# E7 - A Station, Scissors, and a Haircut
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**[00:01] Shizuku; narration**
When we were in elementary school,
**[00:02] kids; background**
I always fail at the jump...
**[00:03] Shizuku; narration**
Tomoko was popular, and I was a nuisance.
**[00:08] Shizuku; narration**
Tomoko was the mood-maker type
who built everyone up,
**[00:11] Shizuku; narration**
and I was the complete opposite.
**[00:13] Shizuku; narration**
Shy and awkward with words,
**[00:15] Shizuku; narration**
I set everyone around me on edge.
**[00:19] Shizuku; narration**
Maybe that was why,
**[00:21] Shizuku; narration**
in the beginning, I hated Tomoko's guts.
**[00:26] Shizuku; narration**
Everyone has their own circumstances.
**[00:28] Shizuku; narration**
I was what people refer
to as a neglected child.
**[00:31] Shizuku; narration**
Whenever my mom was cozying up
to a prospective new husband,
**[00:36] Shizuku; narration**
I would find myself locked out of the house.
**[00:39] Shizuku; narration**
In the beginning, I just had to kill
a little time when this happened,
**[00:43] Shizuku; narration**
but at some point, I started
spending most of the day outside.
**[00:47] Shizuku; narration**
While the sun was up, I had playmates.
**[00:50] Shizuku; narration**
It was the nights that were painful.
**[00:54] Shizuku; narration**
That's why...
**[00:56] Shizuku; narration**
I'd spend time at a friend's house
and get treated to a meal.
**[01:00] Shizuku; narration**
Each household welcomed me cheerfully.
**[01:04] Shizuku; narration**
In the beginning, at least.
**[01:08] friend A**
*Yes? Who is it?*
**[01:10] Shizuku**
*It's me. I came to hang out.*
**[01:12] (Flashback) friend A**
Oh, Shizuku-chan. Hold on a minute.
**[01:16] (Flashback) friend A**
Mama, Shizuku-chan is here!
**[01:18] (Flashback) friend A's mom**
She's here again? What kind of
manners are they teaching her?
**[01:22] friend A's mom**
* And she always stays for dinner.*
* She's shameless.*
**[01:24] friend A's mom**
*I told you not to invite her anymore.*
**[01:26] friend A**
*I didn't invite her. We're not even friends.*
**[01:29] friend A's mom**
*Really? Then I'll send her home.*
**[01:32] friend A's mom**
* Shizuku-chan? We have other plans*
* today, so we can't invite you in.*
**[01:36] friend A's mom**
*I'm sorry!*
**[01:37] (Flashback) friend A's mom**
Shizuku-chan?
**[01:39] (Flashback) friend A's mom**
What? There's no one there.
**[01:44] Shizuku; narration**
My classmates started avoiding me.
**[01:48] Shizuku; narration**
I figured it was better that way, since
they wouldn't find out about my situation.
***SIGN*** Mysterious Disappearances
***SIGN*** Mysterious Disappearances
***SIGN*** A Station, Scissors, and a Haircut
***SIGN*** A Station, Scissors, and a Haircut
**[03:41] Sumireko**
*Listen to me, Oto-chan.*
**[03:42] Sumireko**
*Do not answer that door!*
**[03:44] Sumireko**
*Get out of the building immediately!*
**[03:47] Oto**
Shizuku-san!
**[03:58] Sumireko**
Not that way!
**[04:00] Sumireko**
Come on!
**[04:01] Oto**
Apartment wife!
**[04:07] Shizuku**
What is all this?
**[04:08] Sumireko**
Let's go!
**[04:21] Sumireko**
The shutters!
**[04:23] Sumireko**
They were open when I came in a moment ago!
**[04:26] Oto**
What do we do, apartment wife?
**[04:27] Sumireko**
Crap. We have to go back!
**[04:32] Sumireko**
That should hold for a little while.
**[04:35] Shizuku**
So, mind explaining?
**[04:37] Shizuku**
What the hell is going on here?
**[04:40] Sumireko**
The hong yi xiao nu hai attacks
whoever answers its knocking.
**[04:46] Sumireko**
Oto-chan has already answered it once.
**[04:50] Sumireko**
That's why she was targeted.
**[04:52] Shizuku**
No, that's not what I'm asking!
**[04:55] Shizuku**
What do you mean, it's Tomoko herself?
**[04:57] Sumireko**
The current hong yi xiao nu hai
is a chimera of several Curiosities.
**[05:02] Sumireko**
Originally, it was a Curiosity that simply
took people into the mountains,
**[05:06] Sumireko**
but as the story was told,
**[05:08] Sumireko**
it combined with one of a ghost that haunts
and kills those who answer its knocking.
**[05:12] Sumireko**
It also got mixed with tales of the shui gui,
which drown those who approach water,
**[05:17] Sumireko**
adding the element of rain.
**[05:19] (Flashback) Adashino**
Finally, the shui gui has one more
characteristic we can't afford to ignore.
**[05:25] (Flashback) Adashino**
"Ti si gui."
**[05:25] [SONG] text**
Ti Si Gui
(Death Swap)
**[05:27] (Flashback) Adashino**
When a shui gui leads a human to its death,
that shui gui can then leave this world,
**[05:32] (Flashback) Adashino**
but the murdered human then becomes
a new shui gui looking for a fresh victim.
**[05:39] (Flashback) Adashino**
This special swapping characteristic,
called ti si gui,
**[05:42] (Flashback) Adashino**
is passed down in folklore
across the continent.
**[05:45] (Flashback) Adashino**
It's similar to the shichinin misaki in Japan.
**[05:49] Sumireko**
*The shichinin misaki?*
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
***SIGN*** Shichinin Misaki
**[05:51] (Flashback) Adashino**
Yes. A group of seven vengeful
ghosts who always act together.
**[05:55] (Flashback) Adashino**
When someone encounters them,
they are killed and join their ranks,
**[05:58] (Flashback) Adashino**
at which point the oldest one can leave.
**[06:01] Sumireko**
After these stories and the hong yi
xiao nu hai were brought together,
**[06:05] Sumireko**
the result was a story about someone who
goes out on rainy nights to knock on doors,
**[06:08] Sumireko**
trying to get someone to open them.
**[06:10] Sumireko**
It became a wandering Curiosity.
**[06:14] Shizuku**
Just give it to me straight.
**[06:16] Shizuku**
Is Tomoko still alive?
**[06:20] Sumireko**
No. Tomoko-san is already dead.
**[06:24] Oto**
Why?
**[06:26] Oto**
Why? Why?
**[06:28] Oto**
Tomoko-san is alive!
They're going to see each other again!
**[06:32] Sumireko**
Oto-chan...
**[06:33] Oto**
Shizuku-san! They got it wrong!
There must be some mistake!
**[06:37] Shizuku**
I'm going to go get changed.
**[06:39] Shizuku**
I just can't relax in this outfit.
**[06:42] Oto**
Shizuku-san?
**[06:45] Sumireko**
Leave the door open! If you don't...
**[06:48] Shizuku**
I know.
**[06:50] Shizuku**
Sorry for all the trouble.
**[06:53] Shizuku**
Thank you.
**[06:55] Oto**
Shizuku-san!
**[06:56] Sumireko**
What is she thinking?!
**[06:58] Oto**
Why?
**[07:03] Shizuku**
I made my peace with this a long time ago.
**[07:06] Shizuku**
The details just ended up being a lot
worse than I expected. That's all.
**[07:10] Shizuku**
Still, if it means I can see her again,
it beats the alternative.
**[07:17] Shizuku**
It's been a while, Tomoko.
**[07:20] Shizuku**
Do you remember?
**[07:23] Shizuku**
Back then, you were the one
who opened the door for me.
**[07:34] (Flashback) Tomoko**
Shizuku-chan?
**[07:49] (Flashback) Tomoko**
Here.
**[08:09] Shizuku**
It wasn't anything special,
just normal thoughtfulness, right?
**[08:13] Shizuku**
Because you're a kind person.
**[08:16] Shizuku**
For you, I was just one friend among many.
**[08:20] Shizuku**
But for me, you were the one person
in the whole world I could call my friend.
**[08:27] Oto**
That's not true. There are
the others at the café, right?
**[08:29] Oto**
And there's me! There's me, too!
**[08:33] Shizuku**
You're a kind person, too, Adashino Oto.
**[08:36] Shizuku**
But back then, I made up my mind.
**[08:39] Shizuku**
I told myself that I'd give the rest of my life
for Tomoko, just for this one moment.
**[08:47] Shizuku**
I was happy to be able to live with you.
**[08:50] Shizuku**
Congrats on having your dream
of becoming a beautician come true.
**[08:54] Shizuku**
I was always cheering for you, you know?
**[08:56] Shizuku**
Even though we haven't really
been able to talk lately.
**[09:00] Oto**
Shizuku-san, don't do it!
**[09:02] Sumireko**
Move!
**[09:07] Shizuku**
Thank you, Adashino Oto.
**[09:10] Shizuku**
Thanks to you, I'm able to grieve.
**[09:14] Oto**
Shizuku-san, please stop!
**[10:06] Shizuku**
Tomoko.
**[10:07] Shizuku**
I've been looking for you.
**[10:10] Shizuku**
But I wasn't able to find you. I'm sorry.
**[10:24] Shizuku**
I will set you free.
**[10:33] Oto**
Shizuku-san?
**[10:38] Shizuku**
I saw her.
**[10:51] Shizuku**
Adashino Oto, I...
**[11:00] Oto**
Shizuku-san?
**[11:19] Oto**
It's too cruel. This isn't right.
**[11:25] Oto; telepathy**
*Ren-nii!*
**[11:30] Adashino; telepathy**
*Leave it to me, Oto.*
**[11:33] Oto**
Ren-nii!
**[11:34] Oto**
I have to stop him!
**[11:37] Oto**
Ren-nii is going to use his Eyes!
**[11:44] Oto**
Shizuku-san!
**[11:45] Oto**
Ren-nii, your Eyes...
**[11:47] Adashino**
Eyes? I haven't used them.
**[11:51] Adashino**
I used this.
**[11:53] Oto**
A test sheet?
**[11:55] Adashino**
What do you think? I'm very proud
of this treasure of mine!
**[11:58] Oto**
That's mine, though.
**[11:59] Sumireko**
This makes no sense. Explain.
**[12:02] Adashino**
There's an ancient Curiosity overseas
**[12:04] Adashino**
called the mo-sin-a that carries
people into the mountains.
**[12:05] [SONG] text**
Mo-Sin-A
(Demon Child)
**[12:07] Adashino**
There are tales of its eyes, clothes,
or hat being red. It's a childlike Curiosity.
**[12:11] Adashino**
The other key I found was a ghost
story that's popular in Japan.
**[12:16] Adashino**
When you think of a childlike Curiosity
wearing red in Japan, what comes to mind?
**[12:22] Sumireko**
Toilet-bound Hanako-san?
**[12:24] Adashino**
Exactly.
**[12:26] Adashino**
It's likely that a combination
of the mo-sin-a and Hanako-san
**[12:31] Adashino**
resulted in the hong yi xiao nu hai.
**[12:34] Adashino**
So I used the characteristics of the
combined Curiosity to my advantage.
**[12:38] Adashino**
"Show her a test sheet
with a score of one hundred."
**[12:41] Adashino**
It's a famous method to drive Hanako-san away.
**[12:44] Sumireko**
I'm amazed you had something like that ready.
**[12:46] Adashino**
I have all of Oto's test papers
carefully preserved!
**[12:51] Sumireko**
I am forever perplexed by your staggering
over-fondness as an older brother.
**[12:55] Oto**
Then Shizuku-san is safe?
**[12:57] Adashino**
No, not yet.
**[12:58] Adashino**
The Curiosity has only
temporarily been held at bay.
**[13:02] Adashino**
Let's head to the station.
***SIGN*** KISARAGI
**[13:06] Adashino**
I'm so sorry, Sumireko-san.
**[13:08] Adashino**
If I weren't still recovering, I'd help you.
**[13:11] Sumireko**
You really are an infuriating kid.
**[13:15] Adashino**
Thank you for your hard work.
**[13:17] Adashino**
I'll go and get a ticket.
If you'll wait here, please?
**[13:20] Sumireko**
A ticket? What are you planning to do?
**[13:23] Sumireko**
No, wait, before that...
**[13:24] Sumireko**
Is this Kisaragi Station?
**[13:29] Sumireko**
Isn't it about time you showed me your hand?
**[13:33] Adashino**
If you're asking if this is the mysterious
station that appears in urban legends,
**[13:38] Adashino**
then yes.
**[13:39] Sumireko**
I knew it! This is Kisaragi Station!
**[13:42] Sumireko**
The otherworldly station that exists
in both this world and another!
**[13:46] Sumireko**
I'm inside that urban legend right now!
**[13:50] Adashino**
More importantly, we need
to finish the business at hand.
**[13:53] Adashino**
Sumireko-san, you picked something
up in that building, didn't you?
**[13:57] Sumireko**
You mean these scissors?
Shizuku-san was holding them.
**[14:06] Adashino**
I knew it.
**[14:08] Adashino**
They're a cursed object.
**[14:10] Conductor**
* If you are here to report a found item,*
* please come this way.*
**[14:16] Conductor**
* It's quite lively here today,*
* mysterious disappearances.*
**[14:20] Conductor**
*Oh, and a Bearer of Youth. How unusual.*
**[14:24] Conductor**
* Will you be exchanging*
* that woman for a ticket?*
**[14:30] Adashino; telepathy**
* I have no intention of*
* turning over a friend to you.*
**[14:32] Conductor**
* My apologies. Then what*
* will you be exchanging today?*
**[14:49] Adashino; telepathy**
*This.*
**[14:50] Conductor**
*A newly formed cursed object, is it?*
**[14:53] Conductor**
*But it doesn't appear to be a pure one.*
**[14:56] Conductor**
* It won't take you as far as*
* your desired destination.*
**[14:59] Adashino; telepathy**
*However far it will go is fine.*
**[15:03] Adashino; telepathy**
* But the only one riding the train*
* will be the hong yi xiao nu hai.*
**[15:08] Adashino**
The train will be here soon.
Head straight to the platform.
**[15:12] Oto**
Yes, I understand.
***SIGN*** Express
***SIGN*** Train Approaching
**[15:35] Shizuku**
Adashino Oto?
**[15:36] Oto**
Shizuku-san!
**[15:38] Shizuku**
I'm not dead?
**[15:41] Shizuku**
Did I mess it up?
**[15:43] Oto**
Calm down.
**[15:45] Oto**
Shizuku-san, the hong yi xiao nu hai
possessed you, and you disappeared.
**[15:50] Oto**
But then my brother stopped it.
**[15:53] Oto**
This station is a Curiosity
that connects to another world.
**[15:56] Oto**
The train will be here in ten minutes.
**[15:59] Oto**
If we can make sure only the
hong yi xiao nu hai gets on the train,
**[16:03] Oto**
you'll be safe.
**[16:05] Shizuku**
I see.
**[16:06] Shizuku**
Then I was able to draw the Curiosity to me.
**[16:10] Shizuku**
In that case, everything's
all right, Adashino Oto.
**[16:15] Oto**
You know, when I was investigating
Tomoko-san, I talked to all kinds of people.
**[16:21] Oto**
I asked them what they knew
about Tomoko-san's friends.
**[16:25] Oto**
They all told me the same thing.
**[16:27] Oto**
"She went shopping with Shizuku."
**[16:29] Oto**
"She went out to eat with Shizuku."
**[16:32] Oto**
"Tomoko-chan was always talking about
the things she did with a girl named Shizuku."
**[16:37] Oto**
Do you still think that, to Tomoko-san,
you were just one friend among many?
**[16:44] Oto**
And it's because Tomoko-san
left you her scissors
**[16:48] Oto**
that we were able to get this train ticket.
**[17:02] Oto**
I'm certain that Tomoko-san
wants you to live.
**[17:08] announcement**
*The train... arriving shortly.*
**[17:11] announcement**
*For your safety... behind... line.*
**[17:19] Adashino**
It's just about time for the train to arrive.
**[17:21] Sumireko**
Was it all right to send Oto-chan on her own?
**[17:25] Adashino**
She'll be fine.
**[17:27] Adashino**
She's far more grounded than she appears.
**[17:30] Adashino**
I'd be much more worried if I had
to leave you here on your own.
**[17:33] Sumireko**
Your concern is unnecessary.
**[17:35] Sumireko**
At least, that's what I'd like to say.
**[17:38] Sumireko**
To be honest, I'm glad you're here.
**[17:40] Sumireko**
This place freaks me out
more than I thought it would.
**[17:47] Sumireko**
That voice from the ticket window...
I couldn't understand what it was saying,
**[17:51] Sumireko**
but I could tell it was something humans shouldn't get involved with.
**[17:54] Sumireko**
There are some things we're better off
living our lives without knowing, if possible.
**[17:58] Sumireko**
That's why you deliberately
didn't tell me anything, right?
**[18:01] Adashino**
You're speaking too highly of me.
**[18:04] Adashino**
I was just too scared to talk about it.
**[18:14] Shizuku**
Why is the train packed at this
time of day? Who are these people?
**[18:31] Adashino**
Cursed objects and Curiosities
are foreign to this world.
**[18:35] Adashino**
They are impurities that don't belong here.
**[18:48] Adashino**
And the world is always desperate
to rid itself of such foreign objects.
**[19:01] Adashino**
So this station was brought into existence
in order to expel these unneeded
**[19:05] Adashino**
foreign bodies from this world.
**[19:21] Adashino**
Cursed objects serve as the fare.
**[19:24] Adashino**
And our home is at the very end of this line.
**[19:28] Adashino**
That's why we're looking for cursed objects
that can take us all the way there.
**[19:32] Adashino**
To stay alive and return home...
**[19:35] Adashino**
That's our goal as siblings.
**[19:40] Adashino**
We're castaways from another world.
**[19:47] Sumireko**
So you finally fessed up, huh?
**[19:51] Sumireko**
Did you think I'd get
creeped out if you told me?
**[19:53] Sumireko**
If I'm being honest, thanks to
the events of these last few weeks,
**[19:58] Sumireko**
I'm overflowing with more creativity
than I have been in a long while.
**[20:02] Sumireko**
I'm not gonna let you two do
all the fun stuff on your own!
**[20:06] Adashino**
Sumireko-san...
**[20:07] Sumireko**
Besides, you promised to read
my next work, didn't you?
**[20:12] Sumireko**
I'm not letting you back out now.
**[20:16] Adashino**
That's definitely the move of
a meddling, mature woman.
**[20:20] Sumireko**
You're both all right?
What about the hong yi xiao nu hai?
**[20:23] Oto**
We sent it off.
**[20:24] Shizuku**
I'm sorry. You've done so much
for me, Ogawa-no-neesan.
**[20:28] Sumireko**
"Neesan"? Well, that's laudable of you.
**[20:32] Shizuku**
I felt like I should live
enough for Tomoko, too.
**[20:35] Shizuku**
Thanks, Occhan!
**[20:37] Shizuku**
And where is this older brother of yours?
**[20:40] Shizuku**
At least let me say thanks!
**[20:43] Sumireko**
Huh? Maybe he stepped outside earlier?
**[20:49] Oto**
Let's go and see.
**[21:04] Conductor**
*You're certainly working yourself to the bone.*
**[21:06] Conductor**
* You're not her brother by blood,*
* to say nothing of not even being human.*
**[21:10] Conductor**
*You're just a sham of a monster.*
**[21:16] Conductor**
*How many years has it been since you slept?*
**[21:19] Conductor**
*Do you remember the last time you ate?*
**[21:22] Conductor**
* Has there been even the briefest moment*
* in which your suffering has eased?*
**[21:29] Conductor**
* Soon, you'll be worn down to nothing*
* for your sister's sake and disappear.*
**[21:35] Conductor**
* Whether you have a ticket or not,*
* there is no station to which you can return.*
**[21:46] Adashino; telepathy**
*Even so, that girl deserves to go home.*
**[21:50] Adashino; telepathy**
*Oto really is just a lost child.*
**[21:53] Adashino; telepathy**
* There are people waiting for her,*
* looking for her.*
**[21:57] Adashino; telepathy**
* I'm going to prove that she isn't*
* someone that no one needs.*
***SIGN*** A Book, an Affair, and a Mermaid
**[23:36] Sumireko**
Next time: "A Book, an Affair, and a Mermaid."