E2 - A Knot in the Red Thread of Fate
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[00:03] Daiki
Hey, that's rude.
[00:05] Takumi
There's no point.
[00:07] Takumi
It's pointless if I'm not with Haijima Iori.
[00:12] Mashu
I cannot accept this,
[00:15] Mashu
even if it's the Generals' decision.
[00:17] Mashu
I came to request that I
be allowed to withdraw.
[00:21] Mashu
Please excuse me.
[00:47] Daiki
Oh dear, we raised them to be too stubborn.
[00:51] Yanagi
Every last one of them.
[00:54] Nakashizu
It doesn't matter.
[00:55] Daiki
Huh?
[00:56] Yanagi
Nakashizu?
[00:59] Nakashizu
Artists must be zealous
about promoting themselves,
[01:04] Nakashizu
and Graders must be able to discern
Artists' ability and personality.
[01:10] Nakashizu
Art is desire.
[01:12] Nakashizu
When the heart demands it,
one can only do what one wants.
[01:18] Jun
"Therefore, candidates will be given
the chance to form new teams this weekend."
[01:22] Jun
"Staircaser candidates should
gather at the location below."
[01:26] Jun
That's what it says.
[01:27] Kazuya
Things are fine the way they are!
[01:29] Kazuya
Who'd go and mess it up?
[01:31] Jun
In that case, just don't trade partners.
[01:34] Jun
I'm not planning to either.
[01:36] Kazuya
I see...
[01:37] Kazuya
Only people who want to trade need to.
[01:40] Kazuya
Yeah, okay.
[01:43] Kyo
I want to trade.
[01:46] Kazuya
Why?!
SIGN A Knot in the Red Thread of Fate #D91E10
[03:37] Sign
Haijima Iori
(absent preparing
for his solo exhibit)
[03:48] Kazuya
This building's really old...
[03:50] Michitaka
Apparently, the Gymnasion is
an old building that's no longer in use.
[03:54] Kazuya & Jun
Michitaka!
[03:56] Michitaka
Good morning.
[03:57] Jun
Mornin'!
[03:58] Kazuya
Morning.
[04:04] Kazuya
Kyo—
[04:18] ---
Haijima Iori
(absent preparing
for his solo exhibit)
[04:37] Jun
Whoa.
[04:37] Kazuya
The Generals?
[04:39] Yanagi
The Gymnasion will serve as the studio
for the Staircaser candidates.
[04:45] Yanagi
I'd really like for you all
to get started on your pieces,
[04:50] Yanagi
but it seems there are some
objections to the pairs we assigned.
[04:54] Yanagi
Normally, such measures
would be unthinkable, but...
[04:58] Yanagi
We will now begin a two-day one-night
partner reselection meeting.
[05:02] Kohei
A partner reselection meeting?
[05:05] Yanagi
Anyone not satisfied
with their current partner
[05:07] Yanagi
may choose who they'd like
to work with and negotiate.
[05:11] Yanagi
If successful, the trade will be approved.
[05:15] Yanagi
The competition is nearly upon us,
so this is your only chance.
[05:18] Yanagi
No matter what,
when the bell rings at noon tomorrow,
[05:23] Yanagi
whoever is wearing the armband
that matches yours will be your partner.
[05:23] Sign
Haijima Iori
(absent preparing
for his solo exhibit)
[05:28] Yanagi
Of course, those who are happy with
their teams need not negotiate.
[05:32] Yanagi
Sorry to make you join us,
[05:34] Yanagi
but think of it as a chance
to get to know each other.
[05:37] Yanagi
Now, begin!
[05:42] Chiharu
Well, shall we get started?
[05:42] Sign
Haijima Iori
(absent preparing
for his solo exhibit)
[05:44] Chiharu
I mean, I'm fine with Haijima Iori,
[05:48] Chiharu
the young genius Artist.
[05:50] Chiharu
He's great since people already know him.
[05:54] Chiharu
Are you one of the students who objected?
[05:58] Takumi
I'll be Haijima Iori's partner.
[06:02] Chiharu
I can't just let an impertinent
underclassman have his way.
[06:06] Chiharu
Even if Artists are just tools,
it's best to use high-quality ones.
[06:14] Kazuya
Tools?
[06:14] Kaede
I can't let that comment slide.
[06:18] Kaede
The idea that Artists work
for Graders is old-fashioned.
[06:22] Kaede
You'll be a laughingstock.
[06:24] Kaede
Don't taint art with such clichéd prejudices.
[06:30] Kazuya
Who's he?
[06:30] Michitaka
Your senpai, third-year Mikuriya Kaede.
[06:34] Kazuya
Mikuriya Kaede-senpai!
[06:36] Kazuya
He knows that Artists and Graders are equal—
[06:41] Kaede
Artists are definitely better than
all you big-mouth scumbag Graders!
[06:47] Mashu
Save the sleep-talk for
when you're in bed, Artist.
[06:50] Mashu
But you'd better not sleep until
you've made your deadline.
[06:59] Kazuya
That guy's the monster from the Grader track!
[07:03] Nakashizu
Kirinoe Mashu-senpai.
[07:10] Kaede
You delusional people just go on
and on about the ideas in your head!
[07:14] Kaede
You have no idea how much work we put in!
[07:16] Kaede
If you wanna complain,
then paint for yourself!
[07:18] Mashu
Claiming the burden of
creation is a convenient excuse!
[07:21] Mashu
You're just making how
slow you are sound lofty!
[07:23] Mashu
Artists who can't meet their deadlines
should just keep quiet!
[07:26] Kaede
All you Graders can do is
nitpick every little thing.
[07:29] Kaede
It makes you mean!
[07:32] Mashu
If you people would just
finish pieces on time,
[07:35] Mashu
I'd be able to do whatever I wanted!
[07:38] Kaede
Unlike you guys, we can't just wait
around for pieces to be finished!
[07:41] Kaede
We have to scour the available resources
and expand our knowledge,
[07:44] Kaede
painting and erasing to showcase our aesthetic
[07:46] Kaede
until we produce something
we're satisfied with.
[07:48] Kaede
If you get that, then go and beg
for more time for us!
[07:51] Mashu
Even if you spend ages on a piece
to show off your self-satisfied aesthetic,
[07:54] Mashu
we Graders decide whether or not
the public gets to see it.
[07:57] Mashu
Graders are the arbiters of Perception Art.
[07:59] Mashu
If you get that, then shut up and make
your little doodles, you talentless hack!
[08:02] Kaede & Mashu
Why the hell do I have to pair up with you?!
[08:05] Kazuya & Jun
These guys are nuts!
[08:08] Chiharu
This is why we should've figured something
out before it ended up like this.
[08:13] Kyo
You're the one who started it.
[08:15] Jun
So this is the traditional war
between Artists and Graders...
[08:19] Michitaka
It's more intense than I imagined...
[08:21] Kohei
Well, Graders naturally
like to one-up Artists.
[08:26] Michitaka
Tose and...
[08:28] Jun
Shido, right?
[08:29] Shido
Yo.
[08:30] Kazuya
Graders like to one-up Artists?
[08:32] Kazuya
You need both to make Perception Art,
[08:35] Kazuya
so there's no point in that—
[08:36] Kohei
Oh, this kid's so pure.
[08:38] Yuichi
I think we Artists are
the real key to Perception Art.
[08:43] Yuichi
Without us, there literally
wouldn't be any pieces.
[08:47] Yuichi
In other words, I'm Perception Art!
[08:50] Kazuya/Jun/Michitaka
You are?
[08:51] Kohei
Still, no one would see your pieces.
[08:56] Yuichi
You're trying to one-up us too, Kohei?
[08:58] Kohei
It's just an objective fact.
[09:00] Jun
I see. So that's how the sparks
get fanned into flames.
[09:04] Jun
What a sad tradition.
[09:06] Yuichi
We totally get along, though.
[09:09] Yuichi
We went to the same art school as kids.
[09:12] Jun
Oh, really?
[09:13] Kohei
The same should go for those two too, but...
[09:16] Michitaka
Looks like they don't get along at all.
[09:18] Kohei
A lot's happened.
[09:19] Yuichi
Although I can't say
we had nothing to do with it.
[09:26] Kaede
Kohei, you get it, right?
[09:28] Kaede
You're the only one for me!
[09:29] Kaede
Just hurry up and partner with me already!
[09:32] Mashu
Sorry, but we can resolve this smoothly
if you just give yourself to Kaede.
[09:37] Mashu
Leave Yuichi to me!
[09:39] Kohei
Huh?
[09:40] Kohei
But Kaede-kun's love is too much. It's scary.
[09:43] Yuichi
I don't want to trade either.
[09:45] Yuichi
Mashu's so stubborn.
[09:48] Jun
Um... What's your relationship?
[09:51] Yuichi
These guys don't have any friends but us.
[09:53] Kohei
A lot's happened.
[09:55] Kohei
Kaede's never been very
sociable and lost faith in people.
[10:00] Kohei
He's kind of a mad dog now.
[10:02] Yuichi
Mashu has no tears or heart,
so all his friends left him.
[10:06] Mashu
It's not that I don't have friends!
[10:08] Mashu
I just eliminated unnecessary connections!
[10:11] Mashu
Yuichi, if we're together, victory is ours!
[10:14] Kaede
Sorry for yelling.
[10:15] Kaede
That damn Mashu drives me crazy!
[10:18] Mashu
You bastard. Don't blame
your barbarism on me.
[10:21] Kaede
Go away. I'm talking to Kohei!
[10:24] Kazuya
The four of you should talk this out!
[10:27] Michitaka
I'm slowly getting the full picture.
[10:29] Jun
Oh, do we have new Michitaka intel?
[10:31] Michitaka
The ones who objected to the Generals
were cases like these monsters and...
[10:35] Michitaka
those like Yura Takumi.
[10:37] Michitaka
Also...
[10:38] Kazuya
Wait, wait, wait.
[10:40] Kazuya
You can't lump him in
the same category as that!
[10:42] Kazuya
Kyo!
[10:44] Kazuya
Let's talk!
[10:46] Kyo
Leave me alone.
[10:47] Kazuya
Then give me your reason...
At least tell me why!
[10:50] Kyo
Are you sure you want me to say it?
[10:54] Kazuya
If there's someone else
you want to partner with,
[10:57] Kazuya
there's nothing I can do about it, but...
[11:03] Kyo
There is.
[11:07] Kazuya
Who?
[11:08] Kyo
Anyone but you.
[11:12] Jun & Michitaka
Too bad.
[11:15] Chiharu
You seem down, Ikaruga.
[11:17] Anjyu
I-I'm just planning to let
things run their course.
[11:21] Chiharu
Oh?
[11:23] Chiharu
How boring.
[11:25] Kazuya
Why don't you want to work with me?!
[11:27] Kyo
Because it's annoying to work with that
overpowering passion of yours.
[11:32] Kazuya
You haven't seen any of
my recent work, have you?!
[11:35] Kazuya
What if it's totally your style?!
[11:39] Jun
It's like a scene from hell.
[11:45] Yanagi
Shall we go home?
[12:09] Kyo
Yeah, any time.
[12:16] Jun
Why don't you go talk to him?
[12:17] Kazuya
No... I'll wait until the mood's right.
[12:20] Jun
You're won't get anywhere
waiting for the right mood.
[12:23] Kazuya
I can tell it'd never work right now!
[12:27] Kazuya
He'll just shut me down
and that'll be it. Poor me.
[12:30] Kazuya
Ow!
[12:32] Jun
Come on, come on.
[12:34] Kazuya
I know.
[12:39] Jun
He really can't do anything without me.
[12:43] Michitaka
Kazuya's got guts, but when it comes to
Takise-senpai, he keeps dragging his feet.
[12:49] Jun
He turns into a lovestruck maiden.
[12:51] Jun
He loves Kyo. He always has.
[12:56] Kazuya
Kyo.
[12:57] Kyo
This is a table for Graders.
[13:00] Kazuya
It's fine, isn't it?
[13:02] Kazuya
Michitaka's over on that side.
[13:04] Kyo
Nanba? He's related to Jun, right?
[13:07] Kyo
Isn't that why?
[13:09] Kazuya
Hey, listen...
[13:10] Kazuya
The teams will be decided tomorrow, right?
[13:13] Kazuya
So I at least want you
to know how I feel right now.
[13:18] Kazuya
I was really glad to be paired with you, Kyo.
[13:22] Kazuya
I really want to create something with you.
[13:27] Kazuya
That's all.
[13:29] Kyo
You said that I didn't know what
your work looks like these days, right?
[13:34] Kazuya
Huh?
[13:35] Kyo
What about you?
[13:37] Kyo
Do you know what kind of Grader I am?
[13:40] Kazuya
Well...
[13:43] Kyo
Look.
[13:45] Kyo
Kirinoe goes off like that
when he's with Mikuriya,
[13:48] Kyo
but he's an amazing Grader.
[13:50] Kyo
Sakaki's style is different than mine,
[13:53] Kyo
but he'd be able to lead
even a beginner like you well.
[13:57] Kazuya
So?
[13:59] Kyo
I can introduce you.
[14:01] Kyo
You should consider the other Graders.
[14:03] Kazuya
What? But—
[14:04] Chiharu
What's this? I was wondering
who you were talking to.
[14:09] Kyo
I'm done. Let's go.
[14:11] Kazuya
Wait, I'm not done yet!
[14:13] Chiharu
You heard him, Takise.
[14:16] Chiharu
He's your toy, right?
[14:17] Chiharu
Put him away properly before you leave.
[14:21] Kazuya
I'm not a toy!
[14:23] Kazuya
It's been bothering me since this afternoon.
[14:26] Kazuya
Artists are Graders' tools? Toys?
[14:30] Kazuya
Do you seriously think that?
[14:32] Kyo
Hey.
[14:33] Chiharu
I do.
[14:35] Chiharu
It's the job of a Grader to recognize
what tool is needed for a client's order.
[14:41] Chiharu
You guys can just draw what you like.
[14:44] Chiharu
The trade-off is that you'll always be used.
[14:49] Kazuya
Do you feel the same way, Kyo?
[14:55] Kazuya
I see. So that's how all Graders feel?
[15:00] Chiharu
Isn't it?
[15:02] Chiharu
By the way, by my estimate,
you're quite valuable.
[15:06] Kazuya
Huh?
[15:07] Chiharu
The Yamanashi brand.
[15:10] Chiharu
You're reaping the benefits of it, aren't you?
[15:16] Jun
Are you still mad?
[15:19] Kazuya
I don't know what I'm mad about,
[15:22] Kazuya
but I'm really annoyed.
[15:24] Jun
I mean, I wouldn't like someone calling it
the "Yamanashi brand" like that either.
[15:29] Yuichi
That has nothing to do with it.
[15:32] Yuichi
You inherited your talent from your folks,
[15:34] Yuichi
and then you came to like it.
Isn't that lucky?
[15:39] Yuichi
In other words, it just means
that you're amazing!
[15:45] Kazuya
All right! I'll do it!
[15:47] Jun
Do what?
[15:48] Kazuya
I'll get those Graders back.
[15:51] Kazuya
They just said whatever they wanted about us!
[15:54] Yuichi
Oh, a fight? I'm in, I'm in!
[15:57] Kazuya
It's not a fight.
[15:58] Kazuya
But I want to let them know
they won't get off the hook so easy
[16:03] Kazuya
for underestimating us Artists!
[16:06] Kaede
Well said, first-year.
[16:09] Kaede
We can't let this party end with those
damn Graders getting the upper hand.
[16:14] Kaede
It pisses me off so much, I could puke.
[16:16] Kaede
So, do you have a plan?
[16:20] Kazuya
If you're okay with it, Shido...
[16:32] Mashu
It's about time.
[16:34] Mashu
Let's go over our demands again.
[16:37] Kaede
Hang on.
[16:39] Kaede
You guys seem to be
evaluating us however you like,
[16:43] Kaede
but Artists have the right
to choose their Graders, too.
[16:47] Kaede
Tsuzuki!
[16:50] Kaede
Behold Haijima Iori and Shido Yuichi,
the Artists you Graders want.
[16:55] Kaede
But if you want us
to give you what you want,
[16:57] Kaede
you have to give us what we want, too.
[17:00] Kaede
If Tose Kohei agrees to
pair up with Mikuriya Kaede
[17:03] Kaede
and Takise Kyo agrees to
pair up with Kazuya Yamanashi,
[17:07] Kaede
then we'll give you Iori and Yuichi
for the teams you want.
[17:11] Takumi
We'll do it.
[17:12] Mashu
Don't decide for us, first-year!
[17:14] Kohei
When Kaede-kun gets like this,
he's not gonna back down.
[17:17] Kohei
I'm prepared to sell myself,
[17:21] Kohei
but this is better for you too,
right, Mashu-kun?
[17:23] Mashu
Still!
[17:25] Mashu
I can't stand him getting the upper hand!
[17:29] Mashu
It makes me want to hurl!
[17:31] Kyo
That guy...
[17:33] Chiharu
You really don't want
to partner with that first-year?
[17:37] Kyo
That's what I've been saying from the start.
[17:41] Chiharu
Then I'll help you.
[17:43] Kyo
Huh?
[17:44] Chiharu
Wait a minute!
[17:46] Chiharu
That squabbling foursome aside,
there's still the problem of Iori.
[17:52] Chiharu
We can't split him in two, after all.
[17:54] Kaede
That's up to you guys to figure out.
[17:57] Kaede
I won't let Haijima complain,
no matter who he ends up with.
[18:00] Chiharu
I can't accept a trade where
someone loses out like that.
[18:04] Chiharu
Our side has some conditions, too.
[18:10] Chiharu
I'd be okay giving Iori to this first-year.
[18:14] Chiharu
In exchange, he doesn't
have to be on Iori's level,
[18:17] Chiharu
but I want someone with some prestige.
[18:22] Jun
That means...
[18:24] Chiharu
The orphan of the creators
of Perception Art, the Yamanashis!
[18:29] Kazuya
No! I want Kyo—
[18:31] Chiharu
I'm saying that we can't
accept that condition.
[18:35] Chiharu
You're the ones who started this, right?
[18:37] Chiharu
Let's negotiate.
[18:41] Kazuya
I don't want to.
[18:43] Chiharu
I take good care of my tools, you know.
[18:47] Chiharu
I'm not picky, so it'll be easy for you.
[18:51] Kazuya
I don't want to be paired with you.
[18:54] Chiharu
Takise says he doesn't
want to be paired with you.
[18:57] Chiharu
Get a clue.
[18:59] Chiharu
It's just until the competition.
[19:02] Chiharu
There's no reason to get worked up.
[19:04] Chiharu
If you don't like it, do whatever you want.
[19:07] Chiharu
I just need your name.
[19:10] Chiharu
I'm not interested in
what your piece looks like.
[19:13] Kazuya
You're not taking good
care of anything that way.
[19:18] Kazuya
I finally figured out why I was annoyed.
[19:22] Kazuya
I don't care about myself.
[19:24] Kazuya
I really am riding my parents' coattails
[19:26] Kazuya
and I don't have any experience.
[19:29] Kazuya
But Perception Art isn't just
what you're making it out to be.
[19:36] Chiharu
Oh?
[19:38] Kazuya
My parents' art was warm. It smelled lovely.
[19:42] Kazuya
It was filled with kind feelings.
[19:45] Kazuya
They truly loved one another as partners
[19:48] Kazuya
and they cherished each other.
[19:51] Kazuya
I don't want you trampling on my
parents' legacy by calling it a "brand."
[20:01] Kyo
That's enough.
[20:03] Kyo
Graders aren't Artists' enemies.
[20:07] Kyo
There are Artists that I admire, too.
[20:10] Kyo
Even if their status was different
or they had a different way of thinking,
[20:15] Kyo
they never looked down on anyone
in the same art world.
[20:21] Kyo
Even now, that's what
I respect the most about them.
[20:41] Kazuya
Kyo! Please be my Grader!
[20:45] Kyo
Don't make me keep saying this. I—
[20:48] Kazuya
I don't care.
[20:51] Kazuya
No matter what you think of me,
I want you to be my partner.
[21:02] Yanagi
Time's up.
[21:03] Yanagi
You all still have your own armbands, right?
[21:06] Yuichi
Ah...
[21:07] Yanagi
This concludes the partner
reselection meeting.
[22:55] Jun
This is good, isn't it?
[22:56] Jun
You were able to make up.
[22:58] Kyo
It's only good for him.
[23:02] Jun
He's been living with us ever since that day.
[23:04] Jun
We were raised together.
[23:07] Jun
He's like a little brother to me.
[23:12] Jun
I know how hard he's been working.
[23:17] Jun
I'm sure the two of you will be
able to create something great!
[23:26] Chiharu
Thanks for waiting.
[23:27] Chiharu
I guess we should head back now.
[23:29] Kyo
Yeah.
[23:35] Sign
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