12 - A Place Further Than the Universe

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[00:02] (Flashback) woman
    Sensei, could I...
[00:04] (Flashback) sen
    Yes?
[00:09] (Flashback) sen
    Kobuchizawa.
[00:13] (Flashback) shira
    From my grandma?
[00:14] (Flashback) woman
    Yes, please return home at once.
[00:16] (Flashback) shira
    Did something happen to my grandma?
[00:19] (Flashback) woman
    Well...
[00:25] shira
    It was almost like a dream.
[00:31] shira
    "Oh. I'm not waking up.
[00:34] shira
    Why aren't I waking up?" I thought.
[00:38] shira
    That feeling never ended.
[00:45] shira
    It still hasn't ended.
SIGN    A Place Further Than the Universe
[00:52] [Messenger] ---
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[00:52] [Messenger] ---
    #DearMom
[00:57] [SONG] ---
    Lavatory | Bath
    Washroom
[00:57] yuzu
    For three weeks?
[00:58] kana
    It's not too far, but we can't
    get there via helicopter.
[01:02] hina
    You mean...
[01:03] kima
    ...we take the snowcat?
[01:04] kana
    Righto!
[01:05] kima
    Yeah!
[01:06] kima
    We finally get to take one!
[01:07] gin
    It's not particularly fun.
[01:09] kana
    They're very slow!
[01:10] kana
    We have to avoid crevasses and
    other dangerous places as we go.
[01:14] kana
    We'll be going one way, then
    have to alter course a bit...
[01:17] gin
    Kanae.
[01:18] kana
    I meant to do that! Totally meant to do that!
[01:21] kana
    You're the one always complaining about
    how annoying long hair is, aren't you?
SIGN    Please make sure to turn the tap off after doing laundry.
[01:24] gin
    Well, it's better than when Takako
    used to cut it, at least...
[01:28] gin
    What about you?
[01:37] shira
    Can I?
[01:38] kana
    Of course! That's why we're inviting you.
[01:43] shira
    Could you give me time to think about it?
[01:48] gin
    Understood.
[01:54] kana
    I thought she'd be jumping at the chance...
[02:00] yuzu
    The hole in the ozone layer was
    discovered during an expedition here,
[02:05] yuzu
    and they were the first in
    the world to report it.
[02:08] yuzu
    These weather balloons
    are released twice a day,
[02:13] yuzu
    simultaneously, at places all over the world.
[02:16] man
    Three, two, one. Release!
[02:31] yuzu
    Shirase-san didn't come, did she?
[02:35] hina
    She probably needs time
    to be alone and think.
[02:37] hina
    She hasn't had much to say since
    the captain made the offer...
[02:48] (Flashback) man
    It's here.
[02:49] (Flashback) man
    This is the point where
    we lost communication.
SIGN    To: Mom
SIGN    Cc/Bcc:
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[02:53] [Messenger] sign
    Sent from myPhone
[02:58] toshi
    The ridge snack station is back in business!
[03:01] toshi
    Any beers?
[03:02] shira
    Right...
[03:03] kima
    Here you are!
[03:04] kima
    They're nice and cold!
[03:06] man
    That's nice of you.
[03:08] man
    Thanks!
[03:12] shira
    What's the matter?
[03:14] kima
    Nothing! We finished our
    recording, so I thought...
[03:18] shira
    Oh.
[03:19] kima
    Hey! It's pretty warm today, huh?
[03:21] shira
    Is it? It seems a bit chilly
    for the middle of summer...
[03:25] kima
    Yeah, I guess...
[03:30] kima
    They launched a weather balloon earlier!
[03:32] kima
    Could you see it from here?
[03:33] shira
    Yeah.
[03:35] kima
    I hear today's pick-me-up is anpan!
[03:44] shira
    What is it?
[03:45] kima
    N-Nothing...
[03:48] kima
    It's just... you know...
[03:50] kima
    How to put it...
[03:55] kima
    What now?!
[03:57] shira
    That's my line.
SIGN    Special
SIGN    Today's Menu
SIGN    Farewell BBQ Party
SIGN    Meat Meat Meat Vegetables (eat them!) Meat
SIGN    There'll be beer, too!
SIGN    Team A
[04:01] shira
    About my mother?
[04:02] hina
    Kimari, your lack of planning is making
    this more complicated than it should be.
[04:06] yuzu
    Why did you even say you'd go talk to her?
[04:09] kima
    Because...
[04:13] shira
    Sorry.
[04:15] shira
    I'm not particularly depressed
    or stressed out about it.
[04:19] shira
    I actually feel pretty normal, I guess...
[04:22] shira
    Maybe... too normal, I guess?
[04:24] hina
    Normal?
[04:26] shira
    I was convinced that when I arrived
    in Antarctica, I would start crying.
SIGN    A Place Further
    Than the Universe
    Kobuchizawa Takako
[04:31] sign
    "These are the same sights my mother saw."
[04:34] sign
    "My mother was so moved by these sights."
[04:37] sign
    "This place is so wonderful,
    it's no wonder she wanted to come."
[04:41] sign
    I thought that's what I'd be thinking.
[04:45] sign
    But that wasn't what I
    ended up thinking at all.
[04:49] sign
    The most I could muster was
    "Wow, it's just like in the pictures."
[04:55] hina
    Is that why the first thing you said
    when we got here was "in your face"?
[05:01] shira
    It was?
[05:02] yuzu
    You don't remember?
[05:07] kima
    But you came here because your
    mother was waiting, didn't you?
[05:11] kima
    You wanted to come here because
    your mother was here, right?
[05:15] shira
    Yeah.
[05:16] kima
    That's why you asked Kanae-san over and over,
[05:19] kima
    took all those jobs,
    worked so hard to get here...
[05:23] shira
    I know that.
[05:23] kima
    You said that your mother
    was waiting for you here!
[05:27] hina
    Kimari.
[05:27] yuzu
    That's not a nice thing
    to say to Shirase-san...
[05:34] shira
    I know all that.
[05:36] shira
    It's like, why did I even come this far, then?
[05:39] shira
    But...
[05:41] kima
    But?
[05:42] shira
    But... once we get there,
    there's nowhere left to go.
[05:46] shira
    It'll be all over.
[05:48] shira
    If I go, and nothing changes, I think...
[05:54] shira
    I'm going to spend the rest of
    my life feeling the way I do now.
[06:01] kana
    So, before we head inland,
[06:04] kana
    I'd like to talk for about thirty minutes
    about the civilian research projects
[06:08] kana
    that will follow Challenge For Antarctic.
[06:10] yume
    I'm freezing to death.
[06:11] yumi
    The beer's icing over.
[06:12] kana
    I'm kidding.
[06:13] kana
    We just have a few simple words to say.
[06:16] kana
    Gin-chan?
[06:20] gin
    Let's go.
[06:21] all
    Cheers!
[06:22] all
    Cheers!
[06:24] yumi
    Okay, this one's cooked!
[06:27] yuzu
    Cold!
[06:28] yumi
    If you don't gobble it up fast,
    it'll go cold in no time!
[06:31] hina
    No time to lose!
[06:32] yumi
    That's the thrill of the Antarctic barbecue.
[06:36] kima
    I dropped my marshmallow!
[06:38] yumi
    You got it too close.
[06:39] yumi
    By the way, I heard...
    Kobuchizawa-san's unsure she'll go?
[06:46] yuzu
    I suppose...
[06:47] yumi
    Are you sure you don't want
    to say anything to her?
[06:54] hina
    "To act is not necessarily compassion.
[06:56] hina
    True compassion sometimes
    comes from inaction!"
[06:59] yuzu
    More nonsense...
[07:01] kima
    But that's basically what we decided.
[07:06] yuzu
    I envy you guys.
[07:09] yumi
    The ability to give each other space
    is the proof that you're good friends.
[07:18] yumi
    What the hell are you doing?!
[07:24] yuzu
    Did she say we were good friends?
[07:28] kima
    Yeah.
[07:30] yuzu
    We're good friends!
[07:36] shira
    Aren't you going to go?
[07:38] gin
    You should know by now that
    I'm not good in party situations.
[07:44] shira
    What do you think?
[07:46] gin
    About what?
[07:49] shira
    Mom.
[07:50] gin
    If you have to ask me that,
    you probably shouldn't go.
[08:10] gin
    I may not want to believe it,
    but the fact is that Takako is dead.
[08:16] gin
    I can talk about dying wishes
    and what she would have wanted,
[08:19] gin
    but none of us know if that's how she really
    felt, if it's what she really wanted.
[08:25] shira
    Then why did you come to Antarctica again?
[08:28] shira
    Because I wanted to come.
[08:31] shira
    Because I latched on to the
    idea that Takako wanted me to.
[08:37] gin
    At the end of the day, those ideas we
    latch on to aren't enough to motivate us.
[08:42] gin
    But when we run around on
    the injustices of reality,
[08:44] gin
    they're the only things
    that can break through,
[08:46] gin
    make the impossible possible,
    and allow us to proceed on.
[08:51] gin
    That's what I believe.
[08:55] shira
    You're saying I shouldn't
    leave it to anyone else?
[08:58] gin
    That's right. But...
[09:01] gin
    That's how you've always
    done things, isn't it?
[09:10] shira
    Moving.
[09:14] shira
    Cashier.
[09:18] shira
    Cleaning.
[09:22] shira
    Cleaning.
[09:24] shira
    Newspaper delivery.
[09:26] (Flashback) shira
    I know that!
[09:27] (Flashback) shira
    I know I'm being unreasonable!
[09:30] shira
    Cashier.
[09:32] shira
    Moving.
[09:34] shira
    Traffic surveys.
[09:37] shira
    Cleaning.
[09:39] shira
    Factory.
[09:40] shira
    Factory.
[09:42] shira
    Cashier.
[09:44] shira
    Delivery.
[09:45] (Flashback) shira
    But... I really want to go.
[09:48] shira
    Cashier.
[09:49] (Flashback) shira
    Because... my mother is waiting there.
[10:03] kima
    Amazing!
[10:05] hina
    Right? They said it's hand-drawn.
[10:06] yuzu
    Apparently we're taking
    this on the trip inland!
[10:09] kima
    Really?
SIGN    Good luck!!
    Inland Exploration Squad!!
SIGN    Team Girls
[10:16] gin
    Is that your luggage?
[10:17] kima
    Yeah!
[10:18] gin
    Too much. Halve it. You have five minutes.
[10:21] kima
    No way!
[10:28] shira
    Good morning.
[10:32] gin
    Good morning.
[10:34] shira
    And so, our final journey began.
[10:39] shira
    14,000 kilometers from Japan.
[10:42] shira
    To that place further than
    the reaches of the universe.
[10:45] shira
    The place that seemed out of reach.
[10:53] yuzu
    I thought we were taking the snowcat...
[10:57] kana
    That's S-16, the departure point
    for the inland expedition.
[11:01] kana
    Today's mission is loading materials
    onto the snowcats stationed there.
[11:07] ---
    Hup.
[11:09] kima
    So cold!
[11:10] kana
    It's going to be a lot colder here
    than it was at Syowa Station, yeah.
[11:15] kana
    This scenery is more like how
    you imagine Antarctica, right?
[11:44] yuzu
    It really is...
[11:45] yuzu
    Slow, isn't it?
[11:51] hina
    Well, have you got two sevens?
[11:53] hina
    Two sevens.
[11:54] yuzu
    Okay.
[11:55] hina
    You had them?
[11:56] shira
    Have some sympathy for person
    who's lost three times straight...
[12:04] man
    114 here. We've passed through S-18.
[12:07] kana
    112 here. Roger.
[12:15] kima
    What's going on?
[12:16] kana
    It's time to work.
[12:17] kana
    We'll be going outside, so get ready.
[12:22] yuki
    Ouch! Just breathing hurts my chest!
[12:25] kima
    I've lost all feeling in my nose!
[12:29] gin
    It's going to get colder as we get higher up.
[12:32] kima
    Think I can manage it?
[12:33] yuzu
    You brought that?
[12:37] hina
    Here.
[12:37] yuzu
    Thank you very much!
[12:40] yuzu
    I can't feel anything!
[12:42] hina
    Eat fast or it'll get cold!
[12:43] kima
    We're turning off the
    engines at night, right?
[12:45] kana
    Yeah, we don't have enough
    fuel to keep it running.
[12:49] toshi
    Syowa here. Syowa here.
[12:51] toshi
    Inland team, do you read? Over.
[12:56] gin
    It's a regular check-in.
[12:58] gin
    Practice it.
[13:00] gin
    Because none of us knows what's
    going to happen out there.
[13:06] kana
    It's going to get very windy tonight,
[13:09] kana
    so when moving between cars,
    make sure to use this rope.
[13:12] kana
    Don't assume you'll be fine
    because it's just a few meters.
[13:15] kana
    If you end up out in a blizzard,
    you're never making it back.
[13:22] kima
    What's that?
[13:27] hina
    What?
[13:29] yuzu
    It's the sun... right?
[13:32] kana
    Looks kind of apocalyptic, huh?
[13:34] kana
    It's called a "sun pillar."
[13:38] kana
    It's an optical illusion
    caused by ice crystals.
[13:43] shira
    Did my mother see this, too?
[13:47] gin
    Yes, she did.
[13:49] gin
    You could say she gazed
    at it as she slept there.
[14:06] gin
    It's here.
[14:07] hina
    What, a blizzard?
[14:09] kana
    There's no question.
[14:11] kana
    Don't worry.
[14:12] kana
    As long as we stay in here...
[14:15] kima
    I can't see anything!
[14:16] yuzu
    Neither can I!
[14:18] kana
    I see. This is your first
    time seeing a real one?
[14:21] yuzu
    Yes...
[14:34] shira
    Was it like this when my mother went missing?
[14:43] gin
    We think she left something
    at the inland station,
[14:47] gin
    or maybe she slipped...
[14:54] (Flashback) gin
    Takako?
[14:57] gin
    The next thing I knew, she was gone.
[15:00] gin
    And moments later, a blizzard was raging.
[15:08] gin
    It's beautiful...
[15:12] (Flashback) gin
    Takako!
[15:15] gin
    It's so...
[15:18] gin
    very beautiful.
[16:01] kima
    Shirase-chan.
[16:03] kima
    Are you okay?
[16:06] shira
    You can't sleep?
[16:08] kima
    No... I'd been asleep, but I just woke up.
[16:15] shira
    Do you like Antarctica, Kimari?
[16:19] kima
    Yeah, I really like it.
[16:22] shira
    I see.
[16:23] kima
    But I'm not sure if I would have
    liked it if I were here by myself.
[16:28] shira
    Really?
[16:30] kima
    It's because I'm here with you guys.
[16:32] kima
    As long as I was with you guys, I'd probably
    feel the same way about the Arctic.
[16:38] kima
    Hey, Shirase-chan...
[16:41] kima
    Thanks for taking me.
[16:44] kima
    Thanks to you, I got the
    most out of my youth.
[16:52] shira
    Dear Mom.
[16:55] shira
    I've made friends.
[16:59] shira
    I, who thought I'd be fine by
    myself forever, now have friends.
[17:07] shira
    They're all a little weird,
[17:09] shira
    a little frustrating,
[17:11] shira
    a little broken...
[17:15] shira
    But I have friends who were willing
    to travel to Antarctica with me.
[17:21] shira
    We fought, we cried,
[17:25] shira
    we had problems...
[17:27] shira
    But they were willing to
    travel this far with me,
[17:31] shira
    to this place where you were...
[17:37] shira
    I was able to come this far because of them.
[17:44] shira
    Mom,
[17:46] shira
    what can you see from where you are?
[17:49] shira
    Will I be able to see the
    same sights that you saw?
[17:56] shira
    I'm going to be there soon...
[17:59] shira
    the place where you are.
SIGN    Challenge For Antarctic 1st Team Observatory Site
[18:12] kana
    It's been a while, huh?
[18:14] gin
    Sorry for the wait.
[18:17] gin
    Though we're going to keep you
    waiting a while yet, still...
[18:19] hina
    Is this okay like this?
[18:21] kana
    Of course it's not.
SIGN    Challenge For Antarctic 1st Team Observatory Site
[18:24] kana
    We need to fix the foundation,
    build the building,
[18:26] kana
    carry supplies piece by piece,
    create a telescope...
[18:32] gin
    It's going to be a long time before the
    Kobuchizawa Observatory is finished...
[18:37] gin
    But...
[18:38] kima
    Kobuchizawa...
[18:48] shira
    She's probably remembering...
[18:51] shira
    seeing this with my mom...
[18:55] hina
    Shirase...
[19:00] shira
    We're not going to find any traces of my Mom.
[19:03] shira
    It was three years ago.
[19:05] kima
    You don't know that!
[19:05] hina
    Yeah.
[19:06] hina
    The fact that no one's been here for three
    years makes it more likely that we will!
[19:09] shira
    It's okay! We're not going to find anything!
[19:11] kima
    You can't give up!
[19:12] kima
    Anything at all... even one single piece!
[19:16] shira
    It's fine!
[19:16] hina
    No, it's not!
[19:17] shira
    You won't find anything!
[19:19] yuzu
    How can you be sure?
[19:21] shira
    It's okay.
[19:23] shira
    Just making it here was enough.
[19:27] shira
    I've accomplished my goal.
[19:30] shira
    I made it to the place my mother was.
SIGN    The 1st Challenge For Antarctic
[19:33] shira
    Thank you. So it's okay now.
[19:37] kima
    No, it isn't!
[19:38] kima
    You've come this far!
[19:40] kima
    You've come this far, that's why...
[19:42] kima
    Just one piece!
[19:43] kima
    There has to be one piece of
    proof that your mother was here!
[19:46] hina
    Kimari!
[19:47] yuzu
    Shirase-san!
[19:52] hina
    Here!
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