# E5 - Build Limbs
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYVND5206/build-limbs)
Translator:
Editor:
Timer:
QC:
(Please feel free to edit the speaker names. This is handled on a best-effort basis depending on how the subtitle file was created so they may be incomplete or inaccurate. Dialogue is left as is.)
**[00:06] Mizuno**
What?!
**[01:49] Tamie**
Sanae Mizuno, was it?
**[01:53] Tamie**
She and Kouchi often talked
about books together.
**[01:56] Reiko**
She was so young...
**[01:58] Reiko**
I worry about her brothers.
**[02:00] Tamie**
Oh, she had brothers?
**[02:03] Kouichi**
One is named Takeru.
**[02:05] Kouichi**
He's in my class.
**[02:06] Tamie**
Dear me, this is so awful.
**[02:10] Tamie**
Didn't a girl in your class
recently die in an accident, too?
**[02:13] Ryouhei**
After a death, there always follows a funeral.
**[02:17] Ryouhei**
How very tired I am of funerals...
**[02:23] Ryouhei**
So very tired of funerals...
***SIGN*** June 4 (Thurs.)
**[02:28] Kubodera**
The news about Mizuno's
sister comes as a terrible shock,
**[02:33] Kubodera**
but it will be all right.
**[02:34] Kubodera**
If we all try hard together,
we can overcome this.
**[03:02] Kouichi**
So...
**[03:04] Kouichi**
She died.
**[03:06] Kouichi**
Mizuno's sister died in
an accident yesterday.
**[03:11] Mei**
Oh...
***SIGN*** Self-Study - Sketching
**[03:27] Mochizuki**
I wonder what's wrong
with Ms. Mikami.
**[03:31] Mochizuki**
Maybe she's really sick.
**[03:34] Mochizuki**
She didn't look too well.
**[03:36] Mochizuki**
I hope she doesn't...
**[03:37] Mochizuki**
Hey, Sakakibara?
**[03:40] Kouichi**
Yeah?
**[03:41] Mochizuki**
You don't think Ms. Mikami
has some serious,
**[03:44] Mochizuki**
life-threatening illness, do you?
**[03:47] Kouichi**
I'm sure she's fine.
**[03:50] Mochizuki**
You're probably right.
**[03:52] Kouichi**
Are you that worried?
**[03:54] Mochizuki**
Well, after what happened
to Sakuragi...
**[03:59] Mochizuki**
And now Mizuno's sister...
**[04:01] Mochizuki**
So I just...
**[04:03] Kouichi**
Are they related?
**[04:04] Kouichi**
Is there a connection
between these accidents?
**[04:06] Mochizuki**
Um, I don't...
**[04:14] Mochizuki**
Where are you going?
**[04:16] Kouichi**
To do some research.
***SIGN*** Yomiyama Prefectural Junior High School
Class of 1972
**[04:33] Kouichi**
Who am I kidding?
**[04:35] Kouichi**
Of course I wouldn't find Misaki's name here.
**[04:46] Kouichi**
Mom...
**[04:49] Chibiki**
You found your mother?
**[04:50] Kouichi**
Yes.
**[04:52] Chibiki**
Interesting... So she graduated in '72.
**[04:56] Chibiki**
Which class was she in?
**[04:59] Kouichi**
Class 3, like me.
**[05:02] Chibiki**
Oh? Which one is she?
**[05:07] Kouichi**
This one.
**[05:09] Chibiki**
Ritsuko?
**[05:12] Kouichi**
You knew her?
**[05:15] Chibiki**
Yes.
**[05:17] Chibiki**
Ritsuko was...
**[05:19] Chibiki**
But...
**[05:21] Chibiki**
I heard that she died. When was that?
**[05:26] Kouichi**
15 years ago, right after she had me.
**[05:29] Chibiki**
15 years ago?
**[05:33] Chibiki**
I see...
**[05:35] Chibiki**
So that's what happened.
**[05:42] Izumi**
Kouichi.
**[05:48] Izumi**
Mr. Kubodera asked me to send
you to the faculty room.
**[05:51] Kouichi**
Okay, thanks.
**[05:58] Izumi**
Let me apologize in advance.
**[06:00] Izumi**
I'm sorry.
**[06:02] Izumi**
But this is for all of us.
**[06:04] Izumi**
Forgive us.
**[06:10] Police 1**
You are aware that Sanae Mizuno
**[06:11] Police 1**
passed away in an accident at
the hospital yesterday, yes?
**[06:15] Kouichi**
Yes.
**[06:17] Kouichi**
Um, am I suspected of something?
**[06:20] Police 1**
Oh, no. We know it was an accident.
**[06:23] Police 1**
A very unfortunate accident.
**[06:25] Police 1**
It's just, Ms. Mizuno's cell phone was
**[06:28] Police 1**
found in the elevator in question.
**[06:33] Police 1**
Did you speak with her on the phone
around 1 p.m. yesterday?
**[06:38] Kouichi**
Yes, I did.
**[06:39] Police 1**
She was on the roof at the time, correct?
**[06:42] Police 1**
And she entered the
elevator from there...
**[06:46] Kouichi**
What caused the accident?
**[06:48] Police 2**
That's under investigation.
**[06:50] Police 2**
All we know for certain is that the
sheaves holding the cables
**[06:53] Police 2**
in place came loose, causing it to fall.
**[06:56] Police 2**
That building is several decades old,
**[06:59] Police 2**
and it's been through numerous
structural modifications.
**[07:02] Mizuno**
*Let's both be careful.*
**[07:04] Mizuno**
*Especially where unusual
accidents are concerned.*
***SIGN*** Aya Ayano | Izumi Akazawa
**[07:33] Kubodera**
Sakakibara.
**[07:36] Kubodera**
Are the police finished questioning you?
**[07:39] Kouichi**
Yes.
**[07:40] Kubodera**
All right.
**[07:41] Kubodera**
Then you're dismissed for the day.
**[07:45] Kouichi**
Um, where is everyone?
**[07:48] Kubodera**
The new female class officer
**[07:50] Kubodera**
was selected during homeroom.
**[07:52] Kubodera**
It's Akazawa.
**[07:54] Kouichi**
But, where'd everybody go?
**[07:56] Kubodera**
Please be sure to uphold
**[07:59] Kubodera**
the class rules at all times.
**[08:02] Kubodera**
Are we clear?
***SIGN*** Who is dead?
**[08:24] Mochizuki**
Okay, sure.
**[08:28] Kouichi**
Hey.
**[08:29] Kouichi**
Walk home with me?
**[08:35] Kouichi**
Where did everyone go
during sixth period?
**[08:39] Takabayashi**
To the meeting room,
to take care of some stuff.
**[08:41] Kouichi**
What stuff?
**[08:43] Mochizuki**
You've had a lot of strange experiences
since you came here, haven't you?
**[08:50] Kouichi**
If you know, can you tell me
what's going on?
**[08:52] Mochizuki**
Sorry, I can't.
**[08:55] Mochizuki**
Only, that something very unpleasant
**[08:57] Mochizuki**
might happen to you soon.
**[09:00] Kouichi**
What do you mean?
**[09:02] Mochizuki**
At the meeting,
**[09:04] Mochizuki**
Akazawa said we needed
to discuss something,
**[09:07] Mochizuki**
without you there.
**[09:10] Mochizuki**
But even if you don't
like what happens,
**[09:13] Mochizuki**
try to deal with it.
**[09:15] Mochizuki**
Remember that you're doing it for all of us.
**[09:17] Mochizuki**
Please.
**[09:19] Kouichi**
"All of us"?
**[09:21] Izumi**
*This is for all of us.*
**[09:23] Izumi**
*Forgive us.*
**[09:25] Kouichi**
Is this one of those class rules?
**[09:28] Mochizuki**
Yeah.
**[09:31] Kouichi**
I just don't get it...
**[09:39] Kouichi**
Can I ask one favor?
**[09:42] Mochizuki**
What?
**[09:43] Kouichi**
I want a copy of the class roster.
**[09:48] Mochizuki**
You didn't get one?
**[09:51] Takabayashi**
It's just not fair.
**[09:53] Takabayashi**
I can't agree with Akazawa's
way of handling things.
**[09:58] Takabayashi**
It's not fair of her to force her own ideas
**[10:01] Takabayashi**
on the rest of us.
**[10:02] Takabayashi**
There must be so many
things you want to know.
**[10:06] Kouichi**
There are.
**[10:08] Takabayashi**
Then you can ask me.
**[10:10] Takabayashi**
I'll tell you everything I know.
**[10:12] Mochizuki**
Takabayashi, wait! Are you serious?
**[10:15] Kouichi**
Okay.
**[10:17] Kouichi**
Does Mei Misaki exist?
**[10:20] Takabayashi**
Mei Misaki is...
**[10:27] Mochizuki**
Takabayashi! Takabayashi!
**[10:56] Kouichi**
Good morning. You're early today.
***SIGN*** June 5 (Fri.)
**[11:20] Kazami**
That's it. Any other...
**[11:24] Kazami**
No, forget it.
**[11:26] Kouichi**
Did something happen this morning?
**[11:34] Kubodera**
Let us pray that the soul of
our classmate, Takabayashi,
**[11:38] Kubodera**
may rest in peace.
**[11:41] Kubodera**
Many sad events have transpired,
**[11:44] Kubodera**
but do not lose heart,
and do not give up.
**[11:46] Kubodera**
We'll get through this together.
**[11:49] Kubodera**
Remember to uphold the
class rules at all times.
**[11:53] Kubodera**
Ms. Mikami is in a difficult position,
**[11:56] Kubodera**
but she has agreed to cooperate
to the best of her ability.
**[11:59] Kubodera**
Does everyone understand?
**[12:11] Kouichi**
Hey.
**[12:17] Kouichi**
What's with him?
**[12:19] Kouichi**
Hey, Wakui?
**[12:24] Kouichi**
What's going on?
***SIGN*** *The customer you are trying
to reach currently*
***SIGN*** *has their phone off or is
out of the service area.*
**[12:49] Kouichi**
Hey.
**[12:53] Kouichi**
Listen...
**[12:53] Teshigawara**
Sorry.
***SIGN*** Figures of Speech
Simile, Metaphor, Personification
**[12:59] Kubodera**
"A rumor walks alone."
**[13:01] Kubodera**
Here, we see something
that is not human
**[13:04] Kubodera**
being expressed as
displaying human behavior.
**[13:08] Kubodera**
This is known as personification.
**[13:12] Kubodera**
The important thing to
understand is that
**[13:14] Kubodera**
human attributes are given
to something non-human.
**[13:21] Kubodera**
Pascal once said, "Man is but a
reed, but he is a thinking reed."
**[13:27] Kubodera**
This is not personification.
**[13:28] Kouichi**
So that's what they meant.
**[13:30] Kubodera**
It is a metaphor.
**[13:32] Kubodera**
Does that make sense?
**[14:15] Kouichi**
Hi.
**[14:17] Mei**
What's wrong?
**[14:19] Mei**
Your call was unexpected.
***SIGN*** Sorry. Ask Misaki to explain. -Mochizuki
***SIGN*** 24 Mei Misaki
**[14:39] Mei**
So, you got a copy of the class roster.
**[14:41] Mei**
And?
**[14:42] Kouichi**
Let me start from the beginning.
**[14:44] Kouichi**
Did you hear that Takabayashi died?
**[14:48] Kouichi**
He had a heart attack.
**[14:50] Kouichi**
I know he had heart problems, but...
**[14:52] Mei**
I see.
**[14:54] Mei**
The second June death
was caused by illness.
**[14:57] Kouichi**
Then, when I got to school today,
**[14:59] Kouichi**
the whole class was acting weird.
**[15:02] Kouichi**
Like they'd all conspired to
treat me like I wasn't there.
**[15:06] Mei**
So that's what they decided to do...
**[15:09] Kouichi**
Does this mean I'm just like you now?
**[15:16] Mei**
How does it feel to not exist?
**[15:20] Kouichi**
Not so great.
**[15:22] Kouichi**
But, in a way, it's a load off my mind.
**[15:24] Mei**
It is?
**[15:26] Kouichi**
Because now I know that you exist.
**[15:33] Kouichi**
This is where you live, isn't it?
**[15:37] Mei**
Yes.
**[15:38] Mei**
I thought you figured
that out long ago.
**[15:41] Kouichi**
You did say you lived around here.
**[15:43] Kouichi**
And you're not a customer.
**[15:44] Kouichi**
Was that your mother who
answered the phone?
**[15:48] Mei**
She was surprised.
**[15:50] Mei**
I very rarely get calls
from schoolmates.
**[15:56] Kouichi**
Is Kirika your mom?
**[15:59] Mei**
Yes. I guess you'd call it a pseudonym.
**[16:02] Mei**
She goes by Kirika.
**[16:04] Mei**
A strange woman,
who keeps herself cloistered
**[16:07] Mei**
in the studio upstairs.
**[16:09] Kouichi**
Does the "M" in "Studio M"
stand for Misaki?
**[16:12] Mei**
It all makes sense now, doesn't it?
**[16:18] Mei**
Let's go upstairs.
**[16:32] Mei**
Did you know this was here?
**[16:42] Mei**
Here you go.
**[16:52] Mei**
Why don't you ask the questions?
**[16:54] Mei**
It might be easier to explain
everything that way.
**[16:57] Kouichi**
I thought you hated being questioned.
**[17:00] Mei**
I do.
**[17:01] Mei**
But today,
**[17:04] Mei**
I'll make a special exception.
**[17:07] Kouichi**
First of all, Mei Misaki,
**[17:10] Kouichi**
you exist, right?
**[17:12] Mei**
Did you think I was a ghost?
**[17:15] Kouichi**
Sort of.
**[17:16] Mei**
I guess you couldn't help it.
**[17:19] Mei**
But your doubts are gone now, right?
**[17:21] Mei**
Now that you know I exist,
**[17:24] Mei**
as a living human.
**[17:26] Mei**
I'm only nonexistent to
the others in class 3.
**[17:32] Kouichi**
Since when?
**[17:33] Mei**
It started on May 1.
**[17:36] Kouichi**
That's pretty recent.
**[17:39] Mei**
Lots of things seemed strange
to you from the start, right?
**[17:43] Kouichi**
And nobody would tell me why.
**[17:47] Mei**
Not explaining the situation
to you beforehand
**[17:49] Mei**
was a costly mistake.
**[17:51] Kouichi**
Mistake?
**[17:53] Mei**
You were supposed to treat me
as someone who didn't exist,
**[17:56] Mei**
just like everyone else in class.
**[18:00] Mei**
But now you've ended up the same as me.
**[18:04] Mei**
How awful for you.
**[18:05] Kouichi**
It's not exactly bullying...
**[18:09] Mei**
I don't think anybody thinks of it that way.
**[18:16] Kouichi**
I understand that I
no longer exist to them.
**[18:20] Kouichi**
But why are they doing this?
**[18:23] Mei**
It's a natural question.
**[18:25] Mei**
Remember the story about the
Misaki who died 26 years ago?
**[18:29] Kouichi**
Yeah.
**[18:30] Mei**
That was the trigger.
**[18:33] Mei**
After that, class 3 drew closer to death.
**[18:37] Kouichi**
Death?
**[18:38] Mei**
It first happened to class 3
**[18:40] Mei**
the year after Misaki's
classmates graduated.
**[18:45] Mei**
And once it happens, once it begins,
**[18:49] Mei**
somebody dies each month.
**[18:52] Mei**
Either a student, or
someone from their family.
**[18:56] Kouichi**
What is "it"?
**[18:59] Mei**
It's when...
**[19:02] Mei**
...the number of students in
the class increases by one.
**[19:05] Kouichi**
Increases? Who?
**[19:09] Mei**
Nobody knows.
**[19:11] Mei**
They can never figure out
who the extra one is.
**[19:16] Kouichi**
Extra one?
**[19:18] Mei**
25 years ago, shortly
after the new term began,
**[19:22] Mei**
they realized that the classroom
**[19:23] Mei**
was short one desk and chair,
**[19:26] Mei**
even though they had prepared enough
**[19:28] Mei**
for all of the students.
**[19:30] Kouichi**
Couldn't they just check
the school records?
**[19:34] Mei**
They did, but there was no point.
**[19:36] Mei**
The roster and records had been
altered to be inconsistent.
**[19:40] Mei**
They were just one
desk and chair short.
**[19:44] Kouichi**
So, someone rewrote the numbers?
**[19:46] Mei**
I used the word "altered" figuratively.
**[19:48] Mei**
They say that everyone's
memories had changed as well.
**[19:52] Kouichi**
Huh?
**[19:54] Mei**
Sounds impossible, doesn't it?
**[19:56] Mei**
But it's supposedly true.
**[20:01] Mei**
I was told this type of
phenomenon could happen.
**[20:06] Kouichi**
Phenomenon?
**[20:08] Mei**
At first, everyone thought
it was just an error
**[20:11] Mei**
and thought nothing of it.
**[20:12] Mei**
But starting in April,
people connected to the class
**[20:17] Mei**
started to die each month.
**[20:18] Kouichi**
Each month?
**[20:20] Kouichi**
For the whole year?
**[20:22] Mei**
That year, I think it was six students
**[20:25] Mei**
and ten family members.
**[20:27] Mei**
Clearly abnormal, right?
**[20:29] Mei**
This phenomenon has continued
in class 3 ever since.
**[20:35] Kouichi**
So, a 9th grade class 3 student
**[20:36] Kouichi**
named Misaki died 26 years ago.
**[20:39] Kouichi**
And starting the next year,
**[20:40] Kouichi**
there was somehow an extra
student in the class.
**[20:44] Kouichi**
Then, people connected to the
class started to die each month.
**[20:49] Kouichi**
But why do people die when
there's an extra student?
**[20:53] Mei**
Nobody knows the reason.
**[20:55] Mei**
That's just what happens.
**[20:57] Mei**
Plus, that extra student is...
**[21:01] Mei**
...someone dead.
**[21:04] Kouichi**
You mean the Misaki who
died 26 years ago?
***SIGN*** Who is dead?
**[21:11] Kouichi**
Is it a ghost or something?
**[21:14] Mei**
I think it's different from
what we'd call a ghost.
**[21:18] Mei**
It seems to have a physical body.
**[21:20] Mei**
There's no way to tell it apart
from the rest of us.
**[21:24] Kouichi**
No way to tell?
**[21:25] Mei**
The dead person has
a soul and memories,
**[21:30] Mei**
and they don't realize they're dead.
**[21:34] Kouichi**
Who are they?
**[21:36] Mei**
The people connected to the class
who have died over the years.
**[21:44] Mei**
This is how I see it.
**[21:46] Mei**
Class 3's actions 26 years ago
**[21:48] Mei**
made the class a place
that invites the dead in.
**[21:51] Mei**
After that, the dead
began to join the class,
**[21:55] Mei**
and class 3 drew closer to death.
**[22:00] Mei**
In response,
**[22:01] Mei**
the class 3 students
came up with several
**[22:05] Mei**
countermeasures to try
to escape this calamity.
**[22:09] Kouichi**
Like exorcisms?
**[22:11] Mei**
Possibly.
**[22:13] Mei**
They tried moving to a
different classroom,
**[22:15] Mei**
and changing the name of
class 3 to class C.
**[22:18] Mei**
But that didn't stop it.
**[22:21] Kouichi**
So the problem is with the students
**[22:22] Kouichi**
in the 9th grade's third class?
**[22:24] Mei**
Seems to be.
**[22:26] Mei**
Then, about ten years ago,
**[22:30] Mei**
they found a way to
deal with the problem.
**[22:33] Mei**
A method that prevented
people from dying each month.
**[22:39] Kouichi**
Don't tell me...
**[22:42] Mei**
Treat one student like they don't exist,
**[22:43] Mei**
to make up for the extra person.
**[22:46] Mei**
That way, they return the
class to its correct number,
**[22:51] Mei**
and they can avoid the
calamity for that year.
**[22:54] Mei**
It's a sort of charm.
**[24:38] Kouichi**
Face to face.