# OVA3 - The Blind Alley, The Boy, and I
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Wait!
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You're here, too?
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Who are you?
***SIGN*** #13 "The Blind Alley, The Boy, and I"
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Okay, let's drink and ward
off the summer heat!
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Cheers!
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Cheers!
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Cheers.
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Good work today.
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Good work.
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Thanks...
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You look down, Miyako-kun.
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Could it be related to the fact
that you've smelled
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like a wild animal all day?
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You can tell?
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Of course it's related!
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I had to give up on the cold
shiruko I asked you for!
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Cold shiruko?
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Well, you see...
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I keep ending up in the same place.
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How can I get lost for an hour
in my own neighborhood?
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Huh?
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I don't remember a restaurant like this here...
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Come in, kid.
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Have a drink.
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We know all about you.
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You're famous around Kagurazaka.
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You're Seimei's descendant, right?
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A friend of my grandfather's
grandfather lived in the west,
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and he helped him out.
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*First that blind alley and now this.*
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*Well, they're definitely not human.*
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If one of us has been helped,
we all owe a debt.
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A debt we'd like to repay to his
grandson, or great grandson!
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I see.
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You're rambling on about
debts and grandsons,
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but this is what you're really after, right?
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We've always wanted to try it!
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You want it that bad?
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Yes!
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Bark!
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You're foxes?
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So, you gave them the cold
shiruko and they let you go?
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Those foxes will pay for this!
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What is this?
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An anti-fox spray that
creates a smell foxes hate.
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If I'd sprayed this on you earlier,
my cold shiruko...
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You really love the stuff, huh?
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The stuff from Kanoyoshi is special.
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The way it smells, the way
it feels on the tongue...
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Another beer!
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Coming right up!
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Foxes, huh?
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I remember having a run-in with some
when I was about your age, Miyako-kun.
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You had problems with foxes, Senda-san?
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I think they were servants
of Oinari-san, so yes.
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They really don't care about
our problems in the slightest,
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so be careful.
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What did they do to you?
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You want to hear?
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I do!
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So do I!
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What to do?
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With what? You want the stuffed chicken wings?
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Not that.
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Why not? They may learn something.
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Well...
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It was my third year of college,
so about 15 years ago?
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I'd gone back home to the
countryside because it was Obon.
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My friend worked at a local shrine,
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and I was told to help with the
preparations for the summer festival.
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Hey, you're one of the Sendas.
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You're back.
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Here to help with the summer festival?
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Yes. I can't believe they sent me
here as soon as I got back.
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We could use a hand, though. Help us out.
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It's been a long time. But this
place hasn't changed at all.
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It's pretty busy.
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What?
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Why is no one here?
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I can't hear the cicadas, either.
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Guess I'll head to the shrine office.
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Hello?
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Akira? I'm here!
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You can't bring me here and then be a no-show.
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Now what do I do?
***SIGN*** Akira
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No signal?
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Something's not right here.
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*I have a bad feeling about this...*
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*I should probably get outta here.*
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*I just went down these stairs...*
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Ah, jeez.
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A fox or a tanuki?
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Something inhuman, either way.
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The phone still doesn't work...
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A person?
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Um, are you also...
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Why are you running?
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Wait!
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Who are you?
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Are you trapped here, too?
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You're cute.
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I'm a guy!
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Himeduka Theo!
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Theo, in katakana!
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Mistake me for a girl again
and I'll kick your ass!
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You already kicked me...
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Himeduka Theo?
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Himeduka Theo-kun, huh?
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I'm sorry. I thought you were a foreign girl.
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I'm not a girl.
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But I'm half-British, half-Japanese.
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That's why your Japanese is so good?
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Why'd you run if you can speak it, though?
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I didn't really run...
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Who are you?
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Senda. Senda Reiji.
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22 years old. In college.
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You one of them?
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"Them"?
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I mean, look at what you've got with you.
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What I have with me?
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Wait, you don't know?
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Then are you in trouble, too?
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You can't leave.
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Yeah...
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I think it's the work of something inhuman...
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You can tell, too?
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It's just a feeling...
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I can't believe this is happening near
my house, and at a friend's shrine, too.
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A friend? You mean Akira?
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Huh? You know him?
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Yeah. We met online.
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I'm interested in Japanese
culture, particularly shrines.
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I met him on a forum for that stuff,
and he told me he lived at a shrine,
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and invited me over for summer break.
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And when I got here...
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This is what you found, huh?
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So, we're both stuck.
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To be honest, I don't want to say
this to a person I've just met, but...
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This is a really unusual situation,
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so I think you'll believe at least
part of what I'm about to say.
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There's something strange behind you.
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Strange?
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You mean a ghost or something?
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No.
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A fox. Probably a servant of a god?
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A fox?
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Then the reason you ran...
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A person chasing me with
something like that attached?
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Of course I ran.
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It's creepy.
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Ever since you got close, I've been
able to see it really clearly.
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Normally this never happens.
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You and I may be very compatible, then.
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By the way, what's the fox doing?
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It moved.
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What? It looks like it's pointing a finger.
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It's got fingers? Even though it's a fox?
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Yeah.
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It's pointing that way.
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Was there a forest over there?
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I've got a bad feeling...
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Where are you going?
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That way. I don't have a choice, do we?
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The thing behind me locked us here
because it wanted us to do something, right?
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I'd appreciate it if you came with me.
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I can't see it, so I'd like
to know what it's saying.
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You're strange.
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Normally you wouldn't believe that stuff
I said about foxes, or seeing strange things.
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My family's got a history with that stuff.
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Family?
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You told me because you
thought I'd believe you, right?
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I see. Let's go.
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I used to play at the shrine all the time...
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But I don't remember this path.
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Listen...
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What you said earlier... What did you
mean by we're compatible?
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Oh, that's also something I shouldn't
say to a person I've just met.
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But I'm kind of a catalyst?
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Catalyst?
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It's in my family's blood, I guess.
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I'm an amplifier for powers...
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When someone's compatible
with me, it gets easier to see
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things they shouldn't be able to see.
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It gave me a rough time when I was little.
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"When he gets close, you can see ghosts."
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"The Rei in Reiji is the Rei
in reinousha, or medium."
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Even though I can't see a thing...
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So that's why, huh?
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My senses have been really sharp
for these past few minutes.
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I feel it more than I usually do.
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Feel?
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Yeah. A dangerous presence.
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Is this the spot?
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Probably.
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Was something buried here?
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Oh no. Something really bad is buried here.
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Is it that bad?
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You really don't feel anything?
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Let's dig it up, then.
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We've come this far. It's not like
we can do anything else at this point.
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It smiled. Looks like digging
it up is the right answer.
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Let's do it, then.
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What is this?
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It's really bad news.
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It looks like steps in
the ritual were skipped,
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or maybe it was done by a beginner.
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You know what it is?
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Yeah. My family has a history
with this stuff, too.
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So, what is this?
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Some kind of ritual tool.
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Ritual tool?
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Something that brings disaster
to a place or a person, using a curse.
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Probably a Kodoku Pot.
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You throw centipedes, snakes, and scorpions
into a pot and make them eat each other.
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The result is a powerful poison curse.
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Just touching the Kodoku's
poison will end any life.
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This probably has something to do with
the surrounding trees and grass being dead.
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No wonder they don't like it.
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From the perspective of the local god,
it'd be like having a bomb in your house.
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What's something like that doing here?
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Maybe they couldn't
get rid of it, so they threw it away?
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It's not a pet turtle.
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It's a pot, not a turtle, yeah.
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Your Japanese really is good.
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I'm half-Japanese.
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But what do we do with it?
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Let's purify it.
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I guess it's the only way.
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That fox behind me?
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I think it's a servant of the local god.
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It probably wants us to get rid of this.
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Agreed.
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It would be better to ask a pro, like Akira.
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But we can't talk to him
while we're stuck in here.
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Yeah.
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We'll have to do it ourselves, then.
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You're really calm.
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Who was it who dug this up first?
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So, where do we start?
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Well... with water, I suppose.
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Water?
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Since we don't know who laid the curse or why,
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we'll have to weaken the poison with water.
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Water it down?
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Yes. Holy water would be ideal, but...
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Holy water?
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I think it's a little better.
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It's pointing again.
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That way, it says.
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That's where the waterfall is.
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I get it. Throw it under the waterfall...
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And it will be purified.
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Is it okay to grab this, though?
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I think we should be able to now.
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Okay, let's carry it.
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This is the perfect place
to purify it, I think.
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Of course, a proper exorcism
will need to be done later.
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Okay.
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What? Is it saying something again?
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I think it said we can go.
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Good.
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Sheesh. They're so selfish.
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All that trouble, and now
they're kicking us out.
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That's just what Anothers are like.
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Anothers?
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Oh, Anothers are....
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Reiji-kun!
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If that poison touches you, you're dead, huh?
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Well, that's not good.
**[21:07] (Flashback) ---**
This spellthread was woven
by the Witch of the West.
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Normally it can only ward off demons,
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but with your abilities as an amplifier,
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it can defeat a Kodoku.
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Sheesh. This was one heck of a day.
**[21:27] (Flashback) ---**
That's the first time anybody's
called me "Reiji-kun".
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Would you have preferred Senda-kun?
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Thanks for saving me, Theo-kun.
**[21:40] (Flashback) ---**
You're welcome.
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And that's how we made it
out of our own blind alley.
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Well, it was hard to purify that waterfall,
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but I spent the rest of summer
vacation with Theo-kun.
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He followed me back to Tokyo,
and we ended up working together.
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And that's how we got where we are today.
**[22:23] ---**
Um... So the two of you have
always been amazing, huh?
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Right?
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I can't believe you dug up a
Kodoku Pot, though.
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They're so dangerous.
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If I hadn't, we might still be stuck there.
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That fox selfishly used us to serve his god.
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We were basically made to disarm
a bomb without any protective suits.
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So, don't let them take
my cold shiruko next time.
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I have to go get it again?
**[23:01] ---**
Of course.
**[23:02] ---**
Thank you for the meal!
**[23:04] ---**
Okay, see you all Monday.
**[23:06] ---**
Night!
**[23:08] ---**
Okay, let's go home...
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Or so I thought.
**[23:13] ---**
But aren't you hungry?
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After all you ate?
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I forgot to get ramen at the end.
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You always have so much energy.
**[23:21] ---**
Yeah?
**[23:22] ---**
You're coming to my family's
inn this year, right?
**[23:25] ---**
Of course.
**[23:27] ---**
Thanks to you, my research...
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Oh, I know! Let's get that good tonkotsu ramen.
**[23:33] ---**
We just had ramen for lunch!
**[23:35] ---**
Maybe soba...
**[23:36] ---**
How about fox udon?
**[23:38] ---**
Foxes? Sounds great.