E11 - Even fairies feel lonely when they're away from their spring by themselves
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[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.
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[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.
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[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...
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[05:00] Fuka
O-Okay, let's start from the first scene.
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[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.
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[09:16] Tomozaki
How can you even be that strong,
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[09:19] Tomozaki
Aoi Hinami?
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[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?
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[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...
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[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.
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[16:14] Fuka
Understood.
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[16:19] Fuka
Okay. Places, everyone.
[16:22] Nakamura
Where do I go again?
[16:23] Takei
The king's right here!
[16:25] Erika
Isn't that my spot?
[16:27] Takei
Is it?
[16:29] Tachibana
I'm here, right?
[16:31] Fuka
Um...
[16:32] Aoi
Hey, slow down! Think about Fuka here!
[16:37] Aoi
Shuji, you're here.
[16:39] Aoi
Erika, you're over here,
and Tachibana, you're here.
[16:42] Aoi
Right, Fuka?
[16:44] Fuka
Yes, right.
[16:48] Matsumoto
Where am I again?
[16:49] Hashiguchi
Here, I think?
[16:51] Fuka
Matsumoto, you're here,
[16:53] Fuka
and Hashiguchi, you're here.
[16:55] Tomozaki
Maybe it's because the school's
perfect heroine Aoi Hinami is here,
[16:59] Tomozaki
but Kikuchi seems to be
mimicking how she does things.
[17:05] Fuka
O-Okay. Let's begin.
[17:07] Mizusawa
Why is she like that?
[17:09] Tomozaki
Could you not sneak up on me?!
[17:13] Tomozaki
Kikuchi's been thinking about a lot of stuff.
[17:17] Mizusawa
Hmm. A lot, eh?
[17:20] Tomozaki
Yeah, well...
[17:23] Mizusawa
Tell me. Maybe I can help.
[17:27] Tomozaki
She thinks she has to
become this world ideal.
[17:33] Tomozaki
Changing to fit in better, making friends...
[17:37] Tomozaki
She says she has to do these
things to fit this ideal.
[17:41] Mizusawa
A world ideal, eh?
[17:44] Mizusawa
I mean, sure, if she says so.
[17:47] Tomozaki
The way she puts it feels a little loaded.
[17:50] Mizusawa
No, I think it's a good thing.
[17:52] Mizusawa
She's determined to change herself
[17:54] Mizusawa
and is actively working
toward making that happen.
[17:57] Mizusawa
And she's doing a great job! It's impressive.
[18:01] Tomozaki
I suppose so.
[18:03] Mizusawa
And so is her reason for
it: to fit this ideal.
[18:08] Mizusawa
Pretty ironic that it's the
opposite of you, though.
[18:12] Tomozaki
The opposite?
[18:14] Tomozaki
If you mean the directions we're moving
in, I think they're actually the same.
[18:19] Tomozaki
Making an effort to change so
we fit in with everyone else.
[18:23] Tomozaki
That's what Tama and I did.
[18:26] Mizusawa
Ah, okay! So that's what
it looks like to you.
[18:29] Tomozaki
Wh-What?
[18:31] Mizusawa
Look, Kikuchi's talking about
the world's ideals, right?
[18:40] Mizusawa
Your ideal is from your own
perspective: "I'd like to do this."
[18:45] Mizusawa
While Kikuchi's takes a bird's-eye
view: "The world needs me like this."
[18:50] Mizusawa
Totally opposite, right?
[18:54] Tomozaki
I changed myself so I could enjoy
my playthrough of this game of life.
[19:00] Tomozaki
Tama changed herself so she
wouldn't be making Mimimi sad.
[19:08] Tomozaki
We both did it so we could
be our ideal selves.
[19:12] Tomozaki
Then why is Kikuchi doing it?
[19:17] Tomozaki
Is that how it is?
[19:19] Tomozaki
Drawing nearer to the world's ideals
[19:22] Tomozaki
is an objective, player-oriented
way of thinking, like Hinami's.
[19:32] Fuka
Yes, that's right.
[19:34] Fuka
I do feel like I see things from
what you call a "player" perspective.
[19:42] Fuka
But this has me thinking...
[19:45] Fuka
It might actually be an author's perspective.
[19:49] Tomozaki
An author's... like scripts and novels?
[19:53] Fuka
Well, yes, those too, but more than that.
[19:56] Fuka
An author of this story we call the world.
[19:59] Tomozaki
The world's author?
[20:03] Fuka
For a long time now, I haven't
thought about what I'd like to do
[20:06] Fuka
so much as how to make this world
more beautiful, how it should be,
[20:11] Fuka
what an ideal form would look like.
[20:14] Fuka
A very authoresque way
of thinking about things.
[20:17] Fuka
So I'm okay with this.
[20:20] Tomozaki
With a player perspective?
[20:23] Fuka
Those are your words, Tomozaki.
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[20:28] Fuka
In the game world, the opposite of
"character" may well be "player."
[20:33] Fuka
But in the world of novels, I think the
opposite of "character" is "author."
[20:40] Fuka
So I'll be all right holding
onto my author's perspective.
[20:48] Fuka
I do want to take on that ideal form.
[20:53] Fuka
Just like Hinami.
[20:55] Tomozaki
Like Hinami, huh...?
[20:57] Fuka
Yes.
[20:58] Fuka
After all, she's a very
ideal person, isn't she?
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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...
SIGN My Unfamiliar Way to Fly Fourth Draft Fuka Kikuchi
[22:05] Tomozaki
and found a clue that
could give me an answer.