9 - The Great Mother's Love

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[01:38] MAGI
    What is this?
[01:40] MOGURA
    Magi. I can tell.
SIGN    Episode 9
    "The Great Mother's Love"
[01:42] MOGURA
    You're worried about something else right now.
[01:45] MOGURA
    "My crush's local friend
    has SSR face potential."
[01:49] MOGURA
    You gotta do everything you can to stop this.
[01:52] MAGI
    Shut up, old man.
[01:54] MOGURA
    Depending on the circumstances, you may
    have to resort to illegal measures.
[01:58] MOGURA
    If you want, I'll help.
[02:00] MOGURA
    As far as society's concerned,
    I don't exist, so I'm useful that way.
[02:04] MAGI
    Please shut up, old man.
[02:06] YAEKO
    You might be thinking, "Why does this matter?"
[02:09] YAEKO
    But it's normal to wonder
    what happened to him, right?
[02:12] KYOKO
    True. Since you're here,
    it might be good to talk to him.
[02:19] MOGURA
    Yae-chan, how'd you recognize him
    as Mori-kun as soon as you saw him?
[02:23] YAEKO
    It was his doll.
[02:25] YAEKO
    I made it.
[02:27] YAEKO
    Back in high school, that game character
    was obscure, so there was no merch of it.
[02:32] YAEKO
    Mori-kun liked the same game and wanted
    something, so I made it for him.
[02:36] YAEKO
    Yeah, I can't figure it out
    just by thinking about it.
[02:38] YAEKO
    I'm shocked and exhausted
    from the merfolk thing today.
[02:41] YAEKO
    Let's go to bed.
[02:42] SHIO
    You're right. I'm disappointed
    I couldn't see it, though.
[02:46] SHIO
    Yaeko-san, let's change
    into our pajamas and chat.
[02:48] YAEKO
    Sure. Oh, right.
[02:50] YAEKO
    These are for when you sleep.
[02:52] MAGI
    What are these?
[02:53] YAEKO
    If a centipede falls from
    the ceiling, use those.
[02:56] MAGI
    A centipede?!
[02:57] YAEKO
    Don't touch them with your bare hands.
[02:59] YAEKO
    Okay, good night.
[03:01] MAGI
    A centipede?!
[03:02] MOGURA
    You can eat centipedes, you know.
[03:07] KYOKO
    Come on, Yaeko-chan. Join us.
[03:09] YAEKO
    What are we talking about?
[03:12] KYOKO
    Yaeko-chan, who do you like?
[03:15] KYOKO
    I love my husband!
[03:17] YAEKO
    Yeah, it'd be a huge problem
    if you loved someone else.
[03:22] KYOKO
    In that case, Shio-chan and Yaeko-chan,
    are you a sadist or a masochist?
[03:26] SHIO
    What kind of topic is that?
[03:28] YAEKO
    Oh, please.
[03:29] KYOKO
    I'm a huge masochist!
[03:31] YAEKO
    I feel like these are indirect burns
    against the professor of my seminar.
[03:44] MAGI/ID
    Spirits of the sea who have lost their
    sense of self and cry like infants.
[03:48] MAGI/ID
    The island's festival. The people
    in power. My friend from the island.
[03:53] MAGI/ID
    My friend's great-grandfather.
[03:55] MAGI/ID
    My friend's utterly transformed classmate.
[03:58] MAGI/ID
    Invited by a female friend, I rode
    on the back of her motorbike,
[04:03] MAGI/ID
    met her family, and now I'm
    staying at their house.
[04:07] MAGI/ID
    My future self 20 years from
    now is probably yelling at me,
[04:10] MAGI/ID
    "Do you have any idea how
    amazing this experience is?"
[04:14] MAGI/ID
    But for reasons I don't understand,
[04:17] MAGI/ID
    what I remember most is the middle-aged
    man keeping up with us on a bicycle.
[04:21] MAGI/ID
    Who's the real monster, the merfolk or him?
[04:24] MAGI/ID
    I fell asleep while thinking about
    that and woke up the next morning.
SIGN    Shriek
[04:37] ISLANDER 1
    Oh, it's Mori-san's kid.
[04:39] ISLANDER 2
    Again? He's been like this for a few years.
[04:42] ISLANDER 3
    Must be tough for his parents.
[04:44] ISLANDER 1
    The parents are a bit... complicated, too.
[04:53] YAEKO
    Oh, Dad. How's Mori-kun?
[04:56] FATHER
    I was told he's doing fine.
[04:58] YAEKO
    Good.
[05:00] FATHER
    It was after you left for Tokyo.
[05:03] FATHER
    He started panicking easily.
[05:05] FATHER
    He's calmed down now.
[05:07] YAEKO
    I see...
[05:13] YAEKO
    I'm going out for a bit.
[05:16] YAEKO
    But maybe I'd be bothering him if I went now.
[05:19] YAEKO
    No, I'm going.
[05:24] KOITARO
    Oh, excuse me.
[05:27] KOITARO
    Can you stand? Take my hand.
[05:29] FATHER
    Sir? Welcome.
[05:32] FATHER
    Please, come in.
[05:33] KOITARO
    No, here is fine.
[05:35] KOITARO
    I heard you have guests, Kirihara-san.
[05:39] KOITARO
    I came to say hello and apologize.
[05:44] KOITARO
    I'm terribly sorry for the
    disturbance caused by an islander.
[05:49] KOITARO
    The Mori family's son is
    a bit mentally unstable.
[05:53] KOITARO
    We're all worried about him,
    but don't let it bother you.
[05:58] KOITARO
    I apologize for this happening
    during your visit.
[06:00] KOITARO
    We value the young people of the island,
[06:02] KOITARO
    so we get worried and fuss
    over him more than necessary.
[06:06] KOITARO
    I haven't introduced myself yet.
[06:08] KOITARO
    My name is Samejima Koitaro.
[06:10] MOGURA
    I see...
[06:12] KOITARO
    This is my granddaughter, Yui.
[06:14] YUI
    Good to see you again, Kirihara-chan.
[06:17] YAEKO
    Oh, Yui-chan.
[06:18] YAEKO
    Haven't seen you since high school graduation.
[06:20] KOITARO
    Also, I heard a college professor
    from Tokyo was visiting.
[06:26] YAEKO
    Oh, right.
[06:29] KOITARO
    I heard you study folklore and
    are interested in our island.
[06:33] KOITARO
    Thank you for coming.
[06:35] TOSHIRO
    Not at all.
[06:37] KOITARO
    The Kirihara family has helped us
    since before my mother's generation.
[06:41] KOITARO
    Their guests are our guests.
[06:45] YUHACHI
    Ah, it's the Samejima boy.
[06:48] KOITARO
    I'd love to show you around the island.
[06:51] KOITARO
    What do you say?
[06:52] YAEKO
    I'll meet up with you after I visit Mori-kun.
[06:55] YUI
    Better that you don't.
[06:57] YUI
    You'd be bothering them.
[06:59] YUI
    Let's go around the island, Kirihara-chan.
[07:06] ISLANDER
    Hello, sir.
[07:07] ISLANDER
    Good day.
[07:09] MAGI
    Like Yae-chan said, he seems important.
[07:12] MOGURA
    He's got a real way with words.
[07:14] MAGI
    Should you be saying that?
[07:16] YUI
    Are you Kirihara-chan's friend?
[07:18] YUI
    I saw you hit that target.
[07:25] MOGURA
    Oh, right.
[07:26] YUI
    I was impressed.
[07:28] YUI
    But you seem rather grown
    up for a college friend.
[07:31] YUI
    Did you start attending college
    after working for a while?
[07:34] MOGURA
    I, uh...
[07:36] YAEKO
    He's an alumnus.
[07:39] YUI
    Huh.
[07:40] YUI
    Anyway, it's amazing that
    he's a college professor.
[07:43] YUI
    Are there a lot of people like him in the city?
[07:46] YUI
    He's so handsome.
[07:47] YAEKO
    I wouldn't say a lot.
[07:53] KOITARO
    This is the merfolk shrine.
[07:55] KOITARO
    Its official name is Samejima Shrine.
[07:58] KOITARO
    It was built by my ancestors.
SIGN    Merfolk Island
[08:01] YUI
    It's simple, but here's a pamphlet.
[08:08] TOSHIRO
    I see.
SIGN    Spring Festival
    
    During the festival, people raise their hands above their heads.
    This gesture resembles the one used to protect the islanders in the
    legend and expresses reverence for the sea
    and merfolk. The village chief's son led the effort to
    pacify the malicious spirit, for which the islanders were grateful.
[08:09] TOSHIRO
    So there's meaning behind
    that gesture at the festival.
[08:12] KOITARO
    It's just an imitation now, of course.
[08:15] KOITARO
    It must seem foolish, but it's important to us.
[08:18] KOITARO
    It's also a way for people
    to learn about the sea.
SIGN    The merfolk of the merfolk legend is enshrined...
     head resembling an infant and body...
     lures men into the sea with its voice...
     originally a human girl...
     child taken by humans...
     became a malicious spirit, and its beautiful form
     causing rough seas, and the surrounding eight islands...
     said to have been destroyed in a single night...
SIGN    Samejima Seafood
SIGN    Processing Plant 1
SIGN    Fruits of the Sea
[08:29] EMPLOYEE 1
    It's the president.
[08:31] EMPLOYEE 2
    Oh, yeah.
[08:31] SHIO
    That looks good.
[08:33] KOITARO
    It's one of our specialties.
SIGN    Shark Fish Cake
[08:35] KOITARO
    It's made from cod and shark.
[08:38] SHIO
    Jaws?!
[08:40] KOITARO
    Not Jaws. Mostly blue sharks.
[08:43] KOITARO
    Jaws is the title of a film, isn't it?
[08:47] KOITARO
    But around here, great whites and
    tiger sharks do occasionally appear.
[08:51] KOITARO
    There are even records from the Edo period.
[08:54] KOITARO
    So there's meaning behind instilling a
    fear of the sea through the festival.
[08:59] SHIO
    Jaws tastes good.
[09:00] TOSHIRO
    It's not Jaws.
[09:02] KOITARO
    Will that be useful to your report?
[09:05] MAGI
    What? Oh, yes.
[09:07] MAGI
    You know about that?
    That's kind of embarrassing.
[09:09] MAGI
    Sorry.
[09:11] KOITARO
    No, I'm sorry.
[09:12] KOITARO
    It's a small island. Word gets around quickly.
[09:18] ISLANDER
    They're guests of the president.
[09:20] ISLANDER 3
    He's a college professor from Tokyo.
[09:22] ISLANDER 4
    Huh.
[09:24] ISLANDER B
    That's Kirihara-san's daughter.
[09:26] ISLANDER B
    She's friends with the Moris' kid.
[09:28] ISLANDER A
    But the Kiriharas have been here forever.
[09:30] ISLANDER 1
    The Moris still aren't ready for the festival.
[09:34] ISLANDER 2
    Now, now.
[09:35] ISLANDER 2
    Can't expect perfection yet.
SIGN    Kirihara
[09:39] MOGURA
    So the Moris are new to the island, huh?
[09:44] MOGURA
    Oh, nothing. Sorry.
[09:48] FATHER
    You could tell?
[09:50] MOGURA
    I guess.
[09:51] MOGURA
    You can't help but hear rumors
    while traveling around the island.
[09:55] FATHER
    Ah.
[09:57] MOGURA
    How people are treated seems firmly established.
[09:59] MOGURA
    I thought it might depend on
    how long you've been around.
[10:03] FATHER
    It depends on how well you
    understand the island.
[10:06] FATHER
    The Moris have lived here for six years.
[10:09] FATHER
    Our ancestors were already here
    by the end of the shogunate.
[10:12] FATHER
    The Moris had a little screw-up with the
    company right after they moved here.
[10:18] FATHER
    The father joined the company after me.
[10:21] FATHER
    About a year after he joined, he pointed
    out a little mistake to the president.
[10:28] FATHER
    Confusing, right? That's the normal response.
[10:31] FATHER
    But sometimes it's not about being right.
SIGN    Factory 3
SIGN    Factory 2
SIGN    Factory 1
[10:35] FATHER
    On this island, the rest of us quietly go along
    with some amount of that family's misconduct.
[10:41] FATHER
    What misconduct? Of course there's misconduct.
SIGN    Factory 3
SIGN    Factory 2
[10:44] FATHER
    How many businesses can claim
    to be completely spotless?
[10:48] FATHER
    Often it's quicker to operate that
    way as long as it's not a crime.
SIGN    Shark Fish Cake
SIGN    Shark Fish Cake
[10:53] FATHER
    After speaking with the president, you probably
    understand why this island is prosperous.
[10:59] FATHER
    Outside the island, plenty of people
    think us "naïve" and try to rip us off.
SIGN    Honest Insurance
[11:04] FATHER
    They attempt to sell us all kinds of nonsense.
SIGN    Sales Contract
SIGN    Work Contract
[11:07] FATHER
    In reality, it's hard to judge.
[11:09] FATHER
    It's the president's family who lead
    the charge in repelling those people.
[11:16] FATHER
    So the islanders tend to shun anyone
    who defies the family even a little.
[11:21] FATHER
    But I'm not convinced that's for the best.
[11:25] FATHER
    When Yaeko said she wanted
    to go to college, I was glad.
[11:29] FATHER
    Intelligence is a weapon.
[11:31] FATHER
    Nekozuku-sensei and everyone else,
[11:33] FATHER
    please help Yaeko learn as much as she can.
[11:36] FATHER
    I'm glad you came.
[11:38] FATHER
    As his senior, I should do more to
    protect Mori-san and his family.
[11:43] FATHER
    Yaeko, let us handle the island.
    You keep learning.
[11:47] FATHER
    Anyway, skilled bosses always have flaws,
[11:52] FATHER
    and we all make little mistakes.
[11:54] MOGURA
    True. Nekozuku-sensei became
    a professor at his young age,
[11:59] MOGURA
    but he's so hopeless with domestic tasks that
    he'd blow up a rice cooker without his wife.
[12:04] MAGI
    Really?
[12:07] KYOKO
    I'll allow it.
[12:09] KOITARO
    I'm back.
[12:10] KOITARO
    I showed our guests around the island.
[12:12] SACHI
    Thank you. You did a great job.
[12:16] KOITARO
    Yeah. I worked hard, just like you told me to...
[12:20] KOITARO
    Mama.
[12:22] KOITARO
    How's the Moris' son?
[12:24] KOITARO
    I don't want him to die because of me.
[12:27] SACHI
    You're such a kind boy.
[12:29] SACHI
    Don't worry about it.
[12:31] SACHI
    Let Mama take care of
    everything and do as I say.
[12:33] SACHI
    Then you'll have no worries.
[12:35] SACHI
    What were our guests like?
[12:37] KOITARO
    There wasn't really anything special about them.
[12:39] SACHI
    Nothing special, huh?
[12:42] SACHI
    Oh, Yui. You did good as well.
[12:48] MOGURA
    Now this is an old map. Interesting.
[12:51] FATHER
    People have been living on this
    island since the Keicho era.
[12:55] FATHER
    Our home is here, and President
    Samejima's home is here.
[12:59] FATHER
    Did you see a large mansion when you arrived?
[13:01] MOGURA
    Oh, yeah.
[13:03] MOGURA
    It's huge. They're definitely
    the major landowners.
[13:05] MOGURA
    So the old-timers are concentrated
    in the center of the island.
[13:08] MAGI
    Huh.
[13:09] TOSHIRO
    I see.
[13:10] FATHER
    Yes. I suppose people settled
    in the safest places first.
[13:16] KYOKO
    Oh, Kyo-chan. Where are you going?
[13:18] KYOSHIRO
    For a walk. I'm hungry.
[13:21] YAEKO
    Did you not get enough breakfast? Sorry.
[13:24] KYOSHIRO
    No, I just get hungrier than
    most because of Nabeshima.
[13:27] FATHER
    Nabeshima?
[13:29] KYOSHIRO
    Don't worry about it.
[13:30] FATHER
    Can we get you anything?
[13:32] KYOSHIRO
    No, I'll get something at a food stall.
[13:34] SHIO
    A food stall? I'll go with you.
[13:37] KYOKO
    Kyo-chan, you're on a date with a girl.
[13:41] MOGURA
    If you say that, you'll upset Kyo-chan.
[13:45] KYOSHIRO
    It's fine. It'll seem less
    suspicious if there are two of us.
[13:47] SHIO
    If we go alone, people will think, "Wow, this
    person is eating a ton of stall food."
[13:52] KYOSHIRO
    You're the only one who does that.
[13:54] YUI
    How do you do, great-grandmother?
[13:56] SACHI
    Very good.
[13:58] SACHI
    Your "Steal Your Man 120% Success Rate Hyper
    Tight Devilish Costume" is on point again today.
[14:05] SACHI
    Good girl.
[14:07] YUI
    Also known as my "Innocent
    Princess ☆ Battlesuit."
[14:10] POCHI 2
    The other day, didn't you call it your
[14:12] POCHI 2
    "Real Innocent Girls Don't Wear Bursting
    One-Size-Down Blouses Like This Outfit?"
[14:17] YUI
    Silence. Who just opened
    his mouth? Step forward.
[14:21] YUI
    I said it's my Princess ☆ Battlesuit.
[14:24] YUI
    Don't forget the cute star between
    "Princess" and "Battlesuit."
[14:27] YUI
    Expect to be punished later.
[14:29] YUI
    Also, I am innocent.
[14:31] POCHI 2
    Thank y—I'm sorry!
[14:33] YUI
    This outfit fooled the 40-something
    who quit the company the other day.
[14:37] YUI
    He left his wife of 15 years
    and asked to get married.
[14:41] YUI
    Like hell I'd do that!
[14:43] YUI
    Naturally, I tearfully said I'd step
    back because I felt sorry for his wife.
[14:48] YUI
    So delicately, too!
[14:51] YUI
    He was useless, after all.
[14:53] YUI
    Destined to be driven off the island.
[14:57] SACHI
    You're such a talented great-granddaughter.
[14:59] SACHI
    I'm delighted.
[15:01] KOITARO
    Divorce, huh?
[15:03] KOITARO
    Hey, Mama. Was it right for me to get divorced?
[15:07] KOITARO
    I thought Manami was a pretty good woman.
[15:11] SACHI
    It's fine.
[15:12] SACHI
    She wasn't worthy of you, Koitaro-chan.
[15:17] SACHI
    I'm glad she gave you children, though.
[15:19] SACHI
    Now you have an adorable little granddaughter.
[15:24] KOITARO
    But finding a new wife is hard.
SIGN    92 Years Old
[15:28] SACHI
    You're still only 58. You're in your prime.
[15:32] SACHI
    You should marry a young
    lady instead of an old hag.
SIGN    58 Years Old
[15:35] KOITARO
    You're right.
SIGN    Goo-goo ga-ga
SIGN    Bursting
SIGN    Welcome to Hell
[15:37] KOITARO
    I'd like a wife who can reproduce your cooking.
[15:41] KOITARO
    There must be someone who can.
[15:44] SACHI
    Oh, there is.
[15:45] SACHI
    But I'll have to teach her.
[15:47] KOITARO
    She'd be lucky to have you teach her.
[15:50] YUI
    Nobody wants to wear this tight and thin
    sleeveless blouse during this season, idiot.
[15:57] YUI
    It digs into my armpits and hurts.
[15:59] YUI
    I bet they're all red.
[16:01] KOITARO
    Mama, the Kirihara family's
    daughter is small and young.
[16:06] KOITARO
    I bet she'd do as she's told.
[16:07] SACHI
    No, Koitaro-chan.
[16:09] SACHI
    Women like her look nice, but they're stubborn.
[16:13] SACHI
    Plus, she goes to college.
[16:15] SACHI
    Who knows how she'd talk back?
[16:18] SACHI
    You need to marry a good girl.
[16:21] YUI
    That sharp-eyed guest is Kirihara's
    college professor, right?
[16:26] YUI
    His wife was hanging all
    over him and got in my way.
[16:29] YUI
    I bet I could get the tallest
    one if I pushed a little harder.
[16:32] YUI
    He's my type, but he barely responded to me.
[16:36] SACHI
    You're still so cute and "naïve."
[16:39] SACHI
    He had the eyes of a man
    who's experienced a lot.
[16:42] SACHI
    You should go after one who knows nothing.
[16:45] SACHI
    The one with glasses would be better.
[16:47] YUI
    What? But he's so ugly.
[16:49] SACHI
    And you'll get burned if you
    underestimate that professor.
[16:52] SACHI
    Be careful.
[16:55] SACHI
    I've had a lot of dealings with outsiders,
[16:59] SACHI
    but those who underestimate us finish weak,
    so they're nothing to worry about.
[17:03] SACHI
    It's the people who don't get swept
    up by our energy who are scary.
[17:07] SACHI
    You must always stay one step ahead of the
    shrewd businessmen trying to rip us off.
[17:12] SACHI
    Yui, you have talent.
[17:15] SACHI
    You have to learn to lead this island someday.
[17:18] YUI
    I can do that.
[17:19] YUI
    Trapping Mori was easy.
[17:22] SACHI
    That's because I carefully trained
    the islanders to be easily tricked.
SIGN    Merfolk Island
[17:28] SACHI
    The merfolk legend is still incomplete.
SIGN    Spring Festival
    
    During the festival, people raise their hands above their heads.
    This gesture resembles the one used to protect the islanders in the
    legend and expresses reverence for the sea
    and merfolk. The village chief's son led the effort to
    pacify the malicious spirit, for which the islanders were grateful.
[17:32] SACHI
    Our ancestors should've made the merfolk more
    villainous and given the story more of a moral.
[17:37] SACHI
    It's easier to instill a sense of good and evil
    in people when the story's simple to follow.
[17:41] SACHI
    Well, I'll fix it eventually.
[17:42] SACHI
    In any case, be all smiles around our guests.
[17:46] SACHI
    My instincts tell me to be wary of them.
[17:49] SACHI
    Everything we do is to
    preserve our family's peace.
[17:53] SACHI
    People with brains who offer their
    opinions are the enemy of peace.
[17:58] YUI
    That's why I tried to get the Moris to leave
    the island, but they just won't do it.
[18:03] SACHI
    It's because the Kiriharas are
    oddly concerned about them.
[18:07] SACHI
    They should just go with the flow
    like the rest of the islanders.
[18:11] KOITARO
    It's the father.
[18:13] KOITARO
    He's a little guy who seems carefree,
    but he's pretty sharp.
[18:17] SACHI
    That's right.
[18:19] SACHI
    For now, we've painted the Moris' son as
    someone constantly making fake suicide attempts,
[18:23] SACHI
    but the Kiriharas' father
    might've realized it's not true.
[18:27] SACHI
    After all, that old fox encouraged
    his daughter to study.
[18:30] SACHI
    The fact that they're old-timers is an obstacle.
[18:32] SACHI
    Well, we have various methods at our disposal.
[18:34] SACHI
    The other islanders will
    believe anything we say.
[18:38] SACHI
    We can lie to them as much as we need.
SIGN    Illustration
SIGN    Looong Kitty
[18:51] KYOSHIRO
    I knew that merfolk was too big.
[18:54] KYOSHIRO
    It's accumulated all kinds of resentment.
[18:57] KYOSHIRO
    This island's problems are its own,
[18:59] KYOSHIRO
    but I don't know about Yaeko-san's
    friend being bullied so severely.
[19:04] KYOSHIRO
    If he dies any time soon,
    he'll become part of the merfolk.
[19:07] KYOSHIRO
    I don't want to get involved, but if I tell
    Mogura, I'll probably get dragged into it.
[19:14] SHIO
    We're not visiting the food stalls?
[19:18] YUHACHI
    Oh, right. Sato-san, what happened
    after was even more difficult.
[19:22] MOGURA
    Y-Yeah?
[19:23] SHIO
    We're back.
[19:25] MOGURA
    Kyo-chan, Shio-chan. Welcome back.
[19:27] SHIO
    He bought yakisoba for me.
[19:30] MOGURA
    Lucky.
[19:32] MOGURA
    Buy me something, too.
[19:34] MOGURA
    I spent all my pocket money
    at the shooting range.
[19:37] MOGURA
    What'd you learn? Tell me.
[19:43] MOGURA
    In other words...
[19:49] MOGURA
    The island's royal family does
    whatever it takes to stay in power.
[19:53] MOGURA
    They make the islanders dependent on
    them and rob them of their judgment.
[19:57] MOGURA
    That family are pros at cleverly manipulating
    people's minds and controlling them.
[20:01] MOGURA
    On top of a supernatural ritual
    that engenders a sense of unity,
SIGN    Waaah
SIGN    Waaah
SIGN    Bounce Bounce Bounce
SIGN    Bounce Bounce Bounce
[20:05] MOGURA
    instilling an even greater sense of
    unity with an "us versus them" story
[20:10] MOGURA
    is particularly clever.
[20:12] MOGURA
    Those they deem useless or impudent are
    driven to desperation and disposed of.
[20:17] MOGURA
    They don't care if they die.
[20:20] MOGURA
    Worst of all are the boss lady,
    her Oedipus complex puppet,
[20:23] MOGURA
    and that strong-willed walking minefield.
[20:25] YAEKO/ID
    My island's even shadier than I thought.
[20:28] MOGURA
    The angle that girl peered in
    at triggered my landmine sensor.
[20:32] YUI
    Are you Kirihara-chan's friend?
[20:35] MOGURA
    Sounds like I was right.
[20:37] TOSHIRO
    You're a rare minefield trap.
[20:40] MAGI
    Come to think of it, you mentioned
    struggling with overly-attached psychos.
[20:44] YAEKO
    I'd always thought something
    was up with Yui-chan.
[20:48] MOGURA
    Anyway, simply put, they're a crazy bunch.
[20:52] MOGURA
    What do they think other people are?
[20:55] MOGURA
    Mori-kun's one of their victims.
[20:59] MOGURA
    I'd bet this island has
    produced countless victims.
[21:03] MOGURA
    They've made the merfolk bigger.
SIGN    Swell
SIGN    Swell swell
SIGN    Swell swell swell
[21:08] MOGURA
    I knew there were surprisingly
    few spirits on the island.
[21:11] MOGURA
    When we arrived at the harbor,
    they even stared at us.
[21:15] MOGURA
    Most of them probably get
    swallowed up by the merfolk.
[21:18] MOGURA
    In other words,
SIGN    Where bodies wash up
[21:19] MOGURA
    this place has always attracted spirits.
[21:22] MOGURA
    The spirits that end up
    there form a single blob.
[21:26] MOGURA
    It's a pretty standard type
    of ghost in ghost stories.
SIGN    Very little sense of self
[21:29] MOGURA
    It has a propensity to attract spirits
    with strong negative emotions.
[21:34] MOGURA
    It's a ball of regret, so it craves company.
SIGN    So lonely
SIGN    Any friends around?
SIGN    Ball of regret
[21:39] MOGURA
    It absorbs every spirit it can and
    eventually begins luring in the living.
[21:45] MOGURA
    Those in a weakened state
    are especially susceptible.
SIGN    I can't be satisfied
SIGN    Anyone will do,
    please be my friend
SIGN    Growing negativity
[21:48] MOGURA
    That produces haunted spots where
    accidents frequently occur
SIGN    Sad people who exist only to become victims at the start of movies
[21:53] MOGURA
    or places that bring about death.
[21:56] MOGURA
    And the most important part in all of this is...
[22:00] MOGURA
    What did the royal family do to Mori-kun
    to drive him to desperation?
SIGN    Episode 10 
    "True Worth"