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

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SIGN    Spare Classroom A In Use
[00:04] Tomozaki
    O-Okay!
[00:05] Tomozaki
    Let's do a read-through of our script!
[00:08] Tomozaki
    Does anyone have any questions?
[00:13] Tomozaki
    Whoa, what's with this mood?
[00:18] Aoi
    Oh! I have a question for Fuka:
[00:22] Aoi
    Alucia's emotions here—is she
    more desperate? Or resolved?
[00:27] Fuka
    Um, it's more the latter.
[00:30] Aoi
    Got it!
[00:31] Tomozaki
    Wow, Hinami, nice assist!
[00:34] Aoi
    So...
[00:36] Aoi
    Like this?
[00:39] Aoi
    If I don't do something, you'll be killed.
[00:44] Aoi
    So please... let me do this.
[00:48] Aoi
    How's that?
[00:49] Fuka
    P-Perfect...
[00:53] Takei
    Cool!
[00:54] Tomozaki
    I mean, she is already acting
    all the time, anyway.
[00:59] Aoi
    I hate to do this, but I have a
    student council thing after this.
[01:04] Aoi
    Is it okay if I slip out?
[01:07] Tomozaki
    A-ha! To create a pretext for
    spending less time in rehearsal,
[01:11] Tomozaki
    she starts out with a bang that'll
    make her more persuasive.
[01:15] Tomozaki
    From what we just saw,
    yeah, you should be fine.
[01:18] Fuka
    Sure—no problem.
SIGN    2nd Stage: Lv. 11 Even fairies feel lonely when they're away from their spring by themselves
[02:52] Hanabi
    Wh-Who are you? What are you doing here?
[02:56] Mizusawa
    I'm Libra, the locksmith's son.
[02:59] Mizusawa
    And this is...
[03:01] Erika
    Freeze, all three of you.
[03:03] Nakamura
    Seize that man!
[03:05] Tachibana
    His Highness's orders!
[03:07] Hashiguchi
    Resistance is useless!
[03:08] Matsumoto
    Come quietly, now!
[03:10] Yuzu
    Having escaped execution thanks to
    Alucia's quick thinking, Libra...
[03:14] Kashiwazaki
    Hah! Ow ow ow...
[03:16] Takei
    You can't just take things—that
    makes you a thief!
[03:19] Seno
    Calm down, Father.
[03:23] Tachibana
    Nice work!
[03:25] Tomozaki
    Yeah, good job.
[03:27] Tomozaki
    Our first day went off without a hitch.
[03:29] Fuka
    I was nervous, but I had fun.
[03:32] Tomozaki
    Yeah? Well, that's good.
[03:34] Fuka
    Thank you so much for all your support.
[03:38] Tomozaki
    Not at all! I'm doing this because I want to.
[03:43] Fuka
    But... you're so busy.
[03:47] Fuka
    You've got that thing with Nanami...
[03:50] Tomozaki
    The comedy skit?
[03:51] Fuka
    Right. That's something else you have to do.
[03:57] Fuka
    So, um... that's what you
    should do tomorrow.
[04:00] Tomozaki
    Huh? But what about our rehearsal here?
[04:03] Fuka
    I'll... I'll do my best.
[04:09] Fuka
    I've been thinking... You've
    changed, Hanabi's changed...
[04:15] Fuka
    and I'm the only one getting left behind.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly
[04:19] Fuka
    So... it's about time I change, too.
[04:23] Tomozaki
    Oh, okay.
[04:25] Fuka
    Don't you think this could
    spark real change for me?
[04:31] Fuka
    That would be the ideal, anyway.
[04:34] Tomozaki
    Yeah. I understand.
[04:37] Fuka
    I'm going to go for it.
SIGN    Tomozaki
[04:48] Fuka
    That would be the ideal, anyway.
[04:52] Tomozaki
    What is it...?
[04:53] Tomozaki
    Something about that
    word—"ideal"—doesn't sit right...
SIGN    Spare Classroom A In Use
[05:00] Fuka
    O-Okay, let's start from the first scene.
SIGN    Top Secret
[05:07] Mimimi
    Ta-da! I've actually finished our script!
[05:10] Tomozaki
    Wow, really?
[05:12] Mimimi
    Now let's give our married-couple
    routine a whirl!
[05:15] Mimimi
    Clap-clap-clap-clap!
[05:17] Mimimi
    Hello there!
[05:19] Tomozaki
    Wait wait wait! I can't just
    jump right in like that!
[05:22] Mimimi
    Huh? Why not?
[05:23] Tomozaki
    I haven't even seen the script!
[05:25] Mimimi
    Even though we're friends, Brain?!
[05:27] Tomozaki
    Even though we're friends.
[05:29] Mimimi
    See? That's what I call great flow!
[05:32] Tomozaki
    Huh?
[05:33] Mimimi
    What we did just now!
[05:35] Mimimi
    We were just having a normal conversation,
[05:36] Mimimi
    but it started sounding
    like a comedy skit, right?
[05:38] Tomozaki
    Ah!
[05:40] Mimimi
    Which makes this natural
    married-couple comedy!
[05:44] Mimimi
    Let's get rehearsing!
[05:49] Mimimi
    Hey, I know! Why don't we go to the zoo?
[05:52] Tomozaki
    I wouldn't want to be there if
    the lion escaped its enclosure.
[05:56] Mimimi
    So I'll bring a tranquilizer gun.
[05:58] Tomozaki
    You know they'll confiscate it at the gates!
[06:03] Mimimi
    Don't you think our usual
    conversations are funnier?
[06:08] Mimimi
    This really feels like
    we're reading a script.
[06:11] Tomozaki
    Oh...
[06:13] Mimimi
    The funniest comedians come across
    like they're having an impromptu chat.
[06:18] Mimimi
    So even though memorizing
    this is part of the process,
[06:21] Mimimi
    maybe not every line should
    be carved in stone.
[06:25] Tomozaki
    Yeah. But that's kind of terrifying.
[06:28] Tomozaki
    I guess...
[06:29] Mimimi
    But you and me always have such crazy
    conversations... couldn't it work?
[06:34] Tomozaki
    Now that you mention it... maybe?
[06:36] Mimimi
    That's right! We'll conquer the world!
[06:40] Tomozaki
    What's this "world" stuff? It's
    just the culture festival.
[06:43] Mimimi
    See? Nice comeback!
[06:46] Tomozaki
    Sheesh...
[06:49] Tomozaki
    I have fun with Mimimi—and so, by
    extension, it's easy to picture us dating.
[06:57] Tomozaki
    But how is that different from being friends?
[07:02] Mimimi
    Here.
[07:04] Mimimi
    Nice work today.
[07:07] Mimimi
    You've had a lot on your
    mind lately, huh, Brain.
[07:11] Tomozaki
    You can tell?
[07:12] Mimimi
    Aww, c'mon! Your ol' uncle
    is always here for advice!
[07:15] Tomozaki
    My uncle, huh?
[07:17] Mimimi
    It's not healthy to keep stuff to yourself.
[07:20] Mimimi
    And if a girl my age is saying
    it, you know it's true!
[07:25] Tomozaki
    What, so you're not my uncle after all?
[07:28] Mimimi
    Don't you worry about that.
[07:31] Tomozaki
    Um... thanks.
[07:33] Mimimi
    F-F-For what?!
[07:35] Tomozaki
    For worrying about me.
[07:37] Mimimi
    Oh, well, y-y-you know...
[07:40] Tomozaki
    I've actually had a lot of
    things to think about lately:
[07:44] Tomozaki
    the script for our play, Hinami...
[07:48] Mimimi
    Aoi?
[07:50] Tomozaki
    She's playing Alucia, right?
[07:52] Tomozaki
    We asked her a lot of questions for the part,
[07:55] Tomozaki
    like, "Why do you push yourself so hard?"
[07:59] Mimimi
    Oh, that. I've been wondering that
    myself, ever since the election.
[08:04] Mimimi
    And how maybe she and I are the same.
[08:07] Tomozaki
    The same?
[08:09] Mimimi
    I told you how I need to be in first
    place because I'm not special, right?
[08:15] Tomozaki
    Yeah.
[08:17] Mimimi
    So I'm thinking...
[08:18] Mimimi
    maybe Aoi shoots for first place
    so she can be special, too.
[08:23] Tomozaki
    That could be.
[08:27] Tomozaki
    Mimimi?
[08:29] Mimimi
    If so, that worries me a little.
[08:32] Tomozaki
    How so?
[08:34] Mimimi
    Maybe Aoi and I are the same:
[08:36] Mimimi
    hollow.
[08:39] Tomozaki
    Hinami, hollow?
[08:42] Tomozaki
    I mean, I don't know what
    her core motivation is.
[08:48] Mimimi
    To try that hard and still be
    empty inside... How sad is that?
[08:52] Mimimi
    And if it's true... then she might...
[08:56] Tomozaki
    Might what?
[08:58] Mimimi
    She might not ever come
    to me for advice. Right?
[09:02] Tomozaki
    It's true. I doubt Hinami would
    unload on Mimimi about herself.
[09:07] Tomozaki
    And not just Mimimi...
[09:10] Tomozaki
    I can't picture her opening
    up to anyone at all.
SIGN    Cast Libra: Takehiro Mizusawa Alucia: Aoi Hinami Kris: Hanabi Natsubayashi King: Shuji Nakamura Knight: Erika Konno
[09:16] Tomozaki
    How can you even be that strong,
SIGN    Aoi Hinami
[09:19] Tomozaki
    Aoi Hinami?
SIGN    Spare Classroom A In Use
[09:25] Tomozaki
    When I joined rehearsals for
    the first time in two days...
[09:29] Fuka
    Could you be more dignified
    there, please, Nakamura?
[09:33] Nakamura
    You mean like this?
[09:35] Takei
    Yikes! That's not
    dignified—that's intimidating!
[09:38] Nakamura
    Say what?
[09:39] Takei
    C'mon, a king's more like this!
[09:42] Erika
    What's so kingly about that?
[09:45] Yuzu
    Right? Not dignified in the slightest.
[09:47] Takei
    Aw! It is too dignified!
[09:47] Seno
    How long do I have to keep doing this?
SIGN    Alucia
[09:50] Kashiwazaki
    Want to swap?
[09:51] Nakamura
    Cut it out already.
[09:52] Seno
    Oh, thanks.
[09:54] Hanabi
    Hey—focus! Help Fuka out here!
[09:59] Yuzu
    Oh, sorry! Keep going.
[10:03] Fuka
    O-Okay, um...
[10:06] Tomozaki
    What's rehearsal been
    like these past two days?
[10:09] Mizusawa
    Oh, Kikuchi's been trying to
    really actively talk to everyone.
[10:14] Tomozaki
    To everyone?
[10:16] Mizusawa
    Yeah. Like when you were
    assigning parts earlier.
[10:19] Mizusawa
    It feels like she learned from watching you.
[10:22] Mizusawa
    Y'know, though, I hate to say this...
[10:25] Mizusawa
    She's not really used to that kind of role.
[10:28] Tomozaki
    Well... no.
[10:29] Mizusawa
    So it's like... our tires are
    spinning, and we keep losing focus.
[10:35] Mizusawa
    And Aoi hasn't been around—she's
    busy with student council work.
[10:44] Fuka
    Good morning, Tomozaki.
[10:47] Tomozaki
    Morning, Kikuchi.
[10:49] Tomozaki
    Could it be... finished?
[10:51] Fuka
    Yes. I know it took a long time, but...
[10:54] Fuka
    I've finished the script.
[10:57] Tomozaki
    Ooh!
[11:03] Tomozaki
    The script went in a different
    direction than I'd anticipated.
[11:09] Tomozaki
    After Libra and Kris took
    off on the flying dragon
[11:11] Tomozaki
    and Kris got a taste of how
    beautiful the world was,
[11:14] Tomozaki
    she began asking to venture into town.
[11:17] Tomozaki
    Libra accompanied her out of the castle.
[11:21] Tomozaki
    She didn't know how shopping worked,
[11:23] Tomozaki
    and got a real scolding from the greengrocer.
[11:25] Tomozaki
    Thus Kris came to know the real world.
[11:29] Tomozaki
    Eventually, Kris got to thinking:
[11:31] Tomozaki
    this garden she'd been cooped
    up in for all this time,
[11:34] Tomozaki
    this place she wanted to
    leave... she did nothing
[11:38] Tomozaki
    in return for clean clothes
    and delicious food,
[11:42] Tomozaki
    and she could read all the
    fairy tales she desired.
[11:45] Tomozaki
    It may have been a little too convenient.
[11:50] Kris (Fuka)
    Say, Libra... am I spoiled?
[11:54] Libra (Fuka)
    Eh?
[11:55] Kris (Fuka)
    Being shut away in this garden,
[11:59] Kris (Fuka)
    never having to work hard to live...
[12:01] Kris (Fuka)
    The outside world is pretty from a distance,
[12:05] Kris (Fuka)
    but I'll have to work hard
    if I want to be part of it.
[12:09] Tomozaki
    In the end, Kris sneaked out
    of the castle and went missing.
[12:14] Tomozaki
    Libra and Alucia searched
    desperately for her.
[12:16] Tomozaki
    But the castle's residents did
    nothing about the missing girl.
[12:21] Tomozaki
    Kris had finished raising the flying dragon,
[12:23] Tomozaki
    so as far as they were concerned,
    she was only baggage.
[12:29] Tomozaki
    Kris took a job at the greengrocer's.
[12:33] Tomozaki
    Despite a string of failures,
[12:35] Tomozaki
    Kris used her own skills to
    learn what life required of her,
[12:38] Tomozaki
    and decided to live in the outside world.
[12:41] Tomozaki
    Libra and Alucia celebrated her new venture.
[12:47] Tomozaki
    I sure didn't see that coming.
[12:50] Tomozaki
    Still...
[12:53] Tomozaki
    It's so similar to what I felt back then...
SIGN    Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2
[13:01] Tomozaki
    I read your script.
[13:03] Fuka
    H-How was it?
[13:05] Tomozaki
    Um... Why was Kris... like that?
[13:11] Fuka
    Like what?
[13:14] Tomozaki
    She left the garden and Libra and Alucia...
[13:17] Tomozaki
    and decided to live alone
    in the village, right?
[13:20] Fuka
    Yes...
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft
[13:22] Tomozaki
    I'm sure you put a lot of thought into this,
[13:25] Tomozaki
    but reading that actually
    made me kind of sad.
[13:31] Tomozaki
    I felt like it was negating everything
    about her life in the garden.
[13:40] Fuka
    One of my favorite Andi books
    is The Popple on Raptor Isle.
[13:46] Tomozaki
    The Popples...
[13:48] Tomozaki
    Oh, right... You mentioned that before.
[13:50] Fuka
    It's an incredibly positive story.
[13:54] Fuka
    This Popple, a blind creature,
    was living all on its lonesome
[13:59] Fuka
    when it left on a journey
    in search of friends.
[14:02] Fuka
    At first, all the other creatures
    feared it because it was different.
[14:07] Fuka
    But it made friends through
    the power of its words.
[14:10] Fuka
    And after making all these
    friends of other species,
[14:15] Fuka
    they all went on a voyage to see the ocean.
[14:18] Fuka
    After reading it, I thought this
    Popple was an ideal for the world.
[14:24] Tomozaki
    An ideal... for the world?
[14:27] Fuka
    It didn't even know what
    kind of creature it was,
[14:31] Fuka
    but it reached out to all these
    other species and made friends.
[14:35] Fuka
    All thanks to the power of
    language and a little effort.
[14:40] Fuka
    That's how it made friends.
[14:43] Fuka
    It reminded me of a certain two people.
[14:47] Tomozaki
    Two... You mean...
[14:49] Fuka
    Yes. You and Hanabi.
[14:54] Fuka
    I like this Popple's tale, and think
    it's a great storytelling ideal...
[14:59] Fuka
    an ideal for the world.
[15:03] Fuka
    I thought I needed to be
    more like that Popple.
[15:07] Fuka
    But I just kept giving up.
[15:10] Fuka
    Maybe it was impossible.
[15:13] Fuka
    But when I saw you and Hanabi, I thought:
[15:17] Fuka
    You're both so brilliant,
    such ideal people...
[15:21] Fuka
    And maybe, just maybe, I
    could be like that, too.
[15:24] Tomozaki
    So you're aiming for that ideal yourself?
[15:27] Fuka
    Kris is the same way.
[15:29] Fuka
    Working hard to change like the
    Popple did, to fit in in the world.
SIGN    My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft
[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?
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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?
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[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.
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[21:44] Tomozaki
    There it is.
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[22:03] Tomozaki
    I read the whole thing...
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[22:05] Tomozaki
    and found a clue that
    could give me an answer.