E17 - Reunion

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    All I wanted was to get it back...
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    ...just like that time.
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    It was something that I swore
    to protect with everything I had,
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    no matter how people might see or shun me.
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    "Hozuki School"
    no matter how people might see or shun me.
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    No...! Don't go there, Mom!
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    Don't push me away!
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    Don't isolate yourself!
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    I'll work hard with you!
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    In the end, this is all I've got.
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    So I staked everything... on my sound.
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    I thought I could get it back.
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    I thought I could still reach her
    if I desperately reached out.
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    I believed... in my sound.
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    Your koto... is like a weapon to me.
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    A weapon...
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    I haven't had that dream in a while.
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    Why now, when I haven't had it lately?
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    So to them, it's their last chance.
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    Oh, it was because it reminded me...
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    Since I feel so comfortable where I am
    right now, I've been avoiding thinking...
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    ...about the fact that my time with them
    will definitely come to an end someday.
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    When that happens, once again, I'll...
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    I'm afraid of being alone again
    after all this time? How pathetic...
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    I'm just gonna focus on going
    to nationals right now.
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    To nationals with everyone...
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    "Koto Club"
    Ah! Kurata!
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    "#17 Reunion"
    Oh, Kurusu! Are you about to go
    practice on your own?
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    Yeah, kinda.
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    Me too.
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    What am I doing?! I made my
    own rules yesterday, didn't I?!
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    K-Kurusu?!
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    It's okay to have feelings for him,
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    but I won't tell him how I feel
    until we retire from the club.
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    I won't let him notice my feelings!
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    I won't cause problems
    for our club or performance!
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    I'll strictly observe these three big rules!
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    But there's one... just one thing
    that I want to ask him.
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    Hey, are you okay?
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    K-Kurata! Do you like the previous
    club president, Mashiro?!
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    Wh-What?! Where'd that come from?!
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    H-He's really rattled. Does he, after all...?
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    Well... yeah... I do like her.
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    I-I see...
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    It's okay. It's okay.
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    This was to be expected.
    I'll work super hard on club stuff.
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    But it's like I respect her as a person.
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    I think it's more like I admire her
    rather than that I like her romantically.
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    But why'd you ask me that question?
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    I see.
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    What? What was that about?
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    Oh? You're here, too, Hozy?
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    Hiro... Takezo...
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    Argh! Dammit! They beat me to it!
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    I was so sure that I'd be the first to arrive.
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    Hey...
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    Wow, that's some serious bedhead!
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    How'd you have to sleep in order to get that?
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    Shut up! It's a fashion statement.
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    Huh? Why don't you stop saying
    dumb things and get ready already?
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    You're the one who started it! Dammit!
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    We're back to normal now.
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    Oh, everyone's here, huh?
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    Suzu!
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    I decided on the piece for the qualifier.
    "Yaegoromo."
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    What? "Yaegoromo"?
    Are we going to play a classical piece?
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    It may not be suited for our--
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    A classic? It sounded like
    a modern piece, though.
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    I saw you play it in this.
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    Oh, that! I've watched it, too! I heard it!
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    What?
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    Seriously?! We can play that piece?!
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    What? You know this piece?!
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    Whoa! Cool! What kind of piece is that?
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    Th-This isn't "Yaegoromo."
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    We can play any piece but this.
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    Why?
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    This is a solo.
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    I'll change it to be an ensemble.
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    But a piece like this can't
    reach anyone's heart!
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    We can't go to nationals, either!
    Anyway, we can't play this piece!
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    Have you listened to your
    performance properly even once?
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    But well, if you say so...
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    In any event, you guys all go
    to the audiovisual room now.
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    The DVD from the last
    music festival has arrived.
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    Listen to your own performance as well
    as Hakuto's, the school that won.
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    I'll play Hakuto's performance first.
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    Hm? What's with this formation?
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    Why is he sitting up front all alone?
    It looks like he's the star.
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    Well, he is actually the "star."
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    That's him.
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    What's this?
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    Why...?
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    It's not flashy at all, and yet,
    his sound just flows into my head.
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    This is what Hakuto's performance is like.
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    A classical piece?
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    I don't like classics that much
    because they make me feel sleepy,
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    but that piece was kinda...
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    This had the least frills of any
    performance I've ever heard,
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    but I was really drawn into it!
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    Their pauses and tempo...
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    It's like their sounds build up quietly,
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    with just the right splash of color at
    the right time as if it was all calculated.
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    Hakuto doesn't have the impressive
    togetherness that Himesaka has
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    or the flamboyant impact that Meiryo has.
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    But their performance is as if it's
    the "right answer" to this piece.
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    "Right answer"...
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    I don't like to use those words for music,
    but I kinda get what you mean.
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    They make a classic sound so entrancing...
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    They must understand the piece quite--
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    No, this isn't a classic.
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    I hear Hakuto's playing an original piece.
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    An original?
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    On top of that, I think it was written
    so that the sound of this guy in the middle
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    could be brought out in the best way.
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    It was written entirely so he
    could be the core of this piece.
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    The structure of the piece...
    The sounds of the other parts...
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    They are all calculated and arranged
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    in order to help his sound
    further stand out and shine.
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    It looks like Hakuto's got
    a very good composer.
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    A composer...
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    And in order for you to go to nationals,
    you'll have to beat them.
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    But their performance is the right answer,
    right? How can we beat that?
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    You guys just have to surpass the right answer.
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    Huh?!
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    "Right" doesn't necessarily mean "best."
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    Next is your performance.
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    Your performance is rough
    and relies on momentum.
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    You're unskilled, too.
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    But you're capable of putting
    your emotions into the music.
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    That's your biggest weapon right now.
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    "National Koto Competition"
    And this piece seems to have the best
    potential to bring out that power.
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    Since this was originally a solo,
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    I'll consider the balance of your power,
    as well as sound quality,
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    and change its composition to best suit you all.
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    I recommend this piece,
    but the final decision is up to you.
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    Up to us?
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    What should we do?
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    Of all pieces, why did
    Mr. Takinami pick this one?
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    This one...
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    Kudo...
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    I'm gonna have my lunch here, too, today.
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    You said you heard this piece before.
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    Yeah, when I went to your place that time.
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    Without asking me?
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    I did get permission... but you were asleep.
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    I like her current tones a lot more than
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    her tones when I first heard them.
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    What did you think
    when you heard this piece?
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    It hurt... Or rather, it was very stressful...
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    It can't be... Why...?
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    I wanted... I just wanted her to smile again.
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    ...because your tone sounded like screaming.
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    Wh-What?
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    I asked Takinami to give me
    the audio data from that DVD.
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    You haven't listened to it yet yourself, have you?
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    No, but...
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    I don't know what this piece means to you,
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    but it won't be scary
    if we listen to it together.
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    Entry number 13, Satowa Hozuki.
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    This is what I sounded like?
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    All my sound could express at that time
    was the pain and suffering I felt?
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    What a terrible tone...
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    The feelings that I wanted to convey
    aren't in this piece at all.
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    There was no way my feelings
    could've reached her.
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    Right...
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    Right...
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    Hozuki...
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    Thanks, Kudo.
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    I'm fine now.
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    Mr. Takinami!
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    "National Koto Competition"
    So this piece can really take
    our current team to nationals?
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    That's up to you guys.
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    So this is the piece that will be
    the basis for your next piece.
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    And--
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    Oh, no...! I can't help but cry.
    I got goose bumps and they won't go away!
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    This was my third time, so it wasn't really...
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    But can we give a tear-jerking
    performance like this?
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    Well, um...
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    To tell you the truth,
    I played this piece hoping
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    that people would smile after listening to it.
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    So...
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    No, you don't have to force
    yourself to smile. I'm sorry.
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    I put the wrong feelings into this piece.
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    Since we're going to play it together,
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    if possible, I'd like our performance
    to be more positive, just like this club.
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    Yeah... So don't try to play like
    the performance you just saw.
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    I'm gonna change its motif big time.
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    What?! Then why did you have us listen to it?
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    It was engraved in my heart big time.
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    It was needed.
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    In order to give a positive performance...
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    In other words, in order
    to properly express "yang,"
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    you also should have an expression of "yin."
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    If you do, you can express a piece a lot
    more deeply. Especially with this one.
[12:20] ---
    What?!
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    Anyway, I wrote the score,
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    so make photocopies
    and bind them for everyone.
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    Start practicing it after school today.
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    You wrote it in just one day?!
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    Suzu! Don't tell me you pulled an all-nighter?!
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    I didn't. There's no way I'd cut my sleep.
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    Th-Thank you very much!
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    There's still some time before
    the teachers' meeting.
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    Seriously, in just one day? He's amazing!
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    "Math Preparation Room"
    Can I take a quick look at the music?
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    Of course!
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    How are the parts assigned?!
    Which part am I playing?
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    Oh... Let's see... You'll play...
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    "17-string: Adachi
    Kudo"
    Oh... Let's see... You'll play...
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    "17-string: Adachi
    Kudo"
    What?
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    Whoa! All right! The 17-string!
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    Me, too!
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    What? Two people on the 17-string?
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    But don't we only have one 17-string?
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    Ah...
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    Jeez... Like students, like advisor.
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    What nerve you have.
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    Here's the 17-string you wanted to borrow.
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    Sorry. I really appreciate it.
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    Gee, Suzu. When'd you ask her to let us borrow it?
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    "Solo: Satowa Hozuki
    First koto: Takezo Kurata
    Michitaka Sakai"
    Gee, Suzu. When'd you ask her to let us borrow it?
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    The introduction starts with my solo.
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    Is this... the introduction part?
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    Wow... It's so cool!
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    This is the same melody as
    the one we heard this morning.
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    So how it's played and the arrangement
    make it sound this different?
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    Her tone changed again.
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    It's become stronger. It reverberates
    even more than before.
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    So she continues to improve even more?
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    Sane. Teach me the 17-string.
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    What? I'm teaching you?
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    You have more experience
    with the 17-string than me.
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    Y-Yeah.
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    Hozuki. I forgot to ask you this before,
    but what's the title of this piece?
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    Er... I haven't decided on it, yet.
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    So that's why you lost sight of
    the emotion to put into it, huh?
[14:41] ---
    Hurry up and decide on the title.
    It's unconvincing without it.
[14:45] ---
    Okay.
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    What do I do? I'm really bad
    at coming up with titles.
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    Look, Chika. These are
    the strings of a 17-string.
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    And it seems better to sit closer to
    the middle than with the usual koto.
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    Sounds reverberate better that way.
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    I see.
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    Now, practice it until it becomes automatic.
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    Got it!
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    Whoa...! Awesome!
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    It sounds somber! The bass sounds cool!
    It resonates in my gut!
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    So she was playing this
    without much difficulty, huh?
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    I'm not gonna let her increase her lead.
    I'll definitely catch up to her!
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    Hey, let's go use Granny's place
    to practice again starting today.
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    Oh, you two'll have to take turns every
    other day practicing at Ms. Nishina's place.
[15:41] ---
    --Huh?
    --Why's that?!
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    Because we borrowed one 17-string,
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    she said she had only one other 17-string
    there that she could let us use.
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    So you two can't practice at the same time.
[15:52] ---
    Then we just have to take this 17-string
    with us there every day, right?
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    I can't let you carry around
    a borrowed instrument like that.
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    So focus and practice efficiently
    as much as you can when you can use it.
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    Dammit. It can't be helped.
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    Since we can't practice together
    at Granny's place,
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    we'll need to find time somewhere else.
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    We'll skip classes, Sane!
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    Yeah, it can't be helped!
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    You guys really are idiots.
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    I'm sorry, but there's a place I have
    to go today, so I'll see you tomorrow.
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    What? Oh, okay.
[16:23] ---
    It sure is rare that Hozy isn't coming
    to after-club practice.
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    Yeah.
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    "Hozuki School"
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    Oh?
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    Well, well... What an unusual visitor...
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    Ms. Dojima, and...
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    My granddaughter Akira.
    You've met her before, though.
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    I'm sorry.
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    So what brings you here?
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    You disgraced the Hozuki name
    and were driven out.
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    I came to talk to my mother.
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    What about you, Ms. Dojima?
    You're practicing at this late hour?
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    No. Akira and I have become
    the grand master's live-in apprentices.
[17:13] ---
    Live-in apprentices?
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    Not only did she lose her husband,
    she also lost her heir.
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    Someone needs to stay
    close by and support her.
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    She'll have to start thinking
    about her new heir, too, so...
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    Anyway, Satowa, you came to talk
    to the grand master, right?
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    Why don't you come in?
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    Wait, Akira. She is--
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    Even though she was excommunicated,
    she's still the grand master's daughter.
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    Besides, she's still a high school student.
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    It'd be sad if she couldn't
    come inside the house.
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    You truly are a very kind person.
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    No, it's not like that.
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    Ah... Grand Master.
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    It's been a while.
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    What are you doing here?
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    I want you to leave.
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    Wait, Mom!
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    I came to ask you a favor.
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    Hmph. Don't tell me you want to come back?
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    How could you after what you've done...?
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    I joined the koto club at my high school.
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    I'm still playing the koto there.
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    But we need one more 17-string right now.
[18:39] ---
    Could you let me borrow one of the school's?
[18:41] ---
    You've been excommunicated
    by the Hozuki School
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    and play the koto in a school club for fun.
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    And now, you want to borrow a 17-string?
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    I've never heard anything so shameful!
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    I'm talking to my mother.
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    Wha...?
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    If I remember correctly,
    you have your own 17-string.
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    I need one more.
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    There's no instrument here
    that I could lend you.
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    Leave.
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    So to them, it's their last chance.
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    That's just natural. What nerve you've got.
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    To start with, is that the kind of attitude
    you show when you're asking for a favor?
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    This is why a child with lots of problems is--
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    Please...
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    I can only think that you're insane.
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    You're doing this for a mere school club...
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    You'd better not be plotting something...
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    If you don't mind, I can lend you my 17-string.
[19:38] ---
    That would be okay with you,
    right, Grand Master?
[19:41] ---
    Since it's my instrument?
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    Wait, Akira.
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    You don't mind?
[19:46] ---
    No. I have one that's not being used.
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    Besides... I can't stand seeing you
    in such a pitiful state.
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    Thank you very much.
[19:59] ---
    No.
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    It is nothing short of shamefule
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    if I cause trouble for my apprentice
    because of my own daughter.
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    Just take whichever one you wish.
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    In return, don't ever come here again.
[20:15] ---
    Thank you very much.
[20:21] ---
    No matter what I'm told, I'm not
    gonna give up on Mom anymore.
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    I won't, until my true sound
    reaches her... Never...
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    To think that she's still playing the koto...
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    We must make sure that
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    there isn't the slightest chance
    for her to come back to Hozuki.
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    Right, Akira?
[20:43] ---
    Yes, Grandmother.
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    Whooooa!
[20:55] ---
    It's a 17-string!
[20:56] ---
    All right!
[20:58] ---
    Hozuki! Where'd you get this?
[21:00] ---
    I borrowed it from my mom.
[21:02] ---
    What? From your mom?
[21:04] ---
    Is it okay, Hozuki?
[21:06] ---
    Wasn't it hard to borrow it?
[21:09] ---
    Not really. I just borrowed an instrument.
[21:13] ---
    Is that... right?
[21:15] ---
    More importantly,
    you two need to practice more.
[21:18] ---
    I don't want you to hold the others back.
[21:21] ---
    Yeah, you're right. Thanks, Hozuki.
[21:24] ---
    "Not really"? There's no way
    that's true 'cause it's the home
[21:28] ---
    where she was excommunicated and driven out.
[21:31] ---
    Let's practice as hard as possible!
[21:32] ---
    Yeah!
[21:33] ---
    Squeeze!
[21:35] ---
    "Koto Club"
    Wh-What're you doing, Hiro?
[21:38] ---
    "Koto Club"
    Nothing! Let's practice!
[23:09] ---
    "The 36th National Koto Competition"
[23:12] ---
    I won't forget about that day...
[23:15] ---
    I'll never forget that performance.
[23:20] ---
    "Program"
[23:22] ---
    "Akira Dojima"
    "Satowa Hozuki"
[23:23] ---
    "Akira Dojima"
    "Satowa Hozuki"
    Never...
[23:38] ---
    Next time, "Their Determination."
[23:41] ---
    "#18 Their Determination"