Season 2 - 2nd STAGE

E1 - The best games make reconnaissance fun

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[00:05] Game
    Attack Families!
SIGN    Super Attack Families
[00:16] Game
    Found! Okay?
[00:18] Tomozaki
    It was through this game, Attack Families*,
SIGN    Winrate: 2221 Now matching...
[00:20] Tomozaki
    that I, Fumiya Tomozaki, got to know
[00:22] Game
    Found!
SIGN    Winrate: 2169
[00:24] Tomozaki
    Aoi Hinami, the heroine of our school,
[00:28] Tomozaki
    and, with her secret coaching,
[00:30] Tomozaki
    began to walk away from my*
    low-tier-character self.
[00:35] Tomozaki
    She got me growing and developing
[00:37] Tomozaki
    by seeing life as a game,
    and myself as the character I main.
[00:41] Tomozaki
    Hinami's strict with her instruction,
    and we don't always see eye to eye,
[00:46] Tomozaki
    but little by little, I've come to see
    how fun this game of life can be.
[00:56] Tomozaki
    Our eventful summer vacation
    has come to an end...
[00:59] Game
    Game set!
[01:01] Game
    Winner: Found!
[01:01] Aoi
    One more match!
SIGN    NO NAME: One more match!!
[01:05] Tomozaki
    Bring it on!
[01:07] Tomozaki
    ...and tomorrow's the first
    day of the second term.
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 1 The best games make reconnaissance fun
[01:19] Tomozaki
    There.
[01:25] Little Sister
    You've gotten better.
    Still have a long way to go, though.
[01:29] Tomozaki
    Th-thanks...
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
[01:36] Aoi
    Okay, since it's the first
    day of the second term...
[01:42] Aoi
    let's confirm a few things
    before we move forward.
[01:46] Tomozaki
    Sure thing. Hit me!
[01:48] Aoi
    Your ultimate goal is
    "To be as satisfied with offline life as I am."
SIGN    Ultimate Goal To be as satisfied with offline life as I am
[01:53] Aoi
    Your medium goal on the way there
SIGN    Medium Goal: Have a girlfriend before year 3
[01:56] Aoi
    is "Have a girlfriend
    before starting year 3."
[01:59] Aoi
    Got that?
[02:00] Tomozaki
    Yep.
[02:01] Tomozaki
    As long as meeting that goal doesn't
    involve any false confessions of love
[02:06] Tomozaki
    or spouting superficial stuff I don't mean,
[02:11] Tomozaki
    I don't have a problem with it.
[02:13] Aoi
    Very well. Then let's start...
[02:17] Aoi
    with this:
[02:19] Aoi
    observing interpersonal
    relationships in the classroom.
SIGN    Today's Task Observe interpersonal relationships in class
[02:23] Aoi
    It'll lay the groundwork for learning
    how to read the mood in a room,
[02:27] Aoi
    and eventually how to control that mood.
[02:29] Aoi
    Just so you know, the key here is--
[02:31] Tomozaki
    It's okay--I know.
[02:34] Tomozaki
    If I find a situation that'll
    give me XP for trying,
[02:38] Tomozaki
    take the initiative and plunge right in.
[02:43] Aoi
    HEXactly!
[02:44] Tomozaki
    And there it is.
[02:49] Mizusawa
    Hey, Fumiya.
[02:50] Tomozaki
    Oh, hey. Morning, Mizusawa.
[02:54] Mizusawa
    Hey, did you hear?
[02:56] Tomozaki
    Hear what?
[02:58] Mizusawa
    Well...
[03:02] Tomozaki
    What?! Nakamura and Izumi?
[03:05] Mizusawa
    Shh! They're not making it public yet.
[03:09] Mizusawa
    You know how Erika is into Shuji, right?
[03:12] Mizusawa
    If this gets out, it'll mess up Izumi's
    standing among the Konno girls.
[03:18] Tomozaki
    R-right...
[03:22] Mizusawa
    Hey.
[03:23] Takei
    Yo, Takahiro! And Army Boy!
[03:25] Nakamura
    Hey.
[03:26] Nakamura
    Yo.
[03:27] Tomozaki
    Mo... morning.
[03:29] Mimimi
    Brain!
[03:31] Mimimi
    Long time no see! Ooh, ooh--check this out!
[03:35] Mimimi
    See? It's the dolls I gave everyone!
[03:38] Mimimi
    AKA proof of our friendship!
[03:40] Hanabi
    We all put 'em on our bags!
[03:42] Aoi
    Great minds think alike!
[03:44] Mimimi
    You gotta put yours on
    your bag, too, Brain.
[03:47] Mimimi
    Then we'll all match!
[03:49] Tomozaki
    No, I-I think I'll pass, thanks.
[03:51] Mimimi
    Ack! I've been shot down...
[03:54] Mimimi
    Oh, Tama! I'm just shocked!
[03:57] Hanabi
    Watch it, Minmi! Quit being so handsy!
[04:00] Mimimi
    Oh, pitiful old me! I need consoling!
[04:03] Mimimi
    Sniffity sniff.
[04:03] Hanabi
    And no sniffing people!
[04:05] Mimimi
    You're adorable!
[04:09] Tomozaki
    Good morning, Kikuchi.
[04:11] Fuka
    Good morning, Tomozaki.
[04:17] Yuzu
    Hiya, Tomozaki.
[04:19] Tomozaki
    Oh, hey, Izumi. It's been a while.
[04:22] Yuzu
    Yes, it has!
[04:23] Tomozaki
    I hear things are going great.
[04:25] Tomozaki
    With Nakamura.
[04:26] Yuzu
    Huh? Oh... y'know...
[04:34] Ms. Kawamura
    Now, today we're going to pick class
    captains for the sports tournament,
SIGN    Sports Tournament / Captains / Boys: / Girls:
[04:39] Ms. Kawamura
    one boy and one girl.
SIGN    Events / Boys: Basketball / Soccer / Baseball
SIGN    Girls: Basketball / Volleyball / Softball
[04:41] Ms. Kawamura
    Then the boys and girls
    will each pick one event.
[04:45] Ms. Kawamura
    The captains' first job is to decide
    which event to compete in.
[04:50] Ms. Kawamura
    Any interested candidates?
[04:53] Takei
    I'll do it!
[04:55] Hashiguchi
    Seriously? You want Takei in charge?
[04:58] Matsumoto
    He can't strategize his
    way out of a paper bag!
[05:00] Takei
    No sweat! We've got soccer, don't we?
[05:03] Takei
    Well, I'm on the soccer team.
    My leadership is on point!
[05:06] Nakamura
    Takei!
[05:08] Nakamura
    Weren't you the soccer captain last year--
    right before a sudden losing streak?
[05:12] Takei
    Geez, Shuji, you remember that?!
[05:19] Ms. Kawamura
    Okay, that's Takei for the boys.
SIGN    Sports Tournament / Captains Boys: Takei / Girls:
[05:23] Ms. Kawamura
    What about the girls?
[05:24] Ms. Kawamura
    Anyone?
[05:26] Takei
    You're not gonna do it, Aoi?
[05:30] Aoi
    I've got my student council
    president gig--I probably can't.
[05:34] Takei
    Aw, seriously?
[05:36] Mizusawa
    Don't take it personally.
[05:37] Mizusawa
    No one wants to work with you.
[05:40] Takei
    What?! Is that what's going on?
[05:45] Erika
    What's wrong with Yuzu?
[05:47] Yuzu
    Huh? M-me?
[05:49] Erika
    You were our first-year
    captain, weren't you?
[05:52] Yuzu
    Oh... um, but...
[05:59] Yuzu
    This year? I-I don't know...
[06:05] Erika
    Huh.
[06:06] Erika
    Well, whatever.
[06:12] Erika
    Okay, then:
[06:14] Erika
    What about Hirabayashi?
[06:16] Hirabayashi
    Huh?
[06:17] Erika
    She's good at, like, preparation and stuff.
[06:19] Akiyama
    Yeah, she is pretty preparation-y.
[06:22] Kozaki
    What's that even mean?
[06:24] Erika
    It'd be a big help if you'd be the
    girls' captain, Hirabayashi.
[06:33] Tomozaki
    Right now I lack the power to do
    anything about this situation.
[06:38] Tomozaki
    Say the wrong thing and I risk putting
    Hirabayashi in an even tighter spot.
[06:44] Erika
    So what's it gonna be, Hirabayashi?
[06:49] Hirabayashi
    W-well, um...
[06:52] Hirabayashi
    I'll... I'll do it.
[06:54] Ms. Kawamura
    You don't need to let anyone twist
    your arm on this, Hirabayashi.
[07:00] Hirabayashi
    No, um... it's fine.
[07:04] Ms. Kawamura
    Okay.
[07:05] Tomozaki
    Groups are tough, all right.
[07:05] Ms. Kawamura
    Then Hirabayashi will be the girls' captain.
[07:09] Tomozaki
    Izumi was kind of blah all day after that.
[07:12] Tomozaki
    She probably feels responsible for
    Hirabayashi being put on the spot
SIGN    Boys: Takei / Girls: Hirabayashi
[07:18] Tomozaki
    after she turned down the captain gig.
[07:30] Tomozaki
    Plenty happened this first
    day of the second term.
[07:34] Tomozaki
    A secret meeting with the school
    heroine in the morning.
[07:37] Tomozaki
    A normal conversation with
    girls in the classroom.
[07:41] Tomozaki
    Hanging out among normie guys after school,
[07:45] Tomozaki
    teasing and being teased.
[07:49] Tomozaki
    I've gone through unimaginable
    changes these past few months.
[07:54] Tomozaki
    But I didn't use a continue,
    and I didn't cheat my way here.
[07:59] Tomozaki
    I've just been walking a little
    further forward--every day.
[08:05] Tomozaki
    Still,
[08:06] Tomozaki
    if that's true, when did she--
[08:09] Tomozaki
    when did Aoi Hinami start on her path,
    and how far has she come?

[08:16] Tomozaki
    She got this far with dogged effort
    after effort, just like me.
[08:22] Tomozaki
    But there's one big difference
    between Hinami and me:
[08:28] Tomozaki
    Whereas I'm having fun and experiencing
    the sparkle along the way,
[08:34] Tomozaki
    she's set her eyes on
    some far distant point
[08:39] Tomozaki
    and is absorbed in moving forward,
    like that itself is her only goal.
[08:44] Tomozaki
    What let her keep going for this long?
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
SIGN    Mood = Norm for good/bad among a group
[08:52] Aoi
    "Mood" refers to the norm for
    good or bad among a group.
[08:56] Aoi
    Erika Konno used the "plain
    equals bad" mood...
[09:02] Tomozaki
    ...to label Hirabayashi as lower-ranked
SIGN    Boys: Takei / Girls: Hirabayashi
[09:06] Tomozaki
    and push a hassle of a job onto her.
[09:09] Aoi
    That's right. Manipulating
    this kind of group mood...
[09:14] Aoi
    ...is a must-have skill for being
SIGN    Ultimate Goal To be as satisfied with offline life as I am
[09:16] Aoi
    satisfied with offline life.
[09:17] Aoi
    So your next small goal
SIGN    Small Goal: Get Erika Konno motivated for the sports tournament
[09:20] Aoi
    is to get Erika Konno motivated
[09:22] Aoi
    for the sports tournament.
[09:24] Tomozaki
    What?!
[09:25] Tomozaki
    Now hang on a second!
    There's no way that's even possible!
[09:29] Aoi
    Which is why it's going to
    take some trial and error.
[09:32] Aoi
    It'll be a good way to practice the
    interpersonal skills you've learned.
[09:38] Aoi
    It might actually be the game-iest
    assignment you've had so far.
[09:42] Tomozaki
    "Game-iest"?
[09:44] Tomozaki
    Oh!
[09:45] Tomozaki
    I get it:
SIGN    Assignment Quest Konno Erika / ~ In Search of Motivation Lost ~
[09:47] Tomozaki
    This task--
[09:49] Tomozaki
    this is an RPG, isn't it?
[09:52] Aoi
    That's our nanashi!
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[09:58] Tomozaki
    The first order of business in an RPG
SIGN    Assignment Quest Konno Erika / ~ In Search of Motivation Lost ~
[10:01] Tomozaki
    is doing some reconnaissance in town.
[10:04] Tomozaki
    In other words,
    if Erika Konno is the dungeon boss,
SIGN    Erika Konno / Fumiya Tomozaki
SIGN    Erika Konno appeared!!!
SIGN    But Fumiya Tomozaki
[10:09] Tomozaki
    I should ask around to learn her
    weak points and how to defeat her.
SIGN    is still no match for her!!!
SIGN    Fumiya Tomozaki: Got a sec, Izumi?
SIGN    Yuzu Izumi: Huh? What is it?
[10:14] Tomozaki
    Ooh! This is really starting
    to feel like a game now!
[10:19] Yuzu
    Mmm, Erika really is
    completely unmotivated.
[10:23] Tomozaki
    She sure is.
[10:24] Yuzu
    Hirabayashi doesn't have it easy, either.
[10:27] Yuzu
    I'm not sure she's the captain type...
[10:29] Tomozaki
    What do you think it would
    take to motivate Konno?
[10:32] Yuzu
    That's a tough one.
[10:35] Yuzu
    Wait, why do you ask?
[10:37] Tomozaki
    Oh, it's just--
[10:39] Tomozaki
    I just thought I'd help Hirabayashi
    in whatever little way I can.
[10:43] Tomozaki
    I mean, I'd like to enjoy the tournament...
[10:47] Yuzu
    I totally get it!
[10:48] Yuzu
    I'm the type that wants to enjoy the
    heck out of the sports tournament
[10:51] Yuzu
    and the culture festival and everything!
[10:54] Yuzu
    So I was wondering if there
    was anything we could do
[10:56] Yuzu
    about Erika's lack of excitement.
[10:58] Yuzu
    I get along especially well with Erika,
[11:01] Yuzu
    but Shuji... well, he's not big
    on talking this stuff out.
[11:06] Tomozaki
    Oh... is that so...
[11:11] Yuzu
    How to get Erika motivated... hmm...
[11:14] Yuzu
    She's a real stickler about
    clothes and fashion--
[11:17] Yuzu
    she'd probably step it up if I promised
    her pricey cosmetics when we win.
[11:20] Tomozaki
    Yeah, I-I don't know...
[11:23] Yuzu
    Oh! Softball might do the trick, actually!
[11:26] Yuzu
    She was on the boys' baseball
    team in elementary school.
[11:31] Tomozaki
    Konno, playing boys' baseball?
[11:33] Tomozaki
    You don't say...
[11:48] Gumi
    Ah, Tomozaki. Nice work today.
[11:52] Tomozaki
    You on break, too, Narita?
[11:55] Gumi
    You can call me "Gumi."
[11:57] Gumi
    Oof.
[11:59] Tomozaki
    This is Tsugumi Narita.
[12:00] Tomozaki
    She's a year younger than me,
    but my senior here at work.
[12:04] Gumi
    Actually, my shift just ended,
[12:07] Gumi
    but I'm kinda exhausted, so I thought
    I'd rest a while before I left.
[12:12] Tomozaki
    You sure get exhausted a lot.
[12:15] Gumi
    That's right--and I hate it.
[12:17] Gumi
    Which is why I think I'm gonna try
    to move as little as possible.
[12:22] Tomozaki
    No, you need to do your job.
[12:24] Gumi
    Aw! Don't you want to make money
    in the breeziest way possible?
[12:29] Gumi
    I want a zero-effort, no-walking,
    never-tiring, always-resting life.
[12:34] Gumi
    That is my policy.
[12:38] Gumi
    Straight from the planet Apathy,
    it's Gumi! Thanks in advance.
[12:44] Tomozaki
    Wait, so in that case...
[12:46] Tomozaki
    Do you drag your feet when it come
    to sports tournaments, too?
[12:49] Gumi
    You betcha.
[12:51] Tomozaki
    Aha...
[12:54] Tomozaki
    In some ways, her attributes
    are similar to Erika Konno's.
[12:59] Tomozaki
    Hey, can I get some advice?
[13:03] Gumi
    Oh, wow, what a pain.
[13:06] Gumi
    Erika definitely has it out
    for that Hirabayashi girl.
[13:10] Tomozaki
    I kind of thought as much.
[13:12] Gumi
    I mean, as soon as Hirabayashi
    takes on the captain role,
[13:16] Gumi
    I doubt Erika is gonna wanna
    do much of anything.
[13:19] Gumi
    Unless something crazy happens.
[13:21] Tomozaki
    Something crazy? Like what?
[13:23] Gumi
    With me, it all comes down
    to bang for your buck.
[13:27] Gumi
    Low effort, high reward.
[13:29] Tomozaki
    Oh, I get it.
[13:31] Tomozaki
    So if Erika Konno feels the same way...
[13:33] Gumi
    Right, yeah.
[13:35] Gumi
    She'll be plenty motivated if she can get
    what she wants in a cost-effective way.
[13:39] Gumi
    That's just how we roll
    on the planet Apathy.
[13:43] Tomozaki
    Low effort, high reward...
[13:51] Tomozaki
    The next person I thought I'd speak with
SIGN    Read: I'd like your advice. Can you meet today? Fuka Kikuchi: Sure. Where should we meet? Read: How about The Baron? Fuka Kikuchi: Got it
[13:54] Tomozaki
    was Kikuchi.
[13:56] Tomozaki
    She may not stand out in class,
SIGN    The Baron / Open 24 Hours
[13:59] Tomozaki
    but she's writing her very own novel,
[14:01] Tomozaki
    and I think she's a great observer of people.
SIGN    Fuka Kikuchi: Sorry to keep you waiting, Tomozaki
[14:05] Tomozaki
    I-I'm sorry for contacting
    you out of the blue.
[14:08] Fuka
    No, it's fine. You caught me as
    I was getting off work, too.
[14:12] Fuka
    I'm just happy for the invitation.
[14:21] Fuka
    Konno?
[14:23] Tomozaki
    Uh-huh.
[14:23] Tomozaki
    What kind of person is she,
    from your point of view?
[14:27] Fuka
    What kind of person...? That's a tough one.
[14:30] Tomozaki
    I mean, like...
[14:32] Tomozaki
    We're having all these discussions
    about the sports tournament,
[14:35] Tomozaki
    and Konno is totally unmotivated, right?
[14:38] Tomozaki
    Under what circumstances do you
    think she gives it her all?
[14:42] Fuka
    What would motivate Konno...
[14:47] Fuka
    This may not be a very nice
    way of putting it, but...
[14:53] Fuka
    I think she really doesn't want people to
    look down on her. That motivates her.
[14:58] Tomozaki
    People looking down on her, huh...?
[15:01] Fuka
    R-right.
[15:05] Tomozaki
    But why be like this for
    the sports tournament?
[15:09] Fuka
    Well... if she acts like the
    tournament is already stupid,
[15:15] Fuka
    then win or lose, no one
    will look down on her.
[15:18] Fuka
    That's what I think, anyway.
[15:20] Tomozaki
    I can see that...
[15:25] Fuka
    Oh, but...
[15:26] Fuka
    Konno does have her friendly
    side, and she's so honest--
[15:32] Fuka
    I don't think she's bad, per se...
[15:34] Tomozaki
    Uh-huh.
[15:37] Tomozaki
    Now for all the intel I've
    managed to collect:
[15:40] Tomozaki
    In order to light a fire
    under Erika Konno, first...
[15:45] Tomozaki
    we make sure the girls' event is softball.
[15:47] Tomozaki
    Next...
[15:49] Tomozaki
    we find a low-effort, high-return way
[15:53] Tomozaki
    to stimulate her desire not
    to be looked down upon.
[15:57] Tomozaki
    And what I need now
[16:00] Tomozaki
    is to find that key item that'll
    hit her right where it counts.
[16:04] Takei
    Okay:
SIGN    Boys 1. Basketball / 2. Soccer / 3. Baseball Chosen Sports Tournament Events
[16:06] Takei
    The boys' first choice is basketball!
[16:09] Takei
    I would have preferred soccer,
    but whaddya gonna do?
[16:12] Nakamura
    Takei!
[16:14] Nakamura
    Can you even be a basketball captain?
SIGN    Boys 1. Basketball / 2. Soccer / 3. Baseball
[16:16] Takei
    No sweat! I've been reading the manga!
[16:19] Nakamura
    "No sweat"--yeah, right!
[16:23] Ms. Kawamura
    All right--now for the girls.
SIGN    Chosen Sports Tournament Events Girls / Basketball / Volleyball / Softball
[16:26] Hirabayashi
    Uh, um...
[16:28] Hirabayashi
    Then, uh, l-let's see what the girls want.
[16:34] Mimimi
    Ooh! Ooh! It's basketball for me!
[16:37] Mimimi
    With me and Aoi on the team, we can't lose!
[16:40] Mimimi
    Right?
[16:42] Hirabayashi
    Basketball... okay.
[16:44] Hirabayashi
    Anyone else have any preferences?
[16:46] Tomozaki
    This is bad. They'll never
    get to softball like this.
[16:52] Hanabi
    I do!
[16:54] Hanabi
    I want to play volleyball.
[16:57] Hirabayashi
    One for volleyball.
[16:59] Hirabayashi
    Which should be our first choice?
[17:02] Yuzu
    Oh, I think I'd prefer
    softball... or something.
[17:07] Hirabayashi
    Softball.
[17:09] Hirabayashi
    Do you all have reasons for your choices?
[17:12] Hanabi
    I do! Because that's what I wanna play.
[17:19] Mimimi
    Tama!
[17:21] Mimimi
    That's too simple to be a reason!
[17:26] Hirabayashi
    Th-then we'll move on to--
[17:28] Erika
    But, like...
[17:30] Erika
    Why don't we just vote?
[17:33] Hirabayashi
    Oh, yeah... right.
[17:39] Ms. Kawamura
    Let's not go there, Konno.
[17:41] Ms. Kawamura
    I get it--I'm usually the first
    to want to put things to a vote.
[17:46] Ms. Kawamura
    But I'd like to see if you can
    talk things out instead.
[17:50] Ms. Kawamura
    I'll take over from here.
[17:53] Ms. Kawamura
    Each of you has to convince the class
    with the reasons behind your choices.
SIGN    Sekitomo
[17:59] Ms. Kawamura
    Okay, after all that discussion,
    the girls have decided
SIGN    Basketball: 2 / Volleyball: 3 / Softball: 1
SIGN    Softball: 1
[18:03] Ms. Kawamura
    their first choice is softball.
[18:05] Ms. Kawamura
    The results will be posted over
    lunch, so keep your eyes peeled.
SIGN    Sports Tournament: Class Events
SIGN    Boys: Basketball / Girls: Softball
[18:19] Aoi
    How to get Erika motivated, huh?
[18:23] Aoi
    I think it'll be pretty tough
    the way things are now.
[18:26] Yuzu
    How are things now, exactly?
[18:30] Aoi
    I mean, as long as Hirabayashi's
    the captain...
[18:34] Yuzu
    Oh, right. I figured as much...
[18:41] Yuzu
    I've made up my mind.
[18:44] Yuzu
    I'll take over the captain
    position from Hirabayashi!
[18:48] Yuzu
    She looks like she's having a rough time.
[18:51] Tomozaki
    Are you sure about this, though?
[18:54] Yuzu
    I was struggling with whether
    I should help her.
[18:59] Yuzu
    If I'd taken the captain job,
    it'd basically be like Erika told me to.
[19:04] Yuzu
    I'd be going along just to get along,
    and I don't like that side of me.
[19:08] Yuzu
    But that doesn't matter! I'm helping
    Hirabayashi because I want to.
[19:14] Yuzu
    That's good enough, right?
    I want to do it, after all!
[19:18] Yuzu
    And I think it might motivate
    Erika a little bit, too.
[19:23] Aoi
    But, Yuzu...
[19:25] Aoi
    Are you really okay with this?
[19:27] Yuzu
    Yeah! And I'll work hard, too!
[19:29] Tomozaki
    Huh...
[19:31] Tomozaki
    She's neither bowing to the mood
    or being pushed into the job.
[19:36] Tomozaki
    She's calling the shots.
[19:38] Tomozaki
    And that "I'm over it" smile...
    She's a top-tier character, all right.
[19:43] Tomozaki
    A strategy began to come
    together in my head.
[19:47] Tomozaki
    A plan that just might get
    Konno ready and raring to go.
[19:53] Tomozaki
    The first item I'd need...
[19:57] Mimimi
    What'd you want to talk about, Brain?
[20:00] Mimimi
    Don't tell me--is it romance advice?!
[20:03] Tomozaki
    Nothing like that!
[20:04] Tomozaki
    It's actually about Konno.
[20:07] Mimimi
    Erika?
[20:09] Tomozaki
    Would you say Konno sees
    Hinami as her rival?
[20:15] Mimimi
    I think so, yeah.
    But where'd this come from?
[20:18] Tomozaki
    Oh, I have this idea, that's all.
[20:30] Tomozaki
    The next must-have item...
[20:33] Tomozaki
    Uh, hey...
[20:34] Mizusawa
    Hmm? What's up?
[20:36] Tomozaki
    You said Konno likes Nakamura.
[20:39] Tomozaki
    And that's a sure thing, right?
[20:41] Mizusawa
    Yeah. They're keeping it
    on the down-low, though.
[20:45] Mizusawa
    Why do you ask?
[20:50] Tomozaki
    My strategy had come together.
SIGN    Assignment Quest Konno Erika / ~ In Search of Motivation Lost ~
[20:55] Tomozaki
    Hey...
[20:56] Tomozaki
    I'd like to confirm something
    about my assignment.
SIGN    Small Goal: Get Erika Konno motivated for the sports tournament
[20:59] Aoi
    Confirm something?
[21:00] Tomozaki
    I don't have to do this
    all by myself, right?
[21:04] Tomozaki
    You won't mind if I get
    other people to help out?
[21:07] Aoi
    Good question. Given that you're
    up against Erika Konno,
[21:10] Aoi
    your skill alone may not be
    enough to get the job done.
[21:14] Tomozaki
    In that case...
[21:17] Tomozaki
    could I even get your help, too?
[21:21] Aoi
    My help...?
[21:23] Tomozaki
    I'm not going to ask you what I should do.
[21:27] Tomozaki
    But can I include you in my strategy,
[21:30] Tomozaki
    tell you what I need you to
    do, and have you do it?
[21:34] Tomozaki
    In other words, I'm still the
    one with the controller--
[21:38] Tomozaki
    but I'd be using you as
    my selected character.
[21:41] Aoi
    Ah, I see. That would be fine.
[21:45] Tomozaki
    Yes!
[21:46] Aoi
    However...
[21:47] Aoi
    I won't interfere, not even if I think
    your strategy's bound to fail.
[21:52] Aoi
    What's more...
[21:54] Aoi
    If there's any chance I'll
    take damage, forget it.
[21:58] Tomozaki
    That's fine by me.
[22:01] Tomozaki
    All right! Now, about my strategy...
[22:04] Tomozaki
    Here it is.
[22:05] Aoi
    What's that?
[22:08] Tomozaki
    A three-pronged approach!

E2 - A happy ending doesn't mean this game is over

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[01:31] Tomozaki
    So how does that sound?
[01:33] Aoi
    I suppose I could help out
    that much, anyway.
[01:36] Tomozaki
    Excellent! Please do!
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 2 A happy ending doesn't mean this game is over
[01:41] Yuzu
    Do you really think that'll be
[01:43] Yuzu
    enough to motivate Erika, though?
[01:45] Tomozaki
    Oh, don't worry.
[01:47] Tomozaki
    I've got other tricks up my sleeve.
[01:51] Mizusawa
    Aha...
[01:53] Mizusawa
    So that's what you had in mind?
[01:55] Mizusawa
    I thought something was afoot.
[01:57] Mizusawa
    Y'know, sometimes I'm surprised by
[02:00] Mizusawa
    how nasty you can be, Fumiya.
[02:02] Tomozaki
    Oh, shut up...
[02:03] Mizusawa
    But fine, I get it.
[02:05] Mizusawa
    I just need to let Erika
    know all casual-like, right?
[02:07] Tomozaki
    Right. Thanks.
[02:13] Tomozaki
    That's everything that needed to be done.
[02:17] Tomozaki
    All that's left is
    for the three arrows I've let fly
[02:20] Tomozaki
    to hit their mark according to plan.
[02:34] Yuzu
    That's our Erika!
[02:35] Takei
    Wow, a home run!
SIGN    Girls' Softball
[02:41] Tomozaki
    My strategy was a success.
[02:43] Tomozaki
    All three arrows scored critical hits.
[02:49] Tomozaki
    The final boss has been defeated.
SIGN    Yuzu Izumi: Conversation: A / Academics: C Sports: B Friendship: A / Effort: B
[02:53] Tomozaki
    The first arrow was Izumi.
SIGN    Classroom / Konno's Motivation Meter / Day/Month
[02:56] Yuzu
    Say, Erika...
[02:57] Yuzu
    Now that I'm captain and all,
    could you help me out?
[03:01] Yuzu
    We may as well make this fun for everyone.
[03:04] Tomozaki
    Konno apparently has
    a real soft spot for her friends,
SIGN    ...
[03:08] Tomozaki
    and here's her pal Izumi
    asking her to pitch in.
SIGN    Aoi Hinami: Conversation: S / Academics: S Sports: S / Friendship: A / Effort: S
[03:12] Tomozaki
    Next, the second arrow: Hinami.
SIGN    Gym / Konno's Motivation Meter / Day/Month
[03:15] Aoi
    Got a second, Mika?
[03:16] Akiyama
    What is it?
[03:18] Aoi
    Erika's going to be in the game, right?
[03:20] Aoi
    Usually everyone participates.
[03:22] Akiyama
    Good question. Beats me.
[03:24] Aoi
    Erika doesn't look like
    the softball type, after all.
[03:28] Aoi
    If she's not up to it, tell her she
    can get by with, like, one pinch-hit.
[03:32] Aoi
    Then you can leave everything else up to me!
SIGN    Gym / Konno's Motivation Meter / Day/Month
SIGN    Erika!
[03:37] Akiyama
    Erika!
SIGN    Blah, blah, yadda yadda
[03:38] Akiyama
    Blah, blah, yadda yadda...
SIGN    Takahiro Mizusawa: Conversation: S Academics: A / Sports: A / Friendship: A / Effort: D
[03:42] Tomozaki
    And the third arrow, Mizusawa.
SIGN    Classroom / Konno's Motivation Meter / Day/Month
[03:45] Mizusawa
    Hey, Erika.
[03:46] Mizusawa
    Shuji says he's looking
    forward to the sports tournament.
[03:50] Mizusawa
    Yeah, he's one of those
    athletic guys, y'know?
[03:52] Mizusawa
    And girls who are good
    at sports? Totally his type.
[03:56] Tomozaki
    I think this one might actually be
    the most effective.
[04:00] Tomozaki
    I mean...
SIGN    Way Home / Konno's Motivation Meter / Day/Month
[04:01] Tomozaki
    Konno doesn't even know
    yet that Nakamura and Izumi are dating.
[04:06] Tomozaki
    Could be a little distracting, though...
SIGN    Girls' Softball
[04:17] Mimimi
    I'm going for a home run!
SIGN    Girls' Softball
[04:31] Tomozaki
    "I want to make my friend Izumi happy."
[04:34] Tomozaki
    "I don't want Aoi Hinami
    to look down on me."
[04:37] Tomozaki
    "I want Nakamura to find me attractive."
[04:40] Tomozaki
    These three wants can
    all be satisfied by simply
[04:43] Tomozaki
    "doing my best in the sports tournament."
[04:45] Tomozaki
    In other words...
[04:49] Tomozaki
    Erika Konno reaped great
    rewards for little effort.
[04:55] Tomozaki
    Meanwhile,
[04:56] Tomozaki
    in the boys' basketball event,
[04:58] Tomozaki
    Nakamura and Mizusawa, along with
[05:00] Tomozaki
    Tachibana of the basketball club,
    moved onward to victory.
[05:05] Tomozaki
    In fact, Hinami had given me a task
    for the basketball game as well.
SIGN    Lay-Up Shots
SIGN    Lay-Up Shots
[05:11] Aoi
    Lay-up practice.
[05:13] Aoi
    Stay in a position
    where you can aim for a basket,
[05:15] Aoi
    and whenever you get
    the ball, make the shot.
[05:18] Aoi
    If you can contribute to a win with that,
[05:21] Aoi
    you'll gain an
    in with the athletic types, too,
[05:23] Aoi
    like Tachibana.
[05:26] Tomozaki
    I see...
[05:28] Tomozaki
    And so I spent the days
    before the tournament practicing my lay-ups.
[05:41] Tomozaki
    Hinami was kind enough to tag along...
[05:46] Tomozaki
    but now I'm watching the game
    from the bench.
[05:49] Tomozaki
    I ended up racking up
    a flurry of fouls first thing.
[05:56] Referee
    You're outta here!
[06:00] Mimimi
    That's Brain for you!
[06:06] Referee
    And that's the game!
SIGN    Victory
[06:11] Mizusawa
    Shake it off, Fumiya.
[06:13] Tomozaki
    Can it, will you?
[06:14] Takei
    Army Boy! Who gets ejected
    in the first thirty seconds?
[06:17] Nakamura
    You really flopped it out there, Fumin.
[06:20] Tachibana
    Man, that was amazing!
[06:22] Tomozaki
    Spare me, Tachibana...
[06:25] Tomozaki
    And in the end,
[06:27] Tomozaki
    both our teams came in first place,
SIGN    Congrats to This Year's Winners! / 2-2 / Boys' Basketball: 1st / Girls' Softball: 1st
[06:31] Tomozaki
    clinching our class's victory this year.
[06:34] Takei
    We're number one!
[06:39] Tomozaki
    Fantastic!
[06:41] Mimimi
    Victory hugs!
[06:42] Tomozaki
    Everyone's really enjoying themselves.
[06:44] Tomozaki
    It's like the entire class
    had come together as one.
[06:48] Tomozaki
    What a wonderful happy ending this was.
[06:54] Tomozaki
    But soon enough I would come to learn
[07:01] Tomozaki
    that this game of life
    isn't quite so simple.
[07:09] Tomozaki
    It started the day
    after the sports tournament.
[07:17] Konno
    Oops.
[07:18] Konno
    Sor-ry.
[07:20] Hirabayashi
    It's fine.
[07:22] Tomozaki
    These little "accidents" kept on happening.
[07:27] Tomozaki
    A paper airplane would "accidentally"
    hit Hirabayashi during a break,
[07:37] Tomozaki
    or Konno would "accidentally"
    bump into her desk.
[07:43] Tomozaki
    Then, some days later,
[07:46] Tomozaki
    I realized, along with most of my classmates,
[07:50] Tomozaki
    that there was clear
    malicious intent behind it.
[07:57] Yuzu
    I caused all this.
[08:00] Tomozaki
    Because it got out
    that you were dating Nakamura?
[08:04] Yuzu
    Probably.
[08:05] Yuzu
    Lashing out at me
    or Shuji would be too obvious.
[08:10] Yuzu
    Instead, she went after Hirabayashi.
[08:14] Yuzu
    I probably shouldn't say anything to Erika.
[08:18] Tomozaki
    Yeah, maybe so.
[08:23] Aoi
    I agree.
[08:25] Aoi
    Yuzu shouldn't say a word to Konno.
[08:28] Tomozaki
    You think so?
[08:30] Aoi
    This harassment is small potatoes.
[08:32] Aoi
    She can play it all off as purely
    accidental, and that'll be that.
[08:36] Aoi
    If we don't want the situation to get worse,
[08:38] Aoi
    the smartest course of action right
    now would be to watch silently.
[08:41] Tomozaki
    Hey...
[08:43] Tomozaki
    Is life really a god-tier game?
[08:46] Aoi
    What do you mean?
[08:48] Tomozaki
    I mean, we've got an irrational
    negative event with no reason behind it.
[08:54] Aoi
    There are reasons, all right.
[08:56] Aoi
    Erika Konno liked Nakamura.
[09:00] Aoi
    Thanks to our help,
    Yuzu started going out with Nakamura.
[09:05] Aoi
    Erika Konno kicked in, and our class won.
[09:10] Aoi
    Yuzu's relationship
    with Nakamura became public.
[09:13] Aoi
    Hirabayashi is a timid girl.
[09:17] Aoi
    All of those events just fell like dominoes.
[09:21] Aoi
    What's happening now isn't irrational--
    it was practically inevitable.
[09:25] Tomozaki
    What do you mean, inevitable?
[09:27] Tomozaki
    Are you saying Hirabayashi
    has to just take her lumps?
[09:31] Aoi
    Well, yeah.
[09:33] Tomozaki
    Hinami...
[09:35] Aoi
    What's more, I don't personally see
    the need to help her at this juncture.
[09:40] Aoi
    I mean, this is the kind of
    harassment one can solve on one's own.
[09:46] Aoi
    Just because Hirabayashi
    doesn't intend to do so--
[09:49] Tomozaki
    C'mon, that's going too far!
[09:52] Aoi
    Look, we haven't seen anything that suggests
[09:55] Aoi
    Hirabayashi means to solve
    this problem on her own.
[09:58] Aoi
    Doesn't that make Hirabayashi herself
    another reason for Konno's behavior?
[10:03] Tomozaki
    So now Hirabayashi is responsible for it?
[10:06] Aoi
    Erika Konno's methods are cowardly
    and awful, absolutely.
[10:09] Aoi
    Konno is in the wrong.
[10:10] ---
    No two ways about that.
[10:13] Aoi
    But it's the gamer who's
    gripping the controller,
[10:17] Aoi
    clearing a path through
    the situation at hand.
[10:19] Aoi
    The same goes for life. Isn't that right?
[10:21] Tomozaki
    For you and me, maybe!
[10:23] Tomozaki
    But to require everyone to be a gamer...
[10:26] Aoi
    If someone tries to
    change something themselves
[10:28] Aoi
    and winds up not being able to
    solve the problem at hand,
[10:31] Aoi
    I will help--enthusiastically so.
[10:34] Aoi
    But if they don't even try
    to fix things on their own...
[10:39] Aoi
    I'm not required to help.
[10:41] Tomozaki
    That's not my thinking.
[10:43] Aoi
    I think it's the gamer who's in the right.
[10:46] Aoi
    And right now,
    Hirabayashi isn't trying to be a gamer.
[10:50] Aoi
    I mean, I do intend to do something
[10:53] Aoi
    if things get any worse.
[10:56] Tomozaki
    I see...
[10:58] Aoi
    Hey, you're not considering doing
    something about this, are you?
[11:04] Tomozaki
    If there's something I can do, I'll do it.
[11:07] Aoi
    Aha.
[11:08] Aoi
    Well, proceed carefully,
    so things don't get worse.
[11:14] Aoi
    You can go without
    an assignment for a while.
[11:16] Tomozaki
    Got it.
[11:23] Konno
    Like, what gives?
SIGN    I know, right?
[11:25] Konno
    For real?
SIGN    That's what he said!
[11:28] Konno
    Too funny!
SIGN    I was over the moon!
[11:32] Hanabi
    Konno!
[11:35] Hanabi
    How long are you going to do this?
[11:37] Hanabi
    Enough nonsense! Cut it out already!
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[11:43] Hanabi
    How long are you going to do this?
[11:46] Hanabi
    Enough nonsense! Cut it out already!
[11:49] Konno
    Huh? What are you talking about?
[11:51] Hanabi
    Don't give me that!
[11:53] Hanabi
    Just because Nakamura's taken
    doesn't mean you can lash out at people!
[11:57] Konno
    Huh...
[12:10] Konno
    Ooh, Hanabi!
[12:11] Konno
    You okay? You're shaking like a leaf.
[12:15] Hanabi
    Shut up!
[12:16] Konno
    Ow...
[12:20] Hanabi
    I-I didn't hit you that hard--
[12:22] Konno
    You started it.
[12:28] Boy Student
    Uh-oh...
[12:42] Konno
    Oops. Sor-ry.
[12:48] Tomozaki
    There it was, out in the open,
    almost too clear-cut:
[12:52] Tomozaki
    Erika Konno's maliciousness,
[12:54] Tomozaki
    now targeted at Tama.
[12:59] Hanabi
    Konno! You did that on purpose!
[13:01] Konno
    Huh? Lay off the assumptions, would you?
[13:04] Hanabi
    What assumptions?!
[13:06] Konno
    Besides, I apologized, didn't I?
[13:08] Hanabi
    You know that's not the issue here!
[13:10] Konno
    What, you gonna hit me again?
[13:14] Konno
    I'm against violence.
[13:17] Hanabi
    Well, I'm not using violence!
[13:25] Mimimi
    You're in the right here, Tama.
[13:28] Tomozaki
    You okay, Tama?
[13:30] Hanabi
    I'm fine.
[13:31] Aoi
    Hanabi...
[13:33] Aoi
    It's okay.
[13:35] Aoi
    I'll... I'll do something.
[13:38] Hanabi
    Aoi?
[13:41] Tomozaki
    Konno's attacks continued.
[13:45] Tomozaki
    She would "accidentally" bump
    into Tama's desk,
[13:48] Tomozaki
    or one of her cronies would
    "accidentally" knock Tama's chair over;
[13:53] Tomozaki
    all of Tama's pencil leads would
    "accidentally" wind up broken,
[13:58] Tomozaki
    or the Konno girls would "accidentally"
    trash-talk her loud enough in conversation
[14:03] Tomozaki
    that Tama could hear it loud and clear.
[14:06] Tomozaki
    But unlike when it happened
    to Hirabayashi...
[14:09] Hanabi
    Konno! I know you kicked my desk again!
[14:12] Tomozaki
    ...every time Konno hurt Tama,
    Tama called her out.
[14:16] Konno
    Geez, will you stop
    with the false accusations already?
[14:19] Hanabi
    You did it yesterday, too!
[14:21] Konno
    Did you forget that time
    you used violence against me?
[14:26] Hanabi
    That was an accident!
[14:28] Konno
    Huh? No, what I did was an accident.
[14:31] Konno
    What you did?
[14:34] Konno
    All. On. Purpose.
[14:38] Mimimi
    Stop, Tama! Whoa, girl!
[14:41] Aoi
    Okay, Hanabi--time to cool off.
[14:45] Tomozaki
    Hinami and Mimimi would calm her down
    so she wouldn't get even more furious.
[14:50] Tomozaki
    This pattern repeated itself
    over several days.
[14:54] Seno
    Hanabi really has it rough...
[14:56] Kashiwazaki
    She sure does.
[14:58] Kashiwazaki
    First Hirabayashi, now Hanabi--
[15:00] Kashiwazaki
    it's like she doesn't care who she torments.
[15:03] Seno
    Right?
[15:04] Matsumoto
    That Natsubayashi
    is really something else...
[15:06] Hashiguchi
    I never expected her to keep pushing
    back on Konno like that, did you?
[15:10] Hashiguchi
    She's way gutsier
    than she looks, that's for sure.
[15:13] Akina
    Still...
[15:14] Akina
    Konno may be terrible,
    but Natsubayashi gets way too angry.
[15:19] Akina
    Not that Natsubayashi is in the wrong here!
[15:22] Mutsumi
    Hmm... I wish they'd
    handle it a little better.
[15:25] Mutsumi
    No one wants to see that every dang day.
[15:29] Sho
    How many times is it, anyway?
[15:31] Kazuya
    Why even is Natsubayashi
    still getting so mad?
[15:35] Sho
    I get that Konno is terrible,
    but doesn't she understand
[15:37] Sho
    that all this classroom bickering
    just sours the whole mood?
[15:41] Kazuya
    Well, Natsubayashi never did know
    how to read a room.
[15:46] Tomozaki
    Eventually, the class's
    mood went all off-kilter.
[15:50] Tomozaki
    Hinami was the one who put a stop to it.
[15:53] Tomozaki
    She stirred up sympathy for Tama,
    aimed at the middle-ranking girls.
[15:58] Tomozaki
    Mimimi tried to be
    with Tama as much as possible
[16:01] Tomozaki
    whenever we were on break.
[16:04] Tomozaki
    She'd hustle Tama out of the classroom,
    avoiding contact with Konno.
[16:08] Tomozaki
    The efforts of these two
[16:10] Tomozaki
    kept something truly momentous
    from taking place.
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
[16:17] Tomozaki
    This Tama thing--
[16:18] Tomozaki
    it really went sour, eh?
[16:20] Aoi
    Yeah...
[16:22] Tomozaki
    You and Mimimi have her back for now,
[16:25] Tomozaki
    but at this rate, she'll only
    become more and more isolated.
[16:28] Aoi
    Right. It can't go on like this.
[16:31] Aoi
    We have to do something.
[16:33] Tomozaki
    Lately it felt like Hinami hadn't been
    going about things in her usual way.
[16:38] Tomozaki
    It's not that her methods were wrong*;
[16:40] Tomozaki
    she just wasn't the same old Hinami.
[16:44] Tomozaki
    Hey, Hinami...
[16:46] Aoi
    What?
[16:47] Tomozaki
    I think helping Tama is
    the most important thing right now.
[16:52] Tomozaki
    More than anything else.
[16:54] Aoi
    And?
[16:56] Tomozaki
    And we could maybe ask her, you know,
[17:00] Tomozaki
    to stop striking back at Konno, or...
[17:03] Aoi
    Absolutely not.
[17:06] Aoi
    Hanabi is right.
[17:08] Aoi
    The situation is what's wrong.
[17:10] Aoi
    Hanabi does not need to change.
SIGN    Good Suggestion / Bad Rule
[17:15] Tomozaki
    This was the exact opposite of what*
    Hinami had been insisting thus far.
[17:20] Tomozaki
    If the situation is wrong,
    we should fight in a way that fits it--
[17:25] Tomozaki
    even if it means outwardly
    distorting ourselves.
[17:30] Tomozaki
    That's her policy, the way she
    racked up all those wins--or it
was*.
[17:38] Tomozaki
    After class, Mimimi asked me to join*
    her and Tama on the way home.
[17:44] Tomozaki
    Hinami stayed late for student council work.
[17:47] Mimimi
    Oh! You've got some
    whipped cream on you, Tama!
[17:49] Hanabi
    Huh? Really?
[17:53] Mimimi
    Don't mind if I do!
[17:54] Hanabi
    Hey! Why'd you eat it?
[17:56] Mimimi
    Mmm, delicious!
[17:58] Tomozaki
    She doesn't like that, Mimimi.
[18:00] Mimimi
    What? Sure you do, right?
[18:03] Hanabi
    Of course I don't! Isn't it obvious?
[18:05] Mimimi
    Ack! What a shock!
[18:16] Mimimi
    How did things get to this point?
[18:20] Tomozaki
    Bad luck, bad timing...
[18:23] Mimimi
    Tama hasn't even done anything wrong.
[18:26] Mimimi
    Everyone's making her out
    to be the bad guy...
[18:29] Mimimi
    I hate watching that happen!
[18:35] Mimimi
    Hey, Tomozaki.
[18:38] Mimimi
    Am I doing a good job?
[18:41] Mimimi
    You know: cheering her up?
[18:43] Tomozaki
    Yeah.
[18:45] Tomozaki
    I think you are.
SIGN    Tomozaki
[18:51] Tomozaki
    At this point, Mimimi's goal must be
[18:57] Tomozaki
    for Erika Konno to give
    in to Tama's resistance.
SIGN    Hanabi Natsubayashi resists!
SIGN    Erika Konno take 0 damage
SIGN    Erika Konno: I'm against violence!
SIGN    Hanabi Natsubayashi takes 170 damage!!
SIGN    Minami Nanami: Tama~~!!
SIGN    Minami Nanami: Mimimi's here ♪
[19:03] Tomozaki
    If Konno's harassment stops
SIGN    Minami Nanami: You okay, Tama?!
SIGN    Minami Nanami: All patched up ♪
[19:06] Tomozaki
    while Mimimi is looking after Tama,
SIGN    Erika Konno: (...Not funny)
SIGN    Erika Konno: (Forget this...)
SIGN    Erika Konno left...
[19:11] Tomozaki
    we'd get the good ending.
[19:15] Tomozaki
    Hinami was controlling the mood
    of the class as a whole,
SIGN    Erika Konno manipulates the mood
SIGN    The good/bad norm!
SIGN    Hanabi Natsubayashi takes 170 damage!!
SIGN    Aoi Hinami: Hanabi...
SIGN    Aoi Hinami: I'll figure it out...
[19:18] Tomozaki
    buying more time.
SIGN    Aoi Hinami manipulates the mood
[19:20] Tomozaki
    If all goes well,
SIGN    The good/bad norm reverses!
SIGN    Classmate x6 take 300 damage!!
[19:23] Tomozaki
    the mood--the norm for good
    or bad-- will be flipped on its head,
SIGN    Erika Konno takes 100 damage!!
SIGN    Classmate x6 joined the party!!
[19:27] Tomozaki
    and she'll start painting
    Konno as one of the bad ones.
SIGN    Erika Konno: (...Not funny)
SIGN    Erika Konno: (Forget this...)
SIGN    Erika Konno left...
[19:32] Tomozaki
    But I have a different strategy in mind.
SIGN    Fumiya Tomozaki / Hanabi Natsubayashi / Erika Konno
SIGN    Erika Konno glares steadily
[19:35] Tomozaki
    What we need to aim for now
[19:37] Tomozaki
    is getting past all this
    without hurting Tama.
[19:41] Tomozaki
    And for that, we can use a tactic
    that every gamer knows:
SIGN    Fumiya Tomozaki: (Thinking...)
[19:45] Tomozaki
    Retreat.
SIGN    Fumiya Tomozaki: Tama! We're running!
SIGN    Tama: !!
[19:48] Tomozaki
    The option to take time off school
    until everything blows over.
SIGN    Successfully escaped
[19:52] Tomozaki
    Sure, it's a little backward.
[19:54] Tomozaki
    But it WILL get us to the goal,
    as "wrong" or dirty as it may be.
[19:59] Tomozaki
    NO NAME can't do that, but I can.
[20:02] Tomozaki
    That's the nanashi way.
SIGN    Old AV Room
[20:10] Hanabi
    What did you want?
[20:12] Tomozaki
    Well, um...
[20:14] Tomozaki
    This thing with Erika Konno and everybody...
[20:19] Hanabi
    You know, Aoi once told me...
[20:22] Hanabi
    She said you're a little bit like me.
[20:25] Hanabi
    You just come out
    and say what you're thinking.
[20:28] Tomozaki
    Yeah... maybe I do.
[20:30] Hanabi
    So what's this about Konno and everybody?
[20:33] Tomozaki
    Right.
[20:34] Tomozaki
    It must be hard with Konno attacking you
    and everyone else avoiding you.
[20:41] Tomozaki
    And if it is, I wonder
    if it might be better to remove yourself.
[20:48] Hanabi
    It is hard.
[20:51] Hanabi
    But you know...
[20:53] Hanabi
    I'm fine.
[20:56] Hanabi
    When I remind myself
    that I'm in the right, I'm fine.
[21:01] Hanabi
    Breaking the Hanabi
    that believes in things would be worse.
[21:07] Tomozaki
    Okay. Then you'll be all right.
[21:10] Tomozaki
    I've been playing games
    on my own all this time.
[21:14] Tomozaki
    And all this time, I've been thinking:
[21:16] Tomozaki
    The righteousness inside me is more important
    than how people see me.
[21:21] Hanabi
    Uh-huh. As long as I can be myself,
[21:25] Hanabi
    I can put up with anything.
[21:28] Hanabi
    But you know, Tomozaki...
[21:30] Hanabi
    Minmi's so sad.
[21:34] Hanabi
    And that's why I want to change.
[21:38] Hanabi
    I guess I really am like you.
[21:41] Hanabi
    I just say what I think,
    and I suck at bending myself to fit.
[21:46] Hanabi
    Actually, I think you've
    changed a lot lately.
[21:48] Hanabi
    You're better at reading a room,
    better at fitting in.
[21:52] Hanabi
    You're like me, but you're challenging
    yourself with your weaknesses.
[21:56] Hanabi
    I didn't think that was possible.
[22:01] Hanabi
    So show me how you do it.
[22:06] Hanabi
    Teach me how to fight, too.

E3 - Battles go better when you're fighting alongside someone whose signature move is the opposite of yours

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SIGN    Old AV Room
[00:02] Hanabi
    Hey...
[00:03] Hanabi
    How did you change yourself, Tomozaki?
[00:05] Tomozaki
    Me?
[00:06] Hanabi
    I'm not good at, like,
    getting along with people.
[00:11] Tomozaki
    Well, in my case...
[00:15] Tomozaki
    Oh, right.
[00:16] Tomozaki
    Hang on a sec.
[00:18] Hanabi
    Something wrong?
[00:19] Tomozaki
    Nothing.
[00:21] Tomozaki
    Um, in my case, I practiced my expressions,
    posture, and the way I talked.
[00:28] Tomozaki
    In the past, I didn't emote much,
[00:31] Tomozaki
    I slouched all the time,
[00:32] Tomozaki
    and I always mumbled.
[00:35] Tomozaki
    The epitome of socially awkward.
[00:37] Hanabi
    But you sound so cheerful now,
    and your whole vibe has changed.
[00:43] Tomozaki
    Oh... you think so?
[00:46] Hanabi
    Still got a weird way of
    getting embarrassed, though!
[00:48] Tomozaki
    I haven't worked on that yet...
[00:51] Tomozaki
    But I think the very first thing you should
    do is figure out exactly where you are.
[00:57] Hanabi
    Where I am?
[00:59] Hanabi
    What do you mean?
[01:01] Tomozaki
    Well, you see...
[01:03] Hanabi
    You still laugh weird, too!
    It's creepy!
[01:06] Tomozaki
    I have to agree...
[01:08] Tomozaki
    Okay, that should be enough.
[01:10] Recorded Hanabi
    Still got a weird way of
    getting embarrassed, though!
[01:12] Recorded Tomozaki
    I haven't worked on that yet...
[01:14] Recorded Tomozaki
    But I think the very
    first thing you should do

[01:15] Hanabi
    Hey! I've been bugged!
[01:16] Tomozaki
    Wait—just listen. Tama, c'mon—
[01:17] Recorded Tomozaki
    is figure out exactly where you are.
[01:20] Recorded Hanabi
    Where I am?
    What do you mean?
[01:24] Recorded Tomozaki
    Well, you see...
[01:25] Recorded Hanabi
    You still laugh weird, too!
    It's creepy!

[01:28] Tomozaki
    How was that?
[01:30] Hanabi
    I'm pretty harsh, huh?
[01:32] Tomozaki
    Right!
[01:33] Tomozaki
    The way a person talks might not
    be exactly how they picture it.
[01:38] Tomozaki
    Once you know how you talk, maybe you'll
    figure out how you can change it.
[01:43] Hanabi
    Maybe so...
[01:45] Hanabi
    Okay! I'll give it my best shot!
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 3
    Battles are better when you're against someone
     whose signature move is the opposite of yours
[03:20] Tomozaki
    Okay,
[03:20] Tomozaki
    lift the corners of your mouth.
[03:25] Tomozaki
    Now run through the vowels.
[03:30] Tomozaki
    Okay! See how that feels?
[03:32] Hanabi
    Uh-huh!
[03:33] Tomozaki
    You catch on quick. That's our Tama!
[03:36] Hanabi
    Yay!
[03:38] Tomozaki
    Think you can practice on your own?
[03:40] Hanabi
    Woo!
[03:42] Tomozaki
    You're really good. Better than me, even.
[03:46] Hanabi
    Eh?!
[03:47] Tomozaki
    You're fully proficient.
[03:49] Hanabi
    Hey! You haven't taught me anything yet!
[03:51] Tomozaki
    Yeah, but... your basic
    ability is way beyond mine.
[03:55] Tomozaki
    I don't think your expressions
    or the way you talk
[03:58] Tomozaki
    are what's keeping you from
    getting along in class.
[04:01] Hanabi
    Then what could it be?
[04:04] Tomozaki
    Hmm...
[04:05] Tomozaki
    Maybe try not arguing
    with Konno for a while?
[04:13] Hanabi
    Got it.
[04:15] Mimimi
    Tama!
[04:16] Mimimi
    Sorry I kept you!
[04:18] Mimimi
    Hey...
[04:19] Mimimi
    Tomozaki, too?
[04:21] Mimimi
    What? Why?
[04:23] Tomozaki
    Um, well... this and that...
[04:25] Hanabi
    Aoi's not with you?
[04:27] Mimimi
    She'll have her hands full with
    student council stuff for a while.
[04:31] Mimimi
    So, Brain,
[04:32] Mimimi
    what exactly is going on here, hmm?
[04:35] Tomozaki
    Oh... er...
[04:36] Tomozaki
    It-It's just...
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
[04:44] Tomozaki
    You're dead set against changing Tama, right?
[04:48] Aoi
    I told you, didn't I? There's nothing
    wrong with Tama.
[04:51] Aoi
    So she shouldn't change.
[04:54] Tomozaki
    Even if she wants to?
[04:58] Tomozaki
    That's what she told me:
[05:00] Tomozaki
    the situation is making Mimimi sad,
    so she wants to change herself.
[05:04] Tomozaki
    That's what she wants to
    do—loud and clear.
[05:08] Aoi
    I see.
[05:09] Tomozaki
    I'd like you to help her, if
    it's possible.
[05:14] Aoi
    If Hanabi changes, none of this matters.
[05:19] Tomozaki
    Hinami...
[05:22] Tomozaki
    On that day,
[05:23] Tomozaki
    the mood in the classroom shifted a little.
[05:29] Tomozaki
    This had always been where Konno and
    Tama would start up their squabbling,
[05:34] Tomozaki
    and the class's mood would take a nosedive.
[05:44] Tomozaki
    Yes!
SIGN    Old AV Room
[05:50] Tomozaki
    Great job, Tama! You really
    restrained yourself.
[05:53] Hanabi
    Uh-huh. It's frustrating,
[05:55] Hanabi
    but I know there are more
    important things.
[05:58] Tomozaki
    At this rate, though, things
    might not get worse,
[06:02] Tomozaki
    but they won't get dramatically
    better, either.
[06:05] Hanabi
    Yeah... I guess not.
[06:07] Tomozaki
    Now to create an atmosphere that'll make
    the rest of the class take your side.
[06:17] Hanabi
    I just don't know what they're all thinking.
[06:21] Hanabi
    I kinda know what Konno is thinking, but...
[06:25] Hanabi
    The rest of the class? It's a
    total mystery.
[06:28] Tomozaki
    Right...
[06:30] Tomozaki
    "Mood" and "flow" sure are tough.
[06:33] Hanabi
    For you, too?
[06:34] Tomozaki
    I've started to understand
    them a little lately,
[06:38] Tomozaki
    but it took me about five
    months to get to this point.
[06:41] Hanabi
    We probably don't have that kind of time.
[06:45] Tomozaki
    Right.
[06:46] Tomozaki
    We need some kind of big game-changing move
[06:49] Tomozaki
    that'll flip everything on its
    head in a short span of time.
[06:53] Tomozaki
    But we'll need help.
[06:57] Mizusawa
    Well, well, you two! In a
    bit of a pinch, are you?
[07:01] Tomozaki
    Mizusawa?
[07:04] Mizusawa
    I knew it, Fumiya.
[07:08] Mizusawa
    You are secretly up to something, after all.
[07:11] Tomozaki
    Wh-What do you mean?
[07:13] Mizusawa
    I thought you two might be scheming,
    so I kept an eye on you.
[07:17] Mizusawa
    This is about Erika's harassment, isn't it?
[07:19] Tomozaki
    Uh... yes. It is, actually.
[07:22] Mizusawa
    Hit the nail on the head!
[07:26] Mizusawa
    You been holding up okay?
[07:28] Hanabi
    I'm fine.
[07:30] Mizusawa
    Oh, am I a third wheel here?
[07:34] Tomozaki
    It's not that.
[07:36] Tomozaki
    Wait, did you specifically drop
    by to see how we were doing?
[07:40] Mizusawa
    Eh, you know.
[07:41] Mizusawa
    If you're going to stand up to Erika,
[07:43] Mizusawa
    shouldn't you have a slightly shady
    character like me in the mix?
[07:50] Tomozaki
    Say...
[07:51] Tomozaki
    You and Nakamura don't really
    get along with Tama, do you?
[07:55] Mizusawa
    And there it is.
[07:57] Mizusawa
    Well, she's like you—so that's good.
[07:59] Mizusawa
    See...
[08:00] Mizusawa
    Tama won't bend, right?
[08:03] Mizusawa
    And Shuji and Erika are both boss types,
    so they're like oil and water with her.
[08:08] Mizusawa
    They had this huge blow-up fight
    and dragged me and Takei into it...
[08:14] Mizusawa
    I took Shuji's side, so I can see
    why I'd come off badly to her.
[08:21] Mizusawa
    So... yeah.
[08:22] Mizusawa
    Anyway, if you need any help,
[08:24] Mizusawa
    I'll be around.
[08:27] Mizusawa
    Later.
[08:30] Tomozaki
    Hang on, Mizusawa!
[08:34] Tomozaki
    I know what we have to do first!
[08:37] Tomozaki
    Tama, as of today, your task will be...
[08:39] Tomozaki
    "Make friends with Mizusawa"!
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
SIGN    Old AV Room
[08:47] Mizusawa
    Aha...
[08:48] Mizusawa
    Practice for getting along with
    the rest of the class, eh?
[08:52] Mizusawa
    And you want me to be her study partner.
[08:55] Tomozaki
    Yeah.
[08:56] Tomozaki
    I think one reason she can't
    integrate herself well
[08:59] Tomozaki
    has to do with putting up emotional
    barriers and becoming unbendable.
[09:03] Tomozaki
    This could be the first step
    to cracking that shell.
[09:08] Mizusawa
    Okay. I'll lend a hand—for you, Fumiya.
[09:12] Mizusawa
    The rest is up to Tama.
[09:17] Hanabi
    I'll give it a shot!
[09:22] Mizusawa
    We've never properly talked
    like this, have we?
[09:26] Hanabi
    You're right...
[09:27] Mizusawa
    Do you hate me like you hate Shuji?
[09:30] Hanabi
    I've seen you hanging out with Nakamura and
    saying a lot of mean things about me.
[09:36] Mizusawa
    Is that so... Mean things, huh.
[09:38] Hanabi
    I don't like that, so I've been avoiding you.
[09:41] Mizusawa
    Avoiding—
[09:44] Mizusawa
    Huh.
[09:46] Mizusawa
    Hey, Fumiya, she's got you beat
    in the bluntness department.
[09:49] Tomozaki
    You ain't seen nothin' yet.
[09:51] Mizusawa
    Seriously?
[09:53] Mizusawa
    Okay, so... it does sound
    like you hate me, then.
[09:56] Hanabi
    But, I mean, I can't know
    what kind of person you are
[09:59] Hanabi
    if I don't try talking to you first.
[10:01] Mizusawa
    Hmm. In that case, is there
    anything you want to ask me?
[10:06] Hanabi
    Not really.
[10:09] Mizusawa
    I had a feeling.
[10:11] Hanabi
    Oh—there is one thing I've wondered about.
[10:14] Mizusawa
    Yeah? Hit me.
[10:16] Hanabi
    Do you like Aoi?
[10:18] Tomozaki
    T-Tama!
[10:20] Hanabi
    Are the rumors true?
[10:22] Hanabi
    Aoi is so full of secrets...
    I can't help but wonder.
[10:26] Mizusawa
    Hmm...
[10:33] Mizusawa
    Sure, I like her.
[10:36] Hanabi
    So it's true?!
[10:37] Mizusawa
    As a friend.
[10:40] Hanabi
    Oh.
[10:41] Mizusawa
    I see... You're into love and romance, huh?
[10:45] Hanabi
    N-No I'm not!
[10:48] Mizusawa
    There's no one you like?
[10:50] Hanabi
    No! And I wouldn't tell you if I did!
[10:52] Mizusawa
    Ah, so there is someone. Who is it?
[10:55] Hanabi
    Hey!
[10:57] Hanabi
    Don't go thinking I'm
    interested in someone!
[10:59] Mizusawa
    Hmm...
[11:01] ---
    After-school strategy meetings...
    Just the two of you...
[11:04] Mizusawa
    Pretty fishy.
[11:06] Hanabi
    No, it isn't! And it would
    never be Tomozaki, anyway!
[11:10] Tomozaki
    Y-You don't have to deny
    it quite so vehemently...
[11:14] Hanabi
    I-I'm sorry!
[11:16] Tomozaki
    No, no. I get it.
[11:17] Mizusawa
    Man, you two are a riot!
[11:22] Mimimi
    Tama!
[11:23] Mimimi
    I'm here!
[11:25] Mimimi
    Oh, Takahiro's with you today?
[11:28] Mizusawa
    Yo.
[11:29] Mimimi
    Why? What's going on here?!
[11:33] Mimimi
    What?
[11:34] Mimimi
    I see! They're both protecting you, eh?
[11:37] Mimimi
    Aren't you the smooth operator, Tama!
[11:40] Mimimi
    A beauty on each arm!
[11:41] Tomozaki
    Is it still "a beauty" when it's two guys?
[11:44] Hanabi
    I don't think so.
[11:46] Mimimi
    It's not?! Then what is it?
[11:49] Mizusawa
    A knight on each arm? Something like that.
[11:52] Tomozaki
    That might work for you,
[11:54] Tomozaki
    but I don't see myself
    as a beauty or a knight.
[11:57] Mimimi
    Not that again! C'mon,
    you can be plenty cool.
[12:03] Mimimi
    Have some confidence for once, wouldya?!
[12:05] Tomozaki
    S-Sure...
[12:07] Mimimi
    It makes me all sad to see you
    down on yourself all the time.
[12:11] Hanabi
    I was kind of thinking that too.
[12:14] Mizusawa
    Yeah, you do tend to do that, Fumiya...
[12:17] Tomozaki
    I-I do, huh?
[12:19] Mimimi
    Okay, Brain! Minami Nanami
    expects great things from you!
[12:23] Tomozaki
    I'll do my best...
[12:25] Tomozaki
    Wait—why are we talking about me?!
[12:31] Hanabi
    Okay, we're headed home.
[12:34] Mimimi
    You two are staying?
[12:35] Tomozaki
    We've got work after this.
[12:37] Mizusawa
    And some time to kill.
[12:39] Hanabi
    Thanks for today.
[12:41] Tomozaki
    Sure.
[12:42] Mizusawa
    See you tomorrow.
[12:44] Mizusawa
    So anyway...
[12:45] Mizusawa
    I'm glad Tama stopped fighting
    with Erika. It's the right move.
[12:49] Mizusawa
    If she kept that up, she'd practically be giving
    the class free reign to come after her.
[12:56] Tomozaki
    And all it takes is a shallow excuse
    for "attacks" to become "punishment."
[13:00] Tomozaki
    You see that a lot online.
[13:03] Mizusawa
    So what's the next move?
[13:05] Mizusawa
    You're making headway in character creation,
[13:07] Mizusawa
    are you thinking of ways to break
    down the walls she's put up
[13:12] Mizusawa
    between her and the rest of the class?
[13:13] Tomozaki
    Mmm, it'd be nice to come up with a
    cut-and-dried way to make it all better...
[13:19] Tomozaki
    The key is being able to
    get in a lot of practice
[13:22] Tomozaki
    in a setting where it's okay to fail.
[13:25] Mizusawa
    True enough. Gotta have that safety net.
[13:30] Mizusawa
    Should I invite Takei next time?
[13:33] Tomozaki
    Takei?
[13:34] Mizusawa
    She can mess up with him
    as much as she wants.
[13:38] Tomozaki
    Oh!
SIGN    Takei
    Read: Right
    Takei: I'm off to bed!!
    Read: OK
[13:39] Mizusawa
    I'll let him know.
[13:41] Mizusawa
    But you gotta keep things simple with Takei.
[13:44] Mizusawa
    I'll just say we want him to cheer Tama up.
[13:48] Mizusawa
    And don't tell Shuji.
[13:51] Mizusawa
    Tama plus Shuji equals conflict
    waiting to happen.
[13:56] Mizusawa
    We're better off keeping our
    support for Tama under wraps.
[14:00] Tomozaki
    Ooh, right.
[14:02] Mizusawa
    I could wind up with a target on my
    back just for helping out like this.
[14:08] Tomozaki
    You're something else, Mizusawa.
[14:11] Mizusawa
    What d'you mean?
[14:12] Tomozaki
    It's just... you're a good guy.
[14:15] Tomozaki
    You can do everything, but you're never mean.
[14:20] Mizusawa
    I don't know about that.
[14:22] Mizusawa
    You'll find that I'm
    actually quite the schemer.
[14:25] Tomozaki
    R-Really?
[14:26] Mizusawa
    Like how I came to check on you two earlier.
[14:30] Mizusawa
    I did it in part because I was
    hoping Aoi would be there.
[14:34] Mizusawa
    Me, I'm just another guy
    doing what he wants.
[14:40] Mizusawa
    A certain someone once told
    me that was the way to go.
[14:46] Tomozaki
    Oh...
[14:50] Aoi
    I mean,
[14:51] Aoi
    even if what you're doing
    goes against my own policy,
[14:55] Aoi
    I don't have the right to stop you.
[14:58] Tomozaki
    This is about trying to change Tama, right?
[15:02] Aoi
    If it's what Hanabi herself
    wants, my hands are tied.
[15:07] Aoi
    All I can do is see my own methods through.
[15:13] Aoi
    We'll suspend these meetings
    for the time being.
[15:16] Aoi
    They'll resume once the
    situation has improved.
[15:26] Tomozaki
    Konno's harassment continued
    as usual that day.
[15:30] Tomozaki
    Bumping into Tama's desk,
[15:34] Tomozaki
    trash-talking Tama with her
    minions so as to be overheard...
[15:40] Tomozaki
    And Tama kept on putting up with it.
[15:42] Tomozaki
    The class's mood became even
    more sympathetic toward her.
[15:48] Tomozaki
    But what had me even more curious...
[15:50] Tomozaki
    was what Hinami was doing.
[15:54] Tomozaki
    During every break period, she'd
    casually chat with Mao Kamimae,
[15:57] Tomozaki
    one of Konno's girls.
[16:04] Mizusawa
    Takei said he'd join us
    after soccer practice.
[16:07] Mizusawa
    He's a real dum-dum, so don't
    feel too uptight around him.
[16:11] Mizusawa
    In some ways, he's a little like you.
[16:14] Hanabi
    What? We're nothing alike!
[16:16] Tomozaki
    No, he's right.
[16:18] Hanabi
    Don't take his side!
[16:20] Tomozaki
    He says exactly what's on his
    mind. I'm the same way, too.
[16:26] Tomozaki
    But you know...
[16:28] Tomozaki
    Takei's always been a
    key member of our class.
[16:31] Tomozaki
    What's so different between him and us?
[16:33] Mizusawa
    Could be any number of things, but a big one
[16:36] Mizusawa
    is whether the group is used to you.
[16:39] Tomozaki
    Used to...?
[16:41] Mizusawa
    Remember when we were choosing
    our sports tournament event,
[16:45] Mizusawa
    and Takei wanted to do soccer?
[16:47] Mizusawa
    Everyone just rolled with it
    all, "Oh, this idiot again."
[16:53] Mizusawa
    But with Tama...
[16:57] Tomozaki
    Right... Even though she was just
    naming her choice of event too...
[17:01] Tomozaki
    the mood got a little weird when she did it.
[17:04] Hanabi
    Yeah, and Minmi came to my rescue.
[17:09] Mizusawa
    Takei has this certain charm, right?
[17:12] ---
    And that's a big part of his character.
[17:15] Mizusawa
    But Tama can be a little prickly,
    and her charm doesn't come across.
[17:21] Hanabi
    I'm not sure about all that...
[17:24] ---
    How am I supposed to be charming?
[17:28] Mizusawa
    Charm is about having a
    consistent vulnerability.
[17:33] Tomozaki
    A consistent vulnerability?
[17:36] Mizusawa
    For example... let's see...
[17:38] Mizusawa
    Liking cheese too much, say.
[17:41] Tomozaki
    Ah!
[17:43] Hanabi
    Like Aoi?
[17:44] Mizusawa
    She's very obvious about her
    lust for cheese: innocent,
[17:49] Mizusawa
    but with an almost exaggerated zeal.
[17:52] Mizusawa
    The people around her say, "Oh, that
    Aoi," and it becomes part of her charm.
[17:57] Tomozaki
    I see...
[17:58] Hanabi
    I wonder if she does that on purpose.
[18:02] Mizusawa
    Who can say?
[18:04] Mizusawa
    Either way, it's food for thought, right?
[18:07] Takei
    Sorry!
[18:08] Takei
    I'm so—
[18:10] Takei
    late!
[18:14] Mizusawa
    See? All charm, this one.
[18:17] Takei
    Sorry, Tama!
[18:19] Takei
    I wish I could've done something to help!
[18:22] Hanabi
    Thanks for thinking of me, though.
[18:24] Takei
    I wanted to stop her, but
    I didn't have the guts.
[18:27] Hanabi
    I get that. Konno's scary!
[18:29] Takei
    She sure is!
[18:31] Takei
    But I think you're totally
    in the right here, Tama.
[18:34] Hanabi
    Oh, yeah? Thanks.
[18:36] Takei
    Don't thank me! I'm apologizing here!
[18:41] Hanabi
    It's fine, it's fine!
[18:42] Takei
    At least you've got people in your corner!
[18:45] Takei
    Me, Yuko... Sakura was
    worried about you, too!
[18:50] Hanabi
    Yuko? Sakura?
[18:52] Takei
    Yuko Ueda and Sakura Kashiwazaki.
[18:55] Takei
    Heck, even Mao was just telling
    Erika, "Rein it in, girl!"
[19:00] Hanabi
    Um...
[19:01] Hanabi
    Who's Mao?
[19:02] Takei
    Mao! Mao Kamimae, Erika's pal!
[19:06] Hanabi
    Really?
[19:08] Takei
    Really!
[19:09] Tomozaki
    Can I ask you something, Tama?
[19:12] Hanabi
    What is it?
[19:12] Tomozaki
    You're not really interested
    in your classmates, are you?
[19:17] Tomozaki
    Their names weren't ringing any bells.
[19:21] Tomozaki
    I was the same way.
[19:23] Tomozaki
    I couldn't care less about any of them.
[19:26] Tomozaki
    But once I started talking
    with all sorts of people,
[19:29] Tomozaki
    I saw that they all had their
    own thoughts and concerns.
[19:33] Tomozaki
    I gradually started taking an interest
    in people other than myself,
[19:36] Tomozaki
    and found myself wanting to know
    specific things about them.
[19:40] Tomozaki
    I noticed that simply asking those
    questions led to natural conversations.
[19:45] Tomozaki
    That's why I do think it's good to
    practice a cheerful speaking style,
[19:51] Tomozaki
    but more than that, I realized it's
    important to take an interest in others
[19:55] Tomozaki
    and work on accepting them.
[19:59] Hanabi
    Yeah...
[20:00] Hanabi
    If I don't care about my classmates...
[20:04] Hanabi
    I can't get along with them.
[20:09] Takei
    Whoa... that was awesome!
[20:12] Takei
    Go, Army Boy-—Tomozaki!
[20:16] Mimimi
    Tama!
[20:17] Mimimi
    I'm here!
[20:19] Mimimi
    Wait...
[20:20] Mimimi
    Now Takei is in the mix?!
[20:22] Takei
    You got that right!
[20:24] Aoi
    Huh? What's all this?
[20:27] Mizusawa
    It's Team Tomozaki, meeting to do
    something about Tama's situation.
[20:32] Tomozaki
    Wait, why is this my team?
[20:35] Mizusawa
    You started this, didn't
    you? Our fearless leader.
[20:39] Tomozaki
    Leader? I mean...
[20:41] Mimimi
    That's our Tomozaki! Brain and leader!
[20:44] Tomozaki
    I don't need any more titles,
    thank you very much.
[20:49] Aoi
    Are you thinking about changing, Hanabi?
[20:52] Hanabi
    Hmm? What's up, Aoi?
[20:54] Aoi
    Oh, sorry. I was just curious.
[20:59] Hanabi
    I am thinking I'd like to change.
[21:02] Aoi
    I see...
[21:04] Hanabi
    Do you think I'm better off not changing?
[21:07] Aoi
    I... I don't want you to.
[21:12] Aoi
    Maybe I just don't want to think
    that facing things head-on
[21:16] Aoi
    is the wrong thing to do.
[21:19] Tomozaki
    Hinami?
[21:20] Aoi
    But I can't make that decision for you.
[21:24] ---
    It's just what I want, that's all.
[21:27] Hanabi
    Thanks for your concern, Aoi.
[21:31] Hanabi
    But I've got Tomozaki and
    the others backing me up.
[21:34] Hanabi
    I think I'm going to give it a solid try.
[21:37] Hanabi
    I'm counting on you, okay?
    Just the tiniest bit, though.
[21:40] Tomozaki
    There's that excessive honesty again.
[21:44] Aoi
    I see. You are two peas in a pod.
[21:50] Aoi
    You've got my support, too!
[21:52] Hanabi
    Thanks, Aoi!
[21:54] Tomozaki
    As I watched Hinami, back to
    being our perfect heroine,
[21:58] Tomozaki
    a thought popped into my head:
[22:01] Tomozaki
    Maybe the expression Hinami revealed
    when she took off her mask
[22:06] Tomozaki
    was just another mask after all.

E4 - Villagers have their own way of life

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[00:08] Mimimi
    Tomozaki?
[00:13] Mimimi
    You wanted advice?
[00:16] Tomozaki
    You're always messing with Tama,
[00:19] Tomozaki
    so I figured you might be
    able to give me some tips.
[00:22] Mimimi
    Now hang on, Tomozaki!
    That's simply inexcusable!
[00:25] Mimimi
    I'm not messing with Tama—
[00:28] Mimimi
    I'm simply expressing my love!
[00:32] Tomozaki
    Uh, sure...
[00:34] Mimimi
    What a weak response!
[00:36] Mimimi
    C'mon, work with me here!
[00:38] Tomozaki
    Oh, um...
[00:40] Tomozaki
    Y-You sure have a funny way of
    expressing your love, Mimimi!
[00:45] Mimimi
    Pulling out Tama's signature move?
     Leave it to you, Brain!
[00:48] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah?
[00:50] Mimimi
    Totally!
[00:51] Mimimi
    You're the only comedy partner for me, Brain!
[00:54] Tomozaki
    Now you're roping me into doing stand-up?
[00:59] Tomozaki
    Anyway, what is it about Tama that
    you target for your teasing—
[01:03] Tomozaki
    er, your expressions of love?
[01:08] Mimimi
    Hmm... Her cuteness and her tininess?
[01:12] Tomozaki
    I figured...
[01:15] Tomozaki
    Okay, have you seen any good
    comedy routines lately?
[01:19] Mimimi
    Huh? Where'd that come from?
[01:22] Tomozaki
    I was just thinking...
[01:23] Tomozaki
    if Tama had an obvious
    vulnerability like Takei,
[01:27] Tomozaki
    the class could get used to
    it as part of her character.
[01:31] Tomozaki
    It's for research.
[01:36] Mimimi
    Aha.
[01:38] Tomozaki
    I mean, I have a bunch of ideas, but...
[01:42] Mimimi
    Oh, Tomozaki.
[01:44] Mimimi
    You're a sneaky one.
[01:46] Mimimi
    So quick to get embarrassed, but when push
    comes to shove... boy, can you shove.
[01:52] Mimimi
    Hah!
[01:53] Tomozaki
    What the—
[01:54] Mimimi
    Your hero complex has earned
    you a piggy-nose punishment.
[01:57] Tomozaki
    I don't know what any of that means!
[02:00] Mimimi
    You don't have to!
[02:03] Mimimi
    Oh, man! You're so ugly!
[02:06] Tomozaki
    Y-You can be ugly on the outside
    with a beautiful heart... probably!
[02:11] Mimimi
    Yeah, I know.
[02:19] Mimimi
    Comedy routines, was it?
[02:21] Mimimi
    Let's see...
[02:24] Tomozaki
    Wait... what the hell was all that about?!
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 4 Villagers have their own way of life
[04:02] Akiyama
    Oops. Sorry.
[04:04] Tomozaki
    The Konno girls' harassment
    of Tama continued.

[04:09] Tomozaki
    But Tama kept on putting up with it,
[04:11] Tomozaki
    which made the class seem to
    grow more and more sympathetic.

[04:18] Tomozaki
    Hinami, too, kept on creating a
    protective atmosphere for Tama.

[04:24] Tomozaki
    And what's more...
[04:25] Tomozaki
    Hinami did what?
[04:27] Yuzu
    She asked me not to hang
    out with Shuji for the time being.
[04:33] Yuzu
    Not even outside of school.
    Erika might see us, she said.
[04:36] Tomozaki
    I guess it would get pretty
    messy if Erika saw you.
[04:42] Yuzu
    Right? When I told Shuji, he got all huffy,
[04:45] Yuzu
    like, "Fine by me."
[04:49] Yuzu
    And that's why
[04:51] Yuzu
    I've been thinking I'd knit
    or sew him something
[04:56] Yuzu
    to get on his good side.
[04:59] Tomozaki
    Would that even work on Nakamura?
[05:03] Yuzu
    Maybe I'm just being selfish.
[05:05] Yuzu
    I always dreamed of giving a
    boyfriend hand-knitted presents,
[05:10] Yuzu
    but...
[05:11] Tomozaki
    Could you stop being all shy about it?
     You're the one who brought it up.
[05:19] Yuzu
    Oh, sh-shut up!
[05:22] Tomozaki
    Still, it doesn't strike me as very
    Hinami-like to make such a big ask of Izumi.

[05:29] Tomozaki
    She must be at her wits' end, too.
SIGN    Old AV Room
[05:36] Tomozaki
    Then came lunchtime.
[05:39] Mizusawa
    Hey! Sorry I'm late.
[05:42] Mizusawa
    Took me a while to blow off Shuji.
[05:45] Hanabi
    Sorry for all this.
[05:46] Mizusawa
    Don't sweat it. How's the practice going?
[05:49] Hanabi
    Well... how is it going, professor?
[05:53] Tomozaki
    "Professor"? You can't mean me?
[05:55] Hanabi
    That's right. You coach me at every break.
[06:00] Tomozaki
    I-I guess so.
[06:02] Tomozaki
    Um... I think practice
    is coming along nicely.
[06:07] Hanabi
    Really?!
[06:07] Mizusawa
    Good. Then let's see you in Takei Mode.
[06:11] Hanabi
    Got it.
[06:14] Hanabi
    Bring it on!
[06:16] Mizusawa
    Ooh, nice.
[06:18] Hanabi
    Right? I spent a lot of time practicing!
[06:20] Mizusawa
    Yeah? What did that involve?
[06:22] Hanabi
    I recorded myself talking, compared
    it to how Takei and Minmi talk,
[06:27] Hanabi
    and corrected my own speech!
[06:29] Mizusawa
    So you modeled after Takei
    and Mimimi? Good choice.
[06:33] Hanabi
    And Tomozaki didn't come up with that—I did!
[06:37] Hanabi
    Awesome, right?
[06:39] Mizusawa
    Totally awesome, yep.
[06:40] Hanabi
    Hey! Say it like you mean it!
[06:43] Mizusawa
    Oh, right. Sorry.
[06:45] Hanabi
    That too!
[06:50] Hanabi
    So what do you think?
[06:52] Hanabi
    I've been trying to speak
    more cheerfully than before.
[06:56] Mizusawa
    Oh, yeah—you're a lot easier to talk to now,
[06:58] Mizusawa
    and I think your charm is coming through.
[07:00] Hanabi
    Really?!
[07:01] Tomozaki
    Okay, Tama, try that other thing next.
[07:05] Mizusawa
    Oh, there's more?
[07:08] Hanabi
    I used these comedy routines
    Minmi told me about as reference.
[07:12] Hanabi
    If you would, Tomozaki?
[07:14] Tomozaki
    Here goes!
[07:16] Tomozaki
    Huh? Why are you so far away, Tama?
[07:20] Tomozaki
    I only look like I'm far away—
    I'm just short! It's called perspective!
[07:25] Tomozaki
    Oh, really?
[07:26] Hanabi
    Yes, really! It's an optical illusion!
[07:28] Tomozaki
    But listen, this room is
    bigger than I thought, too.
[07:31] Hanabi
    I told you, it's because I'm short!
[07:33] Hanabi
    It only looks bigger in comparison!
[07:42] Mizusawa
    What the heck?
[07:44] Tomozaki
    We thought this was an easy way
[07:45] Tomozaki
    to get the class used to Tama's
    specific vulnerability.
[07:50] Mizusawa
    Not bad at all. You had
    me wanting to join in.
[07:56] Mizusawa
    That's our Fumiya.
[07:57] Mizusawa
    The teacher and his brilliant student.
[08:01] Tomozaki
    Well, y-you know.
[08:02] Hanabi
    Ahem! "Brilliant" is right!
[08:05] Mizusawa
    Y'know what's sad, though...
[08:07] Mizusawa
    seeing the teacher left completely
    in the dust by his student.
[08:11] Tomozaki
    I g-guess...
[08:12] Hanabi
    Tomozaki?
[08:14] Hanabi
    Too bad for you!
[08:18] Mizusawa
    I'd say Tama can start mixing
    with the rest of the class now,
[08:21] Mizusawa
    but maybe be a little careful at first.
[08:24] Tomozaki
    Uh... so a little more practice in
    a setting where it's okay to fail.
[08:30] Mizusawa
    Bingo.
[08:31] Mizusawa
    I'd like to bring someone in
    for a dress rehearsal of sorts,
[08:35] Mizusawa
    but everyone's avoiding Tama right now.
[08:38] Hanabi
    Oh, right... This is gonna be tough.
[08:41] Mizusawa
    Aoi and Mimimi are on our side,
    but they're too friendly with Tama.
[08:44] Mizusawa
    It'd hardly be practice.
[08:46] Mizusawa
    So that leaves...
[08:47] Tomozaki
    Izumi?
[08:50] Mizusawa
    If Erika happened to find out,
    Yuzu's standing would suffer.
[08:53] Tomozaki
    Right...
[08:56] Tomozaki
    Oh!
[08:57] Mizusawa
    Did you think of somebody?
[08:59] Hanabi
    Ooh, ooh! Who is it?
[09:01] Tomozaki
    Let me check with them first.
SIGN    Library
[09:10] Fuka
    I'm nervous...
[09:12] Tomozaki
    I-I get that.
[09:14] Fuka
    I just talk to Hanabi normally, right?
[09:18] Tomozaki
    Right. You haven't spoken
    with her much, have you?
[09:22] Fuka
    No. I've thought of her
    as one very strong girl...
[09:27] Fuka
    But no, I've never actually talked to her.
[09:31] Tomozaki
    What do you think about Konno harassing
    Tama and everyone avoiding her?
[09:39] Fuka
    Well...
[09:40] Fuka
    I feel sorry for Hanabi. I think it's unfair.
[09:45] Fuka
    But I can't bring myself to blame
    Konno or the rest of the class.
[09:51] Tomozaki
    What do you mean?
[09:53] Fuka
    Um... well, I don't agree with harassment
[09:56] Fuka
    or with going along with the
    crowd to shun any one person.
[10:02] Fuka
    But I think Konno and the class must
    be doing all this because they're weak.
[10:09] Tomozaki
    Weak?
[10:12] Fuka
    There must be a kind of uneasiness inside
    them that they can't resolve on their own.
[10:18] Fuka
    If they don't vent it somehow,
    it gets to be too much to bear.
[10:21] Fuka
    And they worry about how they look
    to others, so they join the crowd.
[10:25] Fuka
    It might be something like that.
[10:28] Fuka
    I think Konno and the others
    are acting like this
[10:33] Fuka
    in order to run away from
    something they can't fix.
[10:35] Fuka
    Even though it's wrong.
[10:37] Tomozaki
    Running away, huh...
[10:40] Fuka
    Yes.
[10:42] Fuka
    Which is why I get the feeling, out of
     Konno and the class and Hanabi,
[10:46] Fuka
    that Hanabi must be the
    strongest of them all.
[10:50] Tomozaki
    You may be right.
[10:51] Fuka
    And I wonder if Konno and the others
    aren't relying on that strength.
[10:58] Fuka
    Because you can lean on it and lean
    on it—and Hanabi still won't fall.
[11:03] Fuka
    Still...
[11:04] Fuka
    his problem needs to be solved somehow.
[11:08] Fuka
    Which is why I'm glad I can be
    a part of it, thanks to you.
[11:14] Tomozaki
    Right. Let's solve this together.
[11:17] Fuka
    We'll do our very best.
[11:26] Tomozaki
    It's from Tama. Volleyball
    practice is over, she says.
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[11:49] Mizusawa
    Nervous?
[11:51] Hanabi
    Uh-huh.
[11:52] Mizusawa
    What, don't you trust Fumiya?
[11:54] Hanabi
    Nuh-uh.
[11:56] Hanabi
    This is all me.
[12:07] Mizusawa
    Kikuchi?
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[12:15] Hanabi
    Hello, Fuka.
[12:17] Fuka
    Y-Yes, hello.
[12:19] Mizusawa
    Is Kikuchi who you had in mind?
[12:22] Tomozaki
    Yeah, that's right.
[12:25] Mizusawa
    Hmm...
[12:29] Mizusawa
    Well, she is a neutral party
    with no ties to Konno,
[12:32] Mizusawa
    and not especially friendly with Tama...
[12:35] Mizusawa
    I'd say she's ideal.
[12:36] Tomozaki
    R-Right?
[12:38] Mizusawa
    Did Fumiya talk to you, Kikuchi?
[12:40] Mizusawa
    About our strategy for helping Tama?
[12:43] Fuka
    Yes, he has told me about that.
[12:45] Mizusawa
    Okay. Er, why such formal speech?
[12:49] Fuka
    Um... we're not close yet.
[12:53] Mizusawa
    Well, whatever. Now, shall we?
[12:56] Fuka
    A-All right.
[13:03] Mizusawa
    There's more to you than
    meets the eye, Fumiya.
[13:06] Tomozaki
    What's that supposed to mean?
[13:08] Mizusawa
    Nah, it's just...
[13:10] Mizusawa
    She may not stand out much, but
    that Kikuchi is awful cute.

[13:15] Mizusawa
    What?
[13:16] Tomozaki
    Nothing.
[13:18] Mizusawa
    Hmm...
[13:20] Fuka
    Thank you in advance.
[13:21] Hanabi
    Same here.
[13:23] Mizusawa
    It's like some kind of competition.
[13:25] Tomozaki
    Yeah. I mean, it kind of
    is a real contest for Tama.
[13:30] Fuka
    Um... where should we begin?
[13:36] Hanabi
    I didn't know you were friends with Tomozaki.
[13:41] Fuka
    Yes, I've had the recent
    pleasure of his friendship.
[13:45] Hanabi
    Don't you think he's cheered up lately?
[13:48] Fuka
    I do. And I find it so wonderful when
    people work to change themselves
[13:52] Fuka
    to be who they want to be.
[13:54] Mizusawa
    Wonderful...
[13:56] Mizusawa
    You heard her.
[13:57] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah...
[13:59] Hanabi
    It's wonderful to change yourself?
[14:01] Hanabi
    Do you really think so?
[14:03] Fuka
    Yes, and if that's what a person wants to do,
[14:06] Fuka
    I think that's just spectacular.
[14:10] Tomozaki
    I mean,
[14:11] Tomozaki
    this is for Mimimi, after all.
[14:14] Hanabi
    Uh-huh!
[14:17] Fuka
    It's been rough lately, huh, Hanabi?
[14:21] Hanabi
    Sometimes I'm like, "Ugh,"
    but I'm okay—honest.
[14:24] Hanabi
    I have Aoi and Minmi in my corner,
[14:27] Hanabi
    and Tomozaki and Mizusawa are helping out, too.
[14:31] Fuka
    Thank goodness.
[14:33] Hanabi
    I appreciate your concern, though!
[14:35] Fuka
    You have so many friends on
    whom you can rely. I'm jealous.
[14:40] Hanabi
    Yeah, everyone but Tomozaki is a real rock.
[14:44] Tomozaki
    Hey!
[14:46] Fuka
    If all these people will flock to you
    even in such a terrible situation,
[14:51] Fuka
    it must mean they really care about you.
[14:54] Hanabi
    N-Now you're just making me blush!
[14:57] Fuka
    You're a wonderful person,
    Hanabi. And cute, too.
[15:00] Hanabi
    No! I'm just short, that's all!
[15:03] Fuka
    Short?
[15:05] Hanabi
    No, wait! Forget I said anything!
[15:09] Mizusawa
    Good thing we did this dry run.
[15:11] Tomozaki
    Yeah.
[15:12] Mizusawa
    Hey, Tama!
[15:13] Mizusawa
    Don't go running so far away
    just because you're embarrassed.
[15:16] Hanabi
    I'm short, that's all! I only
     look like I'm far away!
[15:21] Mizusawa
    Oh, really?
[15:22] Hanabi
    Yes, really! It's an optical illusion!
[15:25] Fuka
    You're cute, all right.
[15:27] Hanabi
    Look, it's like I said...
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[15:34] Mizusawa
    I think that's enough practice for today.
[15:37] Mizusawa
    How was it, Kikuchi?
[15:38] Fuka
    It was very easy to talk with Hanabi.
[15:41] Mizusawa
    I'd call that a success!
[15:43] Mizusawa
    Now we have to see if Tama can
    start to care about her classmates.
[15:49] Hanabi
    Right.
[15:54] Tomozaki
    If you're anything like first-semester me,
[15:57] Tomozaki
    I'm betting your thinking goes like this:
[16:00] Tomozaki
    Whatever happens in class, it's a
    world that has nothing to do with me.
[16:05] Tomozaki
    I can't be a part of any of that.
[16:08] Hanabi
    That's...
[16:11] Hanabi
    Yeah, maybe.
[16:12] Tomozaki
    Back when I felt that way,
[16:15] Tomozaki
    I could be surrounded by fun,
[16:17] Tomozaki
    yet that reality seemed less
    relevant to me than fiction.
[16:21] Tomozaki
    Everything was just... gray.
[16:24] Tomozaki
    But once I took that blind leap,
[16:28] Tomozaki
    color came into that gray
    world, slowly but surely.
[16:32] Tomozaki
    I began to be able to take more of
    an interest in the people around me.
[16:35] Tomozaki
    Tama, you probably think people
    don't like you very much.
[16:41] Tomozaki
    But truly bad people are rare.
[16:45] Fuka
    The way I see it, if I may...
[16:48] Fuka
    Konno, say, is a sore loser, and she
    hates when people look down on her.
[16:54] Fuka
    But to the people she decides are her
    friends, she can be compassionate as well.
[16:59] Fuka
    Kamimae and Akiyama must have
    very little confidence,
[17:04] Fuka
    and so they make confident friends
    to fill that void in themselves.
[17:09] Fuka
    Yet that's also a lovely
    way to take the initiative
[17:13] Fuka
    and change the situation around them.
[17:16] Fuka
    Izumi puts others before herself and tends
    to be on the losing side because of it.
[17:22] Fuka
    But that's kindness, too, that has her
    feeling others' pain as if it were her own.
[17:29] Fuka
    Each character in the story
    that is our classroom
[17:34] Fuka
    has their own worries,
    their own growth, their own faults.
[17:39] Fuka
    There's not a person alive who
    is truly thinking nothing at all.
[17:43] Fuka
    I wonder if that realization might
    spark your interest a little.
[17:50] Hanabi
    Uh-huh.
[17:52] Mizusawa
    I've been thinking.
[17:55] Mizusawa
    You—and Kikuchi, too, who knows—
[17:59] Mizusawa
    for as slow as your progress
    may be, it's careful as hell.
[18:04] Mizusawa
    The complete opposite of me.
[18:08] Mimimi
    Tama!
[18:09] Mimimi
    Here I am!
[18:11] Mimimi
    Wait...
[18:12] Mimimi
    Now you've got Kikuchi with you?
[18:15] Fuka
    H-Hello...
[18:18] Aoi
    What kind of match-up is this?
[18:20] Mizusawa
    Kikuchi's temporarily assisting
    Team Tomozaki today.
[18:25] Mizusawa
    She was pals with Fumiya and
    decided to lend us a hand.
[18:28] Mimimi
    Oh, okay.
[18:30] Aoi
    I didn't see that coming.
[18:39] Mimimi
    You're cute.
[18:42] Mimimi
    How could I have overlooked
    such an adorable girl?!
[18:46] Mimimi
    Welcome... to Nanami World!
[18:49] Fuka
    N-Nanami... World?
[18:52] Tomozaki
    C'mon, Mimimi, dial it
    down a notch, would you?
[18:55] Tomozaki
    She's not used to your
    brand of... enthusiasm.
[18:58] Mimimi
    You're the worst! How could you
    take Kikuchi's side and not mine?
[19:02] Tomozaki
    That's not the issue here!
[19:05] Aoi
    Yikes! I forgot to hand
    in my journal entries!
[19:10] Aoi
    Will you come with me, Mimimi?
[19:12] Mimimi
    Huh? Me?
[19:19] Mimimi
    Okay, I'll tag along!
[19:21] Mimimi
    You too, Tama!
[19:22] Hanabi
    Me too? Why?
[19:25] Mimimi
    Just... c'mon!
[19:27] Mizusawa
    I forgot something, too, back
    in the classroom. Be right back.
[19:32] Tomozaki
    Sure...
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[19:40] Tomozaki
    I've been hornswoggled.
[19:43] Fuka
    This is the first time
    we've gone home together.
[19:47] Tomozaki
    I-I guess so.
[19:49] Tomozaki
    Um... how did today go for you?
[19:53] Fuka
    Well...
[19:54] Fuka
    I was kind of nervous being around so
    many people I hadn't talked to that much before.
[19:59] Tomozaki
    But it was nice to see you chatting
    with everyone for a change.
[20:04] Fuka
    Was it?
[20:06] Fuka
    I thought it was nice having a front-row seat
[20:09] Fuka
    to see you enjoying yourself
    with everyone for a change.
[20:13] Fuka
    Nice... and a lot of fun.
[20:15] Tomozaki
    R-Really?
[20:17] Fuka
    You're always showing me things
    I've never seen before.
[20:29] Tomozaki
    Finally, the next day,
[20:31] Tomozaki
    Tama put her lessons to
    work in the classroom.

[20:35] Mimimi
    Don't stand so far away, Tama—c'mere!
[20:39] Hanabi
    I'm not far away! It just looks
    that way because I'm small!
[20:42] Hanabi
    It's called perspective!
[20:43] Aoi
    Hey, was this desk always so big?
[20:47] Hanabi
    It only looks big because I'm so small!
[20:49] Tomozaki
    Hinami helped out here, too.
[20:52] Kashiwazaki
    You're funny, Tama!
[20:52] Tomozaki
    She gathered the girls who were her
    and Mimimi's friends around Tama.

[20:58] Aoi
    Hey, this group should hang out sometime!
[21:00] Mimimi
    Sure—how about tama-rrow?
[21:03] Takei
    Yes!
[21:04] Hanabi
    Hey, don't shoehorn me into this!
[21:10] All
    Cheers!
[21:14] Hanabi
    Thanks, gang!
[21:16] Takei
    Great job, Tama!
[21:19] Mizusawa
    Keep it like this, and Konno
    should knock off the harassment, too.
[21:24] Hanabi
    You think so?
[21:25] Mizusawa
    Once the class is on your side, people will
     start getting irritated with Erika
[21:30] Mizusawa
    if the mood in the classroom goes sour.
[21:32] Mizusawa
    And she's super sensitive to that stuff,
[21:35] Mizusawa
    so she'll give it a rest.
[21:37] Hanabi
    Oh, okay.
[21:39] Mizusawa
    Mimimi said she'll join us
    once her club meeting's over.
[21:42] Mizusawa
    Aoi's still got student council work,
     so she's a no-show.
[21:46] Hanabi
    What about Fuka?
[21:48] Tomozaki
    Oh, uh, apparently she has work today.
[21:51] Takei
    Hmm? What's this about Kikuchi?
[21:54] Mizusawa
    Ask Fumiya. They're friends.
[21:57] Takei
    Oh? Is Army Boy finally growing up?
[22:00] Tomozaki
    It's not like that!
[22:02] Hanabi
    You're blushing, Tomozaki.
[22:07] Akiyama
    Hello, Erika?

E5 - If you keep upgrading your initial equipment, it'll usually become your most powerful weapon

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SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 5 If you keep upgrading your initial equipment, it'll usually become your most powerful weapon
[01:53] Mimimi
    O-Oh, wow...
[01:54] Aoi
    How awful.
[01:55] Hanabi
    Th-This was from you, Minmi.
[01:59] Hanabi
    I'm sorry.
[02:01] Mimimi
    Don't worry about it!
    I'll get you another one. Okay?
[02:05] Hanabi
    But...
[02:06] Mimimi
    It's fine! We'll be
    matching again in no time.
[02:09] Mimimi
    Right?
[02:10] Hanabi
    Yeah, but... still... I'm so sorry, Minmi.
[02:16] Hanabi
    Really, really sorry.
[02:19] Tomozaki
    Tama...
[02:25] Hanabi
    Tomozaki?
[02:27] Hanabi
    You know...
[02:30] Hanabi
    When I saw this, I was all ready to
    shout, to say, "Quit screwing around!"
[02:37] Hanabi
    But...
[02:39] Hanabi
    Everyone's been doing so
    much for me, you know?
[02:42] Hanabi
    Coming up with all these ideas...
[02:45] Hanabi
    I didn't want all that to be for nothing,
[02:47] Hanabi
    so I just sucked it up.
[02:50] Tomozaki
    Yeah?
[02:52] Tomozaki
    You did good.
[02:53] Hanabi
    It took everything I had.
[02:57] Hanabi
    Still...
[03:01] Hanabi
    I... I just want to run away.
[03:06] Mimimi
    Tama...
[03:13] Mizusawa
    Fumiya.
[03:16] Mizusawa
    You sure that's the best move?
[03:19] Tomozaki
    Mizusawa...
[03:27] Tomozaki
    Right. Thanks.
[03:29] Mizusawa
    We don't have any proof, after all,
[03:33] Mizusawa
    and the ringleader's not around.
[03:37] Tomozaki
    Yeah... right.
[03:41] Aoi
    This is unacceptable.
[03:45] Hanabi
    Aoi?
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[03:58] Yuzu
    Erika's gone too far.
[04:02] Takei
    I'm so sorry I couldn't do anything, Tama.
[04:05] Hanabi
    Thanks, everyone.
[04:08] ---
    And I'm sorry.
[04:09] Mimimi
    You don't need to apologize for anything!
[04:15] Yuzu
    H-Hey, I know!
[04:17] Yuzu
    I've been knitting and sewing a lot lately—
[04:20] Yuzu
    I bet I can fix this right up!
[04:22] Hanabi
    Thanks. I'll take you up on that.
[04:26] Yuzu
    Okay! Leave it to me!
[04:28] Yuzu
    Let's see... take this here and...
[04:31] Mizusawa
    Whoa, are you sure?
[04:34] Yuzu
    O-Oh, definitely! I've already
    made tissue covers and stuff.
[04:38] Mizusawa
    Tissue covers? That sounds pretty... simple.
[04:42] Yuzu
    B-Busted...
[04:47] Aoi
    Let's stay with Hanabi as
    much as we can for now.
[04:53] Aoi
    We don't know what might happen.
[04:55] Mimimi
    You got it.
SIGN    Tomozaki
[05:04] Little Sis
    What the heck is this all about?
[05:08] Tomozaki
    Oh, y'know...
[05:47] Konno
    What the hell?
[05:48] Konno
    Who did this to my desk?
[05:54] Konno
    It had to be Hanabi.
[05:57] Aoi
    Hanabi's been with me all day.
[06:00] Konno
    Excuse me? What's it to you, Aoi?
[06:03] Aoi
    Because I can prove Hanabi didn't do it.
[06:06] Aoi
    Plenty of people would have
    seen her with me, too.
[06:11] Konno
    Well, then!
[06:12] Konno
    In that case...
[06:14] Konno
    it must have been you, Mao.
[06:17] Kamimae
    No! Why would it be me? I didn't do it.
[06:22] Konno
    Then who did?
[06:23] Konno
    You, that's who.
[06:26] Kamimae
    Where do you get off accusing
    me without any proof?
[06:31] Konno
    Huh?
[06:33] Kamimae
    Jeez, assume much? Who do you think you are?
[06:36] Akiyama
    M-Mao!
[06:39] Konno
    Why the sudden attitude?
[06:41] Konno
    You've been sketchy as hell lately.
[06:45] Kamimae
    Me, "sketchy"?
[06:46] Konno
    You're all distant. You're off
    having fun somewhere else!
[06:52] Kamimae
    What are you talking about?
[06:57] Kamimae
    Besides, I can do what I want, can't I?
[07:01] Konno
    Oh, so it's like that?
[07:04] Konno
    You're sick of us teasing you,
[07:06] Konno
    so you thought you'd jump
    ship to another group, huh?
[07:09] Konno
    How lame is that?
[07:11] Konno
    Watch yourself—your lameness
    is written all over your face.
[07:17] Kamimae
    Well, you're the one who looks
    like some stupid middle-schooler
[07:21] Kamimae
    with that dumb black off-the-shoulder
    thing you always wear.
[07:23] Kamimae
    Why don't you give it a rest?
[07:35] Konno
    What did you just say to me, Mao?
[07:40] Kamimae
    I said that off-the-shoulder thing
    you always wear is stupid and lame.
[07:48] Kamimae
    And you suck at putting on lashes.
[07:52] Kamimae
    They look all fake and crappy again today.
[07:54] Konno
    That's enough out of you!
[07:58] Kamimae
    Ow!
[08:04] Yuzu
    She's a real stickler about
    clothes and fashion—
[08:06] Yuzu
    she'd probably step it up if I promised
    her pricey cosmetics when we win.
[08:10] Fuka
    I think she really doesn't want people
    to look down on her. That motivates her.
[08:16] Tomozaki
    Such a pinpoint attack...
[08:29] Akiyama
    Mao... are you okay?
[08:32] Boy A
    What's wrong?
[08:33] Girl B
    Did something happen?
[08:34] Girl C
    What's with Mao?
[08:35] Girl D
    Erika's desk?
[08:37] Girl E
    Seriously?
[08:38] Girl F
    A fight?
[08:38] Tomozaki
    With this mood, she'll have
    to apologize—or else.
[08:45] Konno
    Um...
[08:46] Konno
    Mao? Uh...
[08:49] Tomozaki
    That's the class queen for you:
    ultra-sensitive to the mood.
[08:52] Aoi
    Apologize.
[08:57] Aoi
    Apologize, Erika.
[09:00] Konno
    What? To her?!
[09:02] Kamimae
    Jeez. You're unbelievable.
[09:05] Konno
    No—I was just—
[09:08] Aoi
    Erika... that was uncalled for.
[09:12] Aoi
    I know it was in the heat of the moment,
[09:15] Aoi
    but not apologizing just isn't right.
[09:18] Seno
    Yeah, that was uncalled for.
[09:20] Kashiwazaki
    Erika really is in the wrong here.
[09:24] Kazuya
    Kinda sours me on her.
[09:26] Akina
    How hard is it to say she's sorry?
[09:27] Hashiguchi
    I've never seen her apologize before, so...
[09:33] Tomozaki
    The mood—
[09:37] Tomozaki
    it's being manipulated.
[09:39] Tachibana
    I'm against violence!
[09:42] Konno
    Huh? That was an accident.
[09:45] Konno
    Don't you know what "violence" means?
[09:46] Konno
    Tell them, Mika.
[09:49] Akiyama
    B-Beats me...
[09:52] Kawaguchi
    Aren't you the one who doesn't
    know the meaning of the word?
[09:54] Matsumoto
    No kidding.
[09:55] Tachibana
    Then what Natsubayashi did
    wasn't violence, either.
[09:59] Tomozaki
    The class will automatically
    start judging Konno.
[10:04] Tomozaki
    As a shallow excuse for punishment...
[10:08] Tomozaki
    This will settle it.
[10:10] Aoi
    Still...
[10:13] Aoi
    Don't you think she has to apologize?
[10:16] Nakamura
    Totally.
[10:18] Nakamura
    C'mon, Erika. All of this
    has been your fault.
[10:23] Nakamura
    Just apologize already.
[10:27] Tomozaki
    That just now—
[10:29] Aoi
    Don't you think she has to apologize?
[10:31] Tomozaki
    Was she looking at Nakamura?
[10:35] Aoi
    Apologize now and Mao will forgive you, too.
[10:38] Aoi
    Right?
[10:40] Tomozaki
    This time it was Izumi.
[10:42] Yuzu
    That's right, Erika.
[10:45] Tomozaki
    I knew it.
[10:47] Yuzu
    She knows it was in the heat of the moment.
[10:50] Tomozaki
    No... their words contain...
[10:52] Yuzu
    Apologize to each other and you'll be square.
[10:55] Tomozaki
    ...a reversal spell...
[10:56] Nakamura
    Yeah, Erika.
[10:58] Tomozaki
    ...cast by the demon queen!
[11:02] Konno
    What gives? What is it with you two?
[11:06] Konno
    Don't get so cocky just
    because you're a thing now.
[11:09] Yuzu
    E-Erika?
[11:11] Tomozaki
    It's basically like this:
[11:13] Tomozaki
    Hinami called on Nakamura and Izumi in turn
[11:17] Tomozaki
    and they both agreed with her.
[11:21] Tomozaki
    That's all.
[11:23] Tomozaki
    But to Konno...
[11:25] Tomozaki
    It probably looked like the
    two were ganging up on her
[11:30] Tomozaki
    as a couple.
[11:32] Aoi
    See? They're both saying it, too.
[11:35] Konno
    Why don't you get a room already?
    It's disgusting.
[11:41] Hashiguchi
    Get a room?
[11:43] Matsumoto
    Where'd that come from?
[11:45] Kawaguchi
    Jealous much?
[11:47] Konno
    Look, you guys are totally beyond lame.
[11:51] Konno
    Just because you started dating doesn't mean
[11:53] Konno
    you get to hold hands and dogpile me.
[11:56] Konno
    It's just mean!
[11:59] Konno
    What the hell... Seriously...
[12:01] Konno
    Quit... Quit making fun of me already!
[12:06] Konno
    You can date whoever you want, okay?
[12:10] Konno
    But going on about how perfect you
    are for each other is just gross!
[12:16] Tomozaki
    The illusion that the demon queen had spun
[12:19] Tomozaki
    was visible only to Erika Konno.
[12:21] Tomozaki
    Which meant...
[12:23] Sho
    What?
[12:24] Seno
    Dunno.
[12:25] Hashiguchi
    Now that's a victim complex.
[12:26] Kawaguchi
    Right?
[12:29] Konno
    Are you two seriously, like, twelve?
[12:33] Yuzu
    Erika...
[12:34] Aoi
    I get how you feel, but these two
    don't mean to make fun of you.
[12:40] Aoi
    I think maybe you're losing
    perspective, Erika.
[12:44] Aoi
    You're getting carried away
    with this crush of yours.
[12:49] Aoi
    I get it. That kind of
    thing happens to me, too.
[12:52] Aoi
    But try to calm down for a sec. Okay?
[12:55] Tomozaki
    Why even go there?
[12:58] Konno
    But I... I don't...
[13:01] Tomozaki
    Hinami.
[13:10] Aoi
    Well! That's the end of that!
[13:14] Aoi
    Sorry for saying all that weird stuff.
[13:16] Aoi
    I don't think we can speak calmly right now,
[13:19] Aoi
    so let's talk later, when we're
    not raring for a fight.
[13:22] Aoi
    C'mon, wipe your tears.
[13:24] Aoi
    Tissues, tissues...
[13:28] Aoi
    Sorry, Shuji—can I have a tissue?
[13:30] Nakamura
    Yeah, sure.
[13:31] Nakamura
    No problem.
[13:33] Yuzu
    I've already made tissue covers and stuff.
[13:40] Nakamura
    Here you go, Erika.
[13:55] Girl A
    Whoa...
[13:56] Girl B
    Did she just...?
[13:57] Konno
    No—wait—
[13:59] Boy A
    Unbelievable.
[14:01] Tachibana
    You know, I've always
    thought she was selfish.
[14:04] Boy B
    Always going around acting
    like she's the queen.
[14:07] Konno
    No...
[14:08] Konno
    That was—
[14:09] Girl A
    She's been crying for a while now.
[14:11] Girl A
    Is she going for sympathy points?
[14:14] Boy C
    Seriously!
[14:15] Girl B
    Lashing out just because the
    guy you like is taken...
[14:19] Boy D
    That's so lame!
[14:23] Kamimae
    Serves you right.
[14:30] Kamimae
    Oops, sorry.
[14:32] Kamimae
    It was an accident.
[14:34] Tomozaki
    The mood... the norm for good or bad...
[14:38] Tomozaki
    had flipped.
[14:39] Boy A
    Whoops!
[14:40] Boy A
    An accident.
[14:41] Boy B
    Me, too—an accident.
[14:55] Tomozaki
    At this rate, there's no one who can—
[14:57] Hanabi
    Hey!
[14:59] Hanabi
    Just because Konno did it doesn't
    mean you can do it back.
[15:02] Hanabi
    It's just as wrong when you do it!
[15:07] Tomozaki
    This is too righteous.
[15:10] Tomozaki
    With the class mood as it stands now...
[15:12] Hanabi
    You can't just gang up and
    attack people like that!
[15:16] Hanabi
    Knock it off!
[15:18] Tomozaki
    ...it might not fly.
[15:20] Hanabi
    Let's end this on good terms
    and have a fresh start.
[15:25] Hanabi
    Tama-rrow is another day!
[15:31] Kashiwazaki
    You're amazing, Hanabi!
[15:35] Seno
    She really is! I didn't see that coming.
[15:37] Seno
    But y'know, she could be right.
[15:40] Tachibana
    I mean, if the main victim
    says we should stop...
[15:44] Matsumoto
    I guess we'd better stop.
[15:50] Yuzu
    Erika!
[15:54] Mimimi
    That was so cool, Tama!
[16:07] Kamimae
    I'm sorry, Natsubayashi.
[16:10] Akiyama
    For everything.
[16:13] Hanabi
    Eh. It's fine.
[16:15] Hanabi
    But I'm not the only one you need to talk to.
[16:20] Akiyama
    Um, Hirabayashi... I'm sorry.
[16:23] Kamimae
    Me, too.
[16:24] Hirabayashi
    Oh, uh...
[16:26] ---
    O-Okay.
[16:28] Hirabayashi
    That's all right.
[16:30] Aoi
    Thanks, Hanabi. I don't think I could
     have quelled that on my own.
[16:35] Hanabi
    Thank you, Aoi—for fighting for me.
[16:39] Aoi
    You fought plenty hard yourself.
[16:42] Hanabi
    Yeah...
[16:44] Hanabi
    But I kinda didn't want to
    see you doing that, Aoi.
[16:50] Aoi
    Hmm? Doing what?
[16:54] Hanabi
    I just...
[16:56] Hanabi
    I really didn't.
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[17:03] Hanabi
    I... I made Aoi do something terrible.
[17:08] Tomozaki
    You talking about what Hinami did?
[17:10] Hanabi
    Yeah...
[17:11] Hanabi
    She was really angry.
[17:16] Tomozaki
    It was shocking, yeah.
[17:19] Hanabi
    I'm pretty sure Aoi didn't
    want to do what she did.
[17:23] Hanabi
    But because of me...
[17:26] Tomozaki
    I thought
[17:27] Tomozaki
    Tama had picked up on Hinami's ulterior
    motives and was disappointed in her.
[17:33] Tomozaki
    But...
[17:35] Tomozaki
    You trust Hinami, don't you?
[17:40] Hanabi
    Thanks for everything—both of you.
[17:42] Hanabi
    I gotta get to my club meeting!
[17:45] Mizusawa
    Tama's half right.
[17:48] Mizusawa
    Is that about the shape of it?
[17:49] Tachibana
    Yeah... pretty much.
[17:52] Mizusawa
    The way I see it,
[17:54] Mizusawa
    I'm someone who can spot the parts
    of Aoi that she hides inside herself.
[18:00] Mizusawa
    You probably know about
    those better than I do.
[18:06] Tomozaki
    Well...
[18:09] Mizusawa
    Ah, never mind. Even if you did,
[18:12] Mizusawa
    it wouldn't be fair of me to ask.
[18:15] Mizusawa
    The team's taught me something lately, too.
[18:19] Mizusawa
    How to come right out and
    say what's on your mind.
[18:22] Mizusawa
    So I'm just gonna say what I'm thinking:
[18:33] Mizusawa
    I like Aoi.
[18:35] Mizusawa
    What do you think of her?
[18:44] Tomozaki
    It was several days later.
[18:46] Tomozaki
    The animosity toward Konno had gradually
    dissipated after Tama's scolding.
[18:53] Tomozaki
    She didn't take back her throne at
    the top of the class, of course,
[18:58] Tomozaki
    but Izumi's efforts and Konno's
    naturally strong communication skills
[19:04] Tomozaki
    restored her to a perfectly
    respectable standing.
[19:08] Tomozaki
    The rest is up to Konno's maneuvering.
[19:12] Tomozaki
    And how did Tama fare in all this?
[19:16] Tomozaki
    Simply put, she gained
    a bunch of new friends.
[19:20] Kashiwazaki
    Tama! We've gotta try karaoke sometime!
[19:22] Hanabi
    Mmm, I'm not big on karaoke.
[19:26] Kashiwazaki
    You're so honest!
[19:28] Tomozaki
    Whenever Tama came right out with an opinion,
[19:31] Tomozaki
    people got a kick out of it:
    "That's Tama for you!"
[19:35] Hanabi
    But I'll go if Minmi is coming.
[19:38] Mimimi
    What the—?!
[19:39] Mimimi
    I'm feeling the love!
SIGN    Hey, Minmi! Back off!
[19:43] Kashiwazaki
    You sure do love Mimimi, don't you, Tama?
[19:46] Hanabi
    N-No I don't! It just looks
    that way 'cause I'm so small!
[19:51] Kashiwazaki
    Huh? What's your size got to do with it?
[19:57] Hanabi
    I-I mean...
[19:58] Kashiwazaki
    Oh my gosh! Just look at you blush!
[20:02] Kashiwazaki
    A-dor-a-ble!
[20:05] Mimimi
    Hey! Hands off my Tama!
[20:07] Kashiwazaki
    Aw, c'mon...
[20:09] Hanabi
    I'm not yours either, though, Minmi.
[20:11] Mimimi
    What?!
[20:12] Tomozaki
    This is "the class being used
    to her character" in a nutshell.
[20:18] Tomozaki
    At any rate, her relationship
    with Nakamura improved, too.
[20:22] Nakamura
    Huh? What about you, Hanabi?
[20:25] Hanabi
    I'm firmly in the downtown camp.
[20:27] Hanabi
    Let the guys go to the
    soccer game without us!
[20:30] Nakamura
    Man, you really are stubborn, aren't you?
[20:33] Hanabi
    Oh, like you aren't?
[20:36] Tomozaki
    As Mizusawa suggested, it's not
    like Nakamura truly hated her.
[20:41] Tomozaki
    I think he just wanted
    a reason to forgive her.
[20:45] Tomozaki
    Difficult stuff. Human relationships
    are so complicated.
[20:51] Mimimi
    Okay, everyone, listen up!
[20:54] Mimimi
    Now, I've gathered you all here
    today for one big reason...
[20:59] Mizusawa
    Ooh, are they ready?
[21:01] Takei
    Finally!
[21:02] Mimimi
    Ta-dah! Reinforcements!
[21:06] Hanabi
    Reinforcements?
[21:12] Hanabi
    Are these...?
[21:17] Mimimi
    Check this out!
[21:26] Mimimi
    Now we're all set!
[21:31] Hanabi
    Tomozaki, I bet you're the
    one who came up with this.
[21:35] Tomozaki
    You got me. At least now we all match, right?
[21:39] Hanabi
    Oh, Tomozaki, you're such a dum-dum.
[21:41] Hanabi
    But... thanks!
[21:44] Tomozaki
    Yep.
[21:45] Yuzu
    I worked hard to sew those!
[21:47] Nakamura
    It's kinda coming apart here, though.
[21:49] Yuzu
    What?! No way!
[21:50] Nakamura
    Kidding.
[21:51] Yuzu
    L-Lying, you mean.
[21:53] Yuzu
    Cut it out!
[21:56] Aoi
    Okay, okay.
[21:57] Mizusawa
    That's enough flirting, you two.
[21:59] Nakamura
    We're not flirting!
[21:59] Yuzu
    But we're not flirting!
[22:05] Aoi
    They're kind of pretty all laid out like this.
[22:08] Tomozaki
    Yeah, they are.
[22:10] Mimimi
    Such a colorful circle—sorta like...
[22:13] Mimimi
    like fireworks!
[22:16] Hanabi
    "Hanabi"—get it?
[22:18] Mimimi
    Hey, don't steal my line!
[22:22] Hanabi
    Since we're all here, let's take a picture!
[22:25] Mizusawa
    Hey, yeah.
[22:26] Mimimi
    Yes! To show our friendship!
[22:28] Takei
    Let's do it! Let's do it!
[22:32] Hanabi
    Say "cheese"!
[22:34] Mimimi
    Tamaya!
[22:48] Tomozaki
    A thought occurred to me...
[22:51] Tomozaki
    about the cruel way Hinami
    brought Konno down a peg.
[22:54] Tomozaki
    Make no mistake:
[22:56] Tomozaki
    That wasn't some spur-of-the-moment thing.
[22:58] Tomozaki
    It was premeditated malice, a plan carefully
[23:01] Tomozaki
    constructed in advance to hurt
    Konno—deeply and completely.
[23:06] Tomozaki
    Maybe because I've been acting on my
    trust in her as her student so far,
[23:12] Tomozaki
    but part of me thought she
    couldn't
really be like that...
[23:19] Mizusawa
    What do you think of her?
[23:23] Tomozaki
    My answer to Miyazawa's question?
[23:26] Tomozaki
    She's the teacher who brought
    color to this game of life.
[23:33] Tomozaki
    I'd like to know Aoi Hinami better.
[23:37] Tomozaki
    **That's what I thought of her.

E6 - Everyone has different expectations about a big event

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[00:13] Tomozaki
    Now what?
[00:15] Tomozaki
    Here, in this loaded pause,
[00:18] Tomozaki
    what would NO NAME...
[00:19] Tomozaki
    what would Hinami do?
[00:24] Game Announcer
    Game set!
[00:26] Tomozaki
    Wait, what?
[00:27] Game Announcer
    Winner: Found!
[00:30] Tomozaki
    This might be what Hinami was thinking:
[00:35] Tomozaki
    If I'm going to get caught up
    in some high-risk mind games,
[00:38] Tomozaki
    I'm better off just taking a sure hit.
[00:42] Tomozaki
    Way too single-minded, if you ask me.
SIGN    NO NAME: I win
[00:49] Tomozaki
    Jeez. Competitive much?
SIGN    NO NAME: I win nanashi: Big deal, 1 out of 14
[00:54] Tomozaki
    And after that...
[00:56] Game Announcer
    Game set!
[00:57] Game Announcer
    Game set!
[00:59] Game Announcer
    Game set!
[01:00] Game Announcer
    Winner: Found!
[01:02] Tomozaki
    In the end,
[01:05] Tomozaki
    I beat her handily, 17 matches to one.
SIGN    NO NAME: I win nanashi: Big deal, 1 out of 14 nanashi: Sorry, 1 out of 17
[01:09] Tomozaki
    Sorry.
[01:10] Tomozaki
    Turns out I'm pretty competitive, too.
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 6 Everyone has different expectations about a big event
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
[02:47] Aoi
    Now, then:
[02:48] Aoi
    Let's go through some facts first, shall we?
[02:51] Aoi
    You had something to ask me
    about the Hanabi situation?
[02:57] Tomozaki
    Yeah.
[03:02] Tomozaki
    What you did to Konno...
    that was all calculated.
[03:06] Tomozaki
    Do I have that right?
[03:08] Aoi
    Yes.
[03:10] Aoi
    I made Erika think that Nakamura
    and Yuzu were in cahoots.
[03:15] Aoi
    Once she's off-balance, it only
    takes a little push to tip her over.
[03:20] Aoi
    While exploiting her weaknesses,
    I made an example out of her,
[03:23] Aoi
    then shut it all down with
    no one else in the wrong.
[03:27] Aoi
    That's all.
[03:29] Tomozaki
    Still, you didn't have
    to be so cruel about it.
[03:33] Aoi
    Cruel, huh?
[03:36] Tomozaki
    You used someone's crush to tear
    her pride to shreds in public.
[03:42] Tomozaki
    For me, that... that was a step too far.
[03:45] Aoi
    If I hadn't, I wouldn't have been
    able to stop Konno so quickly.
[03:50] Aoi
    She was all fired up...
[03:52] Aoi
    I had to crush her spirit completely.
[03:55] Tomozaki
    But was that final blow really necessary?
[03:59] Tomozaki
    You didn't need to use Nakamura like that.
[04:02] Tomozaki
    Brandishing the tissue
    cover Izumi made for him...
[04:06] Tomozaki
    That's just kicking her when she's down.
[04:08] Aoi
    I suppose you're right.
[04:10] Tomozaki
    Then why do something so cruel?
[04:13] Aoi
    Cruel?
[04:14] Aoi
    When you consider what she'd done
    to Hanabi, I don't find it cruel at all.
[04:19] Tomozaki
    In other words... it was revenge?
[04:23] Aoi
    Yes, that's right.
[04:27] Tomozaki
    I see...
[04:29] Aoi
    What?
[04:30] Aoi
    So I get angry. Is that so surprising?
[04:33] Tomozaki
    No...
[04:35] Aoi
    I like righteous Hanabi,
    who stays true to herself.
[04:40] Aoi
    When Erika Konno started
    harassing Hirabayashi,
[04:44] Aoi
    Hanabi called her out—in her
    own words—in front of everyone.
[04:48] Aoi
    It was uncalculated. She was undaunted.
[04:52] Aoi
    I thought her strength was beautiful.
[04:55] Aoi
    So when Konno was trampling that for
    no reason, I couldn't let it go.
[05:01] Aoi
    That's why I worked to destroy
    everything about that situation.
[05:05] Aoi
    And why I didn't feel like
    letting it just hang there.
[05:08] Aoi
    That's all. What's wrong with that?
[05:11] Tomozaki
    I mean...
[05:13] Tomozaki
    Nothing, but—
[05:15] Aoi
    Right? Then what's the problem?
[05:18] Tomozaki
    Here's how I see it:
[05:20] Tomozaki
    Hurting someone for no real reason,
     no real gain, is just...
[05:26] Tomozaki
    When it comes to how NO NAME plays the game?
[05:30] Tomozaki
    It's not right.
[05:33] Aoi
    Maybe so, now that you mention it.
[05:37] Aoi
    Still,
[05:39] Aoi
    there are some things even I can't forgive.
[05:47] Yuzu
    Good morning, Tomozaki.
[05:50] Tomozaki
    Hey, Izumi. Mornin'.
[05:52] Yuzu
    Sure has gotten cold, huh?
[05:54] Tomozaki
    That's November for you.
[05:56] Tomozaki
    Oh, that reminds me...
[05:58] Tomozaki
    What's been going on with
    Konno and Kamimae lately?
[06:02] Yuzu
    Mmm, you know... girl stuff... I guess?
[06:07] Yuzu
    Outwardly, it looks like
    they're getting along,
[06:10] Yuzu
    but Erika and Mao both badmouth
    each other behind their backs...
[06:14] Tomozaki
    And in bringing them together,
    you're caught in the middle.
[06:20] Yuzu
    Exactly!
[06:22] Yuzu
    But I figure it's something only I can fix.
[06:25] Yuzu
    I'll hang in there!
[06:27] Tomozaki
    Must be rough.
[06:29] Yuzu
    It's better than the two of
    them being all awkward.
[06:34] Yuzu
    I owe Tama some big-time thanks.
[06:38] Mimimi
    So tiny and cute again today, Tama!
[06:38] Yuzu
    Not a lot of people could pull that off.
[06:41] Hanabi
    Back off already, Minmi!
[06:41] Yuzu
    I could learn something from her myself.
[06:47] Yuzu
    You've got to change what you
    don't like about yourself.
[06:50] Tomozaki
    I think you've changed
    quite a bit lately, Izumi.
[06:54] Yuzu
    Yeah. I've been thinking that, too.
[06:59] Tomozaki
    Yeah?
SIGN    Culture Festival
[07:09] Ms. Kawamura
    Okay, the culture festival is coming up.
[07:12] Ms. Kawamura
    The big day is December 22.
[07:15] Ms. Kawamura
    Go on and get fired up. It's your
     last chance to have fun.
[07:19] Ms. Kawamura
    You'll be in full-on study mode soon enough.
[07:22] Ms. Kawamura
    We'll pick four committee
    members in our next homeroom,
[07:27] Ms. Kawamura
    so think it over if you're interested.
[07:32] Tomozaki
    I hadn't even thought about the
    culture festival.
[07:37] Mimimi
    Brain!
[07:40] Tomozaki
    What's up, Mimimi?
[07:41] Mimimi
    Are you gonna be on the
    culture festival committee?
[07:46] Tomozaki
    I get the feeling Hinami will
    make it one of my tasks...
[07:50] Tomozaki
    Mmm, I don't...
[07:51] Mimimi
    What?! Is that a "no"?
[07:54] Mimimi
    But I'm expecting such big
    things
from you, Brain!
[07:58] Tomozaki
    Yeah, but I can't actually
    do anything, though.
[08:02] Mimimi
    There's that modesty again!
[08:05] Mimimi
    Knowing you, I'm positive
    you'll do something nifty!
[08:11] Tomozaki
    I've never looked forward to
    a culture festival before...
[08:15] Mimimi
    No way! Seriously?
[08:17] Tomozaki
    But... this year I do. A little.
[08:20] Mimimi
    There you go! There you go!
[08:22] Mimimi
    You gotta overwrite all those old unfun
    memories with this year's festival!
[08:27] Tomozaki
    Yeah... I guess so.
[08:30] Mimimi
    Tomozaki!
[08:33] Mimimi
    Let's make this year's culture
    festival super-ultra-fun!
[08:38] Tomozaki
    You got it!
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
[08:45] Aoi
    All right, let me ask you...
[08:49] Tomozaki
    Ask me what?
[08:50] Aoi
    First, there's Yuzu.
[08:51] Aoi
    Then Mimimi and Hanabi,
[08:54] Aoi
    and finally Fuka.
[08:56] Aoi
    Who would you most want to date?
[08:59] Tomozaki
    Huh?!
[09:01] Aoi
    Or...
[09:03] Aoi
    maybe you'd like to date me?
[09:07] Aoi
    Tell me. Who do you like?
[09:10] Tomozaki
    W-Well, uh...
[09:15] Aoi
    What's wrong? You're all red.
[09:19] Tomozaki
    Damn her...
[09:21] Tomozaki
    Now hang on. Why's Izumi even
    an option? That's not right!
[09:28] Aoi
    Ah, I see. You may have
    gained a level or three,
[09:32] Aoi
    but you're eternally chaste at heart.
[09:34] Tomozaki
    Mind your own business.
[09:36] Aoi
    Listen, there's no rule saying you
    can't go after a girl who's attached.
[09:42] Aoi
    It's not like she's married.
[09:45] Tomozaki
    That is true...
[09:47] Aoi
    What if Yuzu broke up with Nakamura
    and said she wanted to date you?
[09:53] Tomozaki
    What?! But that would never happen!
[09:56] Aoi
    No, it wouldn't.
[09:58] Tomozaki
    Hey!
[09:59] Aoi
    But what if it did? What would you do?
[10:02] Tomozaki
    I mean, jeez, I don't...
[10:06] Aoi
    That goes for other girls,
    too—not just Yuzu.
[10:09] Aoi
    If Mimimi or Hanabi or Fuka confessed
    their love to you, what would you do?
[10:14] Aoi
    Have you ever given it even
    the slightest thought?
[10:18] Tomozaki
    No, I mean, it wouldn't happen.
[10:21] Aoi
    That's true...
[10:23] Aoi
    But your inability to say one way or
    another ties into your current situation.
[10:29] Aoi
    Another what-if...
[10:31] Aoi
    Let's say...
[10:34] Aoi
    After school, a girl says she
    has something to talk about
[10:37] Aoi
    and gets you somewhere alone.
[10:40] Aoi
    She's a little embarrassed, but reveals
    that she's liked you for a while now.
[10:57] Aoi
    Well? Are you picturing it?
[10:59] Tomozaki
    Huh?!
[11:00] Aoi
    Wasn't there someone you could
    imagine dating? Just a little?
[11:05] Tomozaki
    No—well... maybe...
[11:09] Aoi
    Dating her will be the main
    focus of our work going forward.
[11:14] Aoi
    Oh, and ideally, there'd be two
    or more of them at any time.
[11:17] Tomozaki
    Two or more?! Why on earth? That's messed up!
[11:22] Aoi
    Some wiggle room is crucial.
[11:25] Tomozaki
    But two or more at the same time...
    There has to be another way.
[11:29] Aoi
    Just being able to think "I have other
    girlfriends" gives you a broader perspective
[11:35] Aoi
    and wiggle room for
    whatever you decide to do.
[11:37] Aoi
    That way you can keep a cool
    head for decision-making.
[11:41] Aoi
    This isn't just defense. It's offense, too.
[11:45] Aoi
    In other words,
[11:46] Aoi
    you throw one girl into a tizzy
    by hinting at others waiting in the wings.
[11:52] Tomozaki
    This is all really dark...
[11:55] Aoi
    If you think that's dark,
    you're only proving that
[11:57] Aoi
    you're still in the
    starry-eyed romantic stage.
[12:00] Tomozaki
    Y-You mean it gets darker?
[12:03] Aoi
    And don't forget the result of all this:
[12:06] Aoi
    You'll gain confidence in yourself for
    having done something that seemed so difficult.
[12:12] Tomozaki
    I get it...
[12:15] Aoi
    And with that...
[12:17] Aoi
    Which two girls?
SIGN    Small Goal: Who do you want to get closer to?
[12:18] Aoi
    Who do you want to get closer to?
[12:24] Tomozaki
    Can my answer wait a while?
[12:29] Aoi
    If you insist.
[12:31] Aoi
    But time is of the essence, so...
[12:33] Aoi
    Here—I'll give you an
    easy little task, too.
[12:37] Tomozaki
    Pinstagram?
[12:41] Tomozaki
    A woman who can do anything
    would take good pictures.
SIGN    402 posts / 6085 followers / 94 following Aoi Hinami
[12:46] Tomozaki
    Look at you, getting the most out of life.
[12:49] Tomozaki
    Wait—
[12:50] Tomozaki
    you have six thousand followers?!
[12:53] Tomozaki
    That's insane...
[12:54] Aoi
    Not really.
[12:56] Aoi
    There's demand for it.
[12:57] Aoi
    It's just what happens if you
    keep posting high-quality photos.
[13:03] Aoi
    I honestly didn't plan for it.
[13:06] Tomozaki
    Huh...
[13:07] Aoi
    We got off-track.
[13:09] Aoi
    Anyway, I want you on Pinstagram.
[13:14] Tomozaki
    Me on Pinsta, eh?
[13:16] Aoi
    Yes. In order for you to live
    a normie life here at school,
[13:21] Aoi
    you need to boost your image among our class.
[13:24] Aoi
    The smallest things will
    shake up the hierarchy.
[13:28] Aoi
    It changes based on how others see you.
[13:33] Tomozaki
    Yeah, I get that.
[13:36] Aoi
    So your mini-task will be
SIGN    Mini-Task: Create private Pinstagram and self-promote
[13:39] Aoi
    to create a private Pinstagram
    account and do some self-promotion.
[13:44] Aoi
    Simple enough. I'll send
    you the details later.
[13:50] Tomozaki
    Okay.
SIGN    Here are those details. Simple, right? Pinsta Tasks: Selfie w/ Shuji & Takei
[13:57] Tomozaki
    She calls this simple?
SIGN    Pinsta Tasks: Selfie w/ Shuji & Takei, Takahiro in glasses, Hanabi making a face, Minami eating ramen, Selfie w/ Fuka
[14:00] Tomozaki
    This is going to be incredibly hard.
[14:07] Fuka
    I'm glad everything's calmed down.
[14:10] Tomozaki
    Uh-huh.
[14:12] Fuka
    Wasn't Hanabi amazing, though?
[14:14] Fuka
    It's as if she soared over
    all those walls in her way.
[14:18] Fuka
    I'm sure Hanabi always
    had the strength to fly.
[14:22] Fuka
    She just didn't know how to use her wings.
[14:26] Tomozaki
    Right.
[14:27] Tomozaki
    And once you can fly, you have total freedom.
[14:31] Fuka
    That's true.
[14:32] Tomozaki
    Kikuchi, I need to thank you
    again for all you've done.
[14:37] Tomozaki
    You were a huge help.
[14:39] Fuka
    S-Sure.
[14:40] Fuka
    I'd be happy to help again if you need me.
[14:43] Fuka
    Not that I can do very much.
[14:46] Tomozaki
    Sure you can!
[14:48] Tomozaki
    I might be leaning on you again someday.
[14:52] Fuka
    Whatever you need.
[14:54] Tomozaki
    G-Great. I'll let you know.
[14:58] Fuka
    Uh-huh.
[15:00] Fuka
    Still...
[15:02] Fuka
    I don't know what Hinami was thinking.
[15:05] Fuka
    Something felt a little... off.
[15:08] Tomozaki
    "Off," huh?
[15:10] Tomozaki
    So Kikuchi picked up on that, too.
[15:13] Fuka
    I'm wondering why Hinami
    thought to go to such lengths.
[15:18] Fuka
    It really has me curious...
[15:20] Fuka
    There must be something inside Hinami
    that just couldn't forgive her.
[15:26] Aoi
    There are some things even I can't forgive.
[15:31] Fuka
    When someone's angry,
[15:33] Fuka
    I think it's because the way
    things are doesn't match
[15:36] Fuka
    the way they think things ought to be.
[15:39] Tomozaki
    How things ought to be, huh?
[15:45] Tomozaki
    I wonder what that is for Hinami?
[15:50] Fuka
    Oh, right!
[15:53] Fuka
    There's something I'd like you
    to see, if you don't mind.
[15:59] Fuka
    I wrote a new novel, so,
    um... if you could...
[16:03] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah, sure. Of course.
[16:07] Fuka
    Okay, I'll... I'll bring it next time!
[16:13] Tomozaki
    Oh!
SIGN    Hanabi making a face, Minami eating ramen, Selfie w/ Fuka
[16:14] Tomozaki
    I forgot to do my assignment.
SIGN    Selfie w/ Fuka Kikuchi
SIGN    Today How are those photos coming? Read: Couldn't take any...
SIGN    Today How are those photos coming? Read: Couldn't take any... The day's not over yet.
[16:26] Tomozaki
    My most likely option now...
SIGN    Hanabi making a face, Minami eating ramen, Selfie w/ Fuka
[16:29] Tomozaki
    Since Tama, Mimimi, and
    Kikuchi aren't around...
SIGN    Pinsta Tasks: Selfie w/Shuji & Takei, Takahiro in glasses
[16:36] Tomozaki
    It'll have to be a selfie
    with Nakamura and Takei
[16:39] Tomozaki
    or Mizusawa wearing glasses.
[16:47] Takei
    Get 'em!
[16:51] Game Announcer
    Game set!
[16:53] Mizusawa
    You really are good at this, Fumiya.
[16:55] Takei
    Shake it off, Shuji!
[16:57] Nakamura
    Tch! We're takin' a break!
[17:01] Tomozaki
    Yikes!
[17:08] Tomozaki
    It's hard to get the timing
    right for a photo...
[17:12] Tomozaki
    If I suddenly suggest a selfie,
    I
know they'll think it's weird.
[17:17] Tomozaki
    I need some kind of excuse...
[17:19] Mizusawa
    Given any thought to the
    festival committee, Shuji?
[17:22] Nakamura
    Oh yeah...
[17:23] Takei
    You're doing it, right?
[17:25] Nakamura
    Kinda have to, don't I?
[17:27] Mizusawa
    Yes. What about you, Fumiya?
[17:30] Tomozaki
    Huh?
[17:31] Mizusawa
    The culture festival committee.
    You're gonna join, right?
[17:35] Tomozaki
    Eh? Uh, yeah!
[17:37] Tomozaki
    Wait. Now I'm... on the committee?
[17:43] Tomozaki
    I was too focused on my assignment.
[17:46] Nakamura
    We oughta start heading home.
[17:48] Mizusawa
    Okay.
[17:49] Takei
    Homeward bound!
[17:57] Tomozaki
    Damn. My photo homework...
[18:00] Tomozaki
    Isn't there anything I could—
[18:04] Tomozaki
    H-Hey...
[18:08] Tomozaki
    L-Let's take a picture with this!
[18:11] Nakamura
    Huh? That's out of the blue.
[18:14] Takei
    What gives, Army Boy?
[18:16] Tomozaki
    Well, uh... I was thinking
    of going on Pinstagram.
[18:19] Takei
    Army Boy on Pinstagram?!
    Sure thing! Fire away!
[18:24] Nakamura
    Well, I'm not a little kid,
     so I'm heading home.
[18:27] Tomozaki
    Aw, don't be like that.
    C'mon! It'll be like a memento!
[18:32] Nakamura
    What are you talking about?
[18:34] Mizusawa
    I mean, why not?
[18:36] Mizusawa
    Let's do it. You too, Shuji.
[18:38] Nakamura
    You gotta be kidding...
[18:40] Nakamura
    Sheesh.
[18:42] Nakamura
    Hurry up already. You get one shot, pal.
[18:45] Tomozaki
    O-Okay.
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
[18:50] Tomozaki
    The assignment was to take a
    selfie with Nakamura and Takei,
[18:54] Tomozaki
    but Mizusawa wound up in there, too.
[18:57] Aoi
    Mmm... that doesn't bother me.
[19:00] Aoi
    But this shot is blurry as all hell.
[19:03] Tomozaki
    W-Well... that's because...
[19:06] Aoi
    Just be mindful from now on.
[19:08] Tomozaki
    O-Okay.
[19:10] Aoi
    Now let's whip up one
    of these babies for you.
[19:14] Tomozaki
    A Pinsta account, you mean?
[19:18] Aoi
    Exactly!
[19:19] Tomozaki
    There it is.
[19:21] Aoi
    I hate to use this blurry
    thing as your account icon.
[19:24] Aoi
    But it's the only one you have, right?
[19:26] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah...
SIGN    Pinstagram Cancel / Open
[19:29] Aoi
    While you're setting up your account,
[19:32] Aoi
    I'll explain your additional task.
[19:35] Tomozaki
    I have an additional task?
[19:37] Aoi
    We'll be putting together our festival
    committee today during homeroom.
SIGN    Culture Festival Tasks: Join the committee
[19:42] Aoi
    You'll be taking a spot on it.
[19:45] Tomozaki
    Yeah, I already raised my hand for
    that without you assigning it.
[19:51] Tomozaki
    Yesterday, Nakamura and the guys and I
    were talking about doing it together.
[19:55] Aoi
    I see. You've come a long way.
[19:59] Aoi
    I expect the girls' members will
    be from the normie camp as well.
[20:03] Aoi
    Not only will this earn you XP,
[20:07] Aoi
    but seeing you all working together will
    make a good impression on the class.
SIGN    Pinstagram Log In
[20:14] Tomozaki
    The same idea behind Pinsta.
[20:16] Aoi
    Right.
[20:17] Aoi
    Then use your opinions to
    actively market yourself.
[20:23] Aoi
    That's your new assignment.
SIGN    Show maximum enthusiasm on all fronts
[20:24] Aoi
    Just show the absolute greatest enthusiasm
    you can muster on any and all fronts.
[20:30] Tomozaki
    The g-greatest enthusiasm, on all fronts...
[20:34] Tomozaki
    Got it.
[20:36] Ms. Kawamura
    All right.
SIGN    Culture Festival Committee Boys / Girls
[20:37] Ms. Kawamura
    Time to choose our committee
    members for the culture festival.
[20:40] Ms. Kawamura
    We need four guys and four gals.
[20:43] Ms. Kawamura
    First, the boys.
[20:45] Takei
    I'll do it!
[20:49] Ms. Kawamura
    Okay, for the boys,
SIGN    Boys: Takei / Mizusawa / Nakamura / Tomozaki
[20:52] Ms. Kawamura
    we have Takei, Mizusawa,
    Nakamura, and Tomozaki.
[20:56] Ms. Kawamura
    Next up: the girls.
[20:57] Ms. Kawamura
    Any takers?
[20:59] Mimimi
    Here!
[21:00] Mimimi
    Count me in!
[21:02] Ms. Kawamura
    And Nanami kicks us off. Anyone else?
[21:05] Mimimi
    Tama! Come create the
    culture festival with me!
[21:09] Hanabi
    Pass.
[21:10] Mimimi
    Dang, girl! That was fast!
[21:15] Mimimi
    Aoi!
[21:16] Aoi
    Another pass.
[21:18] Mimimi
    C'mon! Turning me down twice in
    a row? I've got feelings, y'know!
[21:23] Aoi
    Sorry, sorry! I just have all
    this student council work.
[21:28] Mimimi
    Oh, right...
[21:30] Ms. Kawamura
    Too bad, Nanami.
[21:33] Ms. Kawamura
    Anyone else?
[21:35] Kashiwazaki
    I could do it!
[21:37] Seno
    Me, too!
[21:39] Mimimi
    You go, Sakura and Yuki!
[21:41] Yuzu
    Um... me too.
[21:43] Mimimi
    That's our Yuzu!
[21:46] Ms. Kawamura
    Okay, our girls are
SIGN    Girls: Nanami / Kashiwazaki / Seno / Izumi
[21:47] Ms. Kawamura
    Nanami, Kashiwazaki, Seno, and Izumi.
[21:50] Ms. Kawamura
    Committee members, front and center!
[21:55] Tomozaki
    I was to show every last drop of the
    enthusiasm I had in me here on the committee.
[22:01] Tomozaki
    That, and...
[22:07] Tomozaki
    decide who I wanted to date.

E7 - Important items are usually lying around in enchanted forests

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SIGN    Class Stall - Octopus balls (3) - Okonomiyaki (3) - Café (8) - Manga café (10) - Crêpes (5) - Ramen (5)
[00:06] Tomozaki
    It was decided that our class
    would host a manga café.
[00:11] Tomozaki
    Now we committee members were
    staying behind to discuss
SIGN    Gym Stage - Chorus (7) - Dance (3) - Play (12) - Karaoke (5) - Fashion Show (7)
[00:16] Tomozaki
    the play we'd perform on the
    special stage in the gym.
[00:21] Mizusawa
    Let's come up with some
    ideas for our play here
[00:25] Mizusawa
    and have the class pick one in homeroom.
[00:29] Yuzu
    Okay.
[00:30] Nakamura
    Yeah, but where do we even start?
[00:34] Takei
    We gotta do Momotaro!
[00:36] Nakamura
    What are you, a kindergartener?
[00:38] Takei
    Aw, why not?
[00:40] Yuzu
    Hmm... What about Romeo and Juliet?
[00:43] Mizusawa
    Whoof, what a cliché.
[00:45] Kashiwazaki
    Some kind of romantic drama, maybe!
[00:47] Seno
    Like The Phantom of the Opera.
[00:52] Aoi
    Just show the absolute greatest enthusiasm
    you can muster on any and all fronts.
SIGN    Show maximum enthusiasm on all fronts
[01:00] Tomozaki
    H-Hey, why don't we use this
    chance to do an original play?
[01:05] Takei
    Original?
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 7 Important items are usually lying around in enchanted forests
[02:41] Yuzu
    Then it's official: our class will
    be putting on an original play!
SIGN    Plays - Romeo & Juliet (9) - Romantic Drama (8) - Phantom of the Opera (4) - Momotaro (1) - Original (12)
[02:48] Yuzu
    And here's your director: Tomozaki!
SIGN    Director!
[02:51] Nakamura
    Remember, this is your bright idea.
[02:53] Takei
    Go get 'em, Army Boy!
[02:55] Mizusawa
    We're counting on you, Fumiya.
[02:56] Yuzu
    You've got this!
[02:58] Tomozaki
    Well, my opinion definitely did get across...
[03:01] Mimimi
    Thanks in advance, Director Brain!
[03:04] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah...
[03:05] Tomozaki
    So while I think about this play...
[03:08] Aoi
    First, there's Yuzu.
[03:10] Aoi
    Then Mimimi and Hanabi,
[03:13] Aoi
    and finally Fuka.
[03:15] Aoi
    Who would you most want to date?
[03:19] Tomozaki
    Can I even do this?
[03:29] Takei
    Man, what an exhausting day.
[03:32] Mizusawa
    All those meetings didn't help.
[03:34] Mimimi
    And, hey, Yuzu!
[03:36] Mimimi
    You're going to be the promem leader!
[03:39] Takei
    Promem?
[03:40] Takei
    Hey, Army Boy—what's "promem"?
[03:43] Tomozaki
    It's an abbreviation.
[03:45] Tomozaki
    It stands for a culture
    festival project member:
[03:48] Tomozaki
    someone on the class committee
[03:50] Tomozaki
    who also helps runs the
    festival at the school level.
[03:53] Tomozaki
    Izumi volunteered and got
    named leader, remember?
[03:57] Tomozaki
    Oh, right... You were asleep.
[04:01] Takei
    Oh, okay, yeah!
[04:03] Tomozaki
    It's crazy that you can sleep like that.
[04:06] Mimimi
    Even during the sports tournament,
    Yuzu would step in as captain.
[04:10] Mimimi
    She's just been brimming with energy lately!
[04:14] Yuzu
    Yeah, I thought I'd try
    spreading my wings a little.
[04:18] Nakamura
    Just don't overdo it.
[04:20] Yuzu
    Thanks, Shuji.
[04:23] Mizusawa
    Aw. Sweet.
[04:24] Nakamura
    Shut it.
[04:27] Takei
    See ya!
[04:32] Mimimi
    Later!
[04:36] Tomozaki
    What can I knock off my Pinsta list?
SIGN    Minami Nanami eating ramen
[04:39] Tomozaki
    Mimimi eating ramen... Hmm.
[04:42] Yuzu
    Bye!
[04:45] Tomozaki
    Mimimi and ramen... Could be
    tough to get the pieces in place.
[04:51] Tomozaki
    It's in these little details where
    Hinami's sadism really shines.
[04:57] Mimimi
    I'm so psyched for the play!
[04:59] Mimimi
    How about one about basketball?
[05:01] Mimimi
    Maybe where the star racks up fouls right
    after the game starts and gets ejected!
[05:06] Tomozaki
    Gee, sounds familiar.
[05:08] Mimimi
    Good one!
[05:10] Mimimi
    I had a hard time letting
    go of the comedy-act option.
[05:14] Mimimi
    With your quick comebacks,
    we'd get all the laughs!
[05:18] Tomozaki
    Please, spare me. I'm not
    cut out for the stage.
[05:24] Mimimi
    I guess as a brain and all, you are
     better suited for brain stuff!
[05:29] Tomozaki
    So my nickname means I ought to stick
    to the thinking part of things?
[05:33] Mimimi
    That's right! You're quick!
[05:36] Tomozaki
    Well, I'm used to it by now.
[05:38] Mimimi
    I guess we just really get each other...
[05:42] Mimimi
    wouldn't you say?
[05:43] Tomozaki
    Whoa!
[05:44] Mimimi
    Oho! You're built surprisingly solid, Brain!
[05:48] Tomozaki
    No, you're just really light—
[06:02] Mimimi
    O-Oh, wow! That's quite
    the compliment, you know!
[06:07] Mimimi
    Uh... Looks like the light's green!
[06:09] Mimimi
    'Kay, Tomozaki, let's head home!
[06:12] Tomozaki
    Right...
[06:17] Tomozaki
    M-Mimimi?
[06:22] Mimimi
    Wh-What is it?
[06:25] Tomozaki
    Um, well...
[06:30] Mimimi
    Ah, to be bringing such
    a young high-school girl
[06:34] Mimimi
    to a place like this!
[06:36] Tomozaki
    I-I was just hungry! And—
[06:39] Mimimi
    I mean, so am I. I'm cool with it!
[06:42] Tomozaki
    Maybe I was a little forceful
    in how I made it happen...
SIGN    Minami Nanami eating ramen
[06:47] Tomozaki
    ...but at least now I'll be able to get
    that photo of Mimimi eating ramen.
[06:52] Mimimi
    Okay—I'm having the gyoza combo!
[06:55] Tomozaki
    Huh? Gyoza?!
[06:57] Mimimi
    What about you?
[06:59] Tomozaki
    Um, well...
[07:01] Tomozaki
    Ramen... I guess?
[07:03] Mimimi
    Okay!
[07:05] Tomozaki
    I just assumed that Mimimi
    would order ramen...
[07:10] Tomozaki
    but this is a gyoza chain.
SIGN    Manchuria Gyoza
[07:14] Mimimi
    This is a pretty rare event, eh, Tomozaki?
[07:18] Tomozaki
    I-I guess so. In fact, this
    might be the first time
[07:23] Tomozaki
    I've invited anyone to a meal after school.
[07:25] Mimimi
    Wha—?
[07:27] Mimimi
    Then what gave you the idea to invite me?
[07:31] Tomozaki
    What gave me... the idea?
[07:34] Tomozaki
    W-Well, you know... the ramen...
[07:37] Mimimi
    The ramen?
[07:38] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah! I was really, really
    craving some ramen—
[07:43] Mimimi
    That bad, huh?
[07:45] Mimimi
    You want two?
[07:46] Tomozaki
    I couldn't...
[07:49] Tomozaki
    And with the normie superpower "conversation
    autofeed," my alibi was complete.
[07:55] Tomozaki
    Thank goodness. If I'd
    answered her honestly...
[08:00] Tomozaki
    I wanted to have pictures on
    my phone of you eating ramen!
[08:06] Mimimi
    Say what?
[08:09] Tomozaki
    I can just picture it.
[08:12] Employee
    Here you go!
[08:15] Mimimi
    Let's dig in!
[08:17] Tomozaki
    Yeah, let's...
[08:21] Mimimi
    Mmm, yum!
[08:23] Tomozaki
    Now what?
[08:24] Tomozaki
    How do I get a picture
    of Mimimi eating ramen?
[08:29] Mimimi
    Why are you looking at
    me like that, Tomozaki?
[08:32] Tomozaki
    Oh... sorry. I was just...
[08:35] Tomozaki
    Did... Did you want a bite of ramen?
[08:39] Mimimi
    Huh?
[08:41] Mimimi
    Um... one bite?
[08:43] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah... One bite...
[08:49] Tomozaki
    Wh-What's wrong?
[08:52] Mimimi
    Am I thinking too hard?
[08:55] Tomozaki
    A-About what?
[08:59] Mimimi
    Oh, nothing.
[09:02] Mimimi
    Okay, lay it on me!
[09:08] Mimimi
    Whoa! What's with the photo shoot?
[09:11] Tomozaki
    I-I-I messed up!
[09:13] Mimimi
    Messed up what?
[09:15] Tomozaki
    I-I thought, uh... I thought
    you were going to eat my egg...
[09:19] Mimimi
    I would never!
[09:21] Mimimi
    But why all the photos?
[09:23] Tomozaki
    For, um... for evidence!
[09:25] Mimimi
    Jeez, you're obsessed with this egg!
[09:28] Tomozaki
    I-I just really like them, that's all!
[09:31] Mimimi
    Honestly...
[09:33] Mimimi
    Here you go. Thanks!
[09:35] Tomozaki
    S-Sure.
[09:38] Mimimi
    Hmm. Something's not quite right.
[09:41] Tomozaki
    Like what?
[09:46] Mimimi
    Hey, Tomozaki!
[09:49] Mimimi
    Have some of mine. Here!
[09:53] Tomozaki
    Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
[09:57] Tomozaki
    What's she trying to do?
[09:59] Tomozaki
    This is that, you know, that thing,
     that "say aah" thing—

[10:06] Tomozaki
    What's her angle? What battle is she fighting?
    Why all this pressure?!
[10:10] Tomozaki
    I-I don't even know how to turn her down...
[10:14] Tomozaki
    F-Fine!
[10:25] Tomozaki
    I didn't even get to enjoy it.
[10:29] Mimimi
    Something's fishy, all right.
[10:30] Tomozaki
    Huh?
[10:37] Tomozaki
    What the—did I make her mad?
    What did I do?
[10:41] Tomozaki
    I-I have no idea...
[10:43] Tomozaki
    But it'd be weird to apologize.
[10:45] Tomozaki
    I don't even know what
    I'd be apologizing for.
[10:49] Tomozaki
    Damn, she's going to finish first!
[10:52] Tomozaki
    What will it do to the mood
    if I make her wait for me?
[10:55] Tomozaki
    I've got to eat fast, too!
[11:02] Mimimi
    Wh-Whoa, Tomozaki! What's the rush?
[11:06] Tomozaki
    I-It's just that...
[11:10] Tomozaki
    You were going to... finish
    your gyoza first...
[11:13] Tomozaki
    I didn't want to make you wait...
[11:16] Mimimi
    You're one odd duck, Tomozaki!
[11:19] Mimimi
    Okay, see you later!
[11:21] Tomozaki
    Yep—later!
SIGN    Can you only take blurry pictures or what?
[11:41] Tomozaki
    You've got me there, Miss Hinami.
SIGN    Make sure you're thinking about who you want to date.
SIGN    Fuka Kikuchi I'll bring that novel tomorrow. Close / Show
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[11:59] Fuka
    S-Sorry for the wait.
[12:01] Tomozaki
    I-It's no problem!
[12:03] Fuka
    Um... here.
[12:05] Tomozaki
    Thanks. I'll let you know what I think.
[12:08] Fuka
    Th-This is a first for me!
[12:13] Fuka
    I-I've never shown anyone my work
    before, so please—go easy on me.
[12:20] Tomozaki
    Y-Yes, of course. Thank you.
[12:23] Fuka
    Thank you.
[12:27] Everyone
    One, two, three...
[12:28] Everyone
    Shoot!
[12:30] Takei
    I lost again? That's four times in a row!
[12:37] Nakamura
    Up to the foot of the hill, now.
[12:39] Yuzu
    Sorry!
[12:41] Aoi
    Thanks!
[12:43] Mizusawa
    Man, four in a row...
[12:45] Mimimi
    What are the odds?
[12:46] Hanabi
    You suck at rock-paper-scissors, Takei.
[12:49] Tomozaki
    Shake it off!
[12:51] Takei
    Damn it!
[12:52] Takei
    I'll win next time—you'll see!
[12:54] Mimimi
    Ooh, a race! I've got this in the bag!
[12:58] Nakamura
    Hey, wait!
[12:59] Yuzu
    Huh? We're running now?!
[13:07] Hanabi
    Everyone's so full of energy.
[13:08] Aoi
    Okay—
[13:10] Aoi
    here I go!
[13:14] Tomozaki
    That look just now...
[13:17] Tomozaki
    That meant, "Here's your chance. Check
    off another one while you can."
SIGN    Hanabi Hirabayashi making a face
[13:27] Tomozaki
    Hey, Tama...
[13:30] Hanabi
    Hmm? What's up?
[13:31] Tomozaki
    Can I ask you a favor?
[13:34] Tomozaki
    Tama's always so straightforward—
[13:37] Tomozaki
    best to just put it all right out there.
[13:40] Tomozaki
    I just started a Pinsta account,
[13:42] Tomozaki
    and I'd like to put a picture
    of you making a face on there.
[13:46] Tomozaki
    Would you mind?
[13:47] Hanabi
    Well, this is sudden.
[13:49] Tomozaki
    I thought it might be a fun,
    different thing to post.
[13:52] Hanabi
    Hmm... sure, I guess. Here!
[13:56] Tomozaki
    Wow, th-that was quick...
[14:00] Hanabi
    Take the picture already!
[14:02] Tomozaki
    O-Oh, right!
[14:05] Hanabi
    Okay, now one with you.
[14:07] Tomozaki
    Huh?
[14:09] Hanabi
    Hurry up!
[14:10] Tomozaki
    A-All right...
[14:13] Hanabi
    Hmm... It's not all that great, is it?
[14:18] Tomozaki
    Huh?
[14:20] Tomozaki
    When I sent it to Hinami later,
[14:23] Tomozaki
    she finally gave me the barest minimum
    of praise: "Well, it's in focus."
SIGN    Tomozaki
[14:35] Tomozaki
    The manuscript Kikuchi had given me
[14:38] Tomozaki
    was a collection of five short stories,
    loosely connected by shared themes.
SIGN    0.8-Carat Pain Lugor and the Giant Stone The Moon's Not Reflected in His Eyes Clockwork Birthday
[14:43] Tomozaki
    Every one of the stories she
    wrote was gentle and warm.
[14:50] Tomozaki
    Huh?
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[14:52] Tomozaki
    Is that where it ends?
[14:59] Tomozaki
    I never thought the father
    would show up at the end!
[15:03] Fuka
    Oh, that!
[15:05] Fuka
    It came to me after I was done—
    I changed it.
[15:08] Fuka
    I figured it would be a
    weight off Wolfin's mind.
[15:12] Tomozaki
    Yeah!
[15:13] Tomozaki
    Oh, and I liked how the beast-person
    Lugor didn't break the rock—
[15:17] Tomozaki
    Mita the human did!
[15:20] Tomozaki
    Like he was using brains, not brawn,
[15:22] Tomozaki
    to pierce the wall between their species.
[15:24] Fuka
    I'm so happy you understood all of that...
[15:28] Tomozaki
    Oh, actually, that last story cut
    off halfway through. Was that—
[15:34] Fuka
    Huh? You mean... the dragon story?
[15:37] Tomozaki
    Yeah, the dragon story.
[15:44] Fuka
    My mistake! I-I'm so sorry!
[15:47] Tomozaki
    Mistake?
[15:49] Fuka
    That one's not finished yet.
[15:52] Fuka
    I write everything in the
    same file, you see, so...
[15:55] Fuka
    It must have gotten printed
    along with the rest.
[16:00] Tomozaki
    Ah, I see.
[16:02] Tomozaki
    That one made the biggest
    impression on me, though—
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[16:06] Tomozaki
    a tale of raising the last dragon.
[16:10] Tomozaki
    It's as if the characters really came
    alive in my head while I was reading it.
[16:17] Tomozaki
    You know... it's like what you
    said before, about Andi's books.
[16:23] Fuka
    What I said?
[16:25] Tomozaki
    Uh-huh.
[16:25] Tomozaki
    That when you're reading, the book's
    world blinks right into your head as is.
[16:29] Tomozaki
    When I was reading that story,
[16:32] Tomozaki
    the world it described hit
    me as so real, so colorful.
[16:39] Tomozaki
    That last story in particular
[16:41] Tomozaki
    made me feel like I do when
    I read Andi's novels...
[16:45] Tomozaki
    Or something like that.
[16:47] Tomozaki
    K-Kikuchi?!
[16:50] Fuka
    Oh, um, I... I'm sorry.
[16:53] Tomozaki
    Wh-What's wrong?
[16:57] Fuka
    I've loved Andi's work all this time,
[17:00] Fuka
    and I've always wanted to
    write something similar.
[17:06] Fuka
    Really... always.
[17:08] Fuka
    I know I'm still just starting out and all,
[17:12] Fuka
    but to hear that from you,
    after you read my work...
[17:17] Fuka
    It just makes me so happy.
[17:20] Tomozaki
    I see...
[17:23] Tomozaki
    Hey, Kikuchi?
[17:24] Fuka
    Yes?
[17:26] Tomozaki
    Why don't you use this last
    story to write our class play?
[17:33] Tomozaki
    I'd love to see the whole class
    performing something you wrote.
[17:40] Fuka
    But I...
[17:42] Tomozaki
    Sorry! You don't have to.
[17:46] Fuka
    I'm scared.
[17:49] Fuka
    That last story...
[17:51] Fuka
    It was coming along so
    smoothly when I started,
[17:54] Fuka
    and I came to love each and
    every one of its characters.
[18:00] Fuka
    It became one of my favorite stories.
     It means the world to me.
[18:05] Fuka
    But that's why I'm having
    such a hard time deciding
[18:09] Fuka
    what conclusion this beloved story,
     these dear characters,
[18:14] Fuka
    should reach in the end.
[18:16] Fuka
    And that's why I couldn't write an ending.
[18:20] Tomozaki
    Oh... is that why...
[18:22] Fuka
    It's all so precious, I'm afraid it'll break.
[18:26] Tomozaki
    I see. Then this story might be
    better off staying inside you,
[18:30] Tomozaki
    where it can be nurtured carefully over time.
[18:34] Fuka
    Or that's what I would have said,
     not too long ago.
[18:39] Tomozaki
    Huh? Then...
[18:47] Yuzu
    Okay!
[18:48] Yuzu
    How's the play coming along?
[18:51] Yuzu
    Any original stories we can use?
[18:54] Tomozaki
    If I could?
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[18:56] Tomozaki
    I'm wondering if we could use this as a base,
[18:59] Tomozaki
    discussing it together, choosing roles,
     and tweaking as we go.
[19:03] Nakamura
    Hmm. Can't say I really get it,
    but it has, like, actual sentences.
[19:09] Seno
    It's a fantasy story.
[19:10] Kashiwazaki
    Could be fun!
[19:12] Mimimi
    That's our Brain! Taking care of business!
[19:15] Mizusawa
    Hey, Fumiya...
[19:17] Mizusawa
    did you write this?
[19:19] Takei
    Army Boy? Seriously?
[19:21] Tomozaki
    No, Kikuchi did.
[19:24] Mizusawa
    Huh! I see how it is.
[19:27] Tomozaki
    Wh-What's that supposed to mean?
[19:33] Fuka
    I-I'm still working on the second half.
[19:37] Fuka
    Thanks for your patience!
[19:43] Fuka
    I've always been afraid
    to leave my own world.
[19:48] Fuka
    But with all our conversations recently...
[19:53] Fuka
    I'm watching you go before me,
    leaping from a lonely world
[19:59] Fuka
    to one that's still unknown.
[20:01] Fuka
    And it occurred to me:
[20:02] Fuka
    I'd like to see that world, too.
SIGN    Our Original Play "My Unfamiliar Way to Fly"
[20:13] Kashiwazaki
    Then we're all set!
[20:15] Seno
    Kikuchi, could you write up a quick
    synopsis before our next meeting?
[20:20] Fuka
    Y-Yes, that should be fine.
[20:23] Mizusawa
    Okay. Then we can start
    assigning roles, right?
[20:27] Yuzu
    Yeah!
[20:29] Takei
    All right! I'll take the lead!
[20:31] Nakamura
    Takei!
[20:33] Nakamura
    Literally anyone but you.
[20:48] Tomozaki
    Things were looking good
    for the culture festival.
[20:52] Tomozaki
    Now to tackle Hinami's tasks—
SIGN    Takahiro Mizusawa in glasses
[20:55] Mizusawa
    Something on your mind?
[20:56] Tomozaki
    Whoa!
[20:58] Tomozaki
    M-Mizusawa?!
[20:59] Mizusawa
    Man, you really are more
    than you seem, Fumiya.
[21:04] Tomozaki
    Huh? What do you mean?
[21:07] Mizusawa
    Hmm... You don't need to know.
SIGN    Takahiro Mizusawa in glasses
[21:12] Tomozaki
    "Mizusawa in glasses," eh?
[21:15] Tomozaki
    H-Hey, Mizusawa. Are you free
    tomorrow or the day after?
[21:19] Mizusawa
    What's this about? Rare for you to ask.
[21:22] Tomozaki
    I-I guess so. I'd like to get out somewhere.
[21:26] Mizusawa
    Hmm... Does that mean you're free tomorrow?
[21:31] Tomozaki
    Yeah.
[21:33] Mizusawa
    Perfect. We'll go to a culture festival.
[21:36] Tomozaki
    A culture festival?
[21:39] Mizusawa
    At Gumi's high school.
[21:42] Mizusawa
    It's invitation-only,
[21:46] Mizusawa
    but I managed to score two tickets.
[21:48] Mizusawa
    We can scope out another school's
    festival while we're at it.
[21:52] Tomozaki
    Oh, okay. Sure thing.
[21:54] Mizusawa
    Incidentally, Gumi goes
    to an all-girls school.
[21:58] Tomozaki
    Huh? All... girls?
[22:01] Mizusawa
    Yep: all girls!
[22:04] Tomozaki
    All... girls...

E8 - Sometimes the main character can't enter the village of another species on his own

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SIGN    Special Invitation Ticket 73rd Tokujo High Culture Festival Host: Tsugumi Narita Guest: Fumiya Tomozaki
SIGN    Tokujo Festival
[00:09] Mizusawa
    C'mon, relax those shoulders.
    And smile! Smile!
[00:12] Tomozaki
    R-Right...
[00:15] Tomozaki
    Well, I made it on an outing
    with Mizusawa. But now...
[00:19] Tomozaki
    Now to tackle Hinami's tasks.
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 8 Sometimes the main character can't enter the village of another species on his own
[01:58] Mizusawa
    Okay, first we do some flirting.
[02:00] Tomozaki
    Huh?! What about scoping out their festival?
[02:03] Mizusawa
    That's what we say we're here for.
[02:05] Mizusawa
    But if two guys come to an
    all-girls school festival,
[02:08] Mizusawa
    there's really only one reason.
[02:10] Tomozaki
    Are you serious?
[02:12] Tomozaki
    But jeez, I'm not sure I can just...
[02:16] Tomozaki
    Wait—Mizusawa?!
[02:18] Mizusawa
    Hi there!
[02:20] Mizusawa
    What's that? Looks delish.
[02:21] Mizusawa
    Did you bring that from home?
[02:23] Mizusawa
    That was fast! Extroverts
    are something else...
[02:27] Mako
    Nope! We bought them here.
[02:30] Mizusawa
    Oh, yeah? I thought you two were
    just super into cotton candy.
[02:35] Sayaka
    What the heck?
[02:35] Mizusawa
    You know, since you both liked
    it enough to bring your own.
[02:38] Sayaka
    C'mon, as if!
[02:41] Mizusawa
    Hey, can I have a bite?
[02:43] Sayaka
    No, I don't think so.
[02:45] Mizusawa
    Oh, I wasn't asking you. I
    was asking this girl here.
[02:49] Sayaka
    Meanie!
[02:50] Mizusawa
    You'll give me a bite, won't you?
[02:52] Mako
    Well, I guess...
[02:56] Mizusawa
    Whoa! It tastes just like cotton candy!
[02:59] Sayaka
    That's because it is cotton candy.
[03:01] Mako
    Hey, what are you doing here, anyway?
[03:03] Sayaka
    Did you come alone?
[03:05] Mizusawa
    Actually, I got separated from my friend.
[03:08] Mizusawa
    Let me know if you see him, okay?
[03:11] Sayaka
    We don't know what he looks like.
[03:13] Mizusawa
    Oh! I'll send you a picture, then.
[03:15] Mizusawa
    And tell me if you see him.
[03:17] Mizusawa
    How should we be in touch? By snail mail?
[03:19] Mako
    That makes no sense!
[03:21] Mizusawa
    Right, right. Then we'll do this.
[03:24] Sayaka
    Um...
[03:25] Mako
    What do you think?
[03:26] Mizusawa
    So it's snail mail after all?
[03:27] Sayaka
    No, that's kind of a hassle.
[03:30] Mizusawa
    It is, yeah. And I don't
    want to share my address.
[03:34] Mizusawa
    So what do we do?
[03:36] Mako
    I guess Litter would work.
[03:38] Mako
    Better than snail mail!
[03:39] Mizusawa
    Okay!
[03:41] Sayaka
    You're really slick, you know that?
[03:43] Mizusawa
    No, no! I'm just worried
    about my poor lost friend.
[03:47] Mako
    Oh, of course.
[03:49] Mizusawa
    Later!
[03:50] Mako
    Hope you find your friend!
[03:55] Mizusawa
    Well?
[03:57] Mizusawa
    What's my score?
[03:59] Tomozaki
    A perfect hundred.
[04:03] Mizusawa
    I mean, it all starts by
    striking up that conversation.
[04:07] Mizusawa
    That opening line isn't about what
    you say—it's how you say it.
[04:12] Tomozaki
    How I say it...
[04:14] Tomozaki
    According to Mizusawa, it went like this:
[04:17] Tomozaki
    When a stranger suddenly
    starts talking to someone
[04:20] Tomozaki
    who's not mentally prepared for it,
[04:22] Tomozaki
    that person won't be in listening mode.
[04:25] Tomozaki
    But after they acknowledge you and
    you can hold onto their awareness,
[04:29] Tomozaki
    you've got your first conversation.
[04:31] Tomozaki
    Once that's underway,
    just talk about whatever.
[04:36] Tomozaki
    You can ask questions—anything at all.
[04:38] Tomozaki
    And like with the cotton candy earlier,
[04:39] Tomozaki
    it's easy to get a response if you touch
    on something they have with them...
[04:43] Tomozaki
    if you're quick enough about it.
[04:45] Tomozaki
    You know, I did some pretty similar stuff
[04:48] Tomozaki
    as part of Hinami's assignments...
SIGN    Ramen
[04:54] Tomozaki
    Hey, uh...
[04:55] Tomozaki
    You like Hinami, right?
[04:58] Mizusawa
    Aoi? Yeah, I like her.
[05:01] Mizusawa
    What about it?
[05:03] Tomozaki
    I just... Here you are
    chatting up other girls...
[05:07] Mizusawa
    Aha. It's not like Aoi and
    I are dating at the moment.
[05:12] Tomozaki
    I-I know, but, like...
[05:15] Tomozaki
    I kind of feel like it's not sincere.
[05:18] Mizusawa
    Sincere, eh?
[05:20] Mizusawa
    Tell me, Fumiya,
[05:22] Mizusawa
    what do you think makes a guy attractive?
[05:25] Tomozaki
    L-Let's see...
[05:26] Tomozaki
    He keeps himself presentable,
    plays it cool... what else?
[05:31] Tomozaki
    He's good at taking the lead
    in conversation... Like that?
[05:35] Mizusawa
    Hey, three right answers! Nice.
[05:38] Mizusawa
    But you know what?
[05:39] Mizusawa
    The most essential aspect,
    more than anything else...
[05:44] Mizusawa
    Attractive guys attract people.
[05:47] Tomozaki
    Huh?
SIGN    Sewing Club
[05:49] Mizusawa
    If a guy's reasonably
    presentable and attractive,
SIGN    Love Fortunes
[05:53] Mizusawa
    staying cool will come naturally.
[05:55] Mizusawa
    If he's attractive,
SIGN    Ring Toss
[05:56] Mizusawa
    girls will feel like they have to act
    fast before someone else snaps him up.
[06:01] Mizusawa
    That's how being attractive winds
    up making you even more attractive.
[06:04] Mizusawa
    It's a hotness spiral.
[06:07] Mizusawa
    So I'm raising my value out
    there and playing it cool...
[06:13] Mizusawa
    until I eventually get Aoi interested in me.
[06:16] Tomozaki
    I get it now!
[06:17] Tomozaki
    Basically you're flirting with all these
    girls to boost your attractiveness
[06:21] Tomozaki
    so that Hinami will decide to notice you.
[06:24] Mizusawa
    Not exactly.
[06:27] Mizusawa
    I'm also playing the field because
    I want to. That's a big part of it.
[06:30] Tomozaki
    Hey!
[06:32] Mizusawa
    Oh, and one more correction:
[06:35] Mizusawa
    Aoi won't decide to notice me.
[06:37] Mizusawa
    I'll make her notice me. Right?
[06:39] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah...
SIGN    Ultra-Scary
SIGN    Haunted House
[06:46] Tsugumi
    Hey, you came!
[06:50] Mizusawa
    Hey.
[06:51] Tomozaki
    H-Hi.
[06:52] Mizusawa
    Hey, you grew antennae!
[06:55] Gumi
    These aren't antennae. They're ears!
[06:59] Gumi
    I'm a cute li'l bunny rabbit.
[07:02] Tomozaki
    You're even apathetic about your
    culture festival, huh, Gumi.
SIGN    Scary Haunted House
[07:05] Gumi
    That's an Apathy-nian for you.
[07:08] Mizusawa
    Apath-what now?
[07:09] Gumi
    Come see our ghosts.
[07:12] Gumi
    They're not exactly scary or anything.
[07:14] Tomozaki
    I wouldn't go around advertising that...
[07:16] Gumi
    Right?
[07:18] Gumi
    How's it going? See any cute girls?
[07:22] Tomozaki
    Huh?!
[07:22] Mizusawa
    Hey, why do you assume we're
    out here hitting on girls?
[07:26] Gumi
    I mean, two guys at a
    girls' school festival...
[07:28] Gumi
    why else would you be here?
[07:30] Mizusawa
    Eh, I'd say it's going so-so.
[07:32] Gumi
    See? I knew it!
[07:34] Gumi
    What about you, Tomozaki?
[07:35] Tomozaki
    Me? I'm not hitting on anybody.
[07:38] Gumi
    You don't have a girlfriend, do you?
[07:42] Gumi
    Check out my class! This is your big chance.
[07:49] Tomozaki
    My chance...
[07:50] Mizusawa
    You heard her, Fumiya. Shall we?
[07:53] Tomozaki
    Yeah, okay.
SIGN    Entrance
[07:55] Tsugumi
    Two guests? Right this way.
SIGN    Exit
[07:58] Ghostly Voice
    Thank you very much...
[08:01] Tomozaki
    That wasn't scary at all.
[08:03] Mizusawa
    Nope.
[08:04] Mako
    Hey there!
[08:06] Mako
    I see you found your friend.
[08:09] Mizusawa
    Hey, Mako and Sayaka!
[08:12] Tomozaki
    When did he learn their names?!
[08:15] Mizusawa
    Did you check out the haunted house?
[08:16] Mako
    Oh, from Tsugumi's class?
[08:18] Sayaka
    No, not yet.
[08:20] Mizusawa
    You definitely should go.
    It's terrifyingly unscary.
[08:24] Mako
    But a haunted house has to be scary!
[08:27] Mizusawa
    You can totally see all the ghosts, too.
[08:29] Tomozaki
    Okay, now to pull a Mizusawa...
[08:33] Tomozaki
    I-It's seriously not scary.
[08:35] Mako
    Wow, really?
[08:37] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah! It's... surprising, actually.
[08:40] Sayaka
    Surprising, huh?
[08:46] Tomozaki
    I guess I'm not ready for this yet.
[08:48] Mizusawa
    Whoa!
[08:49] Mizusawa
    I bet those look amazing on you, Mako.
[08:52] Mizusawa
    Put them on for a sec.
[08:53] Mako
    Huh?
[08:54] Mizusawa
    Oh, yeah! So flattering!
[08:57] Mako
    Some compliment...
[08:59] Mizusawa
    Were those some kind of prize?
[09:01] Sayaka
    Yeah, from the ring toss.
[09:02] Mako
    These, too.
[09:07] Tomozaki
    Those glasses would look pretty
    killer on you, too, Mizusawa.
[09:15] Mizusawa
    Well?
[09:17] Mako
    They really suit you!
[09:19] Mizusawa
    There's that non-compliment again...
[09:21] Tomozaki
    They really do look good, Mizusawa!
[09:24] Tomozaki
    Why don't I take a picture?
[09:25] Mizusawa
    Hey, good idea! Will you do the honors?
[09:28] Mizusawa
    Get in here, you two.
[09:32] Mako
    You player!
[09:33] Mizusawa
    Can we put it on Pinsta?
[09:35] Mizusawa
    He's been getting into that lately.
[09:38] Mako
    Well...
[09:39] Sayaka
    Sure, I guess.
[09:41] Tomozaki
    Okay, here goes!
[09:43] Mizusawa
    Cheese!
[09:44] Mako
    Ready!
[09:49] Tomozaki
    Those count as glasses, right? Good.
SIGN    Tokujo Festival
[09:55] Mizusawa
    Man, I wanted to see your
    game out there, Fumiya.
[09:59] Tomozaki
    Not at my current level, you don't.
[10:02] Mizusawa
    Your current level, huh?
[10:04] Mizusawa
    Don't be so down on yourself.
[10:07] Mizusawa
    You've been reading self-help
    books or something, right?
[10:10] Mizusawa
    Well, it shows.
[10:13] Mizusawa
    You didn't realize?
[10:15] Mizusawa
    You've been asking more questions
    lately—specific ones.
[10:22] Mizusawa
    Oh, and you found a good rhythm
    that makes you easy to talk to.
[10:26] Tomozaki
    R-Really?
[10:27] Mizusawa
    Yes, really.
[10:28] Tomozaki
    Huh.
[10:30] Mizusawa
    For someone so awkward to
    come so far so quickly...
[10:35] Mizusawa
    You must have worked hard,
    tackling one thing at a time.
[10:43] Mizusawa
    You can try to hide it, but
    I can see right through you.
[10:47] Mizusawa
    You've gotta admire a hard worker like that.
[10:51] Tomozaki
    I...
[10:52] Tomozaki
    Well, thanks.
[10:54] Mizusawa
    That feeling, right there...
[10:56] Mizusawa
    when someone says those things to you?
[10:59] Mizusawa
    That's how you talk to a girl.
[11:02] Tomozaki
    Why, you...
[11:05] Mizusawa
    Later, Fumiya.
[11:07] Tomozaki
    Even if Mizusawa's last speech
    was couched as a joke,
[11:11] Tomozaki
    I was glad that someone
    had recognized my efforts.
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
SIGN    Selfie w/ Fuka Kikuchi
[11:28] Fuka
    Tomozaki?
[11:30] Fuka
    There you are.
[11:38] Fuka
    Um... how is it?
[11:41] Tomozaki
    Each character's introduction and
    features are so well organized.
[11:45] Tomozaki
    It's looking great!
[11:47] Tomozaki
    Now we can move ahead
    with stuff like costumes.
[11:50] Fuka
    Thank goodness.
[11:51] Fuka
    Oh, and I wanted to ask...
[11:54] Fuka
    About how much time will we have to perform?
[11:58] Tomozaki
    Good question. I'll have to check.
[12:01] Fuka
    Yes, please do. I'll need to adjust
    things with that time in mind.
[12:08] Fuka
    If I need to make it shorter,
    things will need to be cut...
[12:14] Tomozaki
    I'm looking forward to this culture festival.
[12:17] Fuka
    So am I. I've been indifferent
    about it until this year.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[12:23] Fuka
    To think that dipping my toes in just a little
[12:25] Fuka
    would change my point of view so much.
[12:32] Tomozaki
    Say, Kikuchi... how about
    we take a selfie together?
[12:35] Fuka
    A selfie?
[12:37] Tomozaki
    Like, "Ready to work hard on the play!"
[12:40] Tomozaki
    We'll get the script in the shot, too.
[12:45] Fuka
    Okay. If you'll do the honors...
[12:48] Tomozaki
    All right, then. Let's see...
[12:50] Tomozaki
    Can I come over there?
[12:52] Fuka
    Um... uh-huh.
[12:54] Tomozaki
    O-Okay, so...
[12:58] Tomozaki
    I-I'm sorry!
[13:00] Fuka
    No, i-it's okay.
[13:05] Fuka
    Um, the selfie?
[13:06] Tomozaki
    Oh, r-right! The selfie!
[13:09] Tomozaki
    O-Okay, here goes...
[13:11] Fuka
    Uh-huh...
[13:15] Tomozaki
    I'll send this to you later, okay?
[13:18] Fuka
    Okay.
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
[13:23] Aoi
    You're doing well!
[13:24] Aoi
    You've gotten a fair few likes, too.
[13:27] Tomozaki
    I guess so, yeah.
[13:28] Aoi
    Still, I never thought it would come to this.
[13:33] Tomozaki
    Glasses are glasses, right?
[13:35] Aoi
    True enough.
[13:37] Aoi
    Add in the selfie with Fuka
    that you showed me yesterday
[13:41] Aoi
    and that's all of your photo tasks. Congrats!
SIGN    Mini-Task: CLEAR! Create private Pinstagram and self-promote
[13:44] Tomozaki
    Thanks!
[13:45] Aoi
    You're not going to post the one with Fuka?
[13:48] Tomozaki
    She said she was too shy.
[13:50] Aoi
    That happens.
[13:52] Aoi
    Still, I didn't think you'd suggest
    performing a play with Fuka's script.
[13:58] Aoi
    I know I told you to approach the
    festival with enthusiasm, but...
[14:03] Tomozaki
    I would have wanted to do that even
    if it didn't tie in to a task.
[14:07] Aoi
    Well, as long as it gets you closer
    to your goals, anything goes.
[14:14] Tomozaki
    Hey, Hinami?
[14:15] Tomozaki
    You're so invested in getting
    me to live that normie life.
[14:19] Tomozaki
    Why is that?
[14:22] Aoi
    Don't you remember? The first
    time nanashi and NO NAME met.
[14:27] Aoi
    You were all, "You can't change
    characters in real life,"
[14:32] Aoi
    that it was a tier issue.
[14:34] Tomozaki
    Oh, that's right.
[14:38] Aoi
    I heard that and wanted to
    prove that I was in the right.
[14:43] Aoi
    That's all.
[14:46] Aoi
    What?
[14:47] Aoi
    You look like you're not buying it.
[14:50] Tomozaki
    I-It's just—
[14:51] Aoi
    I'm a sore loser.
[14:54] Tomozaki
    I mean, if you say so.
[14:56] Aoi
    But never mind that.
[14:58] Aoi
    Have you decided who you want to date?
[15:01] Tomozaki
    Well...
[15:02] Aoi
    You said you wanted to wait,
    so I gave you a grace period.
[15:06] Aoi
    You are thinking about it, aren't you?
[15:08] Tomozaki
    Yeah... I guess so...
SIGN    Small Goal: Who do you want to get closer to?
[15:14] Aoi
    I'll need your answer soon.
[15:17] Aoi
    At least two girls you'd like to date.
[15:20] Aoi
    Got it?
[15:22] Tomozaki
    Got it.
[15:25] Mimimi
    Brain!
[15:26] Mimimi
    Please just say yes and don't ask why!
[15:30] Tomozaki
    Out of the blue? No way! Tell me why.
[15:34] Mimimi
    Well, turns out the track-and-field
    club is talking about
[15:38] Mimimi
    doing a comedy bit at the culture festival.
[15:41] Tomozaki
    But I'm not in track.
[15:44] Mimimi
    It's okay! I got permission
    to go outside the club.
[15:48] Mimimi
    You're the only straight man for me, Brain!
[15:52] Mimimi
    So please... will you do me this favor?
[15:56] Mimimi
    Please?
[15:58] Tomozaki
    Hmm...
SIGN    Show maximum enthusiasm on all fronts
[15:59] Tomozaki
    "Show maximum enthusiasm
    on all fronts" it is.
[16:05] Tomozaki
    Yeah, sure.
[16:06] Mimimi
    Oh, c'mon, isn't there some way—
[16:09] Mimimi
    Wait...
[16:09] Mimimi
    Huh?!
[16:10] Tomozaki
    You're the one asking. Why so surprised?
[16:14] Mimimi
    It was just so quick and easy!
[16:17] Mimimi
    Wait a sec...
[16:18] Mimimi
    You're jonesing for more of our
    husband-and-wife routine, eh, Tomozaki?
[16:23] Tomozaki
    I am not.
[16:26] Mimimi
    Th-That's my handpicked partner for you...
[16:30] Mimimi
    Such sharp comebacks...
[16:32] Tomozaki
    But we won't have much time to practice,
    what with the class play and all.
[16:37] Mimimi
    No sweat!
[16:39] Mimimi
    Just leave it to me!
[16:43] Mizusawa
    Hey, Mimimi.
[16:45] Mimimi
    Morning, Takahiro!
[16:47] Mizusawa
    Oh, and Fumiya.
[16:49] Tomozaki
    Don't you "oh, and" me!
[16:52] Mizusawa
    Hey, I heard from Gumi.
[16:54] Mizusawa
    She's coming to our festival.
[16:56] Tomozaki
    Wow, she is?
[16:59] Mimimi
    Gumi?
[17:03] Tomozaki
    You'll need to rewrite your
    short story into a script,
[17:08] Tomozaki
    but you're still having a
    hard time with the climax?
[17:11] Fuka
    Y-Yes.
[17:14] Tomozaki
    Um... what exactly is giving you trouble?
[17:18] Fuka
    I can't decide if Libra, the hero,
    will wind up with Kris or Alucia...
[17:25] Fuka
    and what should happen to
    the one he doesn't choose.
[17:29] Fuka
    I think I might be... afraid
    to make that decision.
[17:36] Fuka
    Afraid of dictating that the relationship
    among the three should go one particular way.
[17:42] Tomozaki
    In that case—
[17:45] Tomozaki
    and this may just be my thinking here—
[17:49] Tomozaki
    which of the two would you
    choose, if it were up to you?
[17:54] Fuka
    I don't think I could choose.
[17:58] Tomozaki
    No?
[17:59] Fuka
    Maybe I personally have
    an idea of what I'd do.
[18:05] Fuka
    But what should I do as
    far as the story goes?
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[18:08] Fuka
    Where could I take the characters
    that would be best for their world?
[18:14] Fuka
    These are the kinds of
    things I need to consider.
[18:17] Tomozaki
    Best for their world, huh?
[18:21] Fuka
    It feels kind of insincere to
    let my feelings get in the way.
[18:26] Tomozaki
    Hmm...
[18:32] Tomozaki
    Um, Tomozaki?
[18:35] Tomozaki
    Isn't there someone that you like?
[18:41] Tomozaki
    M-M-Me?
[18:43] Tomozaki
    Yes. You.
[18:45] Tomozaki
    I-I... well... good question.
[18:51] Tomozaki
    If you had two or more
    special people in your life,
[18:56] Tomozaki
    and you could only choose one of them...
[19:01] Tomozaki
    How would you choose that one person?
[19:09] Tomozaki
    Probably, if I'm being honest...
[19:12] Fuka
    Yes?
[19:14] Tomozaki
    I think I'm...
[19:16] Tomozaki
    I'm not in a position to make
    that choice in the first place.
[19:23] Tomozaki
    Right. That's how I truly feel.
[19:27] Tomozaki
    Hinami keeps grilling me about who I choose,
[19:31] Tomozaki
    even coming up with that hypothetical
    about girls confessing their love.
[19:35] Tomozaki
    But I've kept putting my answer on hold.
[19:39] Tomozaki
    Because deep inside, that's how I feel.
[19:43] Tomozaki
    For 17 years, this bottom-tier nature
    has been ingrained deep in my soul.
[19:48] Tomozaki
    I'm not the one who gets chosen, much
    less the one who gets to choose.
[19:55] Tomozaki
    When Hinami gave me that
    confession hypothetical,
[19:57] Tomozaki
    what governed my mind in that moment
[20:00] Tomozaki
    was an indescribable remorse,
    a sense of guilt...
[20:04] Tomozaki
    "A bottom-tier character like you,
    choosing? Don't get so cocky."
[20:09] Tomozaki
    In other words, an underlying
    feeling of incompetence
[20:12] Tomozaki
    controlling my thoughts in this game of life.
[20:16] Tomozaki
    And it had nested deep within me.
[20:21] Fuka
    I see.
[20:23] Tomozaki
    Mmm.
[20:25] Tomozaki
    So I find this kind of
    stuff hard to talk about.
[20:30] Tomozaki
    I'm really sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
[20:59] Mimimi
    Brain!
[21:02] Tomozaki
    Mimimi? Don't scare me like that!
[21:04] Mimimi
    Your fault for being wide open.
[21:07] Tomozaki
    Says who?
[21:08] Mimimi
    Still at it at this hour, eh?
[21:10] Mimimi
    Did you have a little
    one-on-one with Kikuchi, hmm?
[21:14] Tomozaki
    Uh... I guess so.
[21:28] Tomozaki
    Okay, see you.
[21:30] Mimimi
    By the way, Mr. Tomozaki...
[21:31] Tomozaki
    Wh-What now?
[21:33] Mimimi
    Who on earth is this Gumi person?
[21:37] Tomozaki
    Oh, she's this girl who
    works with me and Mizusawa.
[21:40] Mimimi
    Really? Is that all she is?
[21:43] Mimimi
    Seems pretty fishy to me!
[21:45] Mimimi
    My sources tell me you went
    to her culture festival.
[21:50] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah, because she invited us.
[21:52] Mimimi
    That's fishy, all right! She
    goes to an all-girls school!
[21:56] Tomozaki
    What's that got to do with it?
[21:59] Mimimi
    It's just, you know...
[22:01] Mimimi
    You don't seem like the
    going-to-festivals-at-girls'-schools type.
[22:06] Tomozaki
    Like they'd arrest me if I
    went into a girls' school?
[22:09] Mimimi
    Oh, man, not this again...
[22:12] Tomozaki
    "This" what, exactly?
[22:14] Mimimi
    Never mind!
[22:17] Mimimi
    You know, when you're cool, you're
    cool, but when you're not... wow.
[22:23] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah?
[22:25] Tomozaki
    Wait, are you saying I'm cool sometimes?
[22:27] Mimimi
    You are!
[22:28] Mimimi
    You're helpful in so many ways, you
    did so much for Tama—all that stuff!
[22:33] Tomozaki
    Oh.
[22:36] Mimimi
    I respect you, Brain, you know that?
[22:39] Tomozaki
    Huh?
[22:40] Mimimi
    I've told you you're like Tama, right?
[22:43] Mimimi
    A scaredy-cat, sure, but
    you'll still go all-out,
[22:46] Mimimi
    and you head straight
    for what you want to do.
[22:51] Mimimi
    It's like...
[22:52] Mimimi
    You just go ahead and do all these
    things I want to do, but can't.
[22:58] Mimimi
    I think that's really wonderful.
[23:01] Mimimi
    And that right there?
[23:05] Mimimi
    That's what I like about you.
[23:12] Mimimi
    You thought I meant I liked you
    that way just now, didn't you!
[23:16] Tomozaki
    N-No... Jeez.
[23:19] Mimimi
    I actually do, though...
    like you that way.
[23:28] Mimimi
    See ya!
[23:38] Tomozaki
    Huh?!

E9 - If you don't make up your mind, the story won't advance

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SIGN    Tomozaki
[00:04] Tomozaki
    "You thought I meant I liked
    you
that way, didn't you!"
[00:07] Tomozaki
    "I actually do like you that way."
[00:11] Tomozaki
    Who, a bottom-tier character like me?
[00:14] Tomozaki
    This calls for some top-tier assistance.
SIGN    Aoi Hinami
[00:19] Tomozaki
    I guess I'll have to go
    to Hinami for advice...
SIGN    Takehiro Mizusawa: Sorry, Fumiya. Can you come to work? Someone called in sick.
SIGN    Takehiro Mizusawa: Sorry, Fumiya. Can you come to work? Someone called in sick.
[00:25] Tomozaki
    Mizusawa?
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 9 If you don't make up your mind, the story won't advance
[02:02] Mizusawa
    Sorry for the short notice.
[02:04] Mizusawa
    This is a big help.
[02:05] Tomozaki
    Sure.
[02:07] Mizusawa
    What's wrong, Fumiya?
[02:09] Tomozaki
    It's not like I can tell him about Mimimi.
[02:13] Mizusawa
    Aha! Girl trouble, perhaps?
[02:18] Mizusawa
    Hey, I got it right.
[02:20] Mizusawa
    So were you dumped? Did you jump
    the gun on confessing your love?
[02:25] Tomozaki
    Dumped? No, not dumped...
[02:28] Mizusawa
    Oh? Then did someone open up to you?
[02:31] Mizusawa
    You've been spending a lot of
    time alone with Kikuchi lately.
[02:34] Tomozaki
    Huh? Kikuchi?
[02:37] Mizusawa
    No?
[02:39] Tomozaki
    Uh... no...
[02:42] Mizusawa
    Hmm... Then that means...
[02:45] Mizusawa
    the other possibility would be...
[02:49] Mizusawa
    Mimimi?
[02:51] Mizusawa
    Whoa, seriously? Mimimi?
[02:56] Mizusawa
    Hmm.
[02:57] Mizusawa
    I see.
[03:00] Mizusawa
    So what's got you confused?
[03:02] Tomozaki
    I don't even know if it counts
    as a confession, for one.
[03:07] Mizusawa
    It's hard to say.
[03:10] Mizusawa
    Could be a confession, or
    she could be playing games.
[03:14] Tomozaki
    Games...
[03:16] Mizusawa
    If you want to continue the
    relationship you've had so far,
[03:19] Mizusawa
    you can totally go on
    as if nothing happened.
[03:23] Tomozaki
    I-I can, huh?
[03:25] Mizusawa
    Although I would say that...
[03:27] Mizusawa
    if you wanted to date her in this
    situation, you can probably do that, too.
[03:33] Tomozaki
    What?!
[03:34] Mizusawa
    Keep it down!
[03:36] Tomozaki
    S-Sorry...
[03:38] Mizusawa
    But yeah, I can see why
    she'd be feeling the heat.
[03:42] Mizusawa
    What's that mean?
[03:44] Mizusawa
    Remember? Attractive guys attract people.
[03:48] Mizusawa
    Mimimi's probably fretting about
    you getting snapped up by Kikuchi
[03:55] Mizusawa
    or someone at the girls' school.
[03:57] Mizusawa
    Y-Yeah, but even if I did get snapped up,
[04:00] Mizusawa
    there are plenty of other options...
[04:02] Mizusawa
    Listen.
[04:04] Mizusawa
    When are you going to quit
    with that masochistic crap?
[04:07] Mizusawa
    You're just wielding your
    weakness as an excuse
[04:10] Mizusawa
    so you don't have to acknowledge
    anyone's expectations or goodwill,
[04:14] Mizusawa
    and it's a terrible habit.
[04:16] Mizusawa
    Haven't you noticed?
[04:18] Mizusawa
    Whenever you're putting yourself
    down, you look almost relieved.
[04:24] Mizusawa
    Don't do that.
[04:27] Mizusawa
    A truly cool guy is only relieved
[04:30] Mizusawa
    after raising the bar for himself,
    then eagerly putting in the work
[04:35] Mizusawa
    to be able to clear it.
[04:38] Mizusawa
    I mean, honestly, you're free
    to keep denigrating yourself.
[04:42] Mizusawa
    I don't care either way.
[04:43] Mizusawa
    But when you put yourself down,
[04:47] Mizusawa
    it upsets the people who like you.
[04:59] Tomozaki
    I guess I am an undisputed bottom-tier
    character in this game called life.

[05:04] Tomozaki
    I go on about truth and sincerity while
    using my own weakness as an excuse,
[05:09] Tomozaki
    shutting down my thoughts with "No one
    would ever choose the likes of me."
[05:13] Tomozaki
    But maybe I knew that, somewhere deep down.
[05:18] Tomozaki
    Maybe I was just pretending not to notice.
[05:21] Tomozaki
    Which is exactly why I'm
    going to voice this truth

[05:26] Tomozaki
    in the realest sense of the word:
[05:29] Tomozaki
    Yes, Minami Nanami...
[05:34] Tomozaki
    She... she likes me.
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
[05:40] Aoi
    Now then,
SIGN    Today's Task: Decide who you want to get closer to
[05:41] Aoi
    you've chosen your two or
    more girls to pursue, yes?
SIGN    Small Goal: Who do you want to get closer to?
[05:47] Tomozaki
    Can I ask you something, Hinami?
[05:50] Aoi
    What?
[05:51] Tomozaki
    What does it mean to... to fall for someone?
[05:56] Aoi
    How can you ask something so
    embarrassing with a straight face?
[05:59] Tomozaki
    S-Stop it. I was doing fine
    till you said something.
[06:04] Aoi
    Well, if we look at it analytically...
[06:07] Aoi
    It's when reliance, lust, possessiveness,
    and interest coincide.
[06:13] Aoi
    Precisely speaking, it would be an emotion
[06:17] Aoi
    made up of a combination of these factors.
[06:19] Tomozaki
    No, I mean in a more individual way.
[06:23] Tomozaki
    Something like... who do I like?
[06:27] Tomozaki
    How do I even know how to tell?
[06:33] Aoi
    Are you still going on about that?
[06:35] Tomozaki
    I do want to make up my mind,
[06:38] Tomozaki
    but I can't yet. Or something.
[06:41] Aoi
    See, this is why you need to
    choose two or more people.
[06:46] Aoi
    You honestly can't decide, yet you're
    compelled to narrow it down to just one.
[06:51] Aoi
    Isn't that much more insincere?
[06:56] Aoi
    Or perhaps there's not a single
    girl you're vaguely interested in?
[07:02] Tomozaki
    No... that's not it...
[07:05] Aoi
    I'm not telling you to run out
    there and declare your love.
[07:09] Aoi
    You don't even have to be certain about it.
[07:12] Aoi
    Just decide who you'd like to become
    closer to from now on. That's all.
SIGN    Small Goal: Who do you want to get closer to?
[07:19] Tomozaki
    Got it.
[07:21] Tomozaki
    The girls I'm interested in
[07:24] Tomozaki
    are Mimimi and Kikuchi.
[07:29] Aoi
    An extremely appropriate answer, given
    all your hesitation. What a letdown.
SIGN    Small Goal: CLEAR! Who do you want to get closer to? Mimimi / Kikuchi
[07:36] Tomozaki
    Oh, hush.
[07:38] Aoi
    Okay, so starting today,
[07:40] Aoi
    you'll get closer to them
    on the premise of building
[07:43] Aoi
    a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.
[07:46] Tomozaki
    Boyfriend... girlfriend...
[07:48] Aoi
    Picture this:
[07:50] Aoi
    Mimimi comes to your room,
[07:53] Aoi
    and the two of you sit on your bed, alone.
[07:55] Aoi
    A lot of words are exchanged,
[07:57] Aoi
    your fingers are entwined...
[08:01] Aoi
    Or you're with Fuka,
[08:03] Aoi
    and a lot of words are exchanged,
[08:05] Aoi
    your fingers are entwined...
[08:09] Aoi
    Okay!
[08:11] Aoi
    Looks like you got it.
[08:13] Tomozaki
    Damn her...
[08:15] Aoi
    Now, first up, your new goal:
SIGN    New Goal: Decide which one you like
[08:19] Aoi
    Decide which one you like.
[08:22] Aoi
    Once you have that answer,
[08:24] Aoi
    work on conveying your feelings to her.
[08:27] Aoi
    Your small goal will be...
SIGN    Small Goal: Complete event map (before culture festival)
[08:29] Aoi
    to complete a normie romance event
    map before the culture festival.
[08:35] Tomozaki
    An event map?
SIGN    Minami Nanami Route - Event 1 - Event 2 - Event 3 Fuka Kikuchi Route - Event 1 - Event 2 - Event 3
[08:38] Tomozaki
    Like in a dating sim?
[08:43] Aoi
    Hexactly!
[08:45] Aoi
    And if you ultimately confess your
    feelings to her and start dating,
SIGN    Medium Goal: Have a girlfriend before starting year 3
[08:49] Aoi
    you'll have met your medium goal.
[08:52] Tomozaki
    Now hang on a second...
[08:53] Aoi
    What is it?
[08:55] Mizusawa
    I don't want to make confession a goal.
[08:58] Mizusawa
    If I'm going to tell a girl how I feel,
[09:00] Mizusawa
    it can't be for some goal or task...
[09:05] Mizusawa
    it's got to be because I,
    myself, want to tell her.
[09:10] Aoi
    What? Are you saying that the
    process is what matters here,
[09:14] Aoi
    regardless of the outcome?
[09:17] Aoi
    nanashi is saying this?
[09:19] Tomozaki
    I do think the outcome is important, too.
[09:23] Aoi
    Right? Then who cares?
[09:26] Tomozaki
    nanashi's play style is all about valuing
    both the process and the result.
[09:30] Tomozaki
    That's how I got to be
    Japan's top-ranked player.
[09:33] Tomozaki
    I mean,
[09:35] Tomozaki
    it's got to be more efficient to
    fight that way IRL, too, right?
[09:40] Aoi
    Well, if you insist, I guess, sure.
[09:45] Aoi
    Okay, next we'll go into more
    detail on the event map.
SIGN    Small Goal: Complete event map (before culture festival)
[09:49] Tomozaki
    Right.
[09:50] Aoi
    I've just sent you three
    events you'll need to clear.
[09:56] Aoi
    First up:
SIGN    Discuss what you're looking for in a dating partner
[09:58] Aoi
    Discuss what you're looking
    for in a dating partner.
[10:02] Tomozaki
    Th-That's pretty direct...
[10:04] Aoi
    Second:
SIGN    Touch each others' hands on purpose for at least 5 seconds straight
[10:05] Aoi
    Touch each others' hands on purpose
    for at least 5 seconds straight.
[10:09] Tomozaki
    Wh-What?!
[10:11] Aoi
    Third:
SIGN    Wear matching accessories just for you two
[10:12] Aoi
    Wear matching accessories, just for you two.
[10:15] Tomozaki
    Wait wait wait!
    Aren't these all incredibly hard?!
[10:22] Aoi
    They are. But you can do it.
[10:25] Tomozaki
    Eh?
[10:26] Aoi
    After all, you've managed to
    complete almost every task so far.
[10:31] Aoi
    Isn't that right?
[10:46] Tomozaki
    Here goes.
[10:50] Mimimi
    This new cheese curry on
    the school lunch menu...
[10:53] Mimimi
    pulling some strings as
    student council prez, I see!
[10:56] Aoi
    Who, me? No way!
[10:58] Mimimi
    Are you sure?
[11:09] Tomozaki
    Wh-What's going on?
[11:11] Aoi
    What's wrong, Mimimi?
[11:14] Tomozaki
    Damn. Now Hinami will see that
    Mimimi's acting weird, too.
[11:27] Tomozaki
    Mizusawa said we could always
    just carry on as we always had,
[11:32] Tomozaki
    but that's looking unlikely.
SIGN    Did something happen with Mimimi? Nothing in particular
SIGN    Ah. Well, as long as you're getting through those tasks of yours
[11:50] Tomozaki
    First, what we're looking for in a partner...
SIGN    Discuss what you're looking for in a dating partner
[11:56] Fuka
    Sorry I'm late.
[11:57] Tomozaki
    Whoa!
[11:59] Fuka
    I-I'm sorry.
[12:01] Fuka
    Did I startle you?
[12:03] Tomozaki
    Oh, no... you're fine.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly First Draft
[12:08] Tomozaki
    Oh, wow!
[12:10] Tomozaki
    It's like a real script!
[12:13] Fuka
    Isn't it?
[12:15] Tomozaki
    That was fast, though. You're done already?
[12:18] Fuka
    Um, I still haven't figured
    out the second half.
[12:23] Tomozaki
    Oh, no?
[12:25] Fuka
    But it's kind of fun, somehow.
[12:29] Fuka
    I get so excited when I picture these
    characters coming to life on stage.
[12:34] Fuka
    And a little nervous, too.
[12:37] Tomozaki
    I get it.
[12:39] Tomozaki
    All those people watching
    the festival stage...
[12:44] Tomozaki
    Okay, I'll give this a read-through
[12:48] Tomozaki
    and we'll met up again after school.
[12:50] Fuka
    Thanks in advance.
[12:52] Tomozaki
    Oh, um, a-actually...
[12:55] Fuka
    Yes? What is it?
[12:56] Tomozaki
    Well, uh...
[13:00] Fuka
    What's wrong?
SIGN    Discuss what you're looking for in a dating partner
[13:04] Tomozaki
    Now what do I do?
[13:09] Tomozaki**
    I know! If Fuka's my choice...
[13:13] Tomozaki
    Earlier you said you were
    trying to figure out
[13:17] Tomozaki
    who the hero Libra would wind
    up with at the climax, right?
[13:21] Fuka
    Right. Kris or Alucia.
[13:25] Tomozaki
    People who see romance as a
    matter of who winds up with who
[13:29] Tomozaki
    are going to be really
    invested in this story.
[13:32] Fuka
    Uh-huh.
[13:33] Tomozaki
    So, um... if a guy and
    a girl are g-going out,
[13:40] Tomozaki
    what do you think their criteria should be?
[13:43] Fuka
    Their criteria for choosing someone to date?
[13:46] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah. Right.
[13:50] Fuka
    There's still so much I don't know...
[13:55] Fuka
    But I think it probably depends on
[13:59] Fuka
    what "dating" means to any given person.
[14:05] Tomozaki
    What it means?
[14:07] Fuka
    If someone is simply interested
    in trying this "dating" thing,
[14:12] Fuka
    or if a couple wants to put a name
    on the relationship they share...
[14:18] Tomozaki
    I see.
[14:20] Tomozaki
    That probably counts for my task, anyway...
SIGN    Discuss what you're looking for in a dating partner
[14:24] Tomozaki
    But I'd like to take it a step further.
[14:29] Tomozaki
    O-Okay, then, what does "dating"
    mean for you personally?
[14:37] Fuka
    Me? Personally?
[14:40] Tomozaki
    Uh-huh.
[14:42] Fuka
    Um...
[14:43] Fuka
    Well, there's this Andi story,
    "The Scissorman's Lie."
[14:49] Tomozaki
    Oh, that one. The short love story
    about the Scissorman and the princess.
[14:53] Fuka
    Right.
SIGN    The Scissorman's Lie
[14:55] Fuka
    A man with scissors for hands who
    hurts people without meaning to
[15:00] Fuka
    gets pulled into a storybook world
    and falls in love with a princess.
[15:05] Fuka
    A bond gradually grows
    between the lonely pair.
[15:09] Fuka
    The Scissorman is the only
    one for the princess,
[15:13] Fuka
    and the princess is the only
    one for the Scissorman.
[15:18] Fuka
    I think dating might mean being able
    to create that kind of relationship.
[15:24] Tomozaki
    Where no one else could
    take your partner's place.
[15:29] Fuka
    That's right.
[15:30] Fuka
    A special relationship, where no one
    else will do, taking one ideal shape.
[15:38] Fuka
    I think that might be what
    "dating" means to me.
[15:44] Tomozaki
    One ideal shape, huh?
[15:46] Tomozaki
    I'll have to give that some thought myself.
[15:49] Fuka
    You don't have a take on it?
[15:53] Tomozaki
    Mmm... I never really thought about it.
[15:56] Fuka
    Oh, I see.
[15:58] Tomozaki
    But that's all the more reason I ought to
    pin down my own definition of "dating."
[16:05] Fuka
    Well, once you do,
    please share it with me.
[16:12] Fuka
    Oh! To, um... to help with
    the script, that is...
[16:18] Tomozaki
    A-As reference.
[16:20] Fuka
    Right. As reference.
[16:28] Mizusawa
    Yo, Fumiya.
[16:30] Tomozaki
    What's up, Mizusawa?
[16:34] Mizusawa
    Sure is awkward between you and Mimimi.
[16:36] Tomozaki
    Oh, well...
[16:38] Tomozaki
    you know...
[16:40] Mizusawa
    This calls for drastic measures.
[16:43] Mizusawa
    Let's get to lunch.
[16:44] Tomozaki
    Huh?
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[16:53] Mimimi
    Oh! Mapo bowl for you, Brain?
[16:56] Tomozaki
    A-And ramen for you, Mimimi?
[17:01] Mimimi
    Hey, Tomozaki?
[17:03] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah?
[17:05] Mimimi
    About... About yesterday...
[17:10] Mimimi
    I mean, don't worry about it too much.
[17:14] Mimimi
    In fact, forget it!
[17:16] Mimimi
    Or, well, not exactly.
[17:19] Mimimi
    Let's just be like we always
    have been... or something.
[17:23] Tomozaki
    S-Sure.
[17:24] Tomozaki
    Got it.
[17:28] Hanabi
    Huh! Who knew?
[17:30] Mizusawa
    Same goes for you, right, Aoi?
[17:32] Aoi
    That's right!
[17:34] Aoi
    I've had people ask if you
    and I are dating, Takahiro!
[17:39] Mizusawa
    Oh, yeah, those two would
    make a great couple.
[17:44] Tomozaki
    If you do say so yourself.
[17:46] Aoi
    Actually, Tomozaki... what about you?
[17:51] Tomozaki
    Um...
[17:53] Tomozaki
    I can feel her pressing me to
    make the most of this setting
[17:58] Tomozaki
    to get my tasks over with.
[17:59] Tomozaki
    M-Me?
[18:01] Aoi
    Yeah! It's like you seem to have
    something going on, but you don't...
[18:06] Aoi
    or it seems like you don't, but you do.
[18:08] Tomozaki
    Well, which is it?
[18:09] Mizusawa
    Oh, he might. He was at that girls' school
    culture festival, after all.
[18:15] Mizusawa
    Talking to girls and everything.
[18:20] Mizusawa
    I wouldn't be surprised if
    something developed after that.
[18:24] Mimimi
    I-Is that true, Brain?!
[18:26] Tomozaki
    N-No, there's nothing!
[18:29] Mimimi
    Hmm...
[18:31] Hanabi
    You know, Minmi...
[18:32] Mimimi
    Wh-What?
[18:34] Hanabi
    You're weird today.
[18:35] Aoi
    Oh, that? I thought so, too.
[18:39] Aoi
    I bet she's hiding something from us!
[18:42] Mimimi
    I-I wouldn't... say that...
[18:46] Tomozaki
    Whoa, Mimimi—this is not the
    time to be looking my way!

[18:50] Mimimi
    Now, now. Setting that aside...
[18:54] Mimimi
    Whoops—my ramen's gonna get soggy!
[18:57] Mimimi
    Everyone eat up fast before it gets cold!
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[19:07] Tomozaki
    "My Unfamiliar Way to Fly" went like this:
[19:13] Tomozaki
    In a world where dragons
    and humans lived in harmony,
[19:16] Tomozaki
    there was one very special
    breed of flying dragon.
[19:21] Tomozaki
    Susceptible to stress and wary of humans,
[19:24] Tomozaki
    the most important factor in raising them was
[19:27] Tomozaki
    never exposing them to the
    impurities of the world.
[19:31] Tomozaki
    Libra, the locksmith's son, and Alucia,
    next in line to be queen, were both 15.
[19:37] Tomozaki
    They grew up together, despite
    their different backgrounds.
[19:40] Tomozaki
    When Libra was younger, he visited the
    castle on an errand for his father,
[19:44] Tomozaki
    where he met the smart and determined Alucia,
[19:47] Tomozaki
    and the two became friends.
[19:49] Tomozaki
    One day, while his father was working,
[19:53] Tomozaki
    Alucia invited Libra to explore the castle.
[19:58] Tomozaki
    Inside it was a garden they
    were forbidden to enter.
[20:03] Tomozaki
    Out of curiosity, the two went in.
[20:07] Tomozaki
    There before them was a pure-white
    dragon with huge wings
[20:12] Tomozaki
    and Kris, a young girl who knew
    nothing of the outside world.
[20:17] Tomozaki
    Kris had been abandoned
    outside the castle as a baby,
[20:22] Tomozaki
    and was also 15 years old.
[20:24] Tomozaki
    She lived here, apart from the world,
    to serve as the dragon keeper.
[20:30] Tomozaki
    Neither she nor the dragons
    were permitted to have contact
[20:32] Tomozaki
    with any humans who weren't royalty.
[20:37] Tomozaki
    The king sentenced Libra to death for
    having entered the forbidden garden.
[20:43] Tomozaki
    But Alucia confronted her father,
    the king, with a hard truth:
[20:49] Tomozaki
    the king had illegitimate children
    hidden throughout the kingdom.
[20:55] Tomozaki
    Alucia bluffed that Libra
    was one of these children,
[20:58] Tomozaki
    making him royalty—and her brother.
[21:04] Tomozaki
    And if Libra were royalty, he
    couldn't contaminate the dragons.
[21:10] Tomozaki
    Not wanting his dirty little
    secret to go public,
[21:14] Tomozaki
    the king vacated Libra's sentence,
[21:17] Tomozaki
    and Libra was charged with caring for Kris.
[21:25] Tomozaki
    Um...
[21:27] Tomozaki
    I enjoyed it.
[21:29] Fuka
    Y-You did? Really?!
[21:31] Tomozaki
    Uh-huh. It felt a lot like the way
    it did when I read the story itself.
[21:36] Fuka
    Thank goodness...
[21:39] Fuka
    Um, w-would you say you
    had any concerns so far?
[21:44] Tomozaki
    Hmm...
[21:46] Tomozaki
    Maybe the characters?
[21:48] Fuka
    The characters?
[21:50] Tomozaki
    They feel... more ordinary now, or something.
[21:53] Tomozaki
    I'm sure the story is easier
    to understand this way,
[21:56] Tomozaki
    but it's like there's
    something off about them.
[22:00] Fuka
    Maybe so...
[22:02] Fuka
    I actually did change the concept a little.
[22:06] Fuka
    I simplified the characters to make it
    easier for everyone to play the various parts.
[22:11] Fuka
    But in making them easier to understand,
    they may have become more broadly drawn.
[22:17] Tomozaki
    Ah, I see.
[22:19] Tomozaki
    Her short stories are strong on portraying
    the characters' fine details,
[22:24] Tomozaki
    the particular ways they think,
    even their inconsistent feelings.
[22:27] Tomozaki
    That was a big part of its charm.
[22:30] Fuka
    I thought I'd do without complex emotions
[22:32] Fuka
    and bring straightforward
    thoughts to the forefront.
[22:37] Tomozaki
    But I feel like that weakened
    the sense I had before
[22:40] Tomozaki
    that these were living,
    breathing characters.
[22:43] Fuka
    Can I keep on writing this as is?
[22:48] Tomozaki
    I... I think you should go
    back the original characters.
[22:55] Tomozaki
    It might make them harder to perform,
[22:58] Tomozaki
    and it might be hard for you to
    get that across in just dialogue.
[23:04] Tomozaki
    But...
[23:05] Tomozaki
    I think that way is absolutely
    more interesting.
[23:10] Fuka
    All right, understood. I'll give it a try.
[23:16] Tomozaki
    Way too much happened today.
[23:19] Tomozaki**
    I feel like my head's going to pop.
[23:22] Tomozaki
    What should I be thinking about?
[23:25] Tomozaki
    What should I do?
[23:27] Tomozaki
    What does "dating" mean?
[23:29] Tomozaki
    And if I ever find out...
[23:32] Tomozaki
    who will I most want to be with,
[23:35] Tomozaki
    Mimimi or Kikuchi?

E10 - The patterns carved into the stone tablet are connected to the mysteries of the world

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[00:02] Aoi
    I heard it from the horse's mouth:
[00:04] Aoi
    Mimimi told you she liked you.
[00:06] Tomozaki
    Yeah. I'm sorry I hid it from you.
[00:10] Aoi
    That's all right. So for now...
[00:13] Aoi
    as you progress through your event map,
[00:16] Aoi
    you'll be focusing on Fuka instead,
SIGN    Event 1 Event 2 Event 3 Event 4 Minami Nanami
[00:19] Aoi
    since you've already met
    your goal with Mimimi.
[00:21] Tomozaki
    Again with that "goal" stuff...
[00:24] Aoi
    Still, if you'd like,
[00:27] Aoi
    you can check off the boxes
    for Mimimi, too.
SIGN    Event 5 Event 6 Event 7 Event 8 Minami Nanami
[00:32] Tomozaki
    Huh? Really?
[00:35] Aoi
    You do seem to prefer
    challenges that coincide with
[00:38] Aoi
    what you want to do.
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 10 The patterns carved into the stone tablet are connected to the mysteries of the world
[02:12] Mizusawa
    Okay, first of all,
[02:14] Mizusawa
    we decide who gets what part.
SIGN    Roles: Libra Kris
[02:16] Mizusawa
    Starting with the hero, Libra.
[02:19] Mizusawa
    What's he like?
[02:20] Tomozaki
    Libra is...
[02:21] Tomozaki
    He's good at closing the distance
    between him and others.
[02:24] Tomozaki
    He's considerate, smart, and
    brimming with curiosity.
[02:28] Takei
    That's me! Who else?
SIGN    Takei: 1 Tachibana: 10 Mizusawa: 23
[02:33] Yuzu
    Takahiro it is!
[02:35] Takei
    Huh?! Why?
[02:39] Mizusawa
    I'm not entirely sure I'm fit for
    the role, but since it's mine now...
[02:45] Mizusawa
    I'll do it proud.
SIGN    Libra: Mizusawa Kris Alucia
[02:47] Mizusawa
    Next is Kris.
[02:49] Tomozaki
    Kris is fearful, but so innocent—a
    slightly childlike girl.
SIGN    Seno: 5 Kashiwazaki: 9 Natsubayashi: 20
[02:57] Yuzu
    Tama it is!
[03:00] Hanabi
    Okay. I'll do my best.
[03:02] Mizusawa
    The last main character is Alucia.
[03:05] Tomozaki
    She's brilliant and quick-witted:
[03:08] Tomozaki
    the perfect girl whom
    everyone can rely on.
[03:13] Mizusawa
    Which means, well...
[03:15] Mizusawa
    you know.
[03:17] Aoi
    I see I'm going to have to raise my hand.
SIGN    Libra: Mizusawa Kris: Natsubayashi Alucia: Hinami
[03:21] Yuzu
    Okay, Aoi it is!
[03:23] Yuzu
    A round of applause for
    our three main characters!
SIGN    Good luck!
SIGN    Break a leg!
SIGN    Can't wait!
SIGN    Manga Café | Play
[03:31] Mizusawa
    Okay, so this is how we'll divvy things
    up between the play and the manga café.
[03:38] Fuka
    Thanks, Tomozaki.
[03:42] Fuka
    This is kind of fun. Now
    that we have our actors,
[03:47] Fuka
    I'm getting all these ideas...
[03:50] Tomozaki
    Oh, yeah?
[03:51] Mimimi
    B-Brain!
[03:53] Mimimi
    We need to have a meeting of our own!
[03:56] Mimimi
    I'm not sure we'll make it in time, though!
[03:58] Tomozaki
    Oh, right! The comedy act.
[04:01] Mimimi
    That's right, Brain! Did you
    forget? You little so-and-so!
[04:05] Tomozaki
    Sorry... I've been kinda busy.
[04:07] Mimimi
    Well, you are directing
    the class play, after all.
[04:10] Mimimi
    I'll do you a favor: how about
    we meet after school today?
[04:16] Tomozaki
    How is that doing me a favor?
[04:18] Mimimi
    Is that okay, Kikuchi?
[04:21] Fuka
    Um, sure.
[04:26] Tomozaki
    So, uh, what should we do?
[04:29] Mimimi
    Y-Yeah, Tomozaki... what?
[04:32] Tomozaki
    Did you have any suggestions?
[04:35] Mimimi
    Well, um... I was thinking about,
    like, a married-couple routine...
[04:40] Tomozaki
    M-Married couple...
[04:43] Mimimi
    But, um, then I changed my mind.
[04:47] Tomozaki
    Oh... okay.
[04:50] Mimimi
    Listen...
[04:53] Mimimi
    Look... I told you, didn't I?
[04:56] Tomozaki
    Um... you mean...
[04:59] Mimimi
    That I like you.
[05:01] Tomozaki
    R-Right...
[05:03] Mimimi
    What did you think? When
    I told you... like that.
[05:09] Tomozaki
    Um... I was glad. Really glad.
[05:14] Mimimi
    Uh-huh.
[05:16] Tomozaki
    But honestly...
[05:18] Tomozaki
    It's like I'm still not sure
    what exactly to do now.
[05:24] Mimimi
    Oh...
[05:25] Mimimi
    Still, you're probably—
[05:30] Mimimi
    Wait, is this okay?! I'm not getting
    annoying or anything, am I?
[05:33] Tomozaki
    No, no, it's fine...
[05:44] Mimimi
    W-Well, good.
[05:46] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah.
[05:50] Tomozaki
    Hey...
[05:53] Tomozaki
    What do you think it means for
    a—for a girl and a guy to date?
[05:58] Mimimi
    Wh-Where'd that come
    from? A girl and a guy—?
[06:01] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah. Like, why a couple would date.
[06:06] Mimimi
    Can I be serious for a second?
[06:09] Tomozaki
    Sure.
[06:10] Mimimi
    I told you before how I can't
    really break into first place,
[06:18] Mimimi
    that I can't be someone special.
[06:20] Mimimi
    I tell myself not to think that way,
[06:23] Mimimi
    but it's so deeply ingrained in me by now
[06:25] Mimimi
    that I can't really change.
[06:27] Mimimi
    But you... you gave me the chance to try.
[06:32] Tomozaki
    You mean, the election?
[06:34] Mimimi
    Yeah.
[06:35] Mimimi
    And with Tama and Erika... lots
    of times, really.
[06:40] Mimimi
    Even though I couldn't do anything at all,
[06:42] Mimimi
    it's like you changed the
    world to get things solved.
[06:46] Mimimi
    I want to be someone like you—
[06:49] Mimimi
    but that's not something I can do.
[06:53] Mimimi
    So, yeah!
[06:55] Mimimi
    At first it was kinda spur-of-the-moment,
    saying I liked you—like how I like Tama.
[06:58] Mimimi
    But the more I thought about it...
[07:01] Mimimi
    I started to realize that I felt the same.
[07:04] Tomozaki
    The same?
[07:06] Mimimi
    About you.
[07:08] Mimimi
    I really do like you.
[07:13] Mimimi
    So maybe that's it.
[07:15] Mimimi
    Maybe that's... the reason I chose you.
[07:20] Mimimi
    Oh, man—am I getting annoying again?!
[07:23] Tomozaki
    No, not at all.
[07:26] Mimimi
    Oh, geez, now I'm all embarrassed.
[07:29] Mimimi
    Forget what I said here today!
[07:31] Tomozaki
    Eh?! A-All right.
[07:34] Mimimi
    But I'd be too lonely if you
    forgot it all, so never mind.
[07:38] Tomozaki
    What the heck?
[07:40] Mimimi
    Look, a girl's mind is complicated, okay?
[07:42] Tomozaki
    It is, eh? Complicated, huh...
[07:46] Mimimi
    See you later, Brain!
[07:48] Mimimi
    Sleep warm!
[07:51] Tomozaki
    Hey... what about our comedy practice?
SIGN    Tomozaki
[08:00] Mimimi
    So maybe that's it.
[08:02] Mimimi
    Maybe that's... the reason I chose you.
[08:07] Tomozaki
    Then what about me?
[08:10] Tomozaki
    What are my special reasons?
[08:14] Fuka
    Here, Tomozaki.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Second Draft
[08:16] Fuka
    Now that the roles have been
    assigned, I adjusted the dialogue.
[08:20] Tomozaki
    In one night?
[08:21] Fuka
    Yes. I still haven't finished
    the last scene, though.
[08:29] Tomozaki
    Ah... she changed more than
    just the dialogue, I see.
[08:35] Tomozaki
    Since Kris had been caring for
    the dragons all this time,
[08:38] Tomozaki
    she'd never left the garden.
[08:40] Tomozaki
    That's the kind of sad girl she was.
[08:43] Tomozaki
    But the garden had everything:
[08:47] Tomozaki
    a fluffy bed,
[08:49] Tomozaki
    fresh, clean water,
[08:52] Tomozaki
    a warm bath.
[08:55] Tomozaki
    She read fairy tales and books of myths.
[08:58] Tomozaki
    She was served the same
    meals as the royal family.
[09:02] Tomozaki
    But what the garden lacked
    was everything else.

[09:09] Tomozaki
    The first change is in the
    scene where they meet.
[09:13] Tomozaki
    When Kris, who lived in solitude
    —knowing neither joy nor sorrow—
[09:16] Tomozaki
    first meets Libra and Alucia,
[09:19] Tomozaki
    the first draft had her reacting like this:
[09:24] Kris (Fuka)
    Other... humans? Oh! I'm Kris!
[09:29] Kris (Fuka)
    What are your names?
[09:31] Tomozaki
    It showed her curiosity about the outside
    world, as well as how forthright she was.
[09:37] Tomozaki
    But after the rewrite, it went like this:
[09:40] Kris (Fuka)
    Other... humans?
[09:43] Kris (Fuka)
    Wh-Who are you? What are you doing here?
[09:47] Tomozaki
    Her guardedness and fear
    came to the forefront.
[09:50] Tomozaki
    Although she'd hoped to be
    released from her solitude,
[09:53] Tomozaki
    she still feared change
    and the unknown world.
[09:57] Tomozaki
    Libra, too, wasn't the simple hero
    he'd been in the first draft.
[10:04] Tomozaki
    He was awkward and made a lot of mistakes,
[10:06] Tomozaki
    but made friends via his
    resolve to see things through.
[10:09] Tomozaki
    Now he was more of a realistic young man.
[10:12] Tomozaki
    In other words, both of them had
    their weaknesses highlighted.
[10:17] Tomozaki
    But not Alucia.
[10:20] Tomozaki
    Take when she meets Kris and
    the dragon, for example.
[10:24] Tomozaki
    Originally, Alucia sensed
    danger and tried to escape,
[10:30] Tomozaki
    but in the revised script:
[10:32] Alucia (Fuka)
    Libra, move.
[10:34] Tomozaki
    Alucia immediately moves to break
    the dragon's wing herself.
[10:39] Tomozaki
    That makes it her fault that
    the dragon can no longer fly.
[10:43] Tomozaki
    It no longer matters
    whether Libra is unclean.
[10:47] Tomozaki
    But Libra notices and stops her.
[10:50] Libra (Fuka)
    What are you doing?
[10:51] Alucia (Fuka)
    It would take a lot to
    execute a royal like me.
[10:56] Alucia (Fuka)
    So please... let me do this.
[10:59] Libra (Fuka)
    But if you do, Alucia...
[11:01] Libra (Fuka)
    it's your heart that will die!
[11:07] Tomozaki
    Thanks to Alucia's bluff,
    Libra's life was spared.
[11:12] Tomozaki
    Here the story shifts to the
    relationships between the three
[11:16] Tomozaki
    during their time in the garden.
[11:18] Tomozaki
    With their new roles of
    caretaker and educator,
[11:22] Tomozaki
    the three built a warm but strange
    family-friend relationship.
[11:28] Tomozaki
    Kris enjoyed decorating with
    flowers and reading books.
[11:34] Tomozaki
    But to keep her from
    the world's impurities,
[11:37] Tomozaki
    she was allowed only
    myths and fairy tales.
[11:40] Tomozaki
    After exhausting the
    castle's stores of books,
[11:42] Tomozaki
    she became engrossed in Libra's
    tales of the outside world.
[11:47] Libra
    The giant dragon is actually
    the fastest of all dragons.
[11:52] Libra
    They move at such high speed: boosh, boosh!
[11:55] Kris
    Wow! Tell me more!
[11:58] Libra
    Nowadays there are even facilities that
    generate magic from their movements.
[12:04] Libra
    Apparently it was a huge discovery, being
    able to turn physical power into magic!
[12:08] Kris
    Really? That's amazing!
[12:10] Libra
    I know a little magic myself.
    Just one spell, though: Unlock.
[12:17] Kris
    That's physical power, isn't it?
[12:20] Kris
    What's magical about opening a lock?
[12:23] Libra
    You got me.
[12:25] Tomozaki
    Libra told her all about the real world.
[12:28] Tomozaki
    A world where people lived,
    sometimes argued,
[12:31] Tomozaki
    loved one another, and
    occasionally died.
[12:34] Libra
    But see...
[12:35] Libra
    As long as I have this, I can go all kinds
    of places and see all kinds of things.
[12:40] Libra
    So even if this is all I
    have, that's fine by me.
[12:44] Kris
    I see. Your Unlock is a very...
[12:49] Kris
    a very marvelous spell!
[12:52] Tomozaki
    Meanwhile, Alucia was talented
[12:54] Tomozaki
    and hard-working enough to
    have won magic tournaments.
[12:58] Tomozaki
    She was tough on Kris during
    their lessons together.
[13:01] Alucia
    Look, it's just some folk belief that
    holds all non-royals are tainted.
[13:05] Alucia
    There's no basis for it.
[13:06] Alucia
    Noble society loves its
    old-fashioned traditions.
[13:11] Kris
    Th-That's a little frightening...
[13:13] Kris
    Say, could we study something more pleasant?
[13:16] Kris
    Perhaps some delightful tales
    of the outside world...?
[13:19] Alucia
    Hmm... Okay, do you know
    what butterflies are?
[13:23] Kris
    Yuck! They're insects, aren't they?
[13:27] Kris
    Like this?
[13:29] Alucia
    That's a pill bug.
[13:30] Alucia
    Both are insects, but a
    butterfly is different.
[13:33] Kris
    But that's the only insect we have in here.
[13:36] Alucia
    See, this is why you need to study.
[13:39] Alucia
    You need basic knowledge to understand
    stories about the world outside.
[13:43] Kris
    Hmm, it feels like you're buttering me up...
[13:46] Kris
    Like a butterfly... get it?
[13:48] Alucia
    Mmm. Now let's pick up where we left off.
[13:51] Kris
    Oh, don't be a pill... bug! Get it?
[13:54] Alucia
    Yes, yes. Now, where we left off...
[14:00] Hanabi
    Tama-rrow!
[14:01] Kris
    Pill... bug!
[14:04] Tomozaki
    Kris is totally Tama.
[14:07] Tomozaki
    And this Alucia...
[14:10] Tomozaki
    She's way too similar to
    the face behind her mask.
[14:14] Tomozaki
    The story's turning point
    hinged on the flying dragon.
[14:18] Tomozaki
    Flying dragons become capable
    of flight before they turn 13.
[14:22] Tomozaki
    Those that can't fly by then are thought to
    have lost the power of flight due to impurities.
[14:29] Tomozaki
    The flying dragon Kris was
    raising turned 13 this year...
[14:32] Tomozaki
    and still couldn't fly.
[14:35] Tomozaki
    But what impurity could
    be robbing it of flight?
[14:40] Libra
    Kris, did you know?
[14:42] Libra
    Flying dragons can read people's minds.
[14:45] Kris
    Their minds?
[14:47] Libra
    They're kind, too.
[14:49] Libra
    They never forget all they owe
    to the human who raises them,
[14:53] Libra
    and they do all they can to
    grant that person's wishes.
[14:58] Kris
    Do you mean...
[15:00] Libra
    Say, Kris...
[15:04] Libra
    You don't want to fly, do you?
[15:08] Tomozaki
    In this way, Kris's weakness was revealed.
[15:12] Tomozaki
    The garden had everything.
    Everything and nothing.
[15:17] Tomozaki
    Therefore, she was lonely and
    wished she could leave. And yet...
[15:22] Tomozaki
    her desire to fly from this garden
    and gain everything it lacked
[15:28] Tomozaki
    was overshadowed by her
    fear of an unknown world.
[15:32] Tomozaki
    That's right: what kept the
    dragon tied down
[15:37] Tomozaki
    was none other than Kris's own mind.
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[15:43] Tomozaki
    That was really good.
[15:45] Tomozaki
    I think it's even more
    interesting than the novel.
[15:49] Fuka
    R-Really?
[15:50] Tomozaki
    Uh-huh.
[15:52] Tomozaki
    The part where they learn why the dragon
    can't fly stayed with me the most.
[15:57] Tomozaki
    Kris being afraid struck me
    as so realistic... so human.
[16:03] Fuka
    Oh? I thought it might.
[16:06] Tomozaki
    You did?
[16:07] Fuka
    Oh, um... Was there anything else?
[16:11] Tomozaki
    I liked what happened after they figured
    out what was up with the dragon, too.
[16:16] Fuka
    Oh! I like that part, too!
[16:19] Tomozaki
    Libra suggests that he and Kris
[16:22] Tomozaki
    both ride the dragon to see
    the outside world together.
[16:37] Tomozaki
    Kris was just afraid to see
    the world all by herself.
[16:42] Fuka
    That's right.
[16:43] Tomozaki
    But when she's with Libra... she can fly.
[16:47] Fuka
    Kris wanted to fly out into the glittering
    outside world, but was afraid.
[16:51] Fuka
    Libra's the one who brought her
    out of her lonely, walled garden.
[16:57] Fuka
    The view Kris saw from
    there must have changed
[17:01] Fuka
    the gray world she'd been
    seeing all her life.
[17:07] Fuka
    Ever since I was little, I'd felt
    like everything I saw was gray.
[17:15] Fuka
    What's wrong?
[17:17] Tomozaki
    Tell me: what was Libra
    especially good at again?
[17:22] Fuka
    Mmm... I'd say he was best at
    saying whatever was on his mind.
[17:29] Tomozaki
    This script isn't pure fiction.
[17:33] Tomozaki
    This is Kikuchi's own story.
[17:40] Tomozaki
    You want to know about Hinami?
[17:43] Fuka
    Yes.
[17:44] Fuka
    So I can paint a more detailed
    picture of Alucia's personality.
[17:49] Tomozaki
    Alucia's personality?
[17:52] Fuka
    Libra is awkward, Kris is fearful...
[17:55] Fuka
    Alucia is strong, but she needs a weakness.
[17:59] Fuka
    As I was writing, I started
    to have my doubts.
[18:03] Tomozaki
    Doubts?
[18:05] Fuka
    As in, how can Alucia even
    be this strong?
[18:14] Aoi
    An interview? Now you've got me nervous.
[18:17] Tomozaki
    Go ahead, Kikuchi.
[18:19] Fuka
    Okay.
[18:20] Fuka
    Um... What drives you to work
    so hard at so many things?
[18:27] Tomozaki
    But that interview was empty,
[18:29] Tomozaki
    just nice-sounding words with a little
    venom that seemed like it could be real.
[18:35] Tomozaki
    I doubt there were any answers that
    Kikuchi would want to put in her story.
[18:41] Fuka
    I think Hinami was lying to us.
[18:47] Fuka
    No matter how fluent her speech, the motive
    at the center of it all stayed hidden.
[18:52] Fuka
    She acted like she was saying
    how she really felt, though.
[18:56] Fuka
    Which means...
[18:58] Fuka
    Alucia isn't just going
    along with her environment
[19:01] Fuka
    and working hard out of a sense of duty...
[19:05] Fuka
    there's something... unusual there.
[19:10] Tomozaki
    I think so, too.
[19:12] Tomozaki
    But I didn't know what...
[19:14] Tomozaki
    even though I knew the face behind her mask.
[19:20] Tomozaki
    Care to dig a little deeper, Kikuchi?
[19:24] Tomozaki
    See what makes Hinami tick?
[19:31] Maebashi
    I'm Maebashi. Nice to meet you.
[19:34] Tomozaki
    Tomozaki. Same here.
[19:38] Fuka
    I-I'm Kikuchi. Glad you could come.
[19:42] Tomozaki
    Okay, let's get started.
[19:45] Tomozaki
    Oh, I do have Hinami's
    permission, by the way.
[19:48] Tomozaki
    Let's see...
[19:49] Tomozaki
    Tachibana went to middle school with Hinami.
[19:52] Tachibana
    Right.
[19:53] Tomozaki
    And Maebashi, you've been her
    classmate since grade school?
[19:57] Maebashi
    That's right.
[19:59] Tomozaki
    All right, we'll start with middle school.
[20:02] Tomozaki
    Has anything stuck with you, Tachibana?
[20:05] Tachibana
    What I remember... is her dating the
    Vice President of the boy's basketball club.
[20:11] Tomozaki
    Huh?! Really?
[20:13] Tachibana
    He was this cool older
    guy. The girls loved him.
[20:16] Tachibana
    And she dumped him right away!
[20:19] Tomozaki
    So she always stood out, huh...
[20:22] Maebashi
    Mmm...
[20:23] Maebashi
    I wouldn't say that.
[20:25] Tomozaki
    What do you mean?
[20:27] Maebashi
    I don't think Hinami stood out
    much in grade school, anyway.
[20:32] Fuka
    She didn't?
[20:34] Maebashi
    She was earnest, friendly—a good kid.
[20:37] Maebashi
    Oh, and I remember her being
    really family-oriented.
[20:42] Tachibana
    Right! So do I.
[20:44] Maebashi
    I got the impression that she
    loved her little sisters a lot.
[20:49] Tachibana
    Plural?
[20:51] Tomozaki
    Oh, so she has little sisters?
[20:54] Maebashi
    Say hi to Hinami for me!
[20:57] Tachibana
    Thanks for everything!
[21:02] Tomozaki
    What's up, Tachibana?
[21:05] Tachibana
    You know how Maebashi said "sisters," plural?
[21:08] Tomozaki
    Yeah, she did say that.
[21:10] Tachibana
    See, that's weird right there.
[21:13] Tachibana
    I mean, Aoi only has one younger sister.
[21:18] Tomozaki
    Are you sure about that?
[21:21] Tachibana
    Yeah, pretty damn sure.
[21:27] Tomozaki
    It's not really something we can pry into.
[21:30] Tomozaki
    She's never said a word about it.
[21:33] Tachibana
    Right...
[21:35] Fuka
    Let's just...
[21:37] Fuka
    stop here.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Third Draft
[21:43] Fuka
    I've made some revisions concerning Alucia...
[21:46] Fuka
    but I haven't written past the scene
    where Kris takes flight with Libra.
[21:51] Tomozaki
    That's all right.
[21:52] Tomozaki
    We can do plenty of rehearsals
    with just the first half.
SIGN    Spare Classroom A In Use
[22:04] Tomozaki
    O-Okay!
[22:07] Tomozaki
    Let's do a read-through of our script!

E11 - Even fairies feel lonely when they're away from their spring by themselves

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SIGN    Spare Classroom A In Use
[00:04] Tomozaki
    O-Okay!
[00:05] Tomozaki
    Let's do a read-through of our script!
[00:08] Tomozaki
    Does anyone have any questions?
[00:13] Tomozaki
    Whoa, what's with this mood?
[00:18] Aoi
    Oh! I have a question for Fuka:
[00:22] Aoi
    Alucia's emotions here—is she
    more desperate? Or resolved?
[00:27] Fuka
    Um, it's more the latter.
[00:30] Aoi
    Got it!
[00:31] Tomozaki
    Wow, Hinami, nice assist!
[00:34] Aoi
    So...
[00:36] Aoi
    Like this?
[00:39] Aoi
    If I don't do something, you'll be killed.
[00:44] Aoi
    So please... let me do this.
[00:48] Aoi
    How's that?
[00:49] Fuka
    P-Perfect...
[00:53] Takei
    Cool!
[00:54] Tomozaki
    I mean, she is already acting
    all the time, anyway.

[00:59] Aoi
    I hate to do this, but I have a
    student council thing after this.
[01:04] Aoi
    Is it okay if I slip out?
[01:07] Tomozaki
    A-ha! To create a pretext for
    spending less time in rehearsal,
[01:11] Tomozaki
    she starts out with a bang that'll
    make her more persuasive.
[01:15] Tomozaki
    From what we just saw,
    yeah, you should be fine.
[01:18] Fuka
    Sure—no problem.
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 11 Even fairies feel lonely when they're away from their spring by themselves
[02:52] Hanabi
    Wh-Who are you? What are you doing here?
[02:56] Mizusawa
    I'm Libra, the locksmith's son.
[02:59] Mizusawa
    And this is...
[03:01] Erika
    Freeze, all three of you.
[03:03] Nakamura
    Seize that man!
[03:05] Tachibana
    His Highness's orders!
[03:07] Hashiguchi
    Resistance is useless!
[03:08] Matsumoto
    Come quietly, now!
[03:10] Yuzu
    Having escaped execution thanks to
    Alucia's quick thinking, Libra...
[03:14] Kashiwazaki
    Hah! Ow ow ow...
[03:16] Takei
    You can't just take things—that
    makes you a thief!
[03:19] Seno
    Calm down, Father.
[03:23] Tachibana
    Nice work!
[03:25] Tomozaki
    Yeah, good job.
[03:27] Tomozaki
    Our first day went off without a hitch.
[03:29] Fuka
    I was nervous, but I had fun.
[03:32] Tomozaki
    Yeah? Well, that's good.
[03:34] Fuka
    Thank you so much for all your support.
[03:38] Tomozaki
    Not at all! I'm doing this because I want to.
[03:43] Fuka
    But... you're so busy.
[03:47] Fuka
    You've got that thing with Nanami...
[03:50] Tomozaki
    The comedy skit?
[03:51] Fuka
    Right. That's something else you have to do.
[03:57] Fuka
    So, um... that's what you
    should do tomorrow.
[04:00] Tomozaki
    Huh? But what about our rehearsal here?
[04:03] Fuka
    I'll... I'll do my best.
[04:09] Fuka
    I've been thinking... You've
    changed, Hanabi's changed...
[04:15] Fuka
    and I'm the only one getting left behind.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[04:19] Fuka
    So... it's about time I change, too.
[04:23] Tomozaki
    Oh, okay.
[04:25] Fuka
    Don't you think this could
    spark real change for me?
[04:31] Fuka
    That would be the ideal, anyway.
[04:34] Tomozaki
    Yeah. I understand.
[04:37] Fuka
    I'm going to go for it.
SIGN    Tomozaki
[04:48] Fuka
    That would be the ideal, anyway.
[04:52] Tomozaki
    What is it...?
[04:53] Tomozaki
    Something about that
    word—"ideal"—doesn't sit right...
SIGN    Spare Classroom A In Use
[05:00] Fuka
    O-Okay, let's start from the first scene.
SIGN    Top Secret
[05:07] Mimimi
    Ta-da! I've actually finished our script!
[05:10] Tomozaki
    Wow, really?
[05:12] Mimimi
    Now let's give our married-couple
    routine a whirl!
[05:15] Mimimi
    Clap-clap-clap-clap!
[05:17] Mimimi
    Hello there!
[05:19] Tomozaki
    Wait wait wait! I can't just
    jump right in like that!
[05:22] Mimimi
    Huh? Why not?
[05:23] Tomozaki
    I haven't even seen the script!
[05:25] Mimimi
    Even though we're friends, Brain?!
[05:27] Tomozaki
    Even though we're friends.
[05:29] Mimimi
    See? That's what I call great flow!
[05:32] Tomozaki
    Huh?
[05:33] Mimimi
    What we did just now!
[05:35] Mimimi
    We were just having a normal conversation,
[05:36] Mimimi
    but it started sounding
    like a comedy skit, right?
[05:38] Tomozaki
    Ah!
[05:40] Mimimi
    Which makes this natural
    married-couple comedy!
[05:44] Mimimi
    Let's get rehearsing!
[05:49] Mimimi
    Hey, I know! Why don't we go to the zoo?
[05:52] Tomozaki
    I wouldn't want to be there if
    the lion escaped its enclosure.
[05:56] Mimimi
    So I'll bring a tranquilizer gun.
[05:58] Tomozaki
    You know they'll confiscate it at the gates!
[06:03] Mimimi
    Don't you think our usual
    conversations are funnier?
[06:08] Mimimi
    This really feels like
    we're reading a script.
[06:11] Tomozaki
    Oh...
[06:13] Mimimi
    The funniest comedians come across
    like they're having an impromptu chat.
[06:18] Mimimi
    So even though memorizing
    this is part of the process,
[06:21] Mimimi
    maybe not every line should
    be carved in stone.
[06:25] Tomozaki
    Yeah. But that's kind of terrifying.
[06:28] Tomozaki
    I guess...
[06:29] Mimimi
    But you and me always have such crazy
    conversations... couldn't it work?
[06:34] Tomozaki
    Now that you mention it... maybe?
[06:36] Mimimi
    That's right! We'll conquer the world!
[06:40] Tomozaki
    What's this "world" stuff? It's
    just the culture festival.
[06:43] Mimimi
    See? Nice comeback!
[06:46] Tomozaki
    Sheesh...
[06:49] Tomozaki
    I have fun with Mimimi—and so, by
    extension, it's easy to picture us dating.
[06:57] Tomozaki
    But how is that different from being friends?
[07:02] Mimimi
    Here.
[07:04] Mimimi
    Nice work today.
[07:07] Mimimi
    You've had a lot on your
    mind lately, huh, Brain.
[07:11] Tomozaki
    You can tell?
[07:12] Mimimi
    Aww, c'mon! Your ol' uncle
    is always here for advice!
[07:15] Tomozaki
    My uncle, huh?
[07:17] Mimimi
    It's not healthy to keep stuff to yourself.
[07:20] Mimimi
    And if a girl my age is saying
    it, you know it's true!
[07:25] Tomozaki
    What, so you're not my uncle after all?
[07:28] Mimimi
    Don't you worry about that.
[07:31] Tomozaki
    Um... thanks.
[07:33] Mimimi
    F-F-For what?!
[07:35] Tomozaki
    For worrying about me.
[07:37] Mimimi
    Oh, well, y-y-you know...
[07:40] Tomozaki
    I've actually had a lot of
    things to think about lately:
[07:44] Tomozaki
    the script for our play, Hinami...
[07:48] Mimimi
    Aoi?
[07:50] Tomozaki
    She's playing Alucia, right?
[07:52] Tomozaki
    We asked her a lot of questions for the part,
[07:55] Tomozaki
    like, "Why do you push yourself so hard?"
[07:59] Mimimi
    Oh, that. I've been wondering that
    myself, ever since the election.
[08:04] Mimimi
    And how maybe she and I are the same.
[08:07] Tomozaki
    The same?
[08:09] Mimimi
    I told you how I need to be in first
    place because I'm not special, right?
[08:15] Tomozaki
    Yeah.
[08:17] Mimimi
    So I'm thinking...
[08:18] Mimimi
    maybe Aoi shoots for first place
    so she can be special, too.
[08:23] Tomozaki
    That could be.
[08:27] Tomozaki
    Mimimi?
[08:29] Mimimi
    If so, that worries me a little.
[08:32] Tomozaki
    How so?
[08:34] Mimimi
    Maybe Aoi and I are the same:
[08:36] Mimimi
    hollow.
[08:39] Tomozaki
    Hinami, hollow?
[08:42] Tomozaki
    I mean, I don't know what
    her core motivation is.
[08:48] Mimimi
    To try that hard and still be
    empty inside... How sad is that?
[08:52] Mimimi
    And if it's true... then she might...
[08:56] Tomozaki
    Might what?
[08:58] Mimimi
    She might not ever come
    to me for advice. Right?
[09:02] Tomozaki
    It's true. I doubt Hinami would
    unload on Mimimi about herself.
[09:07] Tomozaki
    And not just Mimimi...
[09:10] Tomozaki
    I can't picture her opening
    up to anyone at all.
SIGN    Cast Libra: Takehiro Mizusawa Alucia: Aoi Hinami Kris: Hanabi Natsubayashi King: Shuji Nakamura Knight: Erika Konno
[09:16] Tomozaki
    How can you even be that strong,
SIGN    Aoi Hinami
[09:19] Tomozaki
    Aoi Hinami?
SIGN    Spare Classroom A In Use
[09:25] Tomozaki
    When I joined rehearsals for
    the first time in two days...
[09:29] Fuka
    Could you be more dignified
    there, please, Nakamura?
[09:33] Nakamura
    You mean like this?
[09:35] Takei
    Yikes! That's not
    dignified—that's intimidating!
[09:38] Nakamura
    Say what?
[09:39] Takei
    C'mon, a king's more like this!
[09:42] Erika
    What's so kingly about that?
[09:45] Yuzu
    Right? Not dignified in the slightest.
[09:47] Takei
    Aw! It is too dignified!
[09:47] Seno
    How long do I have to keep doing this?
SIGN    Alucia
[09:50] Kashiwazaki
    Want to swap?
[09:51] Nakamura
    Cut it out already.
[09:52] Seno
    Oh, thanks.
[09:54] Hanabi
    Hey—focus! Help Fuka out here!
[09:59] Yuzu
    Oh, sorry! Keep going.
[10:03] Fuka
    O-Okay, um...
[10:06] Tomozaki
    What's rehearsal been
    like these past two days?
[10:09] Mizusawa
    Oh, Kikuchi's been trying to
    really actively talk to everyone.
[10:14] Tomozaki
    To everyone?
[10:16] Mizusawa
    Yeah. Like when you were
    assigning parts earlier.
[10:19] Mizusawa
    It feels like she learned from watching you.
[10:22] Mizusawa
    Y'know, though, I hate to say this...
[10:25] Mizusawa
    She's not really used to that kind of role.
[10:28] Tomozaki
    Well... no.
[10:29] Mizusawa
    So it's like... our tires are
    spinning, and we keep losing focus.
[10:35] Mizusawa
    And Aoi hasn't been around—she's
    busy with student council work.
[10:44] Fuka
    Good morning, Tomozaki.
[10:47] Tomozaki
    Morning, Kikuchi.
[10:49] Tomozaki
    Could it be... finished?
[10:51] Fuka
    Yes. I know it took a long time, but...
[10:54] Fuka
    I've finished the script.
[10:57] Tomozaki
    Ooh!
[11:03] Tomozaki
    The script went in a different
    direction than I'd anticipated.
[11:09] Tomozaki
    After Libra and Kris took
    off on the flying dragon
[11:11] Tomozaki
    and Kris got a taste of how
    beautiful the world was,
[11:14] Tomozaki
    she began asking to venture into town.
[11:17] Tomozaki
    Libra accompanied her out of the castle.
[11:21] Tomozaki
    She didn't know how shopping worked,
[11:23] Tomozaki
    and got a real scolding from the greengrocer.
[11:25] Tomozaki
    Thus Kris came to know the real world.
[11:29] Tomozaki
    Eventually, Kris got to thinking:
[11:31] Tomozaki
    this garden she'd been cooped
    up in for all this time,
[11:34] Tomozaki
    this place she wanted to
    leave... she did nothing
[11:38] Tomozaki
    in return for clean clothes
    and delicious food,
[11:42] Tomozaki
    and she could read all the
    fairy tales she desired.
[11:45] Tomozaki
    It may have been a little too convenient.
[11:50] Kris (Fuka)
    Say, Libra... am I spoiled?
[11:54] Libra (Fuka)
    Eh?
[11:55] Kris (Fuka)
    Being shut away in this garden,
[11:59] Kris (Fuka)
    never having to work hard to live...
[12:01] Kris (Fuka)
    The outside world is pretty from a distance,
[12:05] Kris (Fuka)
    but I'll have to work hard
    if I want to be part of it.
[12:09] Tomozaki
    In the end, Kris sneaked out
    of the castle and went missing.
[12:14] Tomozaki
    Libra and Alucia searched
    desperately for her.
[12:16] Tomozaki
    But the castle's residents did
    nothing about the missing girl.
[12:21] Tomozaki
    Kris had finished raising the flying dragon,
[12:23] Tomozaki
    so as far as they were concerned,
    she was only baggage.
[12:29] Tomozaki
    Kris took a job at the greengrocer's.
[12:33] Tomozaki
    Despite a string of failures,
[12:35] Tomozaki
    Kris used her own skills to
    learn what life required of her,
[12:38] Tomozaki
    and decided to live in the outside world.
[12:41] Tomozaki
    Libra and Alucia celebrated her new venture.
[12:47] Tomozaki
    I sure didn't see that coming.
[12:50] Tomozaki
    Still...
[12:53] Tomozaki
    It's so similar to what I felt back then...
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[13:01] Tomozaki
    I read your script.
[13:03] Fuka
    H-How was it?
[13:05] Tomozaki
    Um... Why was Kris... like that?
[13:11] Fuka
    Like what?
[13:14] Tomozaki
    She left the garden and Libra and Alucia...
[13:17] Tomozaki
    and decided to live alone
    in the village, right?
[13:20] Fuka
    Yes...
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft
[13:22] Tomozaki
    I'm sure you put a lot of thought into this,
[13:25] Tomozaki
    but reading that actually
    made me kind of sad.
[13:31] Tomozaki
    I felt like it was negating everything
    about her life in the garden.
[13:40] Fuka
    One of my favorite Andi books
    is The Popple on Raptor Isle.
[13:46] Tomozaki
    The Popples...
[13:48] Tomozaki
    Oh, right... You mentioned that before.
[13:50] Fuka
    It's an incredibly positive story.
[13:54] Fuka
    This Popple, a blind creature,
    was living all on its lonesome
[13:59] Fuka
    when it left on a journey
    in search of friends.
[14:02] Fuka
    At first, all the other creatures
    feared it because it was different.
[14:07] Fuka
    But it made friends through
    the power of its words.
[14:10] Fuka
    And after making all these
    friends of other species,
[14:15] Fuka
    they all went on a voyage to see the ocean.
[14:18] Fuka
    After reading it, I thought this
    Popple was an ideal for the world.
[14:24] Tomozaki
    An ideal... for the world?
[14:27] Fuka
    It didn't even know what
    kind of creature it was,
[14:31] Fuka
    but it reached out to all these
    other species and made friends.
[14:35] Fuka
    All thanks to the power of
    language and a little effort.
[14:40] Fuka
    That's how it made friends.
[14:43] Fuka
    It reminded me of a certain two people.
[14:47] Tomozaki
    Two... You mean...
[14:49] Fuka
    Yes. You and Hanabi.
[14:54] Fuka
    I like this Popple's tale, and think
    it's a great storytelling ideal...
[14:59] Fuka
    an ideal for the world.
[15:03] Fuka
    I thought I needed to be
    more like that Popple.
[15:07] Fuka
    But I just kept giving up.
[15:10] Fuka
    Maybe it was impossible.
[15:13] Fuka
    But when I saw you and Hanabi, I thought:
[15:17] Fuka
    You're both so brilliant,
    such ideal people...
[15:21] Fuka
    And maybe, just maybe, I
    could be like that, too.
[15:24] Tomozaki
    So you're aiming for that ideal yourself?
[15:27] Fuka
    Kris is the same way.
[15:29] Fuka
    Working hard to change like the
    Popple did, to fit in in the world.
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[15:34] Fuka
    After all, changing like that is ideal.
[15:39] Fuka
    I was fretting over who'd
    be with whom in the end.
[15:44] Fuka
    But this story was really
    about how Kris lives her life.
[15:51] Tomozaki
    Uh-huh.
[15:52] Tomozaki
    Got it.
[15:54] Tomozaki
    But these new parts of the script...
[15:57] Tomozaki
    Can we set them aside for now?
[16:00] Fuka
    Set them... aside?
[16:02] Tomozaki
    Mull over it for a while, and
    if it has to be that way,
[16:05] Tomozaki
    we'll go ahead with it as is.
[16:08] Tomozaki
    I know we don't have a lot of time, but...
[16:10] Tomozaki
    It really does feel much too sad.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft
[16:14] Fuka
    Understood.
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[16:19] Fuka
    Okay. Places, everyone.
[16:22] Nakamura
    Where do I go again?
[16:23] Takei
    The king's right here!
[16:25] Erika
    Isn't that my spot?
[16:27] Takei
    Is it?
[16:29] Tachibana
    I'm here, right?
[16:31] Fuka
    Um...
[16:32] Aoi
    Hey, slow down! Think about Fuka here!
[16:37] Aoi
    Shuji, you're here.
[16:39] Aoi
    Erika, you're over here,
    and Tachibana, you're here.
[16:42] Aoi
    Right, Fuka?
[16:44] Fuka
    Yes, right.
[16:48] Matsumoto
    Where am I again?
[16:49] Hashiguchi
    Here, I think?
[16:51] Fuka
    Matsumoto, you're here,
[16:53] Fuka
    and Hashiguchi, you're here.
[16:55] Tomozaki
    Maybe it's because the school's
    perfect heroine Aoi Hinami is here,
[16:59] Tomozaki
    but Kikuchi seems to be
    mimicking how she does things.
[17:05] Fuka
    O-Okay. Let's begin.
[17:07] Mizusawa
    Why is she like that?
[17:09] Tomozaki
    Could you not sneak up on me?!
[17:13] Tomozaki
    Kikuchi's been thinking about a lot of stuff.
[17:17] Mizusawa
    Hmm. A lot, eh?
[17:20] Tomozaki
    Yeah, well...
[17:23] Mizusawa
    Tell me. Maybe I can help.
[17:27] Tomozaki
    She thinks she has to
    become this world ideal.
[17:33] Tomozaki
    Changing to fit in better, making friends...
[17:37] Tomozaki
    She says she has to do these
    things to fit this ideal.
[17:41] Mizusawa
    A world ideal, eh?
[17:44] Mizusawa
    I mean, sure, if she says so.
[17:47] Tomozaki
    The way she puts it feels a little loaded.
[17:50] Mizusawa
    No, I think it's a good thing.
[17:52] Mizusawa
    She's determined to change herself
[17:54] Mizusawa
    and is actively working
    toward making that happen.
[17:57] Mizusawa
    And she's doing a great job! It's impressive.
[18:01] Tomozaki
    I suppose so.
[18:03] Mizusawa
    And so is her reason for
    it: to fit this ideal.
[18:08] Mizusawa
    Pretty ironic that it's the
    opposite of you, though.
[18:12] Tomozaki
    The opposite?
[18:14] Tomozaki
    If you mean the directions we're moving
    in, I think they're actually the same.
[18:19] Tomozaki
    Making an effort to change so
    we fit in with everyone else.
[18:23] Tomozaki
    That's what Tama and I did.
[18:26] Mizusawa
    Ah, okay! So that's what
    it looks like to you.
[18:29] Tomozaki
    Wh-What?
[18:31] Mizusawa
    Look, Kikuchi's talking about
    the world's ideals, right?
[18:40] Mizusawa
    Your ideal is from your own
    perspective: "I'd like to do this."
[18:45] Mizusawa
    While Kikuchi's takes a bird's-eye
    view: "The world needs me like this."
[18:50] Mizusawa
    Totally opposite, right?
[18:54] Tomozaki
    I changed myself so I could enjoy
    my playthrough of this game of life.
[19:00] Tomozaki
    Tama changed herself so she
    wouldn't be making Mimimi sad.
[19:08] Tomozaki
    We both did it so we could
    be our ideal selves.
[19:12] Tomozaki
    Then why is Kikuchi doing it?
[19:17] Tomozaki
    Is that how it is?
[19:19] Tomozaki
    Drawing nearer to the world's ideals
[19:22] Tomozaki
    is an objective, player-oriented
    way of thinking, like Hinami's.
[19:32] Fuka
    Yes, that's right.
[19:34] Fuka
    I do feel like I see things from
    what you call a "player" perspective.
[19:42] Fuka
    But this has me thinking...
[19:45] Fuka
    It might actually be an author's perspective.
[19:49] Tomozaki
    An author's... like scripts and novels?
[19:53] Fuka
    Well, yes, those too, but more than that.
[19:56] Fuka
    An author of this story we call the world.
[19:59] Tomozaki
    The world's author?
[20:03] Fuka
    For a long time now, I haven't
    thought about what I'd like to do
[20:06] Fuka
    so much as how to make this world
    more beautiful, how it should be,
[20:11] Fuka
    what an ideal form would look like.
[20:14] Fuka
    A very authoresque way
    of thinking about things.
[20:17] Fuka
    So I'm okay with this.
[20:20] Tomozaki
    With a player perspective?
[20:23] Fuka
    Those are your words, Tomozaki.
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[20:28] Fuka
    In the game world, the opposite of
    "character" may well be "player."
[20:33] Fuka
    But in the world of novels, I think the
    opposite of "character" is "author."
[20:40] Fuka
    So I'll be all right holding
    onto my author's perspective.
[20:48] Fuka
    I do want to take on that ideal form.
[20:53] Fuka
    Just like Hinami.
[20:55] Tomozaki
    Like Hinami, huh...?
[20:57] Fuka
    Yes.
[20:58] Fuka
    After all, she's a very
    ideal person, isn't she?
SIGN    Tomozaki
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft Fuka Kikuchi
[21:09] Tomozaki
    The whole premise was off.
[21:12] Tomozaki
    I was playing the game of life as a player.
[21:17] Tomozaki
    Kikuchi was writing the
    story of life as an author.
[21:22] Tomozaki
    But really, she's aiming to be
    a perfect heroine like Hinami.
[21:27] Tomozaki
    Is that the path Kikuchi should be taking?
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft Fuka Kikuchi
[21:31] Tomozaki
    Still, it's not for me to say what
    should go on inside Kikuchi's head.
[21:36] Tomozaki
    Inside Kikuchi's head...
[21:43] Tomozaki
    A-ha.
SIGN    The Popple on Raptor Isle Michael Andi Translated by Emiko Murata Read Now
[21:44] Tomozaki
    There it is.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft
[22:03] Tomozaki
    I read the whole thing...
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft Fuka Kikuchi
[22:05] Tomozaki
    and found a clue that
    could give me an answer.

E12 - Sometimes the ancient tome in the first town is the key to the final dungeon

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[00:08] ---
    Morning, Kikuchi.
[00:10] ---
    Good morning, Tomozaki.
[00:13] ---
    I read The Popples.
[00:16] ---
    You did?!
[00:24] ---
    I didn't know it was available as an ebook.
[00:27] ---
    You said the book was almost
    impossible to find in stores,
[00:31] ---
    so I thought, "Maybe..."
[00:34] ---
    Here.
[00:35] ---
    See?
SIGN    The Popples on Raptor Isle
[00:39] ---
    Wow...
SIGN    Table of Contents
[00:49] ---
    So, um, having read it...
    what did you think?
[00:53] ---
    I thought the best part
    was at the very end,
[00:55] ---
    where everyone used the power of
    words to convey the ocean's beauty
[00:59] ---
    to the blind Popple.
[01:02] ---
    I knew it!
[01:03] ---
    There was something else
    that stuck with me, too.
[01:08] ---
    Something else?
[01:10] ---
    The firelings.
SIGN    Chapter 7: The Firelings
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 12 Sometimes the ancient tome in the first town is the key to the final dungeon
[02:55] ---
    The Popple makes friends with everyone...
[02:57] ---
    The Popple makes friends with everyone...
[02:58] ---
    everyone but the firelings.
[03:01] ---
    That's right. Not everyone can be friends.
[03:07] ---
    The Popples is... kind of a grown-up story.
[03:12] ---
    When I read that part of The Popples*...
[03:20] ---
    it felt about as jarring as when
    Kikuchi was talking about her "ideal."

[03:28] ---
    You said you see things from
    an author's perspective, right?
[03:33] ---
    Right.
[03:34] ---
    But if that's true... you should be able
    to accept that these firelings exist.
SIGN    The Popples on Raptor Isle
[03:43] ---
    The Popple was a freak, yet it made
    friends with all these other species.

[03:48] ---
    The Popple was a freak, yet it made
    friends with all these other species.

[03:49] ---
    And yes, that's ideal.
[03:52] ---
    Still, as the author Michael
    Andi crafted that world,

[03:55] ---
    he included the firelings,
[03:58] ---
    who couldn't make friends with the others.
[04:04] ---
    You said that you needed
    to be like the Popple...
[04:09] ---
    but then aren't you rejecting the firelings?
[04:13] ---
    If you really did have
    an author's perspective,
[04:15] ---
    you'd say the world could have
    both the Popple and the firelings.
[04:19] ---
    Saying that you have to be like the Popple
[04:22] ---
    shows that you're thinking about
    how you should be for yourself.
[04:27] ---
    That may be true...
[04:30] ---
    I know I'm playing with fire.
[04:33] ---
    I'm negating the words Kikuchi's
    been using to define herself

[04:37] ---
    and trying to suggest
    different words instead.

[04:40] ---
    But I see a Kikuchi who'd ushered
    Kris to such a sad conclusion,

[04:46] ---
    a Kikuchi who was doing
    everything she could to fit in,

[04:52] ---
    and I think, "I want to help her."
[04:53] ---
    Not that I should help her...
[04:56] ---
    I want to.
[04:59] ---
    I don't think you need a player's
    or an author's perspective.
[05:03] ---
    You can see life through your own
    eyes: from a character's POV.
[05:08] ---
    You've just lost sight of that
    because you're overthinking things.
[05:13] ---
    I just don't know.
[05:16] ---
    I don't know what I'm looking
    at, what my goals are...
[05:22] ---
    I mean... everything I see is gray.
[05:31] ---
    Well, that's easy.
[05:34] ---
    Andi's books.
[05:36] ---
    You love Andi's books.
[05:39] ---
    That's one fact that's never going to change.
[05:43] ---
    Is that enough?
[05:45] ---
    Yep. After all, Andi's books are
    what showed you a world of color.
[05:51] ---
    Right now, you think you
    have to change to fit in.
[05:56] ---
    But if you were a fireling,
[05:59] ---
    and everyone else were a different species...
[06:03] ---
    you could find friends
    at the firelings' lake.
[06:09] ---
    Is this...
[06:11] ---
    You'll find a bunch of friends
    who like the same things.
[06:15] ---
    Some of whom you'll want to meet in person.
[06:21] ---
    I mean, that place is nothing but firelings.
[06:26] ---
    You're really amazing, Tomozaki.
[06:30] ---
    Nah. Just sneaky, that's all.
[06:33] ---
    Still... are you sure?
[06:36] ---
    You and Hanabi changed so
    splendidly, you fit in so well...
[06:42] ---
    and only I stay the same?
[06:44] ---
    Right.
[06:47] ---
    I'll give it to you straight:
[06:49] ---
    The friendships you make at
    school? They're nothing special.
[06:54] ---
    I've changed myself over
    these past six months,
[06:58] ---
    gotten involved with all kinds of people,
[07:00] ---
    and, I think, made a lot of
    what I'd consider friends.

[07:05] ---
    But that was all about me
    clicking with those people
[07:10] ---
    and school was just what brought us together.
[07:13] ---
    And in these past six months,
[07:17] ---
    the encounter I'm most happy to have had
[07:22] ---
    was the day I gave a blanket denial of
    this school and the normie way of life,

[07:29] ---
    and Hinami threw it back in my face.
[07:33] ---
    I did as she said, and set
    out to play the game of life.

[07:37] ---
    My superficial way of thinking
    was actually sour grapes,

[07:42] ---
    a sore loser not accepting defeat.
[07:45] ---
    But that's not entirely true.
[07:49] ---
    I can't say the grapes were all that sour.
[07:54] ---
    It's simply that some grapes are
    sweeter or more sour than others.

[08:01] ---
    I came to know that truth.
[08:06] ---
    You don't need to be friends
    with everyone just because
[08:10] ---
    you think the world demands it of you.
[08:14] ---
    I see...
[08:16] ---
    So I'm fine just as I am.
[08:20] ---
    I'm not some freak who doesn't
    belong in this world.
[08:27] ---
    Right. Of course not.
[08:30] ---
    Right...
[08:33] ---
    Now, getting back on track...
[08:36] ---
    With what?
[08:38] ---
    With this here. Do you
    know how to use this app?
[08:43] ---
    Let's see... first
    you make an account...
[08:48] ---
    It's really very simple.
[08:53] ---
    If the sweet grapes are hanging out of reach,
[08:56] ---
    seek out the sweet
    strawberries on the ground.

[08:59] ---
    If you don't care for sweet things,
    look for tasty nuts instead.

[09:04] ---
    And if you're not even hungry,
    go have fun however you want.

[09:10] ---
    That's all there is to it.
[09:18] ---
    Tomozaki!
[09:19] ---
    Morning, Kikuchi. You're happy today.
[09:22] ---
    I've made up my mind.
[09:25] ---
    The previous draft ended with Kris leaving
[09:28] ---
    and making an effort to fit
    in with the outside world.
[09:32] ---
    But now, Kris will apprentice at
    a studio to become an artisan,
[09:37] ---
    crafting her beloved flower decorations.
[09:39] ---
    Hey, nice!
[09:49] ---
    I'm sure Kris was lonely in her garden,
[09:52] ---
    and she didn't know anything
    about the outside world...
[09:55] ---
    But I figured she'd like
    working with flowers.
[10:00] ---
    So I think she'll be happy,
    having chosen that path.
[10:07] ---
    Cool.
[10:38] ---
    Hey, Kikuchi?
[10:40] ---
    Yes?
[10:42] ---
    I'd like to talk with you about
    something after the festival.
[10:53] ---
    Howdy, Brain!
[10:55] ---
    Hey, Mimimi. Morning.
[10:57] ---
    We're pretty much set with the
    play, right? The script and all?
[11:03] ---
    Yeah, just about.
[11:05] ---
    So I can ask you to start
    focusing on our thing now?
[11:11] ---
    Oh, sure. I can get some
    real practice in now.
[11:15] ---
    Excellent! We are a married
    couple, after all.
[11:19] ---
    We're doing a married-couple routine: an act.
[11:24] ---
    Nice comeback! Keep that up, 'kay?
[11:27] ---
    You bet.
[11:31] ---
    The days leading up to the festival
    were packed with rehearsals and prep.

SIGN    Sekitomo High School Culture Festival Play My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
SIGN    Manga Café Banchoo
[12:24] ---
    - And now, finally...
[12:26] ---
    the festival's tomorrow!
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
SIGN    Sekitomo Festival
SIGN    Sewing Room 2
SIGN    Medium Goal Have a girlfriend before starting year 3
[12:41] ---
    Now, have you figured it out?
[12:44] ---
    Do you know who you'll choose, based
    on your feelings: Fuka or Mimimi?
[12:50] ---
    Yes. I've decided.
[12:52] ---
    Good.
[12:55] ---
    Hey, about the play's script...
[12:58] ---
    How much influence did you have on the story?
[13:01] ---
    I was just Kikuchi's sounding
    board whenever she got stuck.
[13:05] ---
    It's almost entirely her own work.
[13:08] ---
    I see.
[13:09] ---
    Why do you ask?
[13:12] ---
    No reason.
[13:13] ---
    I was just a little curious about
    the extent of your involvement.
[13:18] ---
    You were at our interview, after all.
[13:21] ---
    Anyway, today's the big day!
[13:23] ---
    Are you ready?
[13:25] ---
    You bet I am.
SIGN    Sekitomo Festival
[13:31] ---
    Today's the day I say what I feel,
    so I can do what I want to do.

[13:32] ---
    Today's the day I say what I feel,
    so I can do what I want to do.

[13:36] ---
    I absolutely can't afford to fail.
SIGN    Manga Café Banchoo
[13:42] ---
    Brain!
[13:44] ---
    Morning, Mimi... mi...
[13:46] ---
    Ah! I see my appearance has you captivated!
[13:53] ---
    Well? Well? Cute, right? Totes adorbs?
[13:57] ---
    Yeah, real cute.
[13:59] ---
    The crab, that is.
[14:00] ---
    The crab?!
[14:04] ---
    All right, everyone. Get
    in here for a class photo!
[14:08] ---
    Hey, finally!
[14:11] ---
    Tomozaki...
[14:12] ---
    Where's your T-shirt?
[14:14] ---
    Don't worry. I'm wearing it.
[14:17] ---
    See?
[14:19] ---
    Okay, then.
[14:22] ---
    This looks like it's gonna be one
    fun festival. For both of us.
[14:26] ---
    Right?
SIGN    Sekitomo Festival
[14:45] ---
    Mizusawa! Tomozaki!
[14:49] ---
    Hey there, Gumi... and Mako and Sayaka!
[14:55] ---
    We had no idea you guys
    were Gumi's friends!
[14:58] ---
    Long time no see!
[15:00] ---
    Oh, y-yeah.
[15:02] ---
    Huh? What happened to your nose glasses?
[15:05] ---
    Those were a one-day-only deal!
[15:07] ---
    Hey, have you seen this dude's Pinsta?
[15:10] ---
    Here, look.
[15:12] ---
    He really did post it!
[15:14] ---
    Those look great on you, Mizusawa.
[15:16] ---
    Here we go again with the non-compliments!
[15:19] ---
    Leave it to Mizusawa...
    No, I can't lose my nerve!

[15:25] ---
    Y-Yeah, and that got a
    fair number of likes, too.
[15:29] ---
    There you are, Brain!
[15:31] ---
    It's almost time...
[15:39] ---
    Are these girls compensated?!
[15:40] ---
    Absolutely not!
[15:42] ---
    Hey, shouldn't we get in one last rehearsal?
[15:46] ---
    Yeah, we should.
[15:48] ---
    Oh, are you doing something, Tomozaki?
[15:51] ---
    Um, yeah. A comedy routine, actually.
[15:55] ---
    Comedy?
[15:57] ---
    There's more to you than
    meets the eye, huh, Tomozaki.
[16:00] ---
    Now you're doing comedy with this cutie?
[16:03] ---
    Huh?!
[16:04] ---
    And after you were picking up
    girls at our girls' school...
[16:07] ---
    Y-You went to a girls'
    school to flirt, Brain?!
[16:12] ---
    I-I wasn't really flirting, per se...
[16:14] ---
    B-B-Brain! Since when were
    you s-such a shallow guy?!
[16:22] ---
    N-No! Mizusawa was—
[16:24] ---
    You were with Takahiro?!
[16:26] ---
    Now I know it's the truth!
[16:29] ---
    All right—let's get rehearsing!
[16:33] ---
    Don't change the subject!
[16:35] ---
    Break a leg, you two!
[16:45] ---
    Looking for Tomozaki?
[16:47] ---
    He and Mimimi should be in the
    multipurpose hall right about now,
[16:50] ---
    doing their comedy routine.
[16:52] ---
    Oh, um... yes, right.
[16:56] ---
    Fuka?
[16:58] ---
    I'll do my best to make
    this performance a success.
[17:01] ---
    I know. Thank you.
SIGN    Multipurpose Hall Entrance This Way
SIGN    Sekitomo Festival
[17:11] ---
    Well, th-this is it...
[17:13] ---
    Why are you so nervous?
[17:15] ---
    Sh-Shouldn't I be?
[17:20] ---
    Oh, it'll be fine! No one's
    expecting too much, anyway.
[17:24] ---
    It's not like we're going to be good.
[17:28] ---
    Sh-Shouldn't we be?!
[17:30] ---
    Yes, that—right there!
    Nice and natural!
[17:34] ---
    See? We'll be fine.
SIGN    Comedy Haniwanya
[17:39] ---
    Next up is a comedy routine from Haniwanya!
[17:43] ---
    All right, give it your best shot!
[17:44] ---
    All right, give it your best shot!
[17:46] ---
    That's our name?
[17:48] ---
    You don't like it? I was torn
    between that and "Haniwaniwa."
[17:53] ---
    They're both essentially the same!
[17:58] ---
    Okay, Brain. Let's do this!
[18:00] ---
    Yeah!
SIGN    Sekitomo Festival Comedy Haniwanya
[18:01] ---
    Hi there!
[18:03] ---
    All right, here we go:
[18:06] ---
    Just listen to this, Tomozaki!
[18:08] ---
    What is it, Nanami?
[18:10] ---
    We've been doing this
    for years and years now.
[18:15] ---
    We started this duo barely a month ago.
[18:19] ---
    Heck, we only started talking to
    each other a little while back.
[18:22] ---
    Oh, don't say that!
[18:29] ---
    So anyway—
[18:33] ---
    Huh?
[18:42] ---
    What's my next line again?
[18:47] ---
    Um...
[18:50] ---
    I-I have to...
[18:54] ---
    I have to... to say something*...*
[18:58] ---
    Tomozaki!
[19:00] ---
    Do you know how we got our name?
[19:03] ---
    Um...
[19:05] ---
    Because you and I both love haniwa!
[19:10] ---
    Haniwanya!
SIGN    Sekitomo Festival
[19:17] ---
    She'd go that far to cover for
    me and my forgotten line...

[19:23] ---
    I've got to do something...!
[19:26] ---
    So anyway, here we are doing comedy.
[19:29] ---
    Are you ignoring me?!
SIGN    Sekitomo Festival
[19:39] ---
    But listen, Nanami: I managed
    to get some time off.
[19:43] ---
    Uh-huh?
SIGN    Sekitomo Festival
[19:47] ---
    Well, that went sorta okay.
[19:49] ---
    Yeah.
[19:51] ---
    Hey, I'm sorry. I totally blanked
    out there. You really saved me.
[19:56] ---
    No problem! All part of a wife's job.
[19:59] ---
    Look, we are not married!
[20:03] ---
    Next time, the ramen's on me.
[20:04] ---
    You got it.
[20:07] ---
    Thanks. I mean it.
[20:09] ---
    All's well that ends well, right?
[20:13] ---
    We did pretty good for rank
    amateurs... didn't we?
[20:16] ---
    Probably, yeah! We were definitely good!
[20:19] ---
    Yeah. We definitely were. Probably.
[20:25] ---
    I better get going.
[20:27] ---
    Oh, the play?
[20:30] ---
    The play... with Kikuchi?
[20:33] ---
    Yeah.
[20:35] ---
    I'll be back.
[20:37] ---
    Of course.
[20:41] ---
    Listen, Mimimi... I—
[20:43] ---
    Tomozaki?
[20:47] ---
    That was fun, huh? The comedy.
[20:52] ---
    Yeah.
[20:54] ---
    I really had a lot of fun.
[21:02] ---
    Now get going, you.
[21:06] ---
    Right.
[21:21] ---
    Aw...
[21:25] ---
    It's over!
[21:31] ---
    It's all over...
[21:41] ---
    Kikuchi!
[21:42] ---
    Tomozaki...
[21:44] ---
    Any minute now.
[21:48] ---
    Yes.
[21:57] ---
    And now for Class 2-2's
    original performance,
[22:01] ---
    "My Unfamiliar Way to Fly."

E13 - You're sure to find what you want on the other side of the magic door

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SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 13
    You're sure to find what you want
    on the other side of the magic door
[00:05] Alucia (Aoi)
    Say, Libra...
[00:07] Alucia (Aoi)
    How far are we going to go?
[00:09] Libra (Mizusawa)
    We haven't walked that much.
[00:11] Audience A
    That's Hinami!
[00:11] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Besides, the real fun is in the exploring.
[00:12] Audience B
    Look! Mizusawa!
[00:16] Libra (Mizusawa)
    And if we get caught,
[00:18] Libra (Mizusawa)
    they shouldn't get too mad: you're with me.
[00:23] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Oh! A dead end.
[00:26] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Wait...
[00:27] Libra (Mizusawa)
    there's a door.
[00:28] Alucia (Aoi)
    Will it open?
[00:30] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Leave it to me.
[00:31] Libra (Mizusawa)
    This is a job for a locksmith's son.
[00:36] Narrator (Yuzu)
    There, in the middle of the
    castle, was a hidden garden.
[00:41] Narrator (Yuzu)
    A girl named Kris was looking
    after a flying dragon.
[00:46] Narrator (Yuzu)
    Non-royals were forbidden to enter.
[00:49] Kris (Hanabi)
    Wh-Who are you?
[00:50] Kris (Hanabi)
    What are you doing here?
[00:52] Libra (Mizusawa)
    I'm Libra, the locksmith's son.
[00:55] Libra (Mizusawa)
    And this is Alucia.
[00:57] Libra (Mizusawa)
    She's the first princess of this kingdom.
[00:59] Libra (Mizusawa)
    We've been friends since we were...
[01:04] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Alucia?
[01:11] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Alucia, what are you doing?!
[01:13] Alucia (Aoi)
    Let me go!
[01:15] Alucia (Aoi)
    If I don't break this dragon's wing,
[01:18] Alucia (Aoi)
    you'll be killed!
[01:23] Knight (Erika)
    Freeze, all three of you.
[01:25] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Your Highness!
[01:27] King (Nakamura)
    Seize that man!
[01:29] Guard (Tachibana)
    His Highness's orders!
[01:31] Guard (Hashiguchi)
    Resistance is useless!
[01:32] Guard (Matsumoto)
    Come quietly, now!
[01:34] Alucia (Aoi)
    Father...
[01:35] Alucia (Aoi)
    Libra is my younger brother—
[01:37] Alucia (Aoi)
    one of the illegitimate children you
    have scattered around the kingdom!
[01:42] Narrator (Yuzu)
    Having escaped execution thanks
    to Alucia's quick thinking,
[01:46] Narrator (Yuzu)
    Libra began working as a caretaker
    for both the dragon and Kris.
[01:51] Kris (Hanabi)
    Here, eat up.
[01:53] Kris (Hanabi)
    They're medicinal herbs Libra gathered
    in the valley of the flying dragons.
[01:59] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Yes—it ate them!
[02:01] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Now I know it'll be able to fly!
[02:05] Kris (Hanabi)
    It's not flying.
[02:07] Libra (Mizusawa)
    D-Don't look at me like that.
[02:13] Narrator (Yuzu)
    Some months passed...
[02:16] Kris (Hanabi)
    Alucia! Did you really win
    the magicraft competition?!
[02:20] Libra (Mizusawa)
    That's amazing!
[02:22] Alucia (Aoi)
    I don't care how I placed.
[02:24] Alucia (Aoi)
    I just wanted this:
[02:26] Alucia (Aoi)
    a gem that increases magic power.
[02:29] Alucia (Aoi)
    This will definitely get
    that dragon off the ground!
[02:33] Kris (Hanabi)
    I really must thank you, Alucia.
[02:36] Kris (Hanabi)
    What do you want?
[02:38] Alucia (Aoi)
    What do I want...?
[02:43] Alucia (Aoi)
    I guess maybe there isn't anything I want.
[02:46] Kris (Hanabi)
    Huh?
[02:47] Alucia (Aoi)
    I just work hard every day, because
    I'll eventually have to be queen.
[02:53] Kris (Hanabi)
    "Just" nothing—that's really fantastic!
[02:56] Alucia (Aoi)
    I think you misunderstand me, Kris.
[03:00] Alucia (Aoi)
    I have everything. And yet...
[03:05] Alucia (Aoi)
    that's why I have nothing at all.
[03:14] Alucia (Aoi)
    Goodness!
[03:16] Alucia (Aoi)
    What a strange thing to say!
[03:18] Alucia (Aoi)
    All right:
[03:18] Alucia (Aoi)
    let's test out this gem!
[03:23] Kris (Hanabi)
    It's not flying.
[03:26] Alucia (Aoi)
    D-Don't look at me like that.
[03:31] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Say, Kris... flying dragons
    can read people's minds.
[03:34] Kris (Hanabi)
    Their minds?
[03:36] Libra (Mizusawa)
    They're kind, too.
[03:38] Libra (Mizusawa)
    They never forget all they owe
    to the human who raises them,
[03:42] Libra (Mizusawa)
    and they do all they can to
    grant that person's wishes.
[03:46] Kris (Hanabi)
    Uh-huh...
[03:47] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Kris...
[03:49] Libra (Mizusawa)
    you don't want to fly, do you?
[03:54] Kris (Hanabi)
    Maybe not.
[03:56] Kris (Hanabi)
    I've always thought I wanted
    to leave this garden.
[04:02] Kris (Hanabi)
    But now...
[04:05] Kris (Hanabi)
    The outside world had been
    something I'd yearned for.
[04:09] Kris (Hanabi)
    But... while listening
    to your stories about it,
[04:13] Kris (Hanabi)
    I found myself getting scared.
[04:16] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Scared?
[04:17] Kris (Hanabi)
    After all,
[04:19] Kris (Hanabi)
    I don't know anything about
    what it's like out there,
[04:21] Kris (Hanabi)
    or what kind of people I'll find.
[04:25] Kris (Hanabi)
    Could I even find my place in that world?
[04:29] Kris (Hanabi)
    Would other people accept me?
[04:32] Libra (Mizusawa)
    In that case, Kris...
[04:34] Libra (Mizusawa)
    we'll go flying together!
[05:03] Tomozaki
    Nice.
[05:06] Narrator (Yuzu)
    The dragon took to the air
    with no issues at all.
[05:09] Narrator (Yuzu)
    Kris got permission to leave the castle,
[05:11] Narrator (Yuzu)
    and Libra took her to the village.
[05:15] Kris (Hanabi)
    Wow!
[05:16] Old Lady (Kashiwazaki)
    Ah! Ow ow ow...
[05:17] Libra (Mizusawa) & Alucia (Aoi)
    Are you all right?
[05:19] Kris (Hanabi)
    I'm sorry, ma'am!
[05:21] Greengrocer (Takei)
    You have to pay money
    for the things you want!
[05:24] Kris (Hanabi)
    I-I'm sorry!
[05:26] Greengrocer (Takei)
    You can't just take things—that
    makes you a thief!
[05:29] Girl (Seno)
    Calm down, Father.
[05:31] Alucia (Aoi)
    I apologize. This girl is unfamiliar
    with the ways of the world...
[05:35] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Well, I'm against it.
[05:38] Libra (Mizusawa)
    You shouldn't be working
    in the outside world.
[05:41] Kris (Hanabi)
    Why not?
[05:43] Libra (Mizusawa)
    I'm sure you have other
    paths you could follow.
[05:48] Kris (Hanabi)
    Like what?!
[05:49] Kris (Hanabi)
    Do you want me to live here
    in this garden forever?
[05:52] Libra (Mizusawa)
    No, that's not what I...
[05:54] Kris (Hanabi)
    Tell me...
[05:56] Kris (Hanabi)
    what's so wrong about me wanting to
    see the same world everyone else does?
[06:02] Kris (Hanabi)
    Why can't I get along with everyone?
[06:06] Kris (Hanabi)
    Why don't I know the things
    everyone takes for granted?
[06:10] Kris (Hanabi)
    Am I... an entirely different creature?
[06:14] Kris (Hanabi)
    Tell me, Libra...
[06:20] Narrator (Yuzu)
    Some days later...
[06:23] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Read this, Kris.
[06:26] Kris (Hanabi)
    A letter, for me? From who?
[06:30] Kris (Hanabi)
    "Thank you for the beautiful
    crown. It made me so happy."
[06:37] Libra (Mizusawa)
    It's from the greengrocer's daughter.
[06:39] Libra (Mizusawa)
    I gave her one of your handmade
    flower-crowns for her birthday. She loved it.
[06:45] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Hence the letter.
[06:47] Kris (Hanabi)
    My floral work did that...?
[06:50] Libra (Mizusawa)
    That old woman we bumped into?
    You made her happy, too.
[06:55] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Don't you see?
[06:58] Libra (Mizusawa)
    So many people have smiles on their
    faces because of your flowers.
[07:03] Libra (Mizusawa)
    You do have a place in the world.
[07:05] Libra (Mizusawa)
    And you're not a different creature.
[07:08] Kris (Hanabi)
    Uh-huh...
[07:10] Libra (Mizusawa)
    So c'mon...
[07:14] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Fly! On your own wings this time!
[07:30] Tomozaki
    Now for the ending.
[07:33] Kris (Hanabi)
    Well... here I go.
[07:36] Libra (Mizusawa)
    You can always come back
    if things get too tough.
[07:40] Alucia (Aoi)
    I won't be that soft on you.
[07:43] Alucia (Aoi)
    You go become the best
    flower artisan around—
[07:47] Alucia (Aoi)
    and you'll come home not to the garden,
[07:51] Alucia (Aoi)
    but to the castle, Kris!
[07:53] Kris (Hanabi)
    You got it!
[07:57] Kris (Hanabi)
    Yes...
[07:58] Kris (Hanabi)
    This is what I should be doing.
[08:02] Kris (Hanabi)
    At long last,
[08:04] Kris (Hanabi)
    I've found my own way to fly!
[08:09] Tomozaki
    It's over...
[08:11] Tomozaki
    and it was a success!
[08:15] Alucia (Aoi)
    Libra!
[08:16] Alucia (Aoi)
    We've got a letter from Kris!
[08:19] Libra (Mizusawa)
    Really?
[08:21] Libra (Mizusawa)
    What's she say?
[08:23] Kris (Hanabi)
    "Dear Libra and Alucia,
[08:27] Kris (Hanabi)
    "I'm sorry I haven't come to visit.
[08:31] Kris (Hanabi)
    "I'm doing well.
[08:32] Kris (Hanabi)
    "I have my own atelier now."
[08:36] Tomozaki
    I don't know this part...
[08:40] Kris (Hanabi)
    "I've heard the news about you two.
[08:43] Kris (Hanabi)
    "So you finally got the
    king's permission, huh?
[08:47] Kris (Hanabi)
    "Congratulations on your marriage!
[08:53] Kris (Hanabi)
    "I'm giving you both my very best
    floral decoration, with my thanks.
[09:00] Kris (Hanabi)
    "Libra, Alucia. May every happiness be yours!
[09:05] Kris (Hanabi)
    "Best wishes, Kris!"
[09:17] Tomozaki
    This story—it's Kikuchi's story.
[09:20] Tomozaki
    Kris is Kikuchi,
[09:22] Tomozaki
    and my behavior is reflected in Libra.
[09:27] Tomozaki
    If those two didn't wind up together...
[09:32] Tomozaki
    This must be
[09:34] Tomozaki
    Kikuchi's answer.
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[09:42] Tomozaki
    Right. I guess that's life
    for you. It's one tough game.
[09:47] Tomozaki
    It's unreasonable; the more
    you try, the harder it gets;
[09:53] Tomozaki
    there are way more things that
    go wrong than go right...
[09:57] Tomozaki
    But... it's not a garbage game.
[10:02] Tomozaki
    I'll rest for a bit. And then...
[10:05] Tomozaki
    I'll go back to this game called "life."
[10:09] Mimimi
    Tomozaki!
[10:16] Tomozaki
    Mimimi...
[10:20] Mimimi
    The play...
[10:22] Mimimi
    Did it mean what I think it means?
[10:26] Mimimi
    Libra is you, and Alucia is Aoi...
[10:30] Mimimi
    and Kris is Kikuchi.
[10:32] Mimimi
    I want to be talking about how great
    it was, how much I enjoyed it.
[10:39] Mimimi
    But that scene at the end—and you and
    Kikuchi avoiding each other afterward...
[10:46] Mimimi
    It's just weird! You both
    worked so hard on it!
[10:50] Mimimi
    It's weird for you two not to be together
    after a huge success like that!
[10:57] Tomozaki
    I guess so. I...
[11:00] Tomozaki
    She turned me down.
[11:12] Tomozaki
    Mimimi...
[11:18] Mimimi
    Kikuchi's in the library!
[11:21] Mimimi
    The play can't be the only
    way she gives you her answer!
[11:26] Mimimi
    Brain!
[11:27] Mimimi
    Aren't you the best gamer around?
[11:30] Mimimi
    Then stick with it to the bitter end,
    till you know for sure it's over!
[11:40] Tomozaki
    Thanks.
[11:42] Tomozaki
    I'll go there now.
[12:14] Fuka
    Tomozaki...
[12:18] Tomozaki
    Listen...
[12:19] Fuka
    Yes?
[12:22] Tomozaki
    About that last scene...
[12:24] Tomozaki
    That's how it all turns out, huh?
[12:28] Fuka
    I'm sorry.
[12:30] Tomozaki
    No apology necessary.
[12:36] Fuka
    That's...
[12:39] Fuka
    the conclusion I chose.
[12:42] Tomozaki
    It's probably not my place to ask why...
[12:48] Tomozaki
    but I'd still like to know.
[12:51] Fuka
    I'd been thinking...
[12:54] Fuka
    It's true that Kris might like Libra.
[12:58] Fuka
    She really does feel like she
    wants to be with him forever.
[13:03] Tomozaki
    You mean...
[13:05] Fuka
    But...
[13:06] Fuka
    Alucia must be with Libra.
[13:11] Tomozaki
    Wait—why?
[13:14] Fuka
    Alucia is clever but empty: a girl
    who's missing the part at her core.
[13:21] Fuka
    And Libra is awkward but curious:
    a boy with things he wants to do.
[13:27] Fuka
    They're complete opposites...
[13:31] Fuka
    which is why they'd make an ideal couple.
[13:35] Tomozaki
    "Ideal"...?
[13:38] Tomozaki
    What happened to being
    true to yourself instead?
[13:41] Fuka
    At first I thought it would work.
[13:44] Fuka
    But...
SIGN    Sekitomo High School Culture Festival Play My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[13:46] Fuka
    It turns out I was wrong.
SIGN    Sekitomo High School Culture Festival Play My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[13:49] Fuka
    I was satisfied with what
    you told me at first,
[13:53] Fuka
    that I shouldn't approach life
    itself from an author's viewpoint
[13:58] Fuka
    and that I should try to face my own emotions
[14:01] Fuka
    without forcing them to
    fit the world's ideals.
[14:05] Fuka
    When I did,
[14:06] Fuka
    the world looked so vivid—like
    the world Libra showed Kris.
[14:12] Fuka
    I thought, "Wow, Tomozaki really is amazing."
[14:17] Tomozaki
    Then...
[14:19] Fuka
    But that doesn't work for me.
[14:25] Fuka
    To live according to one's own emotions
[14:28] Fuka
    in this story we call the world...
[14:30] Fuka
    It's too selfish with regard to
    how the other characters feel.
[14:37] Fuka
    So I'm going to rein myself in and
    live in a way I can see as sincere.
[14:44] Fuka
    That's my conclusion.
[14:47] Fuka
    Because that's how I want to live.
[14:52] Fuka
    And yet—I can't forget...
SIGN    Sekitomo High School Culture Festival Play My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[14:56] Fuka
    I can't forget the glittering scenery
    and the world all a-sparkle,
[15:00] Fuka
    like it was in the other ending.
[15:05] Fuka
    Even though that's just selfish!
[15:11] Tomozaki
    We're the same.
[15:13] Tomozaki
    Do you remember, Kikuchi?
[15:15] Tomozaki
    Until very recently, I'd been
    ignoring the world at large.
[15:20] Tomozaki
    I had no interest in ideals.
[15:22] Tomozaki
    I lived in freedom, prioritizing
    my desires over anything else.
[15:28] Tomozaki
    But then I met a certain magician
SIGN    Ultimate Goal To be as satisfied with offline life as I am
[15:31] Tomozaki
    who taught me how to live
    with an ideal in sight.
[15:35] Tomozaki
    So I gave it an honest try,
    and started seeing results.
[15:40] Tomozaki
    But along the way, I thought:
    This isn't working after all.
[15:45] Tomozaki
    Using skills to get by feels
    insincere to me somehow.
[15:50] Tomozaki
    But being honest to my
    emotions—that was sincere.
[15:56] Tomozaki
    Does that sound familiar?
[16:01] Tomozaki
    I started with emotions and
    learned how to aim for an ideal.
[16:06] Tomozaki
    You started with an ideal world and
    learned how to be true to your emotions.
[16:13] Tomozaki
    We're opposites.
SIGN    Sekitomo High School Culture Festival Play My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[16:16] Tomozaki
    Do you know what I did?
[16:20] Tomozaki
    I embraced both:
[16:22] Tomozaki
    ideals and emotions.
[16:24] Tomozaki
    All I had to do was make the
    effort to have both at once.
[16:29] Tomozaki
    The same goes for you.
[16:32] Fuka
    For me... too?
[16:34] Tomozaki
    You don't have to pick just one.
[16:36] Tomozaki
    You can do your honest best to have both.
[16:40] Tomozaki
    Simple, right?
[16:43] Fuka
    But...
[16:47] Fuka
    I don't know how.
[16:50] Fuka
    If Libra is meant to be with Alucia,
[16:53] Fuka
    and I twist that plot just for
    the sake of my own emotions...
[16:57] Fuka
    Isn't that just selfish?
[17:02] Tomozaki
    In Kikuchi's version of the world's ideals,
[17:05] Tomozaki
    the two of us aren't meant to be.
[17:10] Tomozaki
    On the other hand, I'm
    pretty sure she likes me.
[17:15] Tomozaki
    She has to make that contradiction work.
[17:19] Tomozaki
    And, yes, as she says,
[17:22] Tomozaki
    it might be tough in the fictional
    world of Kris, Libra, and Alucia.
[17:30] Tomozaki
    But in this world? It's a cinch.
[17:35] Tomozaki
    I've got it, Kikuchi. There
    is one foolproof method.
[17:41] Tomozaki
    It was that simple.
[17:44] Tomozaki
    If Kikuchi can't twist how she
    thinks the world should be
[17:49] Tomozaki
    based only on her own emotions...
[17:54] Tomozaki
    I like you, Kikuchi. I
    want us to be a couple.
[18:00] Tomozaki
    I, Fumiya Tomozaki, should choose Kikuchi.
[18:08] Tomozaki
    Remember what you said?
[18:10] Fuka
    Huh?
[18:12] Tomozaki
    Libra and Alucia each have what the
    other lacks, so they belong together.
[18:19] Tomozaki
    Don't you think the same
    goes for Libra and Kris?
[18:24] Tomozaki
    Fretting over the same things,
    but in opposite order—
[18:27] Tomozaki
    and we find that our words gave
    each other a way to move forward.
[18:32] Tomozaki
    Even from an author's perspective
    on this story of life,
[18:37] Tomozaki
    don't you think this
    relationship is pretty ideal?
[18:45] Fuka
    You know...
[18:47] Fuka
    Libra was always good at opening locks.
[18:50] Tomozaki
    Uh-huh. And remember what the Popple said:
[18:55] Tomozaki
    "Words are magic."
SIGN    Complete event map (before culture festival)
    Medium Goal: CLEAR!
    Have a girlfriend before starting year 3
    Congratulations!!
    Today's Assignment Next Goal:
[19:05] Aoi
    Now, then.
[19:06] Aoi
    First of all: congratulations.
[19:08] Tomozaki
    It's all thanks to you.
[19:11] Aoi
    Me?
[19:13] Aoi
    I only wanted to prove that I was right.
[19:17] Tomozaki
    True enough.
[19:18] Aoi
    You get it now, right?
[19:20] Aoi
    Your character change was a big success.
[19:23] Aoi
    However!
[19:24] Aoi
    This is no time to relax.
[19:26] Tomozaki
    I'm aware.
SIGN    Ultimate Goal To be as satisfied with offline life as I am
[19:27] Aoi
    You're nowhere near this final goal.
[19:31] Aoi
    I'll keep dishing out tricky
    assignments, so stay on the ball.
[19:37] Aoi
    Oh, and I'm sure you remember
    the matching-accessories task.
[19:40] Aoi
    You never did complete it.
[19:44] Tomozaki
    G-Got it. Hit me with your best shot!
[19:54] Mimimi
    I see. So it went well.
[19:58] Tomozaki
    Y-Yeah, it did.
[20:00] Mimimi
    That's a top gamer for you. Never say die!
[20:07] Mimimi
    But dang, Brain, you're a player!
[20:10] Tomozaki
    I-I'm really not...
[20:13] Mimimi
    Oh, it's fine.
[20:16] Mimimi
    Knowing you, Tomozaki, you thought things
    over really well when it came to me, too.
[20:21] Mimimi
    I get it.
[20:23] Tomozaki
    Sorry.
[20:25] Mimimi
    So... Let's just shake it
    off, all right? Both of us!
[20:30] Mimimi
    Okay?
[20:31] Tomozaki
    Got it.
[20:33] Mimimi
    But you know...
[20:35] Mimimi
    If you think I'm going to like you
    forever, you've got another thing coming!
[20:39] Mimimi
    You silly Brain!
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fuka Kikuchi
[21:13] Fuka
    I've finished the novel, too.
[21:16] Fuka
    I'd love for you to read it.
[21:21] Tomozaki
    What's wrong?
[21:22] Fuka
    Well, um...
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[21:25] Fuka
    It's not actually the official version.
[21:28] Fuka
    It's a story I wrote for myself.
[21:31] Tomozaki
    For yourself?
[21:33] Fuka
    You told me that I can be
    honest with my own emotions.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fuka Kikuchi
[21:40] Fuka
    So this isn't about what's best for the
    story world, but what's best for me.
[21:47] Fuka
    I tried my hand at that
    kind of story instead.
[21:49] Tomozaki
    Such was our comfortable, mutually
    understanding relationship.
[21:53] Tomozaki
    I didn't think the coziness we felt would
    change at all just because we were dating.
[21:58] Tomozaki
    However...
[22:01] Tomozaki
    All right. I'll read it later
    and tell you what I think.
[22:04] Fuka
    No, you can't.
[22:07] Fuka
    I want to know here and now.
[22:11] Fuka
    I-I'll wait.
[22:13] Tomozaki
    O-Okay...
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fuka Kikuchi
[22:16] Tomozaki
    Then, uh...
[22:19] Tomozaki
    Kikuchi had started being just the
    tiniest bit demanding toward me.
[22:26] Tomozaki
    This here...
[22:28] Fuka
    Yes?
[22:29] Tomozaki
    Sorry—hang on.
SIGN    You've completed the accessories task
[22:32] Fuka
    Hmm? Is something wrong?
[22:35] Tomozaki
    It's nothing.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fuka Kikuchi
[22:38] Narrator (Fuka)
    Though still unaccustomed
    to the outside world,
[22:41] Narrator (Fuka)
    Kris felt like she could walk forever and
    ever as long as Libra was by her side.
[22:52] Libra (Tomozaki)
    It's a little embarrassing,
    me being a guy and all...
[22:56] Kris (Fuka)
    Oh, come on!
[22:57] Kris (Fuka)
    I've always wanted to match like this.
[23:01] Kris (Fuka)
    Do you remember what the two of
    us saw from way up in the sky?
[23:06] Kris (Fuka)
    I'd never seen such a
    splendid world in my life.
[23:11] Libra (Tomozaki)
    Right—and I never knew being
    up there could feel so amazing.
[23:17] Kris (Fuka)
    But you know the most important
    thing you taught me?
[23:23] Kris (Fuka)
    This world is absolutely full
    of splendor all around us—
[23:27] Kris (Fuka)
    and you don't have to fly to see it.
[23:32] Kris (Fuka)
    So thank you.
[23:36] Kris (Fuka)
    I love you, Libra.