Mahou Sensei Negima! 280

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Mahou Sensei Negima!
Period 280: The Girls' Counterattack!!
[Text: What is... // ...your name?!]
Dynamis: I see...
Nodoka: Dynamis.
Dynamis: I see... that is...

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Nodoka: Ngh!
Asakura: Miyazaki!
Nodoka: ...!
Flashback!Hunters: Teach you magic? Well, sure, but it'll take time. You don't have a natural talent for it or anything. // Hm? Magical reinforcement of the body? I'm surprised you know about that kind of thing. // Well, you ought to be able to pick up the basics, at least... // Hahahah! I guess it wasn't much good against real-life bounty-hunters, huh. // But don't worry, girlie... there's a trick to this kind of thing. // You listening? No matter how strong a guy is, he always has some kind of flaw... a psychological weak point to take advantage of. // If that Artifact of yours really can read people's minds, then if you can just find that weak point...
Asakura: Eh...?
Dynamis: Hm...

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Dynamis: Melan Kai Sphairikon Desmoterion.
[TN: "Dark Spherical Prison"]
Dynamis: Ha...
Nodoka: I am Miyazaki Nodoka, Treasure Hunter and member of Ala Alba. // My counterattack starts here.

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Nodoka: Allow me to put a question to you, Dynamis-san. // What is the function of this staff, and how might one make use of it?
Dynamis: What?
Nodoka: (...! I knew it... // It's just as I thought... there is still something... // ...that I can do!!)
Dynamis: Girl...!!
Nodoka: !!

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Dynamis: Ngh... // I see... / The Diarium Ejus truly is an Artifact to be feared.
Nodoka: Aaaaahhhh!
Asakura: Miyazaki!
Nodoka: Ngg... / ...ghh... // A... // Another question!! Dynamis-san! // What methods can you conceive of escaping from this situation?!
Dynamis: ......

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Nodoka: Thank you very much, Mr. Mage. // Relocate: Miyazaki Nodoka, Asakura Kazumi!
Asakura: !
Dynamis: ... // ...Hm.
Ako: ...san...
Tosaka: (Hmm...? What's this...?)
Ako: ...saka-san! // Tosaka-san!
Tosaka: (...Ahh... // ...Hah... Are you kidding me?)

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Tosaka: (Am I dying to protect some useless little former slave of a girl...? // I guess I really goddamn well am just... // ...a side-character... to the end...)
Ako: Tosaka-san!!
Kaede: My apologies... I was unable to notice the transfer... // I have failed you...
Ako: No... why... Tosaka-san... // Tosaka-san... why would you... protect someone like me...? / It doesn't... make sense... // You always hated me so much... / I just... don't get it...!
Makie: Ako...
Akira: Ako...

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Yuuna: Ako...
Akira?: To... // ...saka...san... // I'm... / ...such a...
Kaede: Ako-dono...
People: ANIKI~~~!! // ANIKI!
Kaede: With summoned beasts and the like showing up here... it would seem we are not out of danger. / We should find a safer place to hide for the - // Hmm? // Asakura-dono?!
Yuuna: Honya?!
Nodoka: Ah... // Kaede-san! Thank goodness!
Kaede: Was that... transportation magic...? What is going on?!

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Nodoka: We were... attacked by a black-robed mage... / We managed to get away, but... // He might still come after us!! / This staff -
Dynamis: Hah... // Ahahahahah!
Nodoka; Aahh...! // Nghh...
Dynamis: I suggest you stay motionless, females! / I can snap this young wretch's neck with a flick of my wrist!!

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Girls: Aaaahhhhh!! // Aaaaghhhhh?!
Dynamis: Hahahah... young mind-reader.
Nodoka: [aside]aahh... // nghh...[/aside]
Dynamis: I applaud your efforts. They were worthy of commendation. / Or perhaps the destruction of your friend brought out some form of latent strength in you. // It would seem that it was not for no reason that Tertium considered you a threat.
Nodoka: Ah!
Dynamis: However... // I am afraid that in the end, the most prudent course of action... // ...is to simply eliminate both this Artifact and its user here and now.
Kaede: ...!!
Nosoka: [aside]ahh![/aside]
Dynamis: Do not move. We may be forbidden to take human lives... / ...but that will not stop me from sending this girl's soul to the Eternal Garden. // To Cosmo Entelecheia.

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Dynamis: Now, young girl. // Rest in peace. // ?! // Ngh...!

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Dynamis: !!
Setsuna: Shinmeiryuu Ougi: Zantetsusen!!
Yuuna: Honya!
Makie: Are you all right?!
Kaede: Setsuna! Take care! That mage -
Setsuna: Adeat!! // I know! / It looks like he's about as dangerous an opponent as Fate himself!

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Setsuna: (I can't let this fight go on too long...!!) // I'm going all-out!! // Ojou-sama... lend me your strength!!
Konoka: Right.
Makie: [aside]Konoka?![/aside]
Konoka: Hnnhh...
Setsuna: Magical Charging. // Haaaahhhh...! // Tsurugi no Kami: Takemikazuchi!!
[TN: "Tsurugi no Kami" = "God of Blades"]
Dynamis: Nghhh...

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Kaede: I suppose... // ...this may indeed be a good time to harden our resolve. // Master Mage... we shall be your opponents!!
Dynamis: ...Hah. I see, I see... // So this is the new generation. // Very well. I will oppose you to your hearts' content. / Just as I did twenty years past. // However, I feel that this is not the place. // I look forward to our next meeting.

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Dynamis: It will come soon enough...
Kaede: ......
Setsuna: He retreated...
Kaede: How terrible... // Nodoka-dono's adventuring comrades were defeated at the hands of that mage...
Setsuna: And not only them... // Mr Tosaka from the gladiators' troupe... // ...and even Chief Kumama...

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Natsumi: The Chief... the Chief...! She asked us to take care of Tosaka-san...! // I can't believe To - Tosaka-san is gone as well...... *sniff*...
Setsuna: It would seem that the common people have also suffered heavy casualties...
Konoka: Oh, no...!
Asakura: You mean they were "erased", just like the others, I presume...? // This is outrageous... to think that a tragedy of this scale is happening right before our eyes...
Natsumi: Chief... Chief...! / I can't take this any more... // Let's go home... / Let's all just go back to Japan...!
Kaede: ...... // Yes, I quite agree.

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Kaede: It would seem that these fiends are forbidden from laying hands upon us lightly. / I know not why this is... // ...but I think it best that we make our departure with haste, whilst this remains the case.
Setsuna: Kaede...
Kaede: (We will have to make the rescue of Anya-dono as swift as possible. // The badge issue, too, bothers me somewhat...
Yuuna: Hold on a minute! // You're saying what... we're just going to leave things like this?! / We're... We're going to run home like cowards with the enemy still on top?! // After all those people who helped us out while we've been here have just given their lives... we're just going to turn tail and run?!
Kaede: Yuuna-dono...
Asakura: It's all very well saying that, but...
Nodoka: ...No. / It's... not over. // N... Nothing is over for certain, not yet. // It's too early to give up.

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Ako: Nodoka...?
Nodoka: Ako-san. // Natsumi-san.
Natsumi: Honya...chan?
Nodoka: If my suspicions are correct, then I'm sure... / No... I know. // There is a way to bring back the people who have vanished!! // Just as long as we can obtain the Great Grand Master Key to this world!!
[Insert text: Turning despair to hope!! The fate of the magical world rests upon Nodoka's courage!!]