# E4 - Arrangement
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**[00:01] (Flashback) Oboro**
This girl has stood upon the boundary,
**[00:03] (Flashback) Oboro**
and now she surely has a
painful life ahead of her.
**[00:08] (Flashback) Oboro**
No matter how warped
and hardened it might be,
**[00:12] (Flashback) Oboro**
I want her to find human happiness in the end.
**[00:18] (Flashback) Oboro**
You know what you must do
to ensure that, do you not?
**[00:30] (Flashback) Zohei**
Hello?
**[00:32] (Flashback) Zohei**
It's me, Zohei.
**[00:35] Zohei**
*Sorry for the short notice,*
**[00:37] Zohei**
*but I need to talk to you about my grandson.*
**[00:41] (Flashback) Haori**
Yes?
**[00:42] Haori**
* I thought it might help him if he*
* could stay with you for a while.*
**[00:46] Haori**
*Mind having a look at him?*
**[00:49] (Flashback) Haori**
Certainly.
**[00:51] (Flashback) Haori**
But would you be willing to
accept a condition in exchange?
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Arrangement
***SIGN*** List of Kunato Hyoma Supporters
***SIGN*** -san
***SIGN*** • Nagi
***SIGN*** • Kagami
***SIGN*** • Suzuri
***SIGN*** • Haori
***SIGN*** • Kushige
***SIGN*** • Yu
***SIGN*** • Yu
**[02:38] Hyoma**
*I've managed to return to square one.*
**[02:42] Hyoma**
* No... Things aren't quite*
* as they were from the start.*
**[02:47] Hyoma**
*At the very least,*
**[02:48] Hyoma**
*I do feel more of a connection here*
**[02:51] Hyoma**
* in the Nagatsuki household*
* than I've ever felt before.*
**[02:56] Hyoma**
*But my duty now is to ascertain*
**[02:58] Hyoma**
* whether these are indeed tsukumogami*
* in whom I can place my full trust.*
**[03:07] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[03:08] Botan**
Did you really get everyone's signatures?!
**[03:18] Botan**
Sorry to burst in like that!
**[03:21] Hyoma**
I don't mind that at all.
**[03:28] Hyoma**
Your information is accurate.
**[03:30] Hyoma**
I've caused you a great deal of trouble.
**[03:34] Hyoma**
Would you accept an apology for my rudeness,
**[03:35] Hyoma**
and allow me to make a new first impression?
**[03:40] Botan**
Sorry! You're just always so uptight.
**[03:44] Botan**
You're going to give yourself
a heart attack one day!
**[03:50] Hyoma**
You shouldn't laugh when you're already
out of breath from running.
**[03:53] Botan**
I... I'm okay.
**[03:54] Botan**
Okay.
**[03:56] Botan**
Here's to a full year together, then.
**[04:02] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[04:05] Hyoma**
I appreciate your hospitality.
***SIGN*** Wind
Forest
Fire
Mountain
**[04:09] Kagami**
We're really going to tell him already?
**[04:12] Nagi**
Yeah. I mean, he met the conditions.
**[04:15] Kagami**
Yu-chan only signed because she felt bad
about the trouble she caused him, right?
**[04:19] Kagami**
And I'm not sure the two of them
will like having this sprung on them.
**[04:24] Suzuri**
We do have a whole year ahead of us.
**[04:27] Suzuri**
Why not allow for a longer grace period?
***SIGN*** List of Kunato Hyoma Supporters
***SIGN*** -san
***SIGN*** • Nagi
***SIGN*** • Kagami
***SIGN*** • Suzuri
***SIGN*** • Haori
***SIGN*** • Kushige
***SIGN*** • Yu
**[04:30] Nagi**
Whatever we do, we're already
on record as supporting him.
**[04:34] Nagi**
Over a pretty damned short period, at that.
**[04:38] Nagi**
I'm saying the time's ripe.
**[04:40] Nagi**
Right, Kushige?
**[04:44] Nagi**
Haori's come to the same conclusion.
**[04:49] Botan**
Oh, that's right.
**[04:51] Botan**
We cook dinner in shifts here.
**[04:54] Botan**
Can you cook, Hyoma-san?
**[04:57] Hyoma**
I've cooked many times at home.
**[05:01] Hyoma**
Though I can't make anything
especially complicated.
**[05:03] Botan**
Hey, that's okay.
**[05:05] Botan**
Nagi can't make anything but beer snacks...
**[05:15] Haori**
Hyoma-san, Botan...
**[05:17] Haori**
There's something we must tell you.
**[05:20] Haori**
Would you join us in the great hall?
**[05:24] Haori**
It regards an arrangement
I made with Zohei-san
**[05:29] Haori**
in exchange for taking Hyoma-san in.
**[05:32] Hyoma**
What?
**[05:33] Haori**
We of the Nagatsuki tsukumogami
share a single purpose.
**[05:38] Haori**
The request to have you stay here aligned
perfectly with our motivations in that regard.
**[05:46] Haori**
We agreed to allow you
to observe us for one year,
**[05:51] Haori**
and made a request of Zohei-san in turn.
**[05:56] Haori**
That we, too, would be allowed
to spend the year evaluating you.
**[06:04] Botan**
Wait! Not again—
**[06:07] Yu**
Quiet now.
**[06:10] Hyoma**
I don't understand.
**[06:12] Hyoma**
Why would you want to do that?
**[06:15] Hyoma**
And why reveal it now?
**[06:19] Haori**
We intended to spend the year evaluating
whether or not we find you worthy.
**[06:24] Haori**
But you've made us do something
fairly similar in just three days.
**[06:29] Haori**
So I thought the time was ripe
to reveal everything to you.
**[06:34] Haori**
This is our purpose...
***SIGN*** Celebrate!
The Potential Husband's Arrival
by the House Nagatsuki Tsukumogami
***SIGN*** Welcome!
***SIGN*** Celebrate!
The Potential Husband's Arrival
by the House Nagatsuki Tsukumogami
***SIGN*** Welcome!
***SIGN*** Long Life
**[06:43] Haori**
The first step to finding a man
worthy of marriage to our mistress.
**[06:52] Hyoma**
Is this...
***SIGN*** Celebrate!
The Potential Husband's Arrival
**[07:02] Botan**
Don't get the wrong idea!
**[07:04] Botan**
I-It's a silly prank they play sometimes.
**[07:07] Botan**
Please... don't get the wrong idea!
**[07:10] Nagi**
Don't you say another word!
**[07:12] Nagi**
C'mon, ma'am!
**[07:13] Nagi**
We're doin' this for real!
**[07:16] Nagi**
Right, Kushige?
**[07:19] Kagami**
H-He's right! We're really trying our best!
**[07:24] Suzuri**
With Suzuki-kun in third grade...
***SIGN*** Suzuki-kun (9)
**[07:27] Suzuri**
With Tanaka-kun in seventh grade...
***SIGN*** Tanaka-kun (13)
**[07:29] Suzuri**
We evaluated both of them very earnestly!
**[07:32] Botan**
But, but, but... I told you
to stop all that, didn't I?!
**[07:36] Yu**
*I* rejected them both, of course.
**[07:43] Haori**
I'm afraid it's unavoidable, Botan.
**[07:46] Haori**
We manifested in objects tasked with
seeking a happy match for their owner.
**[07:55] Hyoma**
Tasked with...
**[07:57] Haori**
Yes.
**[07:58] Haori**
We don't originate from individual objects.
**[08:02] Haori**
We are from a single trousseau—
objects offered by the bride upon marriage.
**[08:10] Haori**
And so we have a purpose
we are driven to fulfill.
**[08:13] Haori**
Hyoma-san...
**[08:15] Haori**
In addition to the purpose you assigned them,
**[08:17] Haori**
our signatures signify that you
passed our evaluation.
**[08:22] Yu**
In a *purely* provisional fashion.
**[08:25] Nagi**
You shut up, Yu!
**[08:27] Haori**
Zohei-san has agreed to it, as well.
**[08:31] Haori**
Would you be willing to consider
this a trial arranged marriage?
**[08:35] Botan**
Excuse me! You really can't...
**[08:38] Yu**
*I remain unconvinced.*
**[08:40] Yu**
* And if he does or says*
* anything to hurt Botan,*
**[08:44] Yu**
*I'll run him through on the spot!*
**[08:45] Nagi**
*Could you please not?*
**[08:48] Suzuri**
* Still, Hyoma-kun's got quite*
* a poker face going on.*
**[08:53] Kagami**
*I really hope he doesn't lash out.*
**[08:56] Kagami**
*I'm so tired.*
**[08:59] Nagi/Suzuri/Kagami**
*How will you respond, Kunato Hyoma?!*
**[09:06] Hyoma**
You may have received
my grandfather's assent,
**[09:11] Hyoma**
but your own desires in the matter aside,
**[09:14] Hyoma**
I haven't finished getting
*your* measure yet.
**[09:18] Hyoma**
This sudden request to join your household
isn't something I can agree to so easily.
**[09:23] Hyoma**
However, it would be disrespectful to
my grandfather to refuse unconditionally.
**[09:28] Hyoma**
Therefore, I will defer judgment for now.
**[09:32] Haori**
Well... I suppose that's all right.
**[09:36] Hyoma**
Nagatsuki-san.
**[09:37] Botan**
Yes?!
**[09:38] Hyoma**
Wednesdays are my designated running days.
**[09:41] Hyoma**
I would ordinarily leave at this time. May I?
**[09:45] Botan**
Go ahead.
**[09:46] Hyoma**
Excellent. I shall return.
**[09:50] Nagi**
That reaction was weird. Too rational.
**[09:53] Suzuri**
Yeah.
**[09:54] Suzuri**
He's so calm, it's freaking me out a little.
**[09:58] Botan**
Although...
**[10:01] Botan**
I've gotta live with the guy another year,
**[10:04] Botan**
and now you've gone
and made it awkward again!
**[10:08] Suzuri**
W-We had good intentions, really...
**[10:11] Botan**
Besides...
**[10:14] Botan**
I just, really... I can't
*do* something like that.
**[10:18] Botan**
You know that.
**[10:22] Haori**
You worry too much. About everything.
**[10:26] Haori**
That's what makes us so anxious, you know?
**[10:27] Botan**
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
**[10:32] Suzuri**
Still, Hyoma-kun was pretty
unflappable back there.
**[10:35] Yu**
I suppose it's *slightly* better
than him throwing a fit.
**[11:00] Hyoma**
Wh-What the hell was that?!
**[11:10] Botan**
*Yeah, that was not cool.*
***SIGN*** I love the whole fish.
**[11:12] Botan**
*Not cool!*
**[11:14] Botan**
* Springing on a guy who's only*
* lived here a few days,*
**[11:18] Botan**
* "Oh, we're actually evaluating you as*
* a prospective husband for our daughter!"*
**[11:23] Botan**
* He probably had no idea*
* what they were saying.*
**[11:27] Botan**
*I barely knew what I was saying, either.*
**[11:38] Haori**
Look at how she's torturing herself!
**[11:41] Haori**
This could get very interesting!
**[11:45] Haori**
What? Time to go out?
**[11:48] Haori**
Already?!
**[11:51] Haori**
Oh, fine.
***SIGN*** I love the whole fish.
Flounder in Sauce
***SIGN*** February
***SIGN*** Lunches
of Happiness
**[11:58] Botan**
* I've got to find him, apologize,*
* and tell him not to worry about it!*
**[12:06] Botan**
*After I go shopping, though.*
**[12:08] Hyoma**
Haori informed me of the
arranged marriage condition.
**[12:11] Hyoma**
I have my own guesses as to why
you agreed to this arrangement.
**[12:17] Hyoma**
May I reveal them?
**[12:18] Zohei**
*Sure, give it a go.*
**[12:21] Hyoma**
Create a tense relationship
to increase my mental fortitude.
**[12:26] Hyoma**
In other words,
a form of psychological training.
**[12:30] Zohei**
Um, no.
**[12:31] Zohei**
It's just, a man tends to worry
when his grandson turns 21
**[12:33] Zohei**
and hasn't shown the slightest
interest in romance.
**[12:37] Hyoma**
What?
**[12:38] Zohei**
* It was just perfect timing,*
* as far as I was concerned!*
**[12:42] Zohei**
* Botan-chan's grown into*
* quite a lovely young woman,*
**[12:45] Zohei**
*so I couldn't think of any reason to re—*
**[12:52] Hyoma**
I see.
**[12:55] Suzuri**
Business? With Haori?
**[12:57] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[12:58] Hyoma**
I wish to engage her in earnest discussion.
**[13:00] Hyoma**
Do you know where I might find her?
**[13:02] Suzuri**
She's out with Kushige.
**[13:05] Kagami**
She could be gone for days.
**[13:08] Hyoma**
A business trip?
**[13:09] Suzuri**
Yeah, she takes them sometimes.
**[13:12] Hyoma**
Did Nagi and Yu accompany her?
**[13:14] Suzuri**
No, they're doing the usual business.
**[13:26] Suzuri**
Apparently that Hikaki guy
had more people in his gang
**[13:29] Suzuri**
than what we saw the other day.
**[13:34] Hyoma**
Why aren't I out with them now?!
**[13:38] Suzuri**
I thought you were calling home.
**[13:42] Botan**
Oh? Hyoma-san?
**[13:46] Botan**
I thought you went out with Nagi and Yu!
**[13:48] Hyoma**
No, I was left behind.
**[13:52] Hyoma**
Are you going shopping?
**[13:54] Botan**
Oh? Yes...
**[13:57] Kagami**
Hush!
**[14:02] Botan**
Um...
**[14:05] Botan**
Hyoma-san, I...
**[14:10] Botan**
You, uh, don't have to worry
about any of that stuff they said.
**[14:13] Botan**
I know it's just a huge bother...
**[14:14] Hyoma**
Indeed.
**[14:17] Hyoma**
It *is* a huge bother.
**[14:19] Hyoma**
You can be assured that I haven't
given it a moment's concern.
**[14:29] Botan**
I see.
**[14:35] Botan**
Great.
**[14:36] Botan**
I'm glad to hear you're not worried about it.
**[14:39] Botan**
But I really do feel bad
for the trouble, so... sorry!
**[14:43] Botan**
Anyway, I really need to
get that shopping done.
**[14:46] Hyoma**
Understood.
**[14:57] Suzuri**
Hyoma-kun.
**[15:03] Suzuri**
What you did just now wasn't great.
**[15:07] Hyoma**
I merely spoke the truth.
**[15:10] Suzuri**
You could've been more sensitive.
**[15:12] Suzuri**
To turn down a girl her age
with total indifference...
**[15:17] Suzuri**
You can't see how cruel that is?
**[15:21] Suzuri**
I'm a pretty calm guy, but when I see
you hurt my mistress like that...
**[15:24] Suzuri**
Can you see how much it pains me?
**[15:28] Suzuri**
Meanwhile, Kagami's crying her eyes out!
**[15:31] Kagami**
You suck, Hyoma-san!
**[15:34] Kagami**
You don't have to be so mean!
**[15:38] Kagami**
Botan was really hurt by that!
**[15:40] Suzuri**
Go! Get him!
**[15:42] Hyoma**
Botan was hurt?
**[15:46] Hyoma**
Wait a minute.
**[15:47] Hyoma**
Can you explain what you mean by that?
**[15:59] (Flashback) Hyoma**
It *is* a huge bother.
**[16:03] Botan**
*Hearing him say it that clearly,*
**[16:07] Botan**
* I guess I can trust that*
* he's not stressing out about it.*
**[16:11] Botan**
*Which is a good thing, but...*
**[16:14] Botan**
* If it's a good thing,*
* why does it bug me so much?*
**[16:21] Hainarashi**
Well, well. Isn't this a find?
**[16:30] Hainarashi**
Are those lackeys of yours
busy elsewhere, perhaps?
***SIGN*** — Hainarashi —
**[16:35] Hainarashi**
Would you be Nagatsuki Botan, then?
**[16:40] Nagi**
A decoy, eh?
**[16:44] Tsukumogami A**
Right about now, our boss'll have found
his way to that powerless mistress of yours!
**[16:50] Tsukumogami A**
What now?
**[16:51] Tsukumogami A**
You guys care about her, don't you?
**[16:54] Tsukumogami A**
What'll you do, eh?!
**[17:02] Nagi**
Damn it!
**[17:03] Yu**
Botan!
**[17:12] Hainarashi**
Your family did a number on
that "little brother" of mine...
**[17:17] Hainarashi**
I've been looking for you.
**[17:19] Hainarashi**
Would you be willing to come with me?
**[17:21] Botan**
You're a tsukumogami too, aren't you?
**[17:25] Hainarashi**
You've seen your share of us, then?
**[17:27] Hainarashi**
You certainly have some backbone.
**[17:29] Hainarashi**
But I can also see you trembling.
**[17:33] Hainarashi**
Is this all you are?!
**[17:36] Hainarashi**
There's a kind of unwritten law among
the tsukumogami who live in Kyo...
***SIGN*** Don't make use of Nagatsuki Botan
**[17:42] Hainarashi**
"Don't make use of Nagatsuki Botan."
**[17:46] Hainarashi**
Was that merely a precaution to keep us away?
**[18:03] Hainarashi**
I am Hainarashi.
**[18:05] Hainarashi**
My only power as a tsukumogami
is the ability to scatter ash, but...
**[18:12] Hainarashi**
I can still tear a human apart easily enough!
**[18:28] Hyoma**
Are you all right, Nagatsuki-san?
**[18:31] Hainarashi**
Are you...
**[18:33] Hainarashi**
a Saenome?!
**[18:36] Hainarashi**
Child... Know your place!
**[18:41] Nagi**
Found 'em!
**[18:43] Nagi**
You dumbass!
**[18:46] Nagi**
You're gonna pay for this!
**[18:49] Botan**
Nagi! Yu!
**[18:51] Nagi**
We're good to go, right?
**[18:53] Yu**
Of course!
**[18:54] Nagi**
Heck yeah!
**[18:56] Yu/Nagi**
Get him!
**[18:57] Hainarashi**
Wait!
**[18:58] Hainarashi**
Three-on-one...
**[19:00] Hainarashi**
That's not fair!
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[19:04] Nagi**
Shut up!
**[19:08] Hyoma**
H-Hey!
**[19:14] Hyoma**
I'd like an honest answer.
**[19:17] Hyoma**
Did you actually try to eliminate
me while I was vulnerable?
**[19:22] Nagi**
No, but...
**[19:26] Yu**
Are you all right, Botan?!
**[19:30] Yu**
Were you hurt? Did you sprain anything?!
**[19:33] Botan**
I... I'm okay!
**[19:35] Yu**
You're sure? Let me see...
**[19:36] Nagi**
I was pretty mad. And I'm sorry.
**[19:40] Nagi**
And I gotta thank you.
**[19:42] Botan**
I'm okay!
**[19:44] Nagi**
You saved Botan.
**[19:47] Nagi**
Guess I owe you one.
**[19:51] Nagi**
Time to head back.
**[19:53] Yu**
Why?!
**[19:54] Nagi**
You just left the decoys
wrapped up in your hairpins!
**[19:59] Yu**
Botan!
**[20:06] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[20:09] Botan**
Thank you... for saving me.
**[20:13] Hyoma**
I merely did the duty of the Saenome.
**[20:17] Botan**
But... what were you doing here?
**[20:21] Kagami**
Go after her! Make her feel better now!
**[20:22] Hyoma**
Kagami requested that I follow you.
**[20:27] Botan**
She heard all that?!
**[20:30] Hyoma**
I'm sorry, Nagatsuki-san.
**[20:32] Hyoma**
The way I spoke in the hallway
was conducive to misunderstanding.
**[20:39] Hyoma**
Given your reaction to the reveal
of the arranged marriage agreement,
**[20:42] Hyoma**
it was clear, even to me,
that the idea upset you.
**[20:46] Hyoma**
I could tell they've been making trouble
for you in this regard for some time.
**[20:52] Hyoma**
So I simply wanted to tell you...
not to be overly concerned on my behalf.
**[21:01] Kagami**
I hope he cleared things up with her, Suzuri.
**[21:05] Suzuri**
How can anyone be so bad
at expressing themselves?
**[21:09] Hyoma**
And my grandfather was enthusiastically
complicit in the arrangement...
**[21:13] Hyoma**
But I don't want you to think I lack
any feeling or interest toward you at all.
**[21:22] Hyoma**
Er... that's not to say I *have* interest
toward you... That would sound strange.
**[21:26] Hyoma**
Ah, why is that strange? What have I said?
**[21:32] Botan**
Hey, Hyoma-san...
**[21:35] Botan**
It sounds like...
**[21:38] Botan**
It sounds like we both have
relatives who like to meddle.
**[21:42] Botan**
It's a pain, huh?
**[21:47] Hyoma**
Indeed it is.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Suspicions