Mahou Sensei Negima! 278

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Period 278: Showdown! The Ultimate Battle of the Magic World
[Insert text: The darkness encroaches and annihilates... Negi's party are in huge trouble!]
KuFei: Are you all right~aru?
Negi: Y... Yes... I can manage on my own now... // [aside]*pant* // *pant*[/aside] // Once we get through this plaza, we should reach a shaft that leads straight down below. / We should hurry. // Come on, Chisame-san. / ...Chisame-san? Is something the matter? // What's that...? Oh...! That's Nodoka-san's Artifact, isn't it? // What exactly does it say?! As I recall, Nodoka-san was reading Kurt-san's...
Chisame: ... // *sigh*......... // Take a look, Sensei.
Negi: Eh?
Chisame: ...Just read it. // But I hope you're ready for this.

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Negi: ......!!
[Text: Kurt Gödel // Very well, then. I had no inte // lling you this under the circumstances, bu // orm you of the secrets of this worl]
Negi: No... way... // This is... // Ch... Chisame-san...!!!

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Mahou Sensei Negima!
[Insert text: The shocking truth... just as Negi learns of it, before his eyes appears the closing moments of the ultimate showdown?!]
Negi: !!

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Negi: Rakan-san?!
Rakan: Hey there... well, look who it is... // Glad I got to see you... one last time...
Negi: ?! // ("Last"...? What does he... no, why is Rakan-san even here? // No, more to the point... why does this Rakan-san's presence feel so weak...?!)

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Negi: ...?! // Fate!!!
Fate: Negi Springfield... / That we have appeared in this place... is this your doing, Jack Rakan?
Rakan: Nghh!!! // Ho Heros Meta Chilion Prosopon!

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Negi: (!!! // He's melting them like butter!)
Fate: No matter how many times you try, it is useless.
Rakan: ZANKANKEN!!
[TN: "Battleship Cleaver"]

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Fate: Your actions mean nothing, Jack Rakan. // You should know this. Why do you still struggle so?
Rakan: Hey. // Something wrong? Your attacks ain't workin'.

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Fate: .........! / Dear me... I was aiming for your head. // To think that you would hold up this well... I really am rather impressed. // There is an overwhelming gap in power right now between you and I. / You are as an ant before an elephant. Or, more accurately... / ...as a mortal before a God. / ...I am sure you understand this. // So why?
Rakan: Hmmm~?
Negi: Rakan-san!!!
Rakan: Stay back! // Heh... Look, kid... you ain't in the greatest shape. // Just stay right where you are and watch this thing to the end. // Ho Heros Meta Chilion Prosopon!

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Rakan: Imperial Type-97 Battering Ram Form Magical Armour!!!
Fate: ...A clumsy weapon, unbefitting of one such as yourself. / Why...? // Why can you fight with that look upon your face? / Even knowing as you do that your struggles are meaningless... // In fact, you must have known already... ten years, no, twenty years ago - ever since that day. / You learned of the secret that the upper echelons of Megalomesembria have been keeping concealed. // The cruel, unyielding truth of this world. / It is a truth that would cause most to sink into despair and curse the Gods. Indeed, that is how all whom I have previously observed reacted.

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Fate: So why? / Why is it that, knowing of this truth, for twenty long years... // ...you have been able to waltz so gaily through this meaningless world with that look upon your face?
Rakan: Oh? // ...Well, whaddaya know. You don't even get a little thing like that? / [aside]and there I was thinking you were doin' it on purpose...[/aside] // Truth? Meaning? // Words like those... they ain't got a thing to do with me or my life.

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Fate: ...... // In that case... // Be consumed in the flames of that truth and vanish from my sight. / Illusory being!!
Chisame: Wha -
Negi: RAKAN-SAN!

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Fate: (Behind me?!)

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[no text just rakan is so epic]

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Chisame: Ahh...!
KuFei: He won...!
Fate: Nghh... // ...This too is meaningless, Jack Rakan... // The outcome is already predetermined...

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Rakan: Still... / It was fun, wasn't it? // You should enjoy these things a little more. / Fate.

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Chisame: [aside]wha...![/aside]
Negi: [aside]nghh...![/aside]
KuFei: I... Incredible!! Has he actually managed to defeat Fate~aru?!
Negi: RAKAN-SAN!! // [aside]*pant* / *pant*[/aside] // ?!

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Rakan: ...I see... / Looks like this is it... // I guess the outcome really was predetermined.
Negi: Ra...
Rakan: ...Kid... // So... yeah. // I wanted to take responsibility for my generation and clean up these last bits of shit for you... // ...but I guess it looks like you're gonna have to deal with it after all.
Negi: Ra...kan...san...?
Rakan: Sorry.

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Rakan: Ah, well. / I'm sure you'll be able to handle it...
Fate: ......
[Insert text: A legend reduced to nothing.........!!!]
Negi: R... // RAKAN-SAN!!!