E7 - That's Right, It's Empty

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    Even if the world doesn't need me,
    I'll keep living for someone who does.
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    It works for me.
[00:10] ---
    But my custody rights might've
    been at risk for a while there!
[00:14] ---
    "Custody"?
[00:16] ---
    There was more craziness
    after that, like moving,
[00:19] ---
    but I think I bounced back
    while I kept busy.
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    Tohru was there for me, after all!
[00:26] ---
    Uh-huh...
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    Seriously, Tohru is so cute! Like,
    cutest in the world--no, the universe!
[00:32] ---
    But Katsuya Honda...
[00:35] ---
    You don't want to go see him anymore?
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    I wonder how much time
    and effort it'll take
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    for you kids to find your answers...
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    Those words sounded ridiculous to me.
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    Because I'd always felt like I was
    only born to take other people's contempt,
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    and I only continued
    living to hurt people.
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    And wasn't I right?
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    That's why she died...
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    That's why Mom died, isn't it?
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    Didn't she want to tell me
    it was my fault, in the end?
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    And you, too. You smiled at me,
    but don't you hate me now...?
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    It's not your fault, Kyo.
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    You did nothing wrong.
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    But you can't go outside.
    Outside is full of bad things.
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    Come in the house with Mom, okay?
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    Let's live inside forever.
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    Do what your mother tells you.
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    I'll never forgive you.
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    I'll go in the house and wait for you.
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    You'd better get your butt inside.
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    Or else something
    even scarier will happen.
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    Ta-da! This is... Tohru!
[02:25] ---
    Thank you!
[02:26] ---
    Are those shapes going to grill okay?
[02:29] ---
    Not to worry! You can leave it to me!
[02:31] ---
    Kyo! The food's almost ready!
[02:34] ---
    Kyo?
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    Could he be asleep?
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    He'll show up eventually.
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    They showed up in my dream
    to smack down that thought.
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    To remind me...
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    "Know your place. Don't fool yourself."
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    Because I thought maybe...
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    ...just maybe...
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    ...Tohru loved me back.
[03:05] ---
    Stupid thought.
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    "Fruits Basket"
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    Did you slip away from your servant again
    so that you can walk as you please?
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    Sometimes I need to go outside
    and look for someone to talk to.
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    Right, Shigure?
[04:53] ---
    That reminds me...
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    I hear you recruited Isuzu as
    an errand girl to fetch a box for you.
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    You certainly have an ear to the ground.
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    Or perhaps she's just talkative?
    Truly no good.
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    You're the no-good one, Ren-san.
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    I told you that was our secret.
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    Did you really?
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    To me, it sounded like
    a suggestion to go get it from her.
[05:23] ---
    Well, I'm offended.
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    But I'm afraid the operation failed.
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    This would be much easier
    if you just brought it to me.
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    What? No, I don't want to do that.
    It feels blasphemous somehow.
[05:38] ---
    It is blasphemous.
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    No one but me has the right
    to touch Akira-san.
[05:46] ---
    His flesh, his blood, his soul...
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    I'm the only one worthy to own
    anything to do with Akira-san.
[05:56] ---
    I hear another marriage talk fell apart.
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    Can't they compromise? The doctor says
    he's not long for this world anyway.
[06:04] ---
    That's exactly why! I mean,
    there has to be a successor.
[06:07] ---
    True, no one wants "outsiders"
    to fall heir to that money.
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    Akira-san and I met
    because we were meant to.
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    It was destiny.
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    You must be so lonely,
    and afraid of dying alone.
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    And no one else notices.
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    But I'm different. I see it.
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    Give me all of your pain, every last bit.
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    Because I love you.
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    Obviously this cannot be allowed!
    You're a servant!
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    --We're in love.
    --Silence!
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    Get out of here this instant.
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    --Never set foot on the Soma estate ag--
    --Ren noticed that I was lonely.
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    She cried for me.
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    It was bliss.
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    Akira-san and I were
    the only ones in the world.
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    I was the only one in Akira-san's world.
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    It was enough.
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    And yet...
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    Hey, they said Akito-san's
    gonna be raised as a boy.
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    But why?
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    Apparently, Ren-san
    decided on it a while ago,
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    because she said a female heir
    could cause issues.
[07:38] ---
    I heard she threw a fit and said
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    she'd abort unless everyone
    considered him a boy.
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    She's just miffed that she's not
    Akira-san's "number one" anymore.
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    And jealous, too.
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    Why won't you hold Akito, Ren?
[07:56] ---
    Why bother? Everyone else
    already loves that child, don't they?
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    Akito was born for them to love.
    It's only natural.
[08:07] ---
    Remember Ren-san's face that day
    we went to meet Akito?
[08:15] ---
    She thought, "Oh, crap."
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    Gure-nii... I don't get it.
[08:22] ---
    Everything Gure-san says
    is too complicated.
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    Does it mean Ren-san is bad?
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    It means she should be pitied.
[08:32] ---
    All of the Somas should...
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    You poor thing.
[08:40] ---
    Aren't you a "poor thing," too?
[08:44] ---
    You're at Akito's mercy,
    thanks to that antiquated "bonds" curse.
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    You don't really love
    that child, you know.
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    You're just caught up in a fantasy.
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    Haven't you noticed?
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    You're looking at me
    the same way you did then.
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    You want me.
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    Yes, I've noticed. Looking at you
    gives me a rush of affection.
[09:20] ---
    It lets me fantasize about whether she'd
    look like you if she lived as a girl.
[09:28] ---
    You're quite right.
    I wanted you to take that box.
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    You're the right one to have it.
[09:36] ---
    One person possessed by
    Akira-san's ghost is enough.
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    --Shigure--
    --Akito doesn't need that thing.
[09:45] ---
    There's something wrong
    with you--all of you!
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    Who do you suppose you have to thank
    for that kid even being alive?!
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    Who do you think saved Akira-san?!
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    It's all because I was with him!
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    Akira-san...
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    Why...
[10:09] ---
    Why didn't you call for me?
[10:12] ---
    D-Did Akira-san die all alone?!
[10:17] ---
    Quiet.
[10:19] ---
    It was sudden.
    There was no time to call for you.
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    And he was not alone at the end--
    Akito-san was with him.
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    Akito-san safely carries
    Akira-san's final wishes.
[10:34] ---
    Excuse me?
[10:36] ---
    --You're nothing! You're just a toy
    for Akira-san to pass the time with!
[10:40] ---
    --How dare you!
    --You're nothing! You're just a toy
    for Akira-san to pass the time with!
[10:41] ---
    --How dare you!
    --Now that Akira-san is gone,
    you're officially unnecessary!
[10:44] ---
    --Now that Akira-san is gone,
    you're officially unnecessary!
[10:46] ---
    You're wrong.
[10:48] ---
    I'm special.
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    I was promised eternity.
    Everyone was waiting for me, too.
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    So I'm not unnecessary.
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    I know, because Father told me.
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    If you mock Father's words...
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    ...then you're the unnecessary one.
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    Go ahead, believe that silly fantasy
    of "bonds" and "eternity."
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    It's too stupid to last long anyway.
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    Eventually it'll fall apart,
    and you can learn the hard way
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    that no one really wanted you!
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    Akira-san! Akira-san!
[11:39] ---
    Akito? You're awake.
[11:42] ---
    Mm-hmm.
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    I need to talk to you, Akito.
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    I was so happy when I met Yuki.
[11:51] ---
    What?
[11:53] ---
    I was the God, and he was the Rat
    who stands at the top of the zodiac,
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    and those two roles
    hadn't been reborn in so long.
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    Back then, I could still
    show off in front of her.
[12:09] ---
    Even when she said things
    that hurt me, I could still...
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    Where did my world start to fall apart?
[12:23] ---
    Yuki-kun left the estate
    to go live with Shigure, I hear.
[12:29] ---
    So, I take it that the Rat was
    the second one to desert you?
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    Don't let your one-night stand
    with Shigure go to your head.
[12:38] ---
    I haven't been deserted.
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    Everyone comes back to me in the end.
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    Because we can't be separated.
    That's the bond between us.
[12:51] ---
    I'm sick of that line.
[12:53] ---
    If you truly believe the zodiac
    who get a taste of the outside world
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    will still come back to the gloomy "god"
    who binds them hand and foot, then win.
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    Prove that nobody can break your
    little dream and rub it in my face!
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    And if you lose...
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    Grovel to me and then get out.
[13:19] ---
    I believed.
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    Akito-san, I'd like to let Kyo and...
    one other person live at my house.
[13:30] ---
    Would that be okay?
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    I believed I could win.
[13:37] ---
    I believed no one could break this...
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    No. I wished--almost prayed.
[13:47] ---
    I repeated it like a curse.
    Like I'd die if I didn't say it.
[13:51] ---
    I said basically the same words
    over and over and over...
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    But it's no good anymore. They're leaving.
[14:04] ---
    Leaving me behind.
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    Stop at once!
[14:08] ---
    Someone stop her!
[14:14] ---
    You know, when I woke up
    this morning, my head was so clear.
[14:21] ---
    I should've just done this to begin with.
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    Give back Akira-san!
[14:28] ---
    I don't know what of Akira-san's you're
    hiding here, but give it back! It's mine!
[14:36] ---
    Everything of Akira-san's belongs to me!
[14:41] ---
    I didn't want to lose to this woman.
[14:44] ---
    I wanted to prove it however
    I could and rub it in her face.
[14:49] ---
    Because I...
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    If it you want it that badly,
    I'll give you the stupid thing!
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    I always knew...
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    Don't worry, Akito.
[15:11] ---
    I'm not leaving you behind.
[15:17] ---
    Even if you can't see me,
    I'll be by your side.
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    Special child...
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    Ren was the one I most wanted
    to be happy about you...
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    As her man, all I could do was die...
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    ...but at least I can leave her a child.
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    And our child being special
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    proves that Ren and I were special, right?
[15:56] ---
    It's too bad we couldn't
    reconcile... Ren...
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    You were magnificent, showing such
    a dauntless attitude to that woman...
[16:11] ---
    But... But the one Father loved
    most wasn't me, it was--
[16:17] ---
    No.
[16:18] ---
    Akira-san loved you best, Akito-san.
[16:23] ---
    You mustn't let yourself be fooled.
[16:26] ---
    Didn't Akira-san say he'd be by your side?
[16:31] ---
    You have this, and Akira-san
    belongs to you alone.
[16:37] ---
    Is there something inside?
[16:40] ---
    Akira-san's...
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    ...soul.
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    It's empty.
[16:50] ---
    That's right, it's empty.
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    Always has been.
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    Because I'm the one
    who's always been "Other."
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    Because this has been broken
    from the beginning.
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    Hiro-chan! Hinata-chan!
[17:20] ---
    Lunch is ready to--
[17:27] ---
    --Hi--
    --Sorry.
[17:29] ---
    I'm in a complicated mood...
[17:33] ---
    I wish I could just feel happy.
[17:37] ---
    But I have all these mixed feelings
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    like anger, resentment, regret,
    repentance, attachment...
[17:47] ---
    Yeah.
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    You've lived your whole life
    with those bonds, after all.
[17:57] ---
    Goodbyes make us lonely.
[18:02] ---
    It's no good anymore. They're really...
[18:08] ---
    ...falling apart.
[18:12] ---
    Goodbyes keep coming.
[18:16] ---
    --What's wrong?
    Weren't you going to kill me?
[18:18] ---
    --Ma'am!
    --What's wrong?
    Weren't you going to kill me?
[18:19] ---
    --What's wrong?
    Weren't you going to kill me?
[18:21] ---
    Just shut up!
[18:22] ---
    Why did you even bring a weapon in here?!
[18:24] ---
    You're one to talk!
    Your charge tried to kill his own parent!
[18:28] ---
    And you gave him that silly box!
[18:30] ---
    --The poor family head is so innocent
    he believed in it, and now--
[18:33] ---
    --Of course he doesn't believe in it!
    --The poor family head is so innocent
    he believed in it, and now--
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    I gave him that box to comfort him
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    when his heart was wasting away
    after Akira-san's death!
[18:42] ---
    It's like a charm.
[18:44] ---
    Anyone with common sense
    would know it was empty!
[18:47] ---
    I told you, you mustn't give
    such things to the family head!
[18:56] ---
    Akito.
[18:57] ---
    I was fifty-fifty.
[18:59] ---
    I believed in that box,
    and I didn't believe in it.
[19:05] ---
    It was empty when I opened it.
[19:08] ---
    But I thought, maybe there was
    an invisible power.
[19:13] ---
    Maybe... maybe...
[19:17] ---
    So I couldn't get rid of it,
[19:20] ---
    but I didn't want to look
    into it anymore, so I hid it.
[19:25] ---
    That's right.
    I clung to it all these years.
[19:32] ---
    Can you blame me?
    That was my common sense!
[19:36] ---
    Nobody taught me otherwise!
[19:39] ---
    Nobody ever gave me
    any other way to live than this one!
[19:44] ---
    How am I supposed to know things
    I don't know?!
[19:47] ---
    How am I supposed to get it?!
[19:49] ---
    Why--
[19:52] ---
    You can start learning the things
    you don't know or don't get now.
[19:58] ---
    Let's change, Akito.
[20:03] ---
    If you stay in this environment,
    the Somas and the bonds will crush you.
[20:09] ---
    You'll stay empty.
[20:11] ---
    --So--
    --Too late.
[20:13] ---
    It's too late for you to say that.
[20:17] ---
    "Change"? We're past that point.
[20:20] ---
    Why didn't you say that in the beginning?
[20:25] ---
    Why didn't you push me away
    from the beginning?
[20:30] ---
    Why didn't you abandon me?
[20:33] ---
    --I know.
    --You're changing your mind now?
[20:36] ---
    I know.
[20:38] ---
    I don't want that lecture now.
[20:45] ---
    That "kindness" of yours that
    only half-saves me or half-rejects me...
[20:54] ---
    It's been killing me!
[20:58] ---
    This whole time!
    So take responsibility. Pay for it!
[21:03] ---
    Atone with your death!
[21:05] ---
    Wait--
[21:08] ---
    Kureno-san!
[21:09] ---
    What happened? You're bleeding!
[21:11] ---
    --Never mind.
    --What?!
[21:13] ---
    Forget me, go after Akito. Fast!
[21:18] ---
    Someone help!
[21:19] ---
    It's too late now.
    Now... after all this time...
[21:28] ---
    Yeah, it's dead.
[21:30] ---
    Ugh. I wonder if a cat
    killed it or something?
[21:34] ---
    Or it hit a windowpane.
[21:37] ---
    You two finish cleaning yet?
[21:39] ---
    Forget that, there's a dead bird out here!
[21:44] ---
    Were you just tired?
[21:47] ---
    Thank you.
[21:50] ---
    You're welcome!
[21:51] ---
    I'm going out for a bit.
[21:59] ---
    Kyo-kun!
[22:03] ---
    Please, there's...
    something I'd like to tell you.
[23:45] ---
    "I'm Disappointed in You"
[23:46] ---
    I'm disappointed in you.
[23:51] ---
    
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