E3 - Horns, Bullying, and a Hair Ornament

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[00:05] Uname; narration
    When I lost my parents, my grandmother
    who lived in the countryside took me in.
[00:11] Uname; narration
    The bag I clutched held
    everything I had in the world.
[00:19] Uname; narration
    My grandmother, Tae, hugged me.
[00:23] Uname; narration
    Ever since that moment,
    I've been my grandma's girl.
[00:28] Uname; narration
    My life with my grandmother
    wasn't full of luxury,
[00:32] Uname; narration
    but those were peaceful, gentle days.
[00:36] Uname; narration
    However...
[00:39] Uname; narration
    My clothes were all either
    made by my grandmother
[00:41] Uname; narration
    or bought on sale at a steep discount,
[00:44] Uname; narration
    so the other students in
    my class made fun of me.
[00:47] (Flashback) girl
    You always wear the same clothes.
[00:51] (Flashback) boy
    Have you ever washed them?
[00:57] (Flashback) teacher
    Everyone, make sure to bring a dust rag
    on the day of our school-wide cleaning!
[01:07] (Flashback) Tae
    I've sewn plenty of them, so share
    some with the other children, too.
[01:15] (Flashback) boy A
    Oh, I forgot.
[01:19] (Flashback) boy A
    Can someone lend me a dust rag?
[01:22] (Flashback) Uname
    U-Um...
[01:25] (Flashback) Uname
    I have extra. You can use one.
[01:28] (Flashback) boy A
    Uh, okay...
[01:32] (Flashback) girl A
    Seriously? That's the same material as
    the clothes you're wearing right now.
[01:37] (Flashback) girl A
    You've been wearing rags this whole time.
[01:42] (Flashback) boy A
    It smells weird, too.
[01:46] (Flashback) boy A
    Pass! Pass!
[01:52] (Flashback) Uname
    Don't!
[01:54] (Flashback) boy B
    You're right! It reeks of old people smell.
[01:58] (Flashback) Uname
    Give it back!
[01:59] (Flashback) girl B
    Stop it. I feel bad for her.
[02:10] (Flashback) Uname
    Give it back!
SIGN    Meeting Room
[02:12] (Flashback) Tae
    Manami got in a fight?
[02:16] (Flashback) teacher
    The other child's parents are very angry.
[02:20] (Flashback) teacher
    Uname-san, could you apologize as soon
    as possible to calm the situation?
[02:25] (Flashback) Tae
    But Manami wouldn't be violent
    without a good reason.
[02:29] (Flashback) Tae
    There must be some misundersta—
[02:30] (Flashback) teacher
    Are you saying there's a problem
    with the way I manage my class?
[02:37] (Flashback) Tae
    But...
[02:40] (Flashback) teacher
    Manami-san being such a troublemaker
[02:42] (Flashback) teacher
    suggests that the problem lies
    squarely at home. Don't you think?
SIGN    Mysterious Disappearances
SIGN    Mysterious Disappearances
SIGN    KISARAGI
SIGN    Horns, Bullying, and a Hair Ornament
SIGN    Horns, Bullying, and a Hair Ornament
[04:27] Adashino
    Hitting the jackpot on your
    first day of infiltration...
[04:30] Adashino
    I'd expect no less of you, Sumireko-san.
[04:32] Sumireko
    I didn't ask for your opinion.
    What happened to my clothes?
[04:36] Adashino
    I sent them to be cleaned, along
    with your drool-covered uniform.
[04:41] Adashino
    More importantly, what do you think?
[04:43] Adashino
    Were you able to determine anything
    after seeing the dribblers in person?
[04:47] Sumireko
    Only that whoever diagnosed
    that as a disease has to be blind.
[04:52] Sumireko
    It's something else. Something different.
[04:54] Adashino
    The three who collapsed are unhurt, right?
[04:57] Sumireko
    When the teachers took them outside,
    all three regained consciousness.
[05:02] Adashino
    Good. Very good.
    That can't be explained by nature.
[05:07] Sumireko
    You're certainly in a good mood.
[05:09] Adashino
    Well, of course I am.
[05:12] Adashino
    At last, I've found another Curiosity.
[05:15] Adashino
    It won't get away.
[05:19] Adashino
    You saw Markers appear
    when they collapsed, right?
[05:22] Oto
    Yes.
[05:23] Oto
    But I couldn't do anything.
[05:27] Adashino
    It's all right, Oto. Your friends
    collapsed right in front of you.
[05:31] Adashino
    As long as you're okay,
    that's all that matters to me.
[05:34] Oto
    Ren-nii...
[05:37] Sumireko
    I wouldn't mind if you were
    a little worried for me, too.
[05:41] Adashino
    Of course I am.
[05:42] Adashino
    Oto comes first, though.
[05:44] Sumireko
    I'm honored to hear it.
[05:48] Adashino
    I think we can safely say that a
    Curiosity is present at that school.
[05:52] Adashino
    The next step is to capture it.
[05:55] Sumireko
    Capture it?
[05:58] Adashino
    A philosopher of the Meiji Era, Inoue Enryo,
[06:00] [SONG] text
     Inoue Enryo
[06:01] Adashino
    wrote in his Lectures on Youkai
[06:02] [SONG] text
     Lectures on Youkai
SIGN    Youkai
SIGN    Youkai
[06:03] Adashino
    that youkai are divided into
    "true mysteries" and "false mysteries."
SIGN    True
    Mysteries
SIGN    True
    Mysteries
SIGN    False
    Mysteries
SIGN    False
    Mysteries
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    Mysteries
SIGN    False
    Mysteries
[06:07] Adashino
    False mysteries are fictions born of
    things like fear or misunderstanding.
SIGN    False
    Mysteries
SIGN    False
    Mysteries
SIGN    True
    Mysteries
SIGN    True
    Mysteries
[06:11] Adashino
    In contrast, true mysteries are
    indicative of real anomalous phenomena.
SIGN    True
    Mysteries
SIGN    True
    Mysteries
[06:17] Adashino
    True mysteries are further divided into
    "genuine mysteries" and "reputed mysteries."
SIGN    Genuine
    Mysteries
SIGN    Genuine
    Mysteries
SIGN    Reputed
    Mysteries
SIGN    Reputed
    Mysteries
[06:21] Adashino
    Anomalous phenomena that can be verified
    in some way are called reputed mysteries.
[06:26] Sumireko
    And truly anomalous phenomena that science
    can't explain are genuine mysteries.
[06:32] Sumireko
    But Enryo's definition of genuine mysteries
    applies to all laws of nature.
[06:36] Sumireko
    In a way, it's the exact
    opposite of Curiosities.
SIGN    Wood
SIGN    Fire
SIGN    Earth
SIGN    Metal
SIGN    Water
[06:40] Adashino
    It's just the sort of romantic interpretation
    a philosopher would make, isn't it?
[06:44] Adashino
    But unfortunately, I'm not Enryo.
SIGN    Genuine Mysteries
SIGN    Genuine Mysteries
[06:47] Adashino
    My definition of genuine
    mysteries is more literal.
[06:50] Adashino
    They are genuine Curiosities.
SIGN    Genuine Curiosities
SIGN    Genuine Curiosities
[06:52] Sumireko
    I see.
[06:53] Adashino
    Genuine mysteries are very rare,
    so I have an idea of what it could be.
[06:58] Sumireko
    You do? In that case, my girls' school
    infiltration mission has come to an end.
[07:04] Adashino
    What are you talking about?
[07:06] Sumireko
    Huh?
[07:08] Adashino
    I'll be needing you to go
    to school tomorrow, too.
[07:12] Sumireko
    What?!
[07:12] Adashino
    Oto, you want to save your friends, don't you?
[07:16] Oto
    Yes.
[07:17] Adashino
    Then please leave everything to me.
[07:24] student
    Good day to you, Sensei!
[07:27] Uname
    Good day to you!
[07:28] Uname
    Go straight home, all right?
SIGN    In Use by the
    Apartment Wife
SIGN    Wannabe
SIGN    Caterpillar
    Brows
[07:34] Sumireko
    This is inhumane! I don't wanna
    eat lunch in the bathroom anymore!
[07:38] Sumireko
    So why have I been shut in
    a cubicle again? Damn it!
[07:44] Uname
    Wait there! I'll get the door open!
[07:47] Uname
    Flower spikes on the top, too? How awful!
[07:51] Uname
    It's all right! I'll get you out of there!
[07:56] Uname
    Wakazukuri-san?
[07:59] Sumireko
    Uname-sensei...
[08:04] Uname
    You're all right now.
[08:06] Sumireko
    Thank you.
[08:08] Uname
    Wakazukuri-san, I really do think you're...
[08:11] Sumireko
    I wanted to believe that I wasn't.
[08:14] Sumireko
    I thought if I said, "I'm not being bullied,"
[08:17] Sumireko
    and didn't acknowledge it,
    then it wouldn't really be bullying.
[08:21] Sumireko
    And I figured that telling you
    wouldn't change anything anyway.
[08:29] Uname
    This won't work after all.
[08:31] Uname
    Targeting the perpetrators
    isn't enough to end it.
[08:33] Uname
    I need to change my approach.
[08:36] Uname
    The victims need time away from school, too.
[08:39] Uname
    I'll give you the excuse you need to rest.
[08:45] Uname
    The shadow shrank?
[08:53] Adashino
    Good day to you. I'm delighted
    to make your acquaintance.
[08:59] Adashino
    From now on, licking the floor is forbidden.
[09:02] Uname
    O-Okay...
[09:03] Uname
    Huh? Why is there a boy here?
[09:05] Uname
    And who is that child?
[09:08] Uname
    What is this? Who are you two?
[09:11] Adashino
    I'm simply the guardian
    of one of the students here.
[09:15] Adashino
    And she's a curvy woman with
    fluffy caterpillar eyebrows.
[09:20] Sumireko
    Who are you calling curvy with
    fluffy caterpillar eyebrows?
[09:24] Sumireko
    Look the other way!
    Why are you staring like that?
[09:27] Uname
    Wakazukuri-san?
[09:29] Uname
    Were you that child earlier, too?
[09:33] Sumireko
    More importantly... Uname-sensei,
    you're the one behind the dribblers?
[09:39] Adashino
    Ushi-oni.
[09:39] [SONG] text
     Ushi-oni
[09:41] Adashino
    Most of the time in folklore,
[09:43] Adashino
    it's depicted as a cruel monster
    that likes to kill and eat humans.
[09:50] Adashino
    The bull-headed spider from the picture scroll
    Hyakkai Zukan is the most well-known,
[09:55] Adashino
    but it's unusual because its
    appearance and personality
[09:58] Adashino
    vary greatly depending on the folk tale.
[10:01] Adashino
    When an ushi-oni licks a person's shadow,
    they suddenly begin drooling,
[10:05] Adashino
    their body grows hot, as if it's burning,
    and eventually, they die.
[10:09] Adashino
    That's what the folk tales say.
[10:11] Adashino
    Don't you think it sounds
    a lot like the dribblers?
[10:14] Adashino
    And when I asked Tama-chan,
    the queen of gossip here...
[10:18] (Flashback) Tamao
    The dribblers?
[10:21] (Flashback) Tamao
    I think a lot of them were students who
    had gotten involved in some sort of fight.
[10:26] Adashino
    Given these points, I built
    a very rough hypothesis.
[10:30] Adashino
    Namely...
[10:31] Adashino
    that someone was borrowing the power
    of the ushi-oni to nip bullying in the bud.
[10:36] Adashino
    Which is why we set a trap
    with a bullying victim as the bait.
[10:43] Uname
    Huh? What are you doing?
[10:47] Uname
    Don't...
[10:48] Uname
    Don't!
[10:52] Uname
    Stop it!
[10:54] Uname
    Stop! Please don't smell me!
[10:57] Adashino
    I see. So this is the cause.
[11:03] Adashino
    That hair ornament.
    If you'll just give that up,
[11:07] Adashino
    everything will be resolv—
[11:12] Sumireko
    He's weaker than he seems!
[11:15] Uname
    Why would you get in your teacher's way?
[11:17] Sumireko
    Please calm down.
[11:19] Sumireko
    You want to put an end to bullying, right?
[11:23] Sumireko
    But what's the point if you have
    to hurt your students to do it?
[11:30] Sumireko
    Please, Sensei.
[11:32] Sumireko
    Please give us the ornament.
[11:34] Sumireko
    Why not work with your students over time,
    and put an end to bullying for real?
[11:41] Uname
    Wakazukuri-san...
[11:46] Uname
    All right.
[11:47] Uname
    I just need to give you this hair ornament?
[11:51] Uname
    It's just as you say.
[11:54] Uname
    But why do people have to say that getting
    rid of bullying isn't a simple thing?
[12:00] Uname
    The children being bullied right now
    can't afford to sit around and wait.
[12:05] Adashino
    No! Sumireko-san!
[12:22] Adashino
    Sumireko-san!
[12:30] Adashino
    Stones drift. Leaves sink.
[12:34] Adashino
    Horses moo. Cows neigh.
[12:38] Adashino
    Stones drift. Leaves sink.
[12:41] Adashino
    Horses moo. Cows neigh.
[12:44] Sumireko
    Adashino-kun?
[12:47] Adashino
    Sumireko-san. I see you've come to.
[12:51] Adashino
    I'm sorry. This is all my
    fault for misjudging her.
[12:54] Sumireko
    Adashino-kun, your injuries...
[12:57] Adashino
    Please get away from here.
[12:58] Sumireko
    Hey...
[13:00] Adashino
    Let's meet again at the bookshop.
[13:02] Adashino
    A lot of new volumes
    are coming out tomorrow.
[13:07] Adashino
    I have a favor to ask.
[13:09] Adashino
    If I don't return, please
    look after Oto for me.
[13:14] Sumireko
    What? Wait!
[13:26] (Flashback) Tae
    Manami-chan.
[13:29] (Flashback) Tae
    I'm sorry the only family
    you have is your grandma.
[13:44] (Flashback) Tae
    Manami-chan, hold out your hand.
[13:50] (Flashback) Tae
    This is a precious amulet that's been
    passed down in our family for generations.
[13:55] (Flashback) Tae
    It will protect you, no matter what.
[13:59] (Flashback) Tae
    Now, let's go home.
[14:03] Uname; internal
    The bullying that I suffered resulted
    in my grandma getting bullied, too.
[14:08] Uname; internal
    Adults bully each other, just like kids do.
[14:11] Uname; internal
    I'm going to create a world with no bullying!
[14:17] Adashino
    Ow.
[14:19] Adashino
    I've quelled the fire.
[14:22] Adashino
    The inverse phrases of Ushimarobi.
[14:24] Adashino
    "Stones drift. Leaves sink."
[14:28] Adashino
    Folklore says that repeating inverse phrases
    is one method of counteracting an ushi-oni.
[14:33] Uname
    It's because she tried to take my amulet!
[14:36] Uname
    The precious keepsake my grandma left me!
[14:37] Adashino
    Amulet? What are you talking about?
[14:41] Adashino
    That's a curse.
[14:44] Adashino
    It's a relic known as the Ushinotama—
[14:45] [SONG] text
    Ushinotama
[14:47] Adashino
    a fragment of an ushi-oni.
[14:49] Adashino
    Your ancestors must have come from
    a family whose totem was the ushi-oni.
[14:54] Adashino
    But as the generations passed,
    those teachings faded,
[14:58] Adashino
    and now, it's seen as no more
    than a simple protective amulet.
[15:01] Adashino
    It's likely that your name, Uname,
[15:04] Adashino
    was changed to a homophone of what it was.
SIGN    Uname
[15:07] Adashino
    Your real name would be written with the
    characters for "female cow," also read "Uname."
SIGN    Uname
[15:11] Uname
    A curse?
[15:13] Adashino
    Yes.
[15:14] Adashino
    And curses always come home to roost.
[15:17] Adashino
    The limbic system, which manages our
    instincts, has no concept of "subject."
SIGN    Neocortex
SIGN    Limbic System
SIGN    Thalamus
SIGN    Brain Stem
SIGN    Cerebellum
SIGN    Subject
SIGN    Subject
SIGN    Subject
[15:22] Adashino
    So when we feel negative
    emotions toward others,
SIGN    Self
SIGN    Others
[15:26] Adashino
    our brains can't distinguish
    between them and ourselves.
SIGN    Neocortex
SIGN    Limbic System
SIGN    Thalamus
SIGN    Brain Stem
SIGN    Cerebellum
[15:30] Adashino
    Cursing another curses oneself
    at the same time.
[15:35] Adashino
    That old saying, "If you curse someone,
    then dig two graves," has some truth to it.
[15:42] Adashino
    I'm begging you.
[15:43] Adashino
    Please give that to me.
[15:46] Adashino
    I need it to send my little sister home.
[15:49] Uname
    With this, I can create
    a world with no bullying!
[15:52] Uname
    And if I can do that,
    I don't care what happens to me!
[15:56] Adashino
    You don't even allow friends
    to goof around with each other.
[15:59] Adashino
    Is that really the world you're wishing for?
[16:04] Uname
    "We were just goofing around,"
    "I didn't mean it"...
[16:08] Uname
    Those are the kinds of things
    that bullies always say!
[16:11] Adashino
    It seems we can't resolve this peacefully.
[16:14] Adashino
    That's a shame. It really is.
[16:18] Adashino
    I didn't want to do this,
[16:21] Adashino
    but I can't leave you to your own devices.
[16:35] Adashino
    The truth is, I do approve
    of your convictions.
[16:40] Adashino
    You are a kind person.
[16:42] Adashino
    Back then,
[16:44] Adashino
    if someone like you had been there with us,
[16:50] Adashino
    then maybe my sister and I
    wouldn't have ended up like this.
[16:56] Adashino
    But no matter what I do,
[16:58] Adashino
    I keep thinking about the feelings of those
    who have been excluded from the world.
[17:10] (Flashback) girl A
    Poor Dust Rag.
[17:12] (Flashback) girl B
    Stop. You shouldn't laugh.
[17:21] (Flashback) girl A
    Oh, I'm sorry.
[17:22] (Flashback) girl A
    I dropped your lunch.
[17:25] (Flashback) girl A
    Sorry, but could you eat
    that off the floor for us?
[17:32] (Flashback) girl A
    She's really eating it!
[17:34] (Flashback) girl A
    Trust Dust Rag to clean up!
[17:40] (Flashback) Tae
    Manami-chan, I know that you're a kind girl.
[17:45] (Flashback) Tae
    You're my granddaughter,
    and I'm proud of you.
[17:53] Uname; internal
    Grandma, I'm sorry.
[18:07] Sumireko
    Are you all right, Adashino-kun?
[18:09] Adashino
    Sumireko-san...
[18:12] Sumireko
    Did you do this?
[18:15] Adashino
    I just gave it a little push.
[18:18] Sumireko
    Will she be all right?
[18:20] Adashino
    It's karma.
[18:23] Adashino
    If she's killed someone with the Curiosity,
    then she won't live, either.
[18:28] Sumireko
    Then she'll be all right.
[18:31] Sumireko
    Uname-sensei isn't the kind
    of person who'd kill anyone.
[18:34] Adashino
    Seriously? You forget things
    really fast, don't you, Eyebrows?
[18:38] Sumireko
    By the way, it seems like
    all of my injuries are gone.
[18:41] Sumireko
    What's going on here?
[18:43] Adashino
    The Curse of Youth is similar to shape-memory.
[18:47] Adashino
    You'll recover from a certain level of injury.
[18:49] Sumireko
    I'm turning more and more
    into a monster myself.
[18:54] Sumireko
    It's kinda freaky.
[18:55] Adashino
    Sumireko-san...
[18:56] Adashino
    Why didn't you run away?
[18:58] Adashino
    I made a cool exit and everything.
[19:00] Sumireko
    Don't be ridiculous.
[19:02] Sumireko
    And don't underestimate me.
[19:03] Sumireko
    I'm a novelist, you know.
[19:05] Sumireko
    How could I leave without knowing the ending?
[19:09] Adashino
    Please. You look like a gacha game
    character who's taken heavy damage.
[19:13] Oto
    Ren-nii!
[19:14] Sumireko
    Oto-chan!
[19:16] Sumireko
    Your brother is all ri—
[19:18] Oto; telepathy
    Ren-nii, your eyes! Are you okay?
[19:20] Adashino; telepathy
    I'm sorry. The only option I had was to See.
[19:24] Adashino; telepathy
    Now the talisman is just an empty shell.
[19:28] Oto; telepathy
    You're more important than a ticket, Ren-nii!
[19:31] Oto; telepathy
    Please don't push yourself so hard!
[19:38] Sumireko
    Shall we head back, Adashino-kun?
    It's time for the students to go home.
SIGN    Takamagahara Hospital
[19:53] Adashino
    The dribbler incidents have been
    resolved, so that's case closed.
[19:54] Tamao; background
    Good day to you, Sensei!
[19:57] Uname; background
    You three...
[19:57] Adashino
    Thank you for your help, Sumireko-san.
[20:00] Sumireko
    So did the ushi-oni disappear?
[20:01] Tamao; background
    We came to see how you were doing.
[20:03] Adashino
    Oh, right. I didn't tell you.
[20:03] Uname; background
    Are the three of you all right now?
[20:06] Erika; background
    We wanted to go back to
    school as soon as possible.
[20:06] Adashino
    Sorry. That wasn't an ushi-oni.
[20:08] Tamao; background
    We wanted to apologize to Wakazukuri-senpai
    for all the trouble we caused.
[20:11] Adashino
    It was something way more dangerous.
[20:13] Sumireko
    What?
[20:13] Mari; background
    It's just like you said, Sensei.
[20:14] Adashino
    I did think that it was way too brutal
    to be your average ushi-oni. Ha ha ha!
[20:15] Mari; background
    We shouldn't make anyone do
    things they don't want to do.
[20:19] Sumireko
    "Ha ha ha"? You little...
[20:22] Sumireko
    Then what on earth was it?
[20:26] Adashino
    The Chinrinki.
[20:26] [SONG] text
     Chinrinki
[20:28] Adashino
    It was a fierce god with eight heads,
    winged and red in color.
[20:32] Adashino
    When the Yamato court defeated the Chinrinki,
[20:34] Adashino
    fragments of it became ushi-oni.
    That's what people say.
[20:38] Adashino
    That teacher must have been
    weakening the curse's true power
[20:42] Adashino
    by reciting inverse phrases.
[20:46] Adashino
    That's why I misread
    the cause of the incidents.
[20:49] Adashino
    This is all just speculation, though.
[20:52] Adashino
    That teacher's powers,
    the Curiosity in question...
[20:55] Adashino
    Both have been lost, you see.
[21:05] Uname
    Yes?
[22:39] Adashino
    "Following the footprints of the boy
    who moved ever forward,
[22:42] Adashino
    the fox senses the cold air of
    the deep woods on its whiskers
[22:46] Adashino
    and continues to wander.
[22:49] Adashino
    The human boy, too, continues
    to walk with no destination.
[22:54] Adashino
    They will both return to this place one day,
[22:57] Adashino
    in a never-ending cycle.
[23:00] Adashino
    'Forest spirit!' The fox calls out.
[23:04] Adashino
    'I've already lived for hundreds of years.
    I would like to rest soon.
[23:10] Adashino
    May I give this life of mine to that boy?'
[23:14] Adashino
    The branches of the trees all around shook."
[23:17] Oto
    Ren-nii?
[23:19] Oto
    The apartment wife wrote this book?
[23:22] Adashino
    That's right.
[23:31] Adashino
    Goodnight, Oto.
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[23:36] Sumireko
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