E6 - A Curiosity, a Maid, and a Cultured Young Lady

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[00:08] Oto
    This is the entrance to the station.
[00:10] Sumireko
    What?
[00:17] Oto
    The new moon sits in the heart of blackness,
    being stained darker and darker.
[00:22] Oto
    The arrow of the crescent moon shoots
    to the east, racing faster and faster.
[00:27] Oto
    The half moon sinks, and for a moment,
    it touches, growing rounder and rounder.
[00:32] Oto
    Chasing the shadow of the night of the
    full moon, around and around they go.
[01:00] Oto
    Ren-nii!
[01:08] Sumireko
    Adashino-kun.
[01:09] Adashino
    That's Sumireko-san, isn't it?
[01:11] Adashino
    Thank you for looking after Oto for me.
[01:14] Sumireko
    Don't worry about it. We had fun.
[01:17] Adashino
    Did you?
[01:18] Adashino
    But...
[01:21] Adashino
    How could you go to the bathhouse without me?!
[01:24] Sumireko
    I mean, duh. Any bathhouse event
    is going to be without you.
[01:29] Adashino
    Say it isn't so!
[01:31] Sumireko
    Wow. Even with half your
    face covered in bandages,
[01:35] Sumireko
    I can tell your expression
    is filled with despair.
[01:41] Sumireko
    Are your eyes all right?
[01:44] Adashino
    Would you believe it?
[01:46] Adashino
    It turns out they'll be healed instantly
    if I bathe with a curvy woman!
[01:50] Sumireko
    So you're saying it's an incurable disease.
[01:53] Oto
    Is that true, Ren-nii?
[01:55] Adashino
    Will you feel sorry for me if it is?
[01:56] Sumireko
    More importantly, what do you
    think about the Curiosity?
[02:01] Adashino
    The one reported by... Shizuku-san, was it?
[02:03] Adashino
    Without seeing the video she has,
    I can't say anything for certain,
[02:08] Adashino
    but have you heard this story?
SIGN    Mysterious Disappearances
SIGN    Mysterious Disappearances
SIGN    A Curiosity, a Maid, and a Cultured Young Lady
[03:41] Adashino
    In June 2014, there was an incident
    in Hualien County in eastern Taiwan.
[03:44] [SONG] text
     Hualien County 
[03:47] Adashino
    An eighty-year-old woman
    who was there on a tour
[03:50] Adashino
    said she was going to the
    bathroom and disappeared.
[03:54] Adashino
    She was seen on security camera footage,
[03:57] Adashino
    which showed her going
    somewhere of her own will.
[04:00] Adashino
    Though the search continued,
    they couldn't figure out where she'd gone.
[04:05] Adashino
    However, four days after that...
[04:08] Adashino
    The woman was found in a faraway
    cave and was safely rescued.
[04:13] Adashino
    It was a place that couldn't be reached
    without crossing a raging river.
[04:17] Adashino
    There was no way an elderly person
    would have the stamina to get there.
[04:21] Adashino
    Strange, isn't it?
[04:23] Adashino
    Even stranger were the details
    of her disappearance.
[04:27] Adashino
    According to the woman, a girl in
    red clothes had brought her there.
[04:37] Sumireko
    A Curiosity that's a girl in red clothes?
[04:40] Sumireko
    That's right. I've heard of this!
[04:42] Sumireko
    I'm pretty sure it was called...
[04:44] [SONG] text; top line
     Hong Yi Xiao Nu Hai 
    (Little Girl in Red)
[04:44] Sumireko; Adashino
    "Hong yi xiao nu hai."
[04:47] Adashino
    The hong yi xiao nu hai is a very
    famous urban legend in Taiwan.
[04:53] Adashino
    In 1998, a video broadcast
    on an occultism show
[04:58] Adashino
    led to widespread knowledge of it.
[05:00] Adashino
    Originally, in Taiwan, there were many names
    for Curiosities that led people away.
[05:06] Oto
    That Curiosity...
[05:09] Oto
    Does it return the people it takes?
[05:12] Adashino
    Yes. The woman was unharmed.
[05:15] Oto
    I see.
[05:17] Oto
    I'm glad. Because there were those
    who kept up the search,
[05:21] Oto
    and those who made a place
    for her to come home to,
[05:24] Oto
    she was able to return.
[05:28] Oto
    I want to help Shizuku-san!
    Please let me join the search!
[05:32] Adashino
    No. It's too great a burden
    for you to handle.
[05:36] Oto
    But why? You have no problem
    working with the apartment wife!
[05:39] Adashino
    Sumireko-san may be a virgin,
    but she's also a full-fledged adult.
[05:43] Adashino
    She and you are not the same.
[05:44] Sumireko
    Hey, can it.
[05:45] Adashino
    You can't do it, Oto.
[05:51] Oto
    Fine!
[05:53] Oto
    I'll go search for her without you!
[05:56] Adashino
    What are you saying? Stop, Oto!
[05:59] Adashino
    Oto!
[06:09] Sumireko
    You've really done it this time, Adashino-kun.
[06:12] Sumireko
    She looked pretty upset.
[06:14] Adashino
    Sumireko-san....
[06:17] Adashino
    Wh-Wh-Wh...
[06:20] Adashino
    Wh-What do I do?!
[06:23] Sumireko
    That sounded like some kind of engine noise.
[06:25] Adashino
    What do I do? Oto hates me!
[06:29] Sumireko
    That's the kind of move a dad would pull
    only to earn his teenage daughter's ire.
[06:33] Sumireko
    Don't worry. I'm sure she'll understand
    by the time she gets married.
[06:37] Adashino
    Oto's getting married?
[06:39] Adashino
    To whom? I'll kill the bastard!
[06:41] Sumireko
    Hey, calm down!
[06:43] Adashino
    But...
[06:44] Sumireko
    You really are hopeless, you know that?
[06:47] Sumireko
    Look, just leave Oto-chan to me.
[06:50] Adashino
    Shumireko-san...
[06:53] Sumireko
    Anyway, why would such a recent legend
    have already made its way to Japan?
[07:00] Sumireko
    The hong yi xiao nu hai...
[07:02] Sumireko
    Even occult enthusiasts like me
    have only heard of it recently.
[07:06] Adashino
    It's because you've only 
    heard of it recently.
[07:08] Adashino
    I asked an authority on the subject,
[07:11] Adashino
    and apparently, new gods
    come to dwell in new places.
[07:16] Adashino
    This area is a little bit unusual.
[07:19] Sumireko
    Well, that doesn't give me
    a good feeling about this.
[07:22] Adashino
    And it makes me wonder.
[07:25] Adashino
    As far as I know, the story
    of the hong yi xiao nu hai
[07:28] Adashino
    never included anything
    about knocking or the rain.
[07:49] Sumireko
    Can I sit next to you?
[07:52] Oto
    Okay.
[08:05] Oto
    Yes.
[08:06] Oto
    Yes, sorry for the trouble.
[08:08] Oto
    Then we'll come and see you now.
SIGN    Maid Café
[08:27] Reine
    Welcome home, my lady.
[08:34] Shizuku
    Meow!
[08:39] Shizuku
    I didn't think you'd be that surprised.
[08:41] Shizuku
    Sorry 'bout that.
[08:44] Oto
    Shizuku-san, is this where you work?
[08:47] Shizuku
    I'm a maid. Cute, right?
[08:51] Shizuku
    We can't really talk here.
    Let's go somewhere else.
[09:02] Shizuku
    Thanks for coming all the way here.
[09:05] Shizuku
    What brings you?
[09:06] Oto
    I'm going to find Tomoko-san.
[09:09] Oto
    So please tell me more about her.
[09:12] Oto
    Where she worked, her movement
    patterns, her circle of friends...
[09:15] Oto
    Tell me everything you can!
[09:20] Shizuku
    Meow!
[09:29] Shizuku
    Who do you take me for?
[09:31] Shizuku
    Go on, beat it!
[09:33] Oto
    Shizuku-san...
[09:40] Oto
    My eyes can see the traces
    left by Curiosities.
[09:43] Oto
    If I can use them to track the places where
    Tomoko-san has been, I might find something.
[09:50] Oto
    So please, tell me about Tomoko-san!
SIGN    Search
[09:59] Sumireko
    You did it, Oto-chan!
    I'd expect nothing less from you.
[10:02] Oto
    Th-Thank you.
[10:05] Oto
    Next, I'm going to go through these in order!
[10:08] Sumireko
    Roger that, boss.
[10:29] Sumireko
    No leads, huh?
[10:32] Sumireko
    Any idea what to do next?
[10:37] Sumireko
    I gotta say, though... her circle
    of friends is bigger than I expected.
[10:41] Sumireko
    It's not just her coworkers.
[10:43] Sumireko
    Even the clerk at the convenience store
    she frequented is worried for her.
[10:47] Sumireko
    Maybe she wasn't really
    alone in the world after all.
[10:51] Oto
    But the only one who looked
    for Tomoko-san was Shizuku-san.
[10:56] Shizuku
    Take that!
[11:00] Shizuku
    White, as I thought.
[11:01] Oto
    Shizuku-san!
[11:03] Shizuku
    Hey, you guys. Let's go eat some ramen.
SIGN    Chinese Cuisine
SIGN    Tatsuta
[11:11] Sumireko
    It's so good!
[11:12] Shizuku
    Right?
[11:16] Shizuku
    So, come up with anything yet?
[11:20] Oto
    No, nothing.
[11:21] Shizuku
    I see. Well, I kinda expected that.
[11:26] Oto
    Um, what kind of friend was Tomoko-san?
[11:29] Shizuku
    Huh? Well...
[11:34] Shizuku
    Both of us had frayed relationships
    with our families,
[11:38] Shizuku
    so we moved here from the countryside.
[11:40] Shizuku
    We were roommates.
[11:42] Shizuku
    We'd split one packet of instant
    ramen between us...
[11:46] Shizuku
    Carry a kotatsu that'd been
    dumped back to our place...
[11:50] Shizuku
    And when anything stupid happened,
[11:53] Shizuku
    the first person I'd want
    to tell about it was her.
[11:57] Shizuku
    When Tomoko started attending
    cosmetology school,
[12:00] Shizuku
    we moved out to different places.
[12:02] Shizuku
    The truth is, I wasn't in contact
    with her very much.
[12:05] Shizuku
    On that day a year ago, I got a message
    from her for the first time in ages.
[12:10] Shizuku
    She was grinning triumphantly,
    saying she finally got a job in a salon.
[12:14] Shizuku
    I don't know if it's a Curiosity or what,
[12:16] Shizuku
    but I want it to give Tomoko back.
[12:19] Shizuku
    Ever since that day,
    time has stopped moving for me.
[12:27] Shizuku
    I'm gonna get going.
[12:28] Shizuku
    A runt like you's gotta eat more,
    or you'll never grow up big and strong.
[12:32] Sumireko
    Wait, Shizuku-chan.
[12:35] Sumireko
    There's something I want you to tell me.
[12:38] Sumireko
    What day and month was that video taken?
SIGN    Laws Regarding Unsolved Cases
[12:49] attendant
    If you'd like to access the database,
    booth two is available.
SIGN    Missing
    Persons List
[12:59] Sumireko
    Hang on. Is this what I think it is?
[13:09] Nodoka
    Bye, Occhan!
[13:11] Nodoka
    See you tomorrow!
[13:13] Oto
    Good day to you, Nodoka!
SIGN    Maid Café
SIGN    Getting Ready to Serve You
[13:36] Reine
    Head Maid, we have a problem!
[13:37] Reine
    Nagano-san's asking for the day off
    because her child has a fever!
[13:41] Yuri
    And we're already shorthanded today!
[13:45] Reine; Yuri
    But supporting each other through our
    family issues is an ironclad rule here!
[13:55] Shizuku
    You again, Adashino Oto?
[13:57] Shizuku
    I don't have time for you
    right now. Just go home.
[14:00] Reine; Yuri
    Wait, please, Head Maid!
[14:05] Reine
    She's exactly what we need, don't you think?
[14:07] Yuri
    It'll look wonderful on her!
    There's no question!
[14:10] Oto
    I can't be a maid! I couldn't possibly!
[14:14] Shizuku
    Now, now. I'm counting on you.
[14:16] Shizuku
    As thanks, I'll treat you
    to a deluxe parfait.
[14:20] Oto
    A deluxe parfait?
SIGN    KISARAGI
SIGN    Sumire
SIGN    Sumireko-san
SIGN    Sumireko-san
[14:32] Adashino
    Hello? Sumireko-san?
[14:34] Sumireko
    Do you have a minute to talk?
[14:36] Adashino
    I do, though I must apologize
    for my half-dressed state.
[14:39] Sumireko
    Fortunately, I can't see you.
[14:41] Adashino
    Thank you for going with Oto yesterday.
SIGN    Sumireko-san
[14:46] Sumireko
    Is Oto-chan nearby?
[14:48] Adashino
    She might have given up.
    She went to school without a fuss.
[14:52] Sumireko
    That's good. Listen to what
    I'm about to say, Adashino-kun.
[14:57] Sumireko
    At the city library, I looked up cases
    that wouldn't appear in national papers—
[15:00] Sumireko
    local cases of disappearances
    and missing persons.
[15:05] Sumireko
    On the same exact day that Tomoko-san
    went missing, a woman's body was found.
SIGN    Unidentified Body Found
[15:11] Adashino
    A body? You don't think it was Tomoko-san?
[15:13] Sumireko
    No, that's not it.
[15:15] Sumireko
    The body wasn't Tomoko-san's.
[15:18] Sumireko
    It was discovered in a landslide caused
    by several days of continuous rain.
[15:23] Sumireko
    The time was confirmed by cameras
    installed at the location.
SIGN    Have You Seen This Person?
[15:27] Sumireko
    The thing is, a search request for that woman
    had been submitted half a year before that.
[15:32] Sumireko
    Interesting, isn't it?
[15:35] Sumireko
    I compiled a list of three years'
    worth of missing persons
[15:39] Sumireko
    and arranged a timeline
    of cases and accidents.
[15:42] Sumireko
    When I did, I realized the connection.
[15:45] Sumireko
    The search requests,
[15:46] Sumireko
    missing person reports, and body
    discoveries overlapped in certain places.
[15:52] Sumireko
    On the days when missing
    persons disappeared,
[15:55] Sumireko
    the bodies of other
    missing persons were found.
[15:59] Sumireko
    I went back and found six cases.
[16:01] Sumireko
    All of them happened on rainy days.
[16:03] Sumireko
    It's possible there are others
    that I didn't notice, too.
[16:07] Sumireko
    You get it, right? Basically, when someone
    disappears, someone else is found.
SIGN    Discovery
SIGN    X Month Y Day
SIGN    Disappearance
SIGN    Discovery
SIGN    Y Month Y Day
SIGN    Disappearance
SIGN    Discovery
SIGN    Z Month X Day
SIGN    Disappearance
SIGN    Discovery
SIGN    Y Month Z Day
SIGN    Disappearance
SIGN    Tomoko
[16:14] Adashino
    It's like a baton relay.
[16:19] Sumireko
    I see.
[16:25] Adashino
    Sumireko-san?
[16:27] Sumireko
    This is the worst-case scenario.
[16:28] Sumireko
    There's only one conclusion
    we can draw from this.
[16:35] Oto
    Welcome home, masters.
[16:39] customer B
    Are you new?
[16:40] Oto
    My name is Otohime.
[16:43] Oto
    P-Pweeze have a sheet...
[16:45] customer A
    She fumbled her words.
[16:45] customer B
    She's adorable.
[16:49] Oto
    Moe, moe!
[16:50] customer A; B
    Moe, moe!
[16:51] Oto
    Kyun, kyun!
[16:52] customer A; B
    Kyun, kyun!
[16:54] Oto
    Shake, shake!
[16:55] customer A; B
    Shake, shake!
[16:56] Oto
    Rattle, rattle!
[16:57] customer A; B
    Rattle, rattle!
[17:05] Oto
    I'll draw my favorite animal, okay?
[17:08] Oto
    Get yummy, get yummy—Huh?
[17:17] Oto
    I'm so sorry!
[17:18] Yuri
    At first glance, she seems like an
    accident-prone mistake of a maid.
[17:22] Reine
    But the customers are smiling
    because she's just too cute.
[17:25] Yuri
    She's perfect.
[17:27] Adashino
    I have something to report, as well.
[17:29] Adashino
    I looked into the hong yi xiao nu hai again.
[17:34] Adashino
    Do you remember what I said
    about the knocking?
[17:37] Adashino
    I think I've found something regarding that.
[17:40] Adashino
    At a certain university in Taiwan, there's
    a story about the hong yi xiao nu hai.
[17:47] Adashino
    When night comes, a young female spirit
    in red clothes invites people to play,
[17:52] Adashino
    and if you accept her invitation,
    you lose your life.
[17:56] Adashino
    Among the variations of the story,
    there are cases where she knocks first.
[18:01] Adashino
    This must be it.
[18:02] Adashino
    As for why it's associated with rain,
[18:04] Adashino
    that's likely due to tales of spirits
    long said to abduct people near the water:
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    (Water Ghost)
[18:08] Adashino
    the shui gui.
[18:10] Adashino
    During its journey across
    the ocean to this very town,
[18:13] Adashino
    the legend became conflated
    with various other imagery.
[18:16] Adashino
    And so the hong yi xiao nu hai transformed.
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[18:19] Adashino
    So that tales of it would be scarier,
[18:22] Adashino
    people built on them and added to them,
[18:24] Adashino
    and the end result of their
    storytelling was this.
[18:28] Adashino
    Finally, the shui gui has one more
    characteristic we can't afford to ignore.
[18:33] Adashino
    The data you found convinced me of it.
[18:37] Reine
    Good work today, Oto-chan.
[18:40] Oto
    Thank you for your hard work, Senpai!
[18:42] Reine
    You really helped us out!
    You're the best, Oto-chan!
[18:45] Yuri
    Your magic surpassed mine on your first day.
    You've utterly defeated me.
[18:49] Oto
    But all I did was make mistakes.
[18:52] Oto
    Thank you!
[18:54] Yuri
    You're such a good girl.
[18:55] Reine
    We asked the impossible of you,
    but you're thanking us.
[18:58] Yuri
    Could she be an angel in the flesh?
[19:01] Oto
    Please don't!
[19:02] Yuri
    It's only natural that we'd be grateful.
[19:04] Reine
    If we weren't, the head maid
    would knock us into next week.
[19:08] Oto
    The head maid? What kind
    of person is Shizuku-san?
[19:13] Yuri
    The head maid?
[19:14] Yuri
    She's dependable, she's kind,
    and she's understanding.
[19:17] Reine
    But she gives off an aura saying
    not to get too close, right?
[19:20] Yuri
    She totally does.
[19:21] Yuri
    She's wary of others, and she's actually
    uncomfortable around strangers.
[19:24] Reine
    To sum it up, I guess
    she's sort of like a cat.
[19:27] Yuri
    And she'd be the boss of the strays, right?
[19:30] Shizuku
    If you're gonna badmouth me,
    do it somewhere I can't hear you.
[19:35] Shizuku
    Good work today, Adashino Oto.
[19:38] Shizuku
    Here's the promised deluxe parfait.
[19:40] Shizuku
    Once you've changed, come eat it in my room.
SIGN    Shizuku's Room
[19:44] Adashino
    In other words, I believe we have
    arrived at the same conclusion.
[19:48] Sumireko
    If we're right, then Oto-chan is...
[19:50] Adashino
    Can I ask you to take care
    of her, Sumireko-san?
[19:53] Shizuku
    Thank you for waiting, my lady.
[19:55] Shizuku
    This is our deluxe parfait.
[19:58] Oto
    Thank you!
[19:59] Shizuku
    Eat as much as you like!
[20:01] Oto
    Another!
[20:03] Shizuku
    That was fast!
[20:03] Oto
    Thank you for the feast.
[20:05] Shizuku
    Man, you're one heck of an eater.
    It's somehow refreshing.
[20:17] Shizuku
    Hey, Adashino Oto...
[20:20] Shizuku
    I gotta apologize for being mean to you.
[20:22] Shizuku
    I'm sorry.
[20:26] Shizuku
    While I searched for Tomoko on my own,
    people said all kinds of things to me.
[20:30] Shizuku
    Some people just pretended
    they were worried.
[20:33] Shizuku
    Some people even said I must have done it.
[20:37] Shizuku
    I thought you were someone who'd just
    go through the motions, like them.
[20:43] Oto
    I was really happy to meet you, Shizuku-san.
[20:46] Oto
    My brother and I got lost,
[20:48] Oto
    and before we knew it, we were
    somewhere completely unfamiliar.
[20:52] Oto
    We waited for help, but no one came.
[20:55] Oto
    That's why my brother is
    pushing himself so hard.
[20:58] Oto
    "Why isn't anyone looking for us?" I wondered.
[21:01] Oto
    "Does that mean no one needs us?"
[21:05] Oto
    So I was really happy to see
[21:07] Oto
    that there are people like you who search
    so hard for those who go missing.
[21:11] Sumireko
    Adashino Oto...
[21:14] Oto
    I'm sure you'll see Tomoko-san again!
    I want you to see her again!
SIGN    Apartment Wife
[21:24] Oto
    What is it, apartment wife?
[21:26] Sumireko
    Oto-chan, are you all right?
    Where are you right now?
[21:28] Oto
    Shizuku-san's maid café.
[21:33] Oto
    Is something wrong?
[21:36] Sumireko
    Don't go anywhere until I get there, Oto-chan!
[21:42] Shizuku
    What's going on?
    This door leads to the roof.
[21:46] Sumireko
    Don't open the door, no matter who knocks!
[21:54] Sumireko
    The hong yi xiao nu hai...
[21:56] Sumireko
    is Tomoko-san herself!
SIGN    A Station, Scissors, and a Haircut
[23:36] Sumireko
    Next time: "A Station,
    Scissors, and a Haircut."