changed, that won't change.
I said that I don't have the time to eat!
If you have the time to say that, then hurry up and eat!
What's with that, acting like a big sister?
That's right. Nothing's changed.
Shin-Lu is the only one that's allowed into my absolute territory.
Good morning!
It's not morning! It's already past noon.
I'm sorry.
Why are you apologizing?
Hasn't a job come in?
Nothing that suits you.
I see.
Hey...
What is it?
If the person a psychic is dealing with is a psychic too, are they able to tell?
If that person uses psychic powers, then yes.
Even I know that!
Why are you getting mad?
I'm not! Never mind. Forget what we just talked about.
That's right. After all, that's how you are.
Yuuki?
Oh, Kai, you're awake? Good morning.
Good morning.
Hey, from here on, want to go shopping together?
Hey!
What's with it being all of us together?
Well, there are a lot of things we're short on!
I'm fine with it.
Well, I guess I'll go along with you.
Thank goodness! Okay, I'll go and get ready.
Me too.
Remember this, we need her power. Her power is special.
There's no way.
I wonder if Shen-Lon is still doing it?
Please let him be here!
Belvedere!
Man, Shen-Lon, you jerk,
I thought that they were mad at me or something!
That was too much!
He's recovered sufficiently.
His powers have clearly increased to a higher level than before his slump.
Even still, we can't be pleased about him going around destroying the equipment!
In that case, think of a way to deal with it.
Professor...
No matter how much his powers may be increasing,
it's not good if he continues to use them inefficiently, right?
As with the time when he destroyed the first measuring device,
if we can't get him to learn to save his power,
then no matter how much time passes, he will remain unusable.
Well... I'm sure it was this way.
This is it!
Excuse me!
Would it be all right for me to observe?
Your younger brother? Sure!
Thank you very much!
Have some tea and wait, okay?
He's in the middle of being scolded right now.
Just a little.
Oh, my! That's not good!
I like the ladies in the lab, because they're nice to us!
Seven Nine, Belvedere.
Are you confusing this with a mock battle?
It's not like you can't control your powers, right?
All you have to do is manifest the value that the measuring device displays.
Cease any further showing off with your powers.
Who's the person in the other control room that's scolding Shen-Lon?
That's Professor Chigaya.
Professor Chigaya?
She's an authority on psychic research,
and the head chief of the development section.
I thought that Eiji was the highest-ranked person.
You could say Professor Chigaya is like
Chief Sagimiya's former teacher, and someone who understands him well.
I didn't know that.
She's not someone who shows her face at AESES training sessions.
I suppose she tends to be in the laboratory a lot.
Is she a scary person?
If you compare her to Chief Sagimiya, then...
Hey...
I came up with a request for Professor Chigaya.
What are the Gs at?
Currently at six Gs.
He can still take more, can't he? Raise it.
Yes, ma'am.
Professor, er...
What is it?
Is it all right? Actually, you see...
Shin-Lu Nice to meet you, Professor Chigaya.
Shin-Lu Belvedere?
Raised the G's, did they?
Maybe this is to say, "Listen to what we tell you"?
I need to get into shape here!
Seven Nine, Belvedere, listen carefully.
Let's add a mock battle to the end of the test.
However, considering that you're still in rehabilitation...
It's all right!
If you don't want to strain yourself, then it's all right if we don't.
I'll do it!
But you'd be better off not sending a pushover of a warmup.
Someone more powerful than the people I've fought up until now would be good.
No need to worry about that. Your opponent is...
Me!
Let's do it, Shen-Lon.
Shin-Lu...
I don't want to!
I heard from Eiji.
It looks like Seven Eight, Shin-Lu Belvedere, has undergone therapy.
Any developments?
Nothing in particular.
Shin-Lu!
What?
What's wrong?
God!
Sorry, Yuuki.
Hey, Kai!
Go home without me!
Kai?
Sorry to keep you waiting.
What? Where's Kai?
He said to go home without him, and went off somewhere.
I see.
Jeez, what was that, all of a sudden?
Maybe Kai was being called by someone.
No, there wasn't anyone here like that.
I heard a voice from far away.
What do you mean?
Nothing, I just kind of had that feeling, that's all.
You see, Shen-Lon, I've gotten stronger.
Although I didn't think I was weak before either.
So, I guess it's more like, I've become even stronger.
You know, like a so-called level-up?
By the way, do you know what this means?
It means that we might not be the same any more, Shen-Lon.
But...
That has no meaning if I become stronger and you become weaker.
That would be a failure.
Despite that, I'm not telling you to get stronger from here on either.
That would be a mistake.
You see, this test...
They say that if I've gotten stronger,
you have to get stronger too, or it'd be weird!
A test? What kind?
That, you see...
Behind you!
Dummy!
If you don't come at me for real, then I'll definitely win, got it?
What's that? It's no good if you just keep defending yourself!
When you drop your guard,
you'll get hurt in a big way if your reaction speed is too slow!
It's not like you're used to normally defending yourself like this!
If you don't switch to concentrating on attacking,
then your chances of victory...
...are zero!
Listen to what I'm telling you!
How could I?
There's no way I can do that!
That was a direct hit just now, wasn't it?
The infrared monitor was taken out, but the thermal is all right.
Seven Nine's body temperature is dropping.
His blood flow and psi-rating are both sluggish.
Contact the ICU. We'll have them take Seven Nine over.
Yes, ma'am.
I'd like to get permission to commit Shin-Lu and Shen-Lon to a test.
You want to subject those two to the neuron displacement functionality test, now of all times?
I have more interest in creating psychics who possess even higher levels of power
than I do in finding telepaths.
Eiji...
What is it, Professor Chigaya?
It's true that, within that sample, these two blood-related siblings,
these twins, are more suitable than anyone else, but...
If that's the case, there is one other.
Perhaps the reason you've distanced Double One Eight from here,
no, from Hikaru, also has to do with that?
Does it mean your experiments had begun long since and weren't limited to just the twins?
That was a mistake.
Although it's undeniable that, as a result, I've ended up stealing your research subjects.
The priority for the Seven numbers' testing is going to get moved back.
That's fine.
Oh, how was it, Professor? Have you seen Maxim's data?
He's well-made, isn't he?
I had him patterned after Kai.
He's completed the entire curriculum that Kai normally would have undergone.
Since Kai isn't presently available as a research subject,
he'll serve as an excellent specimen.
What did you think?
Professor, Seven Eight has requested permission to accompany him to the ICU.
Oh, that's fine.
Give her permission.
You understand what will happen, don't you, Eiji,
if their accelerating powers ever collide?
I have to stay by his side, so that when he wakes up,
my face will be the first one he sees, so that I can make him feel safe.
I've done that for him ever since we were born, after all.
It was just the two of us.
That's why Shen-Lon followed along behind me, right?
This time, let's both become stronger together.
Good things will happen if you get stronger.
I'm sure that you'll become able to beat Maxim.
If I become stronger, I'll...
They say I'll get to stay near Kai even more.
They say that Kai is actually really, really strong.
That's why I have to get stronger, otherwise I'll be left behind.
But Kai...
I wonder why he pretended to be weak?
The only way we'll be happy is by using our powers, after all.
Someone, someone, please...
A church?
...us, we are... to us...
God, God, God!
Please stop!
Someone, someone, someone!
Stop it!
Why, you! I told you not to use your powers that way, didn't I?
Hey! What's wrong, Kai?
Shin-Lu...
This time, let's both become stronger together.
Good things will happen if you get stronger.
I'm sure that you'll become able to beat Maxim.
I've always wanted to try falling in love with someone.
I love Kai.
It's all right for us, who aren't loved by anyone, to fall in love with someone, right?
Kai...
Shen-Lon!
How do you feel?
I don't know.
I guess it's about time the side effects started to show up.
Side effects?
It's been quite a while since you've received Ashurum's psychic-strengthening treatments.
It's not strange that the repercussions from that are showing up.
That voice...
Your psi-rating should be starting to drop.
Let's look into that.
I'm going to measure your psi-rating.
Try levitating this.
Just like that.
So you really can't use your power.
No, I just can't control it very well.
What?!
Kai!
What's with this value?
What's wrong?!
His psi-rating is definitely increasing!
It's strange...
Are you all right? Maybe this...
Kai! You...
I'm sorry, Asuka.
Blood? No, this is the ink from before.
But...
Red blood... Whose is it?
Kai! What in the world did Ashurum do to you?!
Ashurum?
Bring me my bag! I'm going to inject him with a sedative!
Mother... Hikaru...
Has he calmed down?
Kai...
He's disappearing?!
Kai?!
Kai!
Asuka...
Kai!
Save me...
Kai?!
Furiisogu ame ni mou nurehajimeta futari
Isoide nukedashita nanimokamo wo sutete
Minna kara mienai you ni yubi wo tsunaide
Sore ga futari no himitsu no sain
Dakara koko kara saratte imasugu saratte
Tonight midnight
Dakara mou tomenaide imasugu sawatte
Tonight, it's true love
Modorenai yoru ga hajimaru
Paradise is a world filled with lies and deception.
Their wings are broken, and their light has been stolen.
It is the place where those who have lost favour with God live.
That is reality. That is the truth.
That is the world we live in.
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