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Epilogue to the... uh, introduction to the battle...?
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And the Amaterasu sags, sparking like hell.
[Ogami]
Did we do it!?
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[Kohran]
Statistics say that if ya hafta ask, Ogami-han, then we probably DIDN'T do it.
[Ogami]
What!? B-But we poured enough firepower into the damned thing to take down any OTHER big bad! What could there possibly be left to do!?
[Ogami]
-- and what statistics!?
[Maria]
Perhaps we shouldn't waste time asking these questions and instead continue pouring firepower into Tenkai before he has the chance to pull off a miraculous turnabout, Captain?
[Ogami]
Well, yes, that sounds like a good--
[Ogami]
... it's already too late, isn't it.
[Maria]
Yes. Yes, it is.
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[Tenkai]
Behold!! My streeeeeeeeeength!!
Look to the left!
Look to the right!
Look tOHGOD.
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[Maria]
Should you really be standing there, Captain?
[Ogami]
I'm sure that if we all stay together and stand firm in the face of adversity, we'll persev--
[Ogami]
-- where the fuck did you guys all go!?
[Kanna]
Tactical retreat!
[Maria]
In other words, we're not stupid enough to stand in the middle of an obviously magical, obviously deadly demonic rune object.
[Ogami]
Ey two, Broot?
[Maria]
... good lord, you're never allowed to try speaking ANY Romanic languages again, Captain.
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[Tenkai]
The power to reduce plants to ashes, sunder the solid earth, rend the sky above... give it all to meeeeee~!!
And thus begins the intricate ceremony that will infuse Tenkai with unspeakable amounts of power!
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... which... seems to involve him absorbing demons straight into his robot.
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FOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
[Maria]
Th... That's impossible...!?
[Tenkai]
Marvelous! It feels as if endless power is flowing into my entire body!
[Ogami]
What staggering demonic power! Ch', with only the fighting force we have now...
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[Ogami]
We might not be able to destroy Tenkai's second form! Which just so happens to look exactly like his first form!! And--
[Ogami]
... I'm sorry, but I just can't keep this shit up. What the hell, Tenkai?
[Tenkai]
What? What are you blathering on about? Why aren't you quivering in fear at the might of the all-powerful, all-awesome Amaterasu Mk II!?
[Kohran]
Well, that's because this is somethin' that we Chinese people call "it hasn't actually changed one freakin' bit."
[Tenkai]
Poppycock! Satan stated quite specifically AND repeatedly that the Amaterasu would have a super-strong second form, and that he was not (quote unquote) pulling the wool over my decrepit old eyes!!
[Ogami]
Um--
[Tenkai]
He also reassured me that the Amaterasu is a supremely powerful battlemech and is NOT, in fact, just a bunch of spare parts slapped together on a whim! Truly, Satan's newfangled bot-building designs are more than newfangled and bot-building than you will ever be!!
[Kanna]
... man, I feel like I'm on the set of one of those "I Can't Believe That People Are This Stupid" radio programs.
[Kohran]
Actually, this's more like "I Can't Believe Someone Convinced A Decrepit Old Man That This Can Of Horseshit Is Butter And Sold It To Him."
[Tenkai]
Impudence! You are speaking IMPUDENCE at me!!
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[Tenkai]
Now, it is MY turn! Here I go! Uuuuuoooooooiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooh!!
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[Maria]
I am not the type of person who would stoop as low as saying "I told you so," but...
[Maria]
I TOLD you that we should have curbstomped him before he got his miraculous and exceedingly well-timed power-up, Captain.
[Ogami]
Well, given our prior experiences, it's not like it would have done anything ANYWAYS.
[Maria]
Yes, but it would have been quite cathartic.
[Ogami]
Look, I've been meaning to ask you this for a while, but-- why do you always talk about blowing off stress? I mean, what's gotten you so keyed up?
[Maria]
Before you came to the theater, Captain, I was acting squad leader for a solid handful of months, and essentially the only authority figure who could actually keep everyone in line.
[Maria]
I... I still have nightmares.
[Ogami]
... oh god, I am so sorry to hear that, Maria.
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No way. It can't--
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KA-SCHWING!
Oh god. Oh god, it IS.
[Ogami]
Everyone... so you were alright!
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[Sumire]
But of course! The day we cannot easily destroy an unspecified number of enemies is the day we... uh...
[Ogami]
Can't destroy an unspecified number of enemies?
[Sumire]
Basically, yes.
[Ogami]
... come to think of it, after all your talk about the main character making her dramatic re-entry, why was SAKURA the one to pull that off?
[Sumire]
Well! I was simply feeling generous enough to give that unfortunate country pumpkin a chance at the limelight!
[Ogami]
...
[Sumire]
W-What? Why are you looking at me like that?
[Ogami]
...
[Sumire]
... alright, fine, she pushed me.
[Ogami]
Oooh.
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[Ogami]
Tenkai... with this, we're evenly matched...
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[Kohran]
Wait, so if y'all are thinkin' that seven-on-one is an even match, then what th' hell does that say 'bout your confidence in our fightin' abilities, Ogami-han?
[Ogami]
Well, the more of us there ARE to pick up the slack, the less of a problem it'll be when one of us inevitably fucks up real bad and/or suddenly go batshit insane.
[Kohran]
... 'cause that's somethin' that happens on a regular basis.
[Ogami]
Look, I KNOW that you've calculated the chances of that happening. Tell me that that isn't accurate.
[Kohran]
... well, a'right, ya got a point there.
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Alright, now now that Tenkai's pulled out the completely average caster Wakiji who will probably die in a handful of hits (or a well-placed area effect attack), we're even MORE evenly matched.
... riiiight.
[Tenkai]
Love... justice... you're just infatuated with that manner of phony sentimental rubbish!
I will not be defeated by the likes of you, you who have forgotten that which lurks deep within your own hearts!
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[Kanna]
Like hell I've forgotten! I mean, even I feel a bit of guilt every now and then over all of those innocent civilians that've died whenever one of us or our airship gets careless!
[Tenkai]
Um.
[Maria]
Really, Kanna? I thought that it would be buried more deeply than THAT.
[Kanna]
Meh, I don't think too much about it, so it hasn't really sunken IN-- unlike, say, the Captain, who has to deal with the paperwork every waking moment of his life.
[Ogami]
... oh god why'd you have to go and remind me that we're such horrible human beings?
[Kanna]
See?
[Tenkai]
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ONE THOUSAND
YEARS
TOO EARLY!!
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[Everyone]
Understood!
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