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It's pretty awesome, invincible power!
Boy, does it feel great
Absolutely lovely! So we never lose!
Come on, let's head for tomorrow!
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Daring!
It just takes a touch for me to know
The limiter on my heart
Has been released, and then you see
Yes! Change the world!
Trying again and again through hot battle!
Reaching through what's real
Absolutely lovely! So we never lose!
The thrills just can't be beat!
Courage begins to light the darkness of the world
It overflows with the miracles you gave
If you can take pride in a smile
That suits no one else
Then let's go beyond the future now
We can try over the future world!
Yeah!
Ultimate!
Daring!
21th sense. "Jack of All Trades, Master of None! What's He So Mad About?!"
What's wrong, Momotaro?
A sigh from the sight of this lovely night scene?
I was thinking I might have been happier
staying with Kaoru and the others than here, with a pervert like you.
Well... Be my guest, then!
But you'd be lonely without me. You have no other friends.
Mind your own business!
You poor guy!
Here. You can have one of my sunflower seeds.
Keep it! Anyway, this is no time for games.
We're going out. We'll be late for our date, otherwise.
Huh?
Going out? Where?
To somewhere with even prettier night scenery.
Whoa! What a view! What a view!
Good eve'nin'!
Right on time, as always.
Oh, great. He's your date?
Here it is, Major Hyobu.
Ah...
So this report is on the espers attached to BABEL, I see.
Welcome!
Welcome to BABEL.
How may we help you?
Well, I came to talk a little business with you.
His bag has elastic bands and tooth brushes inside.
He only appeared two days ago and seems a little shady...
A high-pressure salesman!
Got you in time!
Turn right around and leave, please!
Agh! No need for all the manpower!
I didn't take any money from anyone!
I'd sooner wash my face with miso soup than ever come back here again!
Don't come back, you hear?
Make that miso soup the red paste kind!
Natsuko Tokiwa: Level 5 clairvoyant.
And Hotaru Nowaki: Level 5 telepath.
BABEL's receptionists who never let any suspicious persons slip past.
Also known as Doubleface.
Yay!
I see.
Even with BABEL's heavy security,
you can still easily get in, can't you, Major?
True, I can,
but it helps to have a trusted confidante investigate this for me.
A... trusted confidante?
Of course. That's you.
No one's ever spoken about me that way before!
I'm Moga-chan! I'm ready to do anything for you!
Well, you're enthusiastic, at least.
Wrong phrase!
Hearing Major Hyobu say that makes me so happy!
Say it yourself, then.
I hope you keep on giving me vital information about BABEL.
I will!
Now then, let's keep reading.
Naomi Umegae, Level 6 psychokinetic.
I told you not to touch me, didn't I?!
You birdbrain!
Has daily lovers' spats with her supervisor, Ichiro Tanizaki, age 36.
BABEL truly is a fun place, isn't it?
You're free to have workplace romances, huh?
Special espers: The Hound.
Hatsune Inugami, with metamorphosis powers.
And Akira Yadorigi, with the power of Replace.
Has the ability to possess and control the minds of animals.
Those are powers worth my attention.
Shuji Sakaki, ESP Doctor and ladies man.
These are regular staffers and not espers, aren't they?
Normals?
Right! The operator girls in the control center!
Irregular psychic waves detected in farming area to the northeast!
BABEL 1 is patrolling nearby. Reroute it to the scene at once!
BABEL 1, arriving in local airspace...
Wha?! A cow?!
We have sat vid incoming.
Abnormal psychic waves identified as the panic cry of
an esper cowboy whose red clothes got a herd of cows chasing him.
Ignore the man. Secure from alert status!
Ran-chan especially!
I mean Ranko Kaneko is especially fantastic!
What's your opinion of the Normals who work in BABEL, Mr. Kugutsu?
Well, let's see.
They seem to be people who understand espers.
You really think so?
They're government workers with nice, safe government jobs.
Living nice, stable lives with no chance of getting fired.
Be that as it may!
You took a lot of pictures without them noticing, didn't you, Mr. Kugutsu?
I'm glad you noticed, sir!
I have other abilities aside from being a puppet master.
Ones that no one else can match!
Like..?
No one can be as inconspicuous as me!
Umida?
Here.
Oda?
Here.
Kato?
Here.
Kimura?
Here.
Kenzaki?
Here.
Kojima?
Here.
I was so inconspicuous that I'd never even be noticed
when they were taking attendance!
So, since I had that ability
no one ever even noticed me standing right next to them with a camera!
Even though I wanted them to notice!
They wouldn't notice me unless I hauled off and punched one of them!
Here, you can have a couple of my sunflower seeds.
So please don't cry. Okay? Okay?
Oh? Kiritsubo's only 54 and has a granddaughter in high school?
Pretty young to be a grandfather, huh?
Another guy who takes his work seriously, huh?
Catching a cold, Chief?
Or somebody's gossiping about me.
Maybe those adorable Children are doing it!
I'm pretty sure they're not, sir!
Captain Oboro Kashiwagi. Kiritsubo's personal assistant.
Truly a woman who embodies both brains and beauty.
Pardon me! I'm still investigating Captain Kashiwagi.
Great. Big help, you are!
Thank you. I hope you will continue to assist me from within BABEL.
Leave it to me!
Go to it!
I really can depend on you.
Yes, sir! Moga-chan and I will keep doing our best!
I'll spread my legs wide and distract them!
Wrong phrase!
I'll work my fingers to the bone!
We'll do this, bit by bit.
BABEL is a money pit!
Hear, hear!
How many hundreds of millions will satisfy you?!
But we need it!
You're spending too much!
That still doesn't mean we don't need it.
More tea, sir?
Tea?
Please.
Thank you.
Well, I suppose it can't be helped.
BABEL does an important job as well, doesn't it?
Y-Yeah! We can spare a few hundred million more for you.
Yeah! Hear, hear!
Kashiwagi, what did you put in that tea?
Just sincerity, sir.
Oboro Kashiwagi. A talented woman that everyone yearns for.
But her private life is a complete mystery.
And I shall lift that veil!
Gone! Is it possible that... she's an esper?!
Ow!
How strange! She's clumsy! And just slipped on a banana peel!
A mystery! Mysteries upon mysteries!
Time to get this scoop!
Oh... Oh, crap!
You! I! This is! Um!
Morning, Ms. Kashiwagi.
Morning.
Pretty as always, I see.
Thank you.
Your skin is so smooth, Kashiwagi!
You're just saying that.
Ms. Kashiwagi, what about tonight?
I'll tell your wife on you.
Maybe it's my imagination,
but it's felt like someone's been watching me for the past few days.
Like I'm being followed...
WOMEN'S CHANGING ROOM (Absolutely do no open!)
I definitely feel someone watching me!
There!
Did I imagine it?
Here's a treasure of a shot! Oboro, changing clothes in the nude!
Kaoru!
Cut it out.
You laugh like a creepy old guy.
Hip! Waist! Bust!
Psychic Measurements, achieved!
Your psychokinesis has nothing to do with that!
Kaoru has a wild animal inside of her.
Stop it! It's bad manners to gawk at someone when they're changing!
Okay! Sorry!
You're the one who's been stalking me, haven't you?!
Huh? No! No! Not at all!
This is just a extremely severe first offense for me!
Yeah, I'm here now ogling like I'm licking you,
but I wouldn't go sneaking around spying like a coward!
Don't be so proud.
And shut that digicam off.
So, if it isn't Kaoru, then who?
I want to be popular!
Now, now, you shouldn't do that.
You wanted my advice about something, Ms. Kashiwagi?
I feel like someone's been stalking me for the last few days...
Oh, Kaoru?
She's incorrigible.
It doesn't seem to be Kaoru.
Please, Minamoto...
M-Ms. Kashiwagi!
Good morning!
Good morning.
M-Minamoto, good morning...
What was that?
She's taking a long time. Is it possible Ms. Kashiwagi is?!
Ms. Kashiwagi?!
I absolutely won't forgive a rude person!
MINAMOTO!
You've been following Kashiwagi, haven't you?!
No, Chief! There's a reason...
What could you possibly have been thinking?!
Look, she asked...
Excuses just cheapen you in my eyes!
Please, hear me out!
Chief, it's not what it looks like.
It isn't?
Listening now?
Right. The truth is...
Oh! Minamoto, why didn't you say so?
Because you weren't listening to me at all?
But why would anyone be stalking Ms. Kashiwagi?
Simple. Love.
Love?!
Indeed! It's only natural to want to know more about someone you've fallen for!
So, you stalk them?
I know what I speak of, since Naomi stalks me all the time!
Ow!
WHO'S stalking you?! Isn't something a little wrong there?!
No need to be shy.
I'm not shy!
Lots of people are in love with you, so who could it be?
Could it be him? Or maybe it's...
Oh? Who is it?
Tell us! Tell us!
Me, too!
Me, three!
From what I've heard...
Stop it.
It's not right to pry into someone's love.
Let it be.
Oh! Spoken like an honors student!
Brilliant! Brilliant! She's finally matured!
Ooh! 100 yen! Aw, no it's not.
Strange...
When it comes to love gossip about someone
Kaoru should be sticking her nose in first!
Besides, even knowing I was following Ms. Kashiwagi...
She said nothing! Kaoru, of all people!
Normally, I'd expect her to be the angriest one at you!
It's suspicious!
Why? Why do I have to make something like this?!
Just when I'd been spotted...
You're so inconspicuous that you're gonna get stepped on
or kicked sitting there, Mr. Kugutsu.
I wasn't doing anything!
Oh, Mr. Kugutsu!
What? It's...
You like Oboro!
No way! No way!
If they found out I was spying, I'd be thrown out of BABEL.
I wouldn't be able to pass information to Major Hyobu anymore!
I'll keep quiet about it. Please, don't tell them!
Really?!
But I never knew you had a thing for Oboro!
Maybe I should play along with her for now.
You'll really keep quiet about this?
Of course, but only if you do me a favor.
In exchange for keeping quiet,
I have to build her a 1:1 scale mechanical Oboro.
Elementary school kids these days!
The body is based off of the measurements Kaoru got,
while movement and behavior patterns come from
data I've input based on several days of following her.
But I have no interest in Ms. Kashiwagi.
If I was going to make anyone... It'd be Ran-chan.
It looks just like her! Exactly like her!
The very limits of!
Done yet?
Nearly done! Nearly done!
Once it's done, I can sleep with my head in her lap!
Have her clean my ears!
Take baths with her!
Take her to bed with me!
Incident alert! Incident alert! Special espers, move out!
A man's taken a hostage and barricaded himself inside.
We need to be careful, because there's a high probability that he's an esper.
One step closer and Pooko gets it!
Oink.
The hostage is...
That?
Biologically speaking, that looks like...
A pig.
I love Pooko! I demand that society acknowledge our relationship!
Oink.
Pooko! We'll save you!
If she gets scared, it'll make the meat tough!
What's going on?
Apparently the perp fell in love at first sight with that pig when it was out for a walk.
He started stalking it, and when the owner chewed him out about it...
It ended up like this?
A waste of time! The Children, released!
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Love is blind, so boys should love!
Love is also strange!
Even so boys, when it hits you, it may break you!
Stalking someone is an act of evil!
If you're gonna stalk, be like Mr. Kugutsu and don't get caught!
Kaoru?
What was that about Mr. Kugutsu?
Um, that has nothing to do with this.
Special espers: The Absolutely Lovely Children!
Three straight all-nighters... I need to change my underwear.
Ran-chan!
E-Excuse me, Mr. Kugutsu!
N-No, excuse me! Are you okay? Wait, you know my name?
Of course I know it.
You're just about the only one who ever calls me Ran-chan, so...
Of course I know... Oh, sorry about your coffee!
Case closed.
But you didn't have to go that far to catch him, did you?
But he used his powers to flip my skirt.
Shouldn't have been so unwilling.
Now, then...
Let's start with the story about Kugutsu.
Um, you want a story? A fairy tale?
How about the urban legend of Second Avenue in Shinjuku?
Shiho?
Leave it to me.
P-Please, come in.
If it's no bother.
It's kind of a mess.
Oh, no. It's fine.
Oh, it's amazing? Did you make these, Mr. Kugutsu?
Yes! We were made by the master!
We are always grateful to our master!
Oh! It's a pleasure!
Amazing! Just amazing!
Um, here... Would you look at this?
Is this me?
The truth is... For years now, I've...
Kugutsu, are you in here?!
Ch-Chief!
Kaoru told us everything!
How desperately in love with Kashiwagi you are!
And how wrong you went when you couldn't tell her that!
And how you built a 1:1 scale mechanical Oboro to comfort yourself!
WHAT?!!!
That was for Kaoru!
Mr. Kugutsu...
Ran-chan, this is!
Stalking her wasn't enough, so to make your mecha Oboro,
you sent Kaoru to get Ms. Kashiwagi's measurements!
No! You're wrong!
Ew! You're gross!
You were going to sleep in its lap and have it clean your ears!
It's not true! I wouldn't do that! I'd never!
Ah! An exact copy!
Immovable proof!
Or movable, in this case.
Mr. Kugutsu...
Sorry.
Huh? For what?
I appreciate how you feel, but you're just not my type!
I'm really sorry.
Really sorry, really sorry, really sorry...
Now, no more stalking me, okay?
Get your love life straightened out!
Person and person, person and pig, person and doll...
Think of the forms love takes.
God... And keep these girls out of it!
Um, I know I kinda screwed you over here, but... Sorry!
Aw, don't let it get you down! There's plenty of girls around!
I'll take you to the next group date I go on.
Miss?
Yes, Dr. Sakaki?
You're beautiful. Are you free tonight?
Why don't we have dinner and get to know each other better?
S-Sure.
Mr. Kugutsu loves Ms. Kashiwagi.
Besides, Dr. Sakaki is so dreamy...
Japanese food? A tempura set meal?
Okay! I know a great place! The tempura sauce is so sweet!
To hell with BABEL! To hell with those kids!
To hell with that lady killer Sakaki!
I absolutely will never forgive them!
This disgrace I've suffered... This resentment I now bear!
IT MUST BE ASSUAGED!
Because, you're my heart's desire!
Yeah
When it comes to you, you see
My ESP is no good at all
Love is a puzzle that even
Pythagoras couldn't solve
Don't hang your head or have a tearful face
Because miracles are born from smiles
My, my, my heart's desire
Zoom zoom!
I want to make
Bye-bye!
You my bold desire
So absolutely serious, it gives me chills!
Trans, trans, transform
Zoom zoom!
I'll give you
Yeah yeah!
A dynamite kiss!
I absolutely want you to love me!
Because, you're my heart's desire
NEXT EPISODE
Next time, on Zettai Karen Children!
Ugh, I'm so sick...
That's what I get doing this for a week straight.
Mr. Minamoto!
You smell like booze and perfume!
What's this card from an adult club?!
You've got lipstick on you!
It's for work! I don't like going out drinking every night!
Zettai Karen Children!
Episode 22: "Create a Learning Environment! Minamoto's Been Gunned Down?!"
You seem troubled. Anything a puppet master like me might do to help?
Create a Learning Environment! Minamoto's Being Gunned Down!? You seem troubled. Anything a puppet master like me might do to help?
Create a Learning Environment! Minamoto's Being Gunned Down!? We're absolutely lovely, so we never fail!
Create a Learning Environment! Minamoto's Being Gunned Down!?