E19 - Confrontation
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My older brother would run back home
from school in the afternoon.
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He would dash straight to his koto
and play his favorite pieces.
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Mom would soon join him and the room
would be filled with fun sounds.
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I liked that gentle time.
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I really loved it.
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"The Tsubaki School
First Performance of the Year"
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"The Tsubaki School
First Performance of the Year"
"#19 Confrontation"
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"#19 Confrontation"
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Keishi's performance really does
put adults' to shame.
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You two must be so proud
to have such an excellent heir.
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Oh, well, um...
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Akira. Did you like your
brother's performance?
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Yep! I loved it!
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Since I received a passionate encore from
my cute sister, I'll play another piece!
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A song by the rock band that I'm so into
right now, with my special arrangement!
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Yaaaay!
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I'm so exhausted! Grandma's
scolding always takes forever!
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It was a great performance, though.
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I know, right?
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Yep!
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Will I be able to play like you?
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You'll be able to play a lot
better than I can... Akira!
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"First Place" "Best Performance Award"
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"First Place" "Best Performance Award"
Keishi really is amazing! He gets first
place in every competition he's in.
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I saw your brother on TV the other day.
I wish I had a big brother like him!
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I'll enter a competition, too!
I'll be a genius, too!
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I'll get first place in a competition
and shine like Keishi!
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"Participation Award"
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Participation Award...
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When Keishi gets first place...
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What's wrong with Akira?
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She's feeling down because
she didn't get first place.
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Akira! Let's play the koto together!
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No. I'm a failure as your sister.
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Akira...
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Keishi. How can I be first place like you?
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You know, I was practicing backflips
with my friends the other day.
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What?! That's dangerous!
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I failed many times and I
even injured myself a little...
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...but I kept trying to do it, and I did it!
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Mom! I'll enter the next competition, too!
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I'll keep entering them until I get first place!
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Since then, I've participated
in many competitions.
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I wanted to catch up with Keishi.
I wanted to shine.
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But what I started seeing after working hard
and becoming more skilled
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was not me shining like my brother
but his true self and talent.
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I came to realize that he
really was a true genius.
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But still, he practiced and
worked harder than anyone.
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So I thought, "It's okay that I'm not
a genius. I can still work hard."
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Akira has been working hard lately, huh?
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She finally got second place the other day!
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I hope she can get first place soon.
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It'll be fine. I'm sure she'll--
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Akira! Grandma!
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Keishi...
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Then, all too suddenly and unexpectedly,
our parents were gone.
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"Dojima"
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"Dojima"
What?
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What did you just say?
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I said I decided to quit college
and start working!
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But aren't you gonna succeed
the Tsubaki School?!
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Forgive me, Akira.
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I'm quitting koto.
I'll leave the Tsubaki School to you.
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W-Wait a sec!
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Why are you quitting koto?!
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Hey! Keishi!
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Why...?
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The income from the Tsubaki School alone
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is nowhere near enough
to support the two of you.
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But Keishi is good enough to perform--
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Things aren't easy in this industry.
It'll take a while
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before he can start earning money.
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Then I'll quit high school and work!
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Don't be ridiculous!
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You're the only one who can
succeed the Tsubaki School now!
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Come to terms with that!
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But to think that Keishi would quit koto...!
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Keishi...
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Keishi entrusted everything to you!
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Are you saying that you're
going to betray his wish?!
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What...? Why is Keishi the one quitting?
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Why...?
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"Mizu no Hentai"?
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That's right. Technique, singing, expression...
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It's an unsurpassed masterpiece on all counts.
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I'll have you focus on this piece
for the next two years.
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What?
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Your current ability is nowhere near Keishi's.
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Many of the disciples are unhappy, too.
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So I'll intensely retrain you from
the basics using this piece.
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After your ability has improved,
I'll have you get first place
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in the competition that attracts
the most attention in the koto industry.
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Then no one should have any more complaints.
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First place...
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Understood? Work hard...
on behalf of Keishi as well.
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On that day... my days of devotedly
facing the koto started.
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I worked frantically...
so that I could replace my brother...
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...and so that the choice he made
wouldn't become a mistake.
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I heard that girl from Hozuki will
also be in the upcoming competition.
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What? Isn't she still a middle school student?
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She is. What a conceited girl...!
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Hozuki is the parent school that
the Tsubaki School belongs to.
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The Hozuki heir was a girl
who was also called a genius.
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I've heard her performance before.
It was indeed incredible.
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Perfect... No flaws... Hard to approach...
It was a performance like that.
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Akira. The competition is today, right?
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I can't get away from work today
to go see your performance.
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That's okay.
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A-Akira... Um...
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Sorry. I have to go.
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If I get through today,
I'm sure something will change.
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I'm sure the light is waiting
for me! I'm sure...!
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Entry number 5. Akira Dojima.
"Mizu no Hentai."
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She's good.
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--# In Oyamada... #
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--What a player... She puts such care
into every single note she plays.
--# In Oyamada... #
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--Both her singing and
koto technique are so pure.
--# In Oyamada... #
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--Every single note is beautiful.
--# In Oyamada... #
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I wonder how much she devoted herself
to playing the koto to get here...
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--# ...in the fog... I thought... #
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--It's okay that I'm not a genius.
I can still work hard.
--# ...in the fog... I thought... #
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--Then someday, I will...
--# ...in the fog... I thought... #
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--I will be able to get there, too!
--# ...in the fog... I thought... #
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# ...someone was making
their way through... #
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I did it... I was able to give
my best performance ever.
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I did it!
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That performance pretty much
sealed first place for you.
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That's not really...
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Entry number 13. Satowa Hozuki.
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"Yaegoromo."
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The Hozuki girl...
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It's amazing that she can play
"Yaegoromo" at her age.
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But it's okay. I know her performance.
Even if she's a genius...
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A single note was all it took...
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The technique and expression I had attained
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in the two years I devoted
myself entirely to koto...
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Her single note crushed them all.
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Wh-What's this piece?!
This isn't "Yaegoromo"!
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This will get her disqualified!
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I realized then... that no
matter how hard I worked,
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I would never be able to reach that place.
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The best performance award
goes to Akira Dojima.
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See! Akira! They called you.
Stop being dazed and go up already!
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What? That girl isn't first place?
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You dummy. She got disqualified, remember?
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Oh, that's right.
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Wait, what kind of piece did
the first-place person play again?
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"Second Place"
"Outstanding Performance Award"
"Third Place"
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"The 36th National Koto Competition
Best Performance Award"
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Will I be able to play like you?
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Disqualified?! That's BS!
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After giving that performance?!
Don't mock me!
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"Participation Award"
Don't insult me!
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I thought the light was waiting for me.
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But what I found there was...
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"The 36th National Koto Competition
Best Performance Award"
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"The 36th National Koto Competition
Best Performance Award"
...an even deeper darkness with no exit.
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A short time after the competition,
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I heard that girl was excommunicated.
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This is a perfect opportunity.
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The heir of the Hozuki School is gone.
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You can take that position!
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That grand master of Hozuki isn't
capable in the first place.
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And look at the state her daughter,
their only hope, is in.
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The school is just an empty shell now.
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Yeah...
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What's with her?
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I wonder why she doesn't get it...
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Ever since Keishi left, the Tsubaki School
has been the empty shell.
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How have I been playing the koto
up until now? How have I been facing it?
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When talented people are rapidly
moving away from koto...
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...why is someone like me still hanging onto it?
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It hurts... It hurts... I'm exhausted.
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I don't care anymore.
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I joined the koto club at my high school.
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Please...
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What? A school club?
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Talent, a big house, an outstanding future...
She threw everything away.
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What's her problem?
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How far will she go to insult
someone who's serious about--
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I just wanted to know what it was
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that you wanted so badly
that you threw everything away
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and even messed things up
for those around you.
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I want to know its value.
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That's all.
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Just kidding. I'm sorry.
I carried the joke too far.
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Please forget it.
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The value...
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Just a single note...
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That's all it takes.
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You don't need to hear it.
You don't need to know.
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You no longer need the light...
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...because you're not capable
of handling it anyway.
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Well then, I'll start with the 17-string part.
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Start from the beginning.
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That's not good at all.
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The sound isn't clear. One more time.
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This boy is very quick to learn.
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He absorbs what I teach
as fast as I can teach him.
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This boy is a typical hard-working type.
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I think he's got good intuition,
but he's almost pitifully...
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...ordinary.
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Mr. Takinami is cruel to have
these two play the same part.
[15:19] ---
Well then, next is the second koto part.
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Okay.
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Stop there.
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You're not putting the right
pressure on the string.
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Press harder.
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Harder. That's only raising
the note by a half step.
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But I can't do it any harder than this.
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Your arm is open and shoulder is raised.
You can't press hard like that.
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Try not to press with just your arm.
Put your weight on it.
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Close my arm and put my weight on it.
Don't raise my shoulder.
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Good. Let's move on.
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"Nishina Instruments"
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Argh! Dammit! Since that woman
told me about this unclear sound,
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I can't stop thinking about it!
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What?
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Wh-Wh-What're you doing all of a sudden?!
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Well, I was trying to remember
how hard your fingertips were.
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Even so, don't touch me
so casually, stupid! Perv!
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Per--?!
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Could she still be holding a grudge?
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Hey, you're fine.
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What?
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You've been kinda quiet today.
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I just had a sore throat, that's all.
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Throat...
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Here.
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You really do like strawberries, huh?
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Shut up. Got a problem with that?
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Thanks.
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Missy.
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A koto teacher I know had
that DVD you were asking about.
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Really?!
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Thank you very much!
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Hm? What's that?
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Miss Dojima's performance in that
competition where she got first place.
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I felt... that I should listen to it.
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I'll listen to it, too!
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Hey, let's listen to it together.
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Wow... I'm kinda nervous.
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I'm gonna play it now, okay?
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Entry number 5. Akira Dojima.
"Mizu no Hentai."
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Is something wrong, Satowa?
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I listened to your
"Mizu no Hentai" performance.
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I'm sorry!
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What...?
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At first, I thought you might
be up to something.
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But after listening to your performance,
I felt very ashamed for thinking that.
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I've never heard a performance so sincere
towards a piece and the koto.
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To someone who gives
a performance like that, I was--
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Please stop it.
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Satowa. Please raise your head.
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Please don't make me feel any
more miserable than I do now.
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U-Um...!
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That time... why did you do it?
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What?
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You were good enough to win first place.
Did you play a different piece
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to purposely get disqualified
in order to stand out?
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--It's not like--
--After that competition,
you don't know how many times I heard...
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"Poor thing. Her performance was first place,
but the disqualified one was better."
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"Poor thing," they said.
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I don't wanna hear a compliment
from you after all this time.
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I wanted... to get my mother back.
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Sh-She was under all sorts
of pressure and changed rapidly.
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At that time, I was invisible to her.
My words didn't reach her, either.
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So... I threw a tantrum on that big stage
screaming, "Look at me, Mom!"...
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...like a small child...
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But in the end, all I did was
hurt her and mess up the school.
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You said I wouldn't need any lessons,
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but there are a lot of things
that I'd like to learn from you.
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So I came to formally
ask you for your guidance.
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The truth is, I knew it even before she told me.
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That performance was not a game
or her having fun. I knew that much.
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Ahh, that's right. She's only
a first-year student in high school.
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She's about the same age as me
when I could do nothing
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but be protected by Keishi.
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Oh, her long-sought-after first place
has been totally eclipsed.
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Even though she spent two whole years...
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She'll never be able to surpass her brother.
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Poor thing...
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Where're you going?
Do you want to escape from here?
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Even if there's an exit in this darkness,
all that lies beyond it is...
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...an endless series of walls
that you could never overcome.
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Um...
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I studied "Mizu no Hentai" for two years.
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But those two years were instantly
crushed by one single note of yours.
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What are you saying I should teach you?
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It's time... I put an end
to all my struggling.
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Oh, Miss Dojima.
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I'm sorry to tell you this so suddenly...
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"Koto Club"
[23:19] ---
"Koto Club"
I'm going to quit teaching
your koto club as of today.
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Next time, "Another Chance."
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"#20 Another Chance"
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