# E1 - OROKAMONOGATARI Tsukihi Undo
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**[00:04] ---**
*Observation report of Shideno-bird
known as Tsukihi Araragi, number 2761.*
**[00:12] ---**
*Written by Yotsugi Ononoki.*
**[00:15] ---**
*Which is me. That's right, me.*
**[00:17] ---**
*Yeah! Peace, peace!*
**[00:20] ---**
*An eternal apparition, the temporary guise
of the Shideno-bird in this world.*
**[00:25] ---**
*It has been roughly six months
since I started observing Tsukihi Araragi.*
**[00:30] ---**
*She moves on instinct, thrashes about
as she pleases based on the general vibe,*
**[00:35] ---**
*and is dead set
on not doing things she doesn't like.*
**[00:37] ---**
*She seems to live on a creature's instincts,
much like a creature itself.*
**[00:43] ---**
*Although she is an apparition.*
**[00:43] OS**
APPARITION
**[00:45] ---**
*Looking back, whenever something
happened in this town,*
**[00:48] ---**
*Tsukihi Araragi was involved
basically every single time.*
**[00:49] OS**
GRADUATION CEREMONY
**[00:52] OS**
MAELSTROM
(kachu)
**[00:53] ---**
*She is always at the center
of the maelstrom.*
**[00:55] OS**
IN FLAME
(kachu)
**[00:56] ---**
*The Shideno-bird is dancing
at the center of the flame.*
**[01:00] ---**
*Of course you will see distortion
if an immortal apparition is close to the nucleus.*
**[01:06] ---**
*To observe the phoenix
that is the Shideno-bird...*
**[01:09] ---**
*You can't flinch. You can't show mercy.*
**[01:11] ---**
*You can't be mesmerized.*
**[01:13] ---**
*And obviously...*
**[01:15] ---**
*it can only be observed
by an abominable,*
**[01:18] ---**
*heartless monster
that can annihilate its brilliant flight.*
**[01:25] OS**
THIS IS EPISODE 3 IN THE
OROKAMONOGATARI Series
**[01:25] OS**
Tsukihi Undo
**[01:25] OS**
THIS IS EPISODE 1 OF
OFF & MONSTER Season
**[01:28] OS**
WINNER
**[01:34] ---**
*Devilish Big Brother,
abbreviated as Devil Boy.*
**[01:36] OS**
DEVILISH BIG BROTHER
**[01:37] ---**
*He has Lolita complex, so he's kind to me.*
**[01:41] ---**
*Even today. This morning, he secretly
provided me a cup of ice cream as I worked.*
**[01:49] ---**
*He seems to have a misunderstanding.*
**[01:52] ---**
*If you ask me if I have an appetite,
I probably don't.*
**[01:56] ---**
*But pretending to be human,
such as by eating then sleeping,*
**[02:00] ---**
*is very important
for humanoid apparitions like myself.*
**[02:06] ---**
*If I don't pretend to be human...*
**[02:08] ---**
*I lose this humanoid form.*
**[02:11] ---**
*By the way, I've been living
in the Araragi residence since this past February.*
**[02:17] ---**
*At the time, Tsukihi Araragi*
**[02:19] ---**
ARARAGI RESIDENCE, SECOND FLOOR
**[02:19] ---**
*shared a room with Karen Araragi,
her sister one year her senior.*
**[02:24] ---**
*But in April, when Karen Araragi advanced
to high school, she got her own room.*
**[02:38] ---**
I just didn't feel like it, so I made a U-turn
while heading to school and came back home, and...
**[02:42] ---**
My plushie is eating ice cream!?
**[02:50] ---**
*Okay, just consider it
a visual misperception.*
**[02:52] ---**
No can do. You can't pretend
to be a doll after all that.
**[02:56] ---**
You were totally moving.
You were licking the lid of the ice cream cup.
**[03:00] ---**
You were enjoying it.
There's ice cream on your cheek.
**[03:02] ---**
The cup of ice cream is scattered here.
**[03:04] ---**
You're still holding a spoon.
**[03:06] ---**
Also, don't toss ice cream onto the bed.
**[03:09] ---**
There's cream plastered
all over the comforter now.
**[03:11] ---**
M-Maybe the doll was given a soul
after Big Brother poured so much affection into it?
**[03:17] ---**
Like Pinocchio?
**[03:20] ---**
Come on, respond to me.
**[03:21] ---**
It's totally obvious. How long are you going
to pretend to be a plushie!?
**[03:26] ---**
Hiding your identity and secretly freeloading
within a family is simply the worst!
**[03:31] ---**
*And that's what you're doing.*
**[03:34] ---**
*I can kill off someone like this
anytime I want.*
**[03:36] ---**
*However, that "anytime" is not now.
More like I'm in deep trouble.*
**[03:41] ---**
*The fact that Tsukihi Araragi
saw through my true identity*
**[03:44] ---**
*means that I was not able
to do a good job as a professional.*
**[03:48] ---**
*It was not my job
to dispose of the Shideno-bird,*
**[03:52] ---**
*but obliterating my observation target
so I can keep my failure concealed.*
**[03:56] ---**
*But that would be doing something
that's unworthy of a professional.*
**[04:20] OS**
OIL
**[04:24] ---**
Ig-Ig-Ignite!
**[04:30] ---**
Ten...
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Nine...
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Eight...
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Seven...
**[04:36] ---**
Six...
**[04:37] OS**
DOLL MEMORIAL SERVICE
**[04:37] ---**
Five...
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Four...
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Three...
**[04:46] ---**
Two...
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Hot!
**[04:58] OS**
OIL
**[04:59] OS**
SLIP
**[05:02] ---**
I-I knew it!
My plushie really did move!
**[05:06] ---**
My eyes weren't seeing things!
**[05:08] ---**
What is this? It's super scary!
**[05:11] ---**
Oh, so scary!
**[05:13] ---**
*Everyone together... Ready?*
**[05:15] ---**
Scary!
**[05:15] OS**
YOU'RE EVEN SCARIER
**[05:16] ---**
*You're even scarier.*
**[05:19] ---**
What? Then, Ononoki,
you're a magical girl of justice
**[05:22] ---**
who came to this world from
another dimension to defeat a monster,
**[05:27] ---**
so you turned your existence into just a soul
to pass through the dimensional wall
**[05:31] ---**
and you needed an object
to place your soul into,
**[05:34] ---**
and that's why you possessed my doll!?
**[05:37] ---**
A-And? What kind of monster
did you come to defeat?
**[05:42] ---**
Um, I can't really summarize it
in one sentence.
**[05:45] ---**
That's fine. If you can't say it in one sentence,
say it in a hundred sentences!
**[05:49] ---**
For the first time in my life, I, Tsukihi,
will listen to someone's story seriously!
**[05:55] ---**
It's like a subconscious malice
that involves everyone around it.
**[05:59] ---**
That monster simply existing
will draw disaster towards it.
**[06:04] ---**
Before this town gets embroiled in disaster,
I have to settle the score with it.
**[06:10] ---**
There are some bad guys out there.
**[06:13] ---**
Then, I'll head out to battle now.
**[06:16] ---**
Rest assured.
**[06:18] ---**
When my mission is complete,
**[06:19] ---**
my soul will automatically be summoned
back to my original dimension.
**[06:24] ---**
This corpse...
**[06:25] ---**
I mean, this doll will be returned
to your room where it originally was.
**[06:32] ---**
Well then, please pray for my victory.
**[06:36] ---**
For this world
and for all the people you love.
**[06:40] ---**
Unlimited...
**[06:42] ---**
Hold on just a second!
**[06:44] ---**
BEWARE OF BIRDS
**[06:47] ---**
Wh-What is it, Tsukihi?
**[06:51] ---**
After hearing a tale like that, did you think I,
Tsukihi, would just stay quiet about it?
**[06:56] ---**
If there's a horrible monster like that
in this world, there's no way I'd leave it be!
**[07:02] ---**
I'll help you defeat this monster!
**[07:08] ---**
Huh?
**[07:09] ---**
Let's fight together!
**[07:11] ---**
Huh?
**[07:12] ---**
What?
**[07:14] ---**
Negative.
**[07:15] ---**
I cannot trouble the residents of this world.
**[07:19] ---**
This is a job that I need to do on my own.
**[07:22] ---**
Don't say that you're alone!
**[07:24] ---**
This is about my own world,
so I have to protect it!
**[07:28] ---**
It must be fate
that you possessed my doll.
**[07:31] ---**
You don't have to be
so modest with me, Ononoki!
**[07:34] ---**
It's too late!
I'm already in the mood for this!
**[07:38] ---**
A MYSTERIOUS ENCOUNTER
WILL CHANGE A GIRL'S FATE
**[07:38] ---**
DOKI-DOKI
MAGIC TIME
**[07:38] ---**
Even if you say you don't want to,
I'll help you out like it was out of spite!
**[07:40] ---**
THE ACE IS A FRIENDSHIP STORY!!
**[07:43] ---**
I'll show you that this world
also has heroes of justice!
**[07:47] ---**
JUSTICE
**[07:48] ---**
And of course, I am justice itself!
**[07:54] ---**
*And then, Tsukihi Araragi
headed to school once again.*
**[07:59] ---**
*More like, I egged her on to go.*
**[08:07] ---**
*One minute later, I was in Nadeko Sengoku's
room in the Sengoku residence.*
**[08:14] ---**
I came to this world from another dimension
to defeat monsters.
**[08:18] ---**
I am a magical girl of justice.
**[08:21] ---**
And so, if you don't want to be killed off,
cooperate with me, Nadeko Sengoku.
**[08:30] ---**
OH, THAT'S RIGHT
**[08:31] ---**
SHE'S AN ASPIRING MANGA ARTIST
**[08:33] ---**
N-No, you definitely aren't
a magical girl or anything, right?
**[08:36] ---**
You're some kind of apparition,
aren't you?
**[08:39] ---**
A-Are you an oil monster
or something?
**[08:39] ---**
OIL
**[08:44] ---**
Y-You declared yourself as one of justice...
**[08:46] ---**
So do you have something
to do with Tsukihi?
**[08:50] ---**
Oh.
**[08:51] ---**
That's so like Tsukihi.
**[08:53] ---**
All right, I get it. I'll help you out.
**[08:57] ---**
I mean, it's to help Tsukihi out.
**[09:00] ---**
SHE'S CUTE, DAMN IT.
**[09:01] ---**
*Though we're both in the
"human turned into apparition" league,*
**[09:05] ---**
*for me, as I am now completely
irreversibly an apparition,*
**[09:08] ---**
*survivors such as Koyomi Araragi and
Nadeko Sengoku are people I just want to support.*
**[09:14] ---**
*Though I'll kill them when I have to.*
**[09:17] ---**
But what should I be doing?
**[09:20] ---**
I'm not a snake god anymore,
you know.
**[09:23] ---**
But there's something I can do
to help Tsukihi?
**[09:28] ---**
Besides, I hardly ever
leave the house lately.
**[09:32] ---**
If I stay outside for too long,
I might be done for from the sunlight.
**[09:40] ---**
Perhaps you should start
going to school again soon?
**[09:44] ---**
You don't need to worry.
Nobody's really concerned about you.
**[09:49] ---**
Yeah.
**[09:50] ---**
The class, too. Nowadays, it seems to be
pretty coherent now.
**[09:55] ---**
I heard from Tsukihi.
**[09:58] ---**
*Tsukihi Araragi had been
investigating about that as well?*
**[10:02] ---**
*It seems a bit difficult to investigate
internal affairs of a different school.*
**[10:07] ---**
But, you know...
**[10:09] ---**
There's something I want to do right now.
**[10:12] ---**
I think this is what I need to do right now.
**[10:17] ---**
*Did this girl grow taller?*
**[10:21] ---**
*Oh, right. A growth spurt.*
**[10:24] ---**
*Because she's alive, she grows.
I see.*
**[10:29] ---**
*If this life as a shut-in is letting Nadeko Sengoku
grow in a healthy manner instead,*
**[10:35] ---**
*then that is quite an irony in itself.*
**[10:37] ---**
*Then, there really is no need
to force herself to go to school.*
**[10:41] ---**
*It's not worth commuting
if you're making yourself feel uncomfortable.*
**[10:46] ---**
Of course, helping Tsukihi out
is one of the things I want to do.
**[10:51] ---**
So what should I do?
**[10:54] ---**
Oh, yeah. Indeed, the snake god
doesn't reside within you anymore.
**[11:00] ---**
But a different apparition
still resides within you, right?
**[11:06] ---**
Is that so?
**[11:08] ---**
*She's oblivious. That means,
Big Brother Kaiki did quite a good job.*
**[11:14] ---**
*Nothing less from a con artist.*
**[11:16] ---**
A slug.
**[11:17] ---**
Huh?
**[11:18] ---**
SLUG TOFU
**[11:19] ---**
A Slug Tofu.
**[11:21] ---**
It's the apparition Deishu Kaiki used
to exorcise the snake god from within you.
**[11:27] ---**
I'll put it to use once again.
**[11:32] ---**
Please give me the residual image
of that apparition.
**[11:35] ---**
I'll pretend that the slug is the monster,
**[11:38] ---**
and defeat it right in front
of Tsukihi Araragi's eyes.
**[11:41] ---**
That should be it as the actor.
**[11:43] ---**
G-Got it.
**[11:46] ---**
I-I see. So Mr. Kaiki...
**[11:53] ---**
Is he doing well?
**[11:57] ---**
He's doing well.
**[11:59] ---**
To this date, I have never seen that
unhealthy, unlucky man doing well.
**[12:05] ---**
YAKINIKU
**[12:06] ---**
If anything, he's likely
doing well with cash.
**[12:07] ---**
CASH
**[12:10] ---**
How will you pull it out?
**[12:12] ---**
If I recall, things like that...
**[12:14] ---**
requires something like a ritual, right?
**[12:17] ---**
Should I change into
a school-issued swimsuit, then?
**[12:20] ---**
I'll omit procedures of that nature.
**[12:23] ---**
We don't really have that much time.
**[12:25] ---**
Y-You can omit them?
**[12:26] ---**
BAKE
**[12:28] ---**
I'm different from Big Brother Oshino.
**[12:31] ---**
I'm not too particular
about the arrangements.
**[12:33] ---**
I'm down to earth.
The type who focuses only on the results.
**[12:38] ---**
That said, I do need
the minimum amount of procedures.
**[12:43] ---**
So you... Can you draw me
a quick picture here?
**[12:47] ---**
A picture?
**[12:49] ---**
You're good at drawing pictures, right?
**[12:51] ---**
So, I'd like you to draw
a picture of a slug right here.
**[12:55] ---**
SLUG TOFU!
**[12:56] ---**
A slug is all slippery,
so it'd be easy, right?
**[12:59] ---**
N-No, it's pretty hard, you know?
**[13:02] ---**
SLUG TOFU
**[13:02] ---**
It's difficult because it's all slippery.
**[13:05] ---**
Besides, why do I have to draw manga right now
with a slug as the protagonist?
**[13:10] ---**
That's just too innovative.
**[13:12] ---**
You don't have to draw the manga.
I just need the character design.
**[13:16] ---**
Character design...
**[13:19] ---**
If you can't, I can draw it myself.
**[13:21] ---**
But it's more effective if you,
the target, drew it yourself.
**[13:25] ---**
That's the procedure we'll use
to take the Slug Tofu left within your body
**[13:30] ---**
and reproduce it over on this
manga manuscript paper.
**[13:33] ---**
Kind of like how the snake god apparition
was sealed away into a paper talisman?
**[13:38] ---**
Something like that, I guess.
**[13:41] ---**
OTORI / KOI
**[13:41] ---**
The basic history concerning
that god is kind of a taboo.
**[13:42] ---**
SNAKE
**[13:47] ---**
Explaining it would be rather complicated.
**[13:49] ---**
All right.
Then, Ononoki, please wait a little bit.
**[13:54] ---**
I'll draw it right away.
**[13:58] ---**
*She's going to start with a rough sketch?*
**[14:06] ---**
You don't have to worry about the quality.
**[14:08] ---**
It's fine if you just give me a quick sketch.
**[14:13] ---**
You're using a dip pen with spoon nib and stuff,
and acting like a pretty skilled manga artist.
**[14:17] ---**
Did you apply for a publisher award
or something already?
**[14:21] ---**
I've tried submitting to a publisher before.
**[14:25] ---**
But for now, it hasn't produced any results.
**[14:27] ---**
MANGA community
**[14:28] ---**
I've also published anonymously
to an internet community, too.
**[14:29] ---**
NADEKKO WITH YOU!
**[14:32] ---**
WISH FOR SHOJO
WOMEN'S MAGAZINE
AUTHOR: GIANT PANDA LOVER
NADEKKO WITH YOU!
**[14:32] ---**
But the reception wasn't very good.
**[14:35] ---**
I see. So you own a computer.
**[14:38] ---**
Oh, I don't.
**[14:40] ---**
Nowadays, you can use game consoles
to access the internet, too.
**[14:44] ---**
But if I want to fully digitize my work,
it's quite an ordeal.
**[14:49] ---**
Well, it just means that the world
isn't that easy of a place to live in.
**[14:53] ---**
Yup, that's true.
**[14:57] ---**
*Wait, you're going to apply
screentone as well!?*
**[15:02] ---**
You know...
**[15:05] ---**
I'm very glad that this world
is not such an easy place to live in.
**[15:12] ---**
*The sweet girl who was indulged,
even candied, made that statement.*
**[15:31] ---**
*For the showdown between a magical girl
of justice and a slug monster,*
**[15:32] ---**
NAMISHIRO PARK
**[15:35] ---**
*I chose the park
that everyone is familiar with.*
**[15:38] ---**
*It's nothing special.*
**[15:39] ---**
*I just didn't know
any other suitable location.*
**[15:44] ---**
Ononoki! I'm fully ready to support you!
**[15:48] ---**
I'll protect myself,
so don't worry about me,
**[15:55] ---**
and fight as freely as you want to!
**[15:59] ---**
I WILL WORRY
**[16:01] ---**
*I want to protect myself
against you, though.*
**[16:05] ---**
*This incident happened
because of my careless mistake.*
**[16:08] ---**
*But honestly, I'm starting to feel that I don't want
to get too involved with this girl.*
**[16:14] ---**
Did you bring what I asked you to bring?
**[16:17] ---**
I did, from our kitchen!
**[16:19] ---**
We had some extra stock, so I have two.
One for me and one for you, Ononoki.
**[16:25] ---**
But, what in the world
are we going to use salt for?
**[16:29] ---**
According to my investigation, the monster
is lurking somewhere in this park.
**[16:34] ---**
But the monster will react to salt, so can you
sprinkle some on conspicuous locations?
**[16:41] ---**
I mean, it is a slug after all.
**[16:44] ---**
It will react to salt.
**[16:47] ---**
Anyway, I'll make my rounds
starting from over at the swings.
**[16:51] ---**
As for you...
**[16:53] ---**
try it out from around the sandbox.
**[16:56] ---**
Gotcha!
**[16:59] ---**
To sprinkle salt onto a sandbox...
I kind of feel like a sumo wrestler!
**[17:09] ---**
*So the reason why I sent Tsukihi Araragi
towards the sandbox is because*
**[17:13] ---**
*I had buried the slug illustration Nadeko Sengoku
drew in that sandbox during the afternoon.*
**[17:20] ---**
*We're speeding up the plot development a bit,*
**[17:22] ---**
*but I need her to quickly find
the "monster from another dimension."*
**[17:27] ---**
*Naturally, I don't intend on having an amateur
participate in defeating an apparition.*
**[17:31] ---**
*But if she witnesses a monster appear
from the sand because of the sand she sprinkled,*
**[17:36] ---**
*that alone should be enough
to "feel like she is participating."*
**[17:40] ---**
*And then I just need to blow away
the Slug Tofu before Tsukihi Araragi*
**[17:43] ---**
*does something unnecessary.*
**[17:46] ---**
*Afterwards, the soul of the magical girl of justice
will return to the alternate dimension,*
**[17:51] ---**
*and Tsukihi Araragi will be left with one
silent plushie that she already had to begin with.*
**[17:57] ---**
*This is a pretty good story
for being an impromptu one.*
**[18:05] ---**
*This is the moment when I unexpectedly
and finally realized the meaning*
**[18:10] ---**
*behind the words
Nadeko Sengoku had mentioned.*
**[18:16] ---**
*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...*
**[18:25] ---**
*It's the purpose of life, so to say.*
**[18:28] ---**
*An entitled life where
everything goes your way*
**[18:32] ---**
*would make you lose sight of
whether you're alive or simply dreaming.*
**[18:38] ---**
*No matter how fortunate your life is,*
**[18:41] ---**
*living with complaints and harboring
discontent or uneasiness*
**[18:45] ---**
*is not because you're very avaricious,*
**[18:47] ---**
*but simply because you don't have
a solid sense of your purpose in life*
**[18:50] ---**
*without such discontent or uneasiness.*
**[18:53] ---**
*That's why you seek a purpose in life.*
**[18:57] ---**
*You seek a suitable difficulty for your life.*
**[18:59] ---**
*Well, I say all that so convincingly,
but as someone who has long since died,*
**[19:05] ---**
*it's a feeling that I can't comprehend at all.*
**[19:08] ---**
*I trace over all the words, but it doesn't
strike a chord in my heart at all.*
**[19:12] ---**
*I don't even have a heart.*
**[19:14] ---**
*Though she's completely unaware,*
**[19:16] ---**
*she is an immortal monster,
an eternal phoenix.*
**[19:19] ---**
*It transfers from person to person,
takes on the person from the person,*
**[19:23] ---**
*and likely nestles up to humanity
until humanity perishes.*
**[19:27] ---**
*It's the one and only apparition
that has such timelessness.*
**[19:30] ---**
*A phoenix.*
**[19:32] ---**
*I do have a time when I lived as a human,
though I don't have any memories of it.*
**[19:40] ---**
*So I have a solid sense of what it means to die
and what it means to live.*
**[19:46] ---**
*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.*
**[19:56] ---**
*But what about the phoenix?*
**[19:59] ---**
*I don't want an eternal life.*
**[20:01] ---**
*Even if it was limited,
I want to fulfill my life as a human.*
**[20:06] ---**
*Well, that's heroic narcissism,*
**[20:10] ---**
*but how do such lines resonate
with those who have eternal life?*
**[20:16] ---**
*How brutally...
How insultingly would it resonate?*
**[20:38] ---**
SHE MIGHT SEE SURPRISING SUCCESS
AS A MANGA ARTIST. OR AS A SPECIALIST.
**[20:40] ---**
SLUG
**[20:40] ---**
GOD
**[20:41] ---**
REGRET
**[20:41] ---**
*Un...*
**[20:42] ---**
BEE
**[20:42] ---**
SLUG TOFU
**[20:42] ---**
HINDSIGHT IS ALWAYS 20/20
**[20:43] ---**
*limited...*
**[20:43] ---**
BIG BROTHER KAIKI
**[20:44] ---**
IT'S NOT OUT OF HAND
**[20:44] ---**
*Rulebook.*
**[20:45] ---**
I ONLY NEED ONE FINGER
**[20:54] ---**
Thank you. Thanks to you,
I was able to defeat the monster.
**[21:00] ---**
Ononoki! Behind you!
**[21:08] ---**
*Tsukihi Araragi's true form
is a Shideno-bird,*
**[21:11] ---**
*so bathing in the slug's flames
won't really kill her.*
**[21:15] ---**
*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.*
**[21:21] ---**
OIL
**[21:22] ---**
*On top of that, my entire body
was showered with vegetable oil.*
**[21:25] ---**
O-Ononoki!
**[21:27] ---**
*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*
**[21:42] ---**
*is scorching it with things like incense.*
**[21:47] ---**
*That's been around since old times.*
**[21:49] ---**
*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