# E2 - The White Nekomata of Kagurazaka
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6QWEZG36/the-white-nekomata-of-kagurazaka)
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Abe no Seimei?
**[00:04] ---**
Yes. A powerful onmyoji from the Heian period.
**[00:08] ---**
Our family, the Miyako
clan, bear his bloodline.
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I'll tell you all about how amazing he was—
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Nah, I'm gonna play over there.
**[00:21] ---**
Hey, Arata! Arata!
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No, Seimei!
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Seimei!
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You are Seimei!
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I know it! Your blood smells the same as him!
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No, I—
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Oh, he's up.
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Good morning.
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Good... morning...
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You collapsed at the Citizen's Plaza.
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Well, I guess it's understandable.
**[00:55] ---**
Sounds like you had a busy night.
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Hi there.
**[01:00] ---**
I'm Senda, head of the Shinjuku Ward
Nocturnal Community Relations Division.
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This is our boss.
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Nice to meet you!
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I was planning on making
introductions tomorrow, but...
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Miyako Arata-kun.
**[01:14] ---**
You've got Ears of Sand, I've heard?
***SIGN*** #2 "The White Nekomata of Kagurazaka"
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In other words,
***SIGN*** Storage #1
***SIGN*** Nocturnal Community Relations Division
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when you've never heard a language before,
but can still understand it somehow,
***SIGN*** Ears of Sand
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that's called "Ears of Sand!"
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Have you ever had it happen when you
were talking to a foreigner or something?
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No...
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So it doesn't work on human language, huh?
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You understand what the Anothers say, huh?
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That's an amazing new kid we've got.
**[03:14] ---**
Yeah.
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Um, how have you dealt with the Anothers
when you couldn't understand them?
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We've used facial pallor, mannerisms,
and circumstantial evidence.
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Like trying to figure out what
a cat or dog's thinking.
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I've never heard of anyone
in our line of work
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in other wards or anywhere in Japan
who could talk to the Anothers.
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Not in the past, either.
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Maybe it has something to do with
them calling you Abe no Seimei?
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Wonder what that means.
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My late grandfather once told me...
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Our family, the Miyako clan, bear his bloodline.
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Nobody believed him.
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Well, you can go for today.
**[04:04] ---**
Your shift's over.
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Goodnight.
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What a weird night.
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Yeah, what's with that new kid?
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Abe no Seimei, huh?
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I thought the exam would get rid of anybody
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who had relationships or experience like that.
***SIGN*** Miyako
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So?
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You've come to investigate?
**[04:30] ---**
Yes. Here's a present.
***SIGN*** April 6th
Shinjuku Ward, Kagurazaka
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If we know your connection to Abe no Seimei,
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it'll provide evidence as to whether
the Ears of Sand are real.
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According to Senda-san, anyway.
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Evidence?
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Huh? Arata, you have guests?
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Oh, Izumi.
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Co-workers?
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Thank you for taking care of Arata.
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I'm Matsuno Izumi.
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Her parents run that restaurant over there.
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This is Sakaki-senpai from work.
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And I'm Theo, his senpai. Theo's in katakana.
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Nice to meet you.
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Theo-san's the senpai?
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That's right.
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Theo got his job the same time
Section Chief Senda did.
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Huh?! He did?!
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Surprised, aren't you?
**[05:16] ---**
Well, anybody would be surprised
the first time they heard it.
***SIGN*** Circular Notice
**[05:18] ---**
Hey, you work as a government
worker on the night shift, right?
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Yeah, why?
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Is it something weird?
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All my grandfather's things are in here.
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I haven't opened it in a long time.
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When my grandparents were alive
I used to play in here a lot.
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When they died and my family
moved in, I stopped.
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Wow!
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My parents said you can take what you want.
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That's nice of them.
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Okay, I'll go check upstairs.
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I guess we should carry
out the papers, at least.
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Sure.
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What? A cat?
**[06:16] ---**
I-It stood up?!
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Arata!
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Arata! Arata!
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Arata! Arata! Arata!
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What's up?
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There's an Another down here
that really likes Miyako.
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Two tails...
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A nekomata.
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How do you know my name?
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We always used to play together!
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A white cat with blue eyes...
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Yuki?
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That's right!
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I'm so happy to see you again, Arata!
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Hey, help me up here.
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Wait, that's a huge nekomata!
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You okay, Miyako?
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Yeah.
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Arata, what are you doing?
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Taking some of the old books and
stuff in here out and reading them.
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You can't do that!
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Your ancestor told me to protect
what's in the storehouse.
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Ancestors?
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Your grandpa's grandpa's
grandpa... a long way back.
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My former owner.
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You've been here that long, Yuki?
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Yup.
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In the last century or so, you're the
only one who's been able to see me.
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I see...
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Yuki's been here... all alone...
protecting the storehouse.
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Okay, why not go with us and watch over them?
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You must be bored in here all the time, right?
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My ancestor wouldn't have wanted
you to stay in the darkness forever.
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But...
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I want to be with you.
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Is that okay?
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Arata!
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I'm so happy!
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I actually... I actually...
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I was so lonely by myself.
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I'm sorry, Yuki.
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I should've realized sooner.
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*Being alone is...*
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Arata, this place is huge!
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It's not like the storehouse at all.
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Of course.
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Hey, you.
**[09:01] ---**
Over here.
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Miyako Arata, right?
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Arata, you know him?
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Tarobo-sa...
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What happened to you? Those bruises...
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Well, some stuff happened.
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I got beat up.
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Everybody's against it,
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and my dad and her relatives
are fighting a lot.
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I don't know what'll happen now, honestly.
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But you cheered us on, didn't you?
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I really thought you made
a good couple. That's all.
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That made me pretty happy.
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So... thanks.
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I'm happy, too!
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Since I get to talk to you!
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I always wanted to!
**[10:04] ---**
Yeah. Me, too.
***SIGN*** Section Chief Director
***SIGN*** Senda
***SIGN*** Unsolved Missing Girl Cases in Tokyo
***SIGN*** May 13th
***SIGN*** Shinjuku Imperial Gardens
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The Anothers are quiet today, huh?
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Wish it were always like this.
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What's that?
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A bird?
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No, it's way too big for that.
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What's on top of it?
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A person?
***SIGN*** May 13th
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Morning.
**[10:49] ---**
Hey, morning.
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Everybody's here now.
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We have something we need
to deal with immediately.
**[10:58] ---**
On the Shibuya Ward side of
the Shinjuku Imperial Gardens,
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somebody witnessed a kisha.
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A kisha?
***SIGN*** Kisha
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This is a kisha.
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A Chinese Another. A monstrous
bird that brings disaster.
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It's got ten necks and nine heads,
so it's also called a nine-headed bird.
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We've been getting reports of
sightings for a while now, actually.
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In January, it was seen in Kyoto.
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February, Aichi. And then it kept heading east.
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Aichi in February?
**[11:27] ---**
Yes. The Izuna Incident.
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What are you talking about? Izuna?
***SIGN*** Aichi Izuna Incident Video Documentation
***SIGN*** Aichi Nocturnal Community Relations
**[11:32] ---**
First, look at this.
**[11:34] ---**
*Senpai, do we have to do this?*
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An izuna is a type of weasel Another.
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*Of course we do, it's our job.*
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Its tail is made of a metal
so supple, it's called "living iron."
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It's used in rituals.
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*Is that them?*
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*B-Blood!*
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Miyako-kun, got it?
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Izuna with their tails cut off were found
in large numbers in Aichi Prefecture.
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That's the Izuna Incident.
**[12:04] ---**
But that's not all.
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That's the one from before?
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Yeah, it was there.
***SIGN*** Shinjuku Imperial Gardens
**[12:13] ---**
Head to the gardens and look
for traces of the kisha.
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One of its necks is continually
weeping blood, after all.
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Look at all this blood.
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It's settled, then.
**[12:31] ---**
Is this kisha thing that bad?
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This blood excites Anothers.
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If a kisha shows up, assume that Another
incidents are going to more than double.
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That is bad.
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All we can do is be careful and work overtime.
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And pray it goes away as soon as possible.
**[12:49] ---**
Could we talk to it?
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I can understand its language.
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So I could tell it that it's causing
problems and ask it to leave.
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Listen, it's an Another. Not a person.
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Talking to them is like talking
to a typhoon or a volcano.
**[13:10] ---**
But...
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It's a side effect of the Ears of Sand.
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You've got the ability to
understand them, as well as guts.
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It's making them seem closer than they are.
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What will you do if they
demand your life in exchange?
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Human common sense doesn't work with them.
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You should learn more about
the scary parts of Anothers.
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Human common sense
doesn't work with them, huh?
**[13:38] ---**
We can't fly for a while.
**[13:40] ---**
Those guys are awful.
**[13:42] ---**
That's right.
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But we can't fight them, so what do we do?
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We'll be attacked by a cat or something.
**[13:50] ---**
You can't fly?
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He found us!
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A human found us!
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Run!
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At a time when we can't fly?
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I know this guy!
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He's the lowest on the totem
pole at Shinjuku City Hall!
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The lowest?
**[14:02] ---**
The lowest!
**[14:02] ---**
Listen, you guys!
**[14:04] ---**
What is it, Miyako?
**[14:06] ---**
Sakaki-san?
**[14:07] ---**
The fairies are upset
about not being able to fly.
**[14:10] ---**
We need powder for our wings.
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But some weird person on
a big bird took our powder.
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It was a pretty man with long hair.
**[14:19] ---**
No, a woman! A dark woman!
**[14:21] ---**
They had the eyes of a beast, shining gold.
***SIGN*** Storage #1
**[14:25] ---**
That's what the fairies said.
**[14:27] ---**
An Another on a kisha, huh?
**[14:29] ---**
That may be the real problem.
**[14:32] ---**
Hey, guys.
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Sorry to send you back out
after you just got back,
**[14:36] ---**
but can you go to Kanoichi Bunko?
**[14:38] ---**
To Kanoichi?
**[14:40] ---**
They say they need
Miyako-kun's ears, and fast.
**[14:43] ---**
It's a good opportunity to
make them owe us one.
**[14:46] ---**
I'll give you the paperwork.
**[14:48] ---**
Kanoichi Bunko Publishing is said to have
**[14:51] ---**
basically anything you'd want
to know about eastern magics.
**[14:54] ---**
They're an old clan of onmyoji. They're
also a family of magical toolmakers.
**[15:00] ---**
They fused British magic with Japanese onmyo.
**[15:03] ---**
They make items used to deal with Anothers.
**[15:05] ---**
Read this.
**[15:07] ---**
Thanks...
**[15:09] ---**
They seem to have been robbed,
and an Another saw the whole thing.
***SIGN*** May 13th
Chiyoda Ward, Kanoichi Bunko Publishing
**[15:14] ---**
So they want the Ears of Sand to interpret.
**[15:21] ---**
My name is Kanoichi Akane, with the Chiyoda
Ward Nocturnal Community Relations Division.
**[15:27] ---**
I appreciate you coming all the way to another
ward to assist with this private matter.
**[15:32] ---**
No, you do so much for us...
**[15:36] ---**
Miyako Arata-san, correct?
**[15:38] ---**
Oh, yes!
**[15:39] ---**
They're all talking about your
Ears of Sand in Chiyoda ward, too.
**[15:45] ---**
Thank you for coming today.
**[15:47] ---**
Y-You're welcome.
**[16:05] ---**
Who's that?
**[16:06] ---**
The protector goddess of the Kanoichi.
**[16:09] ---**
Is that... a zashiki warashi?
**[16:12] ---**
Yes, that's right.
**[16:14] ---**
I'm amazed she agreed to be your house god.
**[16:16] ---**
You're not supposed to be able
to bind a zashiki warashi.
**[16:19] ---**
She allowed us to make her the house god
in accordance with an ancient contract.
**[16:26] ---**
Contract?
**[16:27] ---**
Once every ten years, we cut her hair...
**[16:32] ---**
and offer up a dagger made with
the Kanoichi's arts as part of a barrier.
**[16:38] ---**
She wishes to seal away
something beneath it, she says.
**[16:42] ---**
And you want Miyako's help for
something that has to do with that?
**[16:47] ---**
Yes.
**[16:48] ---**
If we can't get it back,
the seal will weaken...
**[16:51] ---**
The oni... The oni is coming.
**[16:54] ---**
The bad oni.
**[16:56] ---**
Oni?
**[16:58] ---**
You can understand me, Mister?
**[17:01] ---**
Y-Yeah.
**[17:04] ---**
I'm Arata. Miyako Arata.
**[17:07] ---**
What's your name?
**[17:11] ---**
Suzuka-chan, huh?
**[17:13] ---**
That's a cute name.
**[17:16] ---**
Akane-san?
**[17:17] ---**
Yes.
**[17:18] ---**
She wants us to call her "Suzu."
**[17:23] ---**
You really can understand her, can't you?
**[17:33] ---**
Suzu-sama...
**[17:43] ---**
So Suzu-chan, who stole your hair?
**[17:48] ---**
You'll get it back?
**[17:49] ---**
Yeah.
**[17:50] ---**
You shouldn't.
**[17:53] ---**
It was stolen by a beast in human form.
**[17:56] ---**
They're a cheerful, beautiful, black creature...
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But so scary.
**[18:03] ---**
Why did they take your hair?
**[18:08] ---**
I don't know.
**[18:10] ---**
But they said it was almost over.
**[18:18] ---**
"A beast in human form," huh?
***SIGN*** Theft In Imported Goods Store
**[18:21] ---**
It reminds me of what the fairies said..
***SIGN*** Koseido
***SIGN*** What did the culprit want?
***SIGN*** Theft In Imported Goods Store
**[18:26] ---**
*A thief has broken into a Shinjuku
Imported Goods Store.*
**[18:29] ---**
*The police are considering it a burglary.*
**[18:33] ---**
*The case was...*
**[18:34] ---**
Hey, that's Koseido!
**[18:36] ---**
You've heard of it?
**[18:38] ---**
Yeah.
**[18:40] ---**
It's supposed to be an imported goods store.
**[18:42] ---**
But it also gets us the magical stuff we need.
**[18:46] ---**
Goat gallstones, mermaid scales,
burning glass...
**[18:52] ---**
Living iron...
**[18:54] ---**
Fairy wing powder...
**[18:57] ---**
Theo-san?
**[18:59] ---**
Let me think...
***SIGN*** May 14th
**[19:07] ---**
Good morning.
**[19:08] ---**
Morning.
**[19:09] ---**
Hey, morning.
**[19:12] ---**
Mornin'.
**[19:14] ---**
You look exhausted.
**[19:15] ---**
I was checking on something.
**[19:18] ---**
You okay to work?
**[19:21] ---**
I'm fine, I said! We're going to
Hakoneyama today, right?
**[19:23] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:24] ---**
There've been multiple reports of
strange fires on top of Mt. Hakoneyama.
**[19:29] ---**
Isn't that the fire department's job?
**[19:31] ---**
The fire department and police
have been out there plenty of times,
**[19:34] ---**
but found nothing.
**[19:36] ---**
So, it's our job now.
***SIGN*** May 14th
**[19:42] ---**
This is a pretty famous occult spot, right?
**[19:47] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:48] ---**
It was originally built by the Tokugawa,
and served as a military base during war.
**[19:52] ---**
There was a hospital
facility under it, they say.
**[20:00] ---**
Theo, learn anything?
**[20:02] ---**
Some kind of seal or entrance.
**[20:05] ---**
Why is this shining?
**[20:07] ---**
You idiot!
**[20:12] ---**
Why would you touch something
when you don't know what it is?
**[20:19] ---**
Yeah? I'm kinda busy...
**[20:20] ---**
*Theo, I just got a call from the police.*
**[20:23] ---**
You were right. It was mermaid scales
that were stolen from Koseido.
***SIGN*** Koseido
**[20:31] ---**
Dirt from an old grave...
**[20:34] ---**
Could it be?
**[20:39] ---**
Ow!
**[20:41] ---**
You awake?
**[20:43] ---**
Huh?
**[20:47] ---**
Where are we?
**[20:48] ---**
Probably inside Hakoneyama.
**[20:52] ---**
From the height of the ceiling,
we're pretty far down.
**[20:56] ---**
And...
**[20:57] ---**
Yes?
**[20:58] ---**
Does it not occur to you to check if
something's safe before you touch it?
**[21:04] ---**
S-Sorry...
**[21:07] ---**
Huh? It's Seimei!
**[21:09] ---**
It's been forever.
**[21:14] ---**
An Another?!
**[21:19] ---**
Good timing.
**[21:21] ---**
My present for you just finished.
**[21:25] ---**
Present?
**[21:26] ---**
What do you...
**[21:34] ---**
Good, they're moving.
**[21:38] ---**
What is that?
**[21:43] ---**
People?
**[21:44] ---**
No, those are...
**[21:46] ---**
Moving corpses. They're kyoshi!
**[21:50] ---**
They're perfect for my reunion with you, right?
**[21:54] ---**
Now, have fun, Seimei!
***SIGN*** #3 "The Trickster with Amber Eyes"