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Minira: Oh, it's you.
Ichiro Miki: What are you doing.
Minira: Nothing, I have no friends.
Ichiro Miki: Then you're just like me.
Minira: Why did you come back.
Ichiro Miki: You said you'd help me climb up on Godzilla's back.
Minira: Oh, right. I wonder where he is now.
Ichiro Miki: You're not with him all the time?
Minira: No, he gets mad.
Ichiro Miki: Why
Minira: Godzilla says I have to learn to fight my own battles.
Ichiro Miki: He's tough on you, huh?
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Minira: How do you like that, weirdo!
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[Reports are stunned to hear Ichiro credit Minilla, Shinpei explains]
Shinpei Inami: He means Minilla the monster. I think I understand, he's like a higher power.
Reporter: A higher power?
Shinpei Inami: That's right. Adults believe in gods, so why can't children have their own gods too, like Minilla?
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[Ichiro's father talks with his cowerker]
Train engineer: You're boy feeling okay?
Kenkichi 'Tack' Miki (Ichiro's Father): Why?
Train engineer: A lot of kids get asthma. You should be careful. He looked pale
Kenkichi 'Tack' Miki (Ichiro's Father): Nah, but I wish he were more assertive. He tends to keep to himself. He needs someone around, but my wife works.
Train engineer: A latchkey kid, huh?
Kenkichi 'Tack' Miki (Ichiro's Father): We want to save up and move to where the air's is clean, but when?
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Ichiro Miki: It's Minilla!
Minira: Come here. I won't hurt you.
Ichiro Miki: You sure?
Minira: We don't lie like humans.
Ichiro Miki: Thanks for saving me.
Minira: What brings you here?
Ichiro Miki: I wanted to see you guys.
Minira: Mmm, won't your mother and father be worried?
Ichiro Miki: They work all day. I'm all alone after school.
Minira: Ehhh.
[a loud cry interrupts them]
Minira: It's Gabara!
Ichiro Miki: Gabara?
Minira: Come on!
Ichiro Miki: That's Gabara?
Minira: Yeah. He's really mean.
Ichiro Miki: You ever fight him?
Minira: No, he's really strong.
Ichiro Miki: It's just like my situation.
Minira: Your situation?
Ichiro Miki: With the Gabara I know.
Minira: Hmmm.
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