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Old 2010-12-24, 22:04   Link #20330
LyricalAura
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Originally Posted by Pika_power View Post
How does that fit into context? I don't recall the number of people being mentioned, so what does 'it' refer to?
That bit is lost in the translation. Battler's line has a person counter attached to the number, so you can either read it as "it's seventeen people" or possibly "you're the seventeenth person". Although I'm hesitant to say whether the second interpretation works in Japanese since it wasn't an ordinal number like in Erika's line. Witch Hunt might have left it ambiguous for that reason, now that I think of it.
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