# E12 - You Fought Well
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GD9UV2VEV/goodbye)
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Tohru! We're here to escort you home.
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Escort me home?
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Toh--
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My legs started running from
Kyo-*kun* without my mind's input.
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How odd. This isn't right.
It's not what I planned...
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When I saw him again, I was--
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--supposed to smile.
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To-Tohru?
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I had a plan.
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--He got dumped, huh?
--He got dumped.
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You're crushing me here.
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No, this is no good at all.
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After I understood that everything's over,
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that there's no role for me anymore...
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"Soma General Hospital"
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After that...
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If you need anything else,
just say the word, okay?
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I will, thank you!
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Are you okay?
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Of course! I'm fit as a fiddle!
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Listen, about Kyo...
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He's...
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--I'm sorry!
--Stop--careful of your head!
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I-Is everything all right at home?
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Has a lot of laundry piled up?
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What about cleaning?
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--Have you run out of
spare toilet paper rolls? Or...
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--My chest hurts.
--Have you run out of
spare toilet paper rolls? Or...
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I'm disappointed in you.
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It hurts. It hurts.
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Just hearing his name
is like a knife to my chest.
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I'm no good like this.
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I have to get over it,
not just dwell on it forever.
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Or I'll cause everyone trouble.
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Even Kyo.
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That's... not acceptable.
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Smile... Smile...
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Smile!
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I decided I'd smile
the next time I saw him.
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I even did some training...
but... it was a wasted effort.
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I'm just no good.
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I wasn't lying when
I told myself it was okay...
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I decided it'd be okay
if I weren't by his side,
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and I steeled myself, but...
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I want to be at his side.
Not being able to makes me sad.
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I'm sad!
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P-Please, wait... a little while...
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I can't control them well enough.
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I'll be ready in a sec!
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Stop! Stop, tears, stop!
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I don't want to upset him.
I don't want him to hate me.
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I don't want him...
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...to be more disappointed in me.
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I was completely selfish, wasn't I?
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I just confessed my own sins,
said everything I wanted to say...
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...and ignored your feelings.
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And then I ran even though I knew
that sometimes in this world,
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you never get the chance to see
someone again to apologize.
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I thought I knew...
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...but if I'm just gonna repeat history...
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...it's no better than not knowing.
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I'm sorry I made you cry.
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I'm sorry I hurt you so much.
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This is the last time.
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I'm fine with that.
I don't need another one after this.
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Will you give me one last chance?
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I want to be with you.
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If I'm going to keep living,
I want to do it with you.
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You're the only one I want.
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Because I love you.
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D-Does that mean...
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You'll let me stay by your side?
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I-I can hold your hand, and be with you?
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You're already holding it.
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Even if it's been said dozens,
hundreds, thousands of times...
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Even if the words are a worn-out cliché...
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This really is...
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...like a dream.
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Kyo-*kun*.
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Just so you know,
that was our second kiss.
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Huh?! Wha... Wh-When did...?!
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Figures she doesn't remember.
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Remember it on your own, okay?
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Or else I'll be lonely, you know?
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Okay!
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Can I... hug you?
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I know I'll stop being human, but...
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And being together means sometimes
you'll suffer because of my weird body--
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Kyo-*kun*.
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Don't you know?
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I...
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...love you, Kyo-*kun*.
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I love you.
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This love is totally invincible.
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Oh.
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In that case... maybe I'm invincible, too?
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Nothing to be afraid of now, huh?
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Not if you're here.
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Goodbye.
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I was jealous of you,
is what it boils down to.
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Because you're so pure and pretty
compared to me.
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I'm not, though.
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Please don't sort people into categories
based on things like that,
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and use them to keep your distance.
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If you think I'm pure,
then so are you, Akito-*san*.
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When you sobbed that
you were lonely and scared,
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you were so innocent and pure,
it was heartbreaking.
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I'm someone who is trying
to destroy the world you want.
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Whether it's "right" or "wrong"
doesn't matter--
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It doesn't change the fact
that I'm hurting you a lot.
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But...
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But I'd still like to keep
being your friend, Akito-*san*.
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I'd like you to be my friend.
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You're so persistent.
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There'll be...
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There'll be time enough later to believe
in "new meetings" and "beginnings," right?
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Once upon a time,
a certain person lived on a mountain.
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They had been alone
for a very, very long time.
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They knew that many people lived
at the foot of the mountain.
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But they were alone.
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They knew that their vast power,
long life, and vast memory
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made them different from other people.
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They were afraid of people.
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They were afraid of being hurt.
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They were afraid of themselves,
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for having such great power
yet being so different from the crowd.
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And then one day, a cat came to visit.
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They were bewildered
at their sudden visitor,
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but the cat bowed its head
respectfully and said,
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"I have been observing you for some time.
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You are a deeply mysterious personage.
I cannot help feeling drawn to you.
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I am a mere stray cat, but I pray
you will let me be by your side.
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Please, o God."
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The cat was faithful to its words,
and never left the person's side.
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Not even for a moment.
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This made God very happy,
and so God had an idea:
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"Perhaps those who are
also 'different from humans'
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would be willing to be my friends.
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Perhaps I could hold
an enjoyable banquet
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with those who understand my feelings."
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God wrote many, many invitations.
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God sent them all.
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And in response,
12 creatures came to see God.
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After that, God and the 13 animals
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held a banquet every moonlit night.
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They sang and danced.
God laughed aloud for the first time.
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The moon quietly watched over the banquets
shared by those who are different.
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But one night, the cat collapsed.
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Its life span was running out.
There was nothing to be done.
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They all cried.
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They all knew:
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Everyone would eventually die,
and the banquets would end.
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No matter how fun they were,
or how dazzlingly precious they felt,
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one day, they'd...
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God chanted a spell and traced
a circle around a saké cup.
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They fed the dying cat a sip
as they said to the others,
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"Here and now, I shall make
the bonds between us eternal.
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Even after we die, we shall remain
connected through eternal bonds.
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No matter how many times
we die and are reborn,
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we'll hold banquets just like this."
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"We shall stay unchanging
for eternity, friends forever."
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Everyone nodded firmly, and then the rat
sipped first from the oath cup,
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followed by the ox, the tiger,
the rabbit, and the rest in order.
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As the final animal,
the boar, finished drinking...
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...the cat feebly wept.
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"God, o God, why did you
make me drink that?
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I don't need or want eternity."
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Those words were shocking.
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God and the other animals
interpreted them as a rejection.
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They all grew sad.
They all rebuked and admonished the cat.
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Still, the cat said,
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"God, o God, let us accept that
things end, even when that scares us.
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Let us accept mortality,
even when it makes us lonely."
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"God, I was fortunate to be with you
for even a moment."
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"If we are able to meet again
after our deaths and rebirths,
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then I want to meet a you
who smiles not only in the moonlight,
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but in the light of the sun, too.
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Next time, I want to meet a you
who smiles not only with us,
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but among humans, too."
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With a final flick of its tail,
the cat fell down and died.
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But no one paid the cat any mind now.
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They were too preoccupied with
the feeling that it had betrayed them.
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After a while, the other animals
began to die one by one.
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When the dragon died,
God was all alone once more.
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And then, at long last,
God's death came as well.
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But God was not afraid,
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because the promise they had made
gave God strength.
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"I'll hold another banquet."
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"I'll hold banquet after
banquet, forever unchanging..."
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"I may be lonely right now,
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but everyone is waiting for me
on the other side of that promise."
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That was in the long-distant past...
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The original memory,
forgotten by everyone.
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The original promise.
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It's all right now...
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...isn't it, Father?
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It's okay for me to stop
being special or a god,
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and become just me, isn't it?
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For me to start "my" life?
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I... I'm...
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...hurt, and scared...
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...and I don't really have
any good points, but...
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Goodbye.
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Mine.
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Mine...
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Here I am! What's up?
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You want more tea? What kind do you want?
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Wait a little longer
for lunch though, okay?
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Manager?
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Mine...
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I was born to love you.
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I can finally say that.
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Goodbye, everyone.
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Wh-What's wrong?!
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Ritsu, are you all right? Are you hurt?!
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Goodbyes make us lonely.
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Very lonely.
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They say "partings begin new meetings,"
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and "beginnings happen
because of endings."
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Clichés like that...
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It's lonelier than you'd think, huh?
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I don't want to hear them right now.
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Please, cry with me.
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If there's nothing we can do about this,
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then for now,
I just want you to cry with me.
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A full-body wail.
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Venting all our feelings.
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We lost what we had,
and there are no guarantees...
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Cry for the terror of
living in this world again.
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Huh. So this is what it feels like.
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Clinging to a tiny speck of hope...
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I want you to at least...
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...cry, and cry, and cry with me.
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Like we cried when we were
first born into this world.
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Goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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When did they become a "curse"?
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When did they become a "burden"?
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Those were happy days.
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We didn't want to part.
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Surely there was love there, and yet...
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Time passed, people changed, and they
became simply a source of suffering.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm so sorry.
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But...
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...even after the promise wore thin
and lost its original shape,
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you all carried it with you.
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So what I want to tell you most...
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...is thank you.
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Thank you.
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"Soma"
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That was in the long-distant past...
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The original memory,
forgotten by everyone.
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It would be a long, long time before
the cat's words finally came true.
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"You Fought Well"
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You fought well.
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