# Season 2 - 2nd STAGE
# E1 - The best games make reconnaissance fun
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G7PU413X5/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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G9DUEM91D/a-happy-ending-doesnt-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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GX9UQW3P7/battles-go-better-when-youre-fighting-alongside-someone-whose-signature-move-is-the-opposite-of-yours)
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(Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.)
***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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G4VUQVWEZ/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**
A*hem*! "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.
***SIGN*** Old AV Room
**[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...
***SIGN*** Old AV Room
**[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...
***SIGN*** Today Takahiro: We're heading home! Good luck! Read Hey!
**[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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G14U41VWW/if-you-keep-upgrading-your-initial-equipment-itll-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?
***SIGN*** Old AV Room
**[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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GJWU20Q5G/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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GN7UD1NPE/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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GK9U3KG51/sometimes-the-main-character-cant-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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GMKUXPE8V/if-you-dont-make-up-your-mind-the-story-wont-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**
*Hex*actly!
**[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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GVWU078Q4/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 *butter*ing me up...
**[13:46] Kris**
Like a *butter*fly... 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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G31UX4V0W/even-fairies-feel-lonely-when-theyre-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.
***SIGN*** Spare Classroom A In Use
**[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.
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**[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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GPWUKV81V/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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G2XU0GN87/youre-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.