# E2 - A Knot in the Red Thread of Fate
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G2XU0D1KX/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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