E1 - OROKAMONOGATARI Tsukihi Undo
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Observation report of Shideno-bird
known as Tsukihi Araragi, number 2761.
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Written by Yotsugi Ononoki.
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Which is me. That's right, me.
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Yeah! Peace, peace!
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An eternal apparition, the temporary guise
of the Shideno-bird in this world.
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It has been roughly six months
since I started observing Tsukihi Araragi.
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She moves on instinct, thrashes about
as she pleases based on the general vibe,
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and is dead set
on not doing things she doesn't like.
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She seems to live on a creature's instincts,
much like a creature itself.
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Although she is an apparition.
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APPARITION
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Looking back, whenever something
happened in this town,
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Tsukihi Araragi was involved
basically every single time.
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GRADUATION CEREMONY
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MAELSTROM
(kachu)
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She is always at the center
of the maelstrom.
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IN FLAME
(kachu)
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The Shideno-bird is dancing
at the center of the flame.
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Of course you will see distortion
if an immortal apparition is close to the nucleus.
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To observe the phoenix
that is the Shideno-bird...
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You can't flinch. You can't show mercy.
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You can't be mesmerized.
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And obviously...
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it can only be observed
by an abominable,
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heartless monster
that can annihilate its brilliant flight.
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THIS IS EPISODE 3 IN THE
OROKAMONOGATARI Series
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Tsukihi Undo
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THIS IS EPISODE 1 OF
OFF & MONSTER Season
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WINNER
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Devilish Big Brother,
abbreviated as Devil Boy.
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DEVILISH BIG BROTHER
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He has Lolita complex, so he's kind to me.
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Even today. This morning, he secretly
provided me a cup of ice cream as I worked.
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He seems to have a misunderstanding.
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If you ask me if I have an appetite,
I probably don't.
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But pretending to be human,
such as by eating then sleeping,
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is very important
for humanoid apparitions like myself.
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If I don't pretend to be human...
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I lose this humanoid form.
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By the way, I've been living
in the Araragi residence since this past February.
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At the time, Tsukihi Araragi
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ARARAGI RESIDENCE, SECOND FLOOR
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shared a room with Karen Araragi,
her sister one year her senior.
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But in April, when Karen Araragi advanced
to high school, she got her own room.
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I just didn't feel like it, so I made a U-turn
while heading to school and came back home, and...
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My plushie is eating ice cream!?
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Okay, just consider it
a visual misperception.
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No can do. You can't pretend
to be a doll after all that.
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You were totally moving.
You were licking the lid of the ice cream cup.
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You were enjoying it.
There's ice cream on your cheek.
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The cup of ice cream is scattered here.
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You're still holding a spoon.
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Also, don't toss ice cream onto the bed.
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There's cream plastered
all over the comforter now.
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M-Maybe the doll was given a soul
after Big Brother poured so much affection into it?
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Like Pinocchio?
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Come on, respond to me.
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It's totally obvious. How long are you going
to pretend to be a plushie!?
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Hiding your identity and secretly freeloading
within a family is simply the worst!
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And that's what you're doing.
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I can kill off someone like this
anytime I want.
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However, that "anytime" is not now.
More like I'm in deep trouble.
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The fact that Tsukihi Araragi
saw through my true identity
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means that I was not able
to do a good job as a professional.
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It was not my job
to dispose of the Shideno-bird,
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but obliterating my observation target
so I can keep my failure concealed.
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But that would be doing something
that's unworthy of a professional.
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OIL
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Ig-Ig-Ignite!
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Ten...
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Nine...
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Eight...
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Seven...
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Six...
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DOLL MEMORIAL SERVICE
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Five...
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Four...
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Three...
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Two...
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Hot!
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OIL
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SLIP
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I-I knew it!
My plushie really did move!
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My eyes weren't seeing things!
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What is this? It's super scary!
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Oh, so scary!
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Everyone together... Ready?
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Scary!
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YOU'RE EVEN SCARIER
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You're even scarier.
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What? Then, Ononoki,
you're a magical girl of justice
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who came to this world from
another dimension to defeat a monster,
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so you turned your existence into just a soul
to pass through the dimensional wall
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and you needed an object
to place your soul into,
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and that's why you possessed my doll!?
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A-And? What kind of monster
did you come to defeat?
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Um, I can't really summarize it
in one sentence.
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That's fine. If you can't say it in one sentence,
say it in a hundred sentences!
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For the first time in my life, I, Tsukihi,
will listen to someone's story seriously!
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It's like a subconscious malice
that involves everyone around it.
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That monster simply existing
will draw disaster towards it.
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Before this town gets embroiled in disaster,
I have to settle the score with it.
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There are some bad guys out there.
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Then, I'll head out to battle now.
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Rest assured.
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When my mission is complete,
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my soul will automatically be summoned
back to my original dimension.
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This corpse...
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I mean, this doll will be returned
to your room where it originally was.
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Well then, please pray for my victory.
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For this world
and for all the people you love.
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Unlimited...
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Hold on just a second!
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BEWARE OF BIRDS
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Wh-What is it, Tsukihi?
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After hearing a tale like that, did you think I,
Tsukihi, would just stay quiet about it?
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If there's a horrible monster like that
in this world, there's no way I'd leave it be!
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I'll help you defeat this monster!
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Huh?
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Let's fight together!
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Huh?
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What?
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Negative.
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I cannot trouble the residents of this world.
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This is a job that I need to do on my own.
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Don't say that you're alone!
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This is about my own world,
so I have to protect it!
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It must be fate
that you possessed my doll.
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You don't have to be
so modest with me, Ononoki!
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It's too late!
I'm already in the mood for this!
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A MYSTERIOUS ENCOUNTER
WILL CHANGE A GIRL'S FATE
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DOKI-DOKI
MAGIC TIME
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Even if you say you don't want to,
I'll help you out like it was out of spite!
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THE ACE IS A FRIENDSHIP STORY!!
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I'll show you that this world
also has heroes of justice!
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JUSTICE
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And of course, I am justice itself!
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And then, Tsukihi Araragi
headed to school once again.
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More like, I egged her on to go.
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One minute later, I was in Nadeko Sengoku's
room in the Sengoku residence.
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I came to this world from another dimension
to defeat monsters.
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I am a magical girl of justice.
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And so, if you don't want to be killed off,
cooperate with me, Nadeko Sengoku.
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OH, THAT'S RIGHT
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SHE'S AN ASPIRING MANGA ARTIST
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N-No, you definitely aren't
a magical girl or anything, right?
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You're some kind of apparition,
aren't you?
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A-Are you an oil monster
or something?
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OIL
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Y-You declared yourself as one of justice...
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So do you have something
to do with Tsukihi?
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Oh.
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That's so like Tsukihi.
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All right, I get it. I'll help you out.
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I mean, it's to help Tsukihi out.
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SHE'S CUTE, DAMN IT.
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Though we're both in the
"human turned into apparition" league,
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for me, as I am now completely
irreversibly an apparition,
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survivors such as Koyomi Araragi and
Nadeko Sengoku are people I just want to support.
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Though I'll kill them when I have to.
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But what should I be doing?
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I'm not a snake god anymore,
you know.
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But there's something I can do
to help Tsukihi?
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Besides, I hardly ever
leave the house lately.
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If I stay outside for too long,
I might be done for from the sunlight.
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Perhaps you should start
going to school again soon?
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You don't need to worry.
Nobody's really concerned about you.
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Yeah.
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The class, too. Nowadays, it seems to be
pretty coherent now.
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I heard from Tsukihi.
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Tsukihi Araragi had been
investigating about that as well?
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It seems a bit difficult to investigate
internal affairs of a different school.
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But, you know...
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There's something I want to do right now.
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I think this is what I need to do right now.
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Did this girl grow taller?
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Oh, right. A growth spurt.
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Because she's alive, she grows.
I see.
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If this life as a shut-in is letting Nadeko Sengoku
grow in a healthy manner instead,
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then that is quite an irony in itself.
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Then, there really is no need
to force herself to go to school.
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It's not worth commuting
if you're making yourself feel uncomfortable.
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Of course, helping Tsukihi out
is one of the things I want to do.
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So what should I do?
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Oh, yeah. Indeed, the snake god
doesn't reside within you anymore.
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But a different apparition
still resides within you, right?
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Is that so?
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She's oblivious. That means,
Big Brother Kaiki did quite a good job.
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Nothing less from a con artist.
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A slug.
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Huh?
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SLUG TOFU
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A Slug Tofu.
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It's the apparition Deishu Kaiki used
to exorcise the snake god from within you.
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I'll put it to use once again.
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Please give me the residual image
of that apparition.
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I'll pretend that the slug is the monster,
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and defeat it right in front
of Tsukihi Araragi's eyes.
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That should be it as the actor.
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G-Got it.
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I-I see. So Mr. Kaiki...
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Is he doing well?
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He's doing well.
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To this date, I have never seen that
unhealthy, unlucky man doing well.
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YAKINIKU
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If anything, he's likely
doing well with cash.
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CASH
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How will you pull it out?
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If I recall, things like that...
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requires something like a ritual, right?
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Should I change into
a school-issued swimsuit, then?
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I'll omit procedures of that nature.
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We don't really have that much time.
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Y-You can omit them?
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BAKE
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I'm different from Big Brother Oshino.
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I'm not too particular
about the arrangements.
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I'm down to earth.
The type who focuses only on the results.
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That said, I do need
the minimum amount of procedures.
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So you... Can you draw me
a quick picture here?
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A picture?
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You're good at drawing pictures, right?
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So, I'd like you to draw
a picture of a slug right here.
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SLUG TOFU!
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A slug is all slippery,
so it'd be easy, right?
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N-No, it's pretty hard, you know?
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SLUG TOFU
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It's difficult because it's all slippery.
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Besides, why do I have to draw manga right now
with a slug as the protagonist?
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That's just too innovative.
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You don't have to draw the manga.
I just need the character design.
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Character design...
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If you can't, I can draw it myself.
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But it's more effective if you,
the target, drew it yourself.
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That's the procedure we'll use
to take the Slug Tofu left within your body
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and reproduce it over on this
manga manuscript paper.
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Kind of like how the snake god apparition
was sealed away into a paper talisman?
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Something like that, I guess.
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OTORI / KOI
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The basic history concerning
that god is kind of a taboo.
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SNAKE
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Explaining it would be rather complicated.
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All right.
Then, Ononoki, please wait a little bit.
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I'll draw it right away.
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She's going to start with a rough sketch?
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You don't have to worry about the quality.
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It's fine if you just give me a quick sketch.
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You're using a dip pen with spoon nib and stuff,
and acting like a pretty skilled manga artist.
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Did you apply for a publisher award
or something already?
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I've tried submitting to a publisher before.
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But for now, it hasn't produced any results.
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MANGA community
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I've also published anonymously
to an internet community, too.
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NADEKKO WITH YOU!
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WISH FOR SHOJO
WOMEN'S MAGAZINE
AUTHOR: GIANT PANDA LOVER
NADEKKO WITH YOU!
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But the reception wasn't very good.
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I see. So you own a computer.
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Oh, I don't.
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Nowadays, you can use game consoles
to access the internet, too.
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But if I want to fully digitize my work,
it's quite an ordeal.
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Well, it just means that the world
isn't that easy of a place to live in.
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Yup, that's true.
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Wait, you're going to apply
screentone as well!?
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You know...
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I'm very glad that this world
is not such an easy place to live in.
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The sweet girl who was indulged,
even candied, made that statement.
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For the showdown between a magical girl
of justice and a slug monster,
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NAMISHIRO PARK
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I chose the park
that everyone is familiar with.
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It's nothing special.
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I just didn't know
any other suitable location.
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Ononoki! I'm fully ready to support you!
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I'll protect myself,
so don't worry about me,
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and fight as freely as you want to!
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I WILL WORRY
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I want to protect myself
against you, though.
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This incident happened
because of my careless mistake.
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But honestly, I'm starting to feel that I don't want
to get too involved with this girl.
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Did you bring what I asked you to bring?
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I did, from our kitchen!
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We had some extra stock, so I have two.
One for me and one for you, Ononoki.
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But, what in the world
are we going to use salt for?
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According to my investigation, the monster
is lurking somewhere in this park.
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But the monster will react to salt, so can you
sprinkle some on conspicuous locations?
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I mean, it is a slug after all.
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It will react to salt.
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Anyway, I'll make my rounds
starting from over at the swings.
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As for you...
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try it out from around the sandbox.
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Gotcha!
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To sprinkle salt onto a sandbox...
I kind of feel like a sumo wrestler!
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So the reason why I sent Tsukihi Araragi
towards the sandbox is because
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I had buried the slug illustration Nadeko Sengoku
drew in that sandbox during the afternoon.
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We're speeding up the plot development a bit,
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but I need her to quickly find
the "monster from another dimension."
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Naturally, I don't intend on having an amateur
participate in defeating an apparition.
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But if she witnesses a monster appear
from the sand because of the sand she sprinkled,
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that alone should be enough
to "feel like she is participating."
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And then I just need to blow away
the Slug Tofu before Tsukihi Araragi
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does something unnecessary.
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Afterwards, the soul of the magical girl of justice
will return to the alternate dimension,
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and Tsukihi Araragi will be left with one
silent plushie that she already had to begin with.
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This is a pretty good story
for being an impromptu one.
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This is the moment when I unexpectedly
and finally realized the meaning
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behind the words
Nadeko Sengoku had mentioned.
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I'm very glad that this world
is not such an easy place.
[18:22] ---
At the root of that statement is,
that's right...
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It's the purpose of life, so to say.
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An entitled life where
everything goes your way
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would make you lose sight of
whether you're alive or simply dreaming.
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No matter how fortunate your life is,
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living with complaints and harboring
discontent or uneasiness
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is not because you're very avaricious,
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but simply because you don't have
a solid sense of your purpose in life
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without such discontent or uneasiness.
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That's why you seek a purpose in life.
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You seek a suitable difficulty for your life.
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Well, I say all that so convincingly,
but as someone who has long since died,
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it's a feeling that I can't comprehend at all.
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I trace over all the words, but it doesn't
strike a chord in my heart at all.
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I don't even have a heart.
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Though she's completely unaware,
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she is an immortal monster,
an eternal phoenix.
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It transfers from person to person,
takes on the person from the person,
[19:23] ---
and likely nestles up to humanity
until humanity perishes.
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It's the one and only apparition
that has such timelessness.
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A phoenix.
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I do have a time when I lived as a human,
though I don't have any memories of it.
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So I have a solid sense of what it means to die
and what it means to live.
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I know that life is fleeting,
and there is nothing in death.
[19:51] ---
Devilish Big Brother and ex-Kiss-shot both know
the difference between life and death.
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But what about the phoenix?
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I don't want an eternal life.
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Even if it was limited,
I want to fulfill my life as a human.
[20:06] ---
Well, that's heroic narcissism,
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but how do such lines resonate
with those who have eternal life?
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How brutally...
How insultingly would it resonate?
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SHE MIGHT SEE SURPRISING SUCCESS
AS A MANGA ARTIST. OR AS A SPECIALIST.
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SLUG
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GOD
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REGRET
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Un...
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BEE
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SLUG TOFU
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HINDSIGHT IS ALWAYS 20/20
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limited...
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BIG BROTHER KAIKI
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IT'S NOT OUT OF HAND
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Rulebook.
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I ONLY NEED ONE FINGER
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Thank you. Thanks to you,
I was able to defeat the monster.
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Ononoki! Behind you!
[21:08] ---
Tsukihi Araragi's true form
is a Shideno-bird,
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so bathing in the slug's flames
won't really kill her.
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But it's not a good thing
for her to know her true identity.
[21:18] ---
I am a corpse,
so I'm really weak against fire.
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OIL
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On top of that, my entire body
was showered with vegetable oil.
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O-Ononoki!
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Simply put, you can interpret this
as Nadeko Sengoku wanting to add some depth,
[21:30] ---
and thus applying screentone to the slug
then engraving a fire pattern onto it.
[21:36] ---
Why is her technique
so unnecessarily skilled?
[21:39] ---
Speaking of slug and fire, a means
to exterminate it besides sprinkling salt
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is scorching it with things like incense.
[21:47] ---
That's been around since old times.
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Or perhaps the "tofu" is the key,
so you have grilled tofu or boiled tofu.
[21:53] ---
In that case, this was the worst
compatible apparition for me.
[21:58] ---
Physical attacks are meaningless,
[22:00] ---
and unleashes flames
from all over its body.
[22:03] ---
You can even say this was an apparition born
none other than defeating an apparition like me.
[22:08] ---
Thinking how the origin
was Kaiki's artificial apparition,
[22:12] ---
that indeed could be the case.
[22:15] ---
Nothing strange is going on, but these
inconveniences, this miserable condition...
[22:20] ---
Is this what it means
to get involved with Tsukihi Araragi?
[22:24] ---
But I can't just throw in the towel
right now.
[22:28] ---
My own mismanagement has to be managed
by none other than me.
[22:32] ---
If I'm facing a slug, no matter how gigantic,
salt should be effective.
[22:38] ---
Big Sister would despise
such cunning methods.
[22:42] ---
But my strength is being able to choose the best,
optimal method on the fly in times like this.
[22:46] ---
Look out, Ononoki!
[22:50] ---
Without thinking of consequences,
she went out of control as usual.
[22:51] ---
WITHOUT KNOWING THAT I AM A CORPSE
[22:51] ---
WITHOUT KNOWING THAT SHE IS IMMORTAL
[22:52] ---
AS IF IT WAS EXPECTED,
SHE THROWS OUT HER OWN LIFE
[22:54] ---
It's just like Koyomi Araragi.
[22:58] ---
Every action Tsukihi Araragi made
thinking it was for the best...
[23:01] ---
Every single one had perfectly backfired.
[23:05] ---
Rather than a bringer of misfortune,
[23:07] ---
Tsukihi Araragi herself
is like clear-air turbulence?
[23:11] ---
No, save observations for later.
[23:13] ---
It's out of hand.
[23:15] ---
I simply can't snap.
[23:18] ---
Oh well.
[23:19] ---
No way to snap out, but oh well.
[23:23] ---
I made a pragmatic conclusion.
[23:25] ---
Even in a situation like this, even if stomped
into smithereens, Tsukihi Araragi won't die.
[23:31] ---
Even if fragmented to cause a dust explosion
and there's nothing left of her, she won't die.
[23:35] ---
Because there is no death, she won't die.
[23:38] ---
She will quietly revive
from within the flames.
[23:40] ---
I didn't have to lose my observation target
due to my own mistake.
[23:45] ---
That was the least I could do
for risk management as a professional.
[23:49] ---
The Slug Tofu running out of control
will someday be dealt with
[23:53] ---
by Ms. Gaen who sensed my incineration.
[23:55] ---
As a corpse, I won't cause
any more trouble in the future.
[23:58] ---
I have fulfilled my baseline duties as a spy.
[24:02] ---
That's what I concluded
and cleanly gave up.
[24:06] ---
However, this is nothing more than
a calm conclusion, and not my own feelings.
[24:11] ---
My goodness, if I could laugh,
it would be a sneer.
[24:15] ---
Even a corpse that has died
long in the past doesn't want to die,
[24:18] ---
and can feel scared in a way.
[24:35] ---
This isn't like you, Ononoki.
[24:40] ---
GOD
[24:41] ---
GOD OF THIS TOWN
[24:41] ---
NEW GOD
[24:44] ---
Big Sister Mayoi.
[24:46] ---
Challenge the three-dimensional version
all you want, but it's not the main body.
[24:50] ---
What you need to go after...
[24:52] ---
is a flat surface.
[24:55] ---
You're right. Even if it materializes and gigantifies,
it all started with a piece of paper.
[25:01] ---
The fabricated setting that a magical girl
of justice was defeating a monster...
[25:06] ---
I was actually the one trapped in it.
[25:11] ---
It seems you wanted to conduct
everything in secret.
[25:15] ---
But too bad.
[25:17] ---
I am a god residing over this town.
[25:20] ---
I am always watching over it,
from one corner to the other.
[25:24] ---
I also thought I shouldn't get in the way
of a professional's work,
[25:29] ---
but I couldn't overlook the crisis befalling
this town, and the crisis of my friend.
[25:34] ---
And so, even just a little bit,
I came to be of assistance.
[25:38] ---
In other words...
[25:40] ---
I'm sorry. I got involved.
[25:47] ---
Big Sister Mayoi promised that she won't
talk about this incident to Devil Boy,
[25:53] ---
and headed back to the mountain.
[25:55] ---
She also packed the folded up
manuscript paper into her backpack.
[26:00] ---
As a snail god, I guess a slug
is something like kin.
[26:05] ---
Since I've had nothing but failures
throughout this whole thing,
[26:08] ---
I shouldn't nitpick this and that
because of a personal grudge.
[26:12] ---
I analyzed it all later,
but a simple failure on my part
[26:16] ---
would never have evolved
into a situation of this caliber.
[26:19] ---
WATCH OUT FOR FIRES
YAKITORI
[26:19] ---
The more I tried to follow up,
the worse the situation got.
[26:24] ---
And when I think about it,
[26:24] ---
WATCH OUT FOR FIRES
FIRE DEPARTMENT
[26:25] ---
the instant Tsukihi Araragi's consciousness
was trampled and wiped out,
[26:29] ---
a helper appeared as if out of opportunism
and the situation was simply resolved.
[26:33] ---
For a specialist, this incident alone is enough
for the Shideno-bird to be designated as harmful,
[26:33] ---
CAUTION
WATCH YOUR HEAD
WATCH YOUR STEP
[26:33] ---
DANGER
WARNING
[26:39] ---
WATCH AHEAD
ENTERING IS PROHIBITED
DO NOT PROCEED
[26:40] ---
and it wouldn't be a surprise
[26:42] ---
for a squad for suppression
and eradication to kick into motion.
[26:45] ---
It'd be the first one since Kiss-shot Acerola-orion
Heart-under-blade in her prime.
[26:48] ---
ARREST
[26:50] ---
GREAT MANHUNT TARGET
(OO-TORIMONO)
[26:50] ---
A great manhunt target
and a phoenix type.
[26:51] ---
PHOENIX TYPE
(OOTORI-MONO)
[26:53] ---
However, I didn't report to Ms. Gaen
as such because of a logical reason.
[27:00] ---
The new findings I had from this case
concerning the Shideno-bird
[27:04] ---
became the reason I thought otherwise
to the much-awaited defeat of the Shideno-bird.
[27:12] ---
For now, I will take Tsukihi Araragi back
to the Araragi household while she's asleep.
[27:17] ---
And as for me, I took all night to finish embalming
the burns all over my body before I returned.
[27:23] ---
As I pretended to be a doll in the target's room
as if nothing had happened,
[27:27] ---
it seemed that on the next day, Tsukihi Araragi
had forgotten everything about yesterday.
[27:33] ---
As she behaved as she always had,
treating me like a life-sized plushie,
[27:38] ---
I was the one who got confused, thinking that
everything from last night was just a dream.
[27:45] ---
However, the reason
for her amnesia was simple.
[27:50] ---
Psychological stress.
What you would call trauma.
[27:54] ---
Events of the past become aftereffects, engraving
themselves deep into the personality's core.
[27:59] ---
It makes living life difficult.
[28:02] ---
If that's the case, then,
that wound must be healed.
[28:07] ---
That's right. The Shideno-bird.
An eternal apparition.
[28:10] ---
Phoenix, of all things, can completely
heal wounds of the heart.
[28:17] ---
"Wounds" that would be inconvenient
to have to keep living
[28:18] ---
MEMORIES (WOUNDS)
[28:19] ---
are eradicated from the brain
without a trace.
[28:23] ---
Such an outlier self-purification action
is functioning overwhelmingly,
[28:27] ---
and Tsukihi Araragi lives today
with vigor and spirit.
[28:32] ---
Vigor and spirit.
[28:33] ---
That's exactly why Tsukihi Araragi, no matter
how much time passes, lacks the ability to learn
[28:37] ---
and is exhaustively repeating.
[28:40] ---
No matter how much time passes,
she barely manages to fail,
[28:43] ---
and those failures are deposed
only to those around her.
[28:48] ---
They are deposed, they are accumulated...
[28:51] ---
And that becomes the new kindling.
[28:54] ---
A blazing phoenix.
[28:56] ---
And the core of the flame in question
wipes her slate clean of the series of failures,
[29:01] ---
and flies off from the burnt field
without fouling the area around her,
[29:05] ---
and lives an eternal life from the beginning.
[29:09] ---
Terrifying.
[29:10] ---
It's terrifying, but also intriguing.
[29:12] ---
It's intriguing but also significant.
[29:15] ---
There is enough academic merit
[29:17] ---
to give meaning to continue
behavioral observation for a while longer.
[29:22] ---
Incidentally, she forgot
all about my failures as well.
[29:26] ---
I'll accept that as a stroke of luck.
[29:29] ---
So I decided to hold off
from reporting this case to my superiors.
[29:35] ---
Finally, its inevitable life cycle
has come into the light, if only a little bit.
[29:41] ---
I shall continue my probational observation
of the national treasure.
[29:49] ---
And so, to ensure that I do not make
the same blunder again in the future,
[29:54] ---
I decided to consume my stock of ice cream
that the lolicon gave me sooner than later.
[30:05] ---
I just didn't feel like it, so I made a U-turn
while heading to school and came back home, and...
[30:09] ---
My plushie is eating ice cream!?
[30:13] ---
The magical girl of justice, part two.
[30:18] ---
Quite lacking the ability to learn.
[30:20] ---
Exhaustively repeating.
[30:23] ---
It's fine. Next time, I won't fail,
even in death.
[30:30] ---
UNHAPPY?
A troubled human child
[30:32] ---
UNLUCKY?
For the inhumane
[30:33] ---
BE HAPPY!
Aim timelessly
[30:35] ---
Because you're alive
[30:37] ---
A past that you looked away from too
[30:38] ---
A boring future too
[30:40] ---
Counseling
[30:41] ---
Oh man
[30:42] ---
All the times and places
[30:43] ---
Peace, peace
[30:43] ---
UNHAPPY?
[30:45] ---
UNLUCKY?
[30:47] ---
BE HAPPY!
[30:48] ---
UNDEAD
[30:56] ---
Hey, why
[30:58] ---
Do I somehow feel like I'm fighting?
[31:01] ---
I can't touch and don't want to touch
[31:02] ---
Myself, myself, myself, and myself from the past
[31:04] ---
I've been dead for a long time now
[31:05] ---
I fight with a transparent ghost
[31:07] ---
Deep in a childish and painful memory
[31:10] ---
Disappointed? It's gone
[31:12] ---
Oh? You like that better? That's ironic
[31:13] ---
Am I, as I am now, what's transparent?
[31:17] ---
Nonsense
[31:17] ---
A label that doesn't disappear
[31:18] ---
Yes! It's basically a complex
[31:20] ---
You seem to be possessed
[31:22] ---
The old me
[31:24] ---
That's wrapped up and
[31:26] ---
Won't leave
[31:29] ---
UNDEAD
[31:29] ---
I'm not dead yet
[31:31] ---
A chain of you and you
[31:33] ---
To be alive is to keep changing
[31:37] ---
Don't be satisfied
[31:38] ---
With unhappiness
[31:40] ---
You're a coward if you don't try to be happy
[31:44] ---
This world and this world are
[31:45] ---
A strange, strange fantasy
[31:47] ---
Will a demon appear next or will a snake?
[31:50] ---
The story finally begins after meeting
[31:53] ---
Is it a human or monster?
[31:55] ---
Returning to the subject at hand
[31:56] ---
Peace, peace
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