01x10 - Silent Majority

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To Aru Kagaku no Railgun

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Ruiko: (OP)

Kazari: (Commercial)

Kuroko: (ED)



Akemi: That's awesome, Ruiko!

Akemi: I used to have a hard time levitating just a paper cup!

Akemi: Ruiko?

Ruiko: What should I do...? This is my ability...

fdsa: Akemi! How dare you drop me?

Akemi: Get down! You're heavy!

Ruiko: Although this ability can't compare with Shirai-san's and Misaka-san's,

Ruiko: and it's nothing to other people...

Ruiko: I... finally... became an esper!

ETA until ,Ruiko: Time remaining

ETA until ,Ruiko: seconds

ETA until ,Ruiko: Saving completed.

Kazari: It's finished.

Kazari: But to be able to raise your level just by listening to this...

Kazari: Can something like that really exist?

Kuroko: That's what our source told us.

Kazari: To tell the truth, I still don't believe it.

Kazari: But if I use this and become more powerful(an esper greater) than Shirai-san,

Kazari: I can do this and that to her to pay her back for her "care".

Kuroko: I can hear what you are thinking.

Kuroko: If you want revenge, feel free!

Kazari: I was kidding! I was just kidding!

Kazari: Your phone! Your phone is ringing!

Kuroko: Yes. Yes, understood.

Kuroko: Students are rioting again.

Kuroko: Contact Kiyama-sensei, Uiharu.

Kazari: Got it.

Harumi: Yeah, I got the samples.

Kazari: Can something like music really raise ability levels?

Harumi: Hmm... Hard to say.

Harumi: It would be possible if it was Testament...

Kazari: Testament? Is there really a device like that?

Kazari: Oh... yes.

Kazari: Yes...

Kazari: I see.

Kazari: Thank you for all you've done.

Kazari: Maybe it's a mistake to say it's a music track.

Kazari: Hello, Saten-san?

asdf: The number you have dialed is either in an area that cannot be reached or is currently swi—

fdsa: How is my ability?

Kuroko: Level Upper again?

rofl: What's with you? You are ten years away from fighting with me.

Kuroko: So you are ten years older than me?

lmao: Taste...

omfg: ...my power...

Kuroko: Enough already.(Edit/TLC:I wish you'd give it a rest already.)

Kazari: Here. It may hurt a little.

Kazari: You are getting more and more injuries.

Kuroko: Well, what could I do? There are more people who used Level Upper.

Kazari: We can't imagine how widespread it has become.

Kuroko: Complaining about it won't help with the investigation.

Kuroko: Anyway, there are three things that we need to do.

Kazari: Stop distribution of the Level Upper,

Kazari: recover the unconscious users,

Kuroko: and arrest the creator of the Level Upper.

Kuroko: We need to find the person who developed it and distributed it online,

Kuroko: make him talk and reveal his plans.

Kazari: All right, let's get you patched up.

Kazari: You really want Misaka-san to do this, don't you?

Kuroko: I can't let Onee-sama see me like this.

Kazari: It's fine. Nobody wants to see anyway.

Mikoto: Hey! Is there anything I can do—

Kuroko: G-Good afternoon, Onee-sama.

Mikoto: And? Did the investigation go well?

Kazari: About that...

Kuroko: According to Kiyama-sensei, it seems there's a device called Testament

Kuroko: that can transmit a large amount of electronic messages to the brain within a short time.

Kuroko: But, that's something that uses all five senses:

Kuroko: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.

Mikoto: The Level Upper is a music track; it only uses hearing.

Kazari: We've searched the rooms of the victims,

Kazari: but, other than the song, we've found nothing.

Mikoto: This is just a guess,

Mikoto: but there could be a way that this song could affect all senses.

Kuroko: What do you mean?

Mikoto: Do you remember the conversation we had when we were eating shaved ice?

Kuroko: Uhh... comparing flavors?

Mikoto: No, not that.

Both: Synesthesia!

Kazari: What's that?

Kuroko: It's synesthesia!

Kuroko: The experiencing of multiple sensations from a single stimulus.

Mikoto: By stimulating one sense, other senses can also be stimulated.

Kazari: In other words, by using the sound to set off all five senses, you get the same results as the Testament?

Harumi: That is possible.

Harumi: I see. I hadn't thought of that.

Kazari: We hope you can start investigating from this clue.

Harumi: Oh, in that case, the higher-ups might even allow me to use the Tree Diagram.

Kazari: Tree Diagram?

Kazari: If we use the Academy City's best supercomputer, it's going to be done really quickly!

Harumi: I will contact you once I have the results.

Kazari: Can I come over to where you are, then?

Kazari: I've always wanted to see the Tree Diagram in use!

Harumi: I don't mind.

Akemi: How about that?

Akemi: I've already gotten to this level after just a few days of practice!

fdsa: Same here!

asdf: You guys are awesome!

Ruiko: Maybe I should tell Uiharu.

Ruiko: But, she'll be angry.

fdsa: Akemi?

asdf: Akemi-chan?!

asdf: What's the matter? Akemi-chan!

fdsa: Akemi!

asdf: Akemi-chan! Hang in there!

fdsa: Are you all right?

asdf: Akemi-chan!

Phone Sex,asdf: Saten Ruiko

Kazari: Oh!

Kazari: Saten-san, I'm worried!

Kazari: You are acting so cold to me at school

Kazari: and you won't pick up my calls.

Ruiko: She fainted.

Ruiko: Akemi fainted.

Kazari: Heh?

Ruiko: I didn't know using the Level Upper makes you faint...

Ruiko: Why did this...

Ruiko: I... didn't intend...

Kazari: C-Calm down.

Kazari: Calm yourself and start over.

Ruiko: I obtained the Level Upper.

Kazari: Huh?

Ruiko: You said you were capturing the users, so...

Ruiko: But, I didn't throw it away.

Ruiko: And then, Akemi and the others said they wanted the Level Upper.

Ruiko: No... Actually, I just didn't want to use it by myself.(Edit/TLC:No, that's wrong. The truth is, I really just didn't want to use it alone.)

Kazari: Anyway, where are you right now?

Ruiko: Will I faint as well?

Ruiko: And what if I never wake up again?

Ruiko: I... hated myself for not having any powers.

Ruiko: But... I couldn't stop yearning for it.

Ruiko: Mom...

Kazari: Eh? What was that?

Ruiko: Does being Level mean you're defective?

Kazari: Huh? What are you...

Ruiko: Maybe I'm being punished now because I cheated to get powers.

Ruiko: I got into something dangerous and pulled in people around me.

Ruiko: I...

Kazari: It's fine!

Kazari: Even if you fell asleep, I will wake you up right away!

Kazari: I'll wake you, Akemi-san, and everyone else who's asleep!

Kazari: So just leave it all to me!

Kazari: You'll definitely say "Just five more minutes!" or something!

Ruiko: Uiharu...

Kazari: You aren't defective, Saten-san!

Kazari: Despite not being able to use any abilities

Kazari: didn't you always manage to b*at me?(I reversed these two lines so that it would make more sense. -Southrop. Edit:Unreversed them, to make them a continuous sentence-N)

Kazari: Whether or not you have any powers, you are yourself!

Kazari: You are my best friend!

Kazari: That's why...

Kazari: ...that's why...

Kazari: ...don't say something... sad like that...

Ruiko: You want me to rely on you?

Kazari: It's not just me!

Kazari: There's Misaka-san, Shirai-san, and a lot of other really amazing people!

Ruiko: Yup, I got it.

Ruiko: Thanks, Uiharu.

Ruiko: I'm sorry for always causing you trouble.

Ruiko: I'll leave the rest up to you.

Kazari: Saten-san...

Title,Kazari: SilentMajority

Mikoto: Saten-san used the Level Upper...

Kuroko: Yeah. Uiharu said that she'll analyze the data and definitely save Saten-san. Then she went off to Kiyama-sensei's.

Mikoto: I see...

Mikoto: Do you have a moment?

Kuroko: What do you want to talk about?

Mikoto: Saten-san has a charm, right?

Kuroko: Oh, the one that she always hangs out of her bag.

Mikoto: That charm was given to her by her mother...

Mikoto: ...before she came to Academy City.

Kuroko: She told you that?

Mikoto: Yeah. She probably had a lot of things she wanted to tell me.

Mikoto: But even though I am a Level ,

Mikoto: I'm not good at these things.

Kuroko: Onee-sama...

Mikoto: Whenever I come across a hurdle,

Mikoto: I just won't feel satisfied until I've overcome it.

Mikoto: Being Level is the result of that.

Mikoto: I've never thought I was amazing or anything.

Mikoto: But, there are also people who just stop in front of the hurdle.

Mikoto: I've never realized that people like that existed.

Mikoto: I kept saying "who cares about levels."

Mikoto: It was a thoughtless thing to say.

Mikoto: That's why, let me help with the investigation.

Mikoto: It's for saving Saten-san too.

Kuroko: I got it.

Mikoto: Thank you. I'll be in your hands.

Kuroko: S-Same here.

Heaven Canceller: Do you have a moment?

Mikoto: It's a real life Gekota!

Kuroko: You've got it wrong, Onee-sama.

Heaven Canceller: These are the EEGs of the Level Upper victims. (Replace electroencephalograms with a simpler term? -Southrop. Edit: I did: EEGs-N)

Heaven Canceller: Everyone has different EEGs, so there's no correlation between two waveforms.

Heaven Canceller: But, I've noticed that the victims of the Level Upper all have one consistent EEG pattern.

Kuroko: What do you mean?

Gekota: If someone were to force a change in another's EEG,

Gekota: it would cause great physical harm to their body.

Mikoto: Does that mean that these people fell unconscious because their brain was forced by the Level Upper?(forced=r*ped?-N)

Kuroko: Who did this and for what reason?

Gekota: I am just a doctor.

Gekota: It's your job to find that out.

Harumi: I see... it's that girl from before, right?

Kazari: It's my fault.

Harumi: Don't blame yourself.

Harumi: Let's take a break.

Harumi: I am going to make some coffee.

Kazari: We don't have time to do something like that.

Harumi: The data analysis isn't complete yet.

Harumi: Doesn't it defeat the purpose of this if you collapsed by the time your friend wakes up?

Harumi: It's fine. Things will work out in the end.

Mikoto: If the EEG pattern is specifically clear...

Kuroko: And if we have Uiharu look it up in the database...

Kuroko: Oh, Uiharu's not here.

Mikoto: That's right.

Mii: Geez... What are you two making a fuss about?

Kuroko: Konori-senpai.

Mii: I see. In that case, we'll probably be allowed to access the database.

Mikoto: What if it's not in the database?

Kuroko: Don't worry.

Kuroko: In addition to the students undergoing ability development,

Kuroko: the data of the hospital patients and adults who have taken occupational tests are in there too.

Mikoto: But, why would the EEGs of Level Upper users match a single person's?

Kuroko: On top of that, their levels are raised too.

Kuroko: I just don't get it.

Mii: Even a computer doesn't increase performance through software alone.

Mii: But if we connect a computer to a network...

Kuroko: Does connecting to a network improve performance?

Mii: Not the performance of individual components.

Mii: But, if you connect a few computers together,

Mii: the computing power will increase.

Mikoto: I see. Could it be that the Level Upper is being used to construct a network of brains?

Mii: That's possible.

Mikoto: But, how does it connect everyone's brains together?

Mii: Thinking about the possibilities, it's probably the AIM diffusion field.

Mii: (Espers)One involuntary releases energy to their surroundings.

Mii: If they connect all this energy together...

Mikoto: But that's something you release without knowing about it.

Mikoto: Our brains, if you use computers as a metaphor, run different operating systems.

Mikoto: So there's no point in connecting them together.

Mikoto: In a computer network they don't have the same OS, nor do they use the same language.

Mikoto: Even so, networks work because of protocols, right?

Kuroko: Do you mean that someone's EEG pattern is acting as the protocol?

Mii: That's just a possibility.

Mikoto: But, if you connect this many brains, you will get a high computing power.

Mikoto: Even if it's a person who has a weak ability by himself,

Mikoto: after he connects to a network, his ability's processing power will improve significantly.

Mikoto: On top of that, after synchronizing the thinking patterns of the espers,

Mikoto: you can use abilities even more effectively.

Mii: I guess the brain activity of those who have fainted are all being utilized to create a network.

Mii: I found it.

Mii: This EEG is a % match.

Kazari: This... and this... they're all theses on synesthesia...

Kazari: Why?

Harumi: That's not nice...

Harumi: ...looking at other people's research.

Kuroko: T-This is...

Mikoto: Registerant name, Kiyama Harumi.

Mikoto: Uiharu-san is...!

Alternate,Kuroko: Uiharu is...!

Mii: What's wrong with Uiharu-san?

Mikoto: She said she was going to Kiyama-sensei's.

Mii: What?!

Kuroko: Uiharu?

asdf: The number you have dialed...

Kuroko: I can't get to her.

Mii: Contact Anti-Skill.

Mii: Place Kiyama Harumi under arrest!

Mii: However, there may be a hostage!

Kuroko: Yes!

Harumi: By the way, I have been wondering for a while...

Harumi: What purpose do the flowers on your head serve?

Harumi: Does it have something to do with your ability?

Kazari: I have no obligation to answer that.

Kazari: More importantly, what is the Level Upper?

Kazari: Why are you doing this?

Kazari: What will happen to the people who fainted?

Harumi: One question after another.

Harumi: Yet you won't even answer my question.

Kazari: Raising someone's ability level and bringing them false happiness,

Kazari: what's so fun about that?

Kazari: Even Saten-san...

Kazari: Even Saten-san...

Harumi: Hmph... I couldn't care less about other people's abilities.

Harumi: My goal is something far greater.

Mikoto: I am going too.

Mii: I don't want to pull a civilian into this,

Mii: but it would be great if a Level like you could assist us.

Kuroko: Onee-sama!

Kuroko: Uiharu is in Judgement too!

Kuroko: In case of anything, she will use her own powers...

Kuroko: I guess... somehow...

Kuroko: ...if we are lucky...

Kuroko: Besides, Kiyama is just a researcher.

Kuroko: I don't think she has the power to fend off the Anti-Skill.

Mikoto: She's holding the lives of a couple thousand unconscious (espers)people.

Mikoto: Besides, I have a bad feeling about this.

Kuroko: All the more reason you should let myself, someone from Judgement—

Mikoto: Can you really go with this body?

Kuroko: Onee-sama... you realized...

Mikoto: Of course.

Mikoto: You are my junior.

Mikoto: At times like this, leave it to your Onee-sama.

Kuroko: Onee-sama...

Title: (Onscreen)To Be Continued

Preview,Ruiko: Next Episode

Harumi: Today was fun.

Harumi: I'll just strip for the preview.

Harumi: Now, next episode...

Mikoto: Don't strip!

Mikoto: That aside, I will defeat you!

Preview Title,Mikoto: Kiyama-sensei