12 - Destroy your ideals and self, and return to hell and reality

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[00:17] μ
    This is for the best,
[00:19] μ
    right, everyone?
[00:30] Aria
    Mobius has begun to collapse.
[00:34] Aria
    μ is disoriented, and she can't
    control the world anymore.
[02:15] Ritsu
    You seem different.
[02:18] Aria
    I've regained my powers and memories.
[02:21] Aria
    Which also proves that
    μ is in terrible shape.
[02:27] Ritsu
    But your body hasn't been restored.
[02:29] Aria
    Jeez, you had to say that?
[02:31] Aria
    What about you, Ritsu?
[02:33] Ritsu
    I've remembered.
[02:35] Ritsu
    That it might be my fault
    μ ended up that way.
[02:44] Ritsu
    Back in reality, I could never
    socialize well with others.
[02:51] Ritsu
    I could go days before realizing
    something was wrong with my throat,
[02:56] Ritsu
    because I didn't speak to others.
[02:59] Ritsu
    I was like a decorative plant
    in the corner of the room,
[03:03] ---
    just living without anyone noticing.
[03:07] Ritsu
    Then one day I heard μ's voice.
[03:11] Ritsu
    It was the first time I felt
    connected to someone else.
[03:15] Ritsu
    μ would happily listen to me talk.
[03:18] Ritsu
    She answered kindly.
[03:21] Ritsu
    I felt as if the words I could
    never share with others
[03:24] ---
    were able to reach μ alone.
[03:28] Ritsu
    It's difficult, isn't it?
    Putting your thoughts into words.
[03:34] Aria
    Hey, why did you return
    to reality by yourself?
[03:37] Ritsu
    I didn't know how to explain
    things about me and μ.
[03:42] Ritsu
    Besides, this is something only I can do.
[03:46] Ritsu
    Something I have to do.
[03:48] Aria
    Ritsu...
[03:50] Ritsu
    I wasn't able to stop μ in the end.
[03:54] (Flashback) μ
    I want to make everyone happy!
[03:57] (Flashback) μ
    Hey, Ritsu? What should I do?
[04:01] Ritsu
    I couldn't give her a proper answer.
[04:03] (Flashback) μ
    Don't worry!
[04:05] (Flashback) μ
    Whatever your wish, I'll grant it!
[04:08] (Flashback) μ
    With my songs!
[04:14] Aria
    In that case,
[04:15] Aria
    this time you need to confront μ
[04:18] ---
    and tell her how you feel.
[04:21] Aria
    I'm sure it'll reach μ!
[04:23] Ritsu
    Yeah.
[04:24] Aria
    So Ritsu, please take care of μ.
[04:30] Kensuke
    If this keeps up and Mobius is destroyed,
    will we be able to go home?
[04:35] Mifue
    You think we will?
[04:37] Naruko
    If that's true, then we can just stay here.
[04:39] Kotaro
    Have you forgotten what happened to Yamada?!
[04:42] Kotaro
    If this place goes away, we vanish with it.
[04:48] Kotono
    I'm the only one
[04:51] ---
    who hasn't spoken about my real self, right?
[04:54] Kotono
    You see, I'm a single mother.
[04:58] Kotono
    My child's name is Tak-kun.
[05:01] Kotono
    Back there, I've never done a single
    motherly thing for my child.
[05:08] Kotono
    Even though he's my child,
    I resented him at times.
[05:12] Kotono
    I really regret it now.
[05:16] Kotono
    He might not ever forgive me.
[05:19] Kotono
    But I have to go home to reality
[05:22] ---
    and give Tak-kun another hug!
[05:27] SweetP
    You're all so annoying!
[05:29] IkeP
    I'll send you all to Heaven!
[05:32] Naruko
    Man, I think your Heaven's in trouble here.
[05:36] Mirei
    Be quiet! Enough nonsense!
[05:40] IkeP
    We'll save this world from its crisis!
[05:45] Mifue
    We need to run soon, too.
[05:47] IkeP
    Huh?! To where?!
[05:49] IkeP
    There's no save point here for us!
[05:52] Suzuna
    At this rate, we're all going to disappear.
[05:54] Mirei
    Once we defeat those of you
    rejecting μ, rejecting this world,
[05:58] ---
    the distortion in this world will be fixed!
[06:00] Mirei
    We won't let it end!
[06:01] Kotono
    That's right! We won't let it end here.
[06:05] Kotono
    We're going back!
[06:10] Izuru
    We're all alike.
[06:13] Izuru
    We all have something
    we refuse to surrender.
[06:16] Izuru
    What's different is only whether reality
[06:21] ---
    or Mobius is what affirms us.
[06:24] Izuru
    We're going back to reality
    to live our lives!
[06:48] μ
    Everyone's pain!
[07:01] Song
    This scenery plastered with kind lies,
[07:03] Thorn
    You're going to face the sins
    you've committed in reality?
[07:04] Song
    and a daily life continuing forever
[07:06] Song
    carries the absurdity of reality
[07:07] Thorn
    Your sins won't go away.
[07:08] Song
    away to a far, far away world.
[07:09] Song
    Ichika will never forgive you.
[07:11] Song
    My love for you
[07:13] Song
    is enough to drive me.
[07:13] Thorn
    So you'll never be able to escape
    your suffering while you live.
[07:15] Song
    My hate for you
[07:17] Thorn
    Drop dead, Shogo.
[07:17] Song
    is enough to make me ache.
[07:19] Shogo
    Are you Natsume Asuka?
[07:20] Song
    Some might say this is all fake,
[07:22] Song
    but if it heals this grief away,
[07:24] Song
    I'll become dependent on
    its continued deception.
[07:24] Shogo
    Natsume, why... are you... in here?
[07:26] Song
    See? It doesn't hurt anymore.
[07:29] Thorn
    Why did Ichika choose to die
    with you instead of me?
[07:29] Song
    My urge to love you
[07:31] Song
    is more priceless than anything
[07:33] Thorn
    If she had chosen me, I could have
    passed on with her at the end.
[07:33] Song
    My urge to hate you
[07:35] Song
    is more unbearable than anything.
[07:37] Song
    This is an endless Mobius strip.
[07:37] Thorn
    So then,
[07:39] Thorn
    why did she choose a coward like you?
[07:42] Thorn
    Why?
[07:43] Thorn
    Why?
[07:46] Thorn
    And then there's you!
[07:46] Song
    So why do you want to run away?
[07:47] Thorn
    After walking all over her feelings,
[07:49] ---
    you let her die all by herself!
[07:50] Song
    When all the happiness in the world is here?
[07:57] Song
    She smiles...
[07:58] Song
    A world without you,
    without you, without you...
[08:00] Thorn
    Shogo, you understand, don't you?
[08:02] Song
    I won't accept it. I won't accept it!
    See, you're here, aren't you?
[08:03] Thorn
    Ichika is still alive.
[08:06] Thorn
    I can't tolerate a world without Ichika.
[08:07] Song
    As long as you're here, as long as
    you're here, as long as you're here...
[08:10] Song
    I don't need anything else.
[08:10] Thorn
    But she's in here.
[08:11] Song
    May this miniature garden
    where you smile last forever.
[08:12] Thorn
    Even now, she's by my side.
[08:16] Thorn
    I won't let anyone interfere
    with our happiness!
[08:21] Shogo
    I know I ran!
[08:23] Shogo
    I was scared.
[08:24] Shogo
    I didn't know what to do.
[08:26] Shogo
    That's why I came to this world.
[08:29] Thorn
    No, no! I'm the one who invited you here!
[08:33] Thorn
    That has to be the truth!
[08:34] Song
    Our peaceful days are eroding away,
[08:37] Song
    and you can't just ignore it.
[08:39] Thorn
    Drop dead, Shogo!
[08:39] Song
    Why are you rejecting happiness?
[08:41] Song
    You could just stay and wait here.
[08:43] Thorn
    You will never find peace for all eternity!
[08:48] Thorn
    Besides, what can a coward
    like you possibly do
[08:52] ---
    when you return to reality?!
[08:52] Song
    Even if it's distorted...
[08:54] Thorn
    There's no place for you there!
[08:55] Song
    Even if it's rotten...
[08:56] Thorn
    Mobius is finished, too.
[08:57] Song
    Even if it's stagnant...
[08:58] Thorn
    Even μ can't fully support it anymore.
[08:59] Song
    It's still happiness.
[09:01] Song
    What do you hope to accomplish
    by finding an end?
[09:02] Thorn
    She's endured well, considering that delicate body.
[09:06] Thorn
    I wasn't able to be closest to
    Ichika when her time came,
[09:10] Song
    You don't want to go back to horrible form
    spreading resentment everywhere, do you?
[09:11] Thorn
    but this time it's different.
[09:13] Thorn
    This time!
[09:15] Thorn
    So let's enjoy these final moments, Shogo.
[09:20] Song
    She's ticked...
[09:21] Song
    A world without you,
    without you, without you...
[09:26] Song
    Never existed...
    Never existed from the start.
[09:30] Izuru
    Satake!
[09:30] Song
    You're not here... You're not here...
    You're not here,
[09:32] Thorn
    Farewell, Shogo.
[09:34] Song
    Shut up!
[09:35] Song
    I'll stab a knife into that 
    persistent buzz again today!
[09:41] Shogo
    Ritsu...
[09:44] Suzuna
    President!
[09:46] Suzuna
    You're okay!
[09:47] Naruko
    Jeez! Where did you go?!
[09:49] Kotaro
    I thought you betrayed us!
[09:52] Ritsu
    Sorry, everyone.
[09:54] Thorn
    You came back?
[09:57] Ritsu
    Yeah.
[09:59] Ritsu
    There are still things
    I need to do in this world.
SIGN    Destroy your ideals and self, 
    and return to hell and reality.
[10:04] Song
    Oh, wandering heart,
[10:08] Thorn
    Things you need to do?
[10:08] Song
    forget about everything,
[10:10] Thorn
    What can you possibly do?
[10:12] Thorn
    Can't you hear it?
[10:13] Song
    view only your ideals in this
    world guided by this song.
[10:15] Thorn
    The dying screams of Mobius,
    μ's song of demise?
[10:25] Thorn
    It's over. All of it.
[10:28] ---
    Along with Mobius.
[10:30] μ
    I'll take everyone's unhappiness.
[10:31] Song
    It was so painful, wasn't it?
[10:32] Thorn
    ...and I'll turn it into song.
[10:35] μ
    Lament, sorrow...
[10:35] Song
    It was so sad, wasn't it?
[10:37] Thorn
    hatred, all of it...
[10:39] Both
    I'll accept it for you!
[10:40] Song
    I'll accept it in place of your tears.
[10:49] Song
    What do you seek?
[10:54] Song
    What do you wish to become?
[10:56] Mirei
    H-Hey, Thorn?
[10:59] ---
    What are you doing?
[10:59] Song
    I'll grant your wish,
[11:04] Song
    so tell me.
[11:10] Song
    CRY!
[11:12] Song
    I can't not scream!
[11:16] Song
    I can't not sing!
[11:16] SweetP
    No way!
[11:18] Song
    I'll scoop up your words
    as they wilt away, so
[11:24] Suzuna
    Komori-kun!
[11:24] Song
    Cry! As if you're screaming,
    as if you're singing,
[11:25] Shounen Doll
    We're going to eat lunch
     together, right, Suzuna?
[11:29] Suzuna
    N-No!
[11:31] Song
    in this never ending, always
    repeating, Shangri-La.
[11:46] Thorn
    Shogo!
[11:48] Shogo
    Natsume, give up already.
[11:58] Kotono
    N-No way...
[12:10] Naruko
    μ...
[12:12] Kotaro
    Oh crap!
[12:15] SweetP
    Save me, μ!
[12:17] IkeP
    Hey, μ! What's happened to you?!
[12:20] μ
    It's all right.
[12:22] μ
    You won't have to suffer anymore.
[12:26] μ
    I'm going to make you all happy.
[12:30] μ
    Inside me!
[12:38] Naruko
    Aria!
[12:40] Aria
    Go alive!
[12:48] Shogo
    Natsume, you're right.
[12:51] ---
    My sin will never go away.
[12:54] Shogo
    But even so, I have to face it.
[12:58] Shogo
    In reality, not here in Mobius.
[13:04] Thorn
    I don't want to live in
    a world without Ichika.
[13:11] Aria
    I'm leaving the rest to you!
[13:13] Ritsu
    Yeah, I know.
[13:15] Aria
    Ritsu, make sure to tell her!
[13:18] Aria
    Reach μ's heart!
[13:26] Ritsu
    μ, can you hear me?
[13:30] Ritsu
    It's just the two of us now.
[13:33] Ritsu
    That was how it started.
[13:35] Ritsu
    Back then, I really just
    spoke to you for no reason.
[13:40] Ritsu
    I never even imagined that
    you would respond back.
[13:44] Ritsu
    So I was really surprised
[13:47] ---
    and spilled my coffee.
[13:49] Ritsu
    That's why my first memories
    of you smell like coffee.
[13:55] Ritsu
    We chatted about a lot of things, didn't we?
[13:58] Ritsu
    Like how I found a kitten abandoned
    in a park on my way to work,
[14:03] Ritsu
    but I couldn't take it in.
[14:05] Ritsu
    I was still worried about it, so I
    went back to the park during lunch,
[14:10] Ritsu
    but the kitten was gone.
[14:12] Ritsu
    When I was upset with regret, you spoke to me.
[14:17] Ritsu
    You said, "It's all right."
[14:19] Ritsu
    Those words really saved me.
[14:23] Ritsu
    But I imagine you probably didn't really know
[14:27] ---
    whether that kitten was all right.
[14:30] Ritsu
    Your words were simply
    what I wanted to hear most.
[14:45] Ritsu
    μ...
[14:48] ---
    You asked me what happiness is, right?
[14:53] Ritsu
    Back in reality, and even in here,
[14:55] Ritsu
    I couldn't give you a proper answer.
[15:00] Ritsu
    So let's talk about happiness once more.
[15:10] Ritsu
    μ, I...
[15:12] ---
    always wanted someone to listen my thoughts.
[15:18] Ritsu
    Yet despite that, I didn't want to let anyone,
     even you, get too close to me.
[15:22] Ritsu
    I kept that darkness constantly
    hidden in my heart.
[15:27] Ritsu
    Here in Mobius, I borrowed my coworker's
    words to desperately hide that,
[15:32] ---
    and I continued to fake who I was.
[15:35] Ritsu
    That's why I've never been able
    to tell you what I truly feel.
[15:43] Ritsu
    The old me...
[15:44] Ritsu
    No, even now,
[15:47] ---
    I'm constantly longing for
    others to understand me.
[15:53] Ritsu
    But I know that's a dream
    that'll never come true.
[15:57] Ritsu
    So I debate about it,
    agonize over it, and struggle.
[16:03] Ritsu
    In other words, even in this world,
[16:05] ---
    I can't say I'm happy yet.
[16:08] Ritsu
    But that's because...
[16:21] Ritsu
    But μ, that's because we're wrong.
[16:27] Ritsu
    It's probably impossible for others
    to understand a person completely.
[16:32] Ritsu
    Sadly enough.
[16:34] Ritsu
    But everyone wants to be closer to others,
[16:38] Ritsu
    so they try learning psychology;
[16:41] Ritsu
    they try expressing themselves online;
[16:43] Ritsu
    they try to find answers in stories;
[16:46] Ritsu
    they try all kinds of different things.
[16:50] Ritsu
    Because it's lonely being on your own.
[16:53] Ritsu
    Because you want someone to understand you.
[16:56] Ritsu
    True happiness is something...
[17:01] Ritsu
    Something that people
    search out for themselves
[17:04] ---
    in their own ways.
[17:07] Ritsu
    It's not something that can
    ever be granted by another.
[17:11] Ritsu
    Words are hard.
[17:14] Ritsu
    You can like and hate the same thing.
[17:17] Ritsu
    Weakness also exists within strength.
[17:22] Ritsu
    Painful wounds of the body are different
    from painful wounds of the heart.
[17:27] Ritsu
    And wounds themselves have
    many different meanings as well.
[17:30] Ritsu
    Even the word "happiness"
[17:33] ---
    has a different meaning to every person.
[17:42] Ritsu
    So my happiness is...
[17:54] Ritsu
    When I came here and got involved
    with everyone in the Go-Home Club,
[17:57] Ritsu
    it was difficult prying into them.
[18:00] Ritsu
    I imagine that was likely
    someone else's role.
[18:04] Ritsu
    But even so!
[18:06] Ritsu
    I wanted to understand them!
[18:16] Ritsu
    μ, what was going through your
    mind as you created Mobius?
[18:20] Ritsu
    How strongly have you longed for happiness?
[18:25] Ritsu
    Maybe my words aren't reaching you.
[18:29] Ritsu
    But I'll keep telling you!
[18:32] Ritsu
    This time I won't make that mistake!
[18:34] Ritsu
    I'll tell you with my very own words!
[18:43] μ
    It's strange.
[18:44] μ
    Everyone in the Go-Home
    Club wants to go home,
[18:47] ---
    but they're also a little
    afraid of going back.
[18:50] μ
    The Musicians supposedly
    want to stay in this world,
[18:54] ---
    but occasionally they look lonely.
[18:57] μ
    White and black.
[18:59] μ
    It's strange and complicated.
[19:01] Ritsu
    That's how the human mind is.
[19:05] Ritsu
    We long for our own happiness,
    while simultaneously fearing it.
[19:10] Ritsu
    Some are even cheered on by adversity,
    while lamenting their misfortune.
[19:15] Ritsu
    For humans, our minds are complicated.
[19:25] Ritsu
    μ, I've come back to destroy this paradise
[19:30] ---
    and return to the real world.
[19:35] μ
    Hey, Ritsu?
[19:37] μ
    Was this world...
[19:39] μ
    Was Mobius fun?
[19:42] Ritsu
    Yeah, it was fun.
[19:44] Ritsu
    But this is still Mobius.
[19:51] μ
    You're right.
[19:54] Ritsu
    This time, I'll tell you what I wanted to say
[19:57] ---
    without running away from it.
[20:01] Ritsu
    I love you, μ.
[20:05] Song
    My heartbeat resonates through the sky,
[20:10] Song
    through endless, repeating days,
[20:11] Ritsu
    That smile of yours is my real happiness.
[20:16] Song
    as I carry my hidden wounds.
[20:20] NewsAnchor
    Next we have news on Astral Syndrome.
SIGN    Breaking News
SIGN    Astral Syndrome Resolved?
SIGN    One Week After Patients Awaken,  Experts Hasten to Reveal the Full Story
[20:24] NewsAnchor
    Yesterday, a week after all
    the victims woke up at once,
[20:27] Song
    The only freedom I'm allowed
[20:28] ---
    the investigation committee held
    a hearing with those involved.
[20:33] NewsAnchor
    We have yet to receive more
    detailed information,
[20:36] ---
    but many patients have reported dreaming
[20:38] Song
    is wandering.
[20:40] ---
    that they were living in Heaven.
[20:43] NewsAnchor
    Experts believe this new information
[20:43] Song
    So since you're here,
[20:45] ---
    implies a possibility of mass hypnosis.
[20:47] Song
    I want you to play your harmony for me.
[20:49] NewsAnchor
    Regardless, though this hypothesis
    may be hard to believe,
[20:53] ---
    we hope that the investigation will reveal
    the full story behind this incident.
[20:54] Song
    It's like a brilliant ocean,
[20:58] Song
    the spilling colors melting away.
[20:59] Kotono
    I don't blame you.
[21:00] Kotono
    I'm sure it just confuses you,
    hearing me suddenly act like a mother.
[21:05] Kotono
    But well,
[21:06] Song
    Close your eyes. Close your eyes.
[21:06] ---
    I'm home, Tak-kun.
[21:09] Song
    It's all right now.
[21:11] Mifue
    Mother, listen. I've needed to
    say this for a while, but...
[21:19] Mifue
    I'm sorry.
[21:24] Song
    Everyone shines
[21:25] Izuru
    Yeah, I know.
[21:27] Izuru
    But this time I'd like you just to
    watch over me without saying anything.
[21:29] Song
    in this sinless world,
[21:33] Izuru
    Mother, at least do that for me.
[21:35] Song
    this gentle cage.
[21:40] Naruko
    Huh? SNS?
[21:42] [SONG] Phone
    I used to be a gloomy, foul-tempered high school girl,
    and now I'm doing crazy things in a cyber zone!
    Chapter Two - Money Springing From Nowhere
    No way!!
    That day I was hoping to buy some juice
    and I was shocked when I opened my wallet.
    Huh?! Seriously?! There's 50,000 in here again!!
    I'm rich now!!
    Normally one would think this was a problem, right?
    Like, "Huh? Where'd this 50,000 come from?"
    But something about this world's happy, laid-back atmosphere
[21:42] Naruko
    Yeah, I decided to quit them for a while.
[21:45] Naruko
    I think I've found something
    I'd rather do instead.
[21:46] Song
    Seal away the endless discord.
[21:48] Naruko
    Though I don't know whether it'll go well.
[21:53] Suzuna
    I'm always here.
[21:55] Suzuna
    Yes, usually I'm alone.
[21:58] Suzuna
    There was someone I got
    along with really well before.
[22:02] Song
    I'll fulfill you, and your
    lonely, gestalt ego and ideals.
[22:02] Suzuna
    Will I never see him again?
[22:07] Suzuna
    I don't know yet.
[22:10] Kotaro
    What does justice mean to me?
[22:13] Kotaro
    I want to become a rescue
    worker to find out for myself.
[22:13] Song
    I'll write it down, so it won't be
    forgotten even if time rots it away.
[22:18] Kotaro
    Though I don't know whether
    I'll really be able to be one.
[22:22] Kotaro
    But even so, I...
[22:25] Song
    Take my hand and look at me,
    in the forest of slumber.
[22:35] Ritsu
    What everyone longed for
[22:37] ---
    was a peaceful world they
    could live in without anxiety.
[22:42] Ritsu
    But everyone knows that's not
    a simple dream to achieve.
[22:48] Ritsu
    That's why some people find
    small pieces of happiness
[22:52] ---
    within bitter, harsh reality.
[22:56] Ritsu
    That's why others refuse to accept reality,
[22:59] Song
    I've gathered these fragments
    of glass with shaking fingers.
[22:59] ---
    curse it, and call it shit,
[23:02] Ritsu
    but some also begin taking
    little steps forward
[23:06] ---
    as they try to grasp an unachievable dream.
[23:10] Song
    When I smile in this mirror,
    well, am I beautiful?
[23:11] Shogo
    Dammit, I even forgot how to put on shoes!
[23:22] Shogo
    Has sunlight always been this bright?
[23:28] Ritsu
    That's why our lives are probably stories
[23:32] ---
    woven with both dreams and reality.
[23:37] Ritsu
    Do you understand, μ?