Mahou Sensei Negima! 272

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[Insert text: Faced with the one absolute, ultimate power, is there nothing the invincible Rakan can do...?!]
[Text: Code Of The Lifemaker!!]
Rakan: (Impossible... // That power no longer... // !! // The Princess-chan...?!) // Why... // ...you...!!

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Mahou Sensei Negima!
Period 272: Final Answer
[Insert text: The invincible legend... // ...faces his end?!!]
Gödel: It is time. // May I have your answer?

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Gödel: Will you join me... / ...or not?
Nodoka: Sensei...
Asakura: Negi-kun...
Chisame: (This isn't good... This guy's been in complete control of this whole scenario from start to finish. // Sensei, you're not going to...?!)
Negi: ............Very well. // I will join you.
Gödel: Oh?

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Asakura: Negi-ku - !
Chisame: Whoa, hold it! // Wait a -
Negi: In exchange, I want you to promise me that you will not harm my friends in any way. // And that you will remove our wanted status.
Gödel: But of course! / I will write up a Geas Contract to certify it if you wish!! // However... // I will be requiring you to lend me your aid here in Mundus Magicus. / If possible, it would be more convenient if you could stay here for the time being...
Nodoka: !
Chisame: Wait, Sensei! / This guy's just trying to use you! Can't you see that?!
Negi: I am aware of that. // But, Chisame-san, please remember our objective here. To ensure everyone's safe return.

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Chisame: B... // But...!
Negi: ...Might I have your permission to return briefly to Mahora Academy?
Nodoka: Sensei!
Asakura: Negi-kun!
Gödel: Very well! Partings are important. I am not so cruel that I would steal that precious time from you. // You have made the correct decision. // Just as I might expect from the son of Nagi and Arika-sama.
Chamo: O~~~~~~~i! This is terrible! Did you hear that?!! / Aniki's accepting the guy's proposal!!
People: Wh... What's that mean?!
Chamo: It means he's joining up with that pervy-glasses-guy!!
Haruna: Aaahhhh~~~! I had a feeling he might, but still, to think he'd actually go and do it~~~!
Chamo: This is no laughing matter for you guys! / At this rate, even if Aniki does go back to Mahora, he'll have to quit his job teaching there!
Makie: Whaaaaaaa~~?!!
Ako: But that's...!
Shiori!Asuna: No! He can't! We have to stop him!

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Haruna: But... // Choosing this option should allow us to all make it back safely... / ...and from Negi-kun's perspective, it allows him to carry on what his parents began, as well...
Shiori!Asuna: B...
Makie: But...
Imma: ...And so it seems likely that Kurt-kun will make an attempt to have Negi join forces with him.
Eishun: But... in that case, Negi-kun would... // [aside]hmmmm...[/aside]
Chachazero: [aside]eheheh[/aside]
Eva: Doubtless he would be used as a political pawn for his unique pedigree, // thrust into all manner of murky and unpleasant conflicts. // I see no particular issue with that... Eheheh...
Imma: Really, Kitty? // Are you sure you would wish such a fate upon your beloved student?

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Eva: Well, of course. That boy's biggest problem is that he approaches things on far too small a scale. / [aside]as soon as the slightest little thing happens, he gets himself into an absolute state...[/aside] // Spending a little time time with Kurt and learning how cruel the real world can be might make him "grow" a little, don't you think?
Imma: Ahahah... so you do like them "bigger", do you? / [aside]an interesting preference considering your eternally ten-year-old body.[/aside]
Eva: What exactly are you talking about?!! / [aside]don't say such inappropriate things, you pervert![/aside]
Imma: Oh, there's nothing to worry about. He's still only ten years old, after all. / [aside]I'm sure you have plenty to "look forward" to, hm?[/aside] // [aside]ahahahahahaha[/aside]
Eva: ENOUGH ALREADY, YOU PERVERTED EGGPLANT!
Imma: Joking aside, I wouldn't say that his outlook is quite as small in scale as you seem to think.
Eva: Hmph. Based on what? His type could never become like Nagi.
Imma: Well, I will have to agree with you there at least. // [aside]hahahaha... // and considering my hobby of collecting people's lives, I might be considered something of an expert.[/aside]
Eva: Hmm? Then what? What are you getting at?
Imma: Oh, well... it's just... // I would say that the scale of his feelings towards his father, at least... // ...is as large as they come.

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Gödel: Well, then, if you would just sign here! // With this, our alliance will be made clear and official! // Hahaha... I really am glad that you are such a smart boy. // I honestly thought that it would be a little more difficult to bring you around, ahahah... / [aside]well, as it happens, things did get a little messy for a while there, but... at this point, I find myself honestly wishing that I had simply approached you frankly right from the start![/aside] // Once we have completed this formality, I will take this opportunity to give you a grand introduction as the Thousand Master to the internationally important men and women gathered in the hall below. / Yes, you may think of this as your debut in the society of the ruling classes here in Mundus Magicus. As for your identity as the son of Arika-sama, I will choose my moment carefully and reveal this key fact with the most prudent of timing...
Nodoka: Sensei...
Chisame: (I... It may be true that this is objectively the best choice... // From the perspective of our safety, and from the perspective of the purpose of Negi-sensei's own journey as well...)
Gödel: Now... / Your signature. // Negi-kun.
Chisame: (But... are you sure about this, Negi-sensei?)

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Chisame: (Are you really sure? // Sensei...!)
Negi: ...Ah, yes. // Kurt-san. // Would you mind if I asked you one very basic question at this point? // Since we are going to be allies, you should have no issue with that, yes?
Gödel: ...Oh? / Very well... go ahead.
Negi: I would like to know... / ...your objective.
Gödel: Objective...? As I said, to have you join me like this and -
Negi: That's not what I mean. // I mean your real objective.

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Negi: You said you intend to "save the world", did you not?
Gödel: ...I see. So that is what you want to know. // Very well; I will inform you. This is something that Nagi and Arika-sama... / ...and all of the rest of us twenty years ago knew nothing of. // The truth of this world!! / The truth is...
Negi: The truth is... // ...that this world of Mundus Magicus... // ...this artificial alternate plane inscribed upon Mars, is in danger of collapsing. / ...Am I correct?

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Gödel: ...Wha - ?! // (Impossible...) // H... How on Earth...
Asakura: (You kind of let it slip yourself earlier, you know... / [aside]you were saying something about "this dying world"...[/aside])
Gödel: ...do you know about...?! // I have shared this information with hardly anyone...! // Could it be that Albireo Imma...?!
Negi: No... I have my own source of information... // (Chao-san...) // And my own deductions. // (That's right... I came to this conclusion after talking things over with Chachamaru-san, who was one of Chao-san's allies. // In the incident at the school festival, Chao-san was attempting to resolve some kind of "tragedy" that was to occur at some point in the future. // And she called herself a "Martian" from one hundred years in the future...)

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Gödel: Hm...mmm... // (Outrageous... This is the most highly confidential of information, revealed only to a handful of people even within the upper echelons of Megalomesembria... // How could a ten-year-old boy, even if he is the son of Nagi, possibly uncover such a secret alone...? // I had thought that this boy would be easily manipulated... // ...but it would seem that he is more discerning than I had imagined...)
Asakura: (Impressive... he's actually managed to break that Governor-General's composure. I guess even he couldn't possibly guess that we have an informant from the future.)
Nodoka: (Q... Quite... / [aside]but I can't believe that theory actually turned out to be true... th... that's terrible...![/aside])
Gödel: Hah... // Ahahahah... // Hahahahaha! // Oh, I see now, Negi-kun! But if you are already aware of the situation, then that makes things so much the quicker! Yes! This world stands on the verge of disaster! // This should erase any shred of hesitation that you may yet have had! Now, carry on the will of your father and mother, and save the world together with -

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Negi: What are you talking about, Kurt-san? / I have yet to pose my question.
Gödel: What?
Negi: When you spoke of this disaster earlier... // ...you stated that you meant to save "all sixty-seven million" of our fellow humans... did you not? // Why exactly... / ...did you not state that you mean to save "everyone"?
Gödel: Ngh...
Negi: The total human population of Mundus Magicus is approximately five hundred million. / Including demihumans and the like, that number increases to one point two billion. // Sixty-seven million people would refer to the human population of Megalomesembria alone. / Sixty-seven million... One point two billion. Why the distinction?

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Negi: Surely the Thousand Master... would have laughed and insisted that he would save every last person!! / As a former member of Ala Rubra... why would you abandon them?!
Gödel: ...I have my reasons. They may be difficult for you to comprehend at this stage. / No... I have faith that you will be wise enough to understand, but...
Negi: ...I cannot understand such reasons!! / Your stated intention is to save only one person in every eighteen! // You asked me to carry on the will of my father and mother, did you not? / Well, I cannot see that this qualifies!!

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Negi: No matter what the reason... // My father would never have given up on those people!! // And you too, Kurt-san! The straightforward and honest boy I saw in your movie just now... / ...would never have made such statements! // Arika-sama would be disappointed in you!! / What happened? What have you discovered?!
Gödel: You brat... / What do you know...? // How dare you......!

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Fate: No matter how much power you may possess... // It ends here. / Such sorrowful beings... // ...we puppets are.
Rakan: ADEAT!! // Left arm armour!! // Right arm armour!!
Fate: (Ridiculous...)

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Fate: (He means to challenge... // ...the Code of the Lifemaker...?)
Rakan: Heh... "Illusion"? "Puppets"? / Heheh... What about 'em?
[Text: HO HEROS META CHILION PROSOPON!!]
Rakan: Screw that crap!!
Gödel: Hmph... it would seem that I have spoken a little more than was necessary... / ...in front of a boy a little too smart for his own good. But no matter...

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Gödel: Words... // ...can only take one so far. // I will have to show you the nature of reality.
Negi: I'm sorry, everyone... // Chisame-san... // It looks like... // ...the safe route isn't going to work out after all.
Chisame: Well, if that's your answer... / ...I'm not gonna argue. // I can't say I ever liked that glasses guy anyway. / Go for it!
[Insert text: To truly stand up for what he believes in... the only answer is to stand and fight!]