# E7 - Sphere Joint
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**[02:52] Chibiki**
Everyone out!
**[02:55] Chibiki**
Call the police and an ambulance, now!
**[03:03] Chibiki**
Was anyone hurt?
**[03:06] Chibiki**
Are you all right?
**[03:08] Kouichi**
I'm okay.
**[03:13] Mei**
Let's go, Sakakibara.
**[03:17] Mei**
It looks like making two students
not exist didn't work.
**[03:33] Kubodera**
*I'm at my wit's end.*
**[03:35] Kubodera**
*I'm so tired.*
**[03:38] Kubodera**
*I don't know what to do.*
**[03:42] Chibiki**
*Mr. Kubodera...*
**[03:45] Kubodera**
*I'm sure you understand.*
**[03:49] Kubodera**
*I leave the rest to you.*
**[03:59] Chibiki**
That troubled me.
**[04:06] Chibiki**
Sorry.
**[04:09] Chibiki**
Anyway, the result of an investigation
of Mr. Kubodera's home was disturbing.
**[04:17] Chibiki**
Mr. Kubodera was a bachelor,
**[04:19] Chibiki**
who still lived with his mother.
**[04:22] Chibiki**
She was well on in years,
**[04:25] Chibiki**
and had been bedridden for some
time, due to a serious illness.
**[04:30] Chibiki**
They found her dead in her bed.
**[04:35] Chibiki**
She had clearly been murdered.
**[04:38] Chibiki**
The stress of caring for her...
The class 3 calamity...
**[04:42] Chibiki**
Perhaps he felt so trapped by it all
that it drove him to kill his own mother.
**[04:51] Chibiki**
And then he killed himself
in front of his students.
**[04:55] Chibiki**
Why would he make such extreme decisions?
**[04:59] Kouichi**
You think this was a
result of the phenomenon?
**[05:02] Chibiki**
Yes.
**[05:03] Mei**
So he was drawn into death
by otherwise unlikely means?
**[05:10] Chibiki**
Could there be any other explanation?
**[05:14] Kouichi**
The calamity hasn't been stopped.
**[05:17] Chibiki**
People will keep dying.
**[05:20] Teshigawara**
There was nothing we could do.
**[05:22] Teshigawara**
Come on, Sakaki, don't get so down.
**[05:25] Teshigawara**
Blaming yourself won't change anything.
***SIGN*** Do Not Enter
**[05:30] Kouichi**
Until recently, you were...
**[05:32] Teshigawara**
Yeah, and it was breaking my heart!
**[05:36] Teshigawara**
You know the whole story now, right?
**[05:39] Teshigawara**
So you get where I'm coming from?
**[05:41] Kouichi**
Yes, I understand perfectly well.
**[05:45] Teshigawara**
What about you, Misaki?
Feel like a weight's been lifted?
**[05:49] Mei**
Hard to say.
**[05:50] Mei**
I didn't really feel a
weight to begin with.
**[05:54] Teshigawara**
You are seriously weird.
**[05:59] Izumi**
Here you are.
**[06:04] Teshigawara**
Jeez, what's your problem?
**[06:06] Izumi**
You both might exist again,
**[06:08] Izumi**
but you'd best be prepared.
**[06:10] Kouichi**
For what?
**[06:13] Izumi**
It's your fault.
**[06:16] Teshigawara**
H-Hey!
**[06:18] Izumi**
People will say that.
**[06:20] Izumi**
There's no way you'll be
considered completely innocent,
**[06:23] Izumi**
and I'm sure I'll be accused
of incompetence, as well.
**[06:27] Kouichi**
True.
**[06:29] Teshigawara**
Where do you stand?
**[06:36] Izumi**
I can't blame Kouichi,
**[06:38] Izumi**
no matter what anyone says.
**[06:40] Izumi**
But it's not over.
**[06:42] Izumi**
The calamity, and my work as
head of countermeasures,
**[06:46] Izumi**
are only just beginning.
**[06:50] Kouichi**
I wonder if anyone will go
**[06:52] Kouichi**
into hiding now, until summer break.
**[06:54] Teshigawara**
Definitely.
**[06:56] Mei**
Some people may have fled town already.
**[06:59] Teshigawara**
You think?
**[07:00] Mei**
Yes. It happens every year.
**[07:02] Mei**
There are always people who leave
**[07:04] Mei**
Yomiyama for summer break.
**[07:07] Teshigawara**
It's all so strange.
**[07:08] Teshigawara**
But you really are weird, Misaki.
**[07:12] Teshigawara**
You talk like this doesn't involve you.
**[07:14] Mei**
Do I?
**[07:15] Teshigawara**
Could it be that you're
actually the extra this year?
**[07:20] Mei**
It could very well be you, you know.
**[07:24] Teshigawara**
M-Me? No way!
**[07:26] Teshigawara**
Don't even joke about that.
**[07:28] Mei**
There's really no way?
**[07:30] Teshigawara**
No, no, no!
**[07:31] Teshigawara**
I have no memories of dying!
**[07:34] Teshigawara**
And, not to brag,
**[07:35] Teshigawara**
but I clearly remember all
the shit I got into as a kid!
**[07:57] Chibiki**
You look well.
**[07:59] Kouichi**
Thanks.
**[08:01] Kouichi**
Was Akazawa here to talk
to you about something?
**[08:04] Chibiki**
As head of countermeasures,
**[08:06] Chibiki**
she comes here often.
**[08:08] Kouichi**
I see.
**[08:10] Chibiki**
She's a strong girl, and she knows that,
**[08:15] Chibiki**
but considering what she's up against...
**[08:18] Chibiki**
I pity her.
**[08:22] Chibiki**
By the way, Ms. Mikami
dropped by today, too.
**[08:26] Kouichi**
Ms. Mikami?
**[08:28] Chibiki**
She knows my history here.
**[08:32] Chibiki**
There was something she
wanted to formally discuss.
**[08:34] Chibiki**
And what brings you two here?
**[08:37] Kouichi**
I wanted to ask about 15 years ago,
when the calamity stopped midyear.
**[08:45] Chibiki**
That was the one time
in the past 25 years
**[08:47] Chibiki**
when it stopped midyear.
***SIGN*** April 12, sister, Kyouko, illness
July 23, sister, Ikumi, illness
June 6, accident
June 13, accident
August 9, accident
August 9, accident
**[08:55] Chibiki**
Excluding Ritsuko, whom I didn't know about,
**[08:58] Chibiki**
there were seven deaths that year.
**[09:01] Chibiki**
When did Ritsuko die?
**[09:03] Kouichi**
In July.
**[09:05] Kouichi**
Wait...
**[09:07] Kouichi**
Does that mean the deaths
stopped in August?
**[09:09] Chibiki**
Yes, and look at the date
of the August deaths.
**[09:13] Kouichi**
August 9...
**[09:15] Chibiki**
That class had just left
for a class trip on August 8.
**[09:20] Kouichi**
Class trip?
**[09:22] Reiko**
*I think something may have
happened during summer break...*
**[09:25] Kouichi**
So two students died in
accidents on that trip?
**[09:28] Kouichi**
And something happened on that trip
that stopped the calamity?
**[09:34] Chibiki**
So it would seem.
**[09:35] Chibiki**
Notice that no one is listed
as "deceased" on that page.
***SIGN*** Deceased:
**[09:39] Chibiki**
It never became clear who
the dead person was that year.
**[09:44] Mei**
Why did it stop?
**[09:46] Chibiki**
I'm not certain.
**[09:48] Chibiki**
But I do know that they
visited the Yomiyama Shrine.
**[09:52] Kouichi**
A shrine?
**[09:55] Chibiki**
A very old shrine, located
halfway up Mt. Yomiyama.
**[09:59] Chibiki**
Their lodge was at
the foot of that mountain.
**[10:02] Kouichi**
So maybe if we visit the shrine...
**[10:04] Chibiki**
Naturally, people went back to it in
**[10:06] Chibiki**
years when the calamity occurred,
**[10:08] Chibiki**
but it had no effect.
**[10:13] Kouichi**
So the shrine had nothing to do with it?
**[10:15] Chibiki**
No, that's not conclusive.
**[10:18] Chibiki**
It could be that going
there in a large group,
**[10:22] Chibiki**
in early August, was effective.
**[10:24] Chibiki**
Of course, we can't deny the
possibility that the effect came
**[10:27] Chibiki**
from something else, unrelated
to visiting the shrine.
**[10:30] Chibiki**
This is what Ms. Mikami came
here to discuss with me today.
***SIGN*** July 17 (Fri.)
**[10:36] Mikami**
This may seem abrupt,
**[10:38] Mikami**
but we will be conducting a class trip
**[10:40] Mikami**
from August 8-10, for three
days and two nights.
**[10:44] Mikami**
Please prioritize this event,
**[10:47] Mikami**
and plan to participate,
if at all possible.
**[10:51] Mikami**
You will receive additional
details in the coming days.
**[10:53] Mikami**
I will mail the forms to all of you.
**[10:56] Teshigawara**
Question!
**[11:01] Izumi**
Ms. Mikami?
**[11:15] Mei**
Who is dead?
**[11:19] Mei**
Who is dead?
**[11:29] Mei**
Who is dead?
**[11:42] Mei**
The dead one...
**[11:44] Mei**
...is you.
**[11:46] Kouichi**
M-Me?
***SIGN*** Dad
**[12:18] Kouichi**
Hello?
**[12:19] Yousuke**
I swear, India just gets hotter and hotter!
**[12:21] Yousuke**
How've you been, kiddo?
**[12:23] Kouichi**
Fine, I guess.
**[12:25] Kouichi**
Yeah.
**[12:27] Kouichi**
Yeah, everyone's doing well.
**[12:33] Kouichi**
Hey, Dad?
**[12:35] Kouichi**
Have you ever seen any of Mom's
photos from junior high?
**[12:39] Yousuke**
Photos?
**[12:40] Yousuke**
I'm pretty sure she showed me
**[12:42] Yousuke**
her graduation album when we got engaged.
**[12:45] Kouichi**
Any others?
**[12:46] Kouichi**
Like, have you seen the group photo
**[12:49] Kouichi**
her class took after their
graduation ceremony?
**[12:52] Yousuke**
Group photo? Why do you ask?
**[12:54] Kouichi**
Well, I've heard that it
was kind of weird.
***SIGN*** Do Not Enter
**[12:58] Kouichi**
Like, a ghost photo.
**[13:01] Yousuke**
Where did you hear a
silly story like that?
**[13:04] Yousuke**
For one thing, ghost photos are just—
**[13:06] Kouichi**
Well, it's just...
**[13:07] Yousuke**
Oh, actually, now that you mention it,
**[13:10] Yousuke**
I might've heard a story
like that, a long time ago.
**[13:13] Yousuke**
Something about a creepy photo.
**[13:17] Kouichi**
Did you see it?
**[13:18] Yousuke**
Nope.
**[13:19] Yousuke**
She didn't like having it near her,
**[13:21] Yousuke**
so she left it at her parents' place.
**[13:23] Kouichi**
Her parents' place?
**[13:25] Yousuke**
Hey, Kouichi, something goin' on there?
**[13:29] Kouichi**
No, nothing.
**[13:30] Kouichi**
I'm just kinda bored.
**[13:32] Yousuke**
Ah.
**[13:34] Yousuke**
You know, Ritsuko was
a very special lady.
**[13:38] Yousuke**
My feelings for her haven't changed a bit.
**[13:42] Yousuke**
And that's why you're my—
**[13:44] Kouichi**
Okay, I get it!
**[13:45] Kouichi**
Later!
**[13:53] Kouichi**
Inoya?
**[13:55] Kouichi**
Yeah, I know where that is, but...
**[13:58] Kouichi**
Today?
**[14:01] Teshigawara**
Come on, dude!
**[14:02] Teshigawara**
Don't tell me.
**[14:04] Teshigawara**
You got a date with Mei?
**[14:06] Kouichi**
Well? What is it you want to talk about?
**[14:08] Teshigawara**
It's gotta be in person.
**[14:10] Teshigawara**
If you've got a date,
just bring Mei along.
**[14:12] Teshigawara**
This problem involves
the whole class, after all.
**[14:17] Kouichi**
All right, I'll be there.
**[14:21] Izumi**
Kouichi!
**[14:23] Izumi**
Over here.
**[14:24] Kouichi**
Akazawa?
**[14:26] Izumi**
Teshigawara called you here, right?
**[14:28] Kouichi**
Um...
**[14:30] Izumi**
Have a seat.
**[14:32] Kouichi**
He called you, too?
**[14:33] Izumi**
Yes.
**[14:35] Izumi**
Only because he said it
"involves the whole class."
**[14:37] Izumi**
I wouldn't go anywhere at
his invitation otherwise.
**[14:44] Izumi**
Teshigawara filled me in on
what happened 15 years ago.
**[14:48] Izumi**
And about your mom, too.
**[14:52] Kouichi**
Oh...
**[14:54] Tomoka**
Welcome.
**[14:58] Tomoka**
A friend of yours, Izumi?
**[15:00] Izumi**
Yes.
**[15:01] Izumi**
This is my classmate,
Kouichi Sakakibara.
**[15:04] Tomoka**
Oh, that must make you
Yuuya's friend, too.
**[15:07] Tomoka**
Thanks for being so kind to my brother.
**[15:09] Tomoka**
I'm Yuuya Mochizuki's
older sister, Tomoka.
**[15:12] Tomoka**
Nice to meet you.
**[15:13] Kouichi**
Oh, yes, likewise.
**[15:15] Tomoka**
Yuuya has told me a lot about you.
**[15:18] Kouichi**
What can I get for you?
**[15:19] Kouichi**
Oh, let me see...
**[15:21] Izumi**
He'll have the same as me.
**[15:24] Tomoka**
Oh...
**[15:26] Tomoka**
Coming right up.
**[15:30] Kouichi**
What did you get?
**[15:32] Izumi**
Coffee.
**[15:33] Kouichi**
I don't like coffee. It's too bitter.
**[15:37] Izumi**
Well, the coffee here is the real deal.
**[15:39] Izumi**
They use Hawaiian Kona Extra Fancy beans.
**[15:42] Tomoka**
Thank you for waiting.
**[15:44] Tomoka**
Please enjoy.
**[15:47] Izumi**
Just take my word for it.
**[15:49] Izumi**
Give it a try.
**[15:57] Kouichi**
It's bitter, but also sweet.
**[16:00] Kouichi**
I like it.
**[16:05] Izumi**
So, you didn't go back to Tokyo?
**[16:08] Kouichi**
No. It'd feel like I was
running away, and...
**[16:15] Kouichi**
I've started to wonder
if it's me who's dead.
**[16:18] Izumi**
Maybe you were never born.
**[16:24] Izumi**
Maybe 15 years ago,
**[16:25] Izumi**
the calamity took your mother's life,
**[16:29] Izumi**
and she couldn't give birth to you.
**[16:32] Izumi**
And now, 15 years later,
**[16:34] Izumi**
you've come back to life as a
transfer student in class 3.
**[16:39] Kouichi**
That's...
**[16:40] Kouichi**
That's ridiculous.
**[16:47] Izumi**
Don't take me so seriously.
**[16:49] Izumi**
True, I did consider the possibility,
**[16:52] Izumi**
but...
**[16:55] Izumi**
Shake my hand.
**[17:02] Izumi**
I still get the feeling
that we've met...
**[17:05] Izumi**
No, that I've shaken your
hand somewhere before.
**[17:09] Kouichi**
You think so?
**[17:11] Izumi**
I can't call up a visual memory,
**[17:14] Izumi**
but my hand physically remembers yours.
**[17:20] Kouichi**
Now that you mention it,
**[17:21] Kouichi**
you shook my hand at the hospital, too.
**[17:23] Kouichi**
Did you do that for a reason?
**[17:25] Izumi**
There's a rumor that dead people
have shockingly cold hands.
**[17:30] Izumi**
I doubt it's true, though.
**[17:32] Izumi**
If it were that easy to tell...
**[17:35] Tomoka**
Welcome.
**[17:37] Teshigawara**
Sorry I'm late.
**[17:41] Teshigawara**
Hey, guys!
**[17:46] Teshigawara**
What'd you do that for?
**[17:47] Teshigawara**
Do you hate me that much?
**[17:49] Izumi**
Want the truth?
**[17:51] Teshigawara**
I wouldn't mind...
**[17:53] Teshigawara**
Oh, whatever. I'll let it slide today.
**[17:57] Kouichi**
What did you want to talk about?
**[17:59] Teshigawara**
You tell them, Mochizuki.
**[18:02] Mochizuki**
Okay.
**[18:04] Mochizuki**
Since there's a chance
**[18:06] Mochizuki**
that my sister could become
involved in what's going on...
**[18:09] Mochizuki**
Oh, my sister is...
**[18:11] Kouichi**
Tomoka, right?
**[18:13] Mochizuki**
Yeah.
**[18:14] Mochizuki**
Anyway, I just couldn't
keep quiet about it...
**[18:18] Izumi**
You told her?
**[18:20] Mochizuki**
Down to the details.
**[18:22] Mochizuki**
She went to Yomi North, too,
**[18:25] Mochizuki**
so she knew the rumors about class 3.
**[18:27] Teshigawara**
And Tomoka actually gave us a
surprising bit of info.
**[18:37] Tomoka**
One of our regulars is a man
named Katsumi Matsunaga.
**[18:41] Tomoka**
I knew he went to Yomi North,
**[18:44] Tomoka**
but I recently found out
that he was in class 3.
**[18:48] Tomoka**
I worked up the courage to ask him
**[18:51] Tomoka**
if *it* had happened in his year.
**[18:54] Tomoka**
And he said...
**[18:56] Matsunaga**
The curse that year wasn't...
**[18:59] Matsunaga**
It wasn't my fault.
**[19:01] Matsunaga**
I saved them all.
**[19:03] Matsunaga**
I saved them!
**[19:05] Matsunaga**
I knew I had to tell them!
So that's why...
**[19:10] Matsunaga**
I left it there.
**[19:12] Kouichi**
What does that mean? Left what, where?
**[19:14] Tomoka**
He couldn't seem to recall.
**[19:17] Tomoka**
I've asked him about it many times,
**[19:19] Tomoka**
but he insists he has no idea.
**[19:21] Teshigawara**
Makes you curious, doesn't it?
**[19:23] Izumi**
This Matsunaga guy
stopped the calamity?
**[19:26] Izumi**
And he left a hint on how
he did it somewhere?
**[19:29] Teshigawara**
That's gotta be it.
**[19:31] Teshigawara**
So, I'm thinking we should talk
to this Matsunaga guy ourselves.
**[19:37] Kouichi**
Do you know where we can find him?
**[19:40] Tomoka**
No, I don't know where he lives.
**[19:43] Kouichi**
Then...
**[19:45] Izumi**
Don't you know someone who
was in Matsunaga's class?
**[19:55] Mei**
Oh, so he was your aunt's classmate.
**[19:59] Kouichi**
If I find out where Matsunaga is,
**[20:03] Kouichi**
will you come with me to see him?
**[20:11] Kouichi**
You really were the model
for that doll, weren't you?
**[20:15] Kouichi**
You said only half,
but it looks just like you.
**[20:18] Mei**
This girl is the daughter she
gave birth to 12 years ago.
**[20:23] Kouichi**
Your sister?
**[20:25] Mei**
But she was stillborn.
**[20:31] Mei**
She made this doll based on
**[20:33] Mei**
the daughter who never
had a chance to live.
**[20:37] Mei**
So it's only half me, if not less.
**[20:43] Mei**
Actually, I have somewhere
to be tomorrow.
**[20:48] Kouichi**
Oh? Where?
**[20:49] Mei**
My parents want me
**[20:51] Mei**
to go with them to their summer house.
**[20:54] Mei**
I couldn't tell them I don't want to.
**[20:57] Kouichi**
Is it outside Yomiyama?
**[20:59] Mei**
Yes.
**[21:00] Kouichi**
So you're leaving town?
**[21:03] Mei**
We'll only be gone a week.
**[21:06] Mei**
I'll be back for the class trip.
**[21:09] Kouichi**
Oh...
**[21:17] Mei**
Hey, have you found that ghost picture
**[21:19] Mei**
your mother left
at her parents' house?
**[21:22] Kouichi**
No, not yet.
**[21:24] Mei**
If you find it, will you show me?
**[21:27] Kouichi**
Sure.
**[21:33] Mei**
If anything comes up, use this number.
**[21:38] Kouichi**
Is this a phone number?
**[21:41] Kouichi**
For a cell phone?
**[21:42] Mei**
Yes.
**[21:43] Kouichi**
Yours?
**[21:44] Mei**
Yes.
**[21:45] Kouichi**
You said you hated those devices.
**[21:47] Mei**
I do.
**[21:49] Mei**
Being connected to people all the time
by electromagnetic waves disturbs me.
**[21:54] Kouichi**
Then why do you have one?
**[21:55] Mei**
She makes me carry it.
**[21:57] Mei**
She claims to feel uneasy at times.
**[22:02] Kouichi**
I see.
**[22:05] Mei**
By the way...
**[22:07] Kouichi**
Yes?
**[22:08] Mei**
You said you wondered if
it's you who's dead.
**[22:12] Kouichi**
Yeah.
**[22:13] Mei**
Has your suspicion been laid to rest?
**[22:15] Kouichi**
Yeah.
**[22:30] Kouichi**
Huh?
**[22:31] Mei**
New dolls are put in here.
**[22:48] Mei**
Don't worry.
**[22:50] Mei**
It's not you.
**[22:53] Mei**
You're not the one who's dead.
**[24:38] Kouichi**
Hair stand.