# Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki
With no written rules, the real world is hard for gamer Tomozaki Fumiya, but he’s about to get experience he needs from a seasoned player.
# Season 1
# E1 - Say what you want; famous games are usually fun
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GG1U203G2/say-what-you-want-famous-games-are-usually-fun)
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**[00:01] ---**
"Old AV Room"
**[00:16] ---**
"Super Attack Families"
**[00:19] ---**
"Super Attack Families"
**[00:19] ---**
Popularly known as *Tackfam*.
**[00:22] ---**
Simple yet deep, it possesses
a rare level of perfection
**[00:26] ---**
and thus the biggest player base
in today's online-gaming world.
**[00:32] ---**
"Super Attack Families"
**[00:33] ---**
Truly a god-tier game.
**[00:39] ---**
I'm playing Shuji Nakamura, who has
an overwhelmingly full offline life.
**[00:45] ---**
He's tops when it comes to looks,
grades, sports, and girls--
**[00:49] ---**
the eternal leader of our class.
**[00:51] ---**
I, on the other hand...
**[00:54] ---**
Sure, in life I might be on the losing team.
**[00:58] ---**
But not here. Not in this game.
**[01:03] ---**
After all, I, Fumiya Tomozaki,
**[01:06] ---**
am a top-ranked *Tackfam* player--
**[01:11] ---**
and the best in Japan.
**[01:15] ---**
This character sucks.
**[01:17] ---**
I picked a bad character. That would explain it.
**[01:21] ---**
N-No...
**[01:23] ---**
Found and Foxy are just about
identical abilities-wise.
**[01:26] ---**
They're a bad *match*, I mean.
**[01:28] ---**
These two don't play well together. Clearly.
**[01:31] ---**
Well, Foxy *does* fall quickly,
so it's easier to string together combos.
**[01:36] ---**
Right? This dumb game
is all about the match-ups.
**[01:41] ---**
Now you're just making excuses.
**[01:44] ---**
Am I wrong? Do you *enjoy*
winning a game like this?
**[01:48] ---**
This *garbage* game?
**[01:51] ---**
That's a gamer's biggest shame,
blaming the game when you lose.
**[01:56] ---**
No effort, no reflection...
**[01:58] ---**
I'd still win with the characters swapped!
**[02:01] ---**
Want to try, then? With different characters?
**[02:04] ---**
And if I win, you accept your defeat.
**[02:07] ---**
Fine, fine. I'll acknowledge your mad skills.
**[02:11] ---**
That's not all.
**[02:12] ---**
What?
**[02:13] ---**
You called *Tackfam* a garbage game.
**[02:18] ---**
I want you to say that it's a *god-tier* game.
**[02:25] ---**
For the second time, I claimed total victory.
**[02:29] ---**
"Lv. 1: Say what you want;
famous games are usually fun"
**[02:30] ---**
Hmm? You're just heading home now, Shuji?
**[02:32] ---**
Yeah, well, you know.
**[02:35] ---**
What's been keeping you so long?
**[02:37] ---**
Whatcha up to?
**[02:39] ---**
Nothing.
**[02:41] ---**
Hey, you two...
**[02:43] ---**
Your club meetings are over, right?
Let's stop somewhere on the way home.
**[02:46] ---**
Yeah, let's!
**[02:48] ---**
Oh, yeah, count me in!
**[02:55] ---**
Life is a god-tier game--or so
one famous copypasta goes.
**[03:00] ---**
But from where I stand, that's B.S.
**[03:04] ---**
You get discriminated against
or treated poorly for your face,
**[03:06] ---**
your build, your age.
**[03:08] ---**
No matter how hard you try,
if your health fails you in the clutch,
**[03:11] ---**
it's all for nothing.
**[03:13] ---**
All these absurd rules going unchallenged.
**[03:17] ---**
I'm a good example.
**[03:19] ---**
I just happened to wind up playing
*Tackfam* with Nakamura today
**[03:23] ---**
after he heard I was good at it.
**[03:25] ---**
Most of the time, I don't really talk to anyone.
**[03:28] ---**
Unreasonable and unbalanced.
That's what life is.
***SIGN*** "Who's coming to Omiya?" "Takei: OK"
***SIGN*** "Takahiro: No prob"
***SIGN*** "Yuzu-*san*: Me me me! Where in Omiya?"
**[03:33] ---**
"Only because you're not *trying*!"
**[03:37] ---**
I'm sure that's what some people would say.
**[03:40] ---**
Just some biased thinking from someone
born as a top-tier character.
**[03:47] ---**
And some noob gamer born lucky enough
to enjoy blazing through life on easy mode
**[03:54] ---**
doesn't get to talk about life.
**[03:56] ---**
I should know. I've dominated
plenty of games in my day.
**[04:02] ---**
The game of life is garbage.
**[04:08] ---**
"Now matching..."
"Winrate: 2219"
**[04:10] ---**
"Winrate: 2219"
**[04:11] ---**
"Winrate: 2219" "Winrate: 2136"
**[04:13] ---**
"Winrate: 2136"
**[04:16] ---**
He's gotten better.
**[04:19] ---**
And he hasn't just been studying me, either.
**[04:22] ---**
He's refined his own counterstrategy.
**[04:26] ---**
I'm still better at fighting maneuvers
and combo-building.
**[04:30] ---**
But he's already got me beat at dodging combos.
**[04:34] ---**
I'm not great at that.
**[04:37] ---**
At my level, I rarely get caught up
in combos in the first place.
***SIGN*** "These are the rankings for the current rating battle. When the season ends, the top 100 players will be recorded. *Restricted players are not shown."
**[04:41] ---**
And it's not just me. Lots of top-tier players
are better at offense than defense.
**[04:46] ---**
But this opponent, this NO NAME...
**[04:46] ---**
"Winrate Rankings"
**[04:50] ---**
For someone who's
nationally ranked second after me,
**[04:52] ---**
he's too experienced in defense.
**[04:55] ---**
Which means...
**[04:57] ---**
He must purposely be eating combos
on the regular--as training.
**[05:02] ---**
So he can beat me someday.
**[05:10] ---**
I better watch my back.
**[05:14] ---**
"NO NAME: Do you live in the Kanto region?"
**[05:14] ---**
"NO NAME: Do you live in the Kanto region?"
**[05:16] ---**
Um...
**[05:18] ---**
"NO NAME: Do you live in the Kanto region?"
**[05:18] ---**
"nanashi: Yeah...?"
**[05:20] ---**
"NO NAME: If you like,"
**[05:22] ---**
"NO NAME: we could meet up?"
**[05:27] ---**
Anyway, the point is...
**[05:27] ---**
There should already be rumors about me
taking on Nakamura in *Tackfam*.
**[05:31] ---**
Make sure you're taking good notes.
**[05:34] ---**
Yet no one's saying a thing.
**[05:37] ---**
They must have guessed what happened,
**[05:40] ---**
and now they're treading lightly.
**[05:43] ---**
All right, let's grab some lunch.
**[05:46] ---**
Okay.
**[05:47] ---**
Wonder what's on the menu!
**[05:48] ---**
Hey, now!
**[05:50] ---**
You're on duty today, too, Shuji!
**[05:51] ---**
Oh, am I?
**[05:53] ---**
You're coming with me to the staff room first.
**[05:57] ---**
What a pain.
**[05:58] ---**
Aoi Hinami.
**[05:59] ---**
The best student in our grade.
***SIGN*** "Top 20 Midterm Scores" "Aoi Hinami" "Kengo Abe" "Minami Nanami"
**[06:02] ---**
The highest-scoring girl athlete in our school.
**[06:07] ---**
Track-and-field ace.
**[06:10] ---**
Classic Japanese beauty with brains to match.
**[06:14] ---**
With her simple innocence, a perfect heroine
beloved by men and women alike.
**[06:20] ---**
For someone as bad at real life as I am,
**[06:22] ---**
she doesn't inspire a sense of
likability so much as sheer awe.
**[06:29] ---**
Tomozaki!
**[06:31] ---**
Huh? Oh...
**[06:33] ---**
Hinami?
**[06:35] ---**
I heard you played *Tackfam* with Shuji!
**[06:37] ---**
Huh? Um... well...
**[06:40] ---**
I guess word got out, huh?
**[06:42] ---**
Everyone's talking about it.
**[06:44] ---**
So? Who won?
**[06:46] ---**
Well...
**[06:47] ---**
Tch. I lost.
**[06:50] ---**
Wow! Really?
**[06:52] ---**
Forget that guy. C'mon, Aoi.
**[06:55] ---**
See you later, Tomozaki.
**[06:58] ---**
Don't listen to Shuji!
**[06:59] ---**
Aw, can it, dum-dum.
**[07:03] ---**
It's the weekend.
**[07:04] ---**
I've come to my rendezvous point
to meet NO NAME.
**[07:08] ---**
I accepted his invitation because I wanted
to see just what kind of man this was:
**[07:08] ---**
"Today"
"nanashi here. I've arrived"
"What are you wearing?"
**[07:13] ---**
the only player who could potentially beat me.
**[07:14] ---**
"NO NAME: NO NAME here.
I have a navy jacket and a beige skirt."
**[07:17] ---**
"skirt."
**[07:18] ---**
A girl?!
**[07:28] ---**
N-NO NAME... is that you?
**[07:32] ---**
Hi! I'm NO NAME!
**[07:35] ---**
Huh?
**[07:36] ---**
Eh?
**[07:37] ---**
Hi... Hinami?
**[07:42] ---**
Hang on a second. Let me gather my thoughts.
**[07:46] ---**
You're Tomozaki, right?
**[07:48] ---**
We're in the same class.
**[07:50] ---**
*You're* nanashi?!
**[07:52] ---**
Um... yeah.
**[07:54] ---**
And you're NO NAME?
**[07:57] ---**
This sucks.
**[07:59] ---**
Huh?
**[08:00] ---**
I don't want to believe that nanashi
is really some dead-end loser.
**[08:09] ---**
I have *got* to stop getting so carried away
when it comes to *Tackfam*!
**[08:13] ---**
Sorry?
**[08:14] ---**
It's nothing. Sorry.
**[08:17] ---**
Okay, so maybe I startled you.
**[08:19] ---**
Still, it's not unusual to have
different personas in school and out.
**[08:23] ---**
Don't you agree?
**[08:24] ---**
Well...
**[08:25] ---**
Oh, but now that you've seen me
like this... it doesn't matter.
**[08:29] ---**
Um...
**[08:31] ---**
Finding out that you're NO NAME was...
surprising, I guess?
**[08:35] ---**
Well, *I'm* disappointed.
**[08:37] ---**
To think nanashi, the one person I respected,
**[08:41] ---**
is really a rock-bottom loser
who's given up on life.
**[08:46] ---**
I...
**[08:47] ---**
Was all that really necessary?!
**[08:50] ---**
Hey, it's the truth.
**[08:52] ---**
Even so... some truths can go unsaid!
**[08:57] ---**
It's rude to be so blunt to
someone you hardly know.
**[09:02] ---**
That's... That's all I meant.
**[09:05] ---**
Yeah, it *was* rude, sure. I apologize for that.
**[09:09] ---**
But I'd say your *outfit* is plenty rude.
**[09:13] ---**
People can wear whatever they want!
**[09:15] ---**
There's a minimum standard
when you're meeting people.
**[09:19] ---**
Look at you:
**[09:20] ---**
dirt-caked sneakers,
**[09:22] ---**
jeans with tattered hems,
**[09:24] ---**
shirt full of wrinkles...
**[09:26] ---**
Did you even *consider*
fixing that bedhead of yours?
**[09:30] ---**
Still, for me to be saying
all this is indeed rude.
**[09:34] ---**
I apologize again: I'm sorry.
**[09:38] ---**
I don't feel like discussing *Tackfam* anymore.
**[09:40] ---**
Later, nanashi.
**[09:44] ---**
Hang on a sec.
**[09:46] ---**
What now?
**[09:47] ---**
Someone like you with high initial stats
**[09:50] ---**
has *no idea* where I'm coming from.
**[09:53] ---**
Life is unbalanced. It's a garbage game!
**[09:57] ---**
A bottom-tier character like me--
awkward, ridiculed for everything,
**[10:00] ---**
no confidence in his communication skills...
**[10:02] ---**
There's no *way* I can win
against top-tier characters like you!
**[10:06] ---**
Life has no rules.
**[10:08] ---**
You work hard, but get nowhere.
There's no right answers.
**[10:11] ---**
It's a garbage game.
**[10:12] ---**
I *despise* normies like you,
with your rich offline lives!
**[10:17] ---**
You and your baseless self-confidence,
**[10:18] ---**
going around in packs and pretending it's fun!
**[10:21] ---**
I'm not confident at all--
even if I have reason to be.
**[10:25] ---**
I feel alone even in groups.
Can't have fun like that.
**[10:28] ---**
This way of life--it's in my bones.
**[10:31] ---**
This is me.
**[10:33] ---**
But I'm fine with that.
**[10:35] ---**
I'm fine with my loner life, fun in its own way.
**[10:39] ---**
So don't force your values on me!
**[10:43] ---**
Sure sounds like sour grapes to me.
**[10:45] ---**
What the hell?
**[10:46] ---**
You hate rich offline lives?
**[10:49] ---**
I mean, it'd make sense if you knew
the joys of a normie life.
**[10:53] ---**
But you've never even had a taste, have you?
**[10:57] ---**
Like I said: sour grapes.
**[10:59] ---**
Life's a garbage game?
**[11:01] ---**
*You* lost, and you're blaming the game.
Aren't you ashamed?
**[11:04] ---**
No effort, no reflection...
**[11:07] ---**
You're not fit to be called a gamer.
**[11:12] ---**
I get what you're trying to say, but...
**[11:14] ---**
You can't...
**[11:17] ---**
You can't change characters in real life.
**[11:19] ---**
"Change characters"?
**[11:21] ---**
If I were a top-tier character like you--
attractive, smart, athletic--
**[11:26] ---**
I'd be doing a little better.
**[11:28] ---**
But...
**[11:31] ---**
Come with me.
**[11:39] ---**
What the...?
**[11:39] ---**
"Super Attack Families"
**[11:40] ---**
How... how did this happen?
**[11:48] ---**
Oh! Um... hello.
**[11:51] ---**
Are... are you Aoi's... younger sister?
**[11:54] ---**
*Older* sister?
**[11:56] ---**
Well?
**[11:57] ---**
Yes...?
**[11:58] ---**
Like, what, a C-plus, maybe?
**[12:01] ---**
Huh?
**[12:02] ---**
It's *me*. Aoi Hinami.
**[12:04] ---**
What?!
**[12:06] ---**
I took my makeup off.
**[12:08] ---**
You don't have to act *that* surprised.
**[12:11] ---**
You were talking about differences
in characters, right?
**[12:13] ---**
Do you get it now?
**[12:15] ---**
A little effort and you can do a lot
with your appearance stats.
**[12:18] ---**
W-Well, yeah, but still...
**[12:21] ---**
I can't wear makeup--I'm a guy.
**[12:23] ---**
And my face is what it is.
**[12:26] ---**
That's a bottom-tier character for you.
**[12:28] ---**
You don't understand anything, do you.
**[12:31] ---**
Listen, a person's appearance
comes down to two things:
**[12:35] ---**
expression and posture.
**[12:37] ---**
But your base facial structure...
**[12:40] ---**
Not a big deal.
**[12:43] ---**
Watch this.
**[12:45] ---**
Expression!
**[12:46] ---**
And... posture!
**[12:49] ---**
Whoa.
**[12:50] ---**
You can get pretty close to normie-level looks
**[12:52] ---**
just by perfecting these two elements.
**[12:56] ---**
Don't assume my base stats are high.
They're not.
**[12:59] ---**
I've lived my life as an ordinary person--
**[13:01] ---**
heck, as someone even less than ordinary.
**[13:04] ---**
At least through grade school, anyway.
**[13:07] ---**
So I can say this with conviction:
**[13:09] ---**
You *can* gain communication skills
and confidence, with effort.
**[13:13] ---**
That's the thing.
**[13:15] ---**
I've gotten through so much on effort alone.
**[13:17] ---**
But I just couldn't reach nanashi
in *Tackfam*, no matter what.
**[13:22] ---**
So I considered nanashi to be
more capable of effort than I was,
**[13:27] ---**
and I respected him.
**[13:30] ---**
And yet...
**[13:31] ---**
In the game of life, this same nanashi
**[13:34] ---**
wasn't just losing--he was barely even fighting.
**[13:37] ---**
He was a jerk, and all he did
was keep running away.
**[13:40] ---**
And that absolutely *infuriates* me.
**[13:43] ---**
It's horrible! Unforgivable!
**[13:45] ---**
If the person who's beating me
is a worthless jerk,
**[13:47] ---**
doesn't that make *me* worthless, too?
**[13:54] ---**
Life's not unreasonable *or* unbalanced.
**[13:57] ---**
The game of life may *look* like it has no rules,
**[14:00] ---**
but it has a beautiful structure consisting of
**[14:03] ---**
many simple rules in combination.
**[14:06] ---**
Life is the ultimate godly game.
**[14:09] ---**
Fumiya Tomozaki--no: nanashi.
**[14:12] ---**
I'll teach you the rules of this game,
one by one.
**[14:17] ---**
And *you* will play it like you mean it!
**[14:23] ---**
I consider life to be a garbage game,
**[14:26] ---**
so I can't say you're especially convincing.
**[14:30] ---**
I see.
**[14:32] ---**
But I agree that making no effort
and blaming the game for your loss
**[14:37] ---**
is a gamer's greatest shame.
**[14:39] ---**
There's nothing I hate more.
**[14:42] ---**
Oh? How very nanashi of you.
**[14:44] ---**
And you're NO NAME--the only player I respect.
**[14:50] ---**
I watch you play and I can see all
the effort and hard work you put in.
**[14:51] ---**
"Super Attack Families"
**[14:56] ---**
But it's probably not the same.
**[14:59] ---**
We can't understand one another.
**[15:02] ---**
There's one thing I want to ask you.
**[15:04] ---**
You said life is a god-tier game, right?
**[15:06] ---**
Tell me: Exactly how god-tier *is* it?
**[15:09] ---**
Well, as far as I can tell,
it's way up there in first place.
**[15:13] ---**
I knew it.
**[15:15] ---**
People who say life's a god-tier game
just look down on all other games.
**[15:20] ---**
Life alone gets its own special perspective.
**[15:23] ---**
They only compare life to a game
after they've snubbed all the rest.
**[15:29] ---**
Yeah--first place.
**[15:31] ---**
Life comes in first place by a mile.
Right alongside *Tackfam*.
**[15:36] ---**
I probably *should* have said
life is the better game,
**[15:41] ---**
but it's a god-tier game tied
with *Tackfam* for first place.
**[15:45] ---**
Disappointed?
**[15:46] ---**
You're the *Tackfam* master, after all.
**[15:47] ---**
"Super Attack Families"
**[15:49] ---**
Maybe there's no point in playing two games
that are equally engaging.
**[15:54] ---**
It's not that--I never thought I'd say this,
but I'm moved.
**[15:59] ---**
Rats. I messed up.
**[16:01] ---**
I should have offered you something
with *more* merit than *Tackfam*.
**[16:06] ---**
I really must do something about
my habit of getting carried away
**[16:08] ---**
when it comes to that game...
**[16:10] ---**
I'd been playing *Tackfam* entirely for myself.
***SIGN*** "398 - Nameless Fighter: Fought nanashi last night and ate four straight. He's too good" "399 - Nameless Fighter: Oh, nanashi? Well, yeah"
**[16:15] ---**
I was good enough to be called awesome online,
**[16:17] ---**
but I got no recognition from anyone around me.
**[16:20] ---**
I kept giving my time
to *Tackfam* and got results.
**[16:24] ---**
I don't need anyone's approval IRL.
**[16:27] ---**
I believe *Tackfam* is a god-tier game--
and that's enough.
**[16:32] ---**
That's what I really thought.
**[16:34] ---**
But now that Aoi Hinami,
who knows life better than anyone,
**[16:38] ---**
is telling me that it's a game
that's just as engaging as *Tackfam*,
**[16:42] ---**
I feel like my efforts
have finally been recognized.
**[16:48] ---**
Sure, I'm being contradictory.
**[16:51] ---**
I mean, life is a garbage game,
and *Tackfam* is god-tier.
**[16:53] ---**
"Super Attack Families"
**[16:55] ---**
And yet...
**[16:57] ---**
The effort I put in solely for myself
that no one would acknowledge--
**[17:02] ---**
it's found enormous affirmation here,
in Aoi Hinami's words.
**[17:07] ---**
Life is a god-tier game.
**[17:09] ---**
If what you're saying is true...
**[17:12] ---**
Yes?
**[17:15] ---**
Then the gamer in me wants to play.
**[17:17] ---**
Oh, so you believe me now?
**[17:20] ---**
Not entirely, no.
**[17:22] ---**
But you can't tell if a game is godly
or garbage without playing it.
**[17:29] ---**
So I'll give it a shot and see for myself.
**[17:32] ---**
That's what a gamer would do.
**[17:33] ---**
That's our nanashi!
**[17:35] ---**
Tell me the rules of this game we call "life."
**[17:39] ---**
Let's see...
**[17:41] ---**
Life's a game with a lot of freedom.
**[17:43] ---**
What's the first thing that happens
in a game with that much freedom?
**[17:48] ---**
Um...
**[17:50] ---**
Character creation?
**[17:54] ---**
HEXactly!
**[17:55] ---**
Um, what was that-- "HEXactly"?
**[18:00] ---**
The first thing you do in *life*
is character creation.
**[18:03] ---**
No, before that.
**[18:05] ---**
What are you talking about?
You're imagining things.
**[18:08] ---**
Those are for you.
**[18:10] ---**
Masks?
**[18:11] ---**
We'll discuss this further over lunch.
**[18:18] ---**
Ready? Now watch this.
**[18:21] ---**
This is my pretty-mode mouth.
**[18:24] ---**
And *this* is with pretty mode off.
**[18:27] ---**
Oho...
**[18:28] ---**
Simply raising the corners of one's mouth
**[18:29] ---**
can really change that at-a-glance impression.
**[18:32] ---**
From now on, you'll wear a mask at all times--
**[18:35] ---**
mealtimes excepted.
**[18:37] ---**
And under that mask...
**[18:39] ---**
you will go about your life smiling ear to ear.
**[18:42] ---**
Train your mimic muscles and your
mouth-corners will begin to turn up naturally.
**[18:47] ---**
Ah.
**[18:48] ---**
Here you are.
**[18:51] ---**
And starting next week,
**[18:53] ---**
we'll meet in Sewing Room 2 in the old school
30 minutes before and after classes
**[18:57] ---**
to go over your tasks for the day
and review your performance.
**[19:02] ---**
If we're going do this,
we're going to do this *right*.
**[19:04] ---**
Going to do this right, huh...?
**[19:09] ---**
She's a fellow gamer, all right.
**[19:15] ---**
Oh, I nearly forgot.
**[19:17] ---**
This was technically an offline meeting
between NO NAME and nanashi, right?
**[19:22] ---**
Yeah, I guess so.
**[19:24] ---**
What's wrong?
**[19:25] ---**
*You* know...
**[19:27] ---**
Since we met offline and all...
**[19:29] ---**
Hmm? What about it?
**[19:32] ---**
Ugh, jeez!
**[19:34] ---**
Don't you get it?
**[19:36] ---**
We're supposed to exchange *Tackfam* friend codes!
**[19:40] ---**
*That's* what!
**[19:41] ---**
Oh.
**[19:42] ---**
"Tomozaki"
**[19:51] ---**
What *are* you doing, Fumiya?
**[19:54] ---**
You're creepy enough as it is.
**[19:56] ---**
Try not to get any creepier, will you?
**[19:59] ---**
I'm the one you're embarrassing at school.
**[20:09] ---**
"Sewing Room 2"
**[20:14] ---**
A first day to remember!
**[20:17] ---**
What do you think? Not a bad atmosphere, eh?
**[20:19] ---**
Yeah... like an abandoned building.
**[20:22] ---**
As of today, you are a player
in the game called "life."
**[20:28] ---**
Now, every game has goals.
**[20:32] ---**
Your ultimate goal:
**[20:33] ---**
"Ultimate Goal
To be as satisfied with offline life as I am"
**[20:34] ---**
To be as satisfied with offline life as I am.
**[20:37] ---**
Isn't, uh... isn't that a little too hard?
**[20:40] ---**
In order to reach this ultimate goal,
**[20:43] ---**
you'll need medium and small goals, too.
**[20:47] ---**
This is exactly what I do
when training for *Tackfam*.
**[20:50] ---**
There's our nanashi! That'll save us some time.
**[20:54] ---**
First, a small goal:
**[20:57] ---**
Get a family member or close friend
***SIGN*** "Small Goal Get a family member or friend to ask, 'Do you have a girlfriend?'"
**[20:59] ---**
to ask if you have a girlfriend.
**[21:02] ---**
Sorry?
**[21:03] ---**
"You're practically glowing these days"
**[21:05] ---**
and "For a second, I didn't even
recognize you" are also acceptable.
**[21:08] ---**
Just get a third party to notice that your
appearance and/or vibe has improved.
**[21:14] ---**
Y-Yeah, all right.
**[21:15] ---**
Next, a medium goal.
**[21:17] ---**
As a rule, the tasks I give you
will be toward this goal.
**[21:22] ---**
It's the most important one.
**[21:24] ---**
Medium goal:
**[21:25] ---**
"Medium Goal
Have a girlfriend before year 3"
**[21:26] ---**
Have a girlfriend before starting
your third year of high school.
**[21:29] ---**
What?!
**[21:31] ---**
You'll be completing daily tasks
toward this goal.
**[21:34] ---**
Today's task:
***SIGN*** "Medium Goal Have a girlfriend before year 3" "Today's Task Talk to at least three girls at school"
**[21:36] ---**
Talk to at least three girls at school.
**[21:39] ---**
But... like...
**[21:40] ---**
"Ultimate Goal
To be as satisfied with offline life as I am"
**[21:41] ---**
These hurdles are starting out *way* too high!
***SIGN*** "Small Goal Get a family member or friend to ask, 'Do you have a girlfriend?'"
**[21:44] ---**
A bottom-tier character in the game of life
**[21:46] ---**
would hardly be talking to any girls--
***SIGN*** "Medium Goal Have a girlfriend before year 3" "Today's Task Talk to at least three girls at school"
**[21:49] ---**
having a girlfriend is out of the question!
***SIGN*** "Medium Goal Have a girlfriend before year 3" "Today's Task Talk to at least three girls at school"
**[21:51] ---**
It's an unreasonable ask!
**[21:54] ---**
And yet...
**[21:56] ---**
Aoi Hinami--NO NAME--is asking it
of me in all seriousness.
**[22:02] ---**
In which case...
**[22:03] ---**
I have no choice but to go through with it.
**[22:06] ---**
To be honest, I'm more uneasy than anything.
**[22:21] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
# E2 - It feels awesome to gain a bunch of levels after a battle
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZK4E0/it-feels-awesome-to-gain-a-bunch-of-levels-after-a-battle)
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**[00:00] ---**
"Sekitomo"
**[00:02] ---**
Here at Sekitomo High,
**[00:04] ---**
the girls can choose to wear
either a ribbon or a necktie.
**[00:07] ---**
But there's an unspoken understanding
that the unpopular girls
**[00:11] ---**
aren't allowed to wear neckties.
**[00:14] ---**
Hinami's notes for today's task
**[00:16] ---**
concerned who I should
speak to--and about what.
**[00:20] ---**
Two of the girls were on Team Necktie.
**[00:24] ---**
The first is your neighbor, Yuzu Izumi.
**[00:27] ---**
The second sits next to you
in home ec: Minami Nanami.
**[00:31] ---**
The third is all up to you.
**[00:34] ---**
Now, as for what you should talk *about*...
**[00:42] ---**
Um... Sorry, Izumi--got a second?
**[00:45] ---**
Hmm? What is it?
**[00:46] ---**
Er... do you have any tissue?
**[00:49] ---**
I've got a cold, but I forgot to bring any.
**[00:52] ---**
Oh, sure. Hang on.
**[00:55] ---**
When you're talking to someone
you've never talked to before,
**[00:59] ---**
you need a straightforward point of entry.
**[01:01] ---**
Your cold is a great in--you're
wearing a mask and everything.
**[01:06] ---**
Ooh, sorry! I don't have any after all.
**[01:09] ---**
N-No, no, that's totally fine.
**[01:12] ---**
Hey, Kikuchi, do you have any tissue?
**[01:14] ---**
I sure do.
**[01:15] ---**
Huh?!
**[01:16] ---**
Here.
**[01:18] ---**
Here you go!
**[01:19] ---**
Th-Thanks.
**[01:22] ---**
Erika!
**[01:23] ---**
That discontinued eyeshadow
you were telling me about?
**[01:24] ---**
Um...
**[01:26] ---**
I can't find it *anywhere*.
**[01:27] ---**
Thanks.
**[01:28] ---**
Sure.
**[01:29] ---**
This is Fuka Kikuchi.
**[01:31] ---**
I wonder if this conversation counts.
**[01:38] ---**
Tomozaki?
**[01:39] ---**
Wh-What is it?
**[01:41] ---**
Um... why are you grinning?
**[01:44] ---**
Ah! It's just, uh, my teeth hurt!
**[01:46] ---**
That was a grimace!
**[01:48] ---**
Oh, is that what it was?
**[01:50] ---**
Poke-ity, poke, poke!
**[02:08] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[03:26] ---**
"Lv. 2: It feels awesome to gain
a bunch of levels after a battle"
**[03:30] ---**
And one more thing:
**[03:32] ---**
When you talk to these girls,
make sure I'm nearby.
**[03:36] ---**
Just in case anything happens.
**[03:38] ---**
Next up is Minami Nanami.
**[03:41] ---**
She's in the track-and-field club with Hinami--
**[03:44] ---**
another class darling.
**[03:47] ---**
"Home Economics"
**[03:51] ---**
Nanami's here, but not Hinami.
**[03:54] ---**
Which means I can lay low for now.
**[03:57] ---**
This isn't me getting cold feet--
**[04:00] ---**
I'm just following Hinami's instructions.
**[04:03] ---**
What gives, Tomozaki? *You're* here early!
**[04:05] ---**
What the hell?!
**[04:06] ---**
I can't very well ignore her
now that *she's* talked to *me*.
**[04:09] ---**
Maybe if I tell her the real
reason I got here so early--
**[04:10] ---**
Hellooo?
**[04:13] ---**
I came early to talk to *you*!
**[04:16] ---**
Say what?
**[04:18] ---**
That'd be *way* too creepy! I'd be dead meat!
**[04:21] ---**
What's wrong? Earth to Tomozaki!
**[04:21] ---**
What do I do? How do I respond?!
**[04:25] ---**
Oh, uh... no reason.
**[04:27] ---**
No reason, huh? Well, yeah, sure. I get that.
**[04:31] ---**
Now what?
**[04:33] ---**
The conversation's started--
I've got to keep it going.
**[04:38] ---**
Isn't it fantastic, though?
**[04:40] ---**
Hmm? What is?
**[04:42] ---**
I mean, I gave you this
dead-end "No reason" reply,
**[04:46] ---**
and you still responded with "I get that."
**[04:48] ---**
And it's like, isn't it great how
teenage girls can be so empathetic?
**[04:55] ---**
Um... never mind. Sorry.
**[05:00] ---**
What the heck, Tomozaki?
What are you, some old fart?
**[05:04] ---**
N-no, it's just that--
young women these days--
**[05:07] ---**
But *you're* young, too!
**[05:10] ---**
No, I was just...
**[05:12] ---**
Look, teenage girls nowadays use "sick"
to mean all kinds of things, right?
**[05:17] ---**
In the same way, empathy is like
this *theme* with teenage girls, and--
**[05:21] ---**
Stop! You sound like you're
on a talk show--just stop!
**[05:25] ---**
What's going on, Minmi?
**[05:27] ---**
Oh, Tama!
**[05:29] ---**
Our itty-bitty Tama!
**[05:31] ---**
Cut that out! I asked you a question!
**[05:34] ---**
Well, Tomozaki here was
talking like some old man.
**[05:37] ---**
Now what did he say again?
**[05:38] ---**
No clue. Pass!
**[05:40] ---**
You there! Uh... Tomozaki, was it?
**[05:43] ---**
Explain!
**[05:44] ---**
Huh?!
**[05:45] ---**
Good luck, Tomozaki!
**[05:46] ---**
What--? "Good luck"?
**[05:48] ---**
Um, well, the thing is--
**[05:49] ---**
What's everyone all worked up about?
**[05:51] ---**
Hey, Nakamu, check this out!
Tomozaki is *hilarious*!
**[05:55] ---**
Oh? He is, is he?
**[05:59] ---**
So what is it?
**[06:00] ---**
Tell us all about it, Tomozaki.
**[06:01] ---**
It's just, um...
**[06:03] ---**
Nanami said I got here early,
**[06:06] ---**
to which I replied, "No reason,"
**[06:08] ---**
and she said, "I get that."
**[06:10] ---**
And when I said I was impressed by
the empathy of teenage girls today,
**[06:14] ---**
Nanami started laughing.
**[06:17] ---**
Right, right!
**[06:18] ---**
And?
**[06:20] ---**
Is that it?
**[06:21] ---**
Yeah.
**[06:23] ---**
That's not funny at all. Right?
**[06:25] ---**
Nope! Not in the slightest.
**[06:27] ---**
Seriously? All three of you
have a busted sense of humor.
**[06:31] ---**
No, dude, *you're* the weirdo.
**[06:33] ---**
What? Nakamu, you meanie!
**[06:35] ---**
What's so weird about me, huh?
**[06:37] ---**
Hey! Are you listening to me? Nakamu!
**[06:39] ---**
Let's put it to a vote, then:
**[06:41] ---**
Who thinks Mimimi was the weird one here?
**[06:43] ---**
Me!
**[06:44] ---**
That's three votes.
**[06:46] ---**
Okay, who thinks *I'm* the weirdo?
**[06:48] ---**
Me!
**[06:49] ---**
Me, me, me! Me, me, me, me, me!
**[06:51] ---**
Natsubayashi's been
acting strange all this time.
**[06:51] ---**
Say it all you want--it won't change anything.
**[06:54] ---**
What even *is* this? What's happening?
**[06:57] ---**
I'm not too sure myself, but if
Natsubayashi's the only one not voting,
**[07:00] ---**
it's going to get real uncomfortable.
**[07:02] ---**
Then I won't vote, either.
**[07:05] ---**
Me!
**[07:07] ---**
Put me down with Mimimi here.
**[07:09] ---**
Nobody asked you, Aoi.
**[07:12] ---**
What? Why not? I was listening,
too, you know.
**[07:15] ---**
I mean, c'mon, Shuji...
**[07:17] ---**
You're the one who lost to Tomozaki in *Tackfam*.
**[07:26] ---**
Just 'cause you're still salty doesn't mean
you can pick on him like this.
**[07:29] ---**
Petty much?
**[07:30] ---**
No wonder Shimano dumped you.
**[07:33] ---**
"Younger guys are sooo not worth it."
**[07:36] ---**
Ha!
**[07:39] ---**
You sound just like her!
**[07:41] ---**
Hey!
**[07:42] ---**
Shut up, dammit!
**[07:46] ---**
Tch...
**[07:49] ---**
Okay, so that's two votes: me and Mimimi.
**[07:52] ---**
Who else?
**[07:53] ---**
I vote for Nakamura, too.
**[07:55] ---**
Hey, that's playing dirty!
**[07:58] ---**
And so does Tama!
**[08:00] ---**
We have four votes! So Shuji's the one
with the weird sense of humor.
**[08:04] ---**
Thanks for playing, Nakamu!
**[08:05] ---**
Tch. Guess there's no arguing
with a majority vote.
**[08:08] ---**
Now, you'll be wanting revenge.
**[08:10] ---**
Why not challenge Tomozaki in *Tackfam* again?
**[08:13] ---**
All right, fine!
**[08:15] ---**
Just you wait, Tomozaki.
**[08:17] ---**
Oh, uh, yeah. Sounds good.
**[08:23] ---**
And then he turned into,
like, a total yikes-fest...
**[08:25] ---**
Thanks for that, Aoi.
**[08:27] ---**
You were really cool!
**[08:30] ---**
Don't mention it, Hanabi.
**[08:32] ---**
I was just about to ruin everything again.
**[08:35] ---**
Yeah, your face is like an open book.
**[08:38] ---**
Great job out there, Tama!
**[08:40] ---**
You did good, kid!
**[08:44] ---**
Whoa, Minmi! Not there!
**[08:48] ---**
H-Hey, c'mon! Stop that, Minmi!
**[08:49] ---**
Would you prefer *here*?
**[08:50] ---**
What in the...?
**[08:51] ---**
Hey, Mimimi, this is too much!
**[08:54] ---**
Hmm... I didn't expect to hear that from *you*.
**[08:57] ---**
Hah!
**[08:59] ---**
H-Hey, now!
**[09:01] ---**
Let's see here... isn't our Aoi ticklish
**[09:04] ---**
right... about... here?
**[09:08] ---**
S-Stop that, Mimimi!
**[09:11] ---**
What? What? What? *What*?!
**[09:19] ---**
*Now* do you give up?
**[09:20] ---**
Man! I really am no match for you.
**[09:23] ---**
Hey!
**[09:25] ---**
Enough of your sexual harassment!
**[09:26] ---**
Still as stuck on Aoi as ever, I see.
**[09:29] ---**
No, I am *not*!
**[09:31] ---**
Still... I wanted to thank you, too, Minmi.
**[09:35] ---**
For what? Gee, you sure say
some complicated stuff sometimes.
**[09:41] ---**
Try me again *tama*-rrow!
**[09:42] ---**
Forget all that! Just let me thank you!
**[09:46] ---**
Um... Hinami?
**[09:50] ---**
You really saved my skin
back there. Thanks.
**[09:53] ---**
No biggie!
**[09:55] ---**
You know, Tomozaki,
you're funnier than I thought.
**[09:58] ---**
I was in the background listening and laughing!
**[10:00] ---**
It was like he was on some kinda talk show!
**[10:05] ---**
It wasn't *that* funny, Nanami.
**[10:07] ---**
Sorry, sorry! Oh, and you can call me "Mimimi."
**[10:10] ---**
Huh?!
**[10:11] ---**
I think our teachers are the only
ones left who call her "Nanami."
**[10:15] ---**
What about you, Hanabi?
**[10:17] ---**
Whatever.
**[10:19] ---**
So... "Tama"?
**[10:20] ---**
Um, why "Tama," anyway?
**[10:24] ---**
Your name's Hanabi Natsubayashi, right?
**[10:26] ---**
'Cause we say "Tamaya!" when
we see great fireworks--AKA *hanabi*!
**[10:31] ---**
*And* it's cute. Like her!
**[10:33] ---**
Right! You're fine with it, right, Tama?
**[10:35] ---**
Tama!
**[10:36] ---**
Don't mess around with people's names!
**[10:41] ---**
You know how I was teasing Nakamura earlier?
**[10:41] ---**
"Sewing Room 2"
**[10:43] ---**
That had to be done.
**[10:46] ---**
It did?
**[10:47] ---**
He's really holding a grudge
against you for his *Tackfam* defeat.
**[10:52] ---**
Enough that people are tiptoeing around it.
**[10:54] ---**
He's a key member of our class,
**[10:56] ---**
so if he's rude to you,
you'll wind up on shaky ground.
**[11:00] ---**
"Ultimate Goal
To be as satisfied with offline life as I am"
**[11:00] ---**
And that's bad news if
you want to be successful IRL.
**[11:03] ---**
So we had to set off his emotion-bomb
as soon as we could.
**[11:08] ---**
"Set off"?
**[11:09] ---**
Yeah--just by saying it out loud in front
of everyone and making it into a joke.
**[11:15] ---**
You make it *sound* easy, but...
**[11:17] ---**
Most likely I'm the only one
who could have pulled it off.
**[11:20] ---**
No one else has the guts.
**[11:22] ---**
Yikes. She's fairly terrifying.
**[11:25] ---**
In any case, you were a big help. Thanks.
**[11:28] ---**
Sure thing.
**[11:29] ---**
Anything else you might have
picked up on today?
**[11:32] ---**
That I'm an awful conversationalist, maybe?
**[11:35] ---**
Like, I don't know the right things to say.
**[11:37] ---**
But the home ec room
got pretty lively, didn't it?
**[11:41] ---**
For someone just starting out, I'd say
today's field practice was a huge success.
**[11:45] ---**
Seriously?!
**[11:46] ---**
But you totally whiffed the rest of it.
**[11:49] ---**
First Kikuchi sees you grinning under your mask,
**[11:52] ---**
then you blow your nose without
even *trying* to be discreet.
**[11:55] ---**
You're the lowest of the low.
**[11:57] ---**
You could be at the earth's core,
and that *still* wouldn't be low enough!
**[12:00] ---**
Hinami's carrot-stick swapping
is giving me whiplash.
**[12:03] ---**
Any other concerns?
**[12:06] ---**
Let me see...
**[12:08] ---**
That thing with Tama.
**[12:10] ---**
She seemed kind of off.
**[12:13] ---**
Ah. She's extremely stubborn--
or sincere, perhaps.
**[12:17] ---**
She won't go along with a
certain mood just to get along.
**[12:20] ---**
Mimimi and I really like that about her,
**[12:24] ---**
but she's a bad match for people like Nakamura,
**[12:27] ---**
who wind up controlling
the conversational tone.
**[12:31] ---**
They've had their little spats.
**[12:33] ---**
I'm sure Nakamura means no ill will--
**[12:36] ---**
he just wants her to go with the flow for once.
**[12:39] ---**
Aha. Sounds like a real pain.
**[12:42] ---**
If only Mimimi or I could
always be with her, but we can't.
**[12:47] ---**
It's tough.
**[12:48] ---**
Well, I think that's about enough for today.
**[12:51] ---**
Tomorrow we'll start correcting
your posture, so come ready!
**[13:01] ---**
"Today's Task Posture"
**[13:01] ---**
Your mind and body are linked.
**[13:04] ---**
Improving your posture will
change your timid state of mind.
**[13:07] ---**
Uh, like this?
**[13:09] ---**
Yep. Nice.
**[13:13] ---**
Wh-Wh-What are you--?
**[13:15] ---**
Checking your muscles.
**[13:17] ---**
Can you chill? I'm just touching your butt.
**[13:20] ---**
Now step away from the wall.
**[13:22] ---**
R-Right.
**[13:23] ---**
This is kind of hard.
**[13:26] ---**
You're using muscles that you don't usually use.
**[13:29] ---**
From now on, whenever you're
standing, stand like that.
**[13:32] ---**
Whenever I'm standing, huh?
**[13:33] ---**
And you can take off the mask.
**[13:36] ---**
But keep practicing!
**[13:37] ---**
Now for an additional task:
**[13:37] ---**
"Today's Task Posture"
**[13:40] ---**
Talk to me and someone with me--
Mimimi, Hanabi, a guy in my circle--
**[13:45] ---**
several times over the course of the day.
**[13:48] ---**
You'll keep doing this every day this week.
**[13:48] ---**
"Today's Task
Posture; join in conversations (all this week)"
**[13:51] ---**
Again, you make it sound so easy.
**[13:54] ---**
Hey! Posture!
**[13:58] ---**
And this medium goal here...
**[14:01] ---**
"Have a girlfriend before
starting year 3"... right?
**[14:05] ---**
This'll also help lay the groundwork for that.
**[14:07] ---**
I want to see the reactions of these girls
you talk to and the conversational mood
**[14:11] ---**
before deciding on the next steps:
**[14:14] ---**
Who should you be getting close to?
**[14:16] ---**
What should you be practicing?
**[14:18] ---**
You've thought about all that?
**[14:20] ---**
Of course I have!
**[14:22] ---**
When you're entering a boss battle,
**[14:24] ---**
it's common sense to check if your level's
high enough to handle them, right?
**[14:29] ---**
True enough.
**[14:30] ---**
Using game metaphors makes me
realize we're on the same page.
**[14:34] ---**
Today I'm heading home with Hashiguchi,
Matsumoto, and Mimimi.
**[14:39] ---**
Make sure you join in our conversation.
**[14:41] ---**
You still doing strength training?
**[14:42] ---**
Oh, yeah.
**[14:44] ---**
And not just during club meetings, either!
**[14:46] ---**
What are you working on?
**[14:47] ---**
Pretty much everything.
**[14:49] ---**
So, uh, does that include the butt muscles?
**[14:54] ---**
The *butt*?
**[14:57] ---**
Oh, I'm working on my butt, too!
**[14:59] ---**
Seriously?
**[15:00] ---**
Like, with at-home training?
**[15:02] ---**
Yeah--you know.
**[15:03] ---**
So the secret to Aoi's sizzling physique
**[15:06] ---**
is all in her butt muscles!
**[15:09] ---**
Sorry about that.
**[15:10] ---**
And thanks.
**[15:11] ---**
Don't worry about it.
**[15:13] ---**
Now, just to let you know:
**[15:15] ---**
You and Mimimi are both getting off at Kitayono.
**[15:18] ---**
What?!
**[15:19] ---**
No running away.
Hang in there and do it right!
**[15:23] ---**
I didn't know you lived in Kitayono, too.
**[15:27] ---**
Uh... yeah.
**[15:29] ---**
Why are you so nervous?
**[15:30] ---**
Y-You sure have a lot of energy, Mimimi.
**[15:33] ---**
Right?
**[15:34] ---**
I intend to live my life with nothing
but energy and a smile on my face!
**[15:38] ---**
I'm not sure if that's amazing or rough.
**[15:42] ---**
Why rough?
**[15:43] ---**
I mean, there have to be times when
you *can't* be all smiling and bubbly.
**[15:47] ---**
That's when you need a smile the most!
**[15:49] ---**
Or hard times'll be that much harder.
**[15:52] ---**
Oh, right. Hinami was saying that
the mind and body are linked.
**[15:56] ---**
Well! Don't *you* two sound buddy-buddy!
**[15:58] ---**
Huh?! Um, n-no!
**[16:00] ---**
Y'know, I've been wondering...
**[16:02] ---**
Yeah?
**[16:04] ---**
Give it to me straight, Tomozaki.
**[16:05] ---**
Something fishy's going on
between you and Ao, right?
**[16:08] ---**
"Fishy"?!
**[16:09] ---**
You've been giving each other
all these *looks* lately--
**[16:13] ---**
so what's the scoop?
**[16:14] ---**
There's no scoop!
**[16:15] ---**
As if Aoi Hinami would have
anything to do with the likes of me!
**[16:20] ---**
That's true!
**[16:21] ---**
You agreed a little too quickly.
**[16:24] ---**
Good one! Y'know, you can be
pretty funny sometimes, Tomozaki.
**[16:27] ---**
Oh, hush.
**[16:28] ---**
You should let your fun side shine!
You're always so *glum*.
**[16:33] ---**
That's none of your business.
**[16:35] ---**
Besides, I'm fine not having fun all the time.
**[16:40] ---**
Huh! What do you mean?
**[16:41] ---**
Well... how can I put this...
**[16:44] ---**
Like, fun isn't always the right answer...
or something.
**[16:47] ---**
For example, I like *Tackfam*, right?
**[16:50] ---**
And you're super good at it, too, I hear.
**[16:52] ---**
So? What about it?
**[16:54] ---**
Well, it's like... I don't play *Tackfam*
because I want to have fun;
**[16:59] ---**
I play my very best
because I like *Tackfam* itself.
**[17:01] ---**
The fun is just a bonus.
**[17:05] ---**
Huh. You might be a little
like Tama in that respect.
**[17:10] ---**
Like Tama?
**[17:11] ---**
She won't bend--or she won't
let herself be bent.
**[17:15] ---**
Like... even in a situation where
she'd have more fun if she *did* bend,
**[17:20] ---**
she won't, unless she's okay with it all.
**[17:22] ---**
And that's awesome!
I totally respect her for that!
**[17:25] ---**
With me, it's like, "Always be bending!"
**[17:27] ---**
I bend this way and that, even bending
over backwards to make things fun.
**[17:31] ---**
What do you think? Is that admirable?
**[17:33] ---**
I-I had no idea.
**[17:35] ---**
I'm actually a young maiden
with lots of worries.
**[17:38] ---**
Though my worries are small
potatoes compared to Tama's.
**[17:42] ---**
Yeah, that Tama...
**[17:44] ---**
She does seem to have it rough.
**[17:46] ---**
Right?
**[17:47] ---**
Which is why I, flexible as I am,
am trying to protect her.
**[17:51] ---**
I see. So you support each other.
**[17:54] ---**
Yes, that's right: mutual support!
**[17:56] ---**
Though I guess you could say
I'm doing most of the supporting.
**[18:02] ---**
Well, I'm down here. See you later!
**[18:04] ---**
Oh, uh, yeah. Later.
**[18:11] ---**
Looks like you did well.
**[18:13] ---**
It was a topic even I could handle,
**[18:15] ---**
and Mimimi just kept up the energy level.
**[18:17] ---**
Maybe so.
**[18:19] ---**
Still, you seem to be good
at speaking your mind.
**[18:23] ---**
Isn't everybody?
**[18:26] ---**
Not necessarily.
**[18:28] ---**
Take Mimimi.
**[18:29] ---**
Minami is super flexible.
**[18:31] ---**
Is *she* good at saying what's on her mind?
**[18:34] ---**
Okay!
**[18:35] ---**
I get it: Mimimi'd be good at
agreeing with those around her.
**[18:40] ---**
And Hanabi.
**[18:41] ---**
Now, *she'd* have no problem
speaking her mind.
**[18:43] ---**
No!
**[18:44] ---**
I can see that.
**[18:46] ---**
You've talked with different types of people.
**[18:48] ---**
Have you met anyone else like her?
**[18:50] ---**
Now that you mention it...
**[18:53] ---**
So it's actually *difficult* to just
come out and say what's on your mind.
**[18:58] ---**
Which is why this is, in some sense,
**[18:59] ---**
your weapon, your strong point,
your killer technique!
**[19:03] ---**
If you ever find yourself in trouble,
**[19:05] ---**
you can rely on that skill.
**[19:07] ---**
I see...
**[19:09] ---**
Anything else you noticed in the course
of boosting your conversational XP?
**[19:13] ---**
Let me see...
**[19:15] ---**
What I noticed was the division
of conversational roles.
**[19:21] ---**
Check this out! I was in our
club meeting yesterday, right?
**[19:24] ---**
Mimimi always starts with phrases like
"Check this out!" or "So yesterday?"
**[19:30] ---**
In other words, she introduces new topics.
**[19:33] ---**
Oh, yeah! That happened to me once.
**[19:37] ---**
Then there's someone who
expands on the topic.
**[19:40] ---**
You're often the one who
fills that role in this group.
**[19:44] ---**
Though everyone in the
conversation builds on the topic,
**[19:48] ---**
it's mostly a select few members, like you
or Mimimi, who start something new.
**[19:54] ---**
In short, for a conversation to go smoothly,
**[19:57] ---**
you need two things:
**[19:59] ---**
to introduce new topics and
to expand on existing topics.
**[20:02] ---**
HEXactly!
**[20:04] ---**
Now you just have to think about
how to get good at those two aspects!
**[20:09] ---**
Waaait, wait, wait, wait.
That's *twice* you've said "hexactly"!
**[20:13] ---**
What *is* that?
**[20:17] ---**
She clammed up.
**[20:19] ---**
Well, now that I've said it twice... I give up.
**[20:22] ---**
It's a habit of mine.
**[20:23] ---**
"Go Go Oinko"
**[20:24] ---**
A line from a retro game I liked
when I was little, *Go Go Oinko.*
**[20:29] ---**
It makes you think it's just
some character spin-off,
**[20:32] ---**
but it had a proper story and everything,
**[20:34] ---**
with an "is fighting justified?" theme.
**[20:36] ---**
But setting all that aside, kids really
went wild for its unique game world.
**[20:41] ---**
And those adorable characters!
**[20:42] ---**
It was really a fantastic piece of work!
**[20:44] ---**
That's so correct, I think
I've been hexed! Hexactly!
**[20:46] ---**
Oh, *Oinko*!
**[20:48] ---**
I remember now. So you're a fan?
**[20:51] ---**
You know Oinko?! I expected
nothing less from Japan's top gamer!
**[20:54] ---**
Hardly anyone's heard of it--
and it was so famous, too!
**[21:01] ---**
Let's get back on topic.
**[21:05] ---**
To improve your conversational skills,
**[21:06] ---**
"Introduce new topics"
"Expand on topics"
**[21:08] ---**
practice introducing new topics
and expanding on the topic at hand.
**[21:11] ---**
Just those two.
**[21:16] ---**
Here.
**[21:17] ---**
Flashcards?
**[21:21] ---**
"Nakajima in group 1:
The little-brother story"
**[21:25] ---**
"The scene I laughed at
in ep. 3 of 'My Secret Father'"
**[21:28] ---**
"Matsumoto in group 2:
The strength-training story"
**[21:31] ---**
You *memorized* these topics?
**[21:35] ---**
That way, you'll never run out
of things to talk about.
**[21:38] ---**
You can have this, too.
**[21:40] ---**
A pocket recorder?
**[21:41] ---**
I've recorded our entire
conversation here today.
**[21:45] ---**
What?!
**[21:47] ---**
Give it a listen.
**[21:48] ---**
It's good to get a feel for how you talk.
**[21:51] ---**
Y-Yeah, all right.
**[21:54] ---**
Now, about our plans for Saturday.
**[21:57] ---**
Huh? But we don't have school on Saturdays.
**[22:00] ---**
All the more reason!
I have no club activities, either.
**[22:03] ---**
We'll meet at Omiya Station at 11 AM.
**[22:07] ---**
You'll be spending the day with *me*.
# E3 - When a girl's your first friend, life feels like a date for a while
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G9DUE713K/when-a-girls-your-first-friend-life-feels-like-a-date-for-a-while)
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**[00:02] ---**
Sorry!
**[00:04] ---**
I'm sorry I'm late.
**[00:06] ---**
Hmm.
**[00:08] ---**
Well, judging by your decent appearance,
you actually made an effort.
**[00:12] ---**
I'll let it slide--*this* time.
**[00:15] ---**
You've made some progress!
**[00:17] ---**
Compared to our first offline meeting, that is.
**[00:21] ---**
Oh, shut up.
**[00:23] ---**
Listen, uh...
**[00:24] ---**
What exactly is our goal here today?
**[00:27] ---**
Hey, wait--
**[00:29] ---**
What's that look for?
**[00:47] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[02:04] ---**
"Lv. 3: When a girl's your first friend,
life feels like a date for a while"
**[02:05] ---**
And so,
**[02:07] ---**
today is all about hacks for
fashion-deprived folks like you,
**[02:09] ---**
shortcuts to throwing together
a well-coordinated outfit.
**[02:12] ---**
This is character creation, phase 2.
**[02:15] ---**
Huh...
**[02:16] ---**
Now, let's see. We'll start with...
**[02:19] ---**
...that.
**[02:21] ---**
A mannequin?
**[02:22] ---**
Right. Multiple employees put thought
into dressing that mannequin.
**[02:26] ---**
Think of it as the store's billboard.
**[02:29] ---**
Buy the entire outfit off a mannequin
**[02:32] ---**
and you're basically borrowing
a pro's fashion sense.
**[02:35] ---**
When you're new,
do what the old hands do.
**[02:39] ---**
That's a cardinal rule of gaming, right?
**[02:41] ---**
True enough.
**[02:42] ---**
It happens in *Tackfam*, too.
**[02:44] ---**
Sure does. Now: pick one.
**[02:47] ---**
Jeez, just like that? I mean...
**[02:49] ---**
I-It's not that easy.
**[02:55] ---**
Okay... how about this?
**[03:01] ---**
Hmm. That *might* work...
**[03:04] ---**
Now go ask an employee
if you can try them on.
**[03:07] ---**
*T*-*Try* them? You mean I can't
just buy this outfit as is?
**[03:10] ---**
It's a matter of sizing.
**[03:16] ---**
Hey, boss? What's our next outfit for this one?
**[03:19] ---**
Why so nervous?
**[03:21] ---**
Just say: "I'd like to try on
this mannequin's outfit."
**[03:25] ---**
And make it snappy!
**[03:26] ---**
R-Right.
**[03:27] ---**
I'd like to try on that mannequin's outfit.
I'd like to try on that mannequin's outfit.
**[03:31] ---**
Um, excuse me!
**[03:32] ---**
Yes? Can I help you find something?
**[03:35] ---**
Er, um, well...
**[03:38] ---**
I'd like that mannequin!
**[03:40] ---**
Huh? You... want to *buy* the mannequin?
**[03:42] ---**
No! Well, yes, but... no, not exactly!
**[03:43] ---**
Buying a mannequin. Give me a break.
**[03:48] ---**
So what kind of training
are we going to do here?
**[03:48] ---**
"Cheesefest"
**[03:51] ---**
This is just lunch.
**[03:53] ---**
We have some time before
your hair appointment.
**[03:55] ---**
M-My *hair* appointment?!
**[03:56] ---**
Keep your voice down.
**[03:58] ---**
Oh. Sorry.
**[03:59] ---**
Have you decided what
you're going to order?
**[04:02] ---**
Let's see... Maybe the tomato-cheese
Hamburg steak combo.
**[04:06] ---**
Yeah. That looks good, too.
**[04:09] ---**
Hey, Fumiya Tomozaki.
**[04:12] ---**
I have a proposal to make.
**[04:14] ---**
Um... sure.
**[04:15] ---**
Huh?
**[04:16] ---**
I'll order this cheese-stuffed Hamburg
steak with Japanese-style sauce.
**[04:21] ---**
We'll split that and your tomato-cheese
one and each share both.
**[04:25] ---**
How does that sound?
**[04:29] ---**
That's fine, but, uh...
**[04:32] ---**
You must *really* like cheese.
**[04:35] ---**
And why not? I can like whatever I want!
**[04:39] ---**
Hey, did you listen to that pocket recorder?
**[04:42] ---**
Yeah, I did.
**[04:44] ---**
Notice anything?
**[04:46] ---**
Yeah...
**[04:47] ---**
My voice--or maybe the way I talk.
**[04:50] ---**
It was totally different.
**[04:53] ---**
Kind of surprised me.
**[04:55] ---**
I just keep on mumbling on, huh.
**[04:57] ---**
But if you heard it yourself,
noticed it, you can correct it.
**[05:01] ---**
I... I can?
**[05:03] ---**
You rely too much on words.
**[05:06] ---**
On words?
**[05:07] ---**
You chime in with different phrases
like, "I see" and "Oh, right,"
**[05:13] ---**
but always with the same tone.
**[05:16] ---**
That's why it sounds like you're muttering.
**[05:19] ---**
I see.
**[05:20] ---**
Since you don't use facial
expressions or gestures,
**[05:23] ---**
you aren't getting your emotions across.
**[05:25] ---**
So here's a task for you:
**[05:26] ---**
When giving conversational
feedback over lunch here,
**[05:30] ---**
use only short, vowel-based utterances.
**[05:33] ---**
Huh? Like what?
**[05:35] ---**
Like this:
**[05:36] ---**
Eh?
**[05:37] ---**
Eek!
**[05:38] ---**
Ooh...
**[05:39] ---**
Whoa!
**[05:40] ---**
Wow!
**[05:42] ---**
You're good.
**[05:44] ---**
With fewer words available for use,
**[05:45] ---**
you'll have to convey your emotions
through expression, gestures,
**[05:48] ---**
and tone of voice.
**[05:50] ---**
And we'll start right now!
**[05:52] ---**
Uh... uh-huh.
**[05:54] ---**
Yep! Just like that.
**[05:56] ---**
Yay.
**[05:58] ---**
And why *not* act like an idiot?
**[06:00] ---**
Eh?
**[06:01] ---**
You're doing great.
**[06:02] ---**
Maybe this could be your treat--as thanks.
**[06:04] ---**
Hey!
**[06:05] ---**
Sorry about the wait!
**[06:06] ---**
First, the tomato-chee--
**[06:08] ---**
Huh? Tomo... zaki?
**[06:13] ---**
Eh?
**[06:14] ---**
Ki... Kikuchi?
**[06:18] ---**
What? No way! Fuka?
**[06:21] ---**
I didn't know you worked here!
**[06:23] ---**
Um... yes.
**[06:24] ---**
Hello, Hinami.
**[06:26] ---**
Wow, what a coincidence!
**[06:30] ---**
Here you go.
**[06:32] ---**
Thanks.
**[06:33] ---**
So you two are friends.
I didn't see that coming.
**[06:36] ---**
Oh, yeah! It all started in home ec class.
**[06:41] ---**
Uh... uh-huh.
**[06:42] ---**
Is that so!
**[06:44] ---**
Oh, pardon me!
**[06:47] ---**
Take your time, now. Enjoy!
**[06:55] ---**
*That* was a surprise.
**[06:56] ---**
It certainly was.
**[06:58] ---**
Still, all this time I've
been thinking: "Maybe..."
**[07:03] ---**
"Maybe" what?
**[07:04] ---**
And now I have my answer!
**[07:07] ---**
Fuka Kikuchi.
**[07:09] ---**
She'll be the first heroine
of your playthrough!
**[07:12] ---**
Wait, what does that even mean?!
**[07:14] ---**
Just what it sounds like.
**[07:15] ---**
We'll work to make Fuka your girlfriend.
**[07:19] ---**
*G*-*G*-*G*-*Girlfriend*?!
**[07:22] ---**
She has the most promise of all
the girls you've spoken to so far.
**[07:27] ---**
Remember when you tried
to bum a tissue off Yuzu?
**[07:31] ---**
Yeah...
**[07:32] ---**
Fuka had her tissues out
even before Yuzu asked.
**[07:37] ---**
And *that's* reason enough?!
**[07:39] ---**
If that were all, you might think
Fuka's just nice to everyone.
**[07:44] ---**
But when she brought out our food,
she said *your* name first.
**[07:47] ---**
Well, sure, it's not unusual
to say hi to a classmate.
**[07:51] ---**
Even when *I'm* here?
**[07:53] ---**
Huh?
**[07:53] ---**
I'm kind of a big deal
at our school, you know.
**[07:58] ---**
When I'm part of a group,
people greet me by name right off the bat.
**[08:04] ---**
Wow. Confident much?
**[08:06] ---**
Besides, wouldn't you normally greet
the person of your own gender first
**[08:09] ---**
in a situation like this?
**[08:11] ---**
That... might be true, yes.
**[08:14] ---**
I don't know why, but she's
definitely interested in you.
**[08:18] ---**
I-I don't even know if I like her--
and I have to make her my *girlfriend*?
**[08:24] ---**
*I* think Fuka's really cute. What about you?
**[08:28] ---**
Um, well... yeah, she's cute.
**[08:31] ---**
There you go, then.
**[08:33] ---**
You're interested because she's cute,
so you get involved
**[08:36] ---**
and find out for sure if you really like her.
**[08:39] ---**
What's so weird about that?
**[08:41] ---**
Or would you rather... quit?
**[08:46] ---**
Frankly, this all feels a little dishonest.
**[08:51] ---**
I don't even know if I'll like her.
**[08:53] ---**
But...
**[08:55] ---**
I made up my mind to play
this game of life like I mean it.
**[08:59] ---**
I'll do it!
**[09:02] ---**
That's our nanashi!
**[09:04] ---**
Now, then: Shall we eat?
**[09:06] ---**
It's a little cold by now.
**[09:09] ---**
Hey, how about we order dessert after?
**[09:13] ---**
Dessert, huh?
**[09:14] ---**
Oh... You want *cheesecake*, don't you?
**[09:20] ---**
Ow!
**[09:20] ---**
"Cheesefest"
"New York-Style Cheesecake"
**[09:20] ---**
Wrong-o, buster. I want
*New York-Style* cheesecake.
**[09:28] ---**
Amazing places, hair salons.
**[09:30] ---**
Now even *I* look stylish.
**[09:32] ---**
Hey.
**[09:34] ---**
What are you doing?
**[09:36] ---**
Oh, um... I was just...
**[09:38] ---**
Listen, Fumiya...
**[09:42] ---**
"Sewing Room 2"
**[09:45] ---**
Morning, Hinami!
**[09:45] ---**
Listen to this!
**[09:47] ---**
What's all the fuss about
so early in the morning?
**[09:50] ---**
I might have cleared my small goal!
**[09:53] ---**
Oh, so somebody said something!
**[09:55] ---**
Someone in your family?
**[09:56] ---**
Yeah: my little sister, last night.
**[10:00] ---**
Did you read a book on de-geekifying,
maybe finding some sex appeal?
**[10:03] ---**
See?
**[10:05] ---**
Yes.
**[10:06] ---**
Well, you may have attained your goal...
**[10:11] ---**
...but you seem awfully pleased
by what your sister said.
**[10:13] ---**
Hey, a goal cleared
is a goal cleared, right?
**[10:16] ---**
Very well.
***SIGN*** "Small Goal Get a family member or friend to ask, 'Do you have a girlfriend'"
**[10:18] ---**
First goal: achieved.
**[10:22] ---**
Congratulations!
**[10:24] ---**
Good for you.
**[10:25] ---**
Uh, thanks.
**[10:28] ---**
But I'm just mimicking
a mannequin with my clothes,
**[10:31] ---**
and my hair's all thanks to that salon.
**[10:33] ---**
Yes, that's true.
**[10:35] ---**
But *you* had the resolve
to trust me and do as I say.
**[10:40] ---**
Your efforts to correct your expression
and posture are paying off, too.
**[10:45] ---**
You may not have met this goal all on your own,
**[10:48] ---**
but you *did* go after the results
with your own two hands.
**[10:52] ---**
Give yourself some credit!
**[10:55] ---**
Hinami...
**[11:00] ---**
All right!
**[11:01] ---**
Now for your next small goal:
***SIGN*** "Small Goal Go somewhere with a girl from school (not me), just the 2 of you"
**[11:04] ---**
Go somewhere with a girl
from school who isn't me--
**[11:07] ---**
just the two of you.
**[11:09] ---**
What?! M-Me, out alone with a girl?
**[11:12] ---**
Isn't that b-basically a *d*-*d*-*d*-*date*?
**[11:16] ---**
Not even a middle-schooler would
say that--not in this day and age.
**[11:20] ---**
Seriously?
**[11:21] ---**
And with that, your task for today--
**[11:24] ---**
or actually, for every day this week:
***SIGN*** "Have a girlfriend before starting year 3 Today's Task (every day this week) Talk to Yuzu Izumi at least 2x a day"
**[11:27] ---**
Talk to Yuzu Izumi at least twice a day.
**[11:30] ---**
Waaait, wait, wait! Why Izumi?
**[11:33] ---**
I thought you said Kikuchi was
the heroine of this playthrough!
**[11:35] ---**
Yeah, that's right.
**[11:37] ---**
But real life isn't like a dating sim.
**[11:40] ---**
"Affection UP"
**[11:41] ---**
Raise your affection level with a given girl
**[11:43] ---**
and it goes up with the other girls, too.
**[11:45] ---**
"Possessiveness"
**[11:46] ---**
It can also make them feel possessive--
**[11:49] ---**
and even improve your status as a male.
**[11:52] ---**
B-But isn't that...
**[11:54] ---**
It doesn't feel... sincere.
**[11:56] ---**
Look, it's way too early for a loner
like you to be worrying about that.
**[12:01] ---**
Save it for when you're in
a serious relationship.
**[12:07] ---**
Fine.
**[12:09] ---**
I'll talk to Izumi twice every day this week.
**[12:12] ---**
Okay?
**[12:18] ---**
Morning!
**[12:18] ---**
Good morning.
**[12:19] ---**
I'm so sleepy...
**[12:23] ---**
Oh, um... Izumi?
**[12:26] ---**
Eh? Tomozaki? What is it?
**[12:28] ---**
What do you want?
**[12:29] ---**
Our, uh, English translation assignment...
**[12:32] ---**
You know, when that name "Marcus Pudi"
popped up out of nowhere?
**[12:37] ---**
Wasn't that funny?
**[12:39] ---**
Huh? "Marcus"...?
**[12:42] ---**
I mean, I haven't done
the assignment yet, so...
**[12:45] ---**
Oh.
**[12:47] ---**
Oh, okay.
**[12:49] ---**
Is that all?
**[12:50] ---**
Um, yeah. Sorry.
**[12:53] ---**
It's fine.
**[12:55] ---**
Are we done here?
**[12:57] ---**
Um, actually...
**[12:58] ---**
Er...
**[13:00] ---**
No, uh... it's nothing.
**[13:03] ---**
Ah.
**[13:05] ---**
What the hell was that?
**[13:07] ---**
This is hopeless.
**[13:09] ---**
What am I doing, getting all full of myself?
***SIGN*** "You awake? I might be about 10 min. late to our meeting tomorrow morning in Sewing Room 2" "Roger" "TWICE a day"
**[13:13] ---**
Seriously, Hinami?
**[13:16] ---**
Man, what a long day.
**[13:17] ---**
Off to my club meeting!
**[13:23] ---**
See you later!
**[13:24] ---**
Oh! Um, Izu--
**[13:33] ---**
The way you spoke and your
expression got passing marks--barely.
**[13:36] ---**
Had Yuzu done the assignment,
you would've had a proper conversation.
**[13:40] ---**
You think so?
**[13:43] ---**
So keep up the fight tomorrow--
and the rest of the week.
**[13:46] ---**
But...
**[13:47] ---**
What now?
**[13:49] ---**
I mean...
**[13:50] ---**
It's just that... well...
**[13:52] ---**
Ugh! Enough! Shut *up*!
**[13:55] ---**
See? You're still doing your
posture training--even now!
**[13:56] ---**
Hey! Ow! Wh-what's the big idea?!
**[13:59] ---**
You're the kind of person who can put
in effort and tackle a challenge, right?
**[14:01] ---**
Now, I'm not saying that *all* effort pays off,
**[14:04] ---**
but effort aimed toward a goal like this
**[14:07] ---**
absolutely *will* pay off if you do it right!
**[14:10] ---**
Just keep at it!
**[14:12] ---**
R-Right.
**[14:14] ---**
Now think about what you've done.
**[14:16] ---**
Right now your cursed gear
has you poisoned and confused.
**[14:21] ---**
That bad, huh?
**[14:25] ---**
All right.
**[14:27] ---**
At this point...
**[14:30] ---**
I'll give it my best shot!
**[14:38] ---**
You're too uptight! Chill out, would you?
**[14:51] ---**
Show an interest in
the person you're talking to!
**[15:01] ---**
If you're stuck for a topic, talk about
her clothes or the look on her face.
**[15:07] ---**
Morning, Erika. Hi, Mao.
**[15:09] ---**
Morning.
**[15:10] ---**
Morning.
**[15:12] ---**
G-Good morning, Izumi.
**[15:14] ---**
Oh, good morning.
**[15:15] ---**
Say, is that a different cardigan?
**[15:18] ---**
Huh? No, this is the one I always wear.
**[15:20] ---**
Oh, it is, huh...
**[15:28] ---**
Quota: filled.
**[15:30] ---**
I'm beat.
**[15:34] ---**
Tomozaki?
**[15:38] ---**
K-Kikuchi?! What are you doing here?
**[15:41] ---**
You're always here when it's time
to change classrooms, aren't you?
**[15:46] ---**
Oh, er...
**[15:48] ---**
Yeah.
**[15:50] ---**
I come here, too.
**[15:52] ---**
So I'm always like,
"Oh, there's Tomozaki again."
**[15:56] ---**
Oh, really?
**[15:58] ---**
I'm sorry. I must have been
focused on something else.
**[16:01] ---**
I was really just pretending to read
while coming up with *Tackfam* strategies.
**[16:06] ---**
So you like Michael Andi?
**[16:09] ---**
Huh?
**[16:10] ---**
You're always reading his books.
**[16:12] ---**
"Ebi daite!" "Mozun rekuku!"
What is this? A spell? A code?
**[16:12] ---**
"Ebi daite!" "Mozun rekuku!"
**[16:16] ---**
I've just been grabbing a book from
the closest shelf to my usual seat...
**[16:20] ---**
I do, too.
**[16:23] ---**
Andi's books...
**[16:25] ---**
I'm a big fan.
**[16:27] ---**
Wow, you are? What a coincidence!
**[16:30] ---**
Yes, it really is!
**[16:32] ---**
Isn't this just like *The Popples on Raptor Isle*?
**[16:35] ---**
R-Raptor what now?
**[16:38] ---**
Oh, you haven't read it yet?
**[16:41] ---**
I see. They don't have it in this library.
**[16:44] ---**
Y-Yeah, right. They don't.
**[16:46] ---**
It's hard to come by!
**[16:49] ---**
It hasn't been reprinted ever since
it was translated 20 years back.
**[16:54] ---**
Very few places have it.
**[16:57] ---**
R-Right, yeah. Totally.
**[17:01] ---**
Say, Tomozaki?
**[17:03] ---**
I've never had a conversation like this before.
**[17:08] ---**
I'm glad.
**[17:11] ---**
Same here.
**[17:16] ---**
I think I can tell you...
**[17:17] ---**
Huh? Wh-What?
**[17:21] ---**
The truth is, I'm actually...
**[17:25] ---**
Eh?
**[17:26] ---**
I-I'm... writing a n-novel.
**[17:31] ---**
Maybe you could read it
and tell me what you think?
**[17:35] ---**
You're... writing a novel?
**[17:38] ---**
Y-Yes... that's right.
**[17:40] ---**
Oh... um...
**[17:44] ---**
I understand. It wasn't fair
to spring it on you like that.
**[17:50] ---**
N-No! It's totally fine! No trouble at all!
**[17:55] ---**
Do you mean it?
**[17:57] ---**
If you think I could help!
**[17:59] ---**
I'll bring it with me next time, then.
**[18:01] ---**
G-Great.
**[18:02] ---**
Um, can you keep this between us?
**[18:06] ---**
I haven't shown it to anyone yet.
**[18:08] ---**
Huh? Are you sure you want to show *me*?
**[18:13] ---**
Uh-huh. You of all people...
**[18:16] ---**
Well, bye!
**[18:20] ---**
Tomozaki?
**[18:22] ---**
Ebi daite!
**[18:26] ---**
"Ebi daite!" "Mozun rekuku!"
**[18:28] ---**
M-Mozun rekuku?
**[18:36] ---**
"Mozun rekuku," eh?
**[18:36] ---**
"Sewing Room 2"
**[18:38] ---**
"mozun rekuku" "Search"
**[18:41] ---**
Huh. It's like some kind of secret handshake.
**[18:44] ---**
You've got a crazy amount of potential here.
**[18:47] ---**
No way. Me?
**[18:49] ---**
Don't you think it's rude to poor Fuka,
**[18:53] ---**
denying her affection
like some kind of masochist?
**[18:57] ---**
Maybe it is.
**[18:58] ---**
Not that I've told Hinami, but I *did*
promise to take a look at that novel.
**[19:04] ---**
I screwed up, didn't I?
**[19:07] ---**
However so?
**[19:09] ---**
I never read those books.
**[19:12] ---**
Rather than just tell her as much,
I let her misunderstand.
**[19:15] ---**
Hey, an in is an in. It's what
comes next that's important.
**[19:20] ---**
If you and Fuka go on a date and have fun
**[19:22] ---**
with the author having nothing to do with it,
**[19:25] ---**
isn't *that* the essence of your relationship?
**[19:27] ---**
But isn't it...
**[19:29] ---**
Isn't that being insincere?
**[19:31] ---**
Not *that* again.
**[19:33] ---**
Ultimately, you're the one making the call.
**[19:36] ---**
But don't turn this whole "sincerity"
thing into an excuse to run away.
**[19:42] ---**
All that aside, let's look at this week's task.
**[19:42] ---**
"Today's Task (every day this week)
Talk to Yuzu Izumi at least 2x a day"
**[19:46] ---**
I failed, didn't I?
**[19:49] ---**
"Today's Task (every day this week)
Talk to Yuzu Izumi at least 2x a day"
**[19:49] ---**
You did the work, so you passed.
**[19:53] ---**
Seriously?!
***SIGN*** "Fumiya Tomozaki" "Yuzu Izumi" "Talk" "Today's Task" "Think" "Skills" "Observe" "Back Row"
**[19:54] ---**
In game terms,
**[19:57] ---**
you failed your conversation with Yuzu and lost.
**[20:00] ---**
That means you got a game over.
**[20:04] ---**
But when it comes time to try again,
**[20:06] ---**
you can either start over
from the very beginning
**[20:09] ---**
or pick up where you left off.
**[20:13] ---**
Which kind of game over
do you think this one was?
**[20:17] ---**
The... pick-up-where-I left-off kind.
**[20:20] ---**
HEXactly!
**[20:21] ---**
There it is again.
**[20:22] ---**
In the game of life,
you're better off keeping up the fight.
**[20:27] ---**
Hmm. I suppose so.
**[20:29] ---**
But that's not what's really important.
**[20:33] ---**
There's one thing that makes
life's game overs entirely unique.
**[20:38] ---**
Entirely unique?
**[20:40] ---**
In life, you gain experience
when you *lose* a battle!
**[20:48] ---**
You're done earning XP with Yuzu for now.
**[20:51] ---**
You ought to be level 3 by now!
**[20:55] ---**
Still only 3, huh?
**[21:06] ---**
Izumi?
**[21:09] ---**
I've finished my task.
I don't *need* to talk to her...
**[21:14] ---**
H-Hey there.
**[21:18] ---**
Tomozaki?
**[21:21] ---**
Did you want something?
**[21:23] ---**
Well, um...
**[21:24] ---**
Damn! I'm out of topics!
**[21:28] ---**
What?
**[21:30] ---**
If I don't have anything to talk about...
**[21:32] ---**
If you're stuck for a topic, talk about
her clothes or the look on her face.
**[21:38] ---**
You're looking gloomy, Izumi.
**[21:40] ---**
What?! How dare you! I am not, either!
**[21:43] ---**
S-S-Sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean--
**[21:48] ---**
It's no use.
**[21:49] ---**
I'm done taking the initiative.
**[21:51] ---**
At level 3, what good am I, anyway?
**[21:55] ---**
You're good at *Tackfam*, aren't you?
**[21:57] ---**
Eh?
**[21:59] ---**
Teach me.
**[22:00] ---**
Teach you what?
**[22:03] ---**
Ugh! Jeez!
**[22:04] ---**
I'm *asking* you to teach me how to play *Tackfam*!
**[22:10] ---**
Huh?
# E4 - Sometimes you conquer a dungeon only to find a strong boss back in your village
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G4VUQZE23/sometimes-you-conquer-a-dungeon-only-to-find-a-strong-boss-back-in-your-village)
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**[00:06] ---**
I used to walk home with Shuji a lot,
**[00:09] ---**
but lately he's always practicing
*Tackfam* after school.
**[00:13] ---**
So he can beat me, I'm sure.
**[00:16] ---**
When I told him I'd play, too, he said
I was too weak, not worth his time.
**[00:21] ---**
I'd just get in his way.
**[00:23] ---**
That's why I bought my own copy,
so I can practice on my own.
**[00:27] ---**
But you're not seeing much improvement?
**[00:32] ---**
That Shuji... he just doesn't get it!
**[00:35] ---**
You know that Erika girl?
**[00:36] ---**
She told Shuji she liked him,
and he blew her off!
**[00:39] ---**
*That* Erika!
**[00:41] ---**
Erika Konno.
**[00:42] ---**
Member of Team Necktie and a
leader type in Izumi's friend group.
**[00:47] ---**
But Shuji's always hanging out with me, right?
**[00:50] ---**
So I thought maybe he liked *me*.
**[00:53] ---**
I mean, can you blame me?
**[00:55] ---**
But he was all like "Shut up" and
"Quit following me around"...
**[00:58] ---**
What do *you* think?
**[01:00] ---**
Ah, to be young.
**[01:03] ---**
Let's see...
**[01:04] ---**
You want me to teach you how to play *Tackfam*
**[01:08] ---**
so you can take on Nakamura, then?
**[01:13] ---**
But where are we going to practice?
**[01:18] ---**
My place!
**[01:19] ---**
Huh?!
**[01:21] ---**
Wha-a-at?
**[01:37] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[02:55] ---**
"Lv. 4: Sometimes you conquer a dungeon only
to find a strong boss back in your village"
**[02:59] ---**
No way...
**[03:01] ---**
What even *was* that?
**[03:03] ---**
Those moves of yours were *super* creepy!
**[03:06] ---**
You were moving like a textbook beginner.
**[03:09] ---**
Always unleashing these moves
that have huge openings
**[03:13] ---**
and never watching what I'm doing.
**[03:15] ---**
Um... what?
**[03:17] ---**
You're pretty good at the fundamentals;
the problem is your neutral game.
**[03:21] ---**
If you used more normal attacks
rather than specials...
**[03:21] ---**
Hey, uh, Tomozaki...
you're freaking me out.
**[03:25] ---**
Izumi!
**[03:27] ---**
Y-Yeah?
**[03:29] ---**
I know what I'm going to have you do.
**[03:34] ---**
Okay, so: Normally when
you jump, it's like this.
**[03:37] ---**
But a short press of the Jump
button gets you a short hop.
**[03:43] ---**
You'll need to master
this technique to get good.
**[03:47] ---**
I'll give it a try!
**[03:49] ---**
Huh?
**[03:51] ---**
What?
**[03:52] ---**
What the--?
**[03:53] ---**
That's right. It's harder than it looks.
**[03:56] ---**
But if you can't pull *this* off,
we won't get anywhere.
**[03:59] ---**
Then I'll practice!
**[04:01] ---**
In that case...
**[04:02] ---**
Use this.
**[04:05] ---**
A stopwatch?
**[04:07] ---**
I take this with me
everywhere I go--for practice.
**[04:10] ---**
Watch.
**[04:13] ---**
Huh? It's still going.
**[04:14] ---**
This stopwatch is busted. Too short
of a button-press and it won't stop.
**[04:20] ---**
Now you try.
**[04:21] ---**
Um, okay...
**[04:26] ---**
Ugh!
**[04:27] ---**
Dang it!
**[04:30] ---**
So what do I do with this?
**[04:32] ---**
Simple:
**[04:33] ---**
Practice button-mashing
on that stopwatch every day,
**[04:36] ---**
whenever you're not with other people.
**[04:40] ---**
You'll be able to pull off
the short hop in no time at all!
**[04:43] ---**
What?
**[04:44] ---**
Next: practice at home.
**[04:46] ---**
*That's* how you get *results*!
**[04:51] ---**
True enough...
**[04:53] ---**
But what's with the, er, body language?
**[05:00] ---**
Uh...
**[05:03] ---**
Anyway, your at-home practice
will consist of memorization.
**[05:08] ---**
Memorization?
**[05:09] ---**
Here's a game I saved between two top players.
**[05:13] ---**
Both of them usually main Found,
**[05:17] ---**
but here, nanashi is trying out Foxy for once.
**[05:21] ---**
Memorize this entire match
so you can replicate it perfectly.
**[05:27] ---**
Are you serious?!
**[05:28] ---**
It's an exhaustive look at every
key technique in the game.
**[05:32] ---**
Memorize this and you should be
good enough to take on Nakamura.
**[05:37] ---**
But how do I even *do* all these moves?
**[05:40] ---**
That's what *I* don't understand.
**[05:42] ---**
That's all memorization, too.
**[05:47] ---**
These commands show you what
buttons to press for which move.
**[05:53] ---**
And these stick figures show your character's
position when using that move.
**[05:58] ---**
The blue area is the attack's range,
more or less,
**[06:01] ---**
while the red is where you're invincible.
**[06:04] ---**
You mean to tell me you've memorized all this?
**[06:07] ---**
Of course.
**[06:09] ---**
And not just for Foxy and Found--
for every character.
**[06:13] ---**
N-No way.
**[06:14] ---**
Yep. Want me to write them down?
**[06:19] ---**
I mean, it's amazing and all...
**[06:21] ---**
But what's the point of
going to all that trouble?
**[06:23] ---**
The *point*?
**[06:25] ---**
I don't play *Tackfam* for any particular reason.
**[06:29] ---**
Not to make friends, and not to win praise.
**[06:33] ---**
Really?! But it's a game!
**[06:36] ---**
Well, sure.
**[06:37] ---**
What do you think a game is, anyway?
**[06:40] ---**
Huh? I mean...
**[06:42] ---**
When you're *that* good,
it's not much fun for anyone else.
**[06:46] ---**
It's a total turn-off. They think it's weird.
**[06:49] ---**
Don't you hate that?
**[06:50] ---**
You mean, do I care what
people think of me?
**[06:53] ---**
Well, yeah!
**[06:54] ---**
I don't *not* care...
**[06:57] ---**
What I hate more is setting
a goal to get stronger
**[07:00] ---**
and not being able to meet it.
**[07:02] ---**
But doesn't it suck, being an outsider?
**[07:05] ---**
I know I've never seen you
enjoying yourself at school.
**[07:09] ---**
Oh, leave me alone!
**[07:12] ---**
I think there's more to life than
just laughing with your friends.
**[07:18] ---**
Huh. Wow.
**[07:20] ---**
I can't see myself feeling that way.
**[07:23] ---**
It's just not *me*.
**[07:25] ---**
Or maybe I've been like this for so long
**[07:27] ---**
that I couldn't change even if I wanted to.
**[07:30] ---**
Not *you*, huh?
**[07:33] ---**
All my life, from birth to today,
**[07:35] ---**
I've had the exact same personality--
**[07:38] ---**
or the same way of thinking, anyway.
**[07:40] ---**
I saw life as an unreasonable garbage game.
**[07:44] ---**
Huh?
**[07:45] ---**
But lately I ran into this gamer
with a real rotten attitude
**[07:48] ---**
who's just about as good as I am.
**[07:51] ---**
They claim that life's actually a *god-tier* game.
**[07:55] ---**
At first, I didn't know
what they were on about.
**[07:58] ---**
They sold me on a few different points.
**[08:00] ---**
I began playing this game called "life"
a little more seriously.
**[08:05] ---**
And then...
**[08:06] ---**
I learned strategies,
how to put in the effort.
**[08:10] ---**
And as I worked, I became convinced--
as much as I hate to admit it.
**[08:15] ---**
I don't know if life really is a god-tier game.
**[08:18] ---**
But at the very least, it's a *good* game.
**[08:24] ---**
So it's *not* god-tier?
**[08:26] ---**
I don't know yet.
**[08:28] ---**
But I *did* change. That much I know.
**[08:32] ---**
I guess so.
**[08:33] ---**
Which is why I'm sure you can
change, too, Izumi--if you want to.
**[08:38] ---**
Even now. I'm sure of it.
**[08:48] ---**
Huh...
**[08:49] ---**
It's like the sword you had equipped
**[08:50] ---**
just happened to work on
the boss's elemental weakness,
**[08:53] ---**
while your shield just happened to
block the boss's elemental attack.
**[08:58] ---**
It's that miraculous.
**[08:59] ---**
Though I'll admit it was a miracle
that *you* brought about.
**[09:03] ---**
*I* did that.
**[09:05] ---**
Don't get too confident just yet.
**[09:08] ---**
There's another heroine in your playthrough.
**[09:10] ---**
Well? Did you decide to ask Fuka out on a date?
**[09:14] ---**
My playthrough?
**[09:16] ---**
I mean, I've *mostly* decided.
**[09:19] ---**
I see. I won't ask *what* you've decided,
but do tell me once it's done.
**[09:23] ---**
If you *do* ask her out...
**[09:25] ---**
"Marie Joan" "Preview Screening"
**[09:26] ---**
...use these.
**[09:28] ---**
Tickets for a prerelease movie this Sunday.
**[09:34] ---**
K-Kikuchi? I want to talk to you for a sec!
**[09:38] ---**
Kikuchi, can we talk for a minute?
**[09:42] ---**
I come on too strong. Gotta be more natural...
**[09:45] ---**
Whoa! Yikes!
**[09:48] ---**
Huh? It switched folders?
**[09:50] ---**
No wonder Shimano dumped you.
**[09:53] ---**
Eh?
**[09:54] ---**
"Younger guys are sooo"... No.
**[09:56] ---**
This is from the other day.
**[09:59] ---**
"Younger guys are sooo not worth it."
**[10:02] ---**
Yeah. That works.
**[10:05] ---**
The amazing thing about her is
how hard she works to get that way.
**[10:13] ---**
Izumi was improving faster than I'd expected.
**[10:17] ---**
At this rate, she'd be taking
on Nakamura soon enough.
**[10:26] ---**
"Library"
**[10:31] ---**
Oh, Tomozaki!
**[10:33] ---**
Kikuchi, that conversation
we had earlier--about Andi?
**[10:37] ---**
Uh-huh?
**[10:39] ---**
The truth is, I've never
even read any of his books.
**[10:44] ---**
What?
**[10:45] ---**
I had only taken an Andi book
because they're closest to my usual seat.
**[10:51] ---**
I was pretending to read while
formulating game strategies in my head.
**[10:56] ---**
But that spell...
**[10:57] ---**
Oh... "ebi" something-something?
**[11:00] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[11:01] ---**
It's in that book: a spell meaning:
"Goodbye--we'll meet again."
**[11:05] ---**
It just happened to be on
the random page I'd opened to.
**[11:11] ---**
Oh, I... I see.
**[11:14] ---**
Which is why, um...
**[11:15] ---**
I'm guessing it was wrong of me
to promise to read your novel.
**[11:20] ---**
Aha. I see.
**[11:23] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[11:24] ---**
Don't worry about it.
**[11:26] ---**
B-But I'll probably be here
in the library again,
**[11:30] ---**
so maybe next time we can have
a regular conversation--
**[11:32] ---**
regardless of our favorite authors.
**[11:35] ---**
And, uh, I've actually been thinking
about reading Michel Andi's books, too.
**[11:40] ---**
What do you say?
**[11:43] ---**
It's not "Michel"--it's "Michael."
**[11:46] ---**
You really haven't read any, have you?
**[11:49] ---**
Oh, it's "Michael," huh? Um...
**[11:54] ---**
Still, um, something like that.
**[11:57] ---**
Can I... still stop by?
**[12:00] ---**
Yes, of course you can.
**[12:05] ---**
I didn't wind up asking Kikuchi
to the movies after all.
**[12:09] ---**
I thought it'd be unfair to ask her
after getting her so hyped up.
**[12:14] ---**
I'd have to ask her after all
that had died down,
**[12:17] ---**
or it wouldn't be sincere.
**[12:19] ---**
That's how my thinking went.
**[12:20] ---**
And that's what I plan on telling Hinami.
**[12:26] ---**
Tomozaki!
**[12:28] ---**
*There* you are.
**[12:35] ---**
"Old AV Room"
**[12:38] ---**
W-Wait a second...
**[12:39] ---**
Is this about *Tackfam*?
**[12:41] ---**
Sure is. Now take a seat.
**[12:44] ---**
You... you really shouldn't be doing this.
**[12:47] ---**
Don't be getting cocky.
**[12:50] ---**
That's not what I meant.
**[12:51] ---**
I understand you've been practicing daily.
**[12:54] ---**
And who told you that?
**[12:56] ---**
Huh? Izumi.
**[12:58] ---**
Knew it. You two sure have been friendly lately.
**[13:01] ---**
I wouldn't say that.
**[13:04] ---**
I mean, it's complicated--
**[13:05] ---**
Complicated *how*, exactly?
**[13:08] ---**
As much as I'd like to say,
"Because it involves *you*,"
**[13:11] ---**
I'm better off not volunteering anything.
**[13:14] ---**
Nothing. Never mind.
**[13:16] ---**
Then let's do this.
**[13:18] ---**
Now what? Nakamura's mad that Izumi
and I are becoming friends.
**[13:23] ---**
He'd likely be satisfied with a win,
**[13:25] ---**
but I just can't cut corners
when it comes to *Tackfam*.
**[13:28] ---**
If only Hinami were here...
**[13:34] ---**
'Scuse me!
**[13:35] ---**
Huh? Tomozaki?
**[13:37] ---**
Not Izumi!
**[13:39] ---**
Didn't I tell you not to come, Yuzu?
**[13:41] ---**
Oh, sorry. Actually, I think
I might be ready to play you.
**[13:46] ---**
Yuzu...
**[13:47] ---**
Look, it's no use.
**[13:49] ---**
What's going on?
**[13:51] ---**
Nakamura was just about to
face off against Tomozaki!
**[13:54] ---**
Oh? What, like a duel or something?
**[13:57] ---**
Wow, we came at a good time!
**[14:00] ---**
Let us watch!
**[14:01] ---**
Tch. Fine. Watch from there.
**[14:05] ---**
Oh... okay.
**[14:09] ---**
Can't run now, can you, Tomozaki?
**[14:13] ---**
Just so you know,
**[14:15] ---**
*you're* the one who can't run, Nakamura.
**[14:21] ---**
That *is* Tomozaki, right?
**[14:22] ---**
Nice one!
**[14:24] ---**
You sure told *him*, Tomozaki!
**[14:26] ---**
Let's do this.
**[14:40] ---**
Whoa! What was *that*?
**[14:42] ---**
Creepy!
**[14:43] ---**
Tch...
**[14:46] ---**
All right! Grabbed 'im!
**[15:00] ---**
Huh?
**[15:01] ---**
What the hell?
**[15:02] ---**
No way...
**[15:04] ---**
I'll be going now.
**[15:05] ---**
Wait.
**[15:07] ---**
Another round.
**[15:09] ---**
Um, so... which character?
**[15:11] ---**
*This* character. I don't blame them or anything.
**[15:14] ---**
I'm not stupid.
**[15:15] ---**
All... all right.
**[15:20] ---**
"Sewing Room 2"
**[15:31] ---**
Get 'im, Shuji! You'll win this time for sure!
**[15:33] ---**
Shut up! You're distracting me!
**[15:36] ---**
S-Sorry...
**[15:50] ---**
Again.
**[15:51] ---**
Seriously?
**[15:52] ---**
Hurry up.
**[16:03] ---**
Dammit!
**[16:19] ---**
Um... I have cram school today, so...
**[16:22] ---**
Oh, uh, so do I.
**[16:23] ---**
Stop lying. That's on Thursdays.
**[16:28] ---**
He knew.
**[16:29] ---**
Again.
**[16:32] ---**
All right.
**[16:54] ---**
Shuji!
**[17:03] ---**
You did it, Shuji! You took one of his stocks!
**[17:06] ---**
Nakamura, isn't that--
**[17:08] ---**
Again.
**[17:09] ---**
Huh? But... I mean...
**[17:11] ---**
You *really* think I'd be satisfied
with one lousy stock?
**[17:14] ---**
Who do you think I am?
**[17:16] ---**
Listen, Shuji...
**[17:18] ---**
Why don't you give it a rest already?
**[17:20] ---**
It's getting weird as hell.
**[17:22] ---**
Why are you so into some *game*, anyway?
**[17:26] ---**
That's none of your business.
**[17:29] ---**
Say what? You *made* it our business
when you stopped us from leaving.
**[17:33] ---**
That is *super* creepy.
**[17:34] ---**
I don't remember stopping *you*.
**[17:37] ---**
Why are you even hanging around,
Erika? I'll give *you* "creepy."
**[17:42] ---**
Oh? What's this?
**[17:43] ---**
Did you go and get yourself
a big head after I said I liked you?
**[17:47] ---**
I only did it because I thought I'd be lucky
to date the most popular guy in class.
**[17:52] ---**
I would *never* have done it
if I'd known you were such a freak.
**[17:56] ---**
I don't care what you think.
I'm just not interested in you.
**[18:02] ---**
I mean, you can play over
and over and *still* not win!
**[18:05] ---**
It's hilarious how pointless this all is!
**[18:07] ---**
You must seriously suck if *we*
can tell just by watching, Shuji.
**[18:12] ---**
Isn't that right, Mao?
**[18:14] ---**
Uh... mostly I wish he'd let us go home.
**[18:18] ---**
What about you, Mika?
**[18:20] ---**
Yeah, Nakamura is way lame.
**[18:23] ---**
I'll say.
**[18:25] ---**
Just look at him. Can't even get his revenge.
**[18:27] ---**
Shuji, you're totally creepy--and weak as hell.
**[18:31] ---**
Got that?
**[18:33] ---**
Hey, uh, hold up--
**[18:35] ---**
All this time, you've been coming here
after school to practice,
**[18:39] ---**
and all of that effort was
for absolutely *nothing*.
**[18:44] ---**
You should be mortified,
taking a stupid game this seriously.
**[18:50] ---**
What did you just say?
**[18:54] ---**
Got a problem with it, Tomozaki?
**[18:56] ---**
Weirdo.
**[18:58] ---**
"Weirdo," "creepy," "freak"--
is that all you can say?
**[19:01] ---**
A god-tier game is one that's deep,
yet has simple rules.
**[19:04] ---**
That's my theory.
**[19:06] ---**
Well! This is all very sudden.
**[19:08] ---**
Shut *up*!
**[19:10] ---**
You just called this game "stupid."
**[19:12] ---**
Don't give me that!
**[19:14] ---**
"Super Attack Families"
**[19:14] ---**
Tackfam* combines a simple yet deep game style
**[19:17] ---**
with an accessibility that
means anyone can enjoy it.
**[19:19] ---**
It's the ultimate god-tier game!
**[19:22] ---**
Don't go proclaiming a game godly or
garbage when you haven't even played it!
**[19:26] ---**
I *hate* when someone badmouths *Tackfam*
without ever even giving it a try!
**[19:31] ---**
But right now, I don't even care about that!
**[19:35] ---**
Quit screwing around!
**[19:36] ---**
"All of that effort was
for absolutely nothing"?!
**[19:39] ---**
You don't have the slightest idea!
**[19:41] ---**
I beat Nakamura last time, so yeah,
he's been working his *ass* off!
**[19:46] ---**
That combo he used that made
Foxy shoot me down?
**[19:49] ---**
Do you *know* how much hard work,
how much practice it takes to pull that off?!
**[19:53] ---**
The last time I won, Nakamura
tried to blame his character.
**[19:58] ---**
But this time? No excuses.
He keeps losing--but he keeps *fighting*!
**[20:04] ---**
And eventually, I gave up a stock!
**[20:07] ---**
See, Nakamura has a goal.
**[20:09] ---**
Every single day, like it or not,
he faced that goal, worked toward it--
**[20:13] ---**
and now he's getting *results*!
**[20:16] ---**
Nakamura is *not* your laughingstock!
**[20:18] ---**
Do *not* laugh at someone's hard work!
**[20:20] ---**
I hate people who make fun of *Tackfam*.
**[20:24] ---**
But even more than that--more than anything--
**[20:27] ---**
I hate people like *you*,
who mock someone else's efforts
**[20:31] ---**
without *ever* making an effort of your own!
**[20:36] ---**
Freak.
**[20:38] ---**
What are you even talking about?
**[20:40] ---**
Yeah, but...
**[20:41] ---**
I don't think it's such a bad thing
to be serious about something.
**[20:46] ---**
Say what?
**[20:47] ---**
N-No, I mean, it's like...
**[20:49] ---**
It's just, you know,
beautiful in a boyish way, kind of?
**[20:53] ---**
Oh? So you're defending Tomozaki. Not me.
**[20:57] ---**
No, no! It's just--see, I've been
playing *Tackfam* too, recently,
**[21:02] ---**
and it really is deep!
**[21:04] ---**
Huh? Don't change the subject.
**[21:06] ---**
There's this short hop?
It's surprisingly difficult to pull off.
**[21:09] ---**
And I'm always too slow when it
comes to using strong attacks.
**[21:13] ---**
*Tackfam* is tough, all right!
**[21:15] ---**
Oh, but I'm going to keep working at it.
**[21:18] ---**
I won't say why, though. It's a secret!
**[21:21] ---**
That's enough, Yuzu.
**[21:23] ---**
I'm bored.
**[21:24] ---**
Mika, Mao. Let's go.
**[21:26] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[21:36] ---**
I-I was so scared...
**[21:38] ---**
Silly. Why'd you push yourself like that?
**[21:41] ---**
But... but...
**[21:42] ---**
It's okay. You don't have to say anything.
You did great.
**[21:46] ---**
Shuji...
**[21:53] ---**
Next time, I'll win.
**[21:56] ---**
Later, Tomozaki.
**[21:59] ---**
What just happened?
**[22:00] ---**
Don't ask me.
**[22:03] ---**
Now that you mention it,
you didn't lift a finger this time around.
**[22:12] ---**
Good thing you got through
that *mostly* scot-free.
**[22:15] ---**
Nakamura and Konno have both
stopped giving me a hard time.
**[22:20] ---**
You must have pulled a few strings,
though, right?
**[22:23] ---**
Well, you know.
**[22:25] ---**
Let's talk about Fuka, shall we?
**[22:27] ---**
It looked like you two
were really hitting it off.
**[22:31] ---**
And you're not doing anything about it?
**[22:33] ---**
Aren't you motivated?
**[22:35] ---**
Yes, yes, I am!
**[22:39] ---**
Hey, Hinami...
**[22:41] ---**
I have tickets to a preview screening tomorrow.
**[22:44] ---**
Want to join me?
**[22:48] ---**
Oh, sorry. I have some club stuff tomorrow.
**[22:53] ---**
Do you, now...
**[22:54] ---**
But you know...
**[22:56] ---**
Hmm?
**[22:57] ---**
I'm free after this.
**[22:59] ---**
Want to go see a different movie?
**[23:03] ---**
An intense feeling of elation hit me.
**[23:07] ---**
But this wasn't the joy of
approaching a rich offline life,
**[23:10] ---**
or the glee of being able to go out with a girl.
**[23:14] ---**
This was something like,
I don't know--a *primal* joy,
**[23:17] ---**
born from the feeling of
achieving my desired results
**[23:23] ---**
through my own hard work.
**[23:25] ---**
Probably, anyway. That's how I took it.
**[23:27] ---**
HEXactly!
**[23:29] ---**
That's not how you use it.
**[23:32] ---**
I guess that's something else that needs work.
# E5 - The characters who become your friends after you clear a hard event usually have high stats
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GJWU285VX/the-characters-who-become-your-friends-after-you-clear-a-hard-event-usually-have-high-stats)
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**[00:02] ---**
With my face-off against Nakamura behind me,
I greeted the weekend.
**[00:05] ---**
"Karaoke"
**[00:06] ---**
While the normies went out to
sing karaoke or do some shopping,
**[00:10] ---**
I holed up in my room, plugging away at *Tackfam*.
**[00:14] ---**
Incidentally, that movie I saw
with Hinami yesterday?
**[00:18] ---**
Try that again.
**[00:20] ---**
The post-movie café stop is the perfect chance
to chat about something
**[00:24] ---**
you both have in common.
**[00:26] ---**
But when *you* discuss the movie,
**[00:28] ---**
you sound like you're lecturing,
your eye contact is trite,
**[00:31] ---**
and you put zero emotion into it.
**[00:33] ---**
Once more--from the beginning.
**[00:35] ---**
Uh, right...
**[00:38] ---**
And I destroyed her--with no quarter,
no mercy, and no kindness.
**[00:50] ---**
You're not quite there yet, Hinami.
**[00:54] ---**
"If you're not too tired,
another round?"
**[00:59] ---**
The trick to this game called "life"
**[01:02] ---**
lies in repetition, building on knowledge,
and putting it into practice.
**[01:05] ---**
Even though I've let Hinami decide
what to work on and how,
***SIGN*** "Yuzu Izumi's hobbies: Shopping Also interested in needlework"
**[01:09] ---**
I felt like I was maybe kinda sorta
starting to see that for myself.
**[01:10] ---**
"Shuji Nakamura's birthday:
7/27"
**[01:15] ---**
"Sekitomo High School"
**[01:16] ---**
As a gamer,
**[01:19] ---**
Oh, Tomozaki!
**[01:19] ---**
I'm tackling this game of life like I mean it.
**[01:22] ---**
I know it all by heart!
**[01:22] ---**
It's how I got to where I could
talk a little with the girls in class.
**[01:23] ---**
Whoa! Are you serious?
**[01:24] ---**
You bet I am!
**[01:27] ---**
I'd have to start taking the initiative more.
**[01:27] ---**
And now... now I should be able
to take on Shuji in *Tackfam*, right?
**[01:33] ---**
Say, uh, Izumi, you know...
**[01:36] ---**
Hmm? Know what?
**[01:39] ---**
Nakamura's birthday is around the corner.
**[01:42] ---**
Huh? I mean, yeah, but...
**[01:45] ---**
How did *you* know about it?
**[01:47] ---**
Wait: Why are you telling *me*?!
**[01:50] ---**
Besides, it's a month away!
That's not "around the corner"!
**[01:54] ---**
R-Right...
**[01:56] ---**
I guess it's insensitive to speak
so bluntly, huh, Hinami?
**[02:17] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
***SIGN*** "Lv. 5: The characters who become your friends after you clear a hard event usually have high stats"
**[03:37] ---**
Tomozaki?
**[03:39] ---**
Got a sec?
**[03:41] ---**
Um, Mizusawa?
**[03:43] ---**
Did, um... did you need me again?
**[03:49] ---**
No, no!
**[03:50] ---**
I just wanted to talk to you.
That was pretty awesome!
**[03:56] ---**
"That"?
**[04:01] ---**
Oh.
**[04:03] ---**
So, Tomozaki...
**[04:04] ---**
That's how you really feel, right?
**[04:07] ---**
I mean, I'm not against that kind of thing.
**[04:12] ---**
Being too serious is just plain annoying--
and kinda lame, y'know?
**[04:16] ---**
I know people might call you
a freak for that, but me?
**[04:21] ---**
I think what you said was really great.
**[04:24] ---**
Hell, I feel the same way.
**[04:27] ---**
And seeing you say all that stuff so boldly?
**[04:30] ---**
I was... well, kinda impressed.
**[04:33] ---**
So I wanted to let you know that
you've got people like me on your side.
**[04:37] ---**
On... on my side?
**[04:41] ---**
"Sewing Room 2"
**[04:44] ---**
Huh?
**[04:45] ---**
And what did Mizusawa say?
**[04:47] ---**
Oh, right.
**[04:49] ---**
He said we should grab a bite sometime.
**[04:52] ---**
That we could invite you and another
girl along, go as a foursome.
**[04:58] ---**
Perfect!
**[05:00] ---**
*You* invite that other girl.
**[05:03] ---**
Seriously?!
**[05:04] ---**
After all...
**[05:05] ---**
...it'll be good practice for your small goal.
***SIGN*** "Small Goal Go somewhere with a girl from school (not me), just the 2 of you"
**[05:10] ---**
An approachable girl...
**[05:17] ---**
Oh! How about Izumi?
**[05:20] ---**
Can I ask why?
**[05:22] ---**
I talked with her this morning
about Nakamura's birthday.
**[05:26] ---**
If she wants to buy him a present,
Mizusawa's there for advice--
**[05:30] ---**
and you're good at that kind of thing, too.
**[05:33] ---**
So if we all go shopping together...
**[05:36] ---**
Well, I mean, if *you're* okay with that.
**[05:39] ---**
Or maybe Izumi won't be
buying him a present after all.
**[05:43] ---**
No, she will. She's already thinking it over.
**[05:48] ---**
Then that's taken care of!
**[05:50] ---**
Okay, I'll invite Izumi.
**[05:54] ---**
Huh?
**[05:55] ---**
Oh, no, I couldn't!
**[05:57] ---**
You're going out to eat, right?
**[05:59] ---**
I wouldn't want to drag everyone
along on *my* shopping trip.
**[06:06] ---**
I get it now.
**[06:08] ---**
Izumi reads the room--and she
cares how people see her.
**[06:13] ---**
She's bad at letting people do
things for her. Or she holds back.
**[06:19] ---**
I didn't think that far ahead.
**[06:21] ---**
Now what? *Now* what do I do?
**[06:26] ---**
H-Hey, um...
**[06:28] ---**
Er...
**[06:30] ---**
Don't worry about it! Or, um, I mean...
**[06:33] ---**
Yes?
**[06:34] ---**
Say something! Say something, Fumiya!
**[06:39] ---**
Yeah, because I'll be buying one, too!
A gift, for Nakamura!
**[06:43] ---**
What?
**[06:45] ---**
All right, I'm on a roll!
**[06:47] ---**
Like... to patch things up!
**[06:50] ---**
Because, you know...
things got weird there, right?
**[06:54] ---**
Nakamura doesn't come across as a bad guy,
**[06:58] ---**
and two *Tackfam* fans ought
to be able to get along...
**[07:01] ---**
...or something.
**[07:03] ---**
And I figured his birthday
would be a good opportunity.
**[07:10] ---**
Great!
**[07:12] ---**
That is *great*, Tomozaki!
**[07:15] ---**
Honestly, I was feeling kinda iffy
about this whole thing.
**[07:21] ---**
You know how I'm friends with Shuji?
**[07:23] ---**
Uh, yeah...?
**[07:24] ---**
And lately I've been talking
with you a lot, too, right?
**[07:27] ---**
Y-You have.
**[07:29] ---**
And since you're both good guys
who're friends with me,
**[07:33] ---**
I don't want you two to be fighting!
**[07:36] ---**
Oh! Sorry!
**[07:39] ---**
That got kinda ranty. Was that weird of me?
**[07:42] ---**
Anyway, I think that's a fantastic idea!
**[07:46] ---**
Count me in. We can shop for presents together!
**[07:50] ---**
O-Okay.
**[07:52] ---**
She's just so damn *nice*.
**[07:56] ---**
Aaand now I'm buying
Nakamura a birthday present.
**[08:03] ---**
I heard the news, Tomozaki!
**[08:05] ---**
You invited Yuzu, right?
**[08:08] ---**
Um, yeah. Did I screw up?
**[08:12] ---**
Wh-What is it?
**[08:15] ---**
You. You're up to something, aren't you?
**[08:18] ---**
Huh?
**[08:20] ---**
I had my suspicions!
**[08:24] ---**
You're not styling those bangs much,
but you had them cut at a salon, right?
**[08:28] ---**
And you, the total introvert, go changing up
your expression, the way you talk...
**[08:34] ---**
Then you up and ask Yuzu out.
**[08:36] ---**
And lately...
**[08:39] ---**
You and Aoi--
**[08:41] ---**
you seem pretty chummy.
**[08:43] ---**
Don't tell me...
**[08:50] ---**
You read a de-geekification book!
**[08:53] ---**
Ah, um... something like that.
***SIGN*** "Aoi Hinami has invited you to join a group B-Day Gift Planning" "Reject" "Accept" "Members: 1" "Invited: 3"
**[09:09] ---**
"Yuzu-*san*"--that's Izumi, right?
**[09:09] ---**
"Members: 1" "Invited: 3"
**[09:12] ---**
And "Takahiro"... that must be Mizusawa.
**[09:14] ---**
"Members: 2" "Invited: 2"
**[09:15] ---**
"Members: 3" "Invited: 1"
**[09:16] ---**
What? Jeez, already?! That's *way* too fast!
***SIGN*** "Aoi Hinami has invited you to join a group B-Day Gift Planning" "Reject" "Accept" "Members: 3"
**[09:20] ---**
If I've been invited, I guess I can join.
**[09:24] ---**
Or rather, I guess I *should*.
**[09:29] ---**
Hey, we're eating.
Put down your stupid phone.
**[09:34] ---**
Litter? You?
**[09:37] ---**
Yeah...?
**[09:39] ---**
Huh?
**[09:40] ---**
And you got invited to some weird group?
**[09:43] ---**
It's not that it's weird.
**[09:46] ---**
It's just... hard to join, I guess.
**[09:49] ---**
Huh, I get that.
**[09:51] ---**
That interpersonal stuff can be such a drag.
**[09:54] ---**
Are *you* having problems with that kind of thing?
**[10:00] ---**
Listen.
**[10:01] ---**
Even if I were, do you *really* think
*you* could give me advice?
**[10:11] ---**
Even I know this is a dumb thing
to be conflicted about.
**[10:15] ---**
All this fretting about it
is getting me nowhere.
***SIGN*** "Aoi Hinami has invited you to join a group B-Day Gift Planning" "Reject" "Accept" "Members: 3"
**[10:23] ---**
So...
***SIGN*** "Members: 3" "Invited: 1" "Fumiya Tomozaki"
**[10:25] ---**
"Members: 4" "Invited: 0"
**[10:31] ---**
"Fumiya Tomozaki has joined the group"
"Good to see you, Tomozaki!"
***SIGN*** "Good to see you, Tomozaki!"
"Yuzu-*san*: Hi~~"
***SIGN*** "Good to see you, Tomozaki!"
"Yuzu-*san*: Hi~~"
"Takahiro: Finally! LOL"
***SIGN*** "Yuzu-*san*: OK by me!"
"Saturday seems to work.
What do you think, Tomozaki?"
**[10:41] ---**
Saturday, huh?
***SIGN*** "I might have plans Sunday"
"Takahiro: Then how about Saturday?"
"Yuzu-*san*: OK by me!"
**[10:43] ---**
Roger that.
***SIGN*** "Looks like Saturday. What do you think, Tomozaki?" "Read"
**[10:50] ---**
"The Beanstalk"
**[10:55] ---**
Here we go...
**[10:57] ---**
Will you just suck it up already?
**[11:00] ---**
But I'm the only one who's not a normie.
**[11:02] ---**
You're the one who turned
a quick bite into a shopping trip.
**[11:07] ---**
*You* bumped up the difficulty,
and you're whining about it *now*?
**[11:12] ---**
At least you'll get some experience out of it.
**[11:15] ---**
And do that task I gave you earlier, too.
**[11:20] ---**
I will. "At least two successful suggestions."
**[11:24] ---**
Hey!
**[11:25] ---**
You two sure got here early.
**[11:28] ---**
What's this? Takahiro, late?
**[11:31] ---**
It's not even time yet.
**[11:33] ---**
Oh? Are you *sure*?
**[11:36] ---**
What an incredible quick-change act.
**[11:39] ---**
What? No way!
**[11:41] ---**
Everyone's already here?!
**[11:43] ---**
I-I'm so sorry!
**[11:44] ---**
Whoa, Yuzu! Slow down--you'll trip!
**[11:48] ---**
You're late, Yuzu. Ice cream's on you.
**[11:52] ---**
Aw! W-Well, okay.
**[11:55] ---**
Hey, now, Takahiro!
**[11:56] ---**
*Yuzu thinks you're serious!*
**[11:57] ---**
No one's mad at Izumi for her screw-up.
Is that what she was going for?
**[11:59] ---**
Huh? Wait, what?
**[12:00] ---**
He was just kidding, Yuzu.
**[12:02] ---**
He was?
**[12:02] ---**
This ditzy act absolves you
of a myriad of sins.
**[12:04] ---**
It was a joke! Let it go.
**[12:06] ---**
Besides, she's not even late.
**[12:08] ---**
I'm not?!
**[12:09] ---**
Well, that's all of us. Shall we?
**[12:12] ---**
Okay!
**[12:13] ---**
Let's go!
**[12:17] ---**
Wait--have I really not said a word
since Mizusawa and Izumi showed up?
**[12:32] ---**
I just don't know. Hey, Tomozaki?
**[12:35] ---**
Hmm? What's up?
**[12:37] ---**
What do you think would be
a good present for Shuji?
**[12:41] ---**
A good present? You need to, like,
think about what you know about him.
**[12:47] ---**
We'll just have to browse through
everything with that in mind...
**[12:51] ---**
...is what... I think.
**[12:54] ---**
Oh, I get it. Thanks, Tomozaki!
**[12:59] ---**
Psst. Hey, Tomozaki.
**[13:01] ---**
Hmm?
**[13:02] ---**
Over there.
**[13:05] ---**
You know what? Oh, this is between us.
**[13:09] ---**
There's a rumor going around
about those two. That they're dating.
**[13:14] ---**
What?!
**[13:14] ---**
Hey! Not so loud!
**[13:17] ---**
I have *way* too much to think about.
**[13:20] ---**
Listen up: Today's task is to make
at least two successful suggestions.
**[13:25] ---**
Group activities mean making
decisions that involve everyone.
**[13:30] ---**
Your task is to take on
that role at least twice.
**[13:34] ---**
Yadda-yadda, blah-de-blah?
**[13:34] ---**
This'll be practice for taking
the lead in groups.
**[13:36] ---**
Okay!
**[13:36] ---**
In short, when a group
agrees to your suggestion,
**[13:37] ---**
Hooray!
**[13:40] ---**
you control the group's mood
for a period of time.
**[13:43] ---**
With enough practice controlling the mood,
**[13:45] ---**
you'll eventually be able to do so
with bigger and bigger groups.
**[13:49] ---**
And *that* gets you one step closer
to a rich offline life.
**[13:54] ---**
Got that?
**[13:55] ---**
Yeah, HEXactly!
**[13:57] ---**
You're using it wrong.
**[14:03] ---**
Make two successful suggestions, huh?
**[14:07] ---**
It's so hard.
**[14:09] ---**
It sure is. Have you decided?
**[14:12] ---**
Oh, uh, not yet.
**[14:15] ---**
What about you?
**[14:17] ---**
I asked Hiro, and he said Shuji's
been worried about acne lately,
**[14:22] ---**
so get him some zit cream.
**[14:24] ---**
He'd be *furious* if I gave him that!
**[14:28] ---**
Aha...
**[14:29] ---**
But you know, that could be a start.
**[14:33] ---**
Like, something he might already want.
**[14:35] ---**
I just don't know what that is.
**[14:37] ---**
Do *you*... no, you wouldn't know.
**[14:42] ---**
This calls for...
**[14:44] ---**
Hey!
**[14:45] ---**
Don't give up on me without even asking!
**[14:48] ---**
But you *don't* know, do you?
**[14:51] ---**
The Nakamura I know
**[14:53] ---**
likes *Tackfam*,
**[14:55] ---**
is good-looking and strong,
**[14:56] ---**
and has a real normie hairstyle.
**[14:59] ---**
What did you just say?
**[15:01] ---**
Huh? He's good-looking, has normie hair--
**[15:04] ---**
Styling wax! Wouldn't styling wax be good?
**[15:07] ---**
Oh, yeah, maybe!
**[15:10] ---**
*You're* having fun.
**[15:11] ---**
What's going on?
**[15:13] ---**
Hey, what do you think about styling wax?
**[15:15] ---**
Ooh, good idea!
**[15:17] ---**
I know just the kind he'd like, too.
**[15:20] ---**
Really?! Leave it to you, Hiro!
**[15:24] ---**
Yeah, yeah. My task. I know.
**[15:27] ---**
Th-Then, uh--
**[15:29] ---**
Then let's hit the west entrance after this.
**[15:32] ---**
I know a place with a wide selection.
**[15:34] ---**
Okay!
**[15:38] ---**
Nice suggestion, Takahiro!
**[15:40] ---**
Yep!
**[15:40] ---**
Right, Tomozaki?
**[15:42] ---**
Right...
**[15:51] ---**
Something in this product line.
**[15:53] ---**
But which one?
**[15:54] ---**
It depends on the length and type of hair.
**[15:57] ---**
C'mere, Tomozaki.
**[15:59] ---**
Hmm? What is it?
**[16:01] ---**
For example...
**[16:03] ---**
For Tomozaki's hair type...
**[16:05] ---**
...you'd want this.
**[16:08] ---**
Ooh!
**[16:09] ---**
A Takahiro styling demo?
**[16:11] ---**
Eh?
**[16:16] ---**
Might want to go for some waves at this length.
**[16:20] ---**
Apply to the entire head, and then... like so.
**[16:24] ---**
Um, hang on... What do I look like right now?
**[16:28] ---**
Oh, my!
**[16:30] ---**
Looking good, Tomozaki!
**[16:32] ---**
Now, the next key point is the back of the head.
**[16:37] ---**
I did it!
**[16:38] ---**
I bought Shuji's present!
**[16:41] ---**
Good for you.
**[16:42] ---**
He'll love it!
**[16:42] ---**
I'm saved--by Tomozaki's hint
and Hiro's know-how!
**[16:48] ---**
I think I'm pretty hard on myself.
**[16:53] ---**
Especially when it comes to my looks:
**[16:55] ---**
I don't want to misjudge and be humiliated,
**[16:58] ---**
so I evaluate myself harshly
and by objective standards.
**[17:01] ---**
I take pride in that, at the very least.
**[17:04] ---**
So this is probably not a misjudgment.
**[17:07] ---**
I wouldn't say I look like a normie, but...
**[17:10] ---**
What's up, Tomozaki?
**[17:14] ---**
I'm...
**[17:16] ---**
I'm going to keep at it.
**[17:19] ---**
Huh?
**[17:24] ---**
"Pit Camera"
**[17:24] ---**
Tomozaki, are you *sure*
that's what you want to give Shuji?
**[17:29] ---**
"PitCam"
**[17:29] ---**
"PitCam" Um, yeah.
**[17:31] ---**
It's very *you*, Tomozaki.
**[17:33] ---**
Where to next?
**[17:36] ---**
I'd like to grab a bite. Anyone else hungry?
**[17:40] ---**
Mmm, not really.
**[17:42] ---**
I'm getting there.
**[17:44] ---**
What about you, Tomozaki?
**[17:45] ---**
Yeah, I could eat.
**[17:47] ---**
Okay, so in that case...
**[17:51] ---**
This place looks good.
They have lighter stuff, too.
**[17:54] ---**
And their specialty?
**[17:55] ---**
"Ultimate Four-Cheese Special Pizza"
**[17:55] ---**
"Ultimate Four-Cheese Special Pizza."
**[17:59] ---**
See?
**[18:00] ---**
Well? C'mon, gang!
**[18:02] ---**
Wow, Aoi, that was quick!
**[18:04] ---**
That's Hinami. If there's cheese involved--
**[18:07] ---**
If there's cheese involved, Aoi is *all in*.
**[18:11] ---**
What's wrong with that? Come on!
**[18:14] ---**
Take us there already!
**[18:16] ---**
Jeez, Aoi, slow down!
**[18:18] ---**
You don't even know where you're going!
**[18:22] ---**
Let's eat!
**[18:24] ---**
Whoa, check this out!
**[18:25] ---**
So Mizusawa knew about
Hinami's cheese obsession.
**[18:25] ---**
What *is* that?
**[18:27] ---**
Says it's honey syrup.
**[18:28] ---**
Funny syrup"?
**[18:30] ---**
Thanks for today, everyone! Bye!
**[18:37] ---**
"PitCam"
**[18:43] ---**
Later!
**[18:44] ---**
See you, Tomozaki.
***SIGN*** "Yuzu-*san*: Got it!"
"Today"
"Where'd you hear the rumor about
Hinami and Mizusawa?"
***SIGN*** "Today"
"Where'd you hear the rumor about
Hinami and Mizusawa?"
"Yuzu-*san*: Curious, are you?? LOL"
**[18:53] ---**
"Yuzu-*san*: Curious, are you?? LOL"
**[18:54] ---**
"Yuzu-*san*: It's a rumor.
Like, everyone's saying it"
**[18:57] ---**
"Sewing Room 2"
**[18:59] ---**
You weren't able to complete your task.
**[19:02] ---**
You've thought about why that is, yes?
**[19:03] ---**
I did suggest the electronics store...
**[19:08] ---**
You needed *two* suggestions.
**[19:11] ---**
And before that? The electronics store
is the *last* place we shopped.
**[19:15] ---**
You didn't even look like you were
*about* to suggest anything before that.
**[19:24] ---**
Listen, Hinami--
**[19:25] ---**
What now? Not some excuse that'll
disappoint me even more, I hope.
**[19:30] ---**
Uh... it's... it's nothing.
**[19:35] ---**
Well, whatever.
**[19:36] ---**
Did you pick up on anything or have
any questions during this shopping trip?
**[19:41] ---**
Let's see... I'd say the thing
that struck me the most...
**[19:47] ---**
...was the realization that my
appearance had... slightly improved.
**[19:52] ---**
Ah! Moving in the right direction!
**[19:56] ---**
Visible changes tie into
motivation and initiative.
**[19:57] ---**
"Hero" "Fight" "Magic"
**[20:01] ---**
You know that thrill when you start dealing
*three* digits of damage to monsters?
**[20:02] ---**
"Hero attacks!!"
**[20:07] ---**
Oh, sure.
**[20:08] ---**
"Fairy summoned!!"
**[20:08] ---**
And when you learn a new move, too.
**[20:11] ---**
Yes! That's it exactly!
**[20:12] ---**
"Hero" "Demonlord" "Fight"
**[20:13] ---**
"Demonlord's all-targets spell!!!"
**[20:14] ---**
Or when you learn an all-targets spell!
**[20:20] ---**
Nothing else about your task, then?
**[20:23] ---**
Let me think...
**[20:25] ---**
I think Mizusawa's suggestions
had some real substance.
**[20:29] ---**
That first shop was pretty stylish.
**[20:33] ---**
Too fancy for me, though--and for my wallet.
**[20:38] ---**
Hyinyami?!
**[20:40] ---**
Keep your self-deprecating nonsense!
**[20:42] ---**
Look, there wasn't a single thing in
that store that Nakamura would like.
**[20:48] ---**
R-Really?
**[20:50] ---**
Not that you would have realized that.
**[20:53] ---**
And what about the pizza? Was it tasty?
**[20:57] ---**
Not especially.
**[20:58] ---**
Right?
**[20:59] ---**
Taking pizza as an example,
it doesn't actually have to *be* delicious...
**[21:04] ---**
...as long as you get people interested
and make them think it *might* be.
**[21:09] ---**
*That's* the key to a successful suggestion.
**[21:11] ---**
But that means...
**[21:13] ---**
"Ease of suggestion acceptance
Actual quality of suggestion"
**[21:13] ---**
The ease of getting
a suggestion accepted
**[21:15] ---**
has nothing to do with how good
the suggestion actually is.
**[21:18] ---**
So you could trick someone into a
suggestion that just *sounds* good?
**[21:23] ---**
That's right.
**[21:25] ---**
What the hell is *that*?!
**[21:27] ---**
"Ease of suggestion acceptance
Actual quality of suggestion"
**[21:27] ---**
The better suggestion doesn't
always win out? That's just weird!
**[21:31] ---**
No, no, no.
**[21:32] ---**
It's just a simple rule that ranks more
persuasive suggestions over quality ones.
**[21:38] ---**
Now you're just splitting hairs!
What a garbage game!
**[21:42] ---**
What if there were a negotiation game
that had you meeting targets
**[21:45] ---**
through persuasion?
**[21:46] ---**
"The Negotiation Game"
**[21:48] ---**
With effective speech skills
for convincing your audience
**[21:49] ---**
"Persuasion"
**[21:49] ---**
"Twisted Logic"
**[21:50] ---**
"Appeasement"
**[21:51] ---**
"Pithy Profundity"
**[21:52] ---**
and information warfare tailored
to each character's tastes,
**[21:55] ---**
you'd work to unify interests,
**[21:57] ---**
roping influential characters into your party.
**[21:57] ---**
"Invite" "Don't Invite"
**[22:01] ---**
Would a game rich with so much strategy
**[22:05] ---**
still be garbage?
**[22:07] ---**
"Ease of suggestion acceptance
Actual quality of suggestion"
**[22:09] ---**
I'd say it was made well.
**[22:12] ---**
Then reality's a fun game, too.
**[22:15] ---**
Oh... I get it.
**[22:17] ---**
In other words,
**[22:18] ---**
you won't change anyone's mind
if all you do is shout at them
**[22:22] ---**
about what you think is right.
**[22:25] ---**
So *you'll* have to change.
**[22:27] ---**
If you're confident you have a good suggestion,
**[22:27] ---**
"Good Suggestion Bad Rule"
**[22:30] ---**
you'll have to exploit a bad rule
to push it through.
**[22:35] ---**
Camouflage it as an opinion
everyone can live with,
**[22:37] ---**
even if you just dress it up a little.
**[22:40] ---**
That way you can get your suggestion through,
**[22:43] ---**
fundamental goodness unchanged.
**[22:45] ---**
That's the *right* way to fight.
**[22:48] ---**
Have I convinced you?
**[22:51] ---**
Uh... yeah.
**[22:53] ---**
We'll begin accepting student
council nominations today.
**[23:00] ---**
Anyone interested?
**[23:02] ---**
Me!
**[23:04] ---**
I'd like to run.
**[23:05] ---**
I knew it!
**[23:06] ---**
Oh, she'd be great!
**[23:06] ---**
I'd vote for her!
**[23:08] ---**
Right?
**[23:09] ---**
That's our Aoi!
**[23:11] ---**
So is it a given that Hinami's running?
**[23:14] ---**
All right. Anybody besides Hinami?
**[23:18] ---**
Ooh! Me!
**[23:20] ---**
Minami Nanami, at your service!
**[23:24] ---**
Minmi...
**[23:27] ---**
Mimimi, too?
**[23:29] ---**
Anyone else?
**[23:31] ---**
Okay. Class dismissed.
**[23:34] ---**
Aoi?
**[23:36] ---**
If we're fighting over grades...
**[23:38] ---**
...*I'm* gonna win!
# E6 - Once you start speedrunning the minigames, you seriously can't stop
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GVWU0JQ9E/once-you-start-speedrunning-the-minigames-you-seriously-cant-stop)
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**[00:00] ---**
"Sewing Room 2"
**[00:02] ---**
We'll pause our meetings here
during the student council election.
**[00:07] ---**
That makes sense.
You'll have a lot on your plate.
**[00:13] ---**
Um... what is it?
**[00:15] ---**
You'll be Mimimi's campaign manager.
**[00:20] ---**
Huh?
**[00:21] ---**
You know what a campaign manager is, right?
**[00:23] ---**
They provide support for the candidate.
**[00:26] ---**
At first I was going to make you
*my* manager and tell you after the fact.
**[00:30] ---**
Yeah, cool prank.
**[00:32] ---**
But now with Mimimi running,
there's been a sudden change of plans.
**[00:37] ---**
When it comes to conversation,
Mimimi's your best model--
**[00:40] ---**
you're bound to level up
your skills at her side.
**[00:43] ---**
If she says no, simply continue
to train on your own.
**[00:46] ---**
Yeah, but...
**[00:48] ---**
I-I don't feel like I could actually,
um... actually support Mimimi.
**[00:53] ---**
What if she loses because of me?
**[00:56] ---**
Don't worry. In the end, it doesn't
matter who her campaign manager is.
**[01:01] ---**
What do you mean?
**[01:03] ---**
I like Mimimi; there's a lot I admire
about her. She's important to me.
**[01:11] ---**
But she can't beat me.
**[01:30] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[02:49] ---**
"Lv. 6: Once you start speedrunning the
minigames, you seriously can't stop"
**[02:50] ---**
Still, just telling me to be
Mimimi's campaign manager like that...
**[02:57] ---**
Whoopsie!
**[02:59] ---**
Careful there, Tomozaki!
**[03:00] ---**
Mi-- Mi-Mimi-Mimimi!
**[03:03] ---**
That's a lotta "mi" s!
**[03:04] ---**
A random event!
**[03:06] ---**
Is... is this my chance?
**[03:08] ---**
Hey, um... got a second?
**[03:11] ---**
Ooh, for what? A confession of love?
**[03:13] ---**
N-No!
**[03:15] ---**
What's up?
**[03:16] ---**
Um, you know the student council election?
**[03:18] ---**
Uh-huh. I hope I can count
on your vote, Tomozaki!
**[03:22] ---**
Well, ah...
**[03:24] ---**
I was thinking, um...
I'd like to be a campaign manager.
**[03:29] ---**
Yours, that is.
**[03:31] ---**
Oh?
**[03:32] ---**
I'm, uh, actually not awful
at that kind of thing.
**[03:37] ---**
So, um--
**[03:38] ---**
Thanks!
**[03:39] ---**
I appreciate the sentiment,
but you're a *tad* unreliable!
**[03:43] ---**
Exactamundo.
**[03:45] ---**
"Library"
**[03:53] ---**
Um, Tomozaki?
**[03:56] ---**
Is something wrong?
**[03:57] ---**
It's this student council election.
**[03:59] ---**
Election?
**[04:01] ---**
Oh, no--it's nothing.
**[04:04] ---**
Nanami...
**[04:05] ---**
Huh?
**[04:06] ---**
Nanami's decided to run. I wonder why.
**[04:11] ---**
She was joking that it would be
a battle over grades.
**[04:16] ---**
I don't think that's it.
**[04:20] ---**
Hmm. You think maybe she wants
to change things around here?
**[04:24] ---**
Yes. And change herself, too.
**[04:28] ---**
I feel the same way, so I just...
**[04:31] ---**
I don't know. I just get it.
**[04:34] ---**
You want to change, too, Kikuchi?
**[04:37] ---**
Oh, um...
**[04:39] ---**
Don't tell anyone.
**[04:42] ---**
Adorable.
**[04:43] ---**
Huh?!
**[04:44] ---**
Oh! I was, um, I was just... uh...
**[04:48] ---**
"Tomozaki"
**[04:51] ---**
So she wants to change, huh?
**[04:54] ---**
That's one thing for an introvert like me,
**[04:57] ---**
but Mimimi?
**[04:59] ---**
A popular girl, always
the center of conversation...
**[05:03] ---**
And she'd want to change? Really?
**[05:11] ---**
Why do I support Nanami
for student council president?
**[05:14] ---**
I'm counting on you! Good morning!
**[05:14] ---**
As my senior in the track-and-field club,
**[05:18] ---**
she's the mood-maker who
keeps our activities fun and lively!
**[05:18] ---**
I hope I have your vote!
**[05:20] ---**
If it isn't Tomozaki! Mornin'!
**[05:24] ---**
And, um... I'm confident that--
**[05:24] ---**
Hey! Morning.
**[05:25] ---**
Oh, this here is Yumi.
**[05:27] ---**
She's my track-and-field junior!
**[05:29] ---**
Howdy! Name's Yumiko Yamashita!
**[05:31] ---**
Um... howdy.
**[05:33] ---**
Sorry, Tomozaki, but I made
Yumi here my campaign manager.
**[05:37] ---**
Oh, did you?
**[05:38] ---**
But thanks for yesterday! If anything
comes up, I'll give you a holler!
**[05:42] ---**
Sure!
**[05:43] ---**
I'm counting on you!
**[05:47] ---**
In other words, she's Sekitomo
High's super-perfect heroine,
**[05:50] ---**
a candidate for everyone!
**[05:52] ---**
This is where Aoi Hinami's vision
for the school is about to begin!
**[05:55] ---**
So Hinami's campaign manager is Mizusawa.
**[05:57] ---**
And so I speak to everyone
gathered here!
**[05:58] ---**
He *is* awfully good at convincing people.
**[06:00] ---**
You there! Yes, you:
the yawner!
**[06:03] ---**
And you, taking off your glasses!
**[06:05] ---**
Now, you all know her, of course.
**[06:06] ---**
You're... in the tennis club, right?
**[06:07] ---**
Hinami has brains, popularity--and *looks*!
**[06:09] ---**
Good luck at practice!
**[06:11] ---**
Oh! Thanks!
**[06:12] ---**
Oh, you thought appearances
didn't matter? Ha, ha! And yet!
**[06:12] ---**
And you're in the horticulture club,
aren't you?
**[06:15] ---**
Yes, that's right!
**[06:16] ---**
Your beautiful flowers are
so good for the soul.
**[06:16] ---**
Just picture her as our
student council president!
**[06:19] ---**
Does Hinami know every
student's club affiliation?!
**[06:21] ---**
That rigidity, that discontent
we're all feeling? She'll solve it!
**[06:23] ---**
Even if she doesn't,
she's coming pretty damn close.
**[06:27] ---**
Minami Nanami! Vote for Minami Nanami!
**[06:27] ---**
"Minami Nanami"
**[06:28] ---**
I hope I have your vote!
**[06:31] ---**
Good morning!
**[06:33] ---**
Hinami's right: She's unbeatable.
**[06:42] ---**
Whoa!
**[06:43] ---**
Ooh! Sorry!
**[06:45] ---**
Oh, it's you, Tomozaki. Safe!
**[06:48] ---**
And just what is *that* supposed to mean?!
**[06:51] ---**
Here, this'll make up for it.
**[06:51] ---**
"Student Council Election
Minami Nanami's Campaign Promises"
**[06:53] ---**
Your campaign promises?
**[06:55] ---**
Yes! My manifesto!
**[06:57] ---**
Well? Well?!
**[06:58] ---**
Tough question to answer.
**[06:58] ---**
"Student Council Election
Minami Nanami's Campaign Promises"
**[07:02] ---**
Oh? Did one of them pique your interest?
**[07:05] ---**
Yet she didn't want me as her manager.
**[07:07] ---**
Right. This calls for...
**[07:10] ---**
It's not the promises so much as the layout.
**[07:13] ---**
Huh? The layout?
**[07:19] ---**
Here, try this.
**[07:22] ---**
Whoa! It's so much easier to read now!
**[07:24] ---**
But how? What did you do?
**[07:26] ---**
For example, see this on yours?
***SIGN*** "Student Council Election Minami Nanami's Campaign Promises"
**[07:28] ---**
The four here is a different font size.
It doesn't match.
**[07:31] ---**
Hey, you're right!
***SIGN*** "Student Council Election Minami Nanami's Campaign Promises" "Candidate for Student Council President Minami Nanami's Campaign Promises!!"
**[07:33] ---**
Then you've got this...
**[07:36] ---**
And this...
**[07:39] ---**
Hey, Tomozaki...
**[07:40] ---**
You mean you might actually
be pretty competent?
**[07:43] ---**
Um, well... yeah, actually.
**[07:46] ---**
Listen, Mimimi...
**[07:47] ---**
I think I could help you--with this
kind of brain-forward stuff.
**[07:52] ---**
"Brain"?
**[07:54] ---**
Handling these little details
doesn't seem to be your strong suit.
**[07:58] ---**
So, uh... what do you say?
**[07:58] ---**
"Brain"... "brain"...
**[08:00] ---**
Yeah. It could work.
**[08:02] ---**
I'm really not the best at that kind of thing.
**[08:05] ---**
And besides...
**[08:06] ---**
"Brain" just sounds so darn cool!
**[08:10] ---**
Huh?
**[08:11] ---**
I mean it! "Brain" sounds awesome!
*Super* awesome!
**[08:15] ---**
"*I've* got a *Brain* on my side."
**[08:18] ---**
Oh, I am *so* saying that! For *sure*!
**[08:20] ---**
What about you?
**[08:21] ---**
"I'm the brain around here."
**[08:23] ---**
Aren't you *dying* to say that? I know you are!
**[08:26] ---**
Are you for real?
**[08:27] ---**
Half real!
**[08:29] ---**
Half playing along!
**[08:31] ---**
So this whole conversation...
**[08:33] ---**
You're hired!
**[08:34] ---**
And good thing, too.
**[08:37] ---**
Yumi's not around after school.
**[08:39] ---**
Oh, that junior of yours?
**[08:40] ---**
She's got club and all--
I can't force her to be here.
**[08:44] ---**
So it would be a *huge* help if *you*
could lend me a hand after school.
**[08:48] ---**
Even though I already
said no once. Tee-hee!
**[08:50] ---**
All right. First up: this platform flyer.
**[08:53] ---**
We can use all the paper we need, right?
**[08:55] ---**
*You* don't waste any time!
**[08:57] ---**
Now *there's* a man who knows how to *work*!
**[08:59] ---**
Ow!
**[09:00] ---**
But first, Tomozaki...
**[09:02] ---**
There's something I gotta ask.
**[09:04] ---**
Why are you so dead set on helping me?
**[09:08] ---**
Well...
**[09:14] ---**
I'd like to see Hinami go down.
**[09:18] ---**
Huh?
**[09:19] ---**
She's so tough. *Too* tough, am I right?
**[09:21] ---**
Now, I like games, and the tougher
the opponent, the more fired-up I get.
**[09:25] ---**
So I figure it'd be way fun if we can take
on Hinami and actually win... y'know?
**[09:31] ---**
Wow, Tomozaki.
**[09:32] ---**
Hmm?
**[09:34] ---**
You're totally out of your depth.
**[09:35] ---**
Oh, leave me alone.
**[09:38] ---**
But I'm with you, Tomozaki.
**[09:41] ---**
With me how?
**[09:42] ---**
I wanna take on that uber-powerful
Aoi and win, too!
**[09:46] ---**
Which is why I'm running.
**[09:49] ---**
You, too?
**[09:50] ---**
That thing with Aoi and Takahiro this morning?
**[09:53] ---**
I was starting to get a little discouraged.
**[09:55] ---**
Like, "There's no way this could ever work."
**[09:59] ---**
Yeah.
**[10:00] ---**
That's when I figured I needed to make
some changes if I wanted to win.
**[10:04] ---**
So this really is good news!
**[10:06] ---**
I expect great things from you, Brain!
**[10:09] ---**
That *hurts*!
**[10:10] ---**
Okay, get to printin'!
**[10:13] ---**
Hang on a sec!
**[10:15] ---**
These are for the students, right?
**[10:17] ---**
While we're at it...
**[10:19] ---**
Why not mention only what
the students will appreciate?
**[10:27] ---**
That's a pandering platform, all right.
**[10:30] ---**
Oh, you are *bad*, Brain.
**[10:36] ---**
Aoi Hinami: one of the toughest
players in the game of life.
**[10:41] ---**
I had her teach me life's tricks
and tips as I played it myself.
**[10:45] ---**
"Today's Task (every day this week)
Talk to Yuzu Izumi at least 2x a day"
**[10:46] ---**
I came to believe life was,
at the very least, a good game.
**[10:48] ---**
"The scene I laughed at in ep. 3
of *My Secret Father*"
**[10:49] ---**
"Matsumoto in group 2:
The strength-training story"
**[10:52] ---**
That's probably exactly how
this sole desire came to be.
**[10:57] ---**
One day, I, too, want to take on Aoi Hinami,
**[11:01] ---**
the biggest, baddest boss
in this good game called "life."
**[11:04] ---**
No: I want to *beat* her.
***SIGN*** "Fumiya Tomozaki" "Talk" "Today's Task" "Think"
**[11:08] ---**
True, I'm still a bottom-tier character.
**[11:10] ---**
"Aoi Hinami's turf!!"
**[11:11] ---**
Forget fighting her--I don't even
belong in the same ring.
**[11:11] ---**
"Slip damage to front row!!"
**[11:15] ---**
"Aoi Hinami: Is that all"
But what about behind the scenes?
**[11:16] ---**
"Aoi Hinami: Is that all"
**[11:17] ---**
"Aoi Hinami: you can do, nanashi?"
**[11:17] ---**
If, as the best *Tackfam* player around,
**[11:20] ---**
I can build on the tips and tricks
Hinami's already taught me
**[11:22] ---**
"Tomozaki: !!"
**[11:23] ---**
"Tomozaki: My gamer's blood tingles within"
**[11:24] ---**
to direct top-tier character
Mimimi to fight Hinami...
**[11:24] ---**
"Call"
**[11:25] ---**
"Minami Nanami: Sorry for the wait, Brain"
**[11:26] ---**
"Minami Nanami: Mimimi has arrived ♪"
**[11:26] ---**
"Minami Nanami: Here goes!"
**[11:27] ---**
"Minami Nanami: Brain and I"
**[11:28] ---**
"Minami Nanami: will take on Aoi!!!"
**[11:30] ---**
I wouldn't be bottom-tier character Tomozaki--
**[11:34] ---**
I could be nanashi IRL, too.
**[11:40] ---**
So what's next, Brain?
**[11:42] ---**
Now we lock in those votes, of course.
**[11:45] ---**
Here goes!
**[11:46] ---**
Got it!
**[11:51] ---**
Ooh, sorry!
**[11:52] ---**
It's fine!
**[11:53] ---**
A lot of students in the sports clubs
know you by sight.
**[11:56] ---**
Play our cards right and--
**[11:58] ---**
*There* you are!
**[11:59] ---**
Hey! Mimimi!
**[12:00] ---**
Still itty-bitty, I see!
**[12:02] ---**
Minmi!
**[12:03] ---**
You-- You can't just come onto the court like--
**[12:06] ---**
Whoa!
**[12:07] ---**
Pardon the intrusion!
**[12:08] ---**
Minmi!
**[12:11] ---**
Hey! Quit doing those deep breaths!
**[12:14] ---**
I stink of sweat! Stop--ugh!
**[12:14] ---**
Just can't resist...
**[12:17] ---**
Come on! Hey!
**[12:17] ---**
This mellow fragrance tickling my nostrils...
**[12:19] ---**
What the--?! What *is* she doing?
**[12:21] ---**
I *said*, cut it out!
**[12:21] ---**
I wish I could sniff it all day!
**[12:23] ---**
What are you doing, Nanami?
**[12:25] ---**
That voice! It must be my
beloved senior, Shiori!
**[12:28] ---**
Dammit! I can't see a thing! Who did this?!
**[12:31] ---**
You did it to yourself.
**[12:33] ---**
Oh, right. Tee-hee!
**[12:35] ---**
Lickety!
**[12:37] ---**
Mmm, the air's nice out here, too!
**[12:40] ---**
U-Unbelievable.
**[12:41] ---**
What happened, Natsubayashi?
**[12:43] ---**
She... she licked my belly button.
**[12:46] ---**
What are you, nuts?!
**[12:48] ---**
No, my senior, not nuts at all!
**[12:50] ---**
I'm here on a campaign stop!
**[12:53] ---**
Now lend me an ear...
**[12:57] ---**
An electric ball pump, you say?
**[13:00] ---**
Correct. To stimulate club activities--
nominally, at least.
**[13:04] ---**
Oh, but it's not just for the volleyball club;
you'd be sharing it with the others.
**[13:08] ---**
You've given this some thought.
This'll sway anyone in a ball club for sure.
**[13:13] ---**
Er, if you could just--
**[13:15] ---**
All right, all right. I'll tell the others.
**[13:19] ---**
Thanks, Shiori! I love you!
**[13:22] ---**
Wait-- Huh?
**[13:24] ---**
Aren't you running for student council, Mimimi?
**[13:26] ---**
We're rooting for you!
**[13:27] ---**
I really appreciate it, girls!
**[13:30] ---**
Excellent. That ought to get us
a healthy supporter bump.
**[13:34] ---**
All right, goodbye for now!
**[13:36] ---**
Oh! Tama?
**[13:39] ---**
Touch your back, would you?
**[13:47] ---**
Minmi!
**[13:50] ---**
My magic fingers!
**[13:54] ---**
Magic... fingers?
**[14:01] ---**
"City of Roses Chuo Ward"
**[14:03] ---**
Our campaigning went really well today!
**[14:07] ---**
You're *good*, Tomozaki!
**[14:09] ---**
All thanks to your shrewd bargaining skills.
**[14:12] ---**
Why the staring? Are you going
to confess your love after all?
**[14:16] ---**
N-N-No!
**[14:19] ---**
What's that?
**[14:21] ---**
Ooh, good eye!
**[14:23] ---**
I just bought this. It was love at first sight!
**[14:26] ---**
Isn't it just so cute?
**[14:28] ---**
What? *C*-*Cute*?
**[14:31] ---**
No, no, no, no. It's totes adorbs!
**[14:34] ---**
I mean... isn't that... a haniwa?
**[14:36] ---**
That's what's so cute about it!
**[14:38] ---**
Ugh, you just don't get it, do you?
**[14:42] ---**
Okay, question for you:
**[14:43] ---**
What are we doing tomorrow,
Tomozaki the brain?
**[14:46] ---**
W-Well, let's see...
**[14:49] ---**
We'll basically be trying to
secure a majority of votes.
**[14:52] ---**
We'll go narrow and deep,
rather than wide and shallow. And then--
**[14:55] ---**
Hey, Tomozaki.
**[14:58] ---**
Why are you going to such lengths to beat Aoi?
**[15:02] ---**
Why?
**[15:04] ---**
Hinami and I are NO NAME and nanashi,
**[15:06] ---**
so we do have a rivalry going on.
**[15:09] ---**
But what about Mimimi?
**[15:11] ---**
What about *you*?
**[15:13] ---**
Why do *you* want to beat Hinami?
**[15:17] ---**
Oh, uh, sorry!
**[15:19] ---**
That was, um...
**[15:21] ---**
Quiz time!
**[15:22] ---**
What is Japan's tallest mountain?
**[15:24] ---**
Er... Mount Fuji?
**[15:26] ---**
Sure, but...
**[15:28] ---**
What's the *second*-tallest mountain?
**[15:30] ---**
Th-The *second*-tallest?
**[15:32] ---**
What was it again? Let me think...
**[15:34] ---**
Aaand time's up!
**[15:36] ---**
The answer? Mount Kita!
**[15:38] ---**
Mount... Kita?
**[15:40] ---**
Question number two: Who was
the first president of the USA?
**[15:43] ---**
George Washington.
**[15:44] ---**
Sure, but...
**[15:45] ---**
Who was the *second* president?
**[15:47] ---**
Huh? What was his name...?
**[15:49] ---**
The answer? John Adams!
**[15:51] ---**
Not big on world history, huh, Tomozaki?
**[15:53] ---**
M-Maybe not.
**[15:55] ---**
Here's a gimme.
**[15:56] ---**
This one's about our very own Sekitomo High:
**[15:59] ---**
Which girl came in first overall
in the May sports tests?
**[16:03] ---**
Aoi Hinami.
**[16:04] ---**
Uh-huh. But...
**[16:07] ---**
Who took *second* place?
**[16:11] ---**
You don't know, do you.
**[16:13] ---**
That's basically how it goes.
**[16:16] ---**
Number one stands out
and gets super well-known,
**[16:18] ---**
but not number two.
**[16:21] ---**
Mimimi--
**[16:22] ---**
Ooh, too bad! Time's up!
**[16:24] ---**
But you're right:
**[16:26] ---**
The answer is me, Minami Nanami!
**[16:30] ---**
Incidentally, I was perpetually
second in our exams, too,
**[16:32] ---**
until freshman finals.
**[16:34] ---**
Although I dipped down to third
in our most recent midterms.
**[16:37] ---**
And nobody knows.
**[16:39] ---**
Here I am, Minami Nanami,
multi-talented, fair of face--
**[16:43] ---**
a classic Japanese beauty,
handsome man, and gorgeous woman!
**[16:48] ---**
You are not a "handsome man."
**[16:49] ---**
That's Tomozaki--our details guy!
**[16:52] ---**
But you agree with the rest of it, right?
**[16:55] ---**
You are *so* kind.
**[16:58] ---**
Sh-Shut up!
**[17:01] ---**
But, yeah... that's pretty much it.
**[17:05] ---**
And that's why...
**[17:08] ---**
That's why I want to win.
**[17:11] ---**
Oh.
**[17:16] ---**
With all that...
**[17:20] ---**
I guess you would.
**[17:23] ---**
We're counting on you!
**[17:23] ---**
Minami Nanami!
**[17:26] ---**
Thanks for your support!
**[17:26] ---**
Vote for Minami Nanami!
**[17:29] ---**
Minami Nanami here!
We're counting on you!
**[17:30] ---**
Brain!
**[17:33] ---**
"Aoi Hinami"
**[17:33] ---**
Study the way of the top-tier character,
**[17:35] ---**
put in the effort, boost accuracy--
and victory is in your grasp.
**[17:39] ---**
A classic approach, yes,
**[17:41] ---**
but that's how you overwhelm
your foe with absolute might
**[17:44] ---**
and launch a frontal assault.
**[17:45] ---**
That's Aoi Hinami's play style.
**[17:48] ---**
But that's not the only way to fight, Hinami.
**[17:52] ---**
I've always been skeptical
that my approach would work IRL.
**[17:52] ---**
"Minami Nanami - Campaign Speech"
**[17:58] ---**
So let's give it a shot.
**[18:00] ---**
Let's see if nanashi's play style
can make it out here.
**[18:04] ---**
Nice work today!
**[18:05] ---**
Good job, everyone!
**[18:06] ---**
See you later!
**[18:10] ---**
Hey, um... Tama!
**[18:12] ---**
Tomozaki?
**[18:15] ---**
I'd like you to help me with something.
**[18:18] ---**
It's, uh... it's about Mimimi's campaign.
**[18:20] ---**
Yeah. Sure thing.
**[18:22] ---**
Oh. Well, ah...
**[18:24] ---**
"Stadium Showdown Theme"
**[18:26] ---**
I'll walk all the way over there
and play this music.
**[18:29] ---**
Tell me if you can hear it, okay?
**[18:33] ---**
Where could you hear it the best?
**[18:35] ---**
Over there.
**[18:37] ---**
I see.
**[18:39] ---**
Okay. Thanks.
**[18:40] ---**
Anything else? All set?
**[18:42] ---**
Yeah, for now.
**[18:45] ---**
Hey, uh...
**[18:47] ---**
You're not curious about all this?
And me doing the asking?
**[18:50] ---**
It's for Minmi, right?
**[18:52] ---**
Yeah.
**[18:53] ---**
Then I'm good.
**[18:56] ---**
Tomozaki?
**[18:58] ---**
Don't push her too hard in this election, okay?
**[19:02] ---**
Huh?
**[19:03] ---**
Minmi's an overdoer.
**[19:06] ---**
Oh... right.
**[19:07] ---**
She tends not to show that side of herself,
**[19:11] ---**
and she *says* she's not overdoing anything.
**[19:13] ---**
But then she does.
**[19:16] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:18] ---**
So look out for her, would you?
**[19:22] ---**
Leave it to me!
**[19:27] ---**
Done and done!
**[19:31] ---**
Cast your vote for Minami Nanami!
**[19:34] ---**
I'm counting on you!
**[19:36] ---**
"Minami Nanami"
**[19:36] ---**
Um... good luck!
**[19:39] ---**
Thanks for your support!
**[19:43] ---**
"Tomozaki"
***SIGN*** "Campaign Speech - Start with laughs" "Minami Nanami: Brain!! How's it looking? Huh?" "Working on it now. I think I can show you the corrections tomorrow"
***SIGN*** "Minami Nanami: I'm wondering if we should maybe add more jokes!" "I have a plan" "Minami Nanami: Out with it, Brain!"
**[20:01] ---**
"Salads" "Noodles"
**[20:09] ---**
Tomozaki!
**[20:13] ---**
Got the intro and end?
**[20:15] ---**
All set!
**[20:17] ---**
Nice!
**[20:21] ---**
Oh, man! That is so *incredibly* out of character!
**[20:25] ---**
H-How many classrooms did you hit?
**[20:27] ---**
Four of 'em!
**[20:29] ---**
Whoa! That's a lot!
**[20:30] ---**
You know, Brain, you really are evil.
**[20:33] ---**
Are you really okay with duping
those sweet first-years? Scoundrel!
**[20:36] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[20:38] ---**
Once you're elected, you'll do everything
in your power to follow through.
**[20:42] ---**
It's totally fine.
**[20:43] ---**
You bet!
**[20:44] ---**
When I'm elected, I really will
get those air conditioners!
**[20:48] ---**
That's right: What I'd asked Mimimi to do...
**[20:51] ---**
When I become student council president,
**[20:54] ---**
"Minami Nanami"
"Campaign Highlight: A/C in every classroom!!"
**[20:54] ---**
I pledge to do all I can to install
air conditioners in every classroom!
**[20:59] ---**
The key was to visit only first-year classrooms.
**[21:03] ---**
The older grades know that getting
air conditioners won't be that simple.
**[21:07] ---**
We cornered the first-years' votes with A/C
**[21:09] ---**
and the sports clubs' with a ball pump.
**[21:13] ---**
So all that was left...
**[21:14] ---**
And finally, your campaign speech.
**[21:17] ---**
Ooh! I've been waiting for this, Brain!
**[21:20] ---**
What's it like?
**[21:33] ---**
And that's how you'll end your speech.
**[21:39] ---**
Oh, Tomozaki! You absolute con artist!
**[21:42] ---**
What the--?
**[21:45] ---**
Too slow!
**[21:49] ---**
*S*-*So* not you! That... that gesture!
**[21:54] ---**
But hey--thanks. For everything.
**[21:57] ---**
Come on, now.
**[21:59] ---**
We're going to beat Hinami, aren't we?
**[22:03] ---**
Right!
**[22:06] ---**
Let's see what you can do, Tomozaki!
**[22:08] ---**
Yeah!
# E7 - When a mentor character becomes a boss, they'll push you to the edge
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G2XU0J8QD/when-a-mentor-character-becomes-a-boss-theyll-push-you-to-the-edge)
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**[00:04] ---**
*You're* looking well.
**[00:06] ---**
I'm *feeling* well.
**[00:08] ---**
You've certainly been keeping busy.
**[00:11] ---**
Given who we're up against.
**[00:14] ---**
These last several days have been so dull,
**[00:17] ---**
not being able to fight nanashi
in *Tackfam* and all.
**[00:20] ---**
Oh? That's strange.
**[00:25] ---**
Strange?
**[00:27] ---**
After all,
**[00:28] ---**
nanashi's been fighting
NO NAME this whole time.
**[00:32] ---**
Huh!
**[00:34] ---**
So I can get my hopes up?
**[00:36] ---**
Well, I don't know.
**[00:38] ---**
But I've done my very nanashi best.
**[00:43] ---**
I see!
**[00:58] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[02:16] ---**
This has been the agenda
for the Aoi Hinami Fan Club--
**[02:16] ---**
"Lv. 7: When a mentor character becomes a boss,
they'll push you to the edge"
**[02:19] ---**
I mean...
**[02:20] ---**
...my campaign speech for Aoi Hinami.
**[02:23] ---**
That was a supporting speech from
campaign manager Takahiro Mizusawa.
**[02:27] ---**
Now for the campaign speech from
student-council president candidate Aoi Hinami.
**[02:33] ---**
Go right ahead.
**[02:35] ---**
"I support Minami Nanami because"...
**[02:45] ---**
Good morning.
**[02:47] ---**
I'm Aoi Hinami, and I'm running
for student-council president.
**[02:52] ---**
Honestly, I bet there are a lot of
people out there who are thinking:
**[02:59] ---**
"It doesn't matter who wins.
We'll never see real change."
**[03:04] ---**
However!
**[03:06] ---**
There's just one little thing
I'd like to tell those people:
**[03:12] ---**
You're right.
**[03:17] ---**
Oh, jeez--she's already going over great!
**[03:19] ---**
That's Hinami for you.
**[03:20] ---**
But we've got our strategy, remember?
**[03:23] ---**
We don't have to get *all* the votes.
**[03:26] ---**
Right. If we can just get
the athletes with the ball pump
**[03:29] ---**
and the first-years with the air conditioners--
**[03:31] ---**
By the way...
**[03:32] ---**
Do you have any complaints about this school?
**[03:36] ---**
Like, the school store has a poor selection,
**[03:39] ---**
or you'd like the option of
bigger portions in the lunchroom,
**[03:42] ---**
or our sports festival is too small,
**[03:45] ---**
or you want an electric ball pump?
**[03:48] ---**
When I'm president, I'd like to find
a solution for each complaint in turn.
**[03:55] ---**
But I've decided to make
only one campaign promise.
**[04:01] ---**
And that is...
**[04:03] ---**
...to install air conditioners
in every classroom!
**[04:07] ---**
Wh-What now, Tomozaki?
**[04:10] ---**
How--? What's going on?!
**[04:12] ---**
We had to settle for pitching
A/C to just the first-years,
**[04:17] ---**
and here she is in front of the whole school,
making it her whole platform.
**[04:21] ---**
And yet...
**[04:23] ---**
Quiet, please! Can we please have some quiet?
**[04:27] ---**
Still, this is not the easiest promise
on which to follow through.
**[04:32] ---**
Even now, the teachers over
there are looking skeptical.
**[04:37] ---**
I can already hear those teachers
talking amongst themselves
**[04:40] ---**
once this speech has ended
and the assembly is over:
**[04:45] ---**
"Air conditioners in every
classroom? Ridiculous!"
**[04:49] ---**
In their perfectly chilled
teachers' lounge, of course.
**[04:56] ---**
Yeah!
**[04:56] ---**
What's going on?
**[04:58] ---**
A common interest.
**[05:00] ---**
Influential powers of persuasion.
**[05:03] ---**
Is this you "controlling the mood," Hinami?
**[05:09] ---**
And so, I pledge to work hard
on this and many other issues.
**[05:14] ---**
If you feel the same way,
cast your vote for me: Aoi Hinami!
**[05:20] ---**
*That* choice...
**[05:22] ---**
...is HEXactly right!
**[05:33] ---**
"Sekitomo"
**[05:34] ---**
And that's all!
**[05:35] ---**
Thanks!
**[05:39] ---**
That was a supporting speech from
campaign manager Yumiko Yamashita.
**[05:41] ---**
Thanks!
**[05:45] ---**
I'm so sorry!
**[05:46] ---**
I stumbled over my words there...
**[05:48] ---**
No, no, you're totally fine!
**[05:51] ---**
You did a real good job, Yumi.
**[05:53] ---**
Senpai...
**[05:55] ---**
Now for the campaign speech from student-council
president candidate Minami Nanami.
**[06:00] ---**
Here I go!
**[06:02] ---**
Go get 'em, Mimimi-*senpai*!
**[06:07] ---**
Let's get started.
**[06:08] ---**
Which is one reason,
but as Ms. Kawamura said,
**[06:12] ---**
"Just, you know, whatever.
Don't go overboard."
**[06:17] ---**
So: whatever! I'll work hard
without going overboard!
***SIGN*** "Settings" "Sound and Touch" "Notifications and Alerts"
**[06:22] ---**
All jokes aside...
**[06:24] ---**
I do want our school to be fun to attend,
one we can be proud of.
**[06:30] ---**
And that's why, first of all,
**[06:32] ---**
I want to enrich our core academic
*and* extracurricular aspects,
**[06:32] ---**
Watch closely, Hinami.
This is how *nanashi* fights.
**[06:35] ---**
then work on expanding
our school events as well.
**[06:39] ---**
All in the name of bumping up
Sekitomo High's school spirit, of course!
**[06:55] ---**
Hey, Navi: Turn off the alarm.
**[06:59] ---**
I've turned off the alarm.
**[07:03] ---**
Hey, Navi: Who's going to
be student-council president?
**[07:07] ---**
I'm Navi, your virtual assistant.
**[07:11] ---**
I didn't ask for an introduction!
**[07:14] ---**
Enough about me. How can I help?
**[07:18] ---**
Hey!
**[07:22] ---**
You can't take a foe like Hinami head-on.
You have to strike a blind spot.
**[07:23] ---**
No, no! I'm asking you about the election!
**[07:27] ---**
I knew how Mimimi looked
to the student body right now:
**[07:28] ---**
I found this information
about upcoming local elections.
**[07:31] ---**
"Now there's a candidate who can really
adlib in the face of a sudden blunder."
**[07:32] ---**
Not that! The *student-council
president* election!
**[07:37] ---**
Tell me this, Navi: Will *you* vote for me?
**[07:42] ---**
I'm sorry. I don't understand.
**[07:44] ---**
Oh, come on!
**[07:46] ---**
Well, it looks like Navi won't be voting for me,
**[07:50] ---**
but I certainly hope *you* all will!
**[07:55] ---**
I'm counting on you!
**[07:58] ---**
That was the campaign speech from
candidate Minami Nanami. Thank you.
**[08:04] ---**
Brain!
**[08:07] ---**
Mimimi-*senpai*, that was fantastic!
**[08:07] ---**
Brain!
**[08:09] ---**
That was all adlibbed, wasn't it?!
**[08:12] ---**
H-Hey, uh...
**[08:14] ---**
Mi-Mimi-Mi-Mi!
**[08:15] ---**
Whoopsie!
**[08:17] ---**
Was that a little too much
for you, Tomozaki?
**[08:20] ---**
Tee-hee!
**[08:23] ---**
Well done!
**[08:25] ---**
Hey, Aoi!
**[08:27] ---**
Nice job, Mimimi.
**[08:29] ---**
So, Tomozaki... you were
helping out, too, huh?
**[08:32] ---**
Well... you know.
**[08:33] ---**
Skip the details!
**[08:35] ---**
Just know that Tomozaki did a great job!
**[08:39] ---**
Huh...
**[08:41] ---**
C'mon, Takahiro!
**[08:43] ---**
After all, until the final tally
comes in, we're rivals.
**[08:48] ---**
That's right!
**[08:49] ---**
Bye!
**[08:52] ---**
The vibe of those two together...
**[08:55] ---**
Maybe the rumors are right
and they *are* dating.
**[08:58] ---**
Eh?
**[09:03] ---**
We did what we could.
**[09:03] ---**
"Ballot"
"Student Council President"
**[09:06] ---**
All that's left is to wait for the results.
***SIGN*** "Student Council President Election Results Aoi Hinami: 416 Votes (Winner) Minami Nanami: 131 Votes"
**[09:15] ---**
Good job, Tomozaki!
**[09:15] ---**
"Tropical Grape"
**[09:17] ---**
You were a huge help. Thanks!
**[09:20] ---**
Uh, sure.
**[09:29] ---**
Man, what a bummer!
**[09:32] ---**
Well, I may have lost this time,
but there's always next time, right?
**[09:37] ---**
Fall today, rise tomorrow.
**[09:39] ---**
Yeah, exactly! Oh, bravo, Brain! Well said!
**[09:43] ---**
Always look forward, with the wind at your back!
**[09:46] ---**
And if you *do* fall, just run
that much faster to catch up!
**[09:51] ---**
I can't tell if this is how she
really feels or if it's just bluster.
**[09:56] ---**
But...
**[09:57] ---**
Right!
**[09:58] ---**
And you'll have other chances
to compete against Hinami.
**[10:03] ---**
You bet!
**[10:09] ---**
Before we begin,
I'd like to clarify something.
**[10:13] ---**
Hmm? What's that?
**[10:14] ---**
That little Navi "accident" --you had
that all planned out, didn't you?
**[10:19] ---**
Yeah. It was all scripted.
**[10:25] ---**
I knew it!
**[10:27] ---**
That was going to get her over the finish line,
but it didn't work in the end.
**[10:31] ---**
Not in terms of election results, no.
**[10:35] ---**
But you surprised me. That was fun!
**[10:38] ---**
Uh... okay.
**[10:40] ---**
Now that? *That* was very nanashi.
**[10:42] ---**
"Super Attack Families"
**[10:42] ---**
Seems the legend who flipped *Tackfam* on its head
**[10:46] ---**
by bringing combo tactics to a hit-and-run
game really *is* all he's cracked up to be.
**[10:50] ---**
But *you* played dirty,
crushing our entire strategy like that.
**[10:57] ---**
If you're going to help Mimimi, you're
going to have to be a lot more discreet.
**[11:00] ---**
With nanashi involved, I figured
there'd be some unique tactics--
**[11:05] ---**
so I squashed that efficient
vote-winner of a campaign promise
**[11:07] ---**
with brute force.
**[11:10] ---**
I underestimated you.
**[11:12] ---**
I may have won this time,
but I got a feel for your potential.
**[11:16] ---**
It was quite a surprise!
**[11:17] ---**
*And* a lot of fun!
**[11:19] ---**
So keep on applying yourself
here in this thing called "life."
**[11:24] ---**
Got that?
**[11:25] ---**
That *is* the plan, but yeah.
**[11:27] ---**
Excellent!
***SIGN*** "Small Goal Go somewhere with a girl from school (not me), just the 2 of you"
**[11:29] ---**
Now, then--let's finish up that
"go out alone with a girl" task!
**[11:44] ---**
Tomozaki?
**[11:46] ---**
Yuh?
**[11:47] ---**
Um...
**[11:49] ---**
Aren't you going in?
**[11:49] ---**
"Library"
**[11:50] ---**
Oh, um, yeah! I am. I'm going in.
**[12:03] ---**
"Hey, do you want to see a movie this weekend?"
**[12:04] ---**
"The Angel and the Caged Bird"
**[12:07] ---**
That's not it.
**[12:09] ---**
"There's this movie I'm interested in..."
**[12:11] ---**
"Kikuchi, did you hear? There's an Andi film
playing in Shibuya right now..."
**[12:16] ---**
Or something.
**[12:19] ---**
Um... is everything okay?
**[12:21] ---**
Huh? Oh! Er...
**[12:26] ---**
Hey, um... See, uh...
**[12:28] ---**
There's an Andi film playing at this theater--
**[12:31] ---**
In Shi-Shibuya!
**[12:35] ---**
I... I'm sorry.
**[12:37] ---**
I-It's fine.
**[12:41] ---**
Tomozaki? Your face is all red.
**[12:44] ---**
So is yours.
**[12:50] ---**
Um, so... well, uh...
**[12:53] ---**
Uh-huh?
**[12:54] ---**
Would you...
**[12:56] ---**
Would you like to come see it... with me?
**[13:01] ---**
Uh-huh!
**[13:03] ---**
"Tomozaki"
**[13:08] ---**
I'm one step closer to my goal.
**[13:10] ---**
But while I'm at it, I may as well
read more of Andi's books.
**[13:15] ---**
It'll give me something
to talk about with Kikuchi.
**[13:18] ---**
And besides...
**[13:20] ---**
This guy's books?
**[13:22] ---**
They're good!
**[13:26] ---**
I'll be closing up soon.
**[13:27] ---**
Huh?
**[13:29] ---**
Wow, that late already...
**[13:43] ---**
Tama?
**[13:45] ---**
Tomozaki!
**[13:49] ---**
Were you in the library?
**[13:50] ---**
Yeah.
**[13:52] ---**
Aoi and Minmi are running
way out ahead of everyone else.
**[13:56] ---**
Wow.
**[13:57] ---**
I think she's probably competing with Aoi.
**[14:00] ---**
Heck, I *know* she is.
**[14:03] ---**
Maybe so.
**[14:06] ---**
Too bad about the election, huh?
**[14:08] ---**
Yeah.
**[14:09] ---**
I mean, it's Aoi. You can't beat her.
**[14:12] ---**
Right.
**[14:13] ---**
See, with Minmi...
**[14:15] ---**
Hmm?
**[14:16] ---**
Even if Minmi can't win, she won't give in.
**[14:19] ---**
So I wish she'd quit taking on Aoi, at least.
**[14:23] ---**
She's a little... scary, I guess?
**[14:27] ---**
And that's why...
**[14:29] ---**
That's why I want to win.
**[14:31] ---**
I get that.
**[14:33] ---**
It sucks being the loser.
**[14:38] ---**
Mimimi had never practiced
for that long before yesterday.
**[14:43] ---**
I've always been the only one still
hanging around to the bitter end.
**[14:49] ---**
And then today, she shows up for
morning practice even before I do.
**[14:52] ---**
Huh? Seriously?
**[14:54] ---**
I-I mean...
**[14:56] ---**
You come here *after practice* every day?
**[14:59] ---**
Yes, and...?
**[15:00] ---**
Like it's no big deal!
**[15:03] ---**
Hey...
**[15:04] ---**
Let me ask you something.
**[15:08] ---**
What is it?
**[15:09] ---**
You might be the same way when it
comes to games--*Tackfam* in particular.
**[15:14] ---**
Checking up on your goals,
analyzing your progress,
**[15:17] ---**
and getting what you need
through trial and error.
**[15:20] ---**
Moving forward in this way is
what we call "effort," is it not?
**[15:25] ---**
Yeah. Sure.
**[15:27] ---**
And making repeated efforts
with zero compromise,
**[15:30] ---**
just a single-minded push forward...
**[15:33] ---**
Is there something wrong with that?
**[15:35] ---**
Huh? I mean, that's...
**[15:38] ---**
*I* don't think there's *anything* wrong with it.
**[15:41] ---**
You already have your answer!
**[15:43] ---**
I don't think so, either.
Effort's not a bad thing.
**[15:48] ---**
Right. I basically feel mostly the same way.
**[15:51] ---**
"Mostly"?
**[15:52] ---**
However...
**[15:54] ---**
When you make a lot of effort
in the game of life,
**[15:58] ---**
things may come up that
can't be solved so easily.
**[16:01] ---**
In my experience, anyway.
**[16:04] ---**
Don't give it too much thought.
**[16:12] ---**
Yo, Brain!
**[16:13] ---**
Whoa! Mi-Mimi-Mi-Mi-Mi-Mimimi!
**[16:17] ---**
That sounds familiar!
**[16:18] ---**
Thinking about something?
**[16:20] ---**
Is this when you finally
confess your love? To me?
**[16:22] ---**
N-No!
**[16:25] ---**
Listen...
**[16:26] ---**
I hear you're putting a lot of effort
into your practices lately.
**[16:30] ---**
Yep! I'm working really, really hard!
Same goes for my studies!
**[16:35] ---**
I've got a lot of catching up
to do after losing the election.
**[16:39] ---**
I'm rooting for you. As a gamer.
**[16:43] ---**
Dude, what?
**[16:44] ---**
Hey, who told you about my practices, anyway?
**[16:48] ---**
Hmm? Hinami did.
**[16:50] ---**
Huh! Who knew?
**[16:52] ---**
Ooh, how'd she tell you?
**[16:55] ---**
Um... *how*? I mean... normally?
**[16:58] ---**
Like always.
**[17:00] ---**
Is that so?
**[17:01] ---**
Well, whatever.
**[17:03] ---**
Look, I'm heading to the lunchroom.
What about you?
**[17:07] ---**
I'm just going to grab a pastry
or something from the store.
**[17:10] ---**
Ah-ha!
**[17:12] ---**
Roger that!
**[17:13] ---**
Later!
**[17:19] ---**
Wait, was that...
**[17:22] ---**
Was that an invitation?
**[17:32] ---**
Tama?
**[17:34] ---**
Tomozaki.
**[17:35] ---**
Watching practice again?
**[17:37] ---**
Yeah.
**[17:39] ---**
Mimimi's working hard.
**[17:41] ---**
Yeah, she is.
**[17:42] ---**
Hinami said Mimimi even beat her
to morning practice today.
**[17:48] ---**
Huh.
**[17:49] ---**
Ever since the election, I bet.
**[17:52] ---**
Yeah.
**[17:54] ---**
Mimimi really was in it to win.
**[17:57] ---**
She must have been disappointed.
I know I was.
**[18:00] ---**
Yeah.
**[18:02] ---**
Was she always like that?
**[18:04] ---**
I'm not sure. We don't go that far back.
**[18:08] ---**
Oh? Really?
**[18:10] ---**
I thought you'd been friends
for a good long while.
**[18:15] ---**
We first talked in... the second term
of first year or so?
**[18:19] ---**
Huh! You don't say.
**[18:21] ---**
I'm not great at making friends,
**[18:25] ---**
so I didn't talk to anyone that
first term. Not even Minmi.
**[18:29] ---**
Then how'd you get to be such good friends?
**[18:33] ---**
Because Minmi's an idiot, I guess?
**[18:39] ---**
Even though we hadn't
talked at all that first term,
**[18:43] ---**
she suddenly started bugging me
in the second term.
**[18:46] ---**
Poking my cheeks--stuff like that.
**[18:49] ---**
I'm not good with that kind of thing,
so I acted all annoyed.
**[18:54] ---**
After that, I'd ignore her, glare at her...
**[19:00] ---**
I tried everything, but she just wouldn't stop.
**[19:04] ---**
I thought, "God, what an idiot."
**[19:08] ---**
But that's how I came
to make more friends
**[19:12] ---**
and feel more comfortable in our classroom.
**[19:18] ---**
So I...
**[19:20] ---**
I think people who are good at
making friends are really amazing.
**[19:24] ---**
I kinda wished I could be like that.
**[19:27] ---**
One time Aoi came over to talk to me,
even though she was in a different class.
**[19:33] ---**
She said Minmi had come to her for advice.
**[19:37] ---**
Advice?
**[19:38] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:39] ---**
"There's a girl in our class who doesn't fit in.
What should I do?"
**[19:44] ---**
And Aoi said, "Maybe she just
doesn't *want* to fit in."
**[19:49] ---**
But Minmi wouldn't leave it alone.
**[19:52] ---**
"Not this girl.
**[19:54] ---**
She tries to fit in, but she's
too awkward to make it work."
**[19:59] ---**
I'd been... trying not to get involved, I guess.
**[20:04] ---**
I was afraid, so I avoided people.
**[20:07] ---**
But it's not that I didn't need friends.
**[20:10] ---**
Minmi was exactly right.
**[20:13] ---**
So Aoi tells her this:
**[20:16] ---**
"Okay, try talking to her
a little bit every day."
**[20:19] ---**
Huh?
**[20:20] ---**
Wait--so is that how...
**[20:22] ---**
Uh-huh. She starts poking
my cheeks... every dang day.
**[20:27] ---**
Tell me that's not messed up!
**[20:30] ---**
That's Mimimi, all right.
**[20:32] ---**
But Aoi told me to keep our
conversation between us.
**[20:38] ---**
That Minmi would be embarrassed,
**[20:40] ---**
and I should let her keep up her front.
**[20:42] ---**
Aoi said she wanted me to know--
**[20:45] ---**
and that Minmi's daily teasing
was for my own sake.
**[20:50] ---**
Huh...
**[20:52] ---**
Even though I know all this about Minmi,
**[20:55] ---**
she acts like she's not doing anything,
**[20:58] ---**
then always comes to my rescue.
**[21:01] ---**
So I go on pretending I don't know a thing.
**[21:06] ---**
See?
**[21:07] ---**
Minmi's a real idiot, am I right?
**[21:11] ---**
You're saltier than usual today, Tama!
**[21:13] ---**
Don't go comparing how people taste!
**[21:17] ---**
Normally, right after practice,
your sweat would be nice and fresh.
**[21:20] ---**
But today, the salty taste has
grown concentrated over time!
**[21:24] ---**
That is nasty! Go deduce something else!
**[21:28] ---**
Anything out of the ordinary happen?
**[21:30] ---**
Not especially.
**[21:31] ---**
I met Tama on my way out of the library.
We talked for a while.
**[21:35] ---**
Huh. I see.
**[21:37] ---**
A thousand pardons, Tama.
**[21:39] ---**
Now, if you'll allow me
to snarfle your elbow...
**[21:42] ---**
You just don't quit! I don't get you!
**[21:44] ---**
All right, Mimimi. That's enough of that.
**[21:48] ---**
You can't keep me down! I won't give up!
**[21:50] ---**
Hi-yah!
**[21:52] ---**
Jeez, Minmi! Chill out!
**[21:54] ---**
These three share some strong bonds,
just like Tama said.
**[21:55] ---**
Elbow!
**[21:56] ---**
Turn it down a notch, Mimimi.
**[21:58] ---**
Ooh, yum!
**[21:59] ---**
Huh? Wait--hey!
**[22:01] ---**
No way...
**[22:03] ---**
Mimimi!
**[22:05] ---**
But the next day,
Mimimi wasn't quite herself.
**[22:06] ---**
Sorry, sorry! I'll buy you another!
# E8 - There are some problems a bottom-tier character can't fix alone
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GQJUG7PQN/there-are-some-problems-a-bottom-tier-character-cant-fix-alone)
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**[00:00] ---**
"Saitama Prefectural Tournament"
**[00:20] ---**
"Asahara" "Kusunoki"
**[00:31] ---**
Aw, man. We lost.
**[00:33] ---**
But I'm glad we made it so far again this year!
**[00:36] ---**
Great work out there!
**[00:37] ---**
Shake it off!
**[01:16] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[02:35] ---**
Nanami! Are you listening?
**[02:35] ---**
"Lv. 8: There are some problems
a bottom-tier character can't fix alone"
**[02:38] ---**
Whoa! Um, sorry about that!
**[02:40] ---**
I wasn't sleeping--I just
blacked out for a sec.
**[02:44] ---**
But I wasn't sleeping!
**[02:46] ---**
Yeah, okay, okay.
**[02:48] ---**
Now, this depiction here...
**[02:51] ---**
This was a common way to portray
their beliefs or principles at that time.
**[02:59] ---**
Nanami's been like that
since the election, hasn't she?
**[03:04] ---**
Uh-huh. That might have set her off.
**[03:07] ---**
Nanami's trying to compete with Hinami, right?
**[03:12] ---**
Yeah, but... where'd you hear that?
**[03:16] ---**
I didn't. I can imagine it.
**[03:19] ---**
Imagine it?
**[03:20] ---**
Like how?
**[03:22] ---**
Like, why would this person
do something like that,
**[03:26] ---**
or how might that person be feeling.
**[03:30] ---**
Because, um, my novel...
**[03:32] ---**
Oh. It helps you write.
**[03:38] ---**
I just sort of imagine all
kinds of people's feelings.
**[03:43] ---**
I mean, it's mostly idle daydreaming.
**[03:46] ---**
What kind of person is Hinami?
**[03:50] ---**
Huh?
**[03:51] ---**
I don't really understand her.
**[03:54] ---**
Her motivation,
the reasons driving her actions...
**[03:59] ---**
I try to imagine it, but I draw a blank.
**[04:02] ---**
It must be awfully tough to compete with someone
**[04:05] ---**
whose motivations you don't understand.
**[04:09] ---**
You can't see the goal.
**[04:11] ---**
A goal you can't see, huh?
**[04:24] ---**
Minmi's overdoing it. Again.
**[04:44] ---**
What should I even do when she's like this?
**[04:51] ---**
Should I get her to stop?
**[04:54] ---**
Or let her keep going?
**[04:57] ---**
Yeah. I wonder.
**[05:12] ---**
Ah, it's so nice and cool at this time of night!
**[05:16] ---**
Um... Hey.
**[05:18] ---**
Hmm?
**[05:19] ---**
As a friend who fought Hinami
beside you, craving that win...
**[05:29] ---**
Are you overworking yourself now
because you still want to beat her?
**[05:36] ---**
How can I put this?
**[05:38] ---**
I'm saying this because
I think you'll understand:
**[05:42] ---**
It sucks so much that I want
to quit right here and now.
**[05:45] ---**
But it'll probably suck even more if I do.
**[05:50] ---**
I get how rough it is to stop making
an effort halfway through and lose.
**[05:55] ---**
So I want to respect Mimimi,
**[05:58] ---**
sore loser of a gamer that I am.
**[06:01] ---**
In that case... go get 'em, Mimimi.
**[06:16] ---**
Oh, Aoi. Morning!
**[06:20] ---**
Good morning, Mimimi.
**[06:22] ---**
Early again, huh?
**[06:24] ---**
Yeah, I guess!
**[06:34] ---**
"Asahara" "Kusunoki"
**[06:38] ---**
Aw, man. We lost.
**[06:40] ---**
But I'm glad we made it so far again this year!
**[06:43] ---**
Great work out there!
**[06:44] ---**
Shake it off!
**[06:46] ---**
How can you smile--and laugh?
**[06:49] ---**
That girl who beat us out there
just now put in a *ton* of effort.
**[06:54] ---**
We've only made it to the prefectural
tournament! That's nothing!
**[06:59] ---**
It's not good... not good at all!
**[07:02] ---**
We know you worked hard, Minami...
**[07:05] ---**
But the prefectural tournament? That's huge!
**[07:07] ---**
And you're the one who got us this far.
**[07:10] ---**
We did fine--really!
**[07:15] ---**
Yeah. I guess... I guess you're right.
**[07:20] ---**
I'm glad.
**[07:25] ---**
Mimimi!
**[07:30] ---**
Yikes. That was a close one!
**[07:32] ---**
I nearly took a tumble! Tee-hee!
**[07:38] ---**
"Sewing Room 2"
**[07:40] ---**
If this keeps up, she'll soon
reach her breaking point.
**[07:44] ---**
She's probably practicing at home, too--
**[07:46] ---**
and likely not sleeping much at all.
**[07:50] ---**
I'd like to talk some sense
into her before she collapses,
**[07:53] ---**
but it's bound to backfire,
coming from me.
**[07:56] ---**
Hey, why is Mimimi so obsessed with you?
**[08:03] ---**
It was a prefectural basketball
tournament in middle school.
**[08:06] ---**
I'm the one who made her school lose.
**[08:11] ---**
But that's not my story to tell.
**[08:20] ---**
Here I am, Tomozaki!
**[08:23] ---**
What did you want to talk about?
**[08:24] ---**
Oh, uh...
**[08:26] ---**
I wanted to ask you about middle-school Mimimi.
**[08:31] ---**
Mimimi was a starter from year one.
She was really good.
**[08:36] ---**
I guess you could say it was a one-woman team.
**[08:38] ---**
But she felt a little out of place, too.
**[08:41] ---**
We faced Hinami's team in the last
tournament of our third and final year,
**[08:45] ---**
it was basically a showdown between two aces,
**[08:48] ---**
and we wound up taking the L.
**[08:51] ---**
The others were like, "I'm just glad
we made it to the prefectural tournament,"
**[08:55] ---**
but I think Mimimi was really and truly crushed.
**[09:09] ---**
It's raining.
**[09:10] ---**
Yeah.
**[09:12] ---**
Maybe that's a good thing.
**[09:14] ---**
The clubs won't meet in this weather,
and Hinami can't practice.
**[09:20] ---**
Mimimi can take the day off, too.
**[09:22] ---**
Right? She did leave really
quickly after homeroom--
**[09:29] ---**
Hey. Is that...?
**[09:33] ---**
Oh, no *way*.
**[09:36] ---**
We have to stop her!
**[09:43] ---**
Aoi?
**[09:44] ---**
Yeah.
**[09:46] ---**
And Minmi...
**[09:48] ---**
She must have... gone home.
**[09:51] ---**
Probably.
**[10:06] ---**
Minmi? Hey, Minmi!
**[10:09] ---**
Oh, sorry! What's up, Tama?
**[10:13] ---**
Did you take the day off yesterday?
**[10:15] ---**
Sure did! I'm all rested up and feeling great!
**[10:18] ---**
I'm heading to practice. What about you?
**[10:21] ---**
Yep! I'll be there in a sec.
**[10:23] ---**
Oh...
**[10:49] ---**
Oof, those clouds... Looks like rain again.
**[10:52] ---**
Hmm?
**[10:54] ---**
Mimimi?
**[11:20] ---**
Tomozaki?
**[11:27] ---**
Mimimi, what about today's practice?
**[11:30] ---**
Ah, well, you know.
**[11:32] ---**
Um... Yamashita--she told me.
**[11:37] ---**
About your middle-school basketball team.
**[11:40] ---**
Aw, nuts! My cover's been blown!
**[11:43] ---**
Curse you for ratting out your senior,
Yumi, you scoundrel!
**[11:48] ---**
Is that when it started?
**[11:50] ---**
This whole not wanting to lose to Hinami?
**[11:55] ---**
It's because I don't shine.
**[11:58] ---**
Huh?
**[11:59] ---**
After I lost to Aoi,
**[12:01] ---**
I went alone to see her play
in the national tournament.
**[12:01] ---**
"The 47th National Middle-School
Basketball Tournament"
**[12:06] ---**
Aoi's school wound up finishing in second place.
**[12:11] ---**
All her team members were smiling
and congratulating one another,
**[12:16] ---**
but Aoi looked disappointed,
biting her lip and glaring at the emcee.
**[12:21] ---**
"Kusunoki"
**[12:22] ---**
The moment they announced: "First place
goes to Such-and-So Middle School,"
**[12:27] ---**
Aoi started crying,
the tears welling up and falling.
**[12:32] ---**
She didn't cry when her team came in second.
**[12:35] ---**
She only cried when she heard
another team came in first.
**[12:39] ---**
Like, is being number one all this girl sees?
**[12:42] ---**
That's... wow.
**[12:45] ---**
Right?
**[12:47] ---**
But at the same time, I was ashamed of myself,
because I couldn't be like Aoi.
**[12:52] ---**
I'd changed my behavior to match the mood.
**[12:56] ---**
I realized that I was just an ordinary person.
**[13:00] ---**
All the more reason for me
to want to be special, like Aoi.
**[13:04] ---**
I was surprised to spot Aoi at our
high-school entrance ceremony.
**[13:09] ---**
Especially when she came up
to me afterward and said:
**[13:12] ---**
"Didn't we play each other in round two
of the prefectural tournament?
**[13:15] ---**
I've been thinking about you
ever since that game."
**[13:20] ---**
And that's not all.
**[13:22] ---**
She said, "You must have practiced like crazy.
I could tell, playing you."
**[13:27] ---**
And then: "I wish I could have
played on the same team as you."
**[13:33] ---**
That really saved me, you know?
**[13:38] ---**
So Aoi is someone I'm grateful for,
someone I look up to the most--
**[13:44] ---**
and the person I least want to lose to.
**[13:48] ---**
We became friends after that,
joining the track-and-field club together.
**[13:52] ---**
But... around the second term
of first year, was it?
**[13:55] ---**
Even though Aoi's specialty was the sprint,
**[13:57] ---**
she took first place on our team
in my event, the high jump.
**[14:00] ---**
Her beating me made me realize once again:
**[14:04] ---**
I really can't be someone special after all.
**[14:08] ---**
If you want to shine,
you've got to come in first.
**[14:12] ---**
But I felt like even that was impossible.
**[14:16] ---**
Mimimi...
**[14:17] ---**
That's pretty much it!
Sorry to be such a downer.
**[14:21] ---**
No, not at all.
**[14:23] ---**
Thanks. I feel better having talked about it!
**[14:25] ---**
But... but you don't *have* to come in first.
**[14:29] ---**
The way I see it,
you shine pretty brightly already.
**[14:34] ---**
Thanks!
**[14:37] ---**
Sorry, Tomozaki--looks like I forgot something.
Head on home without me.
**[14:42] ---**
Later!
**[14:42] ---**
Hey, Mimimi--
**[14:46] ---**
My words hadn't gotten through to her.
**[14:49] ---**
It was painfully clear,
even to a bottom-tier scrub like me.
**[14:56] ---**
She didn't show up.
**[14:57] ---**
Not to Saturday's practice,
not to today's morning session.
**[15:01] ---**
Oh.
**[15:02] ---**
Even though coming in first isn't everything...
**[15:05] ---**
*That's* something I never expected.
**[15:08] ---**
Huh?
**[15:09] ---**
I mean, you're just like me, aren't you?
**[15:12] ---**
The *Tackfam*-mastering nanashi?
**[15:16] ---**
What do you mean, I'm just like you?
**[15:16] ---**
"Teachers' Lounge"
**[15:19] ---**
Of course I want to win in a one-on-one battle.
**[15:19] ---**
"Club Resignation Notice"
**[15:21] ---**
But if only first place matters,
**[15:23] ---**
that would make pretty much
the whole world useless.
**[15:27] ---**
In fact, I'd say it's more like I
don't want to lose to *me*.
**[15:32] ---**
Is that how you *really* feel?
**[15:33] ---**
Yeah.
**[15:34] ---**
*Tackfam*'s a battle against myself.
**[15:38] ---**
I see.
**[15:41] ---**
Minmi, you're quitting the club?!
**[15:44] ---**
Yeah. Thought about it over the weekend.
**[15:46] ---**
Is it true?
**[15:50] ---**
Sorry, Aoi!
**[15:51] ---**
I gave it a lot of thought and, well,
my body just can't take any more.
**[15:55] ---**
I wanted to keep running track with you, Mimimi.
**[15:59] ---**
I'm sorry, Aoi.
**[16:01] ---**
No, it's not that! No need to apologize!
**[16:06] ---**
I wonder what happened?
**[16:08] ---**
Hmm... a misunderstanding, maybe.
**[16:12] ---**
And yet... no one did anything wrong.
**[16:17] ---**
Sorry, Tama--I'm heading home, okay?
**[16:20] ---**
Eh?
**[16:21] ---**
Bye, Tama! See you tomorrow!
**[16:23] ---**
Mimimi!
**[16:26] ---**
Want to... go home together?
**[16:28] ---**
Huh?
**[16:31] ---**
Come on. With Tama, too. The three of us.
**[16:37] ---**
I'll skip practice!
**[16:42] ---**
Apologies!
**[16:43] ---**
Out of consideration for Tomozaki's courage,
I'll be leaving with those two.
**[16:50] ---**
Wow, it sure is muggy. That's summer for you!
**[16:53] ---**
And this is totally a textbook Japanese summer!
**[16:57] ---**
Hey, Minmi?
**[16:59] ---**
Hmm?
**[17:00] ---**
Do you hate Aoi now?
**[17:04] ---**
You *did* quit track and all.
**[17:07] ---**
O-Of course I don't!
**[17:10] ---**
Really?
**[17:11] ---**
I mean, Aoi's a really great girl.
She can do anything.
**[17:14] ---**
She's respectable, dependable.
**[17:18] ---**
She really gets me.
**[17:21] ---**
And she shines... and she's special...
**[17:24] ---**
Then why are you quitting?
**[17:27] ---**
You know I could never... hate Aoi.
**[17:32] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[17:34] ---**
And even though...
**[17:36] ---**
Even though I could never...
I could never hate her...
**[17:40] ---**
Aoi's just...
**[17:42] ---**
She's *such* a great girl. Always working so hard.
**[17:45] ---**
But never bragging about it.
**[17:48] ---**
Always looking out for me.
**[17:51] ---**
Understanding exactly how I feel.
**[17:55] ---**
So really, I *love* Aoi.
**[17:59] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[18:02] ---**
I mean, I *should* love her,
**[18:04] ---**
but she beats me in schoolwork,
beats me in sports...
**[18:08] ---**
And then, all of a sudden,
**[18:10] ---**
I'm *jealous* of her.
**[18:12] ---**
Like, she bugs me, or she's in my way...
**[18:15] ---**
...or I want her g-gone!
**[18:18] ---**
And here I am,
thinking these things, and I... I...
**[18:24] ---**
And it's *awful*! It's just the worst!
**[18:27] ---**
If a sore loser like me stayed in that club,
**[18:32] ---**
I'd wind up thinking that way again.
**[18:34] ---**
And I'd hate myself for it.
**[18:37] ---**
So much that I couldn't stand it.
**[18:41] ---**
Even when we practiced together, I'd think,
**[18:44] ---**
"Why doesn't she stop practicing?"
**[18:47] ---**
"If she really cared about me,
she'd quit right away."
**[18:52] ---**
"How clueless can you get?"
**[18:54] ---**
I actually thought that!
**[18:56] ---**
And I...
**[18:58] ---**
I don't want to think
that way about Aoi anymore.
**[19:02] ---**
Sure.
**[19:08] ---**
That's why I quit.
**[19:11] ---**
How can she work so hard, I wonder?
**[19:19] ---**
T-Tama?!
**[19:21] ---**
Hey! Stop tha-- It tickles!
**[19:24] ---**
You want to be number one, no matter what?
**[19:28] ---**
I-It's just...
**[19:30] ---**
I'm nothing.
**[19:33] ---**
But Minmi...
**[19:35] ---**
You're my hero.
**[19:38] ---**
Huh?
**[19:39] ---**
Always smiling and saying you're fine,
then working yourself too hard.
**[19:44] ---**
But you keep that to yourself
as you help me out.
**[19:48] ---**
I like Aoi a lot, too,
**[19:52] ---**
but you're my one and only hero, Minmi.
**[19:56] ---**
But...
**[19:58] ---**
And if you *still* wanna be number one...
**[20:03] ---**
To me, you're the world's number-one idiot!
**[20:05] ---**
So make do with that!
**[20:12] ---**
Wh-What's the big idea?!
**[20:14] ---**
Just doing what an idiot does!
**[20:17] ---**
Tama!
**[20:18] ---**
H-Hey, now!
**[20:20] ---**
Who's an idiot, hmm? Say it again!
**[20:21] ---**
C'mon, Minmi!
**[20:23] ---**
Mmm, your neck smells amazing!
**[20:26] ---**
Quit sniffing me, idiot! Back off already!
**[20:33] ---**
And so,
**[20:34] ---**
after Mimimi apologized to the club,
**[20:38] ---**
she was approved to rejoin--
the day after she'd resigned.
**[20:43] ---**
Her feelings for Hinami--a mix
of gratitude, respect, and envy--
**[20:47] ---**
seem to have mellowed quite a bit,
thanks to Tama.
**[20:51] ---**
Though Mimimi's sexual harassment
seems to have increased threefold.
**[20:56] ---**
And I'm preparing to face my biggest challenge
**[21:00] ---**
before summer vacation starts tomorrow.
**[21:03] ---**
Shuji, um... Here. A birthday present.
**[21:07] ---**
Oh, hey. Thanks.
**[21:11] ---**
Your task for today:
***SIGN*** "Today's Task Give Nakamura his present and talk to him for 3+ minutes"
**[21:13] ---**
Give Nakamura his birthday present
and talk to him for at least three minutes.
**[21:17] ---**
"PitCam"
**[21:22] ---**
Na-Nakamura!
**[21:23] ---**
Yeah? What is it, Tomozaki?
**[21:25] ---**
Um... this is... a birthday present.
**[21:28] ---**
Huh?
**[21:32] ---**
A controller?
**[21:33] ---**
See, um, the controller is key,
uh... especially in versus play.
**[21:38] ---**
I-I can get behind someone who
works hard and hates to lose...
**[21:43] ---**
And as a gamer and huge *Tackfam* fan, I, um...
**[21:47] ---**
I'll take it.
**[21:53] ---**
What?! That wasn't three minutes?
**[21:56] ---**
N-Now what?
**[21:58] ---**
Uh, hey!
**[21:59] ---**
What?
**[22:00] ---**
Well, um... er...
**[22:06] ---**
S-So is it true that Hinami
and Mizusawa are dating?
**[22:10] ---**
"Cafe Restaurant Gesto"
**[22:13] ---**
"S-So is it true that Hinami
and Mizusawa are dating?"
**[22:22] ---**
C'mon, Minmi, cut that out.
**[22:26] ---**
I-I'm so sorry, Tomozaki!
**[22:28] ---**
Jeez, give it a rest.
**[22:29] ---**
And? Is there any truth
to the rumors, Miss Hinami?
**[22:35] ---**
The truth is... we're dating.
**[22:38] ---**
What?!
**[22:38] ---**
What if I actually said that?
**[22:40] ---**
Huh? Jeez!
**[22:44] ---**
Of course we're not dating.
**[22:49] ---**
Well, now that everything's out in the open...
**[22:54] ---**
I'm really sorry for everything, gang!
**[22:57] ---**
This sure is out of the blue, Minmi.
**[23:00] ---**
By way of apologizing for causing such a fuss...
**[23:05] ---**
...please accept these!
**[23:08] ---**
And these are...?
**[23:10] ---**
Apology gifts! Also known as
proof of our friendship!
**[23:14] ---**
Just like mine, but in different colors!
**[23:17] ---**
Aren't they the *cutest*?
**[23:19] ---**
I don't know, Mimimi...
any way you look at it--
**[23:22] ---**
They're adorable.
**[23:23] ---**
Huh?!
**[23:24] ---**
They're so *cute*!
**[23:27] ---**
Oh, this is fantastic!
**[23:28] ---**
Yeah! Are you sure we can have these?
**[23:31] ---**
Of course! Abso-fruit-ly!
**[23:36] ---**
You call *this*...
**[23:38] ---**
...*cute*?
# E9 - When you go back to the starter town with the full party, new stuff tends to happen
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZK4N0/when-you-go-back-to-the-starter-town-with-the-full-party-new-stuff-tends-to-happen)
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**[00:06] ---**
Yep. Sure enough, that's one pathetic outfit.
**[00:10] ---**
What did you expect?
I don't have any new summer clothes.
**[00:14] ---**
"The Beanstalk"
**[00:14] ---**
I can see I'll have to
assign you a special task.
**[00:20] ---**
So what's my task?
**[00:22] ---**
Before we get into that,
**[00:25] ---**
we need to decide what you'll
be doing over this summer break.
**[00:30] ---**
I guess summer break isn't a *total* break.
**[00:33] ---**
Your current small goal is:
**[00:35] ---**
"Go somewhere with a girl who
isn't me--just the two of you."
**[00:39] ---**
From there, I'll be setting other goals
to be met by the end of August.
**[00:45] ---**
Got it.
**[00:46] ---**
Your goal this summer:
**[00:48] ---**
Start dating Kikuchi.
**[00:51] ---**
What?!
**[01:07] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[02:26] ---**
"Lv. 9: When you go back to the starter town
with the full party, new stuff tends to happen"
**[02:26] ---**
Where did you want to go again, Tomozaki?
**[02:29] ---**
Um, that would be...
***SIGN*** "Today" "RAGERED - Arohe Store Clothing"
**[02:32] ---**
...a clothing store on the fifth floor?
**[02:34] ---**
Okay!
**[02:37] ---**
You're more dependable than I thought, Tomozaki!
**[02:41] ---**
Is she seriously going to keep that up?
**[02:44] ---**
Your goal this summer: Start dating Kikuchi.
**[02:48] ---**
What?!
**[02:49] ---**
Keep your voice down.
**[02:51] ---**
Sorry.
**[02:53] ---**
But I mean, Kikuchi and the likes of *me*?
**[02:55] ---**
Oh? But you have those Andi books
in common, and she seems to like you.
**[03:01] ---**
You're even going to see a movie together.
**[03:05] ---**
And you're telling me
that's not a realistic goal?
**[03:09] ---**
No, it's just...
**[03:12] ---**
So your first task is to go on
that movie date with Fuka.
**[03:16] ---**
Then you'll make more plans until,
ultimately, you two are ready to date.
**[03:22] ---**
That's all.
**[03:23] ---**
Oh, sure, "that's all."
It's practically my entire goal.
**[03:27] ---**
Which is why today you'll
be doing a date rehearsal.
**[03:32] ---**
A date rehearsal?
**[03:34] ---**
I'll tell you in advance where we'll be going.
**[03:37] ---**
Based on that info, you take the lead
as if you'd done all the planning.
**[03:42] ---**
So it's basically all a sham.
**[03:45] ---**
Right. To prep for your date with Fuka.
**[03:49] ---**
It'll make a big difference.
***SIGN*** "RAGERED - Arohe Store Clothing" "Pit Camera - Omiya West Entrance Sego Store"
**[03:56] ---**
The first one's a... clothing store?
**[04:03] ---**
So what should I buy?
**[04:05] ---**
I think you should buy a T-shirt to go
with the slacks you bought earlier.
**[04:10] ---**
"Slacks"?
**[04:12] ---**
I hate to butt in on such an
extremely common mistake, but...
**[04:16] ---**
Pants.
**[04:17] ---**
Aha.
**[04:20] ---**
What'd be good? You pick one, too, Tomozaki.
**[04:24] ---**
Uh, sure.
**[04:27] ---**
Okay, I found two tees that'll match
the bottoms you already have.
**[04:32] ---**
You can get by with these and
not have to buy new bottoms!
**[04:36] ---**
"Bottoms"?
**[04:38] ---**
Pants.
**[04:41] ---**
Thank you very much!
**[04:43] ---**
Thanks for waiting.
**[04:44] ---**
Hmm... Maybe you should have this, too.
**[04:50] ---**
You don't have a proper
backpack like this, do you?
**[04:54] ---**
Are you lending me yours?
**[04:56] ---**
It's not really a loan--
consider it basically a gift.
**[05:00] ---**
Oh, no, I couldn't!
**[05:03] ---**
It's fine! See? Look here.
**[05:09] ---**
It's a little frayed, that's all.
**[05:11] ---**
Well, it bothers me!
**[05:13] ---**
Yeah, but...
**[05:15] ---**
Oh! In that case...
**[05:19] ---**
Ooh, this one!
**[05:21] ---**
It's so summery!
**[05:22] ---**
You like that kind of thing?
**[05:24] ---**
Mmm, I tend not to buy stuff I don't need,
**[05:29] ---**
but this just struck me, y'know?
**[05:31] ---**
So, uh... you want to swap
for this metal badge?
**[05:35] ---**
Yep!
**[05:37] ---**
Doesn't seem fair that I'd be
getting that bag for only 400 yen.
**[05:41] ---**
Ugh! I said I want it--isn't that enough?
**[05:45] ---**
Y-Yeah, okay.
**[05:47] ---**
Thanks!
**[05:49] ---**
Hang on...
**[05:51] ---**
She's cooking up a trade here,
**[05:54] ---**
so I won't feel like I owe her for her "gift."
**[05:59] ---**
Here.
**[06:01] ---**
Um, so... thanks.
**[06:04] ---**
Sure!
**[06:06] ---**
And I'll take good care of this!
**[06:08] ---**
Uh, okay.
**[06:10] ---**
So where are we going next?
**[06:16] ---**
"Pit Camera - Omiya West Entrance Sego Store
Consumer Electronics"
**[06:27] ---**
She's gotten better--and at a much
faster rate than I'd expected.
**[06:32] ---**
I'm not the only one who puts this much
love and effort into *Tackfam*.
**[06:38] ---**
It really is the best form of
communication for Hinami and I.
**[06:45] ---**
And *boom*.
**[06:49] ---**
Aw, man!
**[06:51] ---**
One more game!
***SIGN*** "Fuka Kikuchi" "Add" "Notifications" "Block"
**[06:55] ---**
So if I tap this...
**[06:57] ---**
Yep! You'll add her.
**[06:59] ---**
But it'll be like getting added out of nowhere.
**[07:03] ---**
Kikuchi won't know what's going on.
**[07:05] ---**
It'll be fine. I've already asked her
if I can give you her ID.
**[07:11] ---**
Wha--?
**[07:12] ---**
Now hurry up!
**[07:14] ---**
Yeah, all right.
**[07:21] ---**
There.
**[07:23] ---**
What was that for? You haven't
even messaged her yet.
**[07:28] ---**
Just tell her you got her info from me,
**[07:31] ---**
and that you'd like to see
a movie over summer break.
**[07:34] ---**
That ought to get you started!
**[07:36] ---**
I'll leave the wording up to you.
**[07:38] ---**
Seriously?
**[07:46] ---**
All set?
**[07:47] ---**
More or less.
**[07:50] ---**
Let me see, let me see!
**[07:56] ---**
"Hinami gave me your contact info.
**[07:59] ---**
I've read another Andi book.
It was really good!
**[08:05] ---**
Remember when we talked about
seeing that Andi film in Shibuya?
**[08:10] ---**
Let me know when you're free!"
**[08:13] ---**
That's some fine writing!
**[08:15] ---**
Did you *really* need to read it out loud?
**[08:17] ---**
Okay, let's send it!
**[08:22] ---**
H-Here goes...
**[08:29] ---**
Fuka tends to be a little slow to respond,
**[08:32] ---**
but you should hear back from her today.
**[08:34] ---**
Okay.
**[08:35] ---**
And when you do, let me know, 'kay?
**[08:39] ---**
Oh, but you figure out what to say.
**[08:42] ---**
Y-Yeah, sure.
**[08:45] ---**
"Fuka Kikuchi"
**[08:46] ---**
Huh?
**[08:47] ---**
I-I thought Kikuchi was slow to respond!
**[08:51] ---**
What?
**[08:51] ---**
"Fuka Kikuchi: I'd love to go!"
***SIGN*** "Fuka Kikuchi: I can be free any day in August but Tuesdays and Wednesdays! How about you?"
**[08:59] ---**
She must *really* be looking forward
to seeing that movie with you.
**[09:07] ---**
Now, then...
**[09:08] ---**
Your task for today is now over.
**[09:10] ---**
Oh, right--keep the 4th and 5th open, okay?
**[09:13] ---**
Huh? What for?
**[09:15] ---**
Me, Mimimi, Yuzu, Nakamura, Mizusawa,
and Takei are having a barbecue,
**[09:20] ---**
and you can tag along, too.
**[09:23] ---**
Eh? A barbecue?
**[09:25] ---**
An overnighter.
**[09:26] ---**
Over... night?!
**[09:28] ---**
It's really a ploy to get Yuzu
and Nakamura together.
**[09:32] ---**
Me, at a youthful normie event?
**[09:36] ---**
Hang on--this is information overload.
**[09:39] ---**
Relax. *Your* goal is to complete your tasks.
**[09:43] ---**
That's supposed to make me relax?
**[09:45] ---**
All that time together will help you make
guy friends. You don't have many yet.
**[09:49] ---**
Two full days with normies
will develop your friendships
**[09:52] ---**
and give you a big XP boost.
**[09:54] ---**
It *is* an overnight,
so I can't force you, but...
**[09:57] ---**
What do you say?
**[09:59] ---**
She must have pulled a lot
of strings to get me included.
**[10:05] ---**
And the gamer in me has already
decided to master this particular game.
**[10:11] ---**
I'll go.
**[10:13] ---**
We'll hold a strategy meeting
at Mimimi's tomorrow.
**[10:16] ---**
Your task will be to mess
with Mizusawa three times.
**[10:20] ---**
*M-Mess* with?
**[10:21] ---**
Otherwise, you'll just be that guy who
goes along with what everyone says.
**[10:27] ---**
You'll wind up as the group punching bag.
**[10:29] ---**
Moderate teasing is key to
becoming friends as equals or better.
**[10:33] ---**
So is challenging people and making
suggestions when you think they're wrong.
**[10:38] ---**
I see...
**[10:40] ---**
But can Mizusawa really be messed with?
**[10:50] ---**
Hey, Tomozaki.
**[10:51] ---**
That top-tier character aura is a killer.
**[10:54] ---**
Huh! Looks like you've discovered fashion.
**[10:57] ---**
Uh, yeah.
**[10:58] ---**
Is that another part of your
great escape from Loserland?
**[11:01] ---**
Now *he's* gone and messed with *me*.
**[11:04] ---**
And I have to mess with this guy three times?
**[11:07] ---**
Hi, guys!
**[11:09] ---**
Now that Aoi's here, let's head to Mimimi's.
**[11:12] ---**
"Nanami"
**[11:12] ---**
I'm sorry!
**[11:13] ---**
My grandma suddenly dropped by.
Can we meet somewhere else?
**[11:17] ---**
Sure. How about a restaurant?
**[11:20] ---**
Hey, I know!
**[11:22] ---**
Don't you live in Kitayono, too, Tomozaki?
**[11:25] ---**
Eh?
**[11:27] ---**
"Tomozaki"
**[11:30] ---**
I-It's...
**[11:31] ---**
...Hinami, and Nanami, and Mizusawa?!
**[11:36] ---**
Can we use the house for a while?
**[11:38] ---**
Muh... Muh... Mom!
**[11:40] ---**
Fumiya's brought... are they friends?
**[11:43] ---**
Come on in.
**[11:43] ---**
Anyway, he's brought some
*really cool* classmates over!
**[11:44] ---**
What?! Fumiya did?
Wh-What do we do now?
**[11:44] ---**
Thanks for having us.
**[11:46] ---**
'Scuse me!
**[11:46] ---**
Pardon me.
**[11:48] ---**
Probably!
**[11:48] ---**
Should I buy a cake or something?
**[11:50] ---**
Cake?! Wow, talk about a warm welcome!
**[11:53] ---**
Right? I hope it's cheesecake.
**[11:53] ---**
Your family's funny.
**[11:55] ---**
That didn't sound like a compliment.
**[11:57] ---**
It didn't? But it was.
**[12:00] ---**
Here's my chance!
**[12:02] ---**
C'mon, no way was that a compliment.
**[12:05] ---**
Round one of today's task: complete. Right?
**[12:11] ---**
Are they in here?
**[12:12] ---**
Or here?
**[12:14] ---**
Hey, Mimimi!
**[12:15] ---**
Where does Brain keep his dirty DVDs?
**[12:18] ---**
In here?
**[12:19] ---**
Huh? What's all this?
**[12:21] ---**
Controllers I can't use for *Tackfam* anymore.
**[12:25] ---**
All of these are no good?
**[12:27] ---**
*Tackfam* requires more delicate
stick controls than regular games.
**[12:31] ---**
I can still use them in other games, though,
**[12:34] ---**
so I'm torn on whether to toss them.
**[12:36] ---**
Huh!
**[12:37] ---**
You're pretty hardcore
about that stuff, aren't you?
**[12:40] ---**
I guess.
**[12:41] ---**
Aoi?
**[12:43] ---**
It'd be a waste to throw these away!
**[12:45] ---**
I'd be so upset if I were your mom!
**[12:48] ---**
What the heck?
**[12:49] ---**
For a second there, she turned into NO NAME.
**[12:55] ---**
We *definitely* need a test of courage, gang!
***SIGN*** "Getting Yuzu & Shuji Together at Camp This is important!!! Yuzu & Shuji must (always) be next to each other!"
**[12:58] ---**
That's how we get Yuzu and Shuji together:
**[13:00] ---**
the suspension-bridge effect!
**[13:02] ---**
It's clichéd, but oh so beautiful!
**[13:04] ---**
We really should have at least that much,
**[13:06] ---**
or nothing'll happen between those two.
**[13:09] ---**
Can the two of them handle
the barbecue on their own?
**[13:13] ---**
Oh, good idea! Like lighting the fire!
**[13:16] ---**
Now!
**[13:17] ---**
Mmm, that can be pretty tricky.
**[13:20] ---**
Oh?
**[13:20] ---**
Um, since lighting the fire is hard to pull off,
**[13:24] ---**
we probably shouldn't make them do it.
**[13:27] ---**
Maybe you're right.
**[13:29] ---**
Okay. That's two down.
**[13:33] ---**
Although, you know...
***SIGN*** "Getting Yuzu & Shuji Together at Camp" "Barbecue: Assign roles. (Aoi's job!) Splashing in the River Yuzu in a swimsuit = Shuji's a goner!"
**[13:36] ---**
We've got exams next year, right?
**[13:39] ---**
You promised not to bring that up!
**[13:40] ---**
That's not what I meant.
***SIGN*** "Getting Yuzu & Shuji Together at Camp This is important!!! Yuzu & Shuji must (always) be next to each other!"
**[13:43] ---**
We don't have much hanging-out time left,
**[13:45] ---**
so we should get them together now.
**[13:48] ---**
Right?
**[13:49] ---**
I mean... pretty much.
**[13:51] ---**
Now!
**[13:52] ---**
Are you getting all mushy on us, Mizusawa?
**[13:55] ---**
He *is*! You're all embarrassed, Takahiro!
**[13:57] ---**
Oh, *you*! What a good guy!
**[14:00] ---**
Totally! That's me, all right: one good guy.
**[14:03] ---**
And that's three. Task: cleared.
**[14:07] ---**
Still, for all their talk, I thought this trip
would mostly be about having fun.
**[14:12] ---**
Turns out they really do have
Izumi and Nakamura in mind.
**[14:17] ---**
Hey, Tomozaki.
**[14:19] ---**
You bought this after all, eh?
**[14:22] ---**
Yeah.
**[14:23] ---**
But you don't usually use it.
**[14:25] ---**
I don't have the hang of it yet.
I'm still practicing.
**[14:29] ---**
Huh. Lemme see.
**[14:35] ---**
You need practice, all right.
**[14:38] ---**
Yeah.
**[14:40] ---**
The sections below your crown
should be a little more tamed.
**[14:42] ---**
My crown?
**[14:43] ---**
Separate your hair vertically
in the back for volume.
**[14:47] ---**
Hang on a sec.
**[14:49] ---**
I'll want to watch this later.
**[14:51] ---**
Can you start over?
**[14:52] ---**
Oh. Sure.
**[14:56] ---**
You take everything seriously, don't you?
**[14:58] ---**
Huh?
**[14:59] ---**
First those controllers, and now this.
**[15:02] ---**
You're super serious about what you do.
**[15:04] ---**
You... think so?
**[15:07] ---**
And then there was Mimimi's election speech.
**[15:11] ---**
That was all you, wasn't it?
**[15:14] ---**
Y-You got me.
**[15:17] ---**
But why go to such lengths?
**[15:20] ---**
Well, uh...
**[15:22] ---**
I never did like losing at games.
**[15:26] ---**
So that speech was a game?
**[15:28] ---**
Oh, no! Um, that is...
**[15:29] ---**
Just, like, if it didn't go well--
in that sense, it's kind of like a game.
**[15:34] ---**
I mean...
**[15:36] ---**
I get it.
**[15:38] ---**
Huh?
**[15:38] ---**
Some things in this world are like one big game.
**[15:42] ---**
Speeches, hairstyles, romance...
**[15:44] ---**
R-Romance?
**[15:46] ---**
So it's a game--and you
still don't want to lose?
**[15:49] ---**
Is that so strange?
**[15:51] ---**
I mean, it's a *game*, right?
**[15:53] ---**
Why not loosen up and enjoy yourself?
**[15:56] ---**
Y-You think?
**[15:58] ---**
It's *because* it's a game that I take it
seriously and don't want to lose.
**[16:02] ---**
I mean...
**[16:04] ---**
Huh.
**[16:06] ---**
You're one hard worker, y'know?
**[16:07] ---**
I-I'd say I'm more of a... gamer?
**[16:12] ---**
You really are funny, you know that?
**[16:14] ---**
That is *not* a compliment.
**[16:15] ---**
No, really. It's a compliment.
**[16:19] ---**
Believe me, Fumiya.
**[16:22] ---**
"Fumiya"?
**[16:25] ---**
Your head!
**[16:26] ---**
Brain, your head!
**[16:28] ---**
Hey, nice!
**[16:29] ---**
Did you get Takahiro to do it?
**[16:31] ---**
Uh, yeah.
**[16:36] ---**
Something fishy's going on between these two.
**[16:39] ---**
Your thoughts, Miss Aoi?
**[16:41] ---**
It's fishy all right, Miss Mimimi.
**[16:44] ---**
I'm telling you, it's nothing.
**[16:46] ---**
Right, Fumiya?
***SIGN*** "Put out feelers with girl talk/boy talk: Exchange info via Litter Test of Courage: Misdirected excitement!!! No way they won't get together!"
**[16:48] ---**
Whoa! Are they on a first-name basis?!
**[16:50] ---**
This is getting fishier by the second!
**[16:53] ---**
Thanks for having us!
**[16:55] ---**
Please come visit us again!
**[16:57] ---**
Later, li'l sis.
**[16:59] ---**
Yes! Right!
**[17:01] ---**
You, too, Fumiya.
**[17:02] ---**
Y-You bet.
**[17:06] ---**
This year's summer break
is going to be off the hook.
**[17:11] ---**
Starting with the day after tomorrow--
***SIGN*** "Fuka Kikuchi: I can be free any day in August but Tuesdays and Wednesdays! How about you?" "It's not much notice, but how about Saturday, 8/1?"
**[17:12] ---**
and that movie I'm seeing with Kikuchi!
**[17:18] ---**
"How did you get into these books?"
**[17:19] ---**
"The post-movie café:
particular about their ingredients"
**[17:20] ---**
"Hinami is seriously crazy about cheese"
**[17:31] ---**
Sh-She actually came.
**[17:34] ---**
This is it. It's finally starting.
**[17:37] ---**
This... this date, as Hinami put it.
**[17:44] ---**
I... I'm sorry I'm late.
**[17:46] ---**
Oh! Um... you're totally fine.
**[17:49] ---**
Are... are you sure?
**[17:52] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[17:54] ---**
So, uh... shall we?
**[17:57] ---**
Y-Yes!
**[18:01] ---**
I'm looking forward to this movie.
**[18:03] ---**
I saw the trailer--it sure looks beautiful.
**[18:07] ---**
Yes, it does.
**[18:09] ---**
It's pretty hot today for long sleeves.
**[18:12] ---**
My skin is so sensitive--
I burn really easily in the sun.
**[18:18] ---**
It's embarrassing. I use sunblock, but...
**[18:21] ---**
It's not enough.
**[18:25] ---**
She really *is* turning red.
**[18:28] ---**
Here we are.
**[18:29] ---**
What a cool vibe.
**[18:31] ---**
"The Angel and the Caged Bird"
**[18:33] ---**
Wow...
**[18:35] ---**
We're really going to see it on the big screen!
**[18:37] ---**
Um... y-yeah! We sure are.
**[18:43] ---**
I-I'm sorry!
**[18:44] ---**
"The Angel and the Caged Bird"
**[18:45] ---**
We should buy our tickets.
**[18:47] ---**
Right.
**[18:57] ---**
I was wondering how they'd handle that scene
**[19:00] ---**
where the last of the ptarmigans takes off.
**[19:03] ---**
I never thought they'd show it in shadow!
**[19:07] ---**
Right?
**[19:08] ---**
Yeah!
**[19:09] ---**
And the scene where the red jade shatters--
**[19:13] ---**
Uh-oh. I'm doing too much talking!
**[19:15] ---**
Take a second to gather your thoughts
**[19:17] ---**
"How did you get into these books?"
**[19:17] ---**
and go for a memorized topic.
**[19:18] ---**
"The post-movie café:
particular about their ingredients"
**[19:20] ---**
When did you start getting
into these books, Kikuchi?
**[19:24] ---**
Um, sometime in elementary school.
**[19:27] ---**
I first encountered Andi's books
in my school library,
**[19:30] ---**
and gradually came to love them.
**[19:33] ---**
You don't say!
**[19:34] ---**
That reminds me:
**[19:35] ---**
I understand this cheese is made
right here at the café.
**[19:38] ---**
Oh, is it? It's very good.
**[19:42] ---**
Really? I'm glad we came here!
**[19:44] ---**
Yeah, this is going well.
**[19:46] ---**
I've gotten the hang of that normie skill
of filling in conversational gaps
**[19:50] ---**
by bringing up my own topics.
**[19:56] ---**
You're a mystery, Tomozaki.
**[19:59] ---**
Huh? Um... a mystery, you say?
**[20:03] ---**
It's, well... it's hard to explain.
**[20:06] ---**
I'm sorry. I don't mean to be rude.
**[20:09] ---**
Wh-What is it?
**[20:12] ---**
It's like you suddenly swing
from being really easy to talk to,
**[20:17] ---**
to being really hard to talk to.
**[20:21] ---**
Eh?
**[20:23] ---**
Which means...
**[20:24] ---**
...there were moments when Kikuchi
felt it was hard for her to talk.
**[20:30] ---**
Great. So much for my normie skills!
**[20:33] ---**
I'm still the same bottom-tier character.
**[20:36] ---**
"Next: Akabane"
**[20:41] ---**
Thank you so much for today.
**[20:43] ---**
It was nice seeing that movie with you.
**[20:46] ---**
Same here.
**[20:51] ---**
Um...
**[20:53] ---**
Oh, uh, well...
**[20:54] ---**
You know how I said you were
hard to talk to sometimes?
**[20:59] ---**
Oh, right. It's okay, really.
**[21:01] ---**
I mean, I think it's true.
**[21:04] ---**
It-It's not that...
**[21:06] ---**
It isn't?
**[21:09] ---**
I've always thought it was
hard to talk to guys. But...
**[21:14] ---**
B-But what?
**[21:16] ---**
There were times when you
were really easy to talk to.
**[21:20] ---**
That was a first for me.
**[21:22] ---**
Huh?
**[21:23] ---**
"Next: Akabane"
**[21:26] ---**
So, um...
**[21:28] ---**
I said you could be hard to talk to,
but that's normal for me.
**[21:32] ---**
So you see...
**[21:33] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[21:34] ---**
I didn't mean what I said in a *bad* way.
I meant it in a *good* way.
**[21:40] ---**
It's something really precious to me.
**[21:43] ---**
I... I see.
**[21:48] ---**
And... and that's why--
**[21:50] ---**
Yes?!
**[21:52] ---**
I'd... I'd like to go out
with you again sometime,
**[21:57] ---**
like we did today.
**[22:01] ---**
O-Of course!
**[22:10] ---**
Hello?
**[22:11] ---**
How was it? You must be
on your way home right now.
**[22:14] ---**
How does she *know*?
**[22:16] ---**
Huh! Sounds like you had a lot going on.
**[22:19] ---**
But it *also* sounds like
a huge success, in the end.
**[22:22] ---**
R-Right.
**[22:23] ---**
But even if she didn't mean it in a bad way,
**[22:26] ---**
you should probably reflect on
this "hard to talk to" thing.
**[22:30] ---**
Y-You think?
**[22:32] ---**
I mean, it's basically a lack
of experience and skills.
**[22:36] ---**
You know how to fix *that*, right?
**[22:39] ---**
With more experience and more training.
**[22:42] ---**
HEXactly.
**[22:43] ---**
She said she wanted to hang out again, yeah?
**[22:46] ---**
In that case...
**[22:49] ---**
"Toda Bridge Fireworks: 8/6"
"Saitama Prefecture Fireworks Shows - August"
**[22:49] ---**
Hinami's a caring person, all right.
**[22:53] ---**
Or is that "crushing"?
**[22:56] ---**
"Thanks for today. It was fun.
**[22:59] ---**
Would you like to come with me to
the Toda fireworks show on the 6th?"
**[23:07] ---**
All right.
**[23:11] ---**
I did it. I invited her.
**[23:13] ---**
To a fireworks show.
**[23:22] ---**
"I'm free on the 6th!"
**[23:23] ---**
That was fast.
**[23:24] ---**
"I'd love to go to a fireworks show!"
**[23:26] ---**
This is one awesome summer!
**[23:29] ---**
A fireworks show with Kikuchi!
**[23:32] ---**
But first...
**[23:34] ---**
First is an overnight with a bunch of normies.
**[23:37] ---**
How is *that* going to work?
# E10 - Multiplayer games have their own special appeal
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GX9UQ9PZN/multiplayer-games-have-their-own-special-appeal)
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**[00:15] ---**
Here I am! Wow, Tomozaki, you got here early.
**[00:18] ---**
Yeah, I guess.
**[00:20] ---**
Now, then: shall we?
**[00:22] ---**
Okay!
**[00:26] ---**
Oh, hey, Tomozaki?
**[00:29] ---**
Hmm?
**[00:31] ---**
Well, um...
**[00:34] ---**
You really saved me with that whole...
*thing* earlier.
**[00:37] ---**
You had, like... this major
hero vibe or something.
**[00:42] ---**
So, uh... Anyway, thanks!
**[00:45] ---**
Um... sure.
**[00:49] ---**
When did I ever get thanked
this directly before?
**[00:53] ---**
Almost never.
**[00:59] ---**
All right! Let's commemorate
us all being together!
**[01:02] ---**
Here goes nothing!
**[01:06] ---**
And thus the overnight
normie camp begins.
**[01:24] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[02:42] ---**
"Lv. 10: Multiplayer games
have their own special appeal"
**[02:45] ---**
The plot to get Izumi and Nakamura
together is already underway.
**[02:49] ---**
Although we succeeded in getting
them next to each other...
**[02:53] ---**
Hey, Shuji!
**[02:54] ---**
What?
**[02:56] ---**
Ta-da! Want a snack?
**[02:57] ---**
What is this, a grade-school field trip?
**[02:59] ---**
Aw, c'mon...
**[03:01] ---**
As soon as we get there, it's...
**[03:03] ---**
...barbecue time!
**[03:05] ---**
Meat, meat, meat!
**[03:05] ---**
Hey, Hinami...
**[03:06] ---**
Don't forget your veggies.
**[03:07] ---**
Yes?
**[03:08] ---**
Takei wasn't at our meeting--
**[03:09] ---**
Oh, don't you worry about *that*.
**[03:10] ---**
does he know about our grand plan?
**[03:12] ---**
We didn't tell him.
**[03:14] ---**
He's generally useless;
we'll just go ahead without him.
**[03:19] ---**
Sky! *Birds*!
**[03:22] ---**
Aha. I see what you mean.
**[03:24] ---**
"Chichibu Limited Express
Bound For Seibu-Chichibu"
**[03:26] ---**
Now, about your task...
**[03:29] ---**
Yeah?
**[03:30] ---**
As before, you will tease, make
a suggestion, and/or disagree.
**[03:35] ---**
But this time, you'll be doing it
to Nakamura--three times.
**[03:38] ---**
Nakamura?!
**[03:40] ---**
Your tasks have to get progressively
more difficult, or what's the point?
**[03:44] ---**
I suppose.
**[03:46] ---**
And...
**[03:48] ---**
Like I said earlier,
you need to make guy friends.
**[03:51] ---**
You should actively work to become
friendlier with Mizusawa in particular.
**[03:56] ---**
With Mizusawa?
**[03:58] ---**
That's right.
**[03:59] ---**
Right now he's your likeliest friend candidate--
**[04:01] ---**
and he'll also give the biggest bonuses
when it comes to conquering life
**[04:06] ---**
from here on out.
**[04:07] ---**
Wait-- "bonuses"?
**[04:10] ---**
Fuka said you were hard to talk to, after all,
**[04:14] ---**
so you've *got* to boost
your XP and learn some skills
**[04:16] ---**
on this overnight, right?
**[04:19] ---**
I... I guess so.
***SIGN*** "Kemmy's Family Village" "Camp" "BBQ" "Riverside Fun"
**[04:57] ---**
Okay, time to assign tasks!
**[05:00] ---**
Aye-aye, cap'n!
**[05:01] ---**
First up is food prep.
**[05:04] ---**
Yuzu and Shuji, can I ask you to handle that?
**[05:06] ---**
Huh?!
**[05:07] ---**
Yeah.
**[05:10] ---**
Tarp, chair, and table setup goes to...
**[05:13] ---**
...Takahiro and Takei.
**[05:15] ---**
Roger that.
**[05:16] ---**
We got this!
**[05:17] ---**
Maybe you should lend them a hand, Mimimi.
**[05:20] ---**
Okay!
**[05:22] ---**
Huh? Then that means...
**[05:24] ---**
And finally,
**[05:25] ---**
Tomozaki and I will be getting the fire started.
**[05:31] ---**
So what's up?
**[05:33] ---**
What do you mean, "what's up"?
**[05:35] ---**
You didn't pair us up to have
a meeting or anything?
**[05:39] ---**
Nope.
**[05:41] ---**
Huh?
**[05:42] ---**
Then why?
**[05:44] ---**
Per our strategy,
**[05:45] ---**
I assigned Nakamura and Yuzu both to food prep.
**[05:50] ---**
And setting up the tarp is a real chore,
**[05:52] ---**
so that goes to brawny Takei
**[05:54] ---**
and Mizusawa, the natural leader.
**[05:57] ---**
Oh, and Mimimi, who'll fit in anywhere.
**[06:00] ---**
Since you can't do anything
if you don't get your fire lit,
**[06:04] ---**
I wanted to handle that myself.
**[06:06] ---**
Which, naturally,
**[06:08] ---**
leaves you.
**[06:11] ---**
True enough.
**[06:13] ---**
Plus, I get tired of
putting on an act all the time.
**[06:17] ---**
Huh. So you *do* get tired.
**[06:21] ---**
Of course I do. I'm only human.
**[06:29] ---**
You cut the carrots too big.
**[06:32] ---**
Oh, hush, Shuji. Just eat, will you?
**[06:36] ---**
Takei! You're eating too much meat.
**[06:38] ---**
It's veggies only for you from now on.
**[06:41] ---**
Aw, Shuji, you meanie!
**[06:43] ---**
Help me out here, Yuzucchi!
**[06:45] ---**
Huh? Um... Shake it off!
**[06:47] ---**
I-Is that it?!
**[06:49] ---**
Mimimi, help!
**[06:51] ---**
Shake it off, Takei!
**[06:52] ---**
Not you, too, Mimimi!
**[06:54] ---**
Hey, I don't see *you* eating
many veggies, Takahiro.
**[06:57] ---**
What about *you*, Mimimi?
**[06:59] ---**
Have some of these deliciously grilled shrimp!
**[07:02] ---**
Go on, eat up!
**[07:03] ---**
Sorry! Shrimp gets a big "nope" from me!
**[07:05] ---**
Then I'll eat the shrimp and the meat for you.
**[07:09] ---**
All right, you can have my shrimp.
**[07:11] ---**
But you're *not* getting my meat!
**[07:12] ---**
Aw!
**[07:14] ---**
This whole scene feels like something
I would have always rejected.
**[07:20] ---**
But then I realized it might
actually be pretty fun after all.
**[07:28] ---**
I... might have had too much to eat.
**[07:31] ---**
"Might," hell. You ate too much.
**[07:33] ---**
B-But it all tasted so good...
**[07:36] ---**
What are you, a child?
**[07:38] ---**
Oh, you hush!
**[07:41] ---**
All right!
**[07:43] ---**
Wanna hang out by the river?
**[07:46] ---**
Yesss! Finally!
**[07:49] ---**
Count me in!
**[07:52] ---**
I-I'll leave my top on for now.
**[07:56] ---**
Hey, boys! Is Takahiro the only
one who brought a suit?
**[08:00] ---**
Who cares? Let's do this!
**[08:03] ---**
Here I go! Yahoo!
**[08:08] ---**
Anything here?
**[08:11] ---**
Gotcha!
**[08:13] ---**
Hey, Shuji! Take *this*!
**[08:15] ---**
You really *are* a child.
**[08:20] ---**
Ha!
**[08:21] ---**
Great. They're on their own
and doing marvelously.
**[08:24] ---**
Now for me to get Takei over here and...
**[08:27] ---**
What the--?!
**[08:28] ---**
Hey! Yuzucchi!
**[08:30] ---**
Takei?! Where'd *he* come from?
**[08:33] ---**
A river crab!
**[08:34] ---**
Ain't it cute?
**[08:38] ---**
Yuzu!
**[08:42] ---**
Th-Thanks, Shuji.
**[08:45] ---**
What's the big idea, falling over like that?
**[08:47] ---**
Lame.
**[08:48] ---**
Sh-Shut up!
**[08:50] ---**
But... thank you.
**[08:53] ---**
I-I'm real sorry, Yuzucchi!
That was all on me!
**[08:58] ---**
But it got them closer together,
so all's well that ends well.
**[09:02] ---**
Right?
**[09:03] ---**
You okay?
**[09:06] ---**
J-Just fine!
**[09:19] ---**
Do they have cards here?
**[09:21] ---**
Yeah, you can borrow them for free.
**[09:24] ---**
Well, it'll pass the time, anyway.
**[09:27] ---**
Hey, Tomozaki.
**[09:29] ---**
Huh?
**[09:30] ---**
Actually, hang on, Shuji--
**[09:32] ---**
what's going on with you
and Shimano these days?
**[09:35] ---**
Where'd *that* come from?
**[09:37] ---**
Nothing's going on with us.
**[09:39] ---**
Nothing at all?
**[09:40] ---**
I mean, sometimes she messages me.
**[09:43] ---**
See? What, she wants to get back together?
**[09:46] ---**
Nakamura was going to send
me out for a deck of cards.
**[09:50] ---**
He's a scary one, all right.
**[09:52] ---**
If Mizusawa hadn't spoken up,
I'd be stuck as the gofer.
**[09:55] ---**
And *that's* who I'm supposed to mess with?
**[09:57] ---**
Ooh, is Shimano the one
who dumped you, Shuji?
**[10:01] ---**
Hey!
**[10:02] ---**
Takei got to him first.
**[10:05] ---**
Why are we even talking
about this stuff, anyway?
**[10:08] ---**
It's just what you *do* on an overnight trip.
**[10:11] ---**
Right?
**[10:13] ---**
Absolutely.
**[10:14] ---**
Oh?
**[10:16] ---**
We are *way* too far apart
in the social hierarchy.
**[10:19] ---**
She keeps getting in touch even though
she's got herself a boyfriend.
**[10:23] ---**
I mean, I've been thinking about
moving on myself, but... I dunno.
**[10:28] ---**
If you still have a chance with Shimano...
**[10:32] ---**
It'd be hard to move on!
**[10:34] ---**
Plus, she is *stacked*.
**[10:36] ---**
Whoa. This must be guy talk.
**[10:40] ---**
But wait--this sounds like...
**[10:42] ---**
What's that face for, Tomozaki?
**[10:46] ---**
Huh? Oh, uh, nothing.
**[10:48] ---**
Got some thoughts on the situation, Fumiya?
**[10:51] ---**
K-Kinda...
**[10:52] ---**
Well? What are they?
**[10:53] ---**
This is my chance!
**[10:55] ---**
H-Here goes...
**[10:57] ---**
I-I mean, it's like...
**[10:59] ---**
What Shimano's doing--isn't she basically...
**[11:01] ---**
Go on...
**[11:03] ---**
Isn't she just stringing you along?
**[11:10] ---**
Tch.
**[11:11] ---**
Don't push your luck, Tomozaki!
**[11:13] ---**
Yeah, yeah. She's stringing me along, okay?
**[11:17] ---**
Th-That was terrifying.
**[11:19] ---**
But that's my first hurdle cleared.
**[11:23] ---**
This is getting ridiculous.
**[11:25] ---**
C'mon, Shuji, shake her off and move on already!
**[11:30] ---**
So? Got anyone in mind?
**[11:32] ---**
Yeah, but she's coming to me
for romantic advice.
**[11:36] ---**
Huh! Like what?
**[11:39] ---**
"There's someone I like, but I don't think
he's noticed me. What should I do?"
**[11:45] ---**
Stuff like that.
**[11:47] ---**
O-Oh.
**[11:49] ---**
Y-You don't say.
**[11:51] ---**
Well, *that* doesn't sound
very promising, either!
**[12:01] ---**
Oho! So she's stringing him along.
**[12:01] ---**
"Group"
"Shuji's still getting messages from Shimano"
**[12:06] ---**
And Fumiya told Shuji that to his face.
We totally cracked up!
**[12:11] ---**
You didn't see the dirty look he gave me.
**[12:17] ---**
Well, Yuzu dropped a bombshell of her own!
**[12:20] ---**
Apparently she actually told Shuji
there's this guy she's interested in!
**[12:26] ---**
And Shuji said this girl he'd had his
eye on was coming to him for advice
**[12:30] ---**
about a guy she liked.
**[12:32] ---**
OMG, no way! The feeling's mutual!
**[12:36] ---**
Just date already!
**[12:38] ---**
Guess we better get going, huh?
**[12:40] ---**
That's right.
**[12:42] ---**
C'mon, Takahiro. You, too, Tomozaki.
**[12:44] ---**
Yep.
**[12:45] ---**
Huh? Where to?
**[12:47] ---**
Where else, my man?
**[12:55] ---**
Whoa. The girls' room.
**[12:57] ---**
What should we do?
**[12:59] ---**
We could play a game.
**[13:01] ---**
I brought a deck of cards!
**[13:03] ---**
With this many people, we can play...
**[13:05] ---**
Tycoon!
**[13:10] ---**
I guess it's safe to say I win, yes?
**[13:14] ---**
Dammit.
**[13:16] ---**
Hey, you two...
**[13:19] ---**
Why so competitive with one another?
**[13:22] ---**
Tycoon isn't really that kind of game.
**[13:26] ---**
I was so deep in the zone that I forgot my task!
**[13:29] ---**
Aoi won five times, Brain won four.
**[13:33] ---**
And I was almost always Poor!
**[13:36] ---**
I was almost always the Beggar.
**[13:39] ---**
You guys suck at this!
**[13:42] ---**
Now!
**[13:43] ---**
I don't know, Nakamura--
**[13:45] ---**
you never did get past Commoner.
**[13:47] ---**
Tch.
**[13:48] ---**
Shut up.
**[13:51] ---**
All right. That's two down!
**[13:55] ---**
Gotta admire folks who
take this stuff seriously.
**[13:59] ---**
What about you, Hiro? How's it going?
**[14:03] ---**
Hmm? How's what going?
**[14:04] ---**
He's been flirting with a girl from
another school. Could be serious.
**[14:09] ---**
Right, Takahiro?
**[14:10] ---**
Whoa, what?
**[14:10] ---**
What?!
**[14:11] ---**
What in the *what*?
**[14:13] ---**
What in the actual *what*?!
**[14:15] ---**
Oh, you know, I occasionally ask
her out on our days off and stuff.
**[14:19] ---**
And? Are you going to get together?
**[14:22] ---**
I mean, if I wanted to, yeah.
**[14:27] ---**
Niiice!
**[14:28] ---**
C'mon, gang, drop it already!
**[14:31] ---**
What, running away?
**[14:32] ---**
*No.*
**[14:33] ---**
Bathroom break.
**[14:35] ---**
Oh--I'll come, too.
**[14:45] ---**
Let me try talking about
our previous conversation.
**[14:50] ---**
So... a girl from another school, eh?
**[14:54] ---**
Won't let that go, huh?
**[14:55] ---**
Oh, um...
**[14:56] ---**
What was it you said?
You could date her if you wanted to?
**[15:01] ---**
Yeah, pretty much. We could be a couple.
**[15:04] ---**
Huh... wow.
**[15:07] ---**
Really? Nothing particularly "wow" about it.
**[15:10] ---**
I'm just good at that stuff.
**[15:11] ---**
But that's what's so impressive!
**[15:14] ---**
I've only come this far,
trying to change myself.
**[15:18] ---**
Asking out and getting friendly
with a girl from another school?
**[15:21] ---**
Forget about it.
**[15:22] ---**
Hmm.
**[15:24] ---**
I guess I really *can* do anything, huh?
**[15:25] ---**
"Balls" "Birdies & Small Balls" "Rackets, Etc."
**[15:28] ---**
And without even trying.
**[15:29] ---**
I-I guess so.
**[15:31] ---**
But just because we *can* date doesn't
mean we don't get lost along the way.
**[15:36] ---**
Us winners, I mean.
**[15:38] ---**
"Get lost"?
**[15:40] ---**
Mizusawa, don't you *like* this girl?
**[15:45] ---**
Wow, blunt much?
**[15:47] ---**
Oh! Um, I, er... Sorry.
**[15:49] ---**
No need to apologize.
**[15:51] ---**
That's just how you are.
**[15:53] ---**
Huh?
**[15:54] ---**
And, well...
**[15:56] ---**
I might not actually like her all that much.
**[15:58] ---**
But you're the one doing the asking-out, right?
**[16:01] ---**
Mmm, pretty much.
**[16:03] ---**
But that doesn't necessarily mean
I like her, does it?
**[16:07] ---**
I mean... *doesn't* it?
**[16:10] ---**
There's still a chance I'll end up dating her.
**[16:14] ---**
Um...
**[16:16] ---**
Wh-What do you mean?
**[16:18] ---**
About what?
**[16:19] ---**
It's just, like... maybe I'm not seeing
what you're unsure about.
**[16:27] ---**
I'm not exactly an expert in these things...
**[16:30] ---**
But if you don't like her,
why would you date her?
**[16:38] ---**
You're not just being polite, are you?
**[16:41] ---**
Eh?
**[16:42] ---**
C'mon. Let's go.
**[16:45] ---**
Oh... yeah.
**[16:47] ---**
Okay, meet back here when you're done!
**[16:50] ---**
Okie doke!
All right!
**[16:50] ---**
Sure.
You bet!
**[16:51] ---**
Don't stay in so long you get lightheaded, Yuzu.
**[16:54] ---**
I'm not a child, you know?!
**[16:56] ---**
And no peeking!
**[16:58] ---**
Dude, we *can't*!
**[16:59] ---**
Peek and we'll peek right back.
**[17:04] ---**
Yuzu seems to be the one
who's more sure of her feelings.
**[17:09] ---**
C'mon, Nakamu, get it together!
**[17:11] ---**
Right?
**[17:12] ---**
I guess it all comes down
to the test of courage.
**[17:14] ---**
Mmm-hmm.
**[17:15] ---**
If we can just get them together long enough
**[17:17] ---**
for Nakamu to get interested...
**[17:20] ---**
Let's see what Takahiro and Tomozaki can do.
**[17:27] ---**
Hmm?
**[17:30] ---**
Fumiya... you're...
**[17:32] ---**
Whoa...
**[17:34] ---**
Are you kidding me?
**[17:35] ---**
Incredible!
**[17:36] ---**
Huh? Wha-- Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
**[17:37] ---**
Tomozaki, you're *huge*!
**[17:40] ---**
It's the size of my forearm!
**[17:43] ---**
Your forearm?
**[17:44] ---**
Forearm Boy. No--forearm... Army Boy it is.
**[17:48] ---**
L-Let me go!
**[17:48] ---**
Yeah. Got a nice ring to it.
**[17:50] ---**
Okay!
**[17:56] ---**
T-This is my chance!
**[17:58] ---**
Dude, you are *tiny*!
**[18:08] ---**
That's the third part of my task complete!
**[18:11] ---**
I did it, Hinami!
**[18:16] ---**
Are you *sure* we can count on them?
**[18:19] ---**
Maybe not.
**[18:22] ---**
Are we really doing this?
**[18:24] ---**
'Course we are!
**[18:26] ---**
S-Seriously?
**[18:28] ---**
Now, now. This is a well-traveled
road during the day and all--
**[18:32] ---**
the dim light is only making it
*look* spooky and haunted.
**[18:36] ---**
That's the scary part!
**[18:39] ---**
We'll split up into teams and
make our way back to camp.
**[18:43] ---**
Got it.
**[18:44] ---**
All right.
**[18:45] ---**
Roger that!
**[18:47] ---**
H-Hey... I really am scared, though.
**[18:50] ---**
Oh?
**[18:51] ---**
Oh, well, would you look at the lovebirds!
**[18:54] ---**
Okay, you two, get a move on already!
**[18:56] ---**
Huh?!
**[18:57] ---**
I mean, if she's doing *that*...
**[18:59] ---**
What? Wait! That's not what I--
**[18:59] ---**
Good luck!
**[19:02] ---**
You, uh, you look great together!
**[19:04] ---**
Forget it: it's hopeless.
**[19:06] ---**
C'mon.
**[19:08] ---**
Huh? Hey! W-Wait up, Shuji!
**[19:11] ---**
You're too slow.
**[19:12] ---**
What?! Ugh!
**[19:15] ---**
Nice one, Takahiro!
**[19:18] ---**
Well, you know!
**[19:19] ---**
Guess that's the end
of our big strategy, eh?
**[19:22] ---**
Strategy?
**[19:23] ---**
If nothing happens, even with
the stage so thoroughly set...
**[19:26] ---**
That Nakamu better man up!
**[19:28] ---**
Eh? What's going on?
**[19:29] ---**
Heck, Yuzu might make the first move!
**[19:32] ---**
Just don't let it come to that, Shuji!
**[19:34] ---**
Consider your reputation!
**[19:36] ---**
What do you mean?
**[19:37] ---**
The next pair should get going.
**[19:39] ---**
Who's up?
**[19:40] ---**
We'll rock-paper-scissors for it.
**[19:42] ---**
Yeah, that works.
**[19:44] ---**
Aye-aye!
**[19:44] ---**
Huh? What?
**[19:46] ---**
Okay, then!
**[19:47] ---**
Catch you later!
**[19:48] ---**
Hey, what was that all about?
**[19:51] ---**
We had this strategy
for getting them together...
**[19:53] ---**
Getting *who* together?
**[19:55] ---**
All right, listen up...
**[19:56] ---**
Since we're here, a little special training.
**[20:00] ---**
Special training?
**[20:06] ---**
Wh-What? What? What is it?!
**[20:09] ---**
Y-You have to act with
confidence at times like this.
**[20:13] ---**
Ah. So this is walking-confidently-
with-a-scared-girl practice.
**[20:18] ---**
Yep! Exactly right.
**[20:20] ---**
I'm counting on you.
**[20:26] ---**
Hey, Tomozaki...
**[20:28] ---**
Don't let go, okay?
**[20:30] ---**
Uh, right.
**[20:31] ---**
Calm down! Calm down, Fumiya!
**[20:33] ---**
Hinami's just teasing me
so she can see me all flustered!
**[20:40] ---**
Are you okay?
**[20:41] ---**
Come on. That was all *you*.
**[20:44] ---**
Um, y-yeah. I'm fine.
**[20:47] ---**
Wh-What's that?!
**[20:50] ---**
I'm done for. My brain's in full-on panic mode.
**[20:54] ---**
I-It's nothing.
**[20:56] ---**
Just a bug... flying by.
**[20:58] ---**
Oh... okay.
**[21:04] ---**
I can see it all over your face!
**[21:06] ---**
Dammit. Is there any way I can get her back?
**[21:12] ---**
What's that?
**[21:13] ---**
A cicada?
**[21:14] ---**
If that cicada is still alive...
**[21:18] ---**
If it is...
**[21:25] ---**
Now!
**[21:26] ---**
I'll just sic this cicada on her!
**[21:30] ---**
What's that?!
**[21:32] ---**
Okay, well, I inadvertently shouted, too...
**[21:35] ---**
Still, serves you right, Hinami.
**[21:40] ---**
That... that gave me a fright.
**[21:43] ---**
Hey, Hinami...
**[21:44] ---**
You okay?
**[21:45] ---**
I can't stand up.
**[21:47] ---**
Um... are you asking me to help you up?
**[21:52] ---**
We're really doing this, huh?
**[21:54] ---**
H-Hurry up.
**[21:56] ---**
Right.
**[21:58] ---**
Hup.
**[22:00] ---**
Eh?
**[22:03] ---**
Huh?
**[22:04] ---**
What... what is it?
# E11 - A single choice can change everything
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GJWU285EX/a-single-choice-can-change-everything)
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**[00:03] ---**
That... that gave me a fright.
**[00:06] ---**
Hey, Hinami...
**[00:07] ---**
You okay?
**[00:08] ---**
I can't stand up.
**[00:10] ---**
Um... are you asking me to help you up?
**[00:15] ---**
We're really doing this, huh?
**[00:17] ---**
H-Hurry up.
**[00:19] ---**
Right.
**[00:21] ---**
Hup.
**[00:23] ---**
Eh?
**[00:26] ---**
Huh?
**[00:27] ---**
What... what is it?
**[00:34] ---**
Uh... hey...
**[00:39] ---**
If I break eye contact now,
I'll never hear the end of it.
**[01:03] ---**
Well, I won that round!
**[01:05] ---**
D-Damn you...
**[01:08] ---**
Now let's get going already.
**[01:10] ---**
R-Right.
**[01:14] ---**
What would have happened
if I hadn't dodged?
**[01:17] ---**
Was she really so sure that I'd do just that?
**[01:35] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[02:53] ---**
"Lv. 11: A single choice can change everything"
**[02:57] ---**
And that's it for the test of courage!
**[03:00] ---**
Nicely done.
**[03:01] ---**
I had a blast!
**[03:03] ---**
It sure wasn't very scary, though.
**[03:06] ---**
Not really.
**[03:09] ---**
C'mon! It was *terrifying*!
**[03:11] ---**
You were trembling like an idiot.
**[03:14] ---**
Hey! That "idiot" was uncalled for!
**[03:16] ---**
Yeah, okay. And back we go.
**[03:19] ---**
Wait up, Shuji!
**[03:22] ---**
What happened with those two?
**[03:24] ---**
Is this about the pairing-up plan?
**[03:25] ---**
Hmm. Doesn't look like anyone
came clean about their crush.
**[03:29] ---**
Aw!
**[03:31] ---**
Although they *did* make plans
to hang out together later.
**[03:35] ---**
Is that it? Just *plans* to hang out?
**[03:37] ---**
Yep. That's it.
**[03:39] ---**
Honestly, those two...
**[03:43] ---**
They're really taking it
one tiny step at a time.
**[03:48] ---**
They should take some lessons from you,
moving full speed ahead
**[03:51] ---**
with that girl from another school.
**[03:52] ---**
Right?
**[03:56] ---**
I hope things work out for
the two of you, Takahiro.
**[04:00] ---**
Yeah. That'd be nice.
***SIGN*** "I'll explain your task on the train tomorrow." "Roger" "You awake?"
**[04:16] ---**
Now for an overall review
of your time at camp.
**[04:19] ---**
First, your assignment of messing with or
disagreeing with Nakamura three times.
**[04:24] ---**
Yep! I got him three times.
**[04:26] ---**
The first time...
**[04:28] ---**
I-I mean, it's like...
**[04:30] ---**
What Shimano's doing--isn't she basically...
**[04:33] ---**
Isn't she just stringing you along?
**[04:36] ---**
The second time was
during Tycoon, remember?
**[04:39] ---**
I don't know, Nakamura--
**[04:40] ---**
you never did get past Commoner.
**[04:42] ---**
And the third time...
**[04:45] ---**
Well? Out with it already!
**[04:47] ---**
Um, we were in the bath, and...
**[04:49] ---**
Dude, you are *tiny*!
**[04:53] ---**
Y-You guys are so dumb.
**[04:55] ---**
But you completed the task,
so I guess you pass.
**[04:59] ---**
Wait. Someone's coming.
**[05:02] ---**
Well, you don't have to *hide*.
**[05:07] ---**
You couldn't sleep either, huh?
**[05:10] ---**
I thought you and Fumiya
might be here together.
**[05:15] ---**
Guess I was wrong.
**[05:16] ---**
Oh?
**[05:18] ---**
Did we manage to miss each other somewhere?
**[05:20] ---**
Ah, it doesn't matter.
**[05:23] ---**
Since we're both here, we may as well chat.
**[05:26] ---**
What? Is he sticking around?
**[05:28] ---**
I'm glad those two made
a *little* progress, anyway.
**[05:32] ---**
Same here.
**[05:34] ---**
Though given how carefully
we set them up,
**[05:36] ---**
it's beyond awkward of them
to end up with nothing but plans
**[05:39] ---**
to hang out sometime.
**[05:41] ---**
Absolutely! Like, how naïve can you get?
**[05:45] ---**
Yeah! Right!
**[05:47] ---**
Totally awkward idiots, those two, I swear.
**[05:50] ---**
Mmm-hmm.
**[05:56] ---**
But you know...
**[05:59] ---**
I'm actually kind of impressed.
**[06:02] ---**
Hmm?
**[06:02] ---**
It's like...
**[06:04] ---**
Yuzu and Shuji... and Fumiya, too.
**[06:08] ---**
They all do what they want, getting
emotionally involved along the way.
**[06:14] ---**
Whether they're truly happy or genuinely sad,
**[06:17] ---**
they're always, like... so *sincere*.
**[06:22] ---**
Even though Yuzu and Shinji
are into each other,
**[06:24] ---**
they're both so self-conscious
that it doesn't go anywhere.
**[06:28] ---**
And Fumiya tackles everything
with such earnest,
**[06:31] ---**
muddling his way on through.
**[06:34] ---**
They just look like they're having so much *fun*.
**[06:38] ---**
Yeah, maybe.
**[06:40] ---**
And so...
**[06:41] ---**
I see them being all sincere
and it gets me thinking.
**[06:47] ---**
About what?
**[06:48] ---**
Maybe I should try being
a little bit of an idiot, too.
**[06:51] ---**
An idiot?
**[06:52] ---**
The thing is--and Fumiya said this, too--
**[06:56] ---**
every day is like a game.
**[06:59] ---**
But I don't take it seriously.
**[07:02] ---**
Like, I'm holding the controller,
but I'm moving someone else around.
**[07:06] ---**
If I screw up, that character
takes the hit--not me.
**[07:11] ---**
I'm not the one who's happy
when things go right.
**[07:14] ---**
I'm not the one who has fun.
**[07:16] ---**
So you're like the player,
always watching yourself from a distance?
**[07:21] ---**
Something like that.
**[07:22] ---**
Emotions, feeling shy,
liking or not liking someone,
**[07:26] ---**
whatever it is I truly *want* to do--
**[07:28] ---**
it's not about that, not really.
**[07:31] ---**
I'm just putting on a show, that's all.
**[07:36] ---**
Oh... I see.
**[07:38] ---**
Should I even be hearing this conversation?
**[07:43] ---**
So, you know... I get it.
**[07:46] ---**
Get what, exactly?
**[07:52] ---**
Isn't it the same for you?
**[07:56] ---**
You mean, am I watching myself from
a distance as I go through the motions?
**[08:01] ---**
Yeah.
**[08:02] ---**
Actually... maybe I am.
**[08:06] ---**
A "yes"!
**[08:07] ---**
Yeah... I figured as much.
**[08:12] ---**
To be perfectly blunt,
people expect a lot from me.
**[08:17] ---**
You know: "Aoi Hinami is great at everything!"
**[08:21] ---**
So I unconsciously suppress my real self.
**[08:25] ---**
I play the part that people want me to play.
**[08:28] ---**
Though there's pride involved, too--
not wanting to let anyone down.
**[08:33] ---**
Oh! This is between us!
**[08:36] ---**
Those aren't the words of
the genuine mask-off Aoi Hinami.
**[08:41] ---**
It sure does get boring, doing things
just because you're supposed to.
**[08:48] ---**
And that feeling...
**[08:50] ---**
Yeah. I get that.
**[08:51] ---**
They aren't her usual overly-truthful words,
coldly rational and logical.
**[08:57] ---**
I think just about every normal person
does a little bit of acting.
**[09:02] ---**
So I figure we have to compromise a little:
**[09:09] ---**
by finding even one person
we can show our true selves to.
**[09:15] ---**
That's just me talking!
**[09:17] ---**
Those trifling words, from the mask
of the perfect high-school heroine.
**[09:22] ---**
She made it look like she'd removed her mask,
**[09:25] ---**
but beneath that mask
**[09:27] ---**
she'd readied another one entirely.
**[09:30] ---**
Wh-What is it?
**[09:32] ---**
You really are amazing, Aoi.
**[09:34] ---**
Huh? It's not like I said anything
particularly meaningful...
**[09:38] ---**
Never mind that.
**[09:42] ---**
It's so strange.
**[09:44] ---**
Usually when I'm around girls,
I play the part of the ideal boyfriend.
**[09:48] ---**
I find out how they really feel,
accept their feelings--
**[09:52] ---**
and I've got them wrapped
around my little finger.
**[09:54] ---**
That's how it's supposed to go, anyway.
**[09:56] ---**
So why am I opening up to you--
and why are *you* the one acting?
**[10:00] ---**
It's all backwards!
**[10:02] ---**
This has never happened to me before!
**[10:04] ---**
Huh? I mean...
**[10:07] ---**
Yep. I'm simply no match for you, Aoi.
**[10:10] ---**
Is that supposed to be a compliment?
**[10:12] ---**
Listen, now that I've bared
my soul to you and all,
**[10:15] ---**
let me say just one more thing.
**[10:17] ---**
Eh? What is it?
**[10:19] ---**
I like you, Aoi.
**[10:24] ---**
One day I'd like to find out
how you really feel.
**[10:28] ---**
Yeah. Thanks.
**[10:30] ---**
But if I asked you out, you'd say no,
wouldn't you?
**[10:36] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[10:38] ---**
We've come this far and
you *still* won't open up?
**[10:42] ---**
Can't be dating like that, now, can we?
**[10:45] ---**
It does sting, though, I have to say.
**[10:48] ---**
Putting everything out there
and getting turned down?
**[10:50] ---**
Not fun.
**[10:51] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[10:52] ---**
But you know what?
**[10:54] ---**
I got it off my chest!
**[10:56] ---**
I hadn't done that in a long time--
**[10:59] ---**
coming face to face with what I wanted
**[11:02] ---**
and giving it an honest shot.
**[11:05] ---**
So you like me that much, do you?
**[11:08] ---**
Yep. I'm not giving up now--
not after everything I've said.
**[11:13] ---**
I see. But I'm one tough
customer, you know?
**[11:16] ---**
Aoi.
**[11:18] ---**
Yes?
**[11:19] ---**
When are you...?
**[11:22] ---**
How long are you going
to stay on that side?
**[11:28] ---**
I-I'm so sorry!
**[11:31] ---**
Fumiya?!
**[11:33] ---**
I didn't want to raise any
weird suspicions, so I hid.
**[11:36] ---**
I never thought it would end up like this!
**[11:38] ---**
I'm sorry!
**[11:39] ---**
We ran into each other as we left the bathroom.
**[11:42] ---**
We talked for a while until you showed up,
**[11:45] ---**
then Tomozaki went into hiding and...
never came back out.
**[11:50] ---**
What the hell?
**[11:52] ---**
The things you must have heard...
**[11:54] ---**
I'm sorry--I really am.
**[11:56] ---**
Looks like you didn't mean any harm.
**[11:59] ---**
Still, I didn't expect you to pop out
and spill your guts, either.
**[12:04] ---**
Um... right.
**[12:06] ---**
Are you always this stupidly honest?
**[12:11] ---**
I just thought... it'd be weird to stay hidden.
**[12:15] ---**
And there we have it.
**[12:18] ---**
Huh?
**[12:20] ---**
Let's pretend this never happened, shall we?
**[12:23] ---**
Back to our cabins we go!
**[12:26] ---**
Well, *I* don't feel like
pretending it never happened.
**[12:32] ---**
Mizusawa found his answer
in this overnight camp:
**[12:36] ---**
To toss aside the mask he'd been wearing
**[12:39] ---**
and, with all sincerity,
confront what he truly wanted.
**[12:44] ---**
And Hinami, who wasn't the slightest bit moved
**[12:46] ---**
for having heard his answer:
**[12:49] ---**
She chose to stubbornly defend
the mask she wore
**[12:52] ---**
and to keep up her perfect performance.
**[12:56] ---**
They're similar in some ways,
**[12:58] ---**
but crucially different at heart.
**[13:03] ---**
Will you choose the mask?
Or your true feelings?
**[13:07] ---**
Keep up the act? Or be yourself?
**[13:11] ---**
See reality as a player would,
through a screen?
**[13:14] ---**
Or view it through a character's eyes?
**[13:17] ---**
The choices those two had made,
the difference between them...
**[13:22] ---**
They were deeply connected to
the situation I was in right now.
**[13:25] ---**
That's how it seemed to me.
**[13:30] ---**
"Tell Kikuchi."
***SIGN*** "Today" "After the fireworks tomorrow, tell Kikuchi how you feel"
**[13:32] ---**
If Hinami wants me to, it must
have a high chance of success.
**[13:36] ---**
Still, it's like she's telling me,
"Just put on a show."
**[13:43] ---**
So what's my answer here?
**[13:45] ---**
Which way do I go?
**[13:59] ---**
Kikuchi!
**[14:01] ---**
Oh! Tomozaki!
**[14:04] ---**
A yukata!
**[14:05] ---**
Oh, um... uh-huh.
**[14:07] ---**
It's a special occasion and all, so I thought...
**[14:12] ---**
R-Right.
**[14:14] ---**
All this attention is... it's embarrassing.
**[14:17] ---**
S-Sorry.
**[14:21] ---**
And Takei's just taking pictures
the whole time.
**[14:21] ---**
"Toda Bridge Fireworks Association"
**[14:26] ---**
I never really liked the idea
of big group barbecues,
**[14:30] ---**
but surprisingly enough,
it was more fun than I'd expected.
**[14:33] ---**
Oh, really?
**[14:34] ---**
"Candy Apples"
**[14:35] ---**
W-Want one?
**[14:37] ---**
Yes!
**[14:43] ---**
All set!
**[14:44] ---**
Oh, okay. So, uh, shall we?
**[14:53] ---**
Ooh, I bet we'll have a great view from here.
**[14:55] ---**
Yes, we really will.
**[14:58] ---**
I haven't been to a fireworks show
in such a long time.
**[15:02] ---**
Same here... I think.
**[15:05] ---**
The last time I went, I think
my folks might have taken me.
**[15:08] ---**
Right! That's how long it feels for me, too.
**[15:11] ---**
You don't say.
**[15:13] ---**
Uh-huh!
**[15:18] ---**
Only one thing's different about me
today compared to our movie date:
**[15:23] ---**
I'm not using memorized conversation topics.
**[15:27] ---**
It means there's more silence.
**[15:30] ---**
But this way, I can be sure of
the truth in that one little phrase.
**[15:38] ---**
Hey, it's starting!
**[15:39] ---**
Here we go!
**[15:48] ---**
Aren't they just so beautiful?
**[15:52] ---**
Yeah, they are.
**[15:56] ---**
Because I may have been ever
so slightly wrong all this time.
**[16:03] ---**
And now for the grand finale!
**[16:24] ---**
Listen...
**[16:25] ---**
Yes?
**[16:26] ---**
You said before that I'm
hard to talk to sometimes.
**[16:30] ---**
What about today?
**[16:32] ---**
Um... t-today?
**[16:35] ---**
Right. Just today.
**[16:38] ---**
Actually...
**[16:40] ---**
You've been easy to talk to all night.
***SIGN*** "Today" "After the fireworks tomorrow, tell Kikuchi how you feel"
**[16:55] ---**
Kikuchi...
**[16:57] ---**
Yes?
**[17:06] ---**
Let's head back.
***SIGN*** "After the fireworks tomorrow, tell Kikuchi how you feel" "Today" "Can I call you?"
***SIGN*** "If there's been a big change, want to talk in person? I'm coming home from the fireworks myself--I can get to Kitayono no problem"
**[17:27] ---**
So? How'd your confession go over?
**[17:31] ---**
I didn't say anything.
**[17:34] ---**
Now look, I realize it was a tougher
task than the others you'd done--
**[17:38] ---**
It's not that I *couldn't*.
**[17:42] ---**
What?
**[17:43] ---**
It's not that I couldn't. I just didn't.
**[17:48] ---**
Why not?
**[17:50] ---**
I went out tonight without
memorizing any topics.
**[17:54] ---**
I didn't even use any of the topics
I'd memorized earlier.
**[17:58] ---**
I talked only about what
I was thinking at the time.
**[18:01] ---**
Huh, and?
**[18:03] ---**
Our conversation naturally
grew stilted, clumsy.
**[18:08] ---**
There were good-sized gaps between topics.
**[18:11] ---**
It didn't go so well.
**[18:13] ---**
Well, no.
**[18:14] ---**
But after the fireworks, I asked Kikuchi:
**[18:19] ---**
"Was I hard to talk to today?"
**[18:22] ---**
What do you think she said?
**[18:27] ---**
She said, "You've been easy
to talk to all night."
**[18:33] ---**
In other words,
**[18:34] ---**
I thought I was hard to talk to back then
because my skills were lacking.
**[18:39] ---**
But that's not it.
**[18:42] ---**
I was hard to talk to because I was
*using* my skills in the first place.
**[18:48] ---**
I think she instinctively saw
right through it--
**[18:52] ---**
the mask I'd been creating.
**[18:55] ---**
Oh. I see.
**[18:57] ---**
But there are countermeasures
for that sort of thing.
**[19:00] ---**
Rather than memorize topics for Kikuchi,
**[19:03] ---**
speaking from the heart would
be better, strategy-wise--
**[19:05] ---**
Hinami.
**[19:06] ---**
Would you stop that?
**[19:08] ---**
What do you mean?
**[19:09] ---**
All that talk of countermeasures and strategies.
**[19:13] ---**
What about finding out what I really want?
**[19:17] ---**
Do I truly like Kikuchi?
**[19:20] ---**
Shouldn't we start there first?
**[19:24] ---**
Mizusawa got to you, huh?
**[19:27] ---**
Well... yeah.
**[19:29] ---**
Ah.
**[19:32] ---**
You must have something you want to say.
**[19:34] ---**
Not particularly.
**[19:35] ---**
Being misled by an idea that doesn't
even exist--like "what I really want" --
**[19:40] ---**
and being unable to move forward?
**[19:42] ---**
Textbook weak-human behavior.
I'm not even surprised.
**[19:47] ---**
What's that supposed to mean?
**[19:50] ---**
This "what I really want" that humans talk about
**[19:53] ---**
is nothing more than a fantasy,
one they've mistaken for
**[19:56] ---**
what happens to be best for them
at one particular moment.
**[20:00] ---**
So it's pointless to be constrained by
such a temporary misunderstanding,
**[20:03] ---**
letting it distract you from
truly productive activities.
**[20:10] ---**
I don't think it's pointless.
**[20:13] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[20:14] ---**
I need what I really want to come first.
**[20:18] ---**
I see. So what *do* you want, in the end?
**[20:21] ---**
You don't want to tell Kikuchi how you feel
because you're not sure yourself, right?
**[20:26] ---**
You want the goal to be telling
another girl who meets your standards?
**[20:29] ---**
Who might that be?
**[20:31] ---**
That's not the issue here.
**[20:33] ---**
Then what is?
**[20:35] ---**
Making friends, telling people you like them--
**[20:38] ---**
viewing those kinds of human connections
in terms of tasks and goals?
**[20:43] ---**
That's weird, right out of the gate.
**[20:46] ---**
The next train on track number one
is the 9:43 local, bound for Shinjuku.
**[20:55] ---**
Fine.
**[20:56] ---**
The local train bound for Shinjuku
will soon arrive on track number one.
**[20:57] ---**
Working hard toward a goal
was how you and I did things.
**[21:01] ---**
But if you're just going to
abandon your goals in life,
**[21:02] ---**
For your safety, please
stand behind the yellow line.
**[21:05] ---**
you're basically abandoning
your personal development.
**[21:09] ---**
It's not that--
**[21:11] ---**
What, then?
**[21:14] ---**
So you're different, too.
**[21:16] ---**
Huh?
**[21:18] ---**
You can have this.
**[21:20] ---**
I'll be taking that bag back.
**[21:23] ---**
It's full of your stuff now, though. Next time.
**[21:27] ---**
You've given up on progress, so *you*
certainly won't be needing it anymore.
**[21:30] ---**
But I--
**[21:31] ---**
Your turn is over the second
you let go of the controller.
**[21:37] ---**
That's all this is.
**[21:40] ---**
I thought:
**[21:42] ---**
If I engage with her in earnest,
we could find a way
**[21:46] ---**
to smooth over our differences,
to bridge the gap between us.
**[21:50] ---**
No, not just bridge it--
**[21:53] ---**
I wanted to move forward over it, past it.
**[21:56] ---**
And yet I lost a relationship
I thought I had--as easy as that.
**[22:05] ---**
All because
**[22:07] ---**
I'm a bottom-tier character.
# E12 - Equipment for girls has special effects
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GMKUXW8G7/equipment-for-girls-has-special-effects)
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**[00:27] ---**
I've been knocking, you know.
**[00:30] ---**
Oh. What is it? Mealtime?
**[00:32] ---**
Yeah. Dinner.
**[00:34] ---**
Hurry up already.
**[00:36] ---**
Okay.
**[00:37] ---**
Hey, why are you turning back
into a freak, anyway?
**[00:42] ---**
Huh?
**[00:45] ---**
I'm *asking* you...
**[00:47] ---**
Why did you go back to your old look?
**[00:52] ---**
Well... you know.
**[00:53] ---**
Ugh! And just when you'd gotten
so much better, too!
**[00:57] ---**
Uh--
**[01:13] ---**
When you brought those cool kids over
and called them your friends,
**[01:16] ---**
I was like, "Wait, this isn't my brother."
**[01:20] ---**
But playing games with such
a bored look on your face?
**[01:23] ---**
That *really* isn't you.
**[01:32] ---**
And...
**[01:34] ---**
You haven't picked your phone up in a while.
**[01:37] ---**
Ignoring a girl's messages for two whole days
**[01:40] ---**
is a little too cocky, even for you.
**[01:42] ---**
Huh?
**[01:44] ---**
Oh!
***SIGN*** "Fuka Kikuchi: I'm thinking of picking up
Andi's latest, *Kind Dogs Stand Alone*,
in Omiya on the 21st. Want to join me?"
**[01:49] ---**
Kikuchi!
***SIGN*** "Sorry! I hadn't looked at my phone in a while! The 21st? Let's go together!"
**[01:58] ---**
What?
**[01:59] ---**
You must be going through some stuff.
Just do your best, okay?
**[02:05] ---**
"Lv. 12: Equipment for girls
has special effects"
**[02:06] ---**
It wouldn't have been easy for Kikuchi
to ask out a guy like that.
**[02:11] ---**
And here I let her message sit for two days.
**[02:14] ---**
This is after defying Hinami, too,
telling her it's weird
**[02:19] ---**
to view human connections
in terms of tasks and goals.
**[02:24] ---**
It's beyond selfish,
no matter how you slice it.
**[02:29] ---**
I just don't want to run away, that's all.
**[02:32] ---**
Not when Kikuchi is trying
to get involved with me--
**[02:35] ---**
regardless of how it all began.
**[02:38] ---**
Hi, there.
**[02:39] ---**
Hello.
**[02:44] ---**
S-So, um... should we get going?
**[02:47] ---**
Okay!
**[02:48] ---**
I'd stopped relying on memorized topics
**[02:51] ---**
or looking for opportunities to gain XP.
**[02:56] ---**
I wasn't even wearing any of the clothes
Hinami had picked out for me.
**[03:00] ---**
For who I was now,
**[03:02] ---**
it was an act of the utmost sincerity
not to wear those masks.
**[03:06] ---**
Our conversations were awkward, halting.
**[03:09] ---**
But it was like I was connecting with
someone using only my true feelings,
**[03:13] ---**
and I realized that maybe I
always *had* been--until recently.
**[03:18] ---**
And Kikuchi, who says
I'm easy to talk to like this.
**[03:23] ---**
It warmed my chilled heart.
**[03:27] ---**
"Oseido Bookstore"
**[03:29] ---**
I love the way a bookstore smells.
**[03:32] ---**
Oh, I think I know what you mean.
**[03:36] ---**
Oh!
**[03:37] ---**
"If I'd Met You First"
**[03:37] ---**
This was really outstanding!
**[03:40] ---**
You read those kinds of books, too, huh?
**[03:43] ---**
Um... yes. I do.
**[03:46] ---**
S-Sorry. It was a little unexpected, that's all.
**[03:49] ---**
I-I, um... I'd actually like to...
write like this.
**[03:54] ---**
Oh, really?
***SIGN*** "Kind Dogs Stand Alone" "Hot Off the Presses" "Michael Andi's Latest Book"
**[03:57] ---**
Here it is! Michael Andi's latest!
**[04:03] ---**
"Kind Dogs Stand Alone"
**[04:03] ---**
**Kind Dogs Stand Alone*.*
**[04:06] ---**
It's a dream come true!
**[04:08] ---**
Kikuchi faces her true desires more
earnestly than anyone I know.
**[04:15] ---**
"Kind Dogs Stand Alone"
**[04:24] ---**
I'd thought that improving myself
**[04:27] ---**
by working toward goals like a player
on the other side of the screen
**[04:31] ---**
wasn't what I truly wanted to do.
**[04:33] ---**
So I thought I'd be my real,
unvarnished self today.
**[04:37] ---**
I gave no thought to my outfit
and skipped the hair wax.
**[04:40] ---**
I felt those were made-up skills
that masked the real me.
**[04:45] ---**
And the result?
**[04:46] ---**
Without the mask of those skills,
my expression and my posture
**[04:50] ---**
were weak, hollow, and immature.
**[04:53] ---**
I made myself sick.
**[04:57] ---**
What exactly did I want to become?
**[05:00] ---**
I remember seeing myself as a normie:
**[05:02] ---**
the strong sense of accomplishment I'd felt
**[05:04] ---**
as this Fumiya Tomozaki character,
living in the real world.
**[05:09] ---**
In other words,
**[05:10] ---**
while telling Hinami it was pointless
not to act based on what we really want,
**[05:14] ---**
I was happy from the bottom of my heart
**[05:17] ---**
when I met the goals she'd set for me.
**[05:20] ---**
I worked hard toward set goals
from a player's perspective,
**[05:25] ---**
finding meaning in that growth and development--
**[05:28] ---**
so what did that make me?
**[05:30] ---**
Did my true desires really
*have* to guide my actions?
**[05:37] ---**
Say, Kikuchi...
**[05:39] ---**
Yes?
**[05:40] ---**
I'm sorry. I'm all mixed up again.
**[05:44] ---**
You know how, after the movie,
**[05:46] ---**
you said I was easy *and* hard
to talk to at times?
**[05:51] ---**
There's probably a reason for that.
**[05:53] ---**
The truth is, someone's been
giving me... lessons.
**[05:57] ---**
How to talk--things like that.
**[05:59] ---**
I'd record myself talking
and listen to it later...
**[06:02] ---**
All kinds of stuff.
**[06:04] ---**
"Someone"?
**[06:06] ---**
And as part of that--
**[06:07] ---**
like, you can't start a conversation
without a topic.
**[06:11] ---**
So I used flashcards to memorize various topics.
**[06:15] ---**
Before we went to the movies, too.
**[06:17] ---**
But at the fireworks show and then today...
**[06:19] ---**
I've only been talking about what's on my mind.
**[06:22] ---**
And you said I was easier to talk to like that.
**[06:26] ---**
So that's what that was all about.
**[06:29] ---**
It didn't feel right to be wearing a mask,
cheating at conversation.
**[06:35] ---**
But using those memorized topics
to talk with people
**[06:40] ---**
gave me a sense of accomplishment.
**[06:42] ---**
Should I keep making an effort
to enhance my skills?
**[06:45] ---**
Or should I just be myself?
**[06:47] ---**
Which one do I really want?
**[06:52] ---**
I-I'm sorry. I know this is weird.
**[06:57] ---**
The reason I think you're easy to talk to
**[07:01] ---**
is because I can picture the things you say.
**[07:06] ---**
Picture them?
**[07:07] ---**
A lot of times, it's like you're saying
whatever pops into your head.
**[07:14] ---**
And then this image pops into my head.
**[07:17] ---**
Just like when I'm reading a novel.
**[07:21] ---**
Like a novel?
**[07:23] ---**
I feel like you're conveying whatever mood
and emotions you saw at the time
**[07:27] ---**
right into my head as is, directly and honestly.
**[07:31] ---**
That's what makes you easy to talk to.
**[07:33] ---**
Thanks.
**[07:35] ---**
But sometimes the pictures
don't really come into focus.
**[07:38] ---**
That must be when you're using
your memorized flashcard topics.
**[07:42] ---**
Yeah. So chatting with those shortcut skills...
**[07:47] ---**
But you know...
**[07:49] ---**
The images that came to mind
when talking with you
**[07:52] ---**
were all black and white at first.
**[07:54] ---**
Huh?
**[07:55] ---**
It was a slightly sad and lonely world,
**[07:58] ---**
one that resembled the world I see.
**[08:01] ---**
I thought, "Could Tomozaki be like me?
**[08:03] ---**
Could we both be seeing a world with no color?"
**[08:08] ---**
Maybe so.
**[08:09] ---**
Sometimes the world I'd see
when reading a book
**[08:12] ---**
looked so much more beautiful
than the real world.
**[08:17] ---**
And every time it did,
**[08:18] ---**
I'd think, "Does the author really see
the world in such a colorful way?
**[08:23] ---**
Lucky them. I'm jealous."
**[08:26] ---**
But now that we've met and talked so many times,
**[08:29] ---**
the images you've been sending me...
**[08:32] ---**
They've been taking on more and more color.
**[08:37] ---**
That was a surprise.
**[08:39] ---**
Ever since I was little, I'd felt like
everything I saw was gray.
**[08:44] ---**
I figured it would stay that way forever.
**[08:47] ---**
But in such a short time, Tomozaki,
**[08:50] ---**
you completely changed
the color of the world you see.
**[08:55] ---**
So I think it's really fantastic that you're
working hard to change yourself.
**[09:01] ---**
And if there's someone in your world,
a magician who gave it these colors...
**[09:09] ---**
Then you should treasure that someone.
**[09:14] ---**
Thank you, Kikuchi.
**[09:16] ---**
Just a token of my gratitude
for having shown me
**[09:18] ---**
that I can still change the way
I see the world.
***SIGN*** "Today" "I want to talk one more time. Can we meet soon?" "Read"
***SIGN*** "I want to talk one more time. Can we meet soon?" "Read" "Talk about what?"
***SIGN*** "Talk about what? I've been thinking a lot. I'd like to talk again"
***SIGN*** "Talk about what? I've been thinking a lot. I'd like to talk again" "Read"
***SIGN*** "Talk about what? I've been thinking a lot. I'd like to talk again" "There's nothing I want to talk about"
***SIGN*** "You wanted your bag back. It'd be a pain to bring to school--one more thing to lug around. Let me return it over break"
**[09:51] ---**
"Just keep it, then"
***SIGN*** "It'd be a pain to bring to school--one more thing to lug around. Let me return it over break" "Just keep it, then"
**[09:55] ---**
"But if you insist, meet by the Beanstalk
at Omiya Station tomorrow at 6 PM"
**[09:59] ---**
All right!
**[10:13] ---**
This spot's a little awkward.
Let's find somewhere else.
**[10:28] ---**
Hi! I'm NO NAME!
**[10:36] ---**
So listen...
**[10:39] ---**
Did you come up with a new excuse?
**[10:42] ---**
I like games.
**[10:45] ---**
You're telling me this *now*?
**[10:47] ---**
I like *Tackfam*--along with RPGs and shooters.
**[10:51] ---**
I even enjoyed the student-council-election
game I played against you.
**[10:55] ---**
But in *Tackfam*, I'm always the player.
**[10:59] ---**
I'm on the outside with my controller,
**[11:02] ---**
moving a character around on the screen.
**[11:04] ---**
Well, yeah. Obviously.
**[11:07] ---**
But I still poured my soul into it,
so I could become one with my character.
**[11:12] ---**
That made the game world feel more colorful.
**[11:17] ---**
There's a reason video games
are what won me over--
**[11:20] ---**
not anime, not novels, not manga.
**[11:23] ---**
And that is...
**[11:25] ---**
In a video game, I can make
the characters do what I want.
**[11:31] ---**
I don't have to experience my own
weakness, pitifulness, or self-hatred.
**[11:37] ---**
That's what made the game world so attractive.
**[11:40] ---**
It's why I thought real life was a garbage game.
**[11:43] ---**
I mean, I couldn't do what
I wanted in the real world
**[11:47] ---**
with this Fumiya Tomozaki character at *all*.
**[11:51] ---**
It's not like I *meant* to mumble.
**[11:54] ---**
I didn't *want* to have that
gloomy look on my face.
**[11:58] ---**
But there was nothing I could do about it.
**[12:00] ---**
I was the only one on the outside looking in.
**[12:03] ---**
Every day was gray.
**[12:06] ---**
But there were ways to add color
to the world around me.
**[12:10] ---**
Ways to control this game called "life,"
to make it shine.
**[12:13] ---**
And *you* showed them to me.
**[12:16] ---**
I want to be a character
in the game of life, too.
**[12:21] ---**
I actually *like* this game now, thanks to you.
**[12:26] ---**
This... *this* is what I really want.
**[12:29] ---**
There's no such thing as what you really want.
**[12:33] ---**
You're just drunk on idealism,
wallowing in sentimentality.
**[12:36] ---**
A momentary hangup.
**[12:42] ---**
If you're saying it's more than just a hangup,
**[12:44] ---**
it means nothing if you can't prove it.
**[12:47] ---**
I figured you'd say as much.
**[12:51] ---**
True: If I can't prove it, what's the point?
**[12:54] ---**
Are you saying you *can* prove it?
**[12:57] ---**
I am. This "what I really want"? It does exist.
**[13:02] ---**
Huh? Then I'd like to hear it--
**[13:05] ---**
whatever proof you have for
the existence of your true desires.
**[13:08] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[13:09] ---**
You really don't understand anything, do you?
**[13:12] ---**
Excuse me?
**[13:14] ---**
This proof consists of many simple
rules in combination,
**[13:18] ---**
intersecting in complex ways
that make them harder to grasp.
**[13:24] ---**
So... what are you going to do?
**[13:27] ---**
You can't tell if a game is godly
or garbage without playing it.
**[13:32] ---**
Which means...
**[13:34] ---**
You're going to give it a shot.
**[13:36] ---**
That's right. You won't find out
what you really want
**[13:38] ---**
just by asking for proof that it exists.
**[13:41] ---**
But by struggling to discover how you feel
and making sincere progress--
**[13:46] ---**
*that's* when you first learn your true desires.
**[13:49] ---**
Why, you...
**[13:50] ---**
Listen up, Hinami.
**[13:52] ---**
You've only been going through the motions
from a player's point of view.
**[13:56] ---**
You don't know what real fun is!
**[13:58] ---**
What's all this?
**[13:59] ---**
I'll tell you one thing:
**[14:01] ---**
You're a top-tier character, and that's no lie.
**[14:03] ---**
And yet...
**[14:05] ---**
Right now, when it comes to
enjoying the game of life?
**[14:08] ---**
I've got you beat!
**[14:13] ---**
Starting today, I'll show you step-by-step
**[14:17] ---**
how to really get into the game.
**[14:20] ---**
How to find what it is you really want.
**[14:24] ---**
How to enjoy life--more than you do now.
**[14:28] ---**
Although I'm not as good as you are
at putting rules into words.
**[14:33] ---**
It'll be a slow process.
**[14:35] ---**
Aren't you jumping the gun here?
**[14:38] ---**
I don't even believe there *is* such
a thing as these "true desires."
**[14:43] ---**
Shouldn't you start there?
**[14:45] ---**
Maybe so. But what if you think of it like this?
**[14:48] ---**
Like how?
**[14:49] ---**
My true desires have always fueled my gaming.
**[14:55] ---**
That's how I became the top
*Tackfam* player in Japan--
**[14:57] ---**
and why *you* can't beat me.
**[15:01] ---**
I mean, don't you think it's strange?
**[15:04] ---**
Academics, sports, social standing--
**[15:07] ---**
you continue to come in first place
in all these games.
**[15:10] ---**
But you just can't take the top spot in *Tackfam*.
**[15:13] ---**
That's the effect--so what's the cause?
**[15:16] ---**
It has to do with the amount
of effort, that's all.
**[15:19] ---**
No, that's not it.
**[15:22] ---**
What, then?
**[15:24] ---**
You *must* have an idea.
**[15:26] ---**
It's what makes me better than you in *Tackfam*:
**[15:30] ---**
I know what I really want, and you don't.
**[15:36] ---**
That's why you haven't managed
to beat me even once.
**[15:41] ---**
There can be no better proof
for the existence of true desires.
**[15:47] ---**
I mean, *I* can see that from where *I*
stand as Japan's best *Tackfam* player.
**[15:51] ---**
It's only natural that someone at
*your* level wouldn't understand.
**[15:57] ---**
If that frustrates you,
**[15:58] ---**
just try beating me without
knowing what you really want.
**[16:05] ---**
She uses a super-strong fighting style,
**[16:08] ---**
standing in her opponent's ring
and crushing them head-on.
**[16:13] ---**
No one's made that much effort;
no one has that much in reserve.
**[16:17] ---**
But I'm different.
**[16:19] ---**
Before the two of us were
Fumiya Tomozaki and Aoi Hinami,
**[16:24] ---**
we were nanashi
**[16:25] ---**
and NO NAME.
**[16:29] ---**
So on that point alone,
**[16:31] ---**
in this ring, where once you master *Tackfam*,
you'll understand--
**[16:35] ---**
where if you want to complain,
you'll have to beat me first--
**[16:39] ---**
in *this* ring, where rationality means nothing,
**[16:42] ---**
*I'm* the only one who can be
victorious over her.
**[16:46] ---**
And she's the only one
who *will* step into that ring,
**[16:49] ---**
no matter how outrageous it may be.
**[16:51] ---**
Because no gamer hates
losing more than she does.
**[16:59] ---**
I get it. You really put some
thought into your empty logic.
**[17:03] ---**
But I can't argue against it.
**[17:06] ---**
Not that you've actually proven anything at all.
**[17:09] ---**
I guess not.
**[17:10] ---**
There's no telling who's right.
**[17:13] ---**
So I'll meet you halfway:
**[17:16] ---**
I don't accept that there's such a thing
as "true desires" or whatever,
**[17:20] ---**
but I also can't definitively
say that there *isn't*.
**[17:24] ---**
Hinami...
**[17:25] ---**
However...
**[17:26] ---**
If you're so certain that you're right,
**[17:28] ---**
you'd better take the time to prove it--
**[17:32] ---**
and convince me beyond a shadow of a doubt.
**[17:36] ---**
Got it.
**[17:44] ---**
So? What do you want to do now?
**[17:48] ---**
Keep trying to conquer life, same as before.
**[17:52] ---**
Ah.
**[17:53] ---**
I need the skills you've taught me
to grow into the character I want to be.
**[17:59] ---**
You keep setting my goals and
I'll keep working toward them.
**[18:03] ---**
But they might conflict with
what you really want in life.
**[18:08] ---**
Sure. And I'll skip the ones that do.
**[18:11] ---**
So you want to use the skills,
**[18:14] ---**
but create goals based on what you really want?
**[18:18] ---**
Something like that.
**[18:20] ---**
In other words...
**[18:22] ---**
I'll have a hybrid play style:
skills plus true desires.
**[18:29] ---**
Well, now I *really* need to see some proof.
**[18:33] ---**
Leave it to me, NO NAME.
**[18:36] ---**
I don't expect much, but sure:
I'll leave it to you, nanashi.
**[18:51] ---**
I think I'll get the salted mackerel set.
**[18:53] ---**
What a coincidence! Me, too.
**[18:59] ---**
Oh, right.
**[19:03] ---**
That's why we really met today--
so I could return this.
**[19:07] ---**
If you're going to keep
trying to beat this game,
**[19:09] ---**
you may as well keep it.
**[19:12] ---**
I'm not inclined to use it myself,
what with that frayed patch.
**[19:15] ---**
Still, take it. I'll buy another one like it.
**[19:19] ---**
It's something I want to do.
**[19:22] ---**
Ah.
**[19:25] ---**
This is...
**[19:26] ---**
It hides the frayed part pretty well, right?
**[19:29] ---**
You can have that back, too.
**[19:31] ---**
But I only got this in exchange
for the backpack.
**[19:34] ---**
Look, it's fine.
**[19:36] ---**
It's my thanks for adding
so much color to my world.
**[19:42] ---**
I see.
**[19:45] ---**
Well, in that case, I'll take it.
**[19:53] ---**
Now for your next task.
**[19:56] ---**
What?!
**[19:56] ---**
You're still trying to win at life, right?
**[19:59] ---**
We've already wasted so much time.
**[20:01] ---**
Now to make it up all at once!
**[20:04] ---**
What is it this time?
**[20:08] ---**
A part-time job.
**[20:18] ---**
"Hara" "Ochi"
**[20:23] ---**
Huh! You're the guy interviewing
for the part-time position?
**[20:27] ---**
Mizusawa?!
**[20:29] ---**
Did you know I worked here?
**[20:33] ---**
No--it's a total coincidence.
**[20:35] ---**
You set me up, Hinami...
**[20:37] ---**
Spicy roe sauce...
**[20:41] ---**
S'ghetti Napolitan...
**[20:41] ---**
"Narita"
**[20:47] ---**
Another part-timer. If you're hired,
she'll be your senior.
**[21:05] ---**
Hey, which do you think is best?
**[21:08] ---**
You're overthinking this.
It's just a date with Shuji.
**[21:11] ---**
But I like your first outfit best.
**[21:13] ---**
Really? I prefer the second one.
**[21:17] ---**
Isn't the third one nice, though?
**[21:19] ---**
Aw, c'mon! What do *you* think, Tomozaki?
**[21:23] ---**
M-Me?!
**[21:31] ---**
Um, I-I think you look great in all of them!
**[21:35] ---**
That's the least helpful answer!
**[21:42] ---**
Look at these! Aren't they fabulous?
**[21:44] ---**
Totally! They're all so cute!
**[21:49] ---**
*Are* they?
**[21:52] ---**
Check this out! It looks just like you, Tama!
**[21:54] ---**
It does *not*!
**[22:02] ---**
The heck?
**[22:04] ---**
Mimimi likes it.
**[22:06] ---**
She does?!
**[22:09] ---**
I just *knew* she had great taste!
**[22:11] ---**
Talk about a mood swing...
**[22:17] ---**
I'm writing a new novel.
**[22:20] ---**
It should be finished before too long--
**[22:22] ---**
could I ask you to read it when I'm done?
**[22:25] ---**
Of course! If you think I could help.
**[22:43] ---**
"Tomozaki"
**[22:43] ---**
Your order is ready!
**[22:46] ---**
Huh? Army Boy's working here, too?
**[22:49] ---**
Yep. And I'm training him.
**[22:51] ---**
I expect freebies, Tomozaki.
**[23:00] ---**
Your job seems to be going well.
**[23:02] ---**
But don't let your guard down just yet.
**[23:04] ---**
I know. What's my next task?
**[23:07] ---**
Now, hold on. Before we get to that...
**[23:13] ---**
As heavy-handed as ever, I see.
**[23:16] ---**
Got a problem?
**[23:32] ---**
One more game!
**[23:34] ---**
All right--
**[23:35] ---**
bring it on!
# E13 - Post-game equipment for girls is a little different than usual
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G8WUNE40G/post-game-equipment-for-girls-is-a-little-different-than-usual)
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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.)
**[00:15] ---**
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
**[01:33] ---**
"August Dessert Menu"
***SIGN*** "August Dessert Menu" "Sweet-Bean Matcha Shaved Ice" "Lemon Shaved Ice"
**[01:35] ---**
Thank you for your patience.
***SIGN*** "Bonus Lv. 2: Post-game equipment for girls is a little different than usual"
**[01:37] ---**
Your honey-lemon shaved ice
**[01:39] ---**
and sweet-bean matcha shaved ice.
**[01:42] ---**
Relax and enjoy!
**[01:49] ---**
She was super cute, right?
**[01:52] ---**
I thought so, too! Super cute!
**[01:57] ---**
You can go on break now, Fuka.
**[02:00] ---**
All right.
**[02:05] ---**
It looks like Nakagawa's
prepping a kitchen order,
**[02:08] ---**
so I'll get that delivered,
*then* take my break.
**[02:11] ---**
Oh, would you?
**[02:12] ---**
That'd be a big help, Kikuchi.
**[02:15] ---**
All set. Could you run that out for me?
**[02:17] ---**
Sure.
**[02:21] ---**
Kikuchi's so cute--and such a nice girl.
**[02:24] ---**
She really is. And *way* out of your league.
**[02:27] ---**
Yeah, you wouldn't stand a chance.
**[02:30] ---**
Wow, boss--rude!
**[02:33] ---**
Okay, I'll go on break now.
**[02:36] ---**
Got it.
**[02:37] ---**
Enjoy!
***SIGN*** "Summer's almost over, huh" "Fumiya Tomozaki: It went by in the blink of an eye"
***SIGN*** "It really did"
"BTW, I finished *Kind Dogs Stand Alone*!
Let me know when you're done--
I want to talk about it with you"
**[02:50] ---**
"Ichibangai"
**[02:54] ---**
Let's see...
**[02:56] ---**
It's so hot. Our ice cream's gonna melt.
**[02:59] ---**
We haven't even bought any yet!
**[03:02] ---**
Oh, I think it's up ahead.
**[03:04] ---**
We made it!
**[03:06] ---**
Isn't this...?
**[03:08] ---**
Hey, what if Kikuchi's working today?
**[03:12] ---**
Given her personality,
she may be overly polite.
**[03:18] ---**
I can see that, yeah.
**[03:19] ---**
All riiight! Let's head on in!
**[03:21] ---**
C'mon, Fumiya.
**[03:23] ---**
R-Right.
**[03:30] ---**
He never did write back...
**[03:38] ---**
To-Tomozaki?!
**[03:45] ---**
And a bunch of people from our class!
**[03:47] ---**
What's up?
**[03:50] ---**
Wow, I've never heard you be that loud!
**[03:53] ---**
You must have been really startled.
**[03:55] ---**
Um... I was.
**[03:58] ---**
I guess Kikuchi... isn't here today?
**[04:02] ---**
What's up, Fumiya?
**[04:04] ---**
Jeez, did I startle you that much?
**[04:07] ---**
You don't have to be so loud.
**[04:09] ---**
You sure are acting weird, Tomozaki.
**[04:13] ---**
Why, you...
**[04:16] ---**
Mmm, how to choose...
**[04:19] ---**
Does everyone know what they're getting?
**[04:22] ---**
Yep. I do.
**[04:24] ---**
I've decided, too.
**[04:26] ---**
So have I--I think.
**[04:27] ---**
You *know* I've got it *down*!
**[04:29] ---**
What? Everyone but me?! Hang on a second!
**[04:33] ---**
Hurry up or it'll get cold.
**[04:35] ---**
Hey! We don't even have
any of our food yet!
**[04:39] ---**
Oh, right.
**[04:45] ---**
Oh, I get it now.
**[04:47] ---**
That's fine. I'll take
that half of the floor,
**[04:51] ---**
and you can take the other half.
**[04:53] ---**
Is that okay with you, boss?
**[04:55] ---**
Sure. You're a good worker, after all.
**[04:58] ---**
Thank you so much.
**[05:03] ---**
Her classmates are here, eh?
**[05:05] ---**
That Fuka's a shy one.
**[05:07] ---**
She sure is.
**[05:08] ---**
What if one of them is a boy she likes?
**[05:12] ---**
Wh-What, *Fuka*?!
**[05:14] ---**
That's one huge overreaction, boss.
**[05:17] ---**
And he bought us a matching pair.
**[05:20] ---**
Afterwards, we rode the Ferris wheel--
**[05:23] ---**
Here we go! The Ferris wheel!
**[05:24] ---**
Ooh! Can it be?
**[05:26] ---**
Did Shuji finally...?
**[05:31] ---**
Nothing happened, and the ride ended.
**[05:33] ---**
No way! Make a move, Shuji!
**[05:35] ---**
Right? Right?!
**[05:37] ---**
Still, I saw *that* coming.
**[05:40] ---**
T-Totally.
**[05:41] ---**
Did he not start dating right away
when he was with Shimano?
**[05:46] ---**
He saw his chance and wound up
going for it pretty quickly, yeah.
**[05:50] ---**
I thought so!
**[05:52] ---**
Maybe Shuji just isn't
interested in me after all.
**[05:56] ---**
Mmm, I think he's acting like this
*because* he likes you.
**[06:01] ---**
He really cares, so he
doesn't want to hurt you.
**[06:03] ---**
Y-Yeah, I get that.
**[06:05] ---**
R-Really?
**[06:07] ---**
I think you can breathe easy.
**[06:09] ---**
Oh, okay.
**[06:11] ---**
Well, all right. If you say so.
**[06:14] ---**
Honestly. You two are both
as naïve as each other.
**[06:18] ---**
You hush!
**[06:19] ---**
You don't even *have*
a special someone, Hiro!
**[06:23] ---**
Who, me? I sure do.
**[06:31] ---**
You don't even *have*
a special someone, Hiro!
**[06:34] ---**
A-A special someone?
**[06:41] ---**
I-I shouldn't!
**[06:43] ---**
This is basically eavesdropping!
**[06:46] ---**
Order up!
**[06:50] ---**
Wh-What's this?
**[06:52] ---**
A cheese-stuffed Hamburg steak
with cheese sauce.
**[06:55] ---**
Someone must *really* like cheese, huh?
**[06:59] ---**
This is probably Hinami's!
**[07:02] ---**
What?! You *do* have someone
you like, Hiro? What's she like?
**[07:05] ---**
Hmm, good question.
**[07:07] ---**
I am *dying* of curiosity over here!
**[07:09] ---**
Yeah, I'm crazy curious myself!
**[07:11] ---**
You can say that again.
**[07:14] ---**
Well, you know...
**[07:16] ---**
We can talk and talk
and she stays mysterious--
**[07:18] ---**
and before I knew it, she had me
in the palm of her hand.
**[07:22] ---**
Oh, come on, you big tease! Is she older?
**[07:26] ---**
Nope, our age.
**[07:27] ---**
Huh!
**[07:29] ---**
A girl our age, and you're
wrapped around her little finger?
**[07:32] ---**
I wonder what she's like?
**[07:34] ---**
I can't even imagine!
**[07:36] ---**
Th-That's right. Can't even imagine.
**[07:39] ---**
Right? Plus, she's such a hard worker--
**[07:42] ---**
Thank you for your patience!
**[07:44] ---**
Who had the cheese-stuffed
Hamburg steak with cheese sauce?
**[07:48] ---**
Me!
**[07:54] ---**
And when she happens to smile,
it's so innocent and charming.
**[07:58] ---**
Like that.
**[08:00] ---**
Oh, really?
**[08:01] ---**
Well, gee, that's fantastic!
**[08:06] ---**
Whoa!
**[08:08] ---**
Seriously?
**[08:09] ---**
So everyone at that table
is a classmate of yours?
**[08:12] ---**
Th-That's right.
**[08:15] ---**
That sure is a bunch of
good-looking people, though.
**[08:18] ---**
Y-You think so?
**[08:20] ---**
Oh, but maybe not that one guy.
**[08:25] ---**
Yeah, that guy's more burly than handsome.
**[08:28] ---**
That... that would be Takei.
**[08:32] ---**
Yummo!
**[08:40] ---**
Man, that was *delicious*!
**[08:42] ---**
It really was!
**[08:43] ---**
This was fun!
**[08:46] ---**
You do appreciate a good love-life chat.
**[08:48] ---**
We heard all kinds of
interesting tidbits today, right?
**[08:51] ---**
Right!
**[08:52] ---**
Man, I wish *I* had a love life!
**[08:57] ---**
All right, then: shall we?
**[08:58] ---**
Okay!
**[08:59] ---**
Where to next, gang?
**[09:05] ---**
Nice work today, Fuka.
**[09:08] ---**
Thank you. I'll be leaving now.
**[09:11] ---**
See you later!
**[09:12] ---**
Good job!
**[09:13] ---**
I know I caused a lot of problems
for everyone today.
**[09:17] ---**
No, not at all. You're always
a soothing presence around here.
**[09:21] ---**
Exactly right.
**[09:23] ---**
Good thing they didn't spot you!
**[09:25] ---**
Right!
**[09:30] ---**
*Was* it a good thing?
**[09:34] ---**
It's almost like there's a whole other
world out there that isn't mine.
**[09:39] ---**
But I chose to avoid it.
***SIGN*** "I should be done reading it tonight, so let's discuss our takes on it tomorrow! And hey, weren't you at your job around noon today?"
**[09:58] ---**
"Tomozaki,"
**[10:01] ---**
"Tomozaki,
you always manage to find me"
**[10:05] ---**
"Tomozaki,
you always manage to find me"
***SIGN*** "And hey, weren't you at your job around noon today?"
***SIGN*** "And hey, weren't you at your job around noon today?" "Yes, I was. You could tell, huh?"
# E14 - Most strange spell names have unknown origins
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GD9UVDP8M/most-strange-spell-names-have-unknown-origins)
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***SIGN*** "Saitama City" "City of Roses" "Chuo Ward"
**[01:32] ---**
"Bonus Lv. 1:
'Most strange spell names
have unknown origins'"
**[01:45] ---**
Oh!
**[01:46] ---**
"Sparklers"
**[01:46] ---**
We're almost out.
**[01:48] ---**
And it'll be all over.
**[01:50] ---**
Well, *I'm* gonna go out with a *bang*!
**[01:53] ---**
Ha!
**[01:57] ---**
Hi-yah!
**[02:00] ---**
Ooh! Niiice!
**[02:00] ---**
Hey! That's dangerous!
**[02:11] ---**
This reminds me of that fireworks show
in our first year.
**[02:15] ---**
Oh, last year in Konosu?
**[02:18] ---**
Yeah! That's when you and Tama first met.
**[02:22] ---**
First...?
**[02:24] ---**
Right!
**[02:25] ---**
Yeah.
**[02:28] ---**
You and Mimimi hadn't talked much at all
by the summer of our first year.
**[02:33] ---**
Uh-huh. Not at first.
**[02:37] ---**
That's right.
**[02:42] ---**
Wow! You're wearing your
winter uniform already?
**[02:45] ---**
Yep! I know it's still a little hot today,
**[02:48] ---**
but this blazer is just so cute!
**[02:50] ---**
I might just make the
switch tomorrow, too.
**[02:54] ---**
Let's switch to blazers tomorrow!
**[02:56] ---**
What, already?
**[03:04] ---**
A girl in your class
who's kind of a loner, huh?
**[03:08] ---**
I'm pretty sure she *wants*
to be friends with everyone.
**[03:14] ---**
Okay, then try talking to her
a little bit every day.
**[03:24] ---**
Know what, Natsubayashi?
**[03:26] ---**
You're so cute--like a tiny little animal!
**[03:31] ---**
Huh? Um... what?
**[03:33] ---**
Poke, poke!
**[03:34] ---**
Wh-Where'd *this* come from?
**[03:37] ---**
This? Oh... nowhere special.
**[03:42] ---**
Hi, Hanabi! Good morning!
**[03:46] ---**
Not you again! Stop that!
**[03:49] ---**
Ooh, all your protests
really get me going!
**[03:54] ---**
What's your endgame here?
**[03:56] ---**
Hanabi! Good morning!
**[04:00] ---**
Seriously, what's your deal?
**[04:01] ---**
You smell divine.
**[04:03] ---**
Don't just go around smelling people!
**[04:08] ---**
Hey, Hanabi!
**[04:09] ---**
Let's hit the cafeteria!
**[04:11] ---**
I brought my lunch today.
**[04:14] ---**
Oh, that doesn't matter!
**[04:16] ---**
Let's eat together in the caf!
**[04:17] ---**
Um, well...
**[04:19] ---**
C'mon, now, hurry it up!
**[04:21] ---**
Okay.
**[04:27] ---**
All that sexual harassment
must really suck.
**[04:29] ---**
Mimimi doesn't know when to quit.
**[04:31] ---**
Hey, you big meanie!
**[04:33] ---**
No. She really doesn't.
**[04:35] ---**
Wow, *super* blunt!
**[04:50] ---**
Hello!
**[04:51] ---**
I'm Aoi Hinami, from first-year class 1.
**[04:55] ---**
You must be the Hanabi Natsubayashi
that Mimimi's been bugging.
**[05:00] ---**
Huh?
**[05:01] ---**
So Minmi's been doing this
all along to help me fit in?
**[05:06] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[05:08] ---**
Oh... oh, I see.
**[05:11] ---**
But keep this conversation
between us, would you?
**[05:15] ---**
Huh? But I haven't thanked Minmi.
**[05:19] ---**
I know, but that's okay.
**[05:21] ---**
Just let her keep up her front, okay?
**[05:26] ---**
Really? Sounds like it was a success.
**[05:29] ---**
*¡Si!* Thanks, Aoi!
**[05:32] ---**
I haven't done anything.
**[05:35] ---**
Oh, right!
**[05:36] ---**
Hey, listen, Aoi:
**[05:39] ---**
Did you hear about the off-season
fireworks show this weekend?
**[05:43] ---**
This weekend?
**[05:45] ---**
Oh, the Konosu Fireworks Festival?
**[05:48] ---**
*¡Si!* Nice, Aoi--you're a sharp one!
**[05:51] ---**
I was thinking about going myself.
**[05:55] ---**
Aren't they firing off some Guinness
World Record-breaking shell?
**[05:58] ---**
Yeah! We can go together!
**[06:00] ---**
Great!
**[06:02] ---**
And hey...
**[06:03] ---**
I kinda wanted to ask Hanabi to come, too.
**[06:07] ---**
Hanabi?
**[06:09] ---**
You mean the girl whose face
you've been in every day?
**[06:12] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[06:14] ---**
Um... are you sure?
I'm in a different class and all.
**[06:18] ---**
I mean, your advice helped me
and Hanabi become friends.
**[06:23] ---**
I want you two to be friends, too.
**[06:27] ---**
I'd love for you to meet her!
**[06:29] ---**
Oh, I get it. Then yes--introduce us!
**[06:36] ---**
A fireworks show?
**[06:38] ---**
Okay, you might not be a fan,
**[06:40] ---**
but there's this friend
I want to you to meet!
**[06:43] ---**
We do track-and-field together:
Aoi Hinami.
**[06:46] ---**
Aoi Hinami?
**[06:49] ---**
She's another ultra-cutie pie!
**[06:52] ---**
Well?
**[06:54] ---**
Well? Well?
**[06:57] ---**
All right. I'll come.
**[06:59] ---**
Whoa! What an easy yes!
**[07:02] ---**
Don't tell me *you're*
a sucker for cuties, too.
**[07:05] ---**
Well, uh...
**[07:07] ---**
Yeah... something like that.
**[07:10] ---**
"Guinness World Record"
"4-*Shaku Tama*"
**[07:12] ---**
"Konosu Station"
***SIGN*** "Today" "Minami Nanami: Aoi & I are on our way!" "Minami Nanami: Almost there!"
***SIGN*** "Today" "Minami Nanami: Aoi & I are on our way!" "Minami Nanami: Almost there!"
**[07:30] ---**
I suppose I should pretend
we've never met.
**[07:34] ---**
It's hard, fitting in.
**[07:39] ---**
There you are, Hanabi!
**[07:41] ---**
And this here is Aoi--
cutie pie extraordinaire!
**[07:47] ---**
Nice to meet you! I'm Aoi Hinami.
**[07:49] ---**
Let's make it a great day.
**[07:51] ---**
Um... I'm Hanabi Natsubayashi. Pleasure.
**[07:56] ---**
You're so adorably tiny!
**[07:57] ---**
Say, I know this is sudden,
but can I call you Hanabi?
**[08:01] ---**
Eh? Uh-huh, sure.
**[08:03] ---**
Oh, and either Hinami or Aoi works for me.
**[08:06] ---**
Okay. Um... Aoi?
**[08:09] ---**
Here!
**[08:10] ---**
Ooh, you're getting along great already!
**[08:20] ---**
Thanks.
**[08:21] ---**
Hmm? For what?
**[08:27] ---**
Wow, look at those lines.
**[08:29] ---**
Aren't their croquettes a thing?
**[08:32] ---**
That's right! But I, Minami Nanami,
have a taste for grilled squid!
**[08:37] ---**
How about we split up
and buy both to share?
**[08:40] ---**
Good idea! Let's do that!
**[08:42] ---**
Okay!
**[08:43] ---**
What about you, Hanabi? Want to try both?
**[08:46] ---**
Um... I'm fine with just a croquette.
**[08:49] ---**
Got it!
**[08:50] ---**
The grilled squid is calling me.
**[08:53] ---**
Which means it's up to you two
to pick up the croquettes!
**[08:56] ---**
I can go by myself. It's just croquettes.
**[09:00] ---**
Is three enough?
**[09:01] ---**
Um... I think so.
**[09:04] ---**
Thanks in advance!
**[09:06] ---**
Sure thing.
**[09:07] ---**
"Yummy!" "Grilled Squid"
**[09:12] ---**
"Grilled Squid"
**[09:12] ---**
That Hanabi's a tough one, huh?
**[09:14] ---**
Right? But that's what
makes her so delicious!
**[09:17] ---**
Whoa there, Mimimi. Scary.
**[09:19] ---**
But you can tell, right?
She's a good, no-nonsense girl.
**[09:23] ---**
You, me, everyone--we can
be better friends with her.
**[09:27] ---**
How can we make that happen?
**[09:30] ---**
Hmm. Good question.
**[09:32] ---**
Do you remember what got
everyone to warm up to you?
**[09:35] ---**
Was there something?
**[09:37] ---**
Oh!
**[09:38] ---**
So was there?
**[09:40] ---**
When I started going by "Mimimi" --
**[09:43] ---**
that might've made it easier
to talk to me.
**[09:46] ---**
All like, "Mimimi!"
**[09:48] ---**
Then let's do that!
**[09:50] ---**
Huh? Do what?
**[09:54] ---**
A nickname!
**[09:59] ---**
No crowds here, huh?
**[10:03] ---**
Can't have you underestimating
my research skills, now.
**[10:10] ---**
Oh! It's starting!
**[10:19] ---**
What beautiful *hanabi* fireworks.
**[10:21] ---**
Oh, but *this* Hanabi is the *cute* kind.
**[10:25] ---**
Hey! That was dumb!
**[10:26] ---**
Do you like *hanabi*, Hanabi?
**[10:28] ---**
C'mon, you're doing that on purpose!
**[10:31] ---**
Well, I *love* Hanabi!
**[10:33] ---**
I'm a *different* Hanabi!
**[10:34] ---**
Hanabi!
**[10:35] ---**
Sorry, sorry!
**[10:44] ---**
Tamaya!
**[10:47] ---**
I haven't heard *that* old cheer in a while.
**[10:49] ---**
I think I'll do it, too.
**[10:52] ---**
Tamaya!
**[10:54] ---**
Tamaya!
**[10:56] ---**
Tamaya!
**[10:59] ---**
Aren't you gonna say it, Hanabi?
**[11:01] ---**
Well, um...
**[11:07] ---**
Tamaya!
**[11:09] ---**
Huh? Wh-What the--?
**[11:11] ---**
Because you're *hanabi*, too.
**[11:14] ---**
You make no sense!
**[11:15] ---**
Tamaya!
**[11:17] ---**
Tamaya!
**[11:18] ---**
H-Hey, now!
**[11:20] ---**
Tamaya!
**[11:22] ---**
Don't mess around with people's names!
**[11:25] ---**
Oh, Tama, you're so strict!
**[11:28] ---**
What's this "Tama" business?
**[11:30] ---**
Like a fireworks shell.
You're Hanabi, so: Tama!
**[11:33] ---**
A great fit, right? Little *and* cute!
**[11:36] ---**
I-It's not cute at all!
**[11:37] ---**
Really? *I* think it's cute.
**[11:40] ---**
Not you, too!
**[11:41] ---**
C'mon, now, Tama!
**[11:43] ---**
Are you blushing, Tama?
**[11:45] ---**
Sheesh...
**[11:48] ---**
Ooh! Tamaya!
**[11:51] ---**
Tamaya!
**[11:54] ---**
Ta... Tamaya!
**[11:56] ---**
Hey! Tama's shouting "Tamaya"!
**[11:59] ---**
I'm *not* a firework!
**[12:12] ---**
Minmi is such an idiot.
**[12:23] ---**
Catch you later, Tama!
**[12:25] ---**
Yeah, yeah. See you, Minmi, Aoi.
**[12:28] ---**
Bye now!
**[12:30] ---**
Oh, man, that was a blast!
**[12:32] ---**
It sure was.
**[12:35] ---**
You know, since you're involved,
**[12:37] ---**
we'd best not tell Hanabi
we gave her that nickname
**[12:40] ---**
for her own good.
**[12:42] ---**
Well, *I'm* using it because I *like* it!
**[12:45] ---**
Oh, Mimimi. Always trying
to help out in secret.
**[12:51] ---**
"Fireworks"
**[12:51] ---**
Pretty rich coming from *you*, Aoi.
**[13:00] ---**
It's all over.
**[13:01] ---**
Yeah.
**[13:02] ---**
Then let's head back.
**[13:04] ---**
Right.
**[13:05] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[13:07] ---**
Trash: collected! Fire: extinguished!
**[13:09] ---**
All right, let's hit it, Aoi--and Tama!
**[13:13] ---**
Okay!
**[13:14] ---**
We *were* just leaving, you know?
***SIGN*** "Saitama City" "City of Roses" "Chuo Ward"
**[13:16] ---**
Tamaya!
**[13:17] ---**
Oh, hush!
# 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.
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**[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...
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**[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
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**[21:09] Tomozaki**
*The whole premise was off.*
**[21:12] Tomozaki**
*I was playing the game of life as a player.*
**[21:17] Tomozaki**
* Kikuchi was writing the*
* story of life as an author.*
**[21:22] Tomozaki**
* But really, she's aiming to be*
* a perfect heroine like Hinami.*
**[21:27] Tomozaki**
*Is that the path Kikuchi should be taking?*
***SIGN*** My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft Fuka Kikuchi
**[21:31] Tomozaki**
* Still, it's not for me to say what*
* should go on inside Kikuchi's head.*
**[21:36] Tomozaki**
Inside Kikuchi's head...
**[21:43] Tomozaki**
A-ha.
***SIGN*** The Popple on Raptor Isle Michael Andi Translated by Emiko Murata Read Now
**[21:44] Tomozaki**
There it is.
***SIGN*** My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft
**[22:03] Tomozaki**
*I read the whole thing...*
***SIGN*** My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft Fuka Kikuchi
**[22:05] Tomozaki**
and found a clue that
could give me an answer.
# E12 - Sometimes the ancient tome in the first town is the key to the final dungeon
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...
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**[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...
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**[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.*
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**[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.
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**[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.