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E12 - I Can't Hear the Fireworks, Part 2 - Kaguya Doesn't Want to Avoid Him

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[01:30] ---
    I CAN'T HEAR
    THE FIREWORKS, PART 2
[01:34] ---
    Tonight...
[01:38] ---
    Tonight I'm going to a fireworks display!
[01:41] ---
    Even if Miss Fujiwara is a major pain,
    for this one night, I'll let it go.

[01:46] ---
    Because she went as far as canceling
    a trip so she could go with me.

[01:51] ---
    It really has been
    a boring summer vacation.

[01:55] ---
    For the first time, I'll go out with friends.
[01:58] ---
    There's no difference.
[02:00] ---
    My first time
    going out with the president.

[02:03] ---
    I won't watch from the window
[02:05] ---
    because I finally get to go see
    the huge fireworks up close!

[02:13] ---
    I think that alone is enough for me
[02:16] ---
    to enjoy this whole summer vacation.
[02:25] ---
    See you later.
[02:31] ---
    It really has been
    a boring summer vacation.

[02:35] ---
    I'm afraid not.
[02:37] ---
    Lately, your behavior
    has been unacceptable, milady.
[02:41] ---
    And with a large crowd,
    it would be easy to lose sight of you.
[02:44] ---
    If something happened to you
    during that time,
[02:47] ---
    what would I say to your father?
[02:51] ---
    I'm sure he wouldn't care.
[02:55] ---
    I'M SORRY.
    I WON'T BE ABLE TO GO TODAY.
    I'M REALLY SORRY.
[02:55] ---
    FROM: KAGUYA
    SUBJECT: I'M SORRY
[02:56] ---
    "I'm really sorry."
[03:00] ---
    Miss Kaguya.
[03:11] ---
    I want to see everyone.
[03:15] ---
    I wish I'd never known about it.
[03:18] ---
    If I hadn't known,
[03:20] ---
    it would've been a normal summer,
[03:22] ---
    and I wouldn't have suffered like this.
[03:28] ---
    But... But it's okay.
[03:31] ---
    Summer will be over soon.
[03:34] ---
    It's okay.
[03:37] ---
    It's okay.
[03:39] ---
    It's okay.
[03:49] ---
    It's okay.
[03:52] ---
    KAGUYA
    I'M A SECOND-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
    AT SHUCHIIN ACADEMY.
[03:52] ---
    THANK YOU FOR CHECKING OUT MY PAGE.
[03:54] ---
    KAGUYA / 5 DAYS AGO
    THIS IS MY FIRST TWEET.
[04:06] ---
    KAGUYA / RIGHT NOW
    I WANT TO SEE THE FIREWORKS WITH EVERYONE.
[04:12] ---
    Roger.
[04:13] ---
    KAGUYA / RIGHT NOW
    I WANT TO SEE THE FIREWORKS WITH EVERYONE.
[04:13] ---
    KAGUYA / 5 DAYS AGO
    THIS IS MY FIRST TWEET.
[04:23] ---
    Lady Kaguya, how long
    do you intend to lie there like that?
[04:26] ---
    This isn't like you.
[04:28] ---
    Normally, by this point, you'd be sneaking
    out of the house by hook or by crook.
[04:33] ---
    No matter what I do, it won't work out.
[04:37] ---
    I couldn't go shopping with everyone,
[04:40] ---
    and my father has no interest
    in me whatsoever.
[04:44] ---
    The president didn't even send me
    a single text this past month.
[04:49] ---
    Nothing at all has worked out for me!
[04:52] ---
    Even if I left the house right now,
    it would be meaningless!
[04:55] ---
    I'll never be able to see them again!
[04:58] ---
    No, you'll see them once school starts
    whether you like it or not.
[05:03] ---
    Misfortunes never come singly.
[05:05] ---
    When you're dejected,
    you really go all out.
[05:09] ---
    Certainly, you've been
    through a rough summer.
[05:14] ---
    But maybe not seeing President Shirogane
    once over vacation was the best choice
[05:19] ---
    if you think about it
    from a long-term perspective.
[05:21] ---
    Time without seeing someone
    makes the heart fonder.
[05:27] ---
    I'm sure the president feels
    the same way you do right now.
[05:31] ---
    He wants to see you so badly every day.
[05:36] ---
    He counts on his fingers
[05:38] ---
    how many days are left
    of summer vacation.
[05:44] ---
    Meanwhile,
[05:46] ---
    if he could somehow meet you
    in a date with destiny,
[05:51] ---
    his accumulated desire...
[05:55] ---
    ...would be set free all at once?
[05:58] ---
    That's right. There you go.
[06:00] ---
    Now you look like the Lady Kaguya I know.
[06:02] ---
    But two of this house's butlers
    are here right now.
[06:06] ---
    There's no way I can escape from here
    without any preparation.
[06:11] ---
    Preparation, you say?
[06:17] ---
    WIRELESS
[06:24] ---
    J. SUZUKI OF KOENJI
    ONE OF THE METRO AREA'S
    BIG FOUR RAMEN KINGS
[06:32] ---
    Take me to Hamamatsucho!
[06:34] ---
    Please!
[06:37] ---
    Lady Kaguya,
[06:38] ---
    dinner is ready.
[06:42] ---
    I'm not hungry.
[06:43] ---
    I'm going to bed.
[06:45] ---
    I'm watching the fireworks.
[06:47] ---
    You don't have a problem
    with that, do you?
[06:49] ---
    Very well.
[06:58] ---
    Gotcha.
[07:04] ---
    I get the picture.
[07:15] ---
    Miss Kaguya!
[07:17] ---
    She may be around there.
[07:19] ---
    Please stay here, Fujiwara!
[07:23] ---
    The phone number you have called
[07:25] ---
    is turned off or out of our service area.
[07:31] ---
    It's not going through.
[07:33] ---
    Is it because of the crowd?
[07:34] ---
    Or because my phone is old?
[07:37] ---
    Why?
[07:38] ---
    Young lady, you want to go
    see the fireworks, right?
[07:42] ---
    There's a lot of traffic tonight
    with all the cars out.
[07:45] ---
    I think you might not make it in time.
[07:49] ---
    I won't make it in time?
[07:51] ---
    After what Hayasaka did for me?
[07:53] ---
    It can't be!
[07:56] ---
    Why won't anything work out for me?
[08:01] ---
    Excuse me.
[08:03] ---
    Yes?
[08:04] ---
    I'll go the rest of the way on foot.
[08:12] ---
    Be careful, young lady.
[08:14] ---
    I will!
[08:29] ---
    We're supposed to meet up
    at Takeshiba Wharf.

[08:31] ---
    The main streets are really crowded.
[08:32] ---
    If I run down a backstreet,
    I should be able to just make it!

[08:41] ---
    I'm sure I'll meet up with them!
[08:43] ---
    The first younger student I've helped...
[08:46] ---
    The person who became my first friend...
[08:51] ---
    The first person I like...
[08:55] ---
    I'm in that circle of people!
[09:01] ---
    SHOPPING
    FIREWORKS FESTIVAL
[09:02] ---
    All summer,
[09:03] ---
    the only thing I've been thinking about
    is how happy I would be

[09:08] ---
    if I got to gaze
    at those beautiful fireworks

[09:11] ---
    together with my favorite people,
[09:14] ---
    and how wonderful it would be.
[09:17] ---
    God...
[09:19] ---
    this summer,
[09:21] ---
    I don't need love or romance!
[09:26] ---
    So...
[09:29] ---
    So, at least let me be
    together with them!

[09:36] ---
    ...has concluded.
[09:38] ---
    When you leave,
[09:41] ---
    please pick up your trash,
[09:44] ---
    food and beverages.
[09:47] ---
    Again,
[09:49] ---
    this evening's fireworks display
    has concluded.

[09:54] ---
    When you leave,
[09:57] ---
    please pick up your trash,
    food and beverages.

[10:03] ---
    Oh, that's right.
[10:06] ---
    There is...
[10:09] ---
    no God.
[10:17] ---
    I wonder if they enjoyed the fireworks.
[10:22] ---
    I hope so.
[10:25] ---
    I only got to see the fireworks
    from between the buildings,

[10:28] ---
    but they were so big.
[10:30] ---
    For them, the fireworks
    must have looked beautiful.

[10:37] ---
    If everyone else got to enjoy them,
    that's enough for me.

[10:51] ---
    I wanted to see them, too!
[10:55] ---
    The fireworks...
[10:58] ---
    With everyone!
[11:02] ---
    Then, I'll show them to you.
[11:06] ---
    President?
[11:09] ---
    Come with me, Shinomiya!
[11:11] ---
    If you wanna see them that badly,
    I'll show them to you!
[11:14] ---
    How...
[11:17] ---
    How did you know I was here?
[11:20] ---
    You mean the "Guess Shinomiya's Thoughts
    and Search for Her" game?
[11:25] ---
    Compared to the usual,
    it was 100 times easier.
[11:34] ---
    Miss Kaguya!
[11:36] ---
    President, I got us a car!
[11:39] ---
    That young lady again!
[11:42] ---
    Everyone hop in!
[11:50] ---
    There!
[11:59] ---
    Driver,
[12:01] ---
    get on the expressway,
[12:02] ---
    and then take the Aqua-Line
    towards Umihotaru!
[12:06] ---
    There are fireworks that were postponed
    until tonight because of the rain.
[12:09] ---
    President, you mean...
[12:12] ---
    Chiba!
[12:13] ---
    The Kisarazu fireworks display
    goes until 8:30!
[12:17] ---
    Can we get to Chiba
    in the next 20 minutes?
[12:20] ---
    I don't know!
[12:21] ---
    But it's worth the challenge.
[12:24] ---
    We're gonna show Shinomiya
    some fireworks!
[12:30] ---
    I'll step on it, then.
[12:33] ---
    This is just between you and me.
[12:36] ---
    Who is this cool driver?
[12:38] ---
    J. SUZUKI OF KOENJI
    ONE OF THE METRO AREA'S
    BIG FOUR RAMEN KINGS
[12:43] ---
    God, let us be in time!
[12:50] ---
    President! I can't see anything outside!
[12:53] ---
    The Aqua-Line is an undersea tunnel!
    Of course you can't see anything!
[12:58] ---
    A sign for Umihotaru service parking!
[13:00] ---
    We're surfacing!
[13:02] ---
    Let us be in time!
[13:04] ---
    Let us be in time!
[13:10] ---
    Let us be in time!
[13:42] ---
    Their focus is on the fireworks.
[13:47] ---
    But I'm sorry.
[13:53] ---
    I can't take my eyes off of...
[13:57] ---
    that face.
[14:02] ---
    The sound of my
    heartbeat is so noisy...

[14:13] ---
    ...that I can't hear the fireworks.
[14:21] ---
    The first day of the new school term.
[14:24] ---
    Everyone has come back
    to their ordinary lives

[14:29] ---
    with melancholy and hope in their hearts
    after a long, uneventful summer.

[14:34] ---
    KAGUYA DOESN'T WANT
    TO AVOID HIM
[14:34] ---
    One man looks back upon...
[14:38] ---
    TRACING SHIROGANE'S EFFORTS
    SAVING A SPOT SIX HOURS
    BEFORE THE DISPLAY
[14:39] ---
    GETS THE NEWS THAT SHINOMIYA
    CAN'T GO, CALCULATES
    HOW SHE REALLY FEELS FROM HER TWEET
[14:39] ---
    RIDES LIKE THE WIND
    TO SHINOMIYA'S FAMILY'S HOUSE
[14:40] ---
    USING BINOCULARS OUTSIDE THE HOUSE,
    REALIZES SHINOMIYA IS USING
    A "BODY DOUBLE" (HAYASAKA),
    GOES BACK THE WAY HE CAME AT MACH SPEED
[14:40] ---
    MAKES CALCULATIONS IN HIS HEAD,
    FIGURES OUT THE ROUTE SHINOMIYA TOOK,
    DETERMINES HER LOCATION
[14:41] ---
    USES THE EVENT INFO
    HE HAD INPUT EARLIER,
    RIDES LIKE THE WIND
    IN A TAXI TO KISARAZU
[14:42] ---
    PAYS THE CAB FARE TO THE TUNE
    OF 17,320 YEN (TAKEN FROM
    THE POTENTIAL "SHINOMIYA
    SUMMER VACATION BUDGET")
[14:42] ---
    USES THE EVENT INFO
    HE HAD INPUT EARLIER,
    RIDES LIKE THE WIND
    IN A TAXI TO KISARAZU
[14:42] ---
    ...a memory he made at the end.
[14:46] ---
    Then, I'll show them to you.
[14:49] ---
    Nooo!
[14:51] ---
    And he regrets so much
    that he wishes he could die!

[14:55] ---
    You mean the "Guess Shinomiya's Thoughts
    and Search for Her" game?

[15:00] ---
    Ow! It hurts!
[15:02] ---
    It hurts so bad!
[15:08] ---
    A dark past!
[15:10] ---
    Summer vacation was all but over,
[15:11] ---
    and Shirogane hadn't seen
    Shinomiya even once.

[15:15] ---
    By the day of the fireworks,
[15:16] ---
    Shirogane was so tense
    that he couldn't hold it back!

[15:18] ---
    There she is!
[15:21] ---
    That bursting tension caused him
    to blurt out a series of cringeworthy lines!

[15:22] ---
    Then, I'll show them to you.
[15:24] ---
    You mean the "Guess Shinomiya's Thoughts
    and Search for Her" game?

[15:28] ---
    Compared to the usual,
    it was 100 times easier.

[15:31] ---
    I don't know!
[15:33] ---
    But it's worth the challenge.
[15:38] ---
    It's a dark past
[15:40] ---
    that will make him writhe in pain
    when he recalls it for the next ten-odd years!

[15:45] ---
    If I saw Shinomiya now...
[15:49] ---
    I don't know what to say,
[15:52] ---
    but the words you said that night...
    How can I put it?

[15:55] ---
    I guess you were like on an ego trip.
[15:59] ---
    President...
[16:02] ---
    it was painful.
[16:03] ---
    Somebody, kill me!
[16:06] ---
    Let's have fun this semester, too!
[16:09] ---
    O-Oh, Fujiwara!
[16:12] ---
    Shinomiya, too.
[16:13] ---
    STUDENT COUNCIL ROOM
[16:25] ---
    Hmph.
[16:27] ---
    She won't even look at me!
[16:29] ---
    She views me as someone
    who's too pathetic to look at directly!

[16:34] ---
    - Shinomiya, about the other night—
    - Hmph.
[16:45] ---
    It's worse than I thought!
[16:45] ---
    Look at all this dust!
[16:47] ---
    She thinks of me as someone
    who's too pathetic to even be around!

[16:51] ---
    Wrong! Certainly,
    Kaguya is avoiding Shirogane.

[16:55] ---
    But it's definitely not out of any ill will.
[16:57] ---
    In fact, it's just the opposite.
[16:59] ---
    These actions are induced
    by bashfulness and nervousness.

[17:04] ---
    Perhaps it might be called
    "like-avoidance."

[17:09] ---
    Wh-Why am I avoiding him?
[17:13] ---
    I-It's like I'm self-conscious
    around him or something!

[17:13] ---
    HRRRMMM
[17:18] ---
    Talk to him.
[17:20] ---
    Just like you did
    before summer vacation.

[17:22] ---
    I have to win Shinomiya's trust back!
[17:26] ---
    Naturally, cheerfully...
[17:30] ---
    I-I'll greet her naturally first!
[17:38] ---
    A straight line linked them
    as they moved from opposite directions.

[17:41] ---
    A development that would certainly
    make them talk to each other.

[17:46] ---
    However...
[18:00] ---
    Miss Fujiwara,
    we need to clean the floor first.
[18:04] ---
    Oh, that's right!
[18:08] ---
    Dusty.
[18:12] ---
    It's hard to strike up a conversation!
[18:13] ---
    I'll clean over here.
[18:15] ---
    They were both back in the saddle,
    ready to give it another go!

[18:18] ---
    And yet the result was the same.
[18:22] ---
    No good! The closer I get to the president,
    the harder it is to look at him directly!

[18:26] ---
    What kind of expression should I have
    when I say something to Shinomiya?

[18:29] ---
    They continued to pass each other by,
[18:32] ---
    just barely missing,
[18:34] ---
    like two aircraft in a dogfight!
[18:39] ---
    But walking by each other twice
    is unnatural.

[18:41] ---
    Was it a coincidence?
[18:44] ---
    I see. The president is being shy.
[18:48] ---
    In that case, there's no need
    for me to be bashful.

[18:52] ---
    I'm totally calm.
[18:55] ---
    I can do this!
[18:56] ---
    This time, I can go over to him.
[18:59] ---
    I can go over to her!
[19:11] ---
    An asterisk!
[19:15] ---
    Miss Fujiwara,
    are you making fun of me?
[19:20] ---
    Keep your mind on the cleaning!
[19:23] ---
    What are the rules of this game?
[19:25] ---
    I have to talk to her
    and clear up this misunderstanding!

[19:28] ---
    This time, for sure!
[19:29] ---
    I see! It's not an asterisk!
[19:32] ---
    Hey, what's up?
[19:36] ---
    But it's a triangle!
[19:41] ---
    Now what?
[19:42] ---
    You're mocking me, too, aren't you?
[19:46] ---
    Did I do something?
[19:47] ---
    Jeez, you don't get it at all,
    do you, Ishigami?
[19:51] ---
    Why are you suddenly
    looking down on me?
[19:53] ---
    Ishigami, am I really
    that amusing to you?
[19:56] ---
    You, too, President?
[20:01] ---
    I'm sorry.
[20:02] ---
    This is over my head,
    so I'm going home.
[20:04] ---
    Ishigami was shot down.
[20:06] ---
    Poor Ishigami. But four's a crowd.
[20:09] ---
    Three's a crowd, Miss Fujiwara.
[20:15] ---
    Why?
[20:17] ---
    Fujiwara was shot down.
[20:21] ---
    What the hell is going on here?
[20:24] ---
    I know I've been avoiding her,
[20:26] ---
    but Shinomiya has been doing
    the same thing, too, repeatedly.

[20:30] ---
    Maybe...
[20:33] ---
    she feels self-conscious!
[20:35] ---
    Calm down, Kaguya!
[20:38] ---
    Close your eyes! It'll be okay!
[20:40] ---
    Maybe she didn't think
    I was pathetic but actually cool!

[20:45] ---
    Shirogane was back on his feet!
[20:47] ---
    This time for sure!
[20:49] ---
    This time...
[21:02] ---
    There's something
    I really wanted to tell you, President.
[21:08] ---
    President, on the night of the fireworks...
[21:12] ---
    I have to tell him.
[21:15] ---
    I have to say "Thank you"!
[21:21] ---
    Um,
[21:23] ---
    that was painful, huh?
[21:25] ---
    President, on the night of the fireworks...
[21:29] ---
    Painful, painful, painful, painful,
    painful, painful, painful, painful...

[21:34] ---
    That was painful, huh?
[21:38] ---
    I-I know, right?
[21:41] ---
    Shirogane was shot down.
[21:44] ---
    President!
    There's something I want to tell you!
[21:46] ---
    I-I get it already!
[21:50] ---
    Please wait up, President!
[21:52] ---
    RESULTS OF TODAY'S MATCH:
[21:52] ---
    FLYING ACE SHINOMIYA'S
    VICTORY
[21:53] ---
    And so, they were back to normal.
[21:56] ---
    The second semester had begun.
[23:33] ---
    A romantic battle of the brains.
[23:35] ---
    A battle of the sexes in which
    neither side can afford to be honest.

[23:38] ---
    With unspoken feelings
    hidden in their hearts,

[23:40] ---
    they continue making their wish
[23:43] ---
    for the other person to confess their love.
[23:46] ---
    I swear I'll make you say it.
[23:49] ---
    KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR
[23:50] ---
    You'll say "I love you."