Owarimonogatari
During October of his third year in high school, Koyomi Araragi is introduced to a transfer student named Ougi Oshino by his underclassman Kanbaru Suruga. Ougi tells Koyomi that she has something she wishes to consult with him. When she draws the map of Naoestu High School, she finds something peculiar on the map of Naoetsu High School she draws. This discovery reveals a tale that wasn’t meant to be told, and this makes Koyomi’s high school life totally different. This is the story that brings to light “what” makes Koyomi Araragi. This is the story that reveals the “beginning” of everything.

Season 1

E1 - Ougi Formula, Parts 1 - 2
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    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
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    Do you know about the
    "most beautiful formula in mathematics history"?
[00:06] ---
    It's eiπ+1=0, what people call Euler's Identity.
[00:12] ---
    The natural logarithmic base e,
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    the ratio of circumference to diameter pi,
    the imaginary number i, 1, and 0
[00:18] ---
    all fit into this equation with nothing superfluous,
    and fit in such a way that it was meant to be.
[00:22] ---
    If there is a god in this world,
[00:25] ---
    this is a piece of evidence
    that will be listed as one of the most credible.
[00:28] ---
    WHAT'S AMUSING, OR AT LEAST BEAUTIFUL,
    IS THAT THIS FORMULA WAS "PREDETERMINED."
[00:29] ---
    IT'S BEAUTIFUL,
    BUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S ALSO SCARY.
[00:30] ---
    And yet, Ougi Oshino - that transfer student -
    just might throw out some candid advice
[00:36] ---
    even for the beauty of Euler's Identity,
    just like this:
[00:41] ---
    Yes. It indeed is beautiful, Araragi-senpai.
[00:45] ---
    Beautiful, so beautiful,
    it just makes me swoon.
[00:49] ---
    The most beautiful part about it
    is that the answer is zero.
[00:53] ---
    That said, someone like me thinks
    that if the answer is going to be zero
[00:56] ---
    there's really no need
    to go out of your way to make the calculation.
[01:00] ---
    Hearing that, I reconfirm my belief;
[01:03] ---
    Ougi Oshino is Ougi Oshino,
    and there's no way to express it.
[01:07] ---
    Before her, everything is zero.
[01:10] ---
    No matter what she does
    that may seem out of character,
[01:12] ---
    it always ends up
    being something characteristic of her.
[01:14] ---
    And so, this time,
    we have a story about mathematics.
[01:18] ---
    Let's study.
[01:20] ---
    People tend to brace themselves
    when they hear "mathematics".
[01:23] ---
    So we can break it down
    and say this is a story about "arithmetic" instead.
[01:26] ---
    While we're at it, we can be more blunt
    and say this is a story about "numbers."
[01:29] ---
    After all, this is a story
    where strength in numbers provides a solution.
[01:33] ---
    In other words,
    it's a story about majority rule.
[01:37] ---
    Majority rule.
[01:39] ---
    The only method that can
    turn even a mistake into a truth.
[01:43] ---
    A formula of building blocks
    that pursues conspiring instead of happiness.
[01:48] ---
    Our inequality. Our unfair equation.
[01:51] ---
    INEQUALITY
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    UNFAIR EQUATION
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    What can truly be said as something humanity
    has invented is probably this and only this.
[01:57] ---
    And, this is the ugliest formula
    in human history.
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    OUGI FORMULA, PART ONE
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    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
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    If you were with
    an underclassman you've just met,
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    and you found yourselves trapped within a mysterious
    classroom, and an hour had already passed...
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    If you've ever had such an experience,
    I'd definitely like to seek your advice.
[03:50] ---
    It's no good, Araragi-senpai.
[03:53] ---
    Oh, that just now...
    I didn't mean that you're no good at all, okay?
[03:57] ---
    I've tried lots of things, but neither the
    big windows or the upper ones will budge one bit.
[04:01] ---
    That's what I meant.
[04:04] ---
    No...
[04:06] ---
    A misunderstanding
    where I feel like I'm no good?
[04:09] ---
    I hardly think this is a situation
    where I could do that.
[04:12] ---
    It's no good on my end either.
[04:14] ---
    It doesn't feel like they're locked or anything...
[04:17] ---
    Somehow, it feels more like they're held in place
    by something like glue.
[04:22] ---
    Yes. Just like I said before,
    the window will not budge, even a tiny bit.
[04:26] ---
    As for the locks, the crescent locks
    that are fixtures of these windows do move.
[04:32] ---
    However, the actual window frames don't move.
[04:35] ---
    Right, so it "feels more like" they're held in place
    by something like a glue.
[04:42] ---
    We have no choice.
    Let's wait for help from outside, Ougi.
[04:46] ---
    Fortunately, the fact that we're here
    is something Kanbaru knows about.
[04:50] ---
    I don't know about that.
[04:51] ---
    You're relying on someone else
    to help you, Araragi-senpai?
[04:55] ---
    All people can do
    is save themselves on their own.
[05:00] ---
    Yet...
[05:01] ---
    Excuse me.
    This was a principle that my uncle used.
[05:04] ---
    It has nothing to do with me
    or with you, Araragi-senpai.
[05:08] ---
    But in any case, Araragi-senpai,
    it's not a bad thing to rely on one's comrades.
[05:14] ---
    But fundamentally, I don't think we should give up
    trying to escape by our own strength.
[05:21] ---
    Because...
[05:26] ---
    The hands of the clock,
    from the moment we entered this classroom...
[05:30] ---
    They hadn't moved a minute...
    not even a second.
[05:33] ---
    Out of batteries?
    I don't think it'd be anything like that.
[05:38] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[05:39] ---
    Everything began on a certain day
    at the end of October,
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    NAOETSU HIGH SCHOOL
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    roughly six months since spring break,
[05:45] ---
    when I was assaulted by a vampire
    with blonde hair and golden eyes.
[05:49] ---
    Hey, Araragi-senpai!
    It's me, Suruga Kanbaru!
[05:52] ---
    Are you alone? Yeah, you're alone!
[05:54] ---
    Actually, there's someone
    I want to introduce to you, Araragi-senpai!
[05:59] ---
    Isn't she cute?
[06:01] ---
    So, what's with that girl?
    You said you wanted to introduce her to me...
[06:05] ---
    She said she had something she wanted advice about.
    From you, Araragi-senpai.
[06:08] ---
    So I want you to go meet her.
[06:10] ---
    So, what's this advice that she wants?
[06:12] ---
    I didn't hear all the details either,
    but it's apparently some advice about apparitions.
[06:19] ---
    Yeah, it somehow seems like
    she knows something.
[06:22] ---
    She knew about my left hand,
    and also about your blood, Araragi-senpai.
[06:27] ---
    She said she heard them all from her uncle.
[06:30] ---
    Uncle...
[06:31] ---
    She's a first-year that transferred into this school
    just the other day.
[06:35] ---
    Surprisingly enough,
    she's apparently the niece of old Oshino.
[06:39] ---
    Her name is Ougi Oshino.
[06:45] ---
    This is strange.
[06:48] ---
    Strange.
[06:49] ---
    It is mysterious.
[06:51] ---
    Mysterious.
[06:52] ---
    In other words... It's suspicious.
[06:55] ---
    Suspicious...
[06:56] ---
    ...and different.
[07:00] ---
    This is strange...
[07:06] ---
    Um, will you listen to me, Araragi-senpai?
[07:09] ---
    Oh, well...
[07:11] ---
    Too many school buildings,
    or something like that?
[07:14] ---
    Like how you can save costs enough for one whole building
    if you think about the total number of students...
[07:19] ---
    That's not it at all.
    Are you a fool or something?
[07:23] ---
    This is where I'm talking about.
[07:26] ---
    Where?
[07:27] ---
    Here. The layout is a bit odd here.
[07:30] ---
    I guess more unnatural than odd?
[07:32] ---
    See, look at the floors
    right above and right below it.
[07:35] ---
    Each of them have proper rooms here, right?
[07:38] ---
    Then, this place which is in-between both of them
    needs to have a room here, or it ends up being strange.
[07:44] ---
    Strange...
[07:45] ---
    But, there is a proper room here
    on the 3rd floor, too. The audiovisual room.
[07:45] ---
    AUDIOVISUAL ROOM
[07:50] ---
    That's because the floor plan is mistaken.
[07:53] ---
    Instead of mistaken,
    more like it was drawn based on reality,
[07:57] ---
    but the actual audiovisual room
    isn't this long.
[08:01] ---
    Compared to the others, it's drawn to be about
    1.5 times longer than it actually is. Don't you notice it?
[08:07] ---
    What's this? By any chance,
    do you doubt me, Araragi-senpai?
[08:11] ---
    It hurts me that
    you'd doubt me, Araragi-senpai.
[08:15] ---
    No, you don't like me enough
    to be hurt by me doubting you.
[08:19] ---
    No, no... I do fancy you quite a bit.
    I fancy the fool that is easily deceived.
[08:27] ---
    In mystery novels, when the floor plan
    and reality don't match like this...
[08:32] ---
    A majority of the cases ends up
    having a hidden room at that location.
[08:36] ---
    However, if this is some sort of phenomenon
    caused by an apparition...
[08:41] ---
    I thought it'd be better to investigate
    before there's any damage done by it.
[08:46] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[08:58] ---
    What? I wonder what this classroom is.
[09:01] ---
    When I walked by here to make the floorplan,
    this place didn't exist.
[09:07] ---
    Such a mystery!
[09:09] ---
    In any case... Let's try going in.
[09:26] ---
    And that's how we got to where we are now.
[09:29] ---
    What do you think about this, Araragi-senpai?
[09:32] ---
    What do I think?
    Well, nothing of any note, really.
[09:35] ---
    But Ougi, if this was a phenomenon
    caused by an apparition... what kind of apparition is it?
[09:40] ---
    Who knows? Unlike my uncle,
    I don't have much quaint knowledge.
[09:46] ---
    I only know about the major apparitions
    that show up in manga and in movies.
[09:49] ---
    OUGI / KOYOMI
[09:50] ---
    But, Araragi-senpai,
    there is one thing I can say.
[09:54] ---
    That is, an apparition has a reason
    befitting it behind it...
[09:59] ---
    WHICH MEANS, UNRAVELING THE REASON WHY
    WILL LEAD TO OUR ESCAPE FROM HERE.
[10:01] ---
    Even so, what meaning is behind this situation
    where we can't get out of this classroom?
[10:05] ---
    And about how the clock has stopped, too.
[10:08] ---
    Perhaps the clock being stopped
    is the key to all this, surprisingly enough?
[10:11] ---
    Because it showing such a random time
    does give a feeling of wrongness after all, right?
[10:16] ---
    Speaking of 6:00PM, that's when
    we have to leave this high school campus.
[10:20] ---
    At a time when students
    must go home from their classrooms,
[10:23] ---
    this phenomenon locks students
    inside the classroom.
[10:25] ---
    What's the meaning behind it?
[10:28] ---
    It's time to leave school,
    but not being allowed to go home...
[10:32] ---
    I guess you could call it
    an overtime class or something?
[10:35] ---
    Overtime...
[10:38] ---
    Have you ever had it before, Araragi-senpai?
[10:40] ---
    An experience of taking
    overtime supplementary lessons.
[10:43] ---
    I may look like this, but I do have pretty good brains,
    so I don't recall anything much like that.
[10:48] ---
    Me neither.
[10:50] ---
    Oh, is that so?
[10:53] ---
    In my case, even if I'm told to stay overtime
    or to take supplementary lessons,
[10:56] ---
    I end up ditching most of them.
[10:58] ---
    But, yeah, last year, or two years ago...
    especially when I was a first-year.
[11:04] ---
    Back when I was a first-year?
[11:08] ---
    What's wrong, Araragi-senpai?
[11:09] ---
    Your flag color looks a bit off...
    no wait, your facial color is a bit pale.
[11:14] ---
    Is that so? Sorry,
    I just had a slight dizzy spell.
[11:18] ---
    No need to apologize. Not at all.
    You don't have to apologize.
[11:22] ---
    I'm sure that with an unreliable underclassman
    before you so, your nerves must be strained.
[11:25] ---
    Perhaps you've gotten a bit tired?
[11:28] ---
    How about you sit in one of those chairs?
[11:42] ---
    Why did you sit there?
[11:45] ---
    What? You ask me why, but...
    Wasn't it because you recommended it, Ougi?
[11:50] ---
    No, no, I mean...
    There are a lot of chairs in this classroom.
[11:54] ---
    I'm asking why you chose that seat.
[11:59] ---
    I just felt like it.
[12:00] ---
    You just felt like it?
    That seat was easy to sit at?
[12:03] ---
    It looked like it was going to be
    comfortable sitting there?
[12:05] ---
    No, how comfortable it is won't change much
    no matter which chair you pick, I think...
[12:11] ---
    But, well...
[12:12] ---
    But, well?
[12:14] ---
    I'm used to sitting here.
[12:17] ---
    That's how I felt.
[12:20] ---
    Is that true?
[12:21] ---
    What? What was that, Ougi?
[12:24] ---
    No, I am merely going through
    every single possibility.
[12:28] ---
    One possibility is that perhaps you, Araragi-senpai,
    sat in that chair in the past.
[12:33] ---
    So once it came time to settle down into a seat,
    can it be that you chose that seat without hesitation?
[12:39] ---
    No, that's way too wild an idea.
[12:42] ---
    Until just now, I didn't even know
    that there was a classroom in this location.
[12:46] ---
    As for me, when I investigated
    around here for the first time,
[12:50] ---
    a classroom like this didn't exist.
[12:52] ---
    However, when I came here with you,
    Araragi-senpai, this classroom appeared.
[12:57] ---
    Then, to think that this classroom is somehow
    associated with you is something very natural to me.
[13:03] ---
    I guess that's how it works out.
[13:05] ---
    Besides, you said so yourself,
    Araragi-senpai...
[13:08] ---
    that you somehow felt like
    you've seen the scenery from this window.
[13:13] ---
    Did I say such a thing?
[13:14] ---
    You did. Right when we entered the classroom,
    before we realized we'd been locked in here.
[13:20] ---
    I don't recall saying so...
    But since she clearly asserts so, I'm sure I did say it.
[13:27] ---
    It's true that somehow...
[13:29] ---
    My memory... is being stimulated.
[14:00] ---
    My oh my. What's wrong, Araragi-senpai?
[14:03] ---
    It doesn't seem like
    you came up with an idea.
[14:06] ---
    Perhaps I said something
    without picking up some hint?
[14:10] ---
    Something you didn't want to remember...
    have you remembered something of that sort?
[14:14] ---
    No, it's not something like that.
    There's nothing that came back into my memory.
[14:18] ---
    That's right...
    Nothing has come back into my memory.
[14:22] ---
    Because... I've never forgotten about it at all.
[14:26] ---
    Because there's no way
    I can forget an incident like that.
[14:28] ---
    CLASS 1-3 / KOYOMI ARARAGI
[14:31] ---
    What? Wasn't that textbook labeled "Araragi"?
[14:35] ---
    That's strange, that's mysterious.
    Why is that so?
[14:38] ---
    Why is Araragi-senpai's textbook
    inside this classroom?
[14:42] ---
    Ougi... Do you know something?
[14:46] ---
    I don't know anything.
[14:49] ---
    You're the one that knows.
[14:57] ---
    Ougi, is there anything
    that can tell today's date around there?
[15:02] ---
    The date, you say?
[15:03] ---
    Yeah, today... No, I mean the date in this classroom.
    I want to know what it is.
[15:09] ---
    Something like that's
    written on the blackboard.
[15:12] ---
    Please take a look. See?
[15:13] ---
    JULY 15 (THU)
[15:16] ---
    Whoa. It was July 15th today.
[15:21] ---
    Then, is it adequate to think of it like this?
[15:24] ---
    In this classroom, on Thursday, July 15th,
    around 6:00PM, something happened...
[15:30] ---
    And I'm sure it was something
    full of resentment.
[15:33] ---
    And that resentment, like this,
    has solidified into the form of an apparition.
[15:36] ---
    There's no doubt about it.
[15:41] ---
    That classroom on the fifth floor
    of the building facing the gym.
[15:45] ---
    Class 1-3 was right in the middle,
[15:47] ---
    and after school on July 15th
    a class assembly was being held.
[15:51] ---
    A class assembly that you could call a trial.
[15:53] ---
    Concerning a certain incident,
    we denounced each other.
[15:58] ---
    And I, Koyomi Araragi from class 1-3,
    was at the center of said trial.
[16:05] ---
    That's right. Wasn't it since that very day
    that I started to say something of that nature?
[16:09] ---
    "I don't need friends.
[16:12] ---
    If I make friends,
    my strength as a human decreases."
[16:16] ---
    It was your pet phrase,
    wasn't it, Araragi-senpai?
[16:19] ---
    Though, ever since you had that experience
    with Ms. Tsubasa Hanekawa,
[16:22] ---
    you apparently never said it again.
[16:24] ---
    Well, meeting people does change people, I guess.
[16:29] ---
    Then, I shall ask out of curiosity.
[16:32] ---
    In this classroom, in what way,
    Araragi-senpai, did you change?
[16:36] ---
    The folks in class 1-3...
    How did they change you?
[16:40] ---
    Change... me...
[16:42] ---
    I heard that the you in middle school
    and the you in high school
[16:45] ---
    have drastically different personalities,
    you know?
[16:47] ---
    The reason behind it, perhaps,
    is right here in this classroom?
[16:54] ---
    What happened, Araragi-senpai?
    In this classroom, that day, that moment...
[17:01] ---
    Let's just talk about it, Araragi-senpai.
[17:04] ---
    Koyomi Araragi.
[17:06] ---
    You'll feel at ease once you talk about it.
[17:08] ---
    No matter how horrible the memory,
    after it all comes out it becomes just a story.
[17:12] ---
    A story...
[17:14] ---
    It's fine. I'll listen to it for you.
[17:17] ---
    I may look like this,
    but I am pretty understanding of things.
[17:24] ---
    We can't get out.
[17:25] ---
    Yes?
[17:26] ---
    We can't get out.
[17:28] ---
    Until we know who the culprit was,
    we're not allowed to leave this classroom.
[17:33] ---
    What we did... what we forced upon ourselves...
    was a class assembly of that sort.
[17:39] ---
    It may be a story hard to believe...
    But there, I was the one presiding over the assembly.
[17:47] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[17:48] ---
    TWO YEARS AGO
[17:57] ---
    Her name was Sodachi Oikura.
[18:00] ---
    She herself wanted to be called "Euler",
    but in reality everyone called her "How much".
[18:06] ---
    I'm sure it was a nickname
    that came from her last name,
[18:09] ---
    but because she looks at others
    as though appraising them,
[18:12] ---
    I think it was strangely appropriate.
[18:14] ---
    SODACHI OIKURA
[18:18] ---
    Prez Oikura.
[18:20] ---
    Were you the one that called for me?
[18:22] ---
    Hurry up and get in here.
    Everyone's been waiting for you.
[18:33] ---
    Inside the classroom,
    the members of class 1-3 were all present.
[18:38] ---
    Not one person was missing.
[18:40] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[18:40] ---
    So, everyone, huh...
    So I guess you have full members.
[18:46] ---
    Right now, this is an empty classroom as you can see,
    but then, every seat had been taken, huh?
[18:52] ---
    I see, I see. Time flies like an arrow.
    They say ten years can feel like one day.
[18:56] ---
    TEN YEARS (CAN FEEL LIKE) ONE DAY
[18:57] ---
    Yeah... No, but it's not ten years,
    it's only two years.
[18:59] ---
    TWO YEARS (CAN FEEL LIKE) ONE DAY
[19:00] ---
    Well, if we start talking about details,
    Oikura was standing at the teacher's desk.
[19:04] ---
    On top of the teacher's desk?
[19:06] ---
    Oikura wasn't that strange a class president.
[19:09] ---
    Anyway, she was standing at the teacher's desk,
    and made the declaration:
[19:14] ---
    "Now, we will begin our special class assembly."
[19:19] ---
    But that's rather mysterious.
[19:20] ---
    Araragi-senpai, you didn't know that
    this class assembly was being held
[19:24] ---
    until right before it started, right?
[19:26] ---
    That was simply a mistake
    in relaying information, apparently.
[19:30] ---
    Everyone in class was supposed to get
    some kind of a network message that day,
[19:33] ---
    whether it be a folded-up note, a text,
    or stuff like that going around the class.
[19:38] ---
    But not one of them reached me.
[19:42] ---
    That's... What you would call the lone wolf?
[19:47] ---
    That's somewhat a misunderstanding.
[19:48] ---
    IT'S NOT A COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDING, THOUGH.
    KOYOMI ARARAGI = LONE WOLF
[19:49] ---
    Ougi, this is a story of the process
[19:53] ---
    in which someone with no friends
    ends up not needing any friends.
[19:56] ---
    Then, let me take a proper posture as I listen to it.
[19:59] ---
    To this story about some special class assembly
    or something like that.
[20:02] ---
    Of today's discussion topic
    at the class assembly...
[20:04] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[20:06] ---
    First off, Oikura brought this subject up:
[20:09] ---
    Today's topic is "figuring out the culprit."
[20:11] ---
    Until we figure out the culprit,
    or until the culprit speaks up on his own behalf,
[20:16] ---
    I won't allow anyone out of this classroom.
    Prepare yourselves for that.
[20:24] ---
    I confirmed the seat of Hitagi Senjyogahara.
[20:27] ---
    She was very frail in health,
[20:29] ---
    and my image of her was that she didn't
    come to school for even half of the first term.
[20:32] ---
    Even she was here like this, so it could be assumed
    that the situation was very serious.
[20:39] ---
    "Figuring out the culprit"...
[20:40] ---
    That doesn't sound too peaceful.
    What in the world had happened?
[20:44] ---
    CURRICULUM SCHEDULE
[20:44] ---
    After school on the day
    before final exams began,
[20:47] ---
    we had asked for volunteers and held
    a study group for mathematics in the classroom.
[20:47] ---
    TEST SCHEDULE
[20:51] ---
    INFORMATION ABOUT A STUDY GROUP
[20:52] ---
    Apparently Oikura had participated
    in this study group.
[20:55] ---
    I see, a study group.
SIGN    TEST RESULTS
[20:57] ---
    But after the exams were over,
    there was a discrepancy averaging 20 points
[21:01] ---
    between those that participated in this study group,
    and those that didn't.
[21:07] ---
    Oikura's assertion was that this should be taken
    as some sort of dishonest act happening.
[21:12] ---
    That someone obtained the math exam questions
    from the teachers' office
[21:16] ---
    and discreetly used the contents of the exam
    during the study group.
[21:20] ---
    That was why the scores of the students
    that joined the study group were all higher.
[21:25] ---
    JULY 15 (THU) DAILY DUTIES: KOUMA/MARIZUMI
[21:26] ---
    If there was someone who disgraced
    the holy study group, as well as the sacred final exam,
[21:31] ---
    that's something that cannot be forgiven.
[21:34] ---
    Those that did not attend the study group
    shouldn't feel that this has nothing to do with you, either.
[21:39] ---
    This is an issue involving all of us,
    the entirety of class 1-3.
[21:42] ---
    I repeat—
[21:48] ---
    Until we figure out the culprit,
    or until the culprit speaks up on his own behalf,
[21:52] ---
    I won't allow anyone out of this classroom.
    Prepare yourselves for that.
[21:56] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[21:58] ---
    That means, after that,
[21:59] ---
    Oikura-senpai handed over the role
    of presiding over the assembly to you?
[22:04] ---
    The story was that you were the one
    presiding over the assembly, correct?
[22:08] ---
    Yeah, that's right.
    That's where the presiding member changed.
[22:11] ---
    PRESIDING MEMBER - KOYOMI ARARAGI
[22:12] ---
    Why were you appointed to do so, Araragi-senpai?
[22:14] ---
    CLASS 1-3 SEATING CHART
[22:15] ---
    You realize that it would be bad for someone
    who was part of the study group to preside over this, right?
[22:19] ---
    That said, you can't say that just anyone
    of those that remain can do the job, either.
[22:23] ---
    After all, at the center of the issue
    was the math exam.
[22:26] ---
    You can't avoid inspecting the exam questions
    as a topic for the debate.
[22:30] ---
    That would mean that someone who doesn't
    have a high math score can't preside either, right?
[22:35] ---
    Sure, well... I guess that would be so?
[22:38] ---
    But, those who were absent
    from the study group;
[22:40] ---
    those who chose not to go
    to the study group in the first place,
[22:43] ---
    their scores were on average 20 points
    below those that went, right?
[22:47] ---
    Is there such a person
    among those that didn't go,
[22:50] ---
    someone who scored well enough
    to match those that did?
[22:53] ---
    Of course there is.
[22:55] ---
    But, I was the only one that scored better
    than every single student that was in the study group.
[23:02] ---
    That's why I was chosen
    to preside over the assembly.
[23:05] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[23:07] ---
    One hundred percent.
SIGN    KOYOMI ARARAGI
[23:08] ---
    A score of 100, when the perfect score is 100.
[23:10] ---
    That was my score in mathematics
    on the final exam.
[23:14] ---
    Now, let's have you
    move this along quickly, Araragi.
[23:21] ---
    I think it came across already,
[23:23] ---
    but the reason why Class President Oikura
    hates me to a psychotic extent
[23:26] ---
    is because I was good at math.
[23:29] ---
    SODACHI OIKURA
[23:29] ---
    She had strong conviction that the reason
    why nobody called her "Euler" was because of me;
[23:33] ---
    because I was always above her
    when it came to math scores.
[23:33] ---
    KOYOMI ARARAGI
[23:38] ---
    Then...
[23:39] ---
    To start, everyone that was part of the study group,
    please raise your hand.
[23:44] ---
    As a result, it became clear that there were
    19 students that were part of the study group.
[23:49] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[23:52] ---
    But that means you were able to
    narrow it down to 19 suspects.
[23:56] ---
    This gets me excited.
[23:58] ---
    Well, saying something like that
    is imprudent and might need repentance.
[24:03] ---
    I'll say it right now, Ougi.
[24:06] ---
    The culprit will not be determined
    in this class assembly.
[24:10] ---
    The situation gets as grim
    as it can get,
[24:12] ---
    and well, everyone gets worn out
    and it ends without anyone figuring anything out.
[24:16] ---
    And then...
[24:18] ---
    Oh, so that's it!
[24:19] ---
    I figured out how we can escape
    from this classroom, Araragi-senpai.
[24:25] ---
    In other words, by now solving this incident
    that remained unsolved two years ago,
[24:29] ---
    we can get out of here.
[24:33] ---
    What do you mean by that?
[24:35] ---
    "Until we figure out the culprit,
    I won't allow anyone out of this classroom,"
[24:39] ---
    is what Oikura-senpai said, right?
[24:41] ---
    Reversing that, if we can determine
    the culprit of that incident,
[24:44] ---
    we can escape from this room.
    That's what this means, right?
[24:49] ---
    The regrets in the hearts of the students
    in class 1-3 back then
[24:54] ---
    probably materialized in the void
    within this school.
[24:57] ---
    If anything, I guess you can say
    this is the ghost of the class assembly.
[25:00] ---
    The ghost of the class assembly...
[25:02] ---
    Are you saying I've been trapped by something
    as incomprehensible as that? Why me?
[25:08] ---
    Who knows?
[25:09] ---
    It could be that you were the one
    who took this the most to heart. Perhaps so.
[25:15] ---
    JULY 15 (THU)
[25:15] ---
    Because Araragi-senpai,
    your life drastically changed on that day.
[25:20] ---
    Drastically changed...
[25:21] ---
    Ever since that day,
    you've avoided thinking about that incident.
[25:25] ---
    You've been evading it.
[25:26] ---
    There hasn't been a day
    where you've forgotten about it,
[25:28] ---
    but there also isn't a day
    where you've thought about it.
[25:31] ---
    But it has finally come -
    the day to face your past.
[25:36] ---
    The time for you to unravel all the mysteries.
[25:40] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[25:41] ---
    KEIRI ASHINE
[25:42] ---
    MICHISADA IGAMI
[25:43] ---
    SODACHI OIKURA
[25:43] ---
    ENJI KIKIGOE
[25:44] ---
    HOKA KIJIKIRI
[25:45] ---
    AIZU KUBE
[25:46] ---
    NAGEKI GEKIZAKA
[25:46] ---
    SOUSHO KOUDOU
[25:47] ---
    TSUUMA SHUUI
[25:48] ---
    JUUDO SHUZAWA
[25:49] ---
    KOKUSHI SUUCHI
[25:49] ---
    KIICHIGO DAINO
[25:50] ---
    CHOUKA NAGAGUTSU
[25:51] ---
    ROKA HAGA
[25:52] ---
    SEKIROU HIGUMA
[25:52] ---
    JOURO HISHIGATA
[25:53] ---
    SHIJIMA FUDOU
[25:54] ---
    KABE MADOMURA
[25:55] ---
    SHOUKEI YOKI
[25:55] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[25:57] ---
    After that, what happened to the class assembly?
[26:00] ---
    When we figured out the names
    of the 19 people,
[26:03] ---
    BIWA ARIKURE
[26:03] ---
    someone named Arikure complained that
    the culprit may not necessarily be one of the 19.
[26:09] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[26:10] ---
    So even if they weren't
    part of the study group,
[26:12] ---
    everyone who had a high score
    should be added to the suspects list.
SIGN    MIAWA MEBE 95 SEIKO HAYAMACHI 92 HITAGI SENJYOGAHARA 98 OKITADA KOUMA 99 KOYOMI ARARAGI 100
[26:16] ---
    Then, Araragi-senpai, you were tossed
    into the suspect list as well?
[26:20] ---
    I guess that's what happened.
[26:22] ---
    And, after that?
[26:24] ---
    After that, Marizumi
[26:25] ---
    HYOUI MARIZUMI
[26:26] ---
    objected, saying it was suspect as to whether
    such a study group happened to begin with.
[26:30] ---
    That's rather fundamental, to say...
[26:33] ---
    STUDY GROUP
[26:34] ---
    But right afterwards, there was a statement
    that the study group was indeed held.
[26:38] ---
    Sunahama, the one assigned to daily duties
    on the day of the math exam, came to school early.
[26:41] ---
    RUISE SUNAHAMA
[26:42] ---
    Apparently, she had to clean up after the study group
    that left the classroom in a disarray.
[26:46] ---
    Clean up?
[26:47] ---
    Like lining the desks back up again,
    erasing the chalkboard,
[26:50] ---
    taking out the trash
    from all the snacks, she said.
[26:53] ---
    Tetsujo, who also came to school early
    helped her out, apparently.
[26:55] ---
    KOMICHI TETSUJO
[26:57] ---
    What other arguments were made?
[26:59] ---
    MATH
[27:00] ---
    Well, if I recall...
[27:01] ---
    If someone were to secretly pass on
    the model answers to the study group...
[27:02] ---
    FINAL EXAMS
[27:05] ---
    In reality, if someone were to do that,
    someone would be sure to notice, Higuma said.
[27:09] ---
    SEKIROU HIGUMA
[27:10] ---
    He said that if something like that happened,
    something somewhere would seem a bit forced.
[27:13] ---
    I see. That is a valid point.
[27:15] ---
    OIKURA DID NOT ALLOW THAT.
[27:15] ---
    And then, Oikura...
[27:16] ---
    SHE WAS PERSISTENT ABOUT CONTINUING THIS
    "FIGURING OUT THE CULPRIT" ORDEAL.
[27:18] ---
    Then, from here, we can verify
    the specific contents of the exam questions.
[27:22] ---
    Seeing how much overlap there is
[27:24] ---
    between the problems in the study group
    and the actual exam questions
[27:27] ---
    should be determined based on the statements
    from every member of the study group.
[27:30] ---
    AND THEN, WE WILL DETERMINE THE CULPRIT.
[27:31] ---
    I WON'T ALLOW ANYONE OUT OF THE CLASSROOM.
[27:33] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[27:34] ---
    Being in the center of such ugly arguments,
    meandering debates, and wasteful exchanges...
[27:40] ---
    Araragi-senpai, you must have gotten sick
    of organisms called human beings.
[27:47] ---
    That's not it.
[27:48] ---
    Oh?
[27:49] ---
    Ougi. What I felt despair about
    wasn't the debate, but the outcome.
[27:54] ---
    THE FEELING THAT WE WERE MAKING THE CORRECT DEBATE
    WAS OUT THERE SOMEWHERE.
[27:56] ---
    Nobody had thought that the outcome
    would be like that.
[27:59] ---
    In pursuit of the just,
    we made a definitive mistake.
[28:04] ---
    And at that moment,
    I had lost sight of my own sense of justice.
[28:08] ---
    The outcome?
[28:09] ---
    But the outcome was that
    you didn't know who the culprit was, right?
[28:13] ---
    It's true that if the outcome of the debate is such,
    you'd surely feel that everything was pointless.
[28:17] ---
    But it's not enough to feel despair about it, right?
[28:21] ---
    Yeah. That's right.
    We never figured out who the culprit was...
[28:24] ---
    But it wasn't that
    we didn't specify someone as one.
[28:27] ---
    Huh?
[28:28] ---
    That's the cause for despair.
    The truth that even the unknown can be decided...
[28:34] ---
    That was why I felt despair.
[28:36] ---
    I DON'T NEED ANY FRIENDS.
[28:37] ---
    I see... I see... I see...
[28:40] ---
    Then, Araragi-senpai.
[28:42] ---
    I'd like you to tell me what happened after that.
[28:46] ---
    The time to leave school
    is coming up soon, isn't it?
[28:50] ---
    You held a debate for over two hours in a locked room,
    and everyone should be at their mental limits.
[28:55] ---
    And in that critical moment...
    What kind of conclusion did you all come up with?
[29:00] ---
    Where did you guys end up?
[29:04] ---
    This is staying on my mind.
    What happened?
[29:08] ---
    Even if there are all sorts
    of twists and turns,
[29:10] ---
    somehow overcoming the many obstacles
    and the confusion from rubbish,
[29:13] ---
    if everyone, every single one,
    fully becomes happy, I'd like that!
[29:19] ---
    IT'S TRUE THAT WE WEREN'T ABLE TO BECOME HAPPY—
[29:22] ---
    IF SO, BACK THEN,
    WHAT IN THE WORLD HAD WE BECOME?
[29:25] ---
    OUGI FORMULA, PART TWO
[29:28] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[29:30] ---
    I've had enough. This is too tedious.
    Let's just say I did it and end this debate.
[29:34] ---
    You starting to say stuff like that is out of the question.
    Are you covering for someone?
[29:38] ---
    You must know who the culprit is, then!
[29:39] ---
    In the first place, is there really a culprit?
[29:41] ---
    We started talking on the assumption that there is one.
    Don't bring that up again.
[29:44] ---
    No, as a real question, is someone that would steal
    exam questions from the teachers' office really among us?
[29:50] ---
    Before we start talking about ethics,
    it's more about whether or not that is physically possible.
[29:53] ---
    No, I'm talking about whether or not
    there's enough guts to do that.
[29:55] ---
    Are you guys stupid?
[29:56] ---
    Is there any meaning to having such a debate?
    Everyone is just lying.
[29:59] ---
    I can't bear to listen to this.
[30:00] ---
    Nowadays, they make exam questions
    on computers and stuff, right?
[30:02] ---
    Even if you don't physically
    walk into the teachers' office,
[30:02] ---
    I'm sorry, can I ask you all to raise your hand
    before speaking from hereon?
[30:03] ---
    you can hack your way in
    or something to steal them, can't you?
[30:05] ---
    You've been watching too many dramas.
[30:06] ---
    I'll repeat myself, but I think it was Oikura
    that was teaching the last problem during the study group.
[30:11] ---
    Though I can't be sure of it.
[30:12] ---
    Don't say anything that you can't be sure of.
[30:14] ---
    Can you hold responsibility
    if you ruin someone's life because of it?
[30:16] ---
    You've always been like that, too.
[30:19] ---
    Please raise your hand.
[30:20] ---
    You know, I want to go home already.
[30:22] ---
    Can you do debates like this
    somewhere that I'm not around?
[30:25] ---
    I won't let you go home.
[30:26] ---
    If you go home, they might make you
    into the culprit, you know?
[30:28] ---
    That's fine with me.
[30:29] ---
    I'm sorry, everyone, can you all please calm down.
    Let's all regain our cool.
[30:31] ---
    Why are you acting so tough?
[30:32] ---
    Like this is something we can stay cool about!
[30:34] ---
    Please raise your hand to speak—
[30:35] ---
    In the first place, Araragi got 100%
    so this is a test that can be solved, right?
[30:39] ---
    Why are we talking about cheating or dishonest acts?
    It's nonsense.
[30:41] ---
    You've been quiet all this time,
    but what do you think about this, Senjyogahara?
[30:44] ---
    I'm not quite sure.
[30:46] ---
    Hey guys, I have something I want to say.
[30:47] ---
    Save it for later!
[30:49] ---
    Araragi, keep this progressing properly.
[30:51] ---
    You say that, but...
[30:53] ---
    In the first place, why did we
    hold a study group for just math?
[30:56] ---
    If there was one for history,
    then I would have joined up.
[30:59] ---
    Of course it's because it looks bad for
    the math teacher if her homeroom class
[31:03] ---
    had a terrible average score for math.
[31:05] ---
    In other words, it's just for vanity.
[31:06] ---
    It's what you can call
    Miss Class President racking up brownie points.
[31:09] ---
    That's not the reason at all.
[31:10] ---
    It is because mathematics
    is the most beautiful subject in all academics.
[31:14] ---
    You're the only one that thinks that.
[31:16] ---
    What's this about beauty?
    So it really is just your convenience after all.
[31:19] ---
    You can't understand the beauty of mathematics?
[31:21] ---
    Damn you!
[31:22] ---
    Please refrain from fighting.
[31:23] ---
    We're not fighting.
    It's because he started saying weird stuff...
[31:24] ---
    I have an alibi!
[31:25] ---
    We can't even determine when it was done,
    how can you have an alibi?
[31:26] ---
    Like it was weird for me to be in this high school.
[31:28] ---
    I have a witness. There is someone
    that would guarantee that I'd never do such a thing.
[31:28] ---
    I didn't go that far!
[31:31] ---
    We can't keep this going anymore.
    This has gotten out of control.
[31:35] ---
    Give me a break, Oikura. I can't handle this.
[31:38] ---
    Let's end this before it gets any worse.
[31:41] ---
    What are you whining about?
[31:43] ---
    You got a better score than I did,
    and you're going to give up?
[31:46] ---
    Yeah, I'm going to give up. It's impossible.
[31:49] ---
    Until we figure out the culprit...
    I won't allow anyone to go home.
[31:52] ---
    You can't do such a thing.
[31:54] ---
    When the chime to leave campus sounds,
    we're all going to go home.
[31:57] ---
    You have a proper understanding of that, right?
[32:02] ---
    I had forgotten...
    just how much Oikura harbored a hatred for me.
[32:08] ---
    I detest you.
[32:10] ---
    Stuff like that is where you're terrible at.
[32:12] ---
    Huh? That's my line!
[32:16] ---
    Then we shouldn't have
    held a study group to begin with!
[32:18] ---
    Studying is something you—
[32:19] ---
    Everyone!
[32:30] ---
    I think we've done
    more than enough debating.
[32:33] ---
    So, I would like to take a vote now.
[32:36] ---
    Who is the culprit?
    We will decide by majority rule.
[32:40] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[32:41] ---
    Oh, huh... So that's what you meant.
[32:44] ---
    That's when the majority
    of the class raised their hands,
[32:46] ---
    and Araragi-senpai, you were
    made out to be the culprit, right?
[32:50] ---
    No.
[32:51] ---
    The only person that raised their hand
    to vote for me was Oikura.
[32:55] ---
    The majority of the class raised their hands
    for attendance number 6...
[32:59] ---
    when it was time for Sodachi Oikura.
[33:05] ---
    That look of despair on Oikura's face
    I saw back then...
[33:08] ---
    It's something I can't ever forget.
[33:10] ---
    And to that despair...
    I think I got roped in.
[33:14] ---
    Ever since, whether it be for class or for exams,
    she never once showed up to school.
[33:19] ---
    Her name apparently is listed
    on one of the rosters for third-years...
[33:25] ---
    But I have no idea which class that is.
[33:28] ---
    Ever since, the tendency to be absent,
    the tendency to ditch school, ramped up.
[33:35] ---
    To attend the school
    that Oikura was not attending
[33:38] ---
    started to give me a sticky feeling,
    similar to that of guilt.
[33:42] ---
    And ever since then, I - to this day -
    have not gotten a perfect score in mathematics.
[33:50] ---
    Is there a need for you
    to shoulder so much, though?
[33:53] ---
    In the first place, it was said that Oikura-senpai
    was the front-runner of all suspects.
[33:59] ---
    That class assembly wasn't something
    someone suggested to her.
[34:02] ---
    It was something she planned on her own.
[34:05] ---
    If Oikura really was the culprit,
[34:07] ---
    there wouldn't have been a need
    to create such an assembly.
[34:10] ---
    Just picking up on that one fact,
    I can declare that Oikura wasn't the culprit.
[34:15] ---
    I see... Declare, huh...
[34:19] ---
    In any case, seeing truth be fabricated
    right in front of your eyes...
[34:23] ---
    Witnessing a stupid conclusion being drawn,
    I couldn't contain myself anymore.
[34:29] ---
    Something in me broke.
[34:32] ---
    The moment when over half the class -
    most of the students -
[34:35] ---
    raised their hands simultaneously,
[34:37] ---
    with no prior concerting or conference,
    not even making eye contact.
[34:39] ---
    The moment when truth had been decided...
[34:42] ---
    The moment when justice had been settled...
[34:44] ---
    I'd never seen a scary moment like that.
    I lost sight at that moment.
[34:50] ---
    No... I didn't lose sight. I lost it.
[34:54] ---
    Until that moment,
    I had believed in something like righteousness.
[34:58] ---
    That there were things that were "right" in the world,
    and it was about whether or not you could do it. But...
[35:04] ---
    EVEN IF MISTAKEN, EVEN IF CRUEL, EVEN IF STUPID
[35:06] ---
    IF MANY PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGE IT,
[35:07] ---
    I FOUND OUT THAT IT CAN BECOME THE RIGHT THING.
[35:08] ---
    I found out that righteousness
    was able to be infinitely mass-produced.
[35:13] ---
    I found out that righteousness
    was established by the number of people.
[35:17] ---
    I found out that maneuvering for a majority
    was everything.
[35:20] ---
    That is why I chose solitude over establishment.
[35:24] ---
    I don't need friends, because if I make friends,
    my strength as a human decreases.
[35:29] ---
    In order to protect my own righteousness,
    that was the only thing I could do.
[35:34] ---
    This ended up being a long story,
    but that is the story of Koyomi Araragi.
[35:39] ---
    Thank you for listening, Ougi.
[35:41] ---
    Oh, I guess it really is just like what you said.
[35:44] ---
    Once I told the story, it really was nothing much,
    and it made me feel at east.
[35:49] ---
    I'm troubled.
[35:51] ---
    I'm troubled if you feel at ease already,
    Araragi-senpai.
[36:00] ---
    Oikura-senpai wasn't the culprit,
    and the story ends?
[36:04] ---
    That means we can't
    leave this classroom after all.
[36:08] ---
    Have you forgotten?
[36:09] ---
    In order to leave this classroom,
    we need to identify who the culprit is.
[36:14] ---
    The culprit that could not be identified on that day...
[36:16] ---
    Not by majority rule....
[36:19] ---
    We need to determine it ourselves.
[36:23] ---
    The grudge Oikura had that day
    created this classroom, perhaps?
[36:27] ---
    If so, there is some inevitability
    in how I became trapped in here like this.
[36:31] ---
    OIKURA PERHAPS
[36:32] ---
    STILL HASN'T FORGIVEN ME?
[36:33] ---
    JUST LIKE THAT DAY
[36:34] ---
    DOES SHE STILL HATE ME?
[36:35] ---
    Well, I think Oikura-senpai
    has forgotten about you already, maybe?
[36:39] ---
    Things usually end up like that,
    surprisingly enough.
[36:41] ---
    Then, what in the world is this classroom—
[36:44] ---
    Didn't I tell you?
[36:46] ---
    This was a classroom that your heart created,
    Araragi-senpai. That's what I think.
[36:50] ---
    That's what I'm going to define this as...
    a classroom that the heart - a sense of regret - created.
[36:56] ---
    If, on that day, you were able to pin down
    who the culprit was,
[36:59] ---
    Sodachi Oikura would not have been ruined.
[37:01] ---
    And you wouldn't have lost your righteousness.
[37:04] ---
    The classroom was built
    on such regrets you have.
[37:08] ---
    You have always pursued after the righteousness
    you had lost that day.
[37:12] ---
    In order to regain the lost righteousness,
    you created this classroom.
[37:18] ---
    I did?
[37:19] ---
    Is that possible?
    Can I create a classroom like this...
[37:23] ---
    But, each apparition has a reason befitting it.
[37:27] ---
    If that's the case, for "me",
    this is enough reasoning for this case.
[37:33] ---
    I guess we have to do
    the class assembly over again.
[37:36] ---
    This time for sure, we need to find the culprit,
    no, the true culprit...
[37:39] ---
    Oh no, we already know
    who the true culprit is, right?
[37:43] ---
    I mean, Araragi-senpai,
    you should actually know who it is, too...
[37:48] ---
    Who was supposed to be denounced
    at that class assembly?
[37:52] ---
    Something like that was obvious
    after hearing your story, Araragi-senpai.
[37:56] ---
    Araragi-senpai, your feeling of "I feel so guilty"
    towards Oikura-senpai is needlessly strong
[38:02] ---
    because subconsciously
    you know who the culprit is.
[38:05] ---
    Otherwise, you'd never tell the story
    in the way that you did.
[38:09] ---
    The way that I did?
[38:12] ---
    What in the world is this girl talking about?
[38:15] ---
    What does she actually know?
[38:18] ---
    I don't know anything.
[38:20] ---
    You're the one that knows.
    Araragi-senpai.... Koyomi Araragi.
[38:25] ---
    I...
[38:27] ---
    The great detective gathers everyone
    and says, "Well..."
[38:30] ---
    Since there is no great detective here,
    I'll say it in his place.
[38:33] ---
    Well...
[38:34] ---
    Burned by her own karma and falling to ruin,
    the dull-witted silly fool Sodachi Oikura.
[38:41] ---
    In order to mourn for her, we shall solemnly go through
    with "figuring out the culprit" that she wished for.
[38:45] ---
    Whoops, this isn't good.
[38:47] ---
    If this is a "figuring out the culprit",
    this is the one thing that must be said.
[38:50] ---
    Whether it's getting rid of apparitions or solving mysteries,
    proper etiquette is important.
[38:55] ---
    I challenge all you readers.
[38:58] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[39:01] ---
    The culprit is Komichi Tetsujo.
[39:05] ---
    Shall I continue?
[39:06] ---
    Yeah.
[39:08] ---
    Why did you think Tetsujo was suspicious?
[39:11] ---
    Right when you entered the classroom,
    I commented on how all the seats were filled.
[39:15] ---
    You said that if we were to be precise,
    Oikura-senpai's seat was empty.
[39:20] ---
    That's how you replied.
[39:22] ---
    But, don't you find this strange?
[39:24] ---
    Araragi-senpai, your seat has to be empty as well.
[39:27] ---
    Was someone sitting there?
[39:30] ---
    For instance, the homeroom teacher?
[39:33] ---
    SO, ARARAGI-SENPAI, IT WASN'T THAT
    YOU WEREN'T PERMITTED TO SIT DOWN BY OIKURA-SENPAI,
[39:34] ---
    BUT PERHAPS YOU WEREN'T ABLE
    TO SIT DOWN IN THE FIRST PLACE.
[39:35] ---
    But, that said, that doesn't automatically mean
    that Tetsujo is the culprit.
[39:39] ---
    When the meeting became very complicated,
    someone had mentioned
[39:43] ---
    that the homeroom teacher for class 1-3
    was a math teacher.
[39:46] ---
    That position is not merely someone
    who knows about the problems beforehand.
[39:49] ---
    She is the one that creates the problems.
[39:51] ---
    If so, she can just create exam problems
    based on what the study group had covered.
[39:57] ---
    Sunahama-senpai,
    who had the daily duties the next day,
[39:59] ---
    had whined about having to clean up
    after the study group early in the morning.
[40:03] ---
    And that Komichi Tetsujo
    had helped her out with it.
[40:07] ---
    What kind of cleanup work was it?
[40:09] ---
    Hey, hey, Araragi-senpai,
    what kind of cleanup work was it?
[40:14] ---
    Throwing away snack bags, realigning desks...
[40:16] ---
    The one that's not those!
[40:20] ---
    And erasing the chalkboards and stuff, right?
[40:23] ---
    Of course, they must have been writing and erasing,
    and writing and erasing.
[40:26] ---
    So not everything could be deciphered.
[40:30] ---
    But I guess you can read through
    at least a part of it, huh.
[40:33] ---
    Yes.
[40:34] ---
    (WED)
[40:34] ---
    And if Komichi Tetsujo
    is the homeroom teacher,
[40:36] ---
    (THU)
[40:37] ---
    she can create exam problems that go along
    with what the study group had studied.
[40:37] ---
    DETAILS:
    1. LOCATION - CLASS 1-3 CLASSROOM
    2. DATE - JULY 7 (WED) 15:00~18:00
    3. SUBJECT - MATH III,C
    PLEASE CONTACT OIKURA FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO JOIN.
[40:41] ---
    Of course, it's the actual day of the test,
[40:44] ---
    so even if she were able to correct the exam problems,
    she probably only got a part of the exam fixed.
[40:51] ---
    What else... I guess the motive?
[40:54] ---
    The motivation behind committing the crime.
    The reason why she did such a thing.
[40:58] ---
    Ougi, you even know that as well?
[41:02] ---
    If the culprit was a student,
    this would be a crime that makes absolutely no sense.
[41:06] ---
    If the overall scores
    of the entire class went up,
[41:08] ---
    that means that, relatively speaking,
    the deviation value for each person will go down.
[41:12] ---
    However, with the entire class getting better scores,
    there is someone whose assessment becomes better.
[41:18] ---
    That is the math teacher.
[41:21] ---
    KOMICHI TETSUJO
[41:21] ---
    She'll be assessed as having high skills
    in instruction and guidance.
[41:26] ---
    Is there anything else, Araragi-senpai?
[41:30] ---
    There isn't.
[41:32] ---
    I see. Then, we should probably be on our way.
[41:38] ---
    You can leave now, Araragi-senpai.
[41:40] ---
    Yeah...
[41:46] ---
    What do you mean, I can leave now?
[41:47] ---
    Huh?
[41:48] ---
    Well, I thought that was
    a weird way to say it, so...
[41:51] ---
    What did you mean?
[41:52] ---
    Oh, you didn't know?
[41:55] ---
    Vampires often are unable to enter buildings or rooms
    unless the person inside authorizes them to.
[42:01] ---
    Ah... Though I've never
    had an experience like that.
[42:04] ---
    Well, well... Ms. Shinobu is a special one,
[42:07] ---
    and we had the pattern not where we couldn't go in,
    but one where we couldn't leave.
[42:10] ---
    That's why I phrased it as
    "you can leave now."
[42:13] ---
    It was something like a magic spell
    to ease one's mind.
[42:16] ---
    That's as if you were the one
    that trapped me in here, Ougi.
[42:20] ---
    That's a misunderstanding.
    I would never trap you in, Araragi-senpai.
[42:25] ---
    There's no way I would do such a thing.
[42:28] ---
    Araragi-senpai, you were
    trapped in your own past.
[42:32] ---
    All this time, for two years.
    Isn't that right?
[42:37] ---
    I do sympathize, though.
[42:39] ---
    A teacher, who is the symbol
    of righteousness to a student,
[42:42] ---
    was the one behaving dishonestly...
[42:44] ---
    That feels like betrayal,
[42:46] ---
    and you can't help it if you, Araragi-senpai,
    decided to put a lid on your heart.
[42:50] ---
    Is the fact that Oikura, despite not having attended
    enough days, keeps moving up to the next class...
[42:54] ---
    Is that something along the lines
    of atonement from Mrs. Tetsujo?
[42:58] ---
    Atonement? That's not it. It's an excuse.
    She just wants to believe that she's a decent human.
[43:23] ---
    Why I felt despair...
[43:25] ---
    Now, next. Attendance number 6.
[43:28] ---
    If you think I, Sodachi Oikura, am the culprit,
    please raise your hand.
[43:32] ---
    Why I felt despair against righteousness,
[43:35] ---
    was that back then, blending into the classmates
    that designated Oikura as the culprit,
[43:39] ---
    Tetsujo, a teacher, had been
    holding up her hand straight up as well.
[44:01] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    OUGI FORMULA
[44:05] ---
    The next day, on a whim, I decided to stop by
    the audiovisual room on my way to my classroom.
[44:12] ---
    To be precise, to the spot
    next to the audiovisual room.
[44:17] ---
    As expected, there was no such thing there
    as an empty classroom.
[44:21] ---
    Moreover, there was no dead space whatsoever
    along the lines of what Ougi had drawn in her notebook.
[44:28] ---
    There was nothing here.
[44:30] ---
    Nothing had happened here.
[44:33] ---
    The secret room, the locked room,
    the figuring out the culprit, the unexpected truth...
[44:38] ---
    The class assembly, and the majority rule.
[44:41] ---
    Everything was in the past,
    and everything was already done and over.
[44:47] ---
    Within this teachers' office,
    Komichi Tetsujo does not exist.
[44:51] ---
    That said, it's not that she quit being a teacher
    because she suffered from a guilty conscience,
[44:55] ---
    nor that she was fired
    after her dishonest act was found out.
[44:58] ---
    It's nothing like that.
[44:58] ---
    KOMICHI TETSUJO - MATERNITY LEAVE
[45:00] ---
    The occasion was that she got pregnant,
    and was on maternity leave. What a joyous occasion.
[45:04] ---
    She probably won't be
    back at school before I graduate,
[45:08] ---
    so I'll probably never
    see Tetsujo again in my life.
[45:12] ---
    And about that, I feel nothing.
[45:15] ---
    In the first place, for me, after seeing her from behind,
    raising her hand on that day two years ago...
[45:20] ---
    she was no longer a teacher,
    or an adult.
[45:28] ---
    Oh, morning, Araragi.
[45:30] ---
    Oh, morning, Hanekawa.
[45:32] ---
    Bad timing.
[45:33] ---
    What?
[45:34] ---
    Araragi, I don't think you should
    enter the classroom right now.
[45:38] ---
    Heave-ho!
[45:42] ---
    Araragi.
[45:43] ---
    Had you noticed that there was
    an empty seat in our class?
[45:48] ---
    Yeah, I noticed it, or rather,
    I had thought that it was a spare seat. What of it?
[45:55] ---
    What, are you trying to tell me
    that a ghost was sitting there today when you arrived?
[45:59] ---
    Is that what this is about?
[46:00] ---
    I'll tell you something.
    Something like a mere ghost won't scare me one bit.
[46:04] ---
    The one sitting there wasn't a ghost.
    It was a human.
[46:08] ---
    A classmate who had not come to school
    for the longest time suddenly came to school today.
[46:13] ---
    Oh, I see.
[46:15] ---
    Then, that seat was...
    that person's seat, huh?
[46:19] ---
    That's surprising that there was
    one more classmate in my class.
[46:24] ---
    But, why does that make it
    so I shouldn't enter the classroom?
[46:29] ---
    Because it's Ms. Oikura.
[46:34] ---
    Sodachi Oikura...
[46:35] ---
    She's apparently been home-schooling
    for about two years now.
[46:39] ---
    She came to school
    as if she was switching places with Mrs. Tetsujo.
[46:43] ---
    Araragi, you didn't get along with her, if I recall?

E2 - Sodachi Riddle, Part One
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[00:00] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[00:03] ---
    Sodachi Oikura despises me.
[00:06] ---
    To the point that it's like
    I killed her parents or something.
[00:10] ---
    At the same time, I find it strange...
[00:12] ---
    The fact is, I don't particularly
    despise Sodachi Oikura at all.
[00:17] ---
    Why she despises me so much.
[00:20] ---
    And why I can't bring myself to despise her.
[00:23] ---
    I ended up finding out the answers.
[00:26] ---
    It was a truth that unfolded two years
    from its onset.
[00:29] ---
    And at the same time, it was a truth
    that unfolded five years from its onset as well.
[00:33] ---
    Then, mathematically...
[00:35] ---
    Or perhaps similar to a mystery novel,
    let's strike a dramatic pose and set up the question.
[00:39] ---
    Prove that when Sodachi Oikura
    despises Koyomi Araragi,
[00:42] ---
    that Koyomi Araragi cannot bring himself
    to despise Sodachi Oikura.
[00:46] ---
    However, Ougi Oshino can be
    left out of any consideration.
[02:21] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[02:23] ---
    SODACHI RIDDLE, PART ONE
[02:25] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[02:25] ---
    701 MIDDLE SCHOOL, A PUBLIC SCHOOL
    FRONT GATES
[02:31] ---
    So this is the middle school
    you attended, Araragi-senpai?
[02:35] ---
    Now that you mention it,
    an extraordinary presence can be felt here.
[02:40] ---
    Let's go, Araragi-senpai.
    It was the shoe locker, right?
[02:44] ---
    Yeah. The shoe locker.
[02:49] ---
    It's such a strange coincidence.
[02:52] ---
    Right after I hear the story about Oikura-senpai
    from you, Araragi-senpai...
[02:58] ---
    The next day, Araragi-senpai and
    that very Oikura-senpai are reunited.
[03:02] ---
    It's quite a strange twist of fate.
[03:04] ---
    STRANGE TWIST OF FATE
[03:07] ---
    Well, I was surprised.
[03:10] ---
    As for me, I didn't even know
    she was in the same class as me.
[03:15] ---
    701 MIDDLE SCHOOL, A PUBLIC SCHOOL
    ENTRANCEWAY
[03:19] ---
    Oh, so this is it?
[03:21] ---
    Araragi-senpai was changing shoes right here
    everyday back in 7th grade.
[03:27] ---
    This is very moving.
[03:28] ---
    It's not moving at all...
[03:30] ---
    Why would my changing shoes
    be so moving?
[03:36] ---
    My, oh my.
[03:38] ---
    So this is a letter addressed to you, Araragi-senpai?
[03:41] ---
    TO: KOYOMI ARARAGI IN 1-3
[03:47] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[03:48] ---
    FLASHBACK
[03:48] ---
    NAOETSU HIGH SCHOOL
[03:50] ---
    The recollected memory
    is still in the middle of chaos...
[03:54] ---
    Therefore, the circumstances
    should be discussed first.
[03:56] ---
    I mean, the circumstances
    that caused me to visit my alma mater.
[04:02] ---
    Araragi, you didn't get along with her, if I recall?
[04:07] ---
    So, I thought you should mentally prepare
    before you enter the classroom.
[04:16] ---
    There's nothing to worry about.
[04:18] ---
    Though we didn't get along,
[04:19] ---
    that's talking about something
    from two years ago, the distant past.
[04:22] ---
    I don't care about any of that at all.
[04:26] ---
    You sure?
[04:27] ---
    Oikura kept asking me.
[04:30] ---
    "How is Araragi doing right now?"
[04:32] ---
    "What is Araragi doing right now?"
[04:34] ---
    "What kind of person is Araragi now?"
[04:40] ---
    "Has he grown taller?"
    "What kind of food does he normally eat?"
[04:43] ---
    "Around what time does he arrive at school?"
[04:46] ---
    That's asking way too much...
[04:47] ---
    I thought it'd be strange not to answer,
[04:49] ---
    so I answered
    the harmless kind of questions.
[04:52] ---
    HARMLESS KIND
[04:54] ---
    And, it seemed a bit threatening,
    so I didn't tell her about Senjyogahara, either.
[04:59] ---
    Araragi.
[05:00] ---
    Before Senjyogahara arrives at school,
    you should at least have a goal set for all this.
[05:07] ---
    But just hold on a second, Araragi.
[05:11] ---
    I have to go discuss the matter of Oikura's return
    to school with Ms. Hoshina right now.
[05:17] ---
    So I have to go to the teacher's office.
[05:20] ---
    You want to come with me, Araragi?
    After all, you're the class vice-president.
[05:24] ---
    I'll have the matter with Oikura resolved
    before you come back.
[05:29] ---
    Six months until we graduate.
[05:32] ---
    I'd like to spend my adolescence in comfort.
[05:34] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[05:52] ---
    Huh?
[05:53] ---
    Huh?
[05:55] ---
    Aren't you Oikura?
[05:57] ---
    Yeah, you are Oikura!
[05:58] ---
    Man, you surprised me!
[06:00] ---
    If it isn't Oikura,
    who was in my first-year class,
[06:03] ---
    in the distant past
    known as two years ago!
[06:06] ---
    Do you remember me?
    I'm sure you've already forgotten.
[06:10] ---
    You know, I was attendance number 2. I'm Araragi!
[06:12] ---
    ATTENDANCE NUMBER / NAME
    1 / KEIRI ASHINE
    2 / KOYOMI ARARAGI
    3 / BIWA ARIKURE
    4 / MICHISADA IGAMI
[06:15] ---
    I do remember.
[06:17] ---
    Of course.
[06:21] ---
    You are someone...
[06:24] ---
    ...that I would never forget about.
[06:31] ---
    SODACHI OIKURA
[06:31] ---
    Araragi.
[06:37] ---
    I'm glad you remember me.
[06:40] ---
    As previous attendance number 2,
    I, Araragi, am happy.
[06:44] ---
    You seem to be doing well, unlike me.
[06:46] ---
    Really, you make me jealous.
[06:49] ---
    While I was cooped up
    in my own house,
[06:51] ---
    you studied, decided to try for college,
    got a girlfriend...
[06:55] ---
    Araragi, your life is truly
    one of smooth sailing.
[06:59] ---
    Thanks to you.
[07:01] ---
    Thanks to me?
[07:04] ---
    Thanks to me?
[07:07] ---
    I haven't been to school this whole time.
    What are you saying I did for you?
[07:11] ---
    Well, that's...
[07:13] ---
    Well, I'm sure that you'd be able
    to go to any college you wanted, Araragi.
[07:17] ---
    If you felt up to doing so.
[07:18] ---
    Th-That's not really true.
    I'm hard pressed to get in anywhere.
[07:20] ---
    You don't have to be so humble.
    You still excel at mathematics, aren't you?
[07:25] ---
    You feel the name "Euler" is more fit for you
    than for me, don't you?
[07:31] ---
    Well, math is more like my only hope,
    rather than something I'm good at...
[07:35] ---
    You getting a girlfriend...
    That must be thanks to mathematics as well.
[07:40] ---
    No, of all things, that's—
[07:42] ---
    It is thanks to mathematics.
[07:44] ---
    Someone like you really pisses me off.
[07:47] ---
    No matter how big of a grudge I hold,
    it can't be enough.
[07:50] ---
    I can't help that feelings of hatred
    well up, one after another.
[07:53] ---
    It's a bottomless spring of hatred.
[07:55] ---
    For someone like me....
    Come on, it can't be that much.
[07:59] ---
    I hate that attitude of yours.
[08:01] ---
    You try to roll anything and everything up
    in an ambiguous manner.
[08:04] ---
    You compromise.
[08:06] ---
    You round things up nicely.
[08:07] ---
    Back then as well, you—
[08:13] ---
    Don't touch me.
[08:14] ---
    I don't want the likes of you
    to be worried about me.
[08:18] ---
    There's absolutely nothing special about
    someone like you being worried about me.
[08:24] ---
    Is that so?
[08:26] ---
    You... You seem to have quite a hatred
    for people who are happy.
[08:32] ---
    I do like people who are happy.
[08:34] ---
    Looking at them
    makes me feel happy.
[08:37] ---
    What I despise are people
    who don't know the reason for their happiness.
[08:40] ---
    Those that don't even think about
    why they're happy.
[08:45] ---
    I despise water
    that thinks it boiled itself on its own.
[08:47] ---
    DESPISE
[08:48] ---
    I despise seasons
    that think they cycle naturally.
[08:51] ---
    DESPISE
[08:51] ---
    I despise the sun
    that thinks it rose on its own.
[08:54] ---
    DESPISE
[08:55] ---
    Despise, despise, d-d-despise...
    I despise them.
[08:59] ---
    I despise you.
[09:01] ---
    Oikura...
[09:08] ---
    Because someone like you
    is influencing others,
[09:10] ---
    no one's reaching out to me,
    no matter how much time passes.
[09:13] ---
    I despise people who think they're living
    using only their own power...
[09:18] ---
    People can't be happy
    unless someone else saves them.
[09:21] ---
    An idiot that can't even understand that...
[09:24] ---
    I despise them, despise them so much
    I feel like I'm going to die.
[09:26] ---
    WHAT HAD CORNERED HER TO THIS EXTENT?
[09:27] ---
    WAS IT THAT CLASS ASSEMBLY AFTER ALL?
[09:27] ---
    OR WAS IT THE TWO YEARS OF GLOOM
    SHE SPENT AFTERWARDS?
[09:28] ---
    You're right.
[09:30] ---
    Things like people saving themselves
    on their own never happen.
[09:34] ---
    I always think about that, too.
[09:36] ---
    I can't forgive the ungrateful
    that feel like they're living alone—
[09:39] ---
    The one I can't forgive is you, Araragi.
    I can't think of anyone more ungrateful than you.
[09:44] ---
    It's all self-righteous...
    That's what your sense of justice is.
[09:48] ---
    Sense of justice?
[09:49] ---
    Or are you saying that you still remember?
[09:52] ---
    About the contents of your shoe locker
    back in 7th grade?
[09:56] ---
    See, just as I thought.
[09:57] ---
    You don't remember anything, Araragi.
[10:01] ---
    You don't know what you're made up of.
[10:04] ---
    I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M MADE UP OF.
[10:06] ---
    Oikura, what do you mean by that?
[10:12] ---
    There is no meaning!
[10:13] ---
    I despise meaning!
[10:15] ---
    I despise anything and everything!
[10:17] ---
    I despise, I despise, I despise, I despise, I despise,
    I despise, I despise, I despise, I despise.
[10:21] ---
    I despise!
[10:22] ---
    I despise!
[10:23] ---
    I despise!
[10:23] ---
    DESPISE
[10:24] ---
    I despise!
[10:24] ---
    I despise!!
[10:30] ---
    I told you not to touch me!
[10:48] ---
    WHETHER IT WAS BEFORE SHE FINISHED HER BUSINESS,
    OR AFTER SHE WAS DONE WITH HER BUSINESS,
    WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS UNCERTAIN.
[10:51] ---
    IN ANY CASE, SHE ENCOUNTERED SENJYOGAHARA,
    WHO HAD ARRIVED AT SCHOOL.
[10:53] ---
    THERE, HANEKAWA PROBABLY TOLD SENJYOGAHARA
    THAT OIKURA HAD COME TO SCHOOL.
[10:55] ---
    AND JUST LIKE THE WIND,
    SHE HAD RUSHED OVER HERE.
[10:58] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[10:59] ---
    I'll kill you.
[11:01] ---
    I'm the only one
    who can stab Araragi with stationery.
[11:04] ---
    Even though I've gotten rid of that character trait,
    I can't stand having it being reused.
[11:13] ---
    S-Senjyogahara, wait...
[11:18] ---
    Senjyogahara.
[11:23] ---
    I see. So that's it.
[11:25] ---
    I get it now.
[11:27] ---
    So, you're dating Araragi.
[11:30] ---
    How you've fallen.
[11:34] ---
    Hanekawa. It's all right now.
    You can let go of me now.
[11:38] ---
    I'm sorry. It's not worth it.
[11:41] ---
    Is it really all right?
[11:42] ---
    What? What's not worth it?
[11:45] ---
    Are you saying that
    I'm not worth that much?
[11:46] ---
    QUESTION
[11:47] ---
    How high and mighty you've become.
[11:49] ---
    You were nothing more than a sickly girl
    that couldn't do anything unless I took care of you.
[11:53] ---
    Well...
[11:55] ---
    It is true that you did often take care of me.
[11:59] ---
    You were always kind to people
    who were below you.
[12:03] ---
    So I take it you've recovered
    from your illness, Senjyogahara?
[12:07] ---
    Right. Thanks to you.
[12:09] ---
    Araragi decided to try to get into college
    because you're taking care of him, I assume?
[12:15] ---
    If so, I suggest you stop
    doing something so useless.
[12:18] ---
    He's not going to appreciate anything,
    no matter what you do.
[12:22] ---
    Well, I suppose you might be right.
[12:25] ---
    But, well, something like that
    doesn't matter at all.
[12:28] ---
    I'm not looking to get something
    in return for this, after all.
[12:31] ---
    The fact that I want Araragi to attend
    the same university as I do is my desire to begin with.
[12:36] ---
    So, I wouldn't be wishing
    for anything more than that.
[12:41] ---
    SLAP
[12:59] ---
    Araragi, I'm going to pass out as well.
    I trust you with the rest.
[13:07] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[13:09] ---
    Wait... Huh?
[13:10] ---
    This is strange.
[13:11] ---
    That flashback didn't explain why I'm here
    at my middle school with you at all, you know?
[13:16] ---
    Oh, brother.
    What are you talking about, Araragi-senpai?
[13:20] ---
    When I visited you to do the laudable act
    of thanking you for yesterday's situation,
[13:25] ---
    you told me all about it.
[13:28] ---
    And yours truly, though unworthy,
[13:29] ---
    audaciously suggested maybe it would be good
    for you to visit your alma mater.
[13:35] ---
    Since I was the one that made the suggestion,
    I couldn't let you go alone, either.
[13:38] ---
    Though I felt it was meddling in affairs a bit too much,
    here I am, tagging along on your research trip.
[13:43] ---
    Was that so?
[13:50] ---
    Ougi... The mystery will be solved
    simply by opening that envelope.
[13:53] ---
    Is that so?
[13:55] ---
    Let's see... What do we have?
[13:59] ---
    THE "B" ENVELOPE IS THE WRONG ONE.
    DO YOU WANT TO
    CHANGE YOUR CHOICE TO THE "C" ENVELOPE?
[14:02] ---
    Araragi-senpai, what's this supposed to mean?
[14:05] ---
    I really can't make anything of it.
    Is it in code or something?
[14:10] ---
    Rather than a code,
    that's more like a quiz.
[14:13] ---
    What are you talking about?
    You haven't even seen it.
[14:17] ---
    It's a very famous quiz,
    called the "Monty Hall problem."
[14:22] ---
    Monty Hall is the name
    of a TV show host.
[14:25] ---
    There are three doors
    labeled "A," "B," and "C,"
[14:28] ---
    and a luxurious prize is hidden
    behind one of them.
[14:32] ---
    The player is able to pick
    any door they like of the three.
[14:36] ---
    And after they choose,
    the host opens one of the other two doors.
[14:41] ---
    By doing so, he informs the player
    that it was the "wrong" door.
[14:44] ---
    With that information, the player
    has a second chance to make a decision...
[14:49] ---
    Whether to stick with the door originally chosen,
    or to choose again and pick the remaining door.
[14:55] ---
    That's a simple summary of this quiz.
[15:00] ---
    Ougi, what would you do?
[15:01] ---
    You chose the "A" envelope just now, but...
[15:04] ---
    if you were now told that
    the "B" envelope isn't the right one,
[15:08] ---
    would you change you choice to "C"?
[15:10] ---
    Let's see...
[15:12] ---
    Isn't it statistically equal
    whether or not I choose to change my choice?
[15:16] ---
    Even if the answer
    was disclosed afterwards,
[15:19] ---
    if one of the three among "A," "B," and "C"
    is the right choice,
[15:21] ---
    the probability is 1/3 for each of them.
[15:24] ---
    The case where you were told "B" was wrong
    before you made the first choice aside...
[15:29] ---
    Indeed. But for this case,
    "changing what you choose" is the correct answer.
[15:34] ---
    To change your answer from "A" to "C."
[15:37] ---
    Then, let's open the "C" envelope.
[15:42] ---
    My, oh my. Is this a map of sorts?
[15:44] ---
    There seems to be some symbol
    drawn on it.
[15:48] ---
    Next, of course, we're heading to the location
    that this map shows.
[15:52] ---
    This is a trip retracing Araragi-senpai's memory.
[15:55] ---
    So as a tour group of people
    following the footsteps of young Araragi...
[15:59] ---
    Yeah... That's right.
[16:01] ---
    Let's go, Ougi.
    To the location marked on the map.
[16:04] ---
    Wait... Huh?
[16:15] ---
    NADEKO SENGOKU
[16:17] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[16:30] ---
    I DESPISE WATER THAT THINKS IT BOILED ITSELF ON ITS OWN.
    I DESPISE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW
    THE REASON FOR THEIR HAPPINESS.
[16:31] ---
    Hmph.
[16:33] ---
    Did the ruins of the cram school I hear about,
    the ones my uncle slept in while he was in this town,
[16:40] ---
    feel anything like this, Araragi-senpai?
[16:43] ---
    Yeah... That's right.
[16:45] ---
    AN UNGRATEFUL ONE LIVING SO CAREFREE.
[16:46] ---
    It's rather rundown and dangerous.
[16:49] ---
    It's not been maintained at all,
    worn down by the wind and stuff.
[16:52] ---
    In this ruined house, I had an appointment
    to meet with a certain girl...
[16:58] ---
    I just can't comprehend this.
[17:00] ---
    But, the fact that there are
    signs a nameplate used to be here
[17:02] ---
    means that this ruined house
    used to be an ordinary residence?
[17:06] ---
    Who knows... I don't really
    know much about this area.
[17:09] ---
    Back around 7th grade,
    I didn't really take note of such things.
[17:14] ---
    HOUSE FOR SALE
[17:15] ---
    In the first place, this sign wasn't here
    back when I was coming here regularly.
[17:19] ---
    It's probably the case that the caretaker
    is different than from about five years ago...
[17:33] ---
    Now, let's hurry in, Araragi-senpai.
[17:36] ---
    Hearing that sound just now,
    the neighbors may report to the police.
[17:40] ---
    If a police officer were to show up,
    I'll give them the excuse that we got lost.
[17:45] ---
    So Araragi-senpai,
    please go along with that.
[17:48] ---
    That's fine.
    I'll make sure to play along with you.
[17:51] ---
    Though, it's a pretty embarrassing excuse
    for high school students to have lost their way.
[17:55] ---
    But I don't want to find myself
    out in the cold.
[17:57] ---
    Out in the cold?
    What do you mean by that?
[18:01] ---
    Well, you see, in my case,
    both my parents are police officers, so—
[18:05] ---
    So, both your parents are police officers!
[18:07] ---
    Huh? Why did I just say that?
[18:10] ---
    Then that means there's
    nothing for us to worry about.
[18:13] ---
    If someone files a report,
    and an officer rushes over here on his bike,
[18:17] ---
    Araragi-senpai, your parents will bail us out.
[18:21] ---
    My parents aren't the type that would
    help out their little boy in times like that.
[18:26] ---
    More like they'd never forgive injustice,
    even if their own children were the source.
[18:30] ---
    They're strict parents.
[18:31] ---
    When I misbehaved as a kid,
[18:33] ---
    they disciplined me
    by dragging me to the local police box.
[18:36] ---
    To the police box?
    That's pretty scary...
[18:39] ---
    You could be traumatized by that.
[18:51] ---
    The theory that Oikura-senpai
    resents the kindness
[18:54] ---
    that you showed
    during the class assembly two years ago.
[18:57] ---
    That can probably be disregarded now.
[19:00] ---
    Why, you ask? It's simple.
[19:02] ---
    It's because Oikura-senpai
    has come to school.
[19:06] ---
    What do you mean by that?
[19:07] ---
    Hanekawa-senpai already mentioned it.
[19:10] ---
    That Ms. Tetsujo had taken maternity leave,
[19:13] ---
    and Oikura-senpai showed up at school
    as if she was swapping places.
[19:19] ---
    In other words, because Ms. Tetsujo
    is no longer at Naoetsu High,
[19:23] ---
    I believe Oikura-senpai
    is now able to come to school.
[19:28] ---
    Basically, that means she had known
    who the culprit was back then.
[19:35] ---
    Which means,
    concerning the class assembly,
[19:37] ---
    there are connections to why
    her personality turned out the way it did,
[19:40] ---
    but there's no direct link
    to the reason why she despises me.
[19:44] ---
    That's what this means.
[19:47] ---
    In the first place,
    if you say that she's despised me
[19:50] ---
    from the day that we first met
    in the classroom for class 1-3
[19:53] ---
    she's always despised me.
[19:56] ---
    "I despise water that thinks
    it boiled itself on its own," huh?
[20:00] ---
    In other words,
    you don't know your own roots.
[20:04] ---
    Because you've forgotten your own roots,
    Oikura-senpai has serious issues with how you live.
[20:10] ---
    But, as you investigate further,
    that's a strange story as well.
[20:14] ---
    It's very common to find people
    who have forgotten about the past.
[20:17] ---
    Even for me.
[20:18] ---
    Most of who I was back in grade school or middle school
    is far beyond the boundaries of oblivion.
[20:22] ---
    It even feels like
    I was actually born very recently.
[20:26] ---
    That you were actually born very recently?
    Is that the "Five-minute hypothesis"?
[20:31] ---
    But still, why does Oikura-senpai despise
    only Araragi-senpai as if you killed her parents?
[20:37] ---
    This is strange.
[20:39] ---
    This is mysterious.
[20:40] ---
    This is suspicious.
[20:42] ---
    This is scary.
[20:44] ---
    Scary...
[20:45] ---
    Yes, scary. Because...
[20:48] ---
    It's different.
[20:52] ---
    True. When you think about
    what's scary in this world...
[20:55] ---
    Those that despise you
    for some incomprehensible reason
[20:58] ---
    and attack you are the scariest.
[21:01] ---
    There's no way to deal with it,
    because you don't know the opponent's objective.
[21:04] ---
    In order to fight, they say you need to know
    what the opponent feels is justice.
[21:09] ---
    What does Sodachi Oikura feel is righteous,
    and what does she believe is justice...
[21:14] ---
    This is a journey
    to figure that out as well.
[21:24] ---
    Wow, this room is especially terrible.
[21:28] ---
    This place hasn't changed one bit
    from five years ago. It's unchanging.
[21:32] ---
    It feels like... Time has stopped.
[21:35] ---
    You see that small tea table over there, right?
    That's what was being used.
[21:38] ---
    Used? For what? As a chair?
[21:42] ---
    No...
[21:43] ---
    In the first place,
    I'm not understanding this very well.
[21:46] ---
    Why did you keep coming to this ruined house
    for an entire summer, Araragi-senpai?
[21:51] ---
    Your actions are too mysterious...
[21:52] ---
    Are you an adventurous
    grade-school boy or something?
[21:55] ---
    Actions you take during childhood
    are all mysterious.
[21:59] ---
    None of them can be really explained.
[22:01] ---
    I have no idea why I was doing such a thing.
[22:04] ---
    My train of thought was completely different
    from what it is now.
[22:08] ---
    Geez... When I'm up against Ougi,
    why does my tongue get so loose?
[22:14] ---
    Even if it's something that I can fudge
    by making some adequate lie, if she asks, I answer.
[22:19] ---
    By the time I realize it, I'm done answering.
[22:22] ---
    In any case, I started telling the story.
[22:25] ---
    What happened here five years ago.
[22:28] ---
    Who I met... And what I was doing.
[22:30] ---
    What Koyomi Araragi is made up of.
[22:34] ---
    A story explaining that.

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[00:00] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[00:02] ---
    SODACHI RIDDLE, PART TWO
[00:03] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[00:03] ---
    FIVE YEARS AGO
[00:05] ---
    Five years ago.
[00:08] ---
    In other words, what kind of a person
    was Koyomi Araragi back in 7th grade?
[00:14] ---
    Straightforward, pure, earnest...
    what you could say about a normal child.
[00:20] ---
    Young Araragi was mediocre,
[00:22] ---
    but if you still tried to find something
    special about him, it'd have to be
[00:25] ---
    the fact that both his parents were police officers
    whose purpose in life was justice, peace, and safety.
[00:31] ---
    Under their influence,
    the personality known as me had been created.
[00:35] ---
    Young Araragi was, in that sense,
    a boy who had a fairly strong sense of justice.
[00:41] ---
    The story of five years ago.
[00:43] ---
    This boy, right when first term was finishing,
    was panicking just a little bit.
[00:47] ---
    Not just a little.
    He may have been panicking quite a bit.
[00:51] ---
    Because the results of the recently returned
    final exam weren't all that great.
[00:57] ---
    Especially math.
[00:59] ---
    He thought things would be bad
    the way he was going.
[01:01] ---
    He thought he wouldn't be able
    to proceed righteously the way he was going.
[01:05] ---
    More than math, he was embarrassed by the fact
    that he couldn't fulfill the just cause of "learning."
[02:45] ---
    Back then, I didn't know
    about the "Monty Hall problem."
[02:49] ---
    But I was interested in the problem
    that was suddenly thrust at me.
[03:04] ---
    SO YOU DID COME FOR ME, ARARAGI.
[03:07] ---
    THE FACT THAT YOU'RE HERE...
    YOU WERE ABLE TO SOLVE THE LETTER QUIZ?
[03:11] ---
    Solve... No, it hasn't been solved.
[03:14] ---
    I did change my answer,
    but I don't know why "C" is correct.
[03:20] ---
    I SEE.
[03:22] ---
    THEN, FIRST OFF, I'LL START
    BY EXPLAINING THAT PROBLEM IN DETAIL.
[03:24] ---
    COME INSIDE, ARARAGI.
[03:30] ---
    LET'S STUDY.
[03:33] ---
    LET'S BECOME WISER TOGETHER.
[03:37] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[03:41] ---
    According to the sender's story,
    the letter was sent to a few others as well.
[03:46] ---
    But apparently I was the only one who received the letter
    that came here, to this ruined house.
[03:52] ---
    The only one to shamelessly show up.
[03:54] ---
    Shamelessly? Yeah, I guess shamelessly.
[03:57] ---
    THOUGH YOU COULD PROBABLY SAY
    FALTERINGLY AS WELL.
[03:58] ---
    At the least,
    if it wasn't for that summer,
[04:01] ---
    I think I would've been bitter about math
    and probably would've grown to hate it.
[04:06] ---
    Maybe I wouldn't have even been able
    to enter Naoetsu High.
[04:09] ---
    In any case, let's hear the continuation of the story.
[04:12] ---
    Of one summer aventure for Araragi-senpai.
[04:15] ---
    The continuation of the secret rendezvous
    between this mysterious girl and Araragi-senpai.
[04:20] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[04:21] ---
    And so, you call this the "Monty Hall problem."
[04:25] ---
    This is interesting!
    Are there more problems like this?
[04:28] ---
    There are lots of them.
[04:29] ---
    I'll teach you as many as you want, Araragi,
    if you come to like math a lot more.
[04:35] ---
    If you'll continue to love math.
[04:37] ---
    I'll love it!
    I'll make sure to keep loving math!
[04:41] ---
    Then...
[04:43] ---
    Let's keep studying here, starting tomorrow.
[04:46] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[04:48] ---
    And so, from the end of the first term,
    until the end of summer break,
[04:51] ---
    I regularly came to this ruined house.
[04:55] ---
    I kept studying together
    with the mysterious girl.
[04:58] ---
    "The most beautiful equation in human history."
[05:00] ---
    She was the one who
    taught me about Euler's Identity.
[05:04] ---
    Even now, I can recite from memory what you'd call
    the "mathematics" that are useless, even at school.
[05:11] ---
    So, for me, it didn't feel like
    I was studying,
[05:15] ---
    but more like I came to this ruined house
    every day to play.
[05:20] ---
    If anything, this was like a secret base
    for me and that girl.
[05:24] ---
    No, more like a secret cram school.
[05:27] ---
    A cram school, huh?
[05:28] ---
    That girl was very particular about this location.
    She said it was the only place she would study.
[05:35] ---
    The next day, when we met in the room
    in the ruined house, she made a declaration.
[05:40] ---
    There were conditions for us
    to continue this study session.
[05:43] ---
    There were three conditions.
[05:45] ---
    One of them was that this would be
    the location of the study session,
[05:48] ---
    the farthest room on the second floor
    of this ruined house.
[05:52] ---
    The second condition was that
    our having study sessions like that
[05:56] ---
    was to be a secret between the two of us.
    Not to tell anyone about it.
[06:00] ---
    And the third condition was—
[06:03] ---
    "Don't ask me what my name is."
[06:06] ---
    "Don't probe into figuring out who I am."
[06:08] ---
    "Don't ask me anything
    if it's not about mathematics."
[06:13] ---
    That was it.
[06:14] ---
    Was she a fairy of mathematics or something?
[06:22] ---
    But, on the other hand...
[06:24] ---
    She didn't ask for anything other than that.
    Really, nothing else.
[06:29] ---
    The three conditions,
    and the first request she made was it.
[06:32] ---
    The fact she was teaching me without
    getting anything in return started to bother me.
[06:36] ---
    So one day, I took some sweets with me, but...
[06:39] ---
    I'm not doing this
    because I want something in return.
[06:42] ---
    I'm happy that I could
    teach you mathematics.
[06:46] ---
    So please.
    Please continue to love mathematics forever.
[06:50] ---
    ...she said.
[06:51] ---
    She sounds more and more
    like a fairy of mathematics.
[06:55] ---
    In any case, I went along
    with all of her conditions,
[06:58] ---
    and from then on,
    I came to this ruined house every day.
[07:01] ---
    Really, every day, without skipping once?
[07:05] ---
    But...
[07:06] ---
    The study sessions abruptly ended one day.
[07:09] ---
    It was on the last day of summer break.
[07:11] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[07:13] ---
    The girl who was always there before me,
[07:15] ---
    and had always prepared
    the study sessions ahead of time,
[07:17] ---
    was not there that one day.
[07:22] ---
    Only that day... On that day,
    for the first time...
[07:25] ---
    No matter how much time passed,
    no matter how long I waited,
[07:28] ---
    she never showed up.
[07:33] ---
    AN ENVELOPE?
[07:38] ---
    Somehow, the 7th grader
    Koyomi Araragi thought.
[07:44] ---
    I will no longer...
[07:47] ---
    ...learn mathematics from her
    in this place ever again.
[07:53] ---
    In order to figure out her identity,
    I started investigating in other classes.
[07:58] ---
    Not only in my grade,
    but among the upperclassmen...
[08:02] ---
    There was no sight of the girl
    I'd been seeing the entire summer.
[08:05] ---
    As if her entire existence
    had been wiped out,
[08:09] ---
    young Araragi was...
    right, trembling in fear.
[08:13] ---
    So scary.
[08:14] ---
    For the very first time,
    at that moment I thought she was scary.
[08:18] ---
    That's why I started
    to avoid the ruined house...
[08:21] ---
    And that's why I forgot about the girl.
[08:24] ---
    But... The mathematics taught by the girl
    in the ruined house was never forgotten.
[08:29] ---
    As of the second term, young Araragi's grades
    started to climb back up, mainly in mathematics.
[08:35] ---
    In a way, his life perhaps
    went back to the condition he was in
[08:39] ---
    before he started going regularly
    to the ruined house.
[08:43] ---
    Looking at the long-term effects,
    perhaps nothing had changed.
[08:46] ---
    But there was one thing that
    I could feel had changed for sure.
[08:50] ---
    Young Araragi generally took a position
    that sought justice from then on,
[08:54] ---
    and because of that, he went out of control
    every so often, only to deal with the repercussions.
[08:59] ---
    But if you were talking purely about mathematics,
    he was seeking amusement.
[09:05] ---
    If he didn't have that,
[09:06] ---
    NAOETSU HIGH
[09:06] ---
    I'm sure that back at that class assembly,
    after his sense of righteous was shattered...
[09:10] ---
    ...his heart would've had nothing left at all.
[09:14] ---
    That girl taught him
    how amusing mathematics was.
[09:17] ---
    How amusing life was.
[09:19] ---
    How amusing the world was.
[09:22] ---
    That's why I am who I am now.
[09:24] ---
    I was created back in that summer.
[09:27] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[09:29] ---
    So to sum up,
    that mysterious girl is Oikura-senpai, right?
[09:35] ---
    No, wait, Araragi-senpai.
[09:37] ---
    This isn't what you'd call
    an answer to a riddle.
[09:40] ---
    I'd actually say if, after all of this,
    that girl wasn't Oikura,
[09:43] ---
    your misdirection
    was way too strong.
[09:46] ---
    It's what you'd call unfair.
[09:48] ---
    Then, Ougi, how do you explain that
    after summer break, that girl, young Oikura,
[09:53] ---
    was no longer at 701 Middle School?
[09:56] ---
    She just transferred schools.
    But there's one hole left in this hypothesis.
[10:02] ---
    In other words, this means Oikura-senpai
    would've been your classmate at some point.
[10:07] ---
    Araragi-senpai, based on
    what you've said up to now...
[10:09] ---
    It seemed like you first met Oikura-senpai
    after entering Naoetsu High School?
[10:17] ---
    I thought that was when
    I first met her.
[10:19] ---
    In other words, I had completely forgotten
    about young Oikura.
[10:24] ---
    I'd forgotten who was responsible
    for me becoming so good at math.
[10:27] ---
    I'd forgotten how much I owed her,
    and I treated her as a classmate.
[10:33] ---
    She said that everything I had now
    was all thanks to mathematics.
[10:38] ---
    Even the fact that I'm dating Senjyogahara.
[10:40] ---
    But did she really mean to say,
    "It was all thanks to me"?
[10:44] ---
    "I do like people who are happy," but...
[10:46] ---
    "What I despise are people who don't know
    the reason for their happiness," was it?
[10:52] ---
    DESPISE
[10:54] ---
    And what was it?
[10:55] ---
    "I despise people who don't know
    what they're made up of"?
[10:59] ---
    When you bring back the forgotten memories,
    those words really have a hidden meaning.
[11:04] ---
    In any case,
    I need to apologize to Oikura tomorrow.
[11:08] ---
    Though there's no way she'll start liking me,
    since I'm someone she despises.
[11:11] ---
    Nor will it do anything
    to put her at ease.
[11:15] ---
    But I need to apologize, so I will.
[11:18] ---
    Oh, you don't seem that enthusiastic.
[11:21] ---
    Of course not.
[11:22] ---
    It's not like I don't have complaints
    about her as well, you know?
[11:25] ---
    Like transferring schools.
    Well, even if there were reasons behind it...
[11:28] ---
    At the least, she could've
    said something before she left.
[11:31] ---
    Giving me nothing but an empty envelope?
    I really don't get it.
[11:36] ---
    SODACHI OIKURA
[11:38] ---
    Besides, when we were reunited in class 1-3,
    if she'd told me then,
[11:42] ---
    I should've been able
    to remember right there.
[11:44] ---
    Even if you tell me now...
[11:46] ---
    If she had told you then?
[11:49] ---
    "That girl from back then was me, Araragi.
[11:51] ---
    It's been so long!
    What, you've forgotten about me?
[11:55] ---
    My gosh, that's the worst!
    Geez, you really are cold!
[11:58] ---
    But that's what's so won-der-ful about you!"
[12:01] ---
    Or is something like that
    what you wish she said?
[12:04] ---
    I've never seen such a magnificent character
    exist in this world, but, well...
[12:09] ---
    You must be wondering
    why she didn't tell you.
[12:16] ---
    And you must also be wondering
    why she left without saying anything.
[12:22] ---
    If you don't think about it, even if
    you apologize tomorrow, things may get worse.
[12:26] ---
    A superficial apology will irritate the victim
    more than anything else, you know.
[12:31] ---
    The victim?
[12:32] ---
    Hey now, hold on a second, Ougi.
    Isn't that saying a bit too much?
[12:37] ---
    Indeed. Of course, it's not that
    you're at fault, Araragi-senpai.
[12:42] ---
    However, you are a fool, Araragi-senpai.
    You're helpless. Helplessly so.
[12:50] ---
    Ougi... What in the world
    are you saying that you know?
[12:54] ---
    I don't know anything.
[12:56] ---
    It's what you know, Araragi-senpai.
[13:00] ---
    Me?
[13:02] ---
    Let's see. Just like when Oikura-senpai
    was a young girl, I'll quiz you, then?
[13:08] ---
    Question:
[13:10] ---
    Sodachi Oikura despises Koyomi Araragi
    as if he killed her parents.
[13:14] ---
    That's because Koyomi Araragi
    hadn't lived up to Sodachi Oikura's expectations.
[13:19] ---
    That's why she transferred to a different school
    without telling him anything.
[13:22] ---
    Now, what did Sodachi Oikura hope for
    from Koyomi Araragi?
[13:27] ---
    What did she... hope for?
[13:30] ---
    Hint: it has something to do
    with the occupation of Araragi-senpai's parents.
[13:38] ---
    Thinking time: 120 seconds.
[13:42] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[13:53] ---
    ANSWER
[13:53] ---
    In other words, Oikura-senpai,
[13:55] ---
    by teaching Araragi-senpai the,
    how to put it, "amusement in mathematics,"
[14:01] ---
    she was seeking something
    in compensation.
[14:03] ---
    COMPENSATION
[14:05] ---
    Speaking from a third-party perspective,
    that first envelope is very suspicious.
[14:10] ---
    It reeks of a trap.
[14:12] ---
    TRAP
[14:13] ---
    A trap.
[14:14] ---
    A fishhook, perhaps?
[14:18] ---
    Her explanation that she sent letters to other students,
    but you being the only one that showed up was a lie.
[14:23] ---
    It was a complete fabrication.
[14:25] ---
    In reality, she was aiming
    to only hook you, Araragi-senpai.
[14:29] ---
    After finding out your math grades were poor,
    Oikura-senpai decided to take advantage of that
[14:34] ---
    and placed letters inside your shoe locker
    whose contents would grab your attention.
[14:38] ---
    A mathematical problem delivered to a boy
    thinking he had to do something about his math grade...
[14:42] ---
    Well, that's as good a lure as any.
[14:45] ---
    That means I really did
    shamelessly show up at her place...
[14:49] ---
    Hey, Araragi-senpai.
[14:51] ---
    You're familiar with the cram school ruins
    my uncle Meme Oshino lived while in town, right?
[14:59] ---
    Yeah. Well, like I said,
    I've even slept there myself.
[15:05] ---
    You also said this: that those ruins and these ruins
    are rundown by about the same amount. Correct?
[15:11] ---
    I did, so?
[15:12] ---
    Isn't that a bit strange?
[15:14] ---
    Why would a cram school that
    went out of business a few years ago
[15:17] ---
    and a house that was already in ruins five years ago,
    be rundown to the same extent?
[15:25] ---
    That's right, Araragi-senpai.
[15:29] ---
    Five years ago... This place was not a ruined house.
[15:33] ---
    The "ruined house"
    was a misunderstanding on your part...
[15:36] ---
    This used to be the house
    Sodachi Oikura lived in.
[15:40] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[15:43] ---
    Oikura's... residence?
[15:46] ---
    Why was she always here
    before you, Araragi-senpai?
[15:50] ---
    Isn't it strange for someone to arrive first
    to a meeting point every single time without fail?
[15:57] ---
    You should look at it that because this was her home,
    Oikura-senpai was always able to wait for you.
[16:03] ---
    But...
[16:05] ---
    Now, Araragi-senpai.
[16:06] ---
    I know you're shocked by this,
    and I'm sorry I have to whip you even further.
[16:10] ---
    But this is the key point of my sleuthing.
[16:13] ---
    Why did Araragi-senpai think that five years ago,
    the Oikura residence was a ruined house?
[16:18] ---
    That's an error in my memory, isn't it?
[16:20] ---
    No, just a misunderstanding.
    Your memory itself is probably correct.
[16:25] ---
    Back then, the window in this room
    was probably already broken like this.
[16:28] ---
    You specifically stated as such already.
[16:31] ---
    That's why this isn't an error in your memory,
    but merely a misunderstanding.
[16:37] ---
    Is it what you call domestic violence?
[16:40] ---
    Indeed.
[16:42] ---
    It seems Oikura had to grow up
    in quite the tragic family environment,
[16:47] ---
    while you grew up all warm and fuzzy
    in a peaceful family.
[16:50] ---
    Even if you shoved the summer you came here
    into a corner of your memory...
[16:55] ---
    Even if you had packed it away
    at the bottom of your memory...
[16:57] ---
    It perhaps isn't something
    that you can be blamed for.
[17:02] ---
    The reason for her transfer in the second term,
    in that case, is somewhat imaginable, too.
[17:07] ---
    The family that was falling apart
    probably fell apart completely.
[17:11] ---
    Perhaps at that point,
    Oikura's last name had changed?
[17:15] ---
    And that was why when you were reunited with her
    in class 1-3 of Naoetsu High,
[17:19] ---
    you thought you'd never
    met her before, Araragi-senpai.
[17:23] ---
    Well, the thing is,
    you should've recognized her face.
[17:27] ---
    In any case...
[17:28] ---
    There's no doubt that the Oikura household
    was at a critical point back then.
[17:32] ---
    And she wanted to do something about it.
[17:35] ---
    Something?
[17:37] ---
    Something is literally something.
    That's why she called you over, Araragi-senpai.
[17:42] ---
    What Oikura-senpai had sought from
    you as compensation was just that.
[17:47] ---
    No, hold on a sec.
    A family breakdown...
[17:50] ---
    Resolving a violent family breakdown...
    That's too much to handle.
[17:54] ---
    What in the world was she expecting
    from someone in 7th grade?
[17:57] ---
    That's why I said, your parents.
[18:00] ---
    Parents...
[18:01] ---
    They're police officers, right?
[18:03] ---
    The parents who showed the ways
    of righteous to Araragi-senpai.
[18:06] ---
    You were expected to report to those parents
    the goings-on of the Oikura household.
[18:13] ---
    Even if so, I was forbidden from saying anything...
    By Oikura herself.
[18:18] ---
    To not tell anyone
    I'm seeing Oikura here.
[18:22] ---
    In the end, Oikura-senpai probably didn't want
    to prosecute her own family.
[18:27] ---
    Whether it was feeling guilt as a daughter
    to rebuke her own parents,
[18:31] ---
    Or whether she feared retribution...
    Perhaps it was both?
[18:37] ---
    In the end, she sought me to volunteer the condition
    of the Oikura household to my parents.
[18:42] ---
    That's what she had intended.
[18:44] ---
    I didn't do anything
    that Oikura had hoped for.
[18:48] ---
    But I absorbed all of the knowledge
    that Oikura had given me to my heart's content.
[18:55] ---
    The empty envelope Oikura
    had taped underneath the tea table
[18:59] ---
    was an accurate depiction
    of who I was as a man.
[19:02] ---
    Empty and disappointing.
[19:04] ---
    I was a guy she couldn't count on.
[19:07] ---
    Well, that's the gist of it.
[19:10] ---
    Araragi-senpai, if my memory
    serves me correctly,
[19:13] ---
    you started this investigation
    to figure out why you were hated
[19:19] ---
    by Oikura-senpai
    as if you killed her parents.
[19:23] ---
    That objective, at this point in time,
    has basically been completed.
[19:27] ---
    Therefore, I believe it's about time
    to start thinking about retreating from here.
[19:31] ---
    If there's something you'd like to say in closing,
    go ahead. Your final words.
[19:37] ---
    I really am blessed right now.
[19:40] ---
    It's true that everything is great,
    and I'm happy.
[19:43] ---
    I have friends, I have a lover,
    and I have underclassmen.
[19:46] ---
    I'm very, very happy.
[19:50] ---
    But...
[19:51] ---
    As happy as I am,
    I've come to despise myself a little bit.
[19:56] ---
    Then, that little bit
    is how much I will love you.
[19:59] ---
    Besides, Araragi-senpai.
[20:01] ---
    Another way to look at this is that it's a good thing
    you haven't grown to despise mathematics.
[20:07] ---
    No doubt.
[20:09] ---
    It's true.
[20:10] ---
    No matter what I grow to despise,
    even if I lose sight of righteousness...
[20:13] ---
    I will continue to love mathematics.
[20:17] ---
    It's already become a curse of sorts.
[20:22] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
[20:23] ---
    Ougi Oshino... Oshino's niece?
[20:28] ---
    Oh, yeah. Thanks to her,
    I figured out all sorts of things.
[20:32] ---
    As expected of Oshino's relative,
    it was pretty impressive sleuthing.
[20:36] ---
    Without her, I wouldn't have been able to figure out
    those mysteries yesterday or the day before.
[20:43] ---
    Araragi, It pains me to add to things,
    considering how you are now...
[20:51] ---
    Araragi, it's not strange to figure out
    that you hit a wall concerning math
[20:54] ---
    during the finals for your first term
    in your 7th grade year.
[21:00] ---
    And I think it's also possible to take advantage of that
    by placing the "Monty Hall problem" in your shoe locker.
[21:05] ---
    But... The key point about that plan,
    the fact that your parents are police officers...
[21:11] ---
    How did Oikura find out about that?
[21:15] ---
    Wasn't that something
    you did everything you could to hide?
[21:19] ---
    That's right. When it comes to that,
    I have a habit of not answering even when asked,
[21:25] ---
    to avoid extra, or unnecessary, troubles.
[21:30] ---
    But why... Why did Oikura know about that? How?
[21:35] ---
    Of course, there's the chance she just happened to know
    because something caused her to find out.
[21:41] ---
    Perhaps there's something else
    between you and Oikura.
[21:45] ---
    Some other memory you need to retrace,
    another door you still need to open.
[21:51] ---
    A memory I need to retrace...
[21:58] ---
    Another door I still need to open...
[22:01] ---
    Is there something else that I've forgotten,
    on top of everything else?
[22:02] ---
    FOOLISH
[22:05] ---
    If so, just how foolish
    is Koyomi Araragi?
[22:10] ---
    Is there no end to my foolishness?
[22:13] ---
    "You're someone that I'd never forget about,"
    was what Oikura said.
[22:19] ---
    If that's the case, she's sure to remember.
[22:23] ---
    The fool from two years ago, from five years ago,
    and from even before that.
[22:29] ---
    I've arrived in front of my classroom.
[22:32] ---
    Beyond this door, whether or not
    Sodachi Oikura will be there is...
[22:36] ---
    ...alas, a completely impossible proof.
[22:37] ---
    ALAS, A COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE PROOF.

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[00:00] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[00:01] ---
    Now, we shall return anew
    to the topic of Ougi Oshino.
[00:05] ---
    That said, she is who she is after all.
[00:08] ---
    She's nothing more than herself,
[00:10] ---
    so even if I start, even if I start anew,
    even if I go back...
[00:13] ---
    The fundamental topic ends just like that.
[00:15] ---
    OUGI OSHINO
[00:17] ---
    If I were to write out an existence
    such as Ougi Oshino in a novel,
[00:21] ---
    it would come to an end
    with just one line.
[00:24] ---
    "Ougi Oshino was Ougi Oshino...
[00:27] ---
    ...and everyone lived
    happily ever after." One line!
[00:31] ---
    And so, we've had a few math classes in a row,
    but at the end, let's have a Japanese class.
[00:37] ---
    Here's a Japanese problem.
[00:39] ---
    Write about such-and-such.
    You must answer within so many words.
[00:42] ---
    If it's about Ougi Oshino,
    just like what I mentioned before.
[00:45] ---
    If you were to put her as the main subject
    of the problem, it would read:
[00:49] ---
    "Describe Ougi Oshino in four words or less."
[00:52] ---
    and the answer would be "Ougi Oshino."
[00:56] ---
    So, the final problem I submit to you is this:
[01:00] ---
    "Just how foolish is Koyomi Araragi?
    Answer within twenty words.
[01:05] ---
    However, you must use the words 'Ougi Oshino'
    at least once in your answer."
[01:11] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[01:12] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST, PART ONE
[01:13] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[01:15] ---
    In the end...
    Did you figure it out, Araragi?
[01:17] ---
    I mean, the reason why Oikura knew about
    the occupation of your parents, Araragi.
[01:22] ---
    Yeah. I figured it out.
[01:25] ---
    I confirmed it with Sengoku too,
    so I'm sure of it.
[01:27] ---
    No, I don't think that's something
    you need to confirm while hanging your head...
[01:33] ---
    Of course I'd want to hang my head.
[01:35] ---
    I couldn't remember,
    no matter how hard I tried...
[01:38] ---
    But when I did as you told me to, Hanekawa,
    it came to light immediately.
[01:42] ---
    Really, Hanekawa,
    you really do know everything.
[01:46] ---
    I don't know everything.
    I only know what I know.
[01:51] ---
    That's why I don't know
    exactly what Ougi knows.
[01:57] ---
    We're fine, right?
    She's not tailing us or anything, right?
[02:02] ---
    Tailing? No,
    she's not an assassin or anything.
[02:06] ---
    An assassin?
[02:08] ---
    Isn't tailing someone
    a job for a detective, Araragi?
[02:17] ---
    I think in this case,
    I would've preferred if she had followed us.
[02:21] ---
    If she had tailed us,
    I could've thrown her off the track.
[02:24] ---
    Maybe you're being
    a bit too nervous about all of this?
[02:27] ---
    No, but Araragi, even if she's not tailing us,
    she might have anticipated where we're going.
[02:33] ---
    Since the destination is very clear,
    there's less risk doing that if she's going to investigate...
[02:38] ---
    You can't ever be too nervous about this.
[02:41] ---
    If you're not being too nervous about this, Hanekawa,
    you're giving Ougi way too much credit.
[02:47] ---
    It may be true that she's Oshino's niece,
    and seems to be moderately smart for the most part.
[02:52] ---
    But she's still like a child, I guess.
[02:54] ---
    She's a first-year.
[02:55] ---
    She still has a feeling of cuteness.
[02:59] ---
    Us upperclassmen have the duty
    of guiding people like her to not end up like Oshino.
[03:05] ---
    And that should be
    how we repay Oshino as well.
[03:08] ---
    How we repay Oshino, huh...
[03:11] ---
    Yeah, that's a great thing to keep in mind.
[03:14] ---
    Admirable. So admirable.
[03:16] ---
    I totally thought you were head-over-heels again
    for yet another new cute underclassman.
[03:21] ---
    "Again"?
[03:23] ---
    Back during the case with Kanbaru,
    didn't you end up in a similar situation, Araragi?
[03:28] ---
    If what you have in mind is how you really feel,
    I'd like you to stop.
[03:31] ---
    Don't act in ways that are misunderstood
    as fawning over underclassmen
[03:34] ---
    when your own class
    is having such a rough time.
[03:37] ---
    I'll engrave that onto my heart.
[03:39] ---
    Good.
[03:41] ---
    To confirm, until you tagged along
    on Ougi's fieldwork,
[03:46] ---
    you had forgotten all about your memories
    of middle school days with Oikura, right?
[03:50] ---
    Not at all. It's the reverse.
[03:53] ---
    Ougi accompanied me
    when I was doing my fieldwork.
[03:57] ---
    Ougi basically tagged along
    with what I was doing.
[04:00] ---
    She merely assisted
    in my remembering Oikura.
[04:06] ---
    I guess the idea isn't getting across very well...
    Am I not expressing myself properly?
[04:12] ---
    In my eyes, there's nothing more dangerous
    than people like that girl.
[04:15] ---
    Dangerous? Are you talking about Oikura?
[04:19] ---
    See, we're not on the same page.
[04:22] ---
    It's as if you're diverting the point
    of this conversation on purpose.
[04:29] ---
    Well, all right. I'm sure it just means
    we can't talk about stuff like this today.
[04:36] ---
    Hanekawa, if you mean to say you think
    Ougi might feel ill will towards Oikura, that's not it.
[04:43] ---
    In the first place,
    Ougi has never even met Oikura.
[04:46] ---
    I'm not worried about
    anything like that, Araragi.
[04:49] ---
    Ougi setting her sights on Oikura?
    I'm not worried about something like that one bit.
[04:55] ---
    What I am worried about is...
[04:57] ---
    ...is?
[04:58] ---
    I mean, it's you, Araragi.
[05:01] ---
    Something that you don't understand very well
    may have set their sights on you.
[05:05] ---
    Something I don't understand very well?
[05:07] ---
    It may be something... that isn't too good.
[05:10] ---
    To be honest, I'm not sure
    I can protect you through it all.
[05:14] ---
    Protect?
[05:15] ---
    Araragi, you called what happened
    during spring break "hell."
[05:19] ---
    But Araragi, your true suffering
    may be what's to come.
[05:25] ---
    We, Class President Tsubasa Hanekawa,
    and Class Vice-President Koyomi Araragi, arrived...
[05:35] ---
    ...at our destination,
    the current address for Sodachi Oikura.
[05:38] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[05:40] ---
    Sodachi Oikura,
    former class president,
[05:43] ---
    hasn't shown up to school
    on the day after that ordeal.
[05:48] ---
    And, apparently sensing the threatening
    atmosphere that was lingering,
[05:52] ---
    Senjyogahara hasn't come to school
    since that day either.
[05:56] ---
    And so, Araragi, I'm thinking of going to visit her
    after school today...
[06:02] ---
    I mean, visit Senjyogahara and Oikura.
[06:05] ---
    In any case, we don't have enough time,
    so I think we should split up and get to it.
[06:09] ---
    Senjyogahara or Oikura...
[06:12] ---
    Araragi, which person do you want to visit?
[06:15] ---
    You can go ahead and choose, Araragi.
[06:18] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[06:21] ---
    Visit one's lover...
[06:23] ---
    ...or visit one's mortal enemy.
[06:25] ---
    It was quite the ultimate decision,
    but I decided on choosing the latter.
[06:32] ---
    The reason why we decided
    on splitting up and acting separately,
[06:34] ---
    yet I met up with Hanekawa again later?
[06:37] ---
    HER PASSION
[06:37] ---
    The reasoning is due to
    these circumstances.
[06:40] ---
    Huh? If it isn't Araragi-senpai!
[06:44] ---
    Oh... Ougi.
[06:47] ---
    Ougi, are you going home now?
[06:49] ---
    Going home? Well... No.
[06:53] ---
    What are you talking about, Araragi-senpai?
[06:56] ---
    We had promised to meet here.
[07:00] ---
    We made a promise to meet
    at 3:42 at the school gates.
[07:05] ---
    Nothing less from you, Araragi-senpai.
[07:07] ---
    You're right on time. You're so precise.
    You're really faithful in that way....
[07:13] ---
    ...you fool.
[07:17] ---
    Hurray, I'm so happy.
[07:19] ---
    Araragi-senpai is going to take me now
    to eat non-revolving sushi.
[07:23] ---
    Did I make such a promise?!
[07:25] ---
    You did indeed. You said it was
    to celebrate my transferring to this school.
[07:29] ---
    Non-revolving sushi
    to celebrate a school transfer...
[07:32] ---
    What in the world
    just transferred into my school?
[07:40] ---
    I'm sorry, Ougi. Unfortunately,
    I don't think I can keep my promise with you.
[07:45] ---
    My, what is that
    handsome-sounding line for?
[07:48] ---
    Saying such a handsome-sounding line
    while breaking a promise
[07:51] ---
    must mean that you don't have
    any money on you.
[07:53] ---
    I have to take a bit of time now
    to head to Oikura's house, Ougi.
[07:57] ---
    Oh? So you're going to go
    to that ruined house again?
[08:01] ---
    No, not the ruined house,
    but her current address...
[08:04] ---
    NO.
[08:05] ---
    I'VE BECOME WAY TOO TALKATIVE
    IN FRONT OF OUGI
[08:16] ---
    What are you doing?
[08:17] ---
    Well, I tried opening the zipper
    that was on your mouth.
[08:20] ---
    Though, it was more like Velcro
    than a zipper...
[08:24] ---
    Do tell me a bit more about this, please.
[08:28] ---
    What happened?
[08:29] ---
    You're working on winning Oikura-senpai over
    at amazing speed. Such rapid progress.
[08:35] ---
    Report on just how things developed
    and in what manner, fool.
[08:40] ---
    No, it's not like winning her over
    or anything like that.
[08:43] ---
    It's not like I'm going to visit in order to see her,
    but it's more like barging in on my part.
[08:47] ---
    She didn't come to school again yesterday.
[08:50] ---
    And even the day before that,
    it was basically the same as being absent...
[08:53] ---
    I WAS FORCED TO EXPLAIN.
[08:55] ---
    And that's how it is.
[08:56] ---
    So that's how it is?
[08:58] ---
    I didn't hear much
    about the details yet,
[09:01] ---
    but she seems to be
    living apart from her parents now.
[09:05] ---
    Apart from her parents?
[09:07] ---
    I see, then she was taken
    into protective custody by a relative?
[09:11] ---
    No, apparently she lives on her own.
[09:15] ---
    I see... That's also interesting.
[09:18] ---
    So just like you said, Ougi,
[09:21] ---
    something along the lines of
    her parents divorcing happened five years ago.
[09:25] ---
    I guess you could say
    her family was shattered.
[09:27] ---
    And she returned here two years ago.
[09:30] ---
    I see... The sleuthing I did
    without much thought at all was correct.
[09:35] ---
    However, Araragi-senpai...
    Foolish Araragi-senpai...
[09:38] ---
    In other words, Araragi-senpai,
    you're about to go visit a girl
[09:41] ---
    who is in reality
    living all by herself.
[09:47] ---
    That's not good.
[09:49] ---
    It's not good?
[09:51] ---
    It's not good, not good at all.
[09:53] ---
    That's an act unbefitting a gentleman.
[09:55] ---
    For a boy to make a solitary visit
    to a girl living alone?
[09:59] ---
    It wouldn't be surprising if someone suspects
    there's some relationship there.
[10:02] ---
    That isn't an act someone with a partner
    should be doing.
[10:10] ---
    Though your resolve seems to be strong.
[10:12] ---
    And I was looking forward
    to non-revolving sushi...
[10:17] ---
    See you, Ougi.
[10:18] ---
    Oh, I know!
[10:19] ---
    I just thought of something brilliant,
    Araragi-senpai.
[10:23] ---
    Yours truly, though unworthy,
    shall accompany you on this house call.
[10:27] ---
    You, Ougi? That is a welcome offer...
[10:32] ---
    HMM? IS IT WELCOME?
[10:33] ---
    In other words,
    it just has to be more than one person.
[10:36] ---
    Especially because, you know, I'm a girl.
[10:39] ---
    My being there with you should
    calm down Oikura-senpai's heart somewhat.
[10:43] ---
    She's not one to calm down
    just because she's dealing with girls...
[10:50] ---
    WOULD SHE CALM DOWN EVEN A LITTLE BIT
    IF IT WAS AN UNDERCLASSMAN?
[10:51] ---
    And as you're fully aware,
    I'm very adept at listening to others.
[10:55] ---
    Perhaps I may be able to draw out
    all sorts of things from Oikura-senpai.
[11:00] ---
    Draw out...
[11:02] ---
    Araragi-senpai, until now,
    your recollection of that class assembly
[11:06] ---
    or the summer break
    of your 7th grade year,
[11:09] ---
    allowed you to remember
    how she was in the past.
[11:12] ---
    However, you haven't been able
    to properly speak to her current self at all.
[11:16] ---
    I can offer myself as the middleman
    so there won't be any arguments.
[11:23] ---
    I mean, I've already come this far, right?
[11:27] ---
    Please let me do this service.
[11:36] ---
    Then, Ougi, I request that you do.
[11:39] ---
    Yes, it's been requested of me.
[11:42] ---
    You shouldn't make that request!
[11:50] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[11:53] ---
    You shouldn't make that request, Araragi.
[11:56] ---
    Hanekawa...
[11:59] ---
    You shouldn't.
[12:01] ---
    See, you shouldn't rope in an underclassman
    to an internal dispute of our class.
[12:05] ---
    OH. SO THAT'S WHAT YOU MEAN?
    THAT'S WHAT THIS IS?
[12:06] ---
    INDEED, IT'S NOT A GOOD THING
    TO ROPE OUTSIDERS INTO A PRIVATE AFFAIR.
[12:07] ---
    Ougi—
[12:08] ---
    No, no.
[12:10] ---
    Don't be modest with me
    in a strange manner, Araragi-senpai.
[12:14] ---
    I would be hurt more by that.
[12:17] ---
    Please don't worry about me at all.
    I don't mind at all.
[12:21] ---
    So please don't mind me.
[12:22] ---
    It's more like being told something so distant
    at this point in time is what's shocking.
[12:27] ---
    It's like, disappointing.
[12:32] ---
    We have that kind of relationship
    between us, Araragi-senpai.
[12:37] ---
    What kind of a relationship
    do you and Araragi have, huh?
[12:43] ---
    You met Araragi for the very first time
    a mere three days ago, correct?
[12:48] ---
    Yes, correct.
[12:50] ---
    But, well, relationships between people
    aren't necessarily measured by time.
[12:55] ---
    I thought that I had really hit it off well
    with Araragi-senpai in such a short amount of time.
[13:01] ---
    We were locked inside
    a mysterious classroom together.
[13:04] ---
    We went on an adventure
    in a ruined house together.
[13:06] ---
    We shared experiences that were
    impossible in normal life together, so...
[13:11] ---
    Right, Araragi-senpai?
[13:13] ---
    Yeah, that's right.
[13:16] ---
    Oh, yes.
[13:17] ---
    I've heard about those ordeals.
[13:20] ---
    It seems my dear friend Araragi has received
    a great deal of assistance in that regard.
[13:30] ---
    I had thought that I needed
    to give my thanks for that.
[13:33] ---
    But well....
[13:34] ---
    If it were me instead of you,
    I would've done it a lot better.
[13:41] ---
    I see.
[13:42] ---
    I see, indeed.
[13:44] ---
    Right. Yes, indeed, there's no doubt
    you would've done things much better than I did.
[13:48] ---
    As everyone knows, you're a genius.
[13:50] ---
    Yes, of course, I've heard all about it
    from my uncle as well.
[13:54] ---
    By "uncle," are you
    perhaps referring to Oshino?
[13:59] ---
    Yes, as I'm his niece.
[14:02] ---
    But, well... Even that ingenious nature
    is meaningless if it cannot be exhibited.
[14:07] ---
    In reality, I was the one that was
    next to Araragi-senpai when everything happened.
[14:12] ---
    Your ingenious nature
    that even my uncle was afraid of...
[14:16] ---
    Yes, but still, if I look at you from that perspective,
    you really aren't as good as I've heard you are.
[14:22] ---
    If you are the Tsubasa Hanekawa
    that I had heard so much of...
[14:25] ---
    You never would've been absent for the perils
    that Araragi-senpai faced.
[14:30] ---
    By saying "I would've done it a lot better,"
    don't you actually mean, "If I was in my prime"?
[14:35] ---
    Come on, Ougi.
[14:37] ---
    That's not a nice way of saying things.
[14:39] ---
    There are things that you can say,
    and things you shouldn't.
[14:42] ---
    What about Hanekawa
    are you saying you know?
[14:45] ---
    I don't know anything.
[14:48] ---
    It's what you know, Araragi-senpai.
[14:52] ---
    About Hanekawa-senpai's past and present...
[14:55] ---
    ...and about her future.
[15:00] ---
    Right. On that point, this is essentially
    something I shouldn't interfere with.
[15:06] ---
    Well, Hanekawa-senpai,
    I'm not stupid enough to go against you directly.
[15:11] ---
    I wouldn't want to be rude to you
    and be hated by my beloved Araragi-senpai, either.
[15:17] ---
    So please, let's proceed from here
    by utilizing compartmentalization.
[15:21] ---
    Now, excuse me.
    Please, go on ahead.
[15:24] ---
    You're going to head to Senjyogahara-senpai's house
    to visit her right now, right?
[15:27] ---
    That house seems to be further away,
    so shouldn't you hurry over there?
[15:32] ---
    "Further away"?
[15:34] ---
    Please rest assured.
[15:36] ---
    If it's the case that you don't want
    to see your valued friend Araragi-senpai
[15:39] ---
    ask a favor from an underclassman,
[15:43] ---
    I'll make sure it's not like that.
[15:45] ---
    I mean, this is something
    that I suggested in the first place.
[15:48] ---
    I can make it so that I'm following
    Araragi-senpai's exact footsteps of my own accord.
[15:53] ---
    Much like some spirit possessing him.
[15:55] ---
    That way, it won't bother you, right?
[15:58] ---
    See, you know, it can be like
    what you often read in mystery novels -
[16:00] ---
    the assistant who forces himself
    into that role.
[16:02] ---
    An assistant forcing himself
    into that role...
[16:04] ---
    If Araragi-senpai is troubled
    for one reason or another,
[16:07] ---
    I can't just leave him alone like that.
[16:09] ---
    I want to be one that saves Araragi-senpai.
[16:13] ---
    Wasn't it the case that "all people can do
    is save themselves on their own"?
[16:18] ---
    That's my uncle's stance.
[16:20] ---
    My stance is more along the lines
    of the old "Grateful Crane" story.
[16:24] ---
    The Grateful Crane?
[16:27] ---
    Well, I wouldn't mind if it was
    the "Straw Hats on the Jizo Statues" story either.
[16:29] ---
    Simply put, my policy is
    overdoing a show of gratitude.
[16:33] ---
    Like one where I'm told,
    "You're showing too much gratitude!"
[16:36] ---
    Araragi-senpai has been exceptionally kind to me
    as I transferred to this school,
[16:41] ---
    and I feel I should show my gratitude in return,
    even if it means putting my life on the line.
[16:49] ---
    Araragi, I'm changing plans.
[16:52] ---
    I'll go to Oikura's place as well.
[16:55] ---
    I'll go with you, Araragi.
[17:00] ---
    That way, you don't have
    anything to complain about, right?
[17:02] ---
    Ougi, you were saying that Araragi, a boy,
    going alone to Oikura's place would be a problem.
[17:09] ---
    If I went together with him,
    that leaves no issues in that regard.
[17:13] ---
    And you have no excuse.
[17:16] ---
    Correct?
[17:18] ---
    Aside from whether or not
    there's a problem...
[17:20] ---
    Weren't you supposed to visit Senjyogahara-senpai's
    place as well, Hanekawa-senpai?
[17:27] ---
    That's far from laudable behavior,
    to leave your close friend for later.
[17:32] ---
    I figured my chat with Senjyogahara
    would be a long one to begin with.
[17:36] ---
    I'll just stay over at her place tonight.
[17:39] ---
    I think we'll have the first pajama party
    in a while at Senjyogahara's place.
[17:43] ---
    PAJAMA PARTY?
[17:44] ---
    That settles that, right?
[17:45] ---
    Because.... I can do things
    better than you can.
[17:49] ---
    In this world, it's not about whether or not
    things can be done well, either.
[17:53] ---
    Doing things too well
    can lack balance in its own way.
[17:58] ---
    Because it won't end up
    as a happy medium like that.
[18:01] ---
    I figure you're fully aware of that.
[18:04] ---
    Well, good or bad aside,
[18:07] ---
    it's not me that decides this.
    It's Araragi-senpai.
[18:14] ---
    Whether you go with me,
    or go with Hanekawa-senpai.
[18:17] ---
    Araragi-senpai,
    you should be the one to decide.
[18:20] ---
    The power to decide is in your hands.
[18:22] ---
    Both myself and Hanekawa-senpai
    will abide by your decision.
[18:27] ---
    Right?
[18:28] ---
    You're right. Araragi, you decide for us.
[18:31] ---
    Because this isn't something
    I can force upon you.
[18:38] ---
    You know, Araragi-senpai.
[18:40] ---
    It's such a bad thing to make Hanekawa-senpai,
    a valued person you're indebted to,
[18:44] ---
    trouble someone else
    for a personal reason.
[18:48] ---
    If she's saying this is private,
    then Hanekawa-senpai is also out of the loop.
[18:52] ---
    Araragi-senpai, you'd never wish for something
    that would trouble Hanekawa-senpai, right?
[18:57] ---
    HMM, THAT IS, INDEED, QUITE CORRECT.
[18:58] ---
    THIS GIRL REALLY SAYS THINGS
    THAT ARE CORRECT.
[19:00] ---
    I promise you, Araragi-senpai.
    If you let me come with you,
[19:04] ---
    no matter what kind of mystery there is,
    I'll show you an answer to it yet again.
[19:09] ---
    WELL, IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO THAT FAR
    WITH YOUR STATEMENTS...
[19:13] ---
    I promise you, Araragi.
[19:16] ---
    If you decide you want to come with me...
[19:21] ---
    ...I'll let you touch my breasts.
[19:23] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[19:29] ---
    So room 444 in this place, huh...
[19:32] ---
    It looks like the management company
    isn't all too attentive.
[19:35] ---
    This looks more like
    a housing complex than condos.
[19:38] ---
    Oikura is probably
    receiving some sort of aid.
[19:42] ---
    Aid?
[19:44] ---
    From officials. And that's how
    they introduced her to this property, I think.
[19:49] ---
    What I further found out was how Oikura and I
    first met back when we were in grade school...
[19:53] ---
    But how did I forget such a thing,
    when even Sengoku remembered it?
[19:59] ---
    No, it's not like I ever forgot it...
[20:03] ---
    When I think about it,
    I may be cold-hearted.
[20:07] ---
    I mean, I had forgotten
    about Sengoku as well,
[20:10] ---
    and I didn't realize who she was
    when we first met.
[20:15] ---
    But I think that's something
    that can't be helped.
[20:21] ---
    You didn't have an impressionable relationship
    with either Sengoku or Oikura, right?
[20:28] ---
    Then, Araragi,
    can you wait here for a minute?
[20:31] ---
    Here at the staircase? Why?
[20:34] ---
    I mean, Oikura lives by herself.
[20:36] ---
    So if we were to ring the doorbell
    and she comes out in pajamas or loungewear...
[20:40] ---
    She might be embarrassed
    if you saw her like that, Araragi.
[20:50] ---
    Who is it?
[20:53] ---
    So let me ponder again on how
    that bloodcurdling confrontation was structured...
[20:59] ---
    Many people may perhaps
    be misunderstanding me,
[21:02] ---
    but it's not that I chose Hanekawa as my partner
    over Ougi because I was drawn to her breasts.
[21:09] ---
    I felt something something was highly unusual
    with the current situation
[21:12] ---
    if it made Hanekawa go so far
    as to say that.
[21:14] ---
    That's why, with the choice between the two,
    I chose her as my partner.
[21:19] ---
    I did feel bad for Ougi, though.
[21:21] ---
    I should properly follow through with her.
[21:23] ---
    I need to be someone that can
    do things like that as well from now on.
[21:27] ---
    That's right. Putting non-revolving sushi aside,
    I can take her to a place with revolving sushi...
[21:33] ---
    Araragi, it's fine for you to come up now.
[21:36] ---
    Come up? But...
[21:38] ---
    She said it's okay for us to go in.
[21:41] ---
    However, to give you spoilers in advance,
    she's still in her pajamas.
[21:47] ---
    Wait, weren't you trying
    to avoid such a situation?
[21:52] ---
    She said, "I don't want to make such an effort
    as to change into clothes just because Araragi is here."
[21:57] ---
    I tried my best to convince her otherwise,
    but the more I talked, the more stubborn she became.
[22:01] ---
    In the end, she said
    she will absolutely not change clothes,
[22:03] ---
    and that if I said anything more,
    she'd greet us naked.
[22:06] ---
    So I decided to back down.
[22:08] ---
    Rest assured, even I wouldn't be so frivolous
    as to be elated over a girl in pajamas in this situation.
[22:14] ---
    I don't know about that.
[22:16] ---
    After all, this is coming from the person
    who's after me for my breasts.
[22:20] ---
    THE ACTUAL PERSON INVOLVED
    REALIZES HOW I FELT THE LEAST.
[22:21] ---
    Now that the gate has been opened,
    we have no choice but to step inside.
[22:26] ---
    Even if it's like the castle gates opening
    as a declaration of war,
[22:29] ---
    I must accept it for what it is.
[22:31] ---
    Because that is my...
[22:33] ---
    ...my duty as a childhood friend
    of Sodachi Oikura.

E5 - Sodachi Lost, Part Two
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[00:00] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[00:01] ---
    Back then, not even the few friends I had
    knew my parents' profession.
[00:06] ---
    How in the world did Oikura find out?
[00:09] ---
    Such a curveball was tossed at me
    by Hanekawa early yesterday morning.
[00:15] ---
    QUESTION
[00:16] ---
    I couldn't answer.
    I had no idea whatsoever.
[00:20] ---
    If you can't figure it out no matter what you do,
    how about you go ask your parents?
[00:25] ---
    Sure enough, that shed some light
    on the answer.
[00:28] ---
    Oikura and I had met back in grade school...
    In other words, we're childhood friends.
[00:34] ---
    To be precise, it was somewhere
    back around when I was in sixth grade...
[00:38] ---
    Back around when I was playing
    with my little sister Tsukihi,
[00:41] ---
    or with Sengoku
    and the others Tsukihi brought over.
[00:45] ---
    Back then, I was together
    with Sodachi Oikura.
[00:48] ---
    I don't have many memories
    of my grade school days,
[00:52] ---
    so I clearly remember about
    when I played with Tsukihi,
[00:56] ---
    though I called her Lala at the time.
[00:59] ---
    Of course, I remember about you too,
    Big Brother Koyomi.
[01:03] ---
    There you have it.
[01:04] ---
    One day... Wait, though I am speaking
    as if I remember all of this now,
[01:09] ---
    I haven't remembered any of this
    as being reality just yet.
[01:12] ---
    I have no memory of it at all.
[01:14] ---
    This is what my parents told me
    when I asked them, that's all.
[01:18] ---
    In any case, one day...
[01:19] ---
    My parents came home
    and brought a girl with them.
[01:23] ---
    That girl was, of course,
    who is now known to be Sodachi Oikura.
[01:28] ---
    My parents didn't give much of an explanation,
    but apparently told me and my two younger sisters
[01:32] ---
    that she'd be staying with us for a while,
    so we should be friends.
[01:36] ---
    My parents had taken Oikura as a child
    to protect her from her "family,"
[01:40] ---
    and brought her to their own home.
[01:43] ---
    From her "family," where it was seen
    that violence was already rampant at that time.
[01:48] ---
    I thought that she was
    something of a mysterious person.
[01:51] ---
    She never tried to play with us,
[01:53] ---
    but didn't attempt to leave the room either,
    and she never spoke.
[01:58] ---
    However, she suddenly disappeared.
[02:01] ---
    Naturally, it was simply the fact that the child Oikura
    had returned to her own house of her own accord.
[02:07] ---
    She did so voluntarily.
[02:09] ---
    It wasn't that her parents
    came to take her back,
[02:11] ---
    or my parents were no longer able
    to protect her due to certain circumstances...
[02:16] ---
    The child Oikura had decided on her own,
[02:18] ---
    and left my version of "our home,"
    and returned to her version of "our home."
[03:55] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[03:56] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST, PART TWO
[03:58] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[03:59] ---
    How dare you come here.
[04:01] ---
    OIKURA'S CONDO, ENTRANCE
[04:02] ---
    I'll commend you on your nerve, Ararag—
[04:06] ---
    ARARA-G?
[04:10] ---
    Your name is so hard to pronounth...
[04:13] ---
    SAME, DINING ROOM
[04:15] ---
    Well... You look like
    you're doing well, Oikura. I'm glad.
[04:19] ---
    Look like I'm doing well?
    Does it look that way?
[04:23] ---
    Really. Just how much
    of a hypocrite is she?
[04:27] ---
    I'd suspected she wasn't just
    some quiet, frail little girl...
[04:30] ---
    Maybe I should sue her
    for bodily injury.
[04:33] ---
    Like, go to the doctor before the swelling goes down
    and get a certificate for my injuries.
[04:37] ---
    That way, maybe her recommendation
    for college enrollment will be withdrawn?
[04:48] ---
    Wait... what?
[04:50] ---
    Wh-What is it?
    Why are you poking my cheek?
[04:54] ---
    Like, poke-poke...
[04:55] ---
    Are we close enough that
    you could act so mischievously with me?
[04:59] ---
    What crime do you want
    to be prosecuted for?
[05:02] ---
    With that cheek, you probably wouldn't get
    a certificate for injuries from any doctor, Oikura.
[05:10] ---
    What?
[05:14] ---
    The swelling completely healed in two nights.
    What a healing power I have...
[05:19] ---
    It seems like you're doing well,
    with no major problems.
[05:22] ---
    So, starting tomorrow,
    you'll come to school again, right, Oikura?
[05:26] ---
    So this is your job
    as class president, huh? Let's see...
[05:30] ---
    ...Hanekawa, was it?
[05:32] ---
    Right. I'm Tsubasa Hanekawa.
[05:36] ---
    So you were asked by our teacher
    to come pick me up or something?
[05:41] ---
    Hanekawa aside...
[05:43] ---
    Why would you come here?
[05:46] ---
    A...
[05:47] ---
    A-ra-ra-gi.
[05:50] ---
    I don't want to see your face,
[05:52] ---
    and I'm sure you don't want
    to see my face either, you know?
[05:55] ---
    You know, I thought we really
    didn't get along with each other.
[06:00] ---
    Was that just my misunderstanding?
[06:03] ---
    It's not a misunderstanding.
[06:04] ---
    But, it wasn't only that, either...
[06:08] ---
    Weren't you the one who taught me that
    the day before yesterday?
[06:14] ---
    And even back in grade school.
[06:31] ---
    No, well, I thought it'd be dangerous
    if you threw the tea, Oikura.
[06:35] ---
    So I prepared myself beforehand...
[06:39] ---
    Two days ago, I couldn't stop Senjyogahara,
    so I thought things over.
[06:44] ---
    THINKING THINGS OVER
    CAME TO BE OF TOO GOOD A USE.
[06:45] ---
    Oikura.
[06:47] ---
    Let's have a chat...
[06:49] ---
    ...about the past.
[06:51] ---
    About the past for you and me.
[06:52] ---
    IN THE END, THE ONE FACING OFF
    AGAINST OIKURA WASN'T HANEKAWA, BUT ME.
[06:58] ---
    I despise you.
[07:00] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[07:02] ---
    Now you remember...
[07:03] ---
    From the look of it, not only did you remember,
    but, after five years,
[07:07] ---
    it finally got through to you
    what I was trying to do back then.
[07:12] ---
    Which means...
    you must totally be making fun of me.
[07:16] ---
    Of someone who was totally kissing up to you
    in order to get some help...
[07:22] ---
    Of myself.
[07:23] ---
    Kissing up?
[07:25] ---
    I-I'm an idiot.
[07:26] ---
    I'm an idiot, I'm an idiot, I'm an idiot.
[07:29] ---
    I really am such an idiot!
[07:31] ---
    I-I'm so embarrassed that I tried to save myself
    when it meant kissing up to a guy like this!
[07:35] ---
    I threw out my pride back then
    to flatter someone like this!
[07:39] ---
    I licked and lapped his shoes,
    at least emotionally!
[07:45] ---
    In the hope of making up for my mistakes,
    I made an even worse one...
[07:49] ---
    Embarrassing, embarrassing!
[07:50] ---
    Embarrassing, embarrassing...
    I want to die! I want to be gone!
[07:58] ---
    But, Araragi.
[08:01] ---
    Even if it wasn't me,
    I'm sure the same thing would've happened.
[08:05] ---
    I don't think I was
    especially unfortunate or anything.
[08:08] ---
    Something like this happens often.
[08:12] ---
    Hey, don't you think so, too?
[08:15] ---
    You can't possibly be feeling sympathetic
    towards me or anything, right?
[08:20] ---
    Don't pity me...
[08:22] ---
    If you, someone who I despise,
    pities me, I really feel like I want to die.
[08:29] ---
    I do feel like it can't be helped,
    no matter what you tell me.
[08:33] ---
    Because I haven't returned one bit
    of what you've given me.
[08:38] ---
    So if you're telling me not to pity me,
    then I won't pity you.
[08:41] ---
    If you're saying not to atone for it,
    of course I won't atone, either.
[08:45] ---
    What's up with that?
    Are you trying to act tough?
[08:48] ---
    Do you think an attitude like that
    is especially manly?
[08:51] ---
    Do you think doing something like that
    makes you a superior human?
[08:54] ---
    Manly? That's just you tossing everything out.
[08:58] ---
    Yeah... but speaking of tossing out,
    didn't you do the same thing?
[09:09] ---
    I couldn't help it. That's not my fault.
[09:13] ---
    Why I toss things out,
[09:14] ---
    why I run away when I'm sick of it,
    is all my parents' fault.
[09:18] ---
    My parents are the ones at fault.
[09:19] ---
    It's my parents' responsibility
    that I ended up like this.
[09:23] ---
    So what are those parents doing now?
[09:26] ---
    Whoa! Why is that on your mind?
[09:28] ---
    I mean, the family makeup
    of someone like me.
[09:30] ---
    You didn't even consider it at all
    back in middle school.
[09:35] ---
    After you failed to help me,
    they happily got a divorce.
[09:39] ---
    My mother got custody of me,
    and I left this town...
[09:44] ---
    I don't give a rat's ass about
    what the male parent is doing nowadays.
[09:48] ---
    That's right. That male parent
    is the one who did all that to that house.
[09:52] ---
    That scumbag.
[09:54] ---
    My mother only hit me when she needed to vent
    the frustration of being beaten by the male parent.
[10:00] ---
    I've been cooped up in my place like this
    for over two years now.
[10:07] ---
    But my mother also
    cooped herself up as well.
[10:10] ---
    Right after we turned into
    a fatherless family, too...
[10:13] ---
    It seems like the divorce gradually got to her.
[10:15] ---
    She cooped herself up in one room
    of our new home, and she never left it.
[10:20] ---
    Never left?
[10:21] ---
    It really was horrible.
[10:23] ---
    She cooped herself up inside a locked room
    and curled up in a corner.
[10:27] ---
    Eventually, she stopped eating altogether.
[10:31] ---
    Mother boarded up all the windows
    and kept the curtains closed.
[10:36] ---
    The room was pitch black.
[10:40] ---
    And for the longest time,
    she kept mumbling.
[10:43] ---
    She mumbled stuff like,
    "Parents can't choose their children," and stuff.
[10:47] ---
    But at some point, she started to ignore me,
    no matter what I said to her.
[10:52] ---
    Fortunately, Japan is a country
    that's pretty substantial in providing welfare.
[10:57] ---
    Even without my mother earning a living,
    as long as you have the proper paperwork,
[11:00] ---
    one parent and one child
    could barely scrape by.
[11:03] ---
    So "it'd be better if my mother was gone"
    was something I've never once thought.
[11:08] ---
    This is one thing that's true.
[11:13] ---
    Because I was praying every night...
[11:16] ---
    So that "it'd be better if my mother was gone"
    would be something I wouldn't wish for.
[11:22] ---
    So that "it'd be better if my mother was gone"
    would be something I wouldn't wish for.
[11:28] ---
    So that "it'd be better if my mother was gone"
    would be something I wouldn't wish for.
[11:33] ---
    So that "it'd be better if my mother was gone"
    would be something I wouldn't wish for.
[11:40] ---
    But, my mother was gone,
    against my wishes.
[11:44] ---
    AGAINST MY WISHES
[11:49] ---
    One day, without telling me anything,
[11:51] ---
    without confessing anything to me,
    my mother was gone.
[11:56] ---
    When I came home from school,
    my mother was gone.
[11:59] ---
    My mother was gone then.
[12:02] ---
    Suddenly, without any warning,
    she went off somewhere...
[12:05] ---
    See, isn't that a lot like me?
[12:08] ---
    They say that girls often tend to be
    more like their male parents,
[12:11] ---
    but I'm sure I'm a lot like my mother.
[12:14] ---
    OIKURA, MOST LIKELY
[12:16] ---
    SMILED LIKE HER MOTHER.
[12:18] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[12:20] ---
    I made dinner
    and took it up to her room.
[12:23] ---
    I unlocked the door and went inside,
    and it was completely empty.
[12:27] ---
    There wasn't even a letter left behind.
[12:29] ---
    My parents...
[12:31] ---
    OIKURA SAYS THAT.
[12:32] ---
    Both of them...
[12:33] ---
    KILLING EMOTIONS
[12:34] ---
    I have no idea
    of their whereabouts anymore.
[12:36] ---
    SLAUGHTERING HER OWN HEART
[12:38] ---
    In any case, with that,
    I was freed from taking care of my mother.
[12:42] ---
    I was able to catch up
    on my schoolwork as well.
[12:44] ---
    Among my relatives, I found someone
    that could be my legal guardian in name only.
[12:48] ---
    And then, by receiving federal aid,
    I was able to come back to this town.
[12:52] ---
    I didn't want to see you,
    so I really didn't want to come back here...
[12:56] ---
    But this was the only place
    that had an opening.
[12:59] ---
    Why did you decide to live on your own?
[13:02] ---
    You could've continued to live in the house
    where you had lived with your mother.
[13:06] ---
    Why did you decide to take the time
    to move at that point?
[13:09] ---
    Because it was a place
    overfilled with garbage.
[13:11] ---
    I felt it better to toss out the entire house,
    rather than attempt to clean up at that point.
[13:15] ---
    Thinking over my past,
    I keep the amount of furniture here sparse.
[13:19] ---
    It looks really neat here, doesn't it?
[13:22] ---
    You get it now...
    that I'm not that unfortunate?
[13:26] ---
    Something at this level
    could happen to anyone, can't it?
[13:29] ---
    Some more, some less,
    but everyone experiences it.
[13:32] ---
    It's something commonplace...
    or rather, it's not even a story about hardships.
[13:37] ---
    Well, it might be a bit rougher
    than for most people, sure.
[13:40] ---
    But if you say that,
    you really can't get by in this world.
[13:43] ---
    If put on the spot, I guess your parent
    cooping themselves up is something unusual.
[13:48] ---
    But I should be happy that I got to experience
    something that doesn't happen often, a rarity.
[13:53] ---
    It's not like I'm the only unfortunate one,
    so I have to do my best.
[13:57] ---
    I'm one of the more fortunate ones,
    because I'm still alive like this.
[14:03] ---
    So, I'm saying you don't have to pity me...
[14:06] ---
    You don't have to apologize
    or atone for anything, Araragi.
[14:10] ---
    You don't have to
    make up for your sins at all.
[14:13] ---
    Somehow, talking about this
    has cleared my mind, too...
[14:17] ---
    In the end, they're all stories of the past.
[14:20] ---
    The stories of the past that you seek
    are only stories of the distant past.
[14:24] ---
    They're all stories that have concluded.
[14:26] ---
    END
[14:28] ---
    I was irritated,
    so I lashed out at you,
[14:31] ---
    but at this point, I don't feel like
    I want you to do anything for me.
[14:35] ---
    If anything...
[14:37] ---
    ...can you guys go home now?
[14:41] ---
    IF SHE TELLS US TO GO HOME,
[14:42] ---
    WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO GO HOME.
[14:43] ---
    - Oi—
    - Oikura.
[14:45] ---
    Did you say "unlock the door"?
[14:47] ---
    What?
[14:51] ---
    Yes. That's right.
[14:53] ---
    When you unlocked the door and went in,
    your mother was gone...
[14:58] ---
    But the windows were all boarded up, right?
[15:01] ---
    And if the door was locked on top of that,
[15:04] ---
    where did your mother
    leave the room from?
[15:09] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[15:10] ---
    WHERE DID YOUR MOTHER LEAVE THE ROOM FROM?
[15:12] ---
    A LOCKED ROOM
[15:13] ---
    From where? From the door, of course.
[15:17] ---
    The door unlocks if you turn the inside handle,
    so you can leave that way.
[15:22] ---
    Then, was it a door
    that locks itself automatically?
[15:24] ---
    It was a normal keyed door.
[15:27] ---
    But the key was placed randomly
    somewhere around the house,
[15:32] ---
    so I'm sure my mother
    locked the door before leaving.
[15:37] ---
    Well, yeah. You're right.
[15:41] ---
    Then, Oikura, setting aside the room's lock,
    what about the lock on the front door?
[15:46] ---
    Why do you want to know
    something so trivial as that....
[15:49] ---
    I don't really remember.
[15:51] ---
    If she doesn't remember,
    that means it didn't make an impression on her.
[15:54] ---
    That probably means that the door
    was properly locked, right?
[15:57] ---
    If it was unlocked, she would've felt
    something was strange at that point.
[16:02] ---
    I just don't get it...
[16:03] ---
    Why does my mother's disappearance
    bother you so much? Why?
[16:09] ---
    Hey, Araragi...
[16:11] ---
    Do you know how I felt when I was taken
    into protective custody at your place?
[16:16] ---
    I wondered why
    you guys were showing off.
[16:19] ---
    I had thought that my house,
    and my family, was the norm.
[16:24] ---
    No broken windows, no cracked walls,
    no cracked floors - a neat little house like that...
[16:29] ---
    I couldn't believe that
    such a calm family could exist.
[16:33] ---
    That's why I kept glaring at
    all of you the whole time.
[16:36] ---
    I silently kept glaring.
[16:38] ---
    Do you remember that?
[16:40] ---
    Yeah...
[16:41] ---
    A LIE.
[16:42] ---
    I HAVE NO MEMORY OF BACK THEN.
[16:44] ---
    It was so bright... that's why I ran away.
[16:47] ---
    I was blinded by the brightness,
    and felt like my eyes would be crushed.
[16:51] ---
    My body was going to be crushed
    by the warmth and comfort.
[16:53] ---
    I WISH I NEVER KNEW.
[16:55] ---
    I WISH...
[16:56] ---
    But it was no good. It was too late.
[16:58] ---
    I NEVER MET YOU.
[16:59] ---
    After seeing something like that just once...
[17:02] ---
    I realized just how miserable my house was.
[17:05] ---
    IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A NORMAL HOUSE.
[17:06] ---
    SHE FELT THAT IT WAS BRIGHT.
[17:08] ---
    By the time I found out,
    there was nothing I could do.
[17:12] ---
    I tried strange ways to do something about it,
    and they started to say I was acting rebellious.
[17:16] ---
    That caused me
    to be beaten even more often.
[17:19] ---
    Where it wouldn't be seen on me...
[17:22] ---
    ...the parts of me that weren't visible...
[17:26] ---
    ...were all pummeled.
[17:30] ---
    But upon escaping that,
    I couldn't fully escape.
[17:33] ---
    I could no longer escape.
[17:37] ---
    That's why, when I was reunited with you
    back in middle school, I felt like it was destiny.
[17:47] ---
    Didn't I do my best to kiss up to you?
[17:51] ---
    Well, in reaction to that,
    when we had our second reunion in high school,
[17:56] ---
    I was a bit too harsh with you.
[17:58] ---
    In any case, you had forgotten about me,
    so none of that really mattered.
[18:05] ---
    Really... things just don't go well.
[18:07] ---
    With Tetsujo gone, I finally thought
    that I could start over this time.
[18:12] ---
    Araragi in my class yet again?
    That's impossible.
[18:14] ---
    I really do feel something like destiny here.
    A destiny much like a curse.
[18:20] ---
    You show up at every significant event in my life
    and spread forth disaster.
[18:26] ---
    - It's my fault?
    - That's right.
[18:28] ---
    Because of you,
    my life is in shambles...
[18:31] ---
    No. I know it's not your fault.
    I know that I'm the one at fault...
[18:37] ---
    What my mother said was correct.
[18:40] ---
    If the baby born wasn't me,
    it would've been a decent one.
[18:45] ---
    It's my fault. I despise myself.
[18:47] ---
    I... I despise myself.
[18:49] ---
    But you know, if I don't blame it on you,
    I can't keep going, Araragi.
[18:54] ---
    I'm sorry, but please be my villain.
[18:57] ---
    I can't take it anymore.
[18:58] ---
    I can't recover if my parents
    are the only villains I blame.
[19:03] ---
    Oikura...
[19:04] ---
    I wonder why things
    never go well for me.
[19:06] ---
    I'm doing things properly, I'm doing my best,
    I'm making a good effort...
[19:11] ---
    Of course, personality or sanity included,
    there are all sorts of strange things.
[19:15] ---
    But I haven't done anything that calls for
    all the punishment I've received so far.
[19:21] ---
    Tell me, Araragi.
    You're happy right now, right?
[19:25] ---
    If I'm contributing even just a little bit,
    if you think that, tell me.
[19:31] ---
    Why can't I be happy?
[19:36] ---
    You're not happy because
    you're not trying to be happy.
[19:41] ---
    Nobody can make someone who isn't trying
    to be happy into someone that's happy.
[19:47] ---
    You sound like you know
    what you're talking about.
[19:50] ---
    I don't know everything.
    I only know what I know.
[19:56] ---
    Really, that's how it is. You're correct.
[19:59] ---
    ANSWER
[20:00] ---
    I mean, considering how frail I am,
    if I was happy, I'd get crushed. Like, crunch.
[20:06] ---
    My eyes, my body, they'd be crushed.
    I couldn't bear the weight of happiness.
[20:11] ---
    Instead of being happy after all this,
[20:13] ---
    I rather be steeped ankle-deep in
    lukewarm unhappiness and bear all of it.
[20:17] ---
    I want to keep my shoes soaking wet
    for as long as I live.
[20:20] ---
    In reality, that's what I've been doing...
[20:22] ---
    Yup.
[20:24] ---
    I can't be happy after all this.
[20:27] ---
    It's already too late.
[20:28] ---
    TOO LATE.
[20:29] ---
    THEN WHEN WOULD IT HAVE BEEN
    CONSIDERED MAKING IT IN TIME?
[20:30] ---
    OR, WAS IT THAT WAY BEFORE THAT,
    IT WAS ALREADY TOO LATE—
[20:31] ---
    MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND.
[20:32] ---
    EVERYTHING WAS A THING OF THE PAST,
    HARDLY WORTH MENTIONING,
[20:34] ---
    WAS IT SOMETHING THAT COULDN'T BE UNDONE,
    UNABLE TO RETURN, AND TOO LATE FOR IT—
[20:35] ---
    NO.
[20:35] ---
    INCORRECT.
[20:36] ---
    THAT'S NOT HOW IT IS.
[20:37] ---
    No way.
[20:39] ---
    There's no happiness that's so heavy
    you'd be crushed by it.
[20:43] ---
    Happiness isn't bright or heavy.
[20:46] ---
    Don't overestimate what happiness is.
[20:49] ---
    All kinds of happiness
    are perfect for you.
[20:53] ---
    So don't despise happiness like that.
[20:56] ---
    Don't despise the world,
    don't despise anything and everything....
[20:59] ---
    Don't despise yourself.
[21:01] ---
    All the types of "despise" within your body...
    I'll accept all of them for you. I'll accept them all.
[21:07] ---
    So I want you to love yourself more.
[21:10] ---
    YOU CAN DESPISE ME AS MUCH AS YOU WANT.
[21:10] ---
    YOU CAN DESPISE ME AS MUCH AS YOU WANT.
    AT LEAST AS MUCH AS I
[21:11] ---
    YOU CAN DESPISE ME AS MUCH AS YOU WANT.
    AT LEAST AS MUCH AS I
    USED TO LOVE YOU BEFORE.
[21:13] ---
    It's true that I'm currently very happy...
    that's why I'll make the effort to say this!
[21:17] ---
    It's a given that
    everyone has something like this!
[21:28] ---
    Well said.
[21:33] ---
    Town hall...
[21:35] ---
    Someone from town hall is coming soon.
[21:38] ---
    I'm sorry to interrupt as you become passionate,
    but I really want you guys to go home.
[21:42] ---
    They're going to come check
    if I'm living a proper life.
[21:46] ---
    Right now, they're barely overlooking the fact
    that I'm refusing to go to school.
[21:51] ---
    If they saw me arguing with my classmates,
    I'd be in trouble.
[21:55] ---
    I see. Then we'll go home for today.
[21:58] ---
    But we'll come again tomorrow.
    The day after, too.
[22:00] ---
    Not to mention the weekend,
    even if it troubles you.
[22:03] ---
    Troubling those we care about
    is how we do things.
[22:13] ---
    Oh, I forgot to tell you.
    I should've said this at the beginning.
[22:17] ---
    I've grown to be pretty fond of you.
[22:24] ---
    Then, you guys...
    please look for my mother who disappeared.
[22:29] ---
    If you can find her,
    I wouldn't mind going to school again.
[22:34] ---
    And I wouldn't mind
    apologizing to Senjyogahara.

E6 - Sodachi Lost, Part Three
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[00:00] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[00:01] ---
    OIKURA'S OBJECTIVE.
[00:02] ---
    WHAT IN THE WORLD—
[00:03] ---
    DID SHE WANT TO KNOW?
[00:05] ---
    Let's go over all the questions that have come up
    concerning her mother's disappearance.
[00:10] ---
    In the end, I think that will be
    the key to all of this.
[00:14] ---
    In other words,
    why was the door to that room locked?
[00:18] ---
    I have no idea.
[00:20] ---
    Yeah, me neither.
[00:22] ---
    You haven't figured it out?
[00:25] ---
    That's something of a disappointment.
[00:26] ---
    Not to be able to see through
    a locked room mystery of this degree.
[00:31] ---
    I've known that you're a fool,
    Araragi-senpai,
[00:34] ---
    but to think that even you,
    Hanekawa-senpai, are a fool.
[00:38] ---
    No, it's been on my mind.
[00:40] ---
    So, despite knowing it's uncalled for,
    I came to see how you were doing.
[00:44] ---
    That perhaps Hanekawa-senpai wasn't able
    to be of any help to Araragi-senpai...
[00:50] ---
    And it's just as I thought.
[00:53] ---
    Maybe you really are past your prime?
[00:58] ---
    And yet, even being at such a degree,
    you snatched Araragi-senpai away from me.
[01:04] ---
    That makes me laugh. Dear me.
[01:07] ---
    Despite enticing Araragi-senpai
    with those lumps of meat on your chest, right?
[01:13] ---
    She's totally holding a grudge...
[01:15] ---
    Oh, embarrassing, so embarrassing.
[01:18] ---
    If it was me, I'd be so embarrassed,
    I couldn't go on living.
[01:21] ---
    Using my sexual charm
    to make Araragi-senpai choose me,
[01:24] ---
    but only causing him
    more trouble in the end.
[01:27] ---
    Come to think of it,
    I believe I myself am pathetic.
[01:31] ---
    If I had tagged along,
[01:32] ---
    Araragi-senpai wouldn't have had
    to feel such an emotion.
[01:36] ---
    Because I so easily allowed him
    to be taken by Hanekawa-senpai's boobs,
[01:39] ---
    all of this happened.
[01:41] ---
    For making Araragi-senpai go through
    such a feeling of helplessness, I'm truly sorry.
[01:46] ---
    I really wonder how it would've been
    if Araragi-senpai had chosen me back then.
[01:52] ---
    But I won't blame you! I won't blame you,
    Araragi-senpai. Of course I won't blame you.
[01:57] ---
    Everyone makes mistakes after all...
[01:59] ---
    Right, Hanekawa-senpai?
[02:01] ---
    Hanekawa-senpai,
    you'll forgive him as well, right?
[02:03] ---
    For Araragi-senpai making
    the huge mistake of choosing you.
[02:08] ---
    If anything, how about
    you put it into words and tell him?
[02:12] ---
    Tell him, "My foolishness
    isn't your responsibility, Araragi"...
[02:17] ---
    Hey, Ougi...
[02:18] ---
    As for me...
[02:21] ---
    As for me, I've already solved it.
[02:24] ---
    That locked room.
[02:26] ---
    And where the mother has gone, too.
[02:29] ---
    Well, just a general idea.
[02:30] ---
    In a way.
[02:34] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[02:35] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST, PART THREE
[02:37] ---
    Well, for me, it was
    an extremely simple practice problem.
[02:41] ---
    Hanekawa-senpai,
    if you absolutely don't understand it,
[02:45] ---
    I'd love to be a good underclassman.
[02:48] ---
    If you apologize for having big boobs,
    I'll be the bigger person and forgive you.
[02:54] ---
    "I routed all of my nutrition
    toward my boobs.
[02:57] ---
    Ougi, younger than me,
    my underclassman,
[02:59] ---
    I just can't solve this simple problem,
    so please tell me the answer.
[03:04] ---
    I'll never take Araragi
    away from you ever again."
[03:07] ---
    If you asked me like that, I might be
    compelled to show you the model solution.
[03:11] ---
    Ougi!
[03:12] ---
    I'll be the one to beg you.
    That should be fine, right?
[03:15] ---
    If you already know, please tell me
[03:17] ---
    what happened to Oikura
    and her mother three years ago.
[03:21] ---
    This troubles me.
[03:22] ---
    I'm really angry at Hanekawa-senpai right now.
[03:26] ---
    But I can't refuse
    if you're the one asking me, Araragi-senpai.
[03:34] ---
    So quiet... It's so boring.
[03:37] ---
    In the end... Maybe you actually weren't
    all that great in your prime, either?
[03:42] ---
    Fine.
[03:44] ---
    Then, Araragi-senpai...
[03:45] ---
    "It was a mistake for me to choose someone
    as insignificant as Hanekawa.
[03:49] ---
    Ougi, you're the only partner for me.
[03:52] ---
    I love you, Ougi, more than Hanekawa."
[03:55] ---
    If you say that, I'll tell you.
[03:58] ---
    The truth about all of this.
[03:59] ---
    Wha—
[04:00] ---
    What's the matter?
[04:02] ---
    There's no need to hesitate, right?
[04:03] ---
    Because, if you can figure that out,
    Oikura-senpai is sure to be...
[04:07] ---
    ...elated by all of this.
[04:13] ---
    Now's the time for you
    to repay Oikura-senpai for everything, isn't it?
[04:18] ---
    Or in the end, despite what you may say...
[04:21] ---
    Do you prioritize Hanekawa-senpai's breasts?
[04:27] ---
    HANEKAWA MAY ACCEPT
    HER DEFEAT BY OUGI
[04:28] ---
    AND BE FORCED TO ADMIT IT.
[04:29] ---
    I DON'T WANT HANEKAWA
    TO ADMIT DEFEAT.
[04:31] ---
    Stop that. Araragi,
    don't say anything of that sort.
[04:35] ---
    Even if it's a lie, even if it's for me,
[04:38] ---
    I don't want you to say
    anything like that, Araragi.
[04:41] ---
    B-But, Hanekawa...
[04:42] ---
    Of course, I won't say that, either.
[04:44] ---
    No matter how many times it takes,
    I'll keep stealing you away, Araragi.
[04:48] ---
    Ougi. Give me ten seconds.
    I'll prove it...
[04:52] ---
    That Araragi, by choosing me...
[04:55] ---
    ...made the correct choice.
[04:57] ---
    Ten.
[05:01] ---
    Nine.
[05:05] ---
    Eight.
[05:08] ---
    Seven.
[05:11] ---
    Six.
[05:14] ---
    Five.
[05:18] ---
    Four.
[05:22] ---
    Three.
[05:22] ---
    HANEKAWA THINKS.
[05:24] ---
    Two.
[05:25] ---
    HANEKAWA THINKS.
[05:27] ---
    One.
[05:27] ---
    HANEKAWA THINKS.
[05:29] ---
    - Ze—
    - You don't have to say zero.
[05:33] ---
    I win.
[05:34] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[05:37] ---
    I win.
[05:39] ---
    But this...
[05:42] ---
    You...
[05:43] ---
    Was something like this
    really your first thought?
[05:46] ---
    Without careful review?
[05:48] ---
    Just by listening to bits and pieces
    of our stories?
[05:51] ---
    And the very first thought you had
    was of such a truth?
[05:55] ---
    Yes.
[05:56] ---
    That's how the idea began...
[05:59] ---
    I had a gut feeling and adjusted the reasoning
    to fit the situation from there.
[06:03] ---
    What kind of thought process do you have?
[06:06] ---
    That's not sane. To think
    that was your first thought...
[06:11] ---
    But in the end, you came
    to the same conclusion, didn't you?
[06:15] ---
    Then I don't see
    how you can say that to me.
[06:18] ---
    Besides, the one furthest from being sane...
[06:21] ---
    ...is Oikura-senpai.
[06:24] ---
    She is first and foremost
    the one acting out of her mind.
[06:29] ---
    —WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
[06:32] ---
    Araragi... It's no good.
[06:34] ---
    We absolutely cannot tell this to Oikura.
[06:37] ---
    Araragi... Earlier, you seemed determined
    to tell her the truth, no matter what it was.
[06:42] ---
    But after hearing this,
    I think you'll change your mind.
[06:45] ---
    Change my mind?
[06:47] ---
    You shouldn't do that, Hanekawa-senpai.
[06:50] ---
    Don't go easy on the fool.
[06:52] ---
    You need to make him think for himself,
    even for a little bit.
[06:55] ---
    Otherwise, Araragi-senpai
    will forever remain the fool.
[06:58] ---
    NO MATTER HOW MUCH TIME PASSED
[06:59] ---
    You have to make Araragi-senpai
    reach this conclusion, too...
[07:03] ---
    To come up with the truth behind it
    that makes you nauseous just thinking about it.
[07:10] ---
    The worst truth
    I can think of would be...
[07:15] ---
    Hint 1:
[07:16] ---
    Oikura-senpai's mother is already deceased.
[07:20] ---
    She's dead. That means...
[07:22] ---
    Let's see. Oikura's mother
    was killed by Oikura's father...
[07:27] ---
    And the strange disappearance
    that resembles being spirited away
[07:31] ---
    happened as a result of that...
[07:32] ---
    That's not it at all.
[07:34] ---
    You're a kind person, Araragi-senpai.
[07:37] ---
    The worst truth you can possibly imagine
    is something that lukewarm?
[07:41] ---
    Then, Hanekawa-senpai,
    please give him the second hint.
[07:44] ---
    M-Me?
[07:46] ---
    Hint 2:
[07:48] ---
    Araragi, back when
    you were in middle school,
[07:50] ---
    you mistook Oikura's house
    to be ruined.
[07:54] ---
    Oikura made a similar mistake
    about her mother,
[07:59] ---
    and still does to this day.
[08:01] ---
    So her mother was murdered,
    Oikura was the murderer,
[08:04] ---
    and she isn't aware of any of it,
    or something?
[08:10] ---
    Hint 3:
[08:11] ---
    Disappearing from a locked room
    isn't necessarily escaping from that room.
[08:16] ---
    In other words, Oikura unlocked
    the door and went in,
[08:20] ---
    but her mother, who was still in the room,
    snuck out behind Oikura's back and left the house?
[08:27] ---
    What reason would there be to do that?
[08:29] ---
    Hint 4:
[08:30] ---
    Araragi, if her mother is already deceased,
    why can't we find her corpse?
[08:36] ---
    Why is Oikura's mother still treated
    as a missing person?
[08:38] ---
    MISSING PERSON REPORT
[08:41] ---
    Hint 5:
[08:43] ---
    This time, I only
    heard everything secondhand...
[08:45] ---
    But Araragi-senpai,
    even if you had chosen me as your partner,
[08:49] ---
    based on Oikura-senpai's stories,
[08:51] ---
    I wouldn't have been able to determine
    the exact details for "that."
[08:55] ---
    Now what is...
[08:57] ---
    ..."that"?
[08:58] ---
    Hint 6:
[09:00] ---
    Oikura's previous house couldn't be cleaned,
    as it was filled with garbage.
[09:06] ---
    Hint 7:
[09:07] ---
    Her mother suddenly disappeared one day.
[09:10] ---
    Suddenly. One day.
[09:11] ---
    Suddenly. On that day.
[09:13] ---
    Then, what about the day before that?
[09:16] ---
    Hint 8:
[09:17] ---
    Because of the family's breakup,
    Oikura's mother had a very weak heart.
[09:23] ---
    To the point where she cooped herself up
    in her room and lost the will to live.
[09:28] ---
    Hint 9:
[09:29] ---
    Oikura-senpai had been
    taking care of her mother,
[09:32] ---
    but, over time, the mother
    supposedly stopped eating completely.
[09:37] ---
    Now, the word "completely" here...
[09:39] ---
    COMPLETELY
[09:40] ---
    Araragi-senpai, you probably thought,
    "You say that, but she must've eaten a little, right?"
[09:44] ---
    or some milder interpretation
    of your own, didn't you?
[09:49] ---
    Hint 10:
[09:50] ---
    Oikura also said that her mother,
[09:52] ---
    from a certain day, wouldn't reply
    even when she talked to her, right?
[09:57] ---
    Hint 11:
[09:59] ---
    And that she stopped moving
    from the corner of her room.
[10:01] ---
    Hint 12:
[10:03] ---
    NOT EATING,
[10:03] ---
    Not eating.
[10:04] ---
    NOT LISTENING,
[10:04] ---
    Not listening.
[10:05] ---
    NOT SPEAKING,
[10:05] ---
    Not speaking.
[10:06] ---
    NOT MOVING.
[10:06] ---
    And not moving.
[10:07] ---
    Do you think someone
    is even alive at that point?
[10:10] ---
    Hint 13:
[10:11] ---
    Can a middle schooler
    really take care of a parent
[10:14] ---
    who's cooped up in their room
    for years on end?
[10:18] ---
    I mean, aside from
    taking care of a corpse.
[10:21] ---
    Hint 14:
[10:22] ---
    How long will a human corpse keep its shape?
[10:26] ---
    Hint 15:
[10:27] ---
    Hint 16:
[10:29] ---
    Hint 17:
[10:30] ---
    Hint 18:
[10:32] ---
    Hint 19:
[10:33] ---
    Hint 20:
[10:34] ---
    Hint 21:
[10:35] ---
    Hint 22:
[10:36] ---
    Hint 23:
[10:37] ---
    Hint 24:
[10:37] ---
    Hint 25:
[10:38] ---
    Hint 26:
[10:39] ---
    Hint 27:
[10:40] ---
    Hint 28:
[10:40] ---
    Hint 29:
[10:49] ---
    I get it already!
[10:53] ---
    Basically, Oikura, for almost two whole years,
    took care of her mother's corpse, right?
[10:59] ---
    Until the corpse fully deteriorated
    and disappeared without a trace,
[11:02] ---
    she didn't even notice!
[11:04] ---
    Yeah... That's right.
[11:06] ---
    In the class assembly two years ago,
    I overlooked the truth.
[11:08] ---
    ABOUT OIKURA'S TRAGEDY/INSANITY
[11:09] ---
    I also overlooked it
    at the ruined house five years ago.
[11:12] ---
    I
[11:13] ---
    I still can't remember anything about
    the childhood friend from six years ago.
[11:16] ---
    Since that's the case,
    I can't run from this here.
[11:19] ---
    MUST CONFRONT IT FACE ON.
[11:20] ---
    I can't just avoid things here.
[11:23] ---
    Good answer.
[11:24] ---
    It wasn't the fact that
    Oikura-senpai's mother suddenly disappeared.
[11:28] ---
    She slowly starved herself to death
    by choosing to not eat.
[11:31] ---
    And, after that, she slowly decomposed.
[11:34] ---
    When her original form decomposed
    and melted away to where it was unrecognizable,
[11:37] ---
    Oikura-senpai must've had the thought,
    "My mother has gone somewhere."
[11:43] ---
    It was just like water evaporating.
[11:45] ---
    "I despise water that thinks
    it boiled itself on its own," was it?
[11:50] ---
    Yes, but her mother, if I may say so,
    boiled herself on her own.
[11:54] ---
    Water...
[11:55] ---
    In other words, Oikura-senpai's mother
    essentially evaporated.
[12:00] ---
    Her mother never left the room.
[12:04] ---
    She didn't disappear in a puff of smoke.
    She disappeared like water.
[12:08] ---
    But humans don't consist only of water.
    What happened to the rest?
[12:13] ---
    It must've been that when they took the garbage
    from the house, she was taken along with it.
[12:19] ---
    So... In other words, this means
    it was suicide by starvation?
[12:24] ---
    Now, we don't know that.
[12:26] ---
    Even though she lost the will to live,
    I think it's different from suicide.
[12:32] ---
    Losing the will to live and wishing to die
    are different things to the human heart.
[12:38] ---
    What do you think, Hanekawa-senpai?
[12:40] ---
    I only wish for Oikura
    to not find out about this,
[12:44] ---
    and to never find out
    for as long as she lives.
[12:49] ---
    But, well, I'm sure she feels
    a bit strange about all of this.
[12:53] ---
    Something is off, she feels like
    she's avoiding something...
[12:57] ---
    She has the feeling that
    she's pretending not to notice something.
[13:00] ---
    I'm sure she's been feeling that way
    for the past three years.
[13:04] ---
    And she will for the rest of her life.
[13:07] ---
    No, that ends today.
[13:10] ---
    I'll tell her. I'll be the one to tell her.
[13:13] ---
    I'm going back to Oikura's room right now
    to tell her everything.
[13:19] ---
    It's about time for the guy from town hall
    to be leaving her place, right?
[13:22] ---
    I'll go by myself.
[13:24] ---
    It'd be great if you two could wait here.
[13:26] ---
    A-Araragi... Are you serious?
[13:29] ---
    I'm serious. I said so earlier, right?
[13:32] ---
    That until now, I've always looked at Oikura
    and pretended not to see.
[13:36] ---
    This has gone on for over six years.
[13:38] ---
    Just like how she couldn't look
    straight at her mother's death,
[13:41] ---
    I couldn't look straight at her.
[13:44] ---
    That's why I can no longer overlook Oikura.
[13:49] ---
    I don't know what will happen
    as a result, Araragi-senpai.
[13:53] ---
    Oikura-senpai might
    hate you more than ever.
[13:57] ---
    She can't hate me more
    than she does now, so it's all right.
[14:00] ---
    Even if she did, if she can love herself
    as a result of her hating me,
[14:06] ---
    well, I guess that'd be a bit better.
[14:10] ---
    As her senior on this path,
    even though I'm only slightly ahead of her,
[14:14] ---
    I'm going to teach her
    how to become happy.
[14:17] ---
    That said, the student is Oikura,
    who is the epitome of a distinguished student.
[14:22] ---
    Even concerning happiness,
    after learning some tips,
[14:26] ---
    she's sure to pass me in no time.
[14:29] ---
    But happiness isn't a race.
[14:32] ---
    If she passes me,
    I just need to learn from her in return.
[14:38] ---
    That's how we learn, teach,
    and take each other to a higher place.
[14:44] ---
    Let's hold a study session.
[14:46] ---
    Even though our foolishness is endless...
[14:48] ---
    We can become wiser together.
[14:50] ---
    We should become happy properly.
[14:56] ---
    Araragi-senpai...
[14:58] ---
    Are you going to repay
    kindness with ingratitude?
[15:03] ---
    Even if it's ingratitude, I'm really glad
    I have something I can repay Oikura with.
[15:10] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[15:12] ---
    What you'd call an epilogue...
    Or the punchline for this episode.
[15:15] ---
    The next day, my two little sisters, Karen and Tsukihi,
    woke me up, and I headed to school.
[15:21] ---
    At that time, I asked my two little sisters
    if they remember a child
[15:25] ---
    that was under protective custody
    in this house back in grade school.
[15:30] ---
    Neither of them
    remembered such a thing.
[15:33] ---
    In the end, Oikura won't be coming to school...
[15:36] ---
    Even if I went to school today,
    I'd never be able to see Oikura.
[15:40] ---
    The promise we made
    ended up being discarded,
[15:43] ---
    but that was something
    that was completely unavoidable.
[15:47] ---
    The guy from town hall just told me that my aid
    will be roughly half of what it is now.
[15:52] ---
    So, apparently, I can't live here anymore.
[15:55] ---
    That said, I'll be all right.
[15:57] ---
    He said they already found
    a slightly smaller municipal condo for me.
[16:01] ---
    So, I'll end up having to move again.
[16:04] ---
    I'll be transferring out
    of Naoetsu High School as well.
[16:08] ---
    She was surprisingly calm about all of this.
[16:11] ---
    When I see her alone,
    when I talk to her alone, Oikura is like this.
[16:17] ---
    Just like the summer break back in 7th grade.
[16:21] ---
    Oikura accepted the theory about her mother
    so easily it threw me off.
[16:28] ---
    I see... That must be how it is.
[16:34] ---
    I knew that I'd have to
    leave this town pretty soon...
[16:38] ---
    But you know, that was when I found out
    Tetsujo would be taking time off.
[16:42] ---
    So, that's why I went to school.
[16:44] ---
    I felt like something might be there,
    that something might change.
[16:51] ---
    And then...
[16:53] ---
    After that, I spoke a bit with Oikura,
    then headed back home.
[16:58] ---
    I didn't end up doing anything else.
[17:00] ---
    And so, I'm not worried about
    bumping into Oikura in my classroom today
[17:05] ---
    and am heading to school...
[17:07] ---
    Hi, Araragi-senpai.
[17:11] ---
    Don't you "Hi" me...
[17:13] ---
    Hey, Ougi, why did you
    head home yesterday?
[17:16] ---
    I told you to wait for me.
[17:18] ---
    Hanekawa-senpai said
    we should go home.
[17:21] ---
    Why would Hanekawa say that?
[17:23] ---
    She was saying it in a positive way.
[17:25] ---
    Kind of like,
    "Let's leave them alone."
[17:28] ---
    No, don't say it was "in a positive way."
[17:31] ---
    How surprised do you think I was
    when I saw you guys weren't in that courtyard?
[17:36] ---
    About yesterday...
    That was a loss for me.
[17:39] ---
    I'm terribly sorry.
    I had underestimated you, to be honest.
[17:43] ---
    I was completely under the impression
    that you'd turn tail and run...
[17:47] ---
    At the very end, you showed me
    some unexpected gusto.
[17:51] ---
    Somehow, it all feels a bit strange.
[17:54] ---
    As soon as you transfer to this school,
    Tetsujo went on maternity leave...
[17:57] ---
    Oikura comes to school...
[17:59] ---
    And as I was processing that,
    she transfers away.
[18:02] ---
    Things that were at a standstill,
    things that were avoided,
[18:05] ---
    as if they were suddenly remembered,
    felt as though they suddenly started moving along.
[18:10] ---
    Oh, so Oikura-senpai is transferring
    to another school?
[18:13] ---
    I didn't know that.
[18:15] ---
    She was well cast, too.
[18:18] ---
    But really, I hope she can do well
    wherever she transfers to.
[18:22] ---
    I'm sure she'll succeed if she's in
    a new place where nobody knows her.
[18:26] ---
    Because of Araragi-senpai.
[18:28] ---
    Thanks to you.
[18:34] ---
    Ougi, what are you doing in a place like this?
[18:39] ---
    Is your home nearby?
[18:40] ---
    I've been looking for a lost child.
[18:43] ---
    That was my original starting point.
[18:47] ---
    I'll chalk this one up as my loss...
[18:49] ---
    But, at the least,
    if I was allowed to be a sore loser...
[18:53] ---
    The first move was just something
    to watch how things unfolded.
[18:56] ---
    The objective of seeing how you behave
    with your childhood friends has been met.
[19:02] ---
    So, as far as balance goes,
    I think it was perfect for me to lose here.
[19:06] ---
    Please be careful, Araragi-senpai.
[19:09] ---
    It might not go this well next time.
[19:12] ---
    No one knows what the future holds,
[19:14] ---
    because it's as dark
    as the streets at night.
[19:18] ---
    I see... That's a shame.
[19:21] ---
    I thought I'd be able
    to get along with Oikura.
[19:25] ---
    But I guess we should celebrate
    Oikura's new start in life for now.
[19:30] ---
    That's true.
    Ougi said something like that as well.
[19:35] ---
    Araragi, I have to go request
    a leave of absence,
[19:39] ---
    so can you head
    to the classroom without me?
[19:41] ---
    Oh, sure...
[19:43] ---
    Wait, request for a leave of absence?
[19:44] ---
    What? You're going to
    quit Naoetsu High as well?
[19:47] ---
    No, time off. A leave of absence.
[19:50] ---
    You know how I'm planning to take a trip
    and wander around after we graduate, right?
[19:55] ---
    I thought I'd go scout locations first,
[19:58] ---
    so I'm going to take a quick trip
    around the world.
[20:00] ---
    I'll be gone about a month,
    so I'll leave things to you.
[20:04] ---
    If I see Oshino somewhere during this trip,
    I'll reach out to him for you.
[20:08] ---
    Then, if you see Oshino somewhere,
    tell him I've met his niece.
[20:14] ---
    Yeah. Well, I'll be sure to tell him that.
SIGN    NO SUBJECT / MARK AS UNREAD  TO KOYOKOYO,  I REALLY HAD BROKEN A BONE ON MY FINGER SO I'LL HEAD TO SCHOOL TODAY AFTER GOING TO THE HOSPITAL.
[20:27] ---
    Why does this look like an old telegraph?
[20:30] ---
    TO YOKOYOKO
[20:31] ---
    Side-side (yoko-yoko)?
SIGN    TO YOKOYOKO OIKURA CAME TO APOLOGIZE THIS MORNING. I FORGAVE HER. I'M ALL RIGHT NOW (THOUGH I HAVE A BROKEN BONE)
[20:38] ---
    Apparently Oikura had kept her promise
    to make up with Senjyogahara.
[20:44] ---
    I'm glad.
[20:46] ---
    I should show Hanekawa this text
    before she leaves for her trip.
SIGN    KOYOKOYO, I'M SORRY TO MAKE YOU WORRY SO MUCH. I'LL GIVE YOU LOTS OF FRENCH KISSES ON OUR NEXT DATE, SO FORGIVE ME I'M ADDICTED TO YOUR FRENCH KISSES
[20:55] ---
    These texts are turning into something
    I can't show anyone!
SIGN    A MESSAGE FROM OIKURA. SHE SAID "UNDER THE DESK." FROM YOUR LEFT
[21:02] ---
    FROM YOUR LEFT
[21:05] ---
    "From your left"?
    What kind of a greeting is that?*
[21:11] ---
    Back in the day,
    during summer break five years ago.
[21:14] ---
    Hadn't I had found a similar envelope
    underneath a tea table in a ruined house?
[21:20] ---
    However, that envelope was empty.
[21:23] ---
    From how it felt, I could tell
    that this time around, there was paper inside.
[21:28] ---
    The envelope didn't have a sender or a recipient
    on either the front or the back.
[21:32] ---
    However, it was obvious
    who had taped this to my desk.
[21:38] ---
    Sodachi Oikura.
    She'd kept all of her promises.
[21:44] ---
    Suddenly disappearing without warning...
[21:46] ---
    Oikura, for now, has become a girl
    who wouldn't do that.
[21:52] ---
    It was a small change,
    but it was still a change for her.
[21:55] ---
    That made me happy,
[21:57] ---
    but I felt like she'd gone ahead of me,
    which left me feeling a bit lonely.
[22:01] ---
    Here, I felt I should show
    that I've grown up as well,
[22:05] ---
    so I didn't rip and tear into it
    like I did five years ago.
[22:08] ---
    I opened the envelope
    as carefully as possible
[22:10] ---
    and pulled out multiple sheets
    of paper from within.
[22:14] ---
    Now, are the contents of the letter
    a mathematics quiz?
[22:18] ---
    A letter of thanks she's unlikely to write?
[22:21] ---
    Or will it be a message insulting me?
[22:23] ---
    It's possible it'll be all of the above...
[22:26] ---
    Now, let's see.
[22:32] ---
    I couldn't help but smile.
[22:35] ---
    Hey, what do you think was written?

E7 - Shinobu Mail, Part One
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[00:00] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[00:01] ---
    OIKURA'S OBJECTIVE.
[00:02] ---
    WHAT IN THE WORLD—
[00:03] ---
    DID SHE WANT TO KNOW?
[00:05] ---
    Let's go over all the questions that have come up
    concerning her mother's disappearance.
[00:10] ---
    In the end, I think that will be
    the key to all of this.
[00:14] ---
    In other words,
    why was the door to that room locked?
[00:18] ---
    I have no idea.
[00:20] ---
    Yeah, me neither.
[00:22] ---
    You haven't figured it out?
[00:25] ---
    That's something of a disappointment.
[00:26] ---
    Not to be able to see through
    a locked room mystery of this degree.
[00:31] ---
    I've known that you're a fool,
    Araragi-senpai,
[00:34] ---
    but to think that even you,
    Hanekawa-senpai, are a fool.
[00:38] ---
    No, it's been on my mind.
[00:40] ---
    So, despite knowing it's uncalled for,
    I came to see how you were doing.
[00:44] ---
    That perhaps Hanekawa-senpai wasn't able
    to be of any help to Araragi-senpai...
[00:50] ---
    And it's just as I thought.
[00:53] ---
    Maybe you really are past your prime?
[00:58] ---
    And yet, even being at such a degree,
    you snatched Araragi-senpai away from me.
[01:04] ---
    That makes me laugh. Dear me.
[01:07] ---
    Despite enticing Araragi-senpai
    with those lumps of meat on your chest, right?
[01:13] ---
    She's totally holding a grudge...
[01:15] ---
    Oh, embarrassing, so embarrassing.
[01:18] ---
    If it was me, I'd be so embarrassed,
    I couldn't go on living.
[01:21] ---
    Using my sexual charm
    to make Araragi-senpai choose me,
[01:24] ---
    but only causing him
    more trouble in the end.
[01:27] ---
    Come to think of it,
    I believe I myself am pathetic.
[01:31] ---
    If I had tagged along,
[01:32] ---
    Araragi-senpai wouldn't have had
    to feel such an emotion.
[01:36] ---
    Because I so easily allowed him
    to be taken by Hanekawa-senpai's boobs,
[01:39] ---
    all of this happened.
[01:41] ---
    For making Araragi-senpai go through
    such a feeling of helplessness, I'm truly sorry.
[01:46] ---
    I really wonder how it would've been
    if Araragi-senpai had chosen me back then.
[01:52] ---
    But I won't blame you! I won't blame you,
    Araragi-senpai. Of course I won't blame you.
[01:57] ---
    Everyone makes mistakes after all...
[01:59] ---
    Right, Hanekawa-senpai?
[02:01] ---
    Hanekawa-senpai,
    you'll forgive him as well, right?
[02:03] ---
    For Araragi-senpai making
    the huge mistake of choosing you.
[02:08] ---
    If anything, how about
    you put it into words and tell him?
[02:12] ---
    Tell him, "My foolishness
    isn't your responsibility, Araragi"...
[02:17] ---
    Hey, Ougi...
[02:18] ---
    As for me...
[02:21] ---
    As for me, I've already solved it.
[02:24] ---
    That locked room.
[02:26] ---
    And where the mother has gone, too.
[02:29] ---
    Well, just a general idea.
[02:30] ---
    In a way.
[02:34] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[02:35] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST, PART THREE
[02:37] ---
    Well, for me, it was
    an extremely simple practice problem.
[02:41] ---
    Hanekawa-senpai,
    if you absolutely don't understand it,
[02:45] ---
    I'd love to be a good underclassman.
[02:48] ---
    If you apologize for having big boobs,
    I'll be the bigger person and forgive you.
[02:54] ---
    "I routed all of my nutrition
    toward my boobs.
[02:57] ---
    Ougi, younger than me,
    my underclassman,
[02:59] ---
    I just can't solve this simple problem,
    so please tell me the answer.
[03:04] ---
    I'll never take Araragi
    away from you ever again."
[03:07] ---
    If you asked me like that, I might be
    compelled to show you the model solution.
[03:11] ---
    Ougi!
[03:12] ---
    I'll be the one to beg you.
    That should be fine, right?
[03:15] ---
    If you already know, please tell me
[03:17] ---
    what happened to Oikura
    and her mother three years ago.
[03:21] ---
    This troubles me.
[03:22] ---
    I'm really angry at Hanekawa-senpai right now.
[03:26] ---
    But I can't refuse
    if you're the one asking me, Araragi-senpai.
[03:34] ---
    So quiet... It's so boring.
[03:37] ---
    In the end... Maybe you actually weren't
    all that great in your prime, either?
[03:42] ---
    Fine.
[03:44] ---
    Then, Araragi-senpai...
[03:45] ---
    "It was a mistake for me to choose someone
    as insignificant as Hanekawa.
[03:49] ---
    Ougi, you're the only partner for me.
[03:52] ---
    I love you, Ougi, more than Hanekawa."
[03:55] ---
    If you say that, I'll tell you.
[03:58] ---
    The truth about all of this.
[03:59] ---
    Wha—
[04:00] ---
    What's the matter?
[04:02] ---
    There's no need to hesitate, right?
[04:03] ---
    Because, if you can figure that out,
    Oikura-senpai is sure to be...
[04:07] ---
    ...elated by all of this.
[04:13] ---
    Now's the time for you
    to repay Oikura-senpai for everything, isn't it?
[04:18] ---
    Or in the end, despite what you may say...
[04:21] ---
    Do you prioritize Hanekawa-senpai's breasts?
[04:27] ---
    HANEKAWA MAY ACCEPT
    HER DEFEAT BY OUGI
[04:28] ---
    AND BE FORCED TO ADMIT IT.
[04:29] ---
    I DON'T WANT HANEKAWA
    TO ADMIT DEFEAT.
[04:31] ---
    Stop that. Araragi,
    don't say anything of that sort.
[04:35] ---
    Even if it's a lie, even if it's for me,
[04:38] ---
    I don't want you to say
    anything like that, Araragi.
[04:41] ---
    B-But, Hanekawa...
[04:42] ---
    Of course, I won't say that, either.
[04:44] ---
    No matter how many times it takes,
    I'll keep stealing you away, Araragi.
[04:48] ---
    Ougi. Give me ten seconds.
    I'll prove it...
[04:52] ---
    That Araragi, by choosing me...
[04:55] ---
    ...made the correct choice.
[04:57] ---
    Ten.
[05:01] ---
    Nine.
[05:05] ---
    Eight.
[05:08] ---
    Seven.
[05:11] ---
    Six.
[05:14] ---
    Five.
[05:18] ---
    Four.
[05:22] ---
    Three.
[05:22] ---
    HANEKAWA THINKS.
[05:24] ---
    Two.
[05:25] ---
    HANEKAWA THINKS.
[05:27] ---
    One.
[05:27] ---
    HANEKAWA THINKS.
[05:29] ---
    - Ze—
    - You don't have to say zero.
[05:33] ---
    I win.
[05:34] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[05:37] ---
    I win.
[05:39] ---
    But this...
[05:42] ---
    You...
[05:43] ---
    Was something like this
    really your first thought?
[05:46] ---
    Without careful review?
[05:48] ---
    Just by listening to bits and pieces
    of our stories?
[05:51] ---
    And the very first thought you had
    was of such a truth?
[05:55] ---
    Yes.
[05:56] ---
    That's how the idea began...
[05:59] ---
    I had a gut feeling and adjusted the reasoning
    to fit the situation from there.
[06:03] ---
    What kind of thought process do you have?
[06:06] ---
    That's not sane. To think
    that was your first thought...
[06:11] ---
    But in the end, you came
    to the same conclusion, didn't you?
[06:15] ---
    Then I don't see
    how you can say that to me.
[06:18] ---
    Besides, the one furthest from being sane...
[06:21] ---
    ...is Oikura-senpai.
[06:24] ---
    She is first and foremost
    the one acting out of her mind.
[06:29] ---
    —WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
[06:32] ---
    Araragi... It's no good.
[06:34] ---
    We absolutely cannot tell this to Oikura.
[06:37] ---
    Araragi... Earlier, you seemed determined
    to tell her the truth, no matter what it was.
[06:42] ---
    But after hearing this,
    I think you'll change your mind.
[06:45] ---
    Change my mind?
[06:47] ---
    You shouldn't do that, Hanekawa-senpai.
[06:50] ---
    Don't go easy on the fool.
[06:52] ---
    You need to make him think for himself,
    even for a little bit.
[06:55] ---
    Otherwise, Araragi-senpai
    will forever remain the fool.
[06:58] ---
    NO MATTER HOW MUCH TIME PASSED
[06:59] ---
    You have to make Araragi-senpai
    reach this conclusion, too...
[07:03] ---
    To come up with the truth behind it
    that makes you nauseous just thinking about it.
[07:10] ---
    The worst truth
    I can think of would be...
[07:15] ---
    Hint 1:
[07:16] ---
    Oikura-senpai's mother is already deceased.
[07:20] ---
    She's dead. That means...
[07:22] ---
    Let's see. Oikura's mother
    was killed by Oikura's father...
[07:27] ---
    And the strange disappearance
    that resembles being spirited away
[07:31] ---
    happened as a result of that...
[07:32] ---
    That's not it at all.
[07:34] ---
    You're a kind person, Araragi-senpai.
[07:37] ---
    The worst truth you can possibly imagine
    is something that lukewarm?
[07:41] ---
    Then, Hanekawa-senpai,
    please give him the second hint.
[07:44] ---
    M-Me?
[07:46] ---
    Hint 2:
[07:48] ---
    Araragi, back when
    you were in middle school,
[07:50] ---
    you mistook Oikura's house
    to be ruined.
[07:54] ---
    Oikura made a similar mistake
    about her mother,
[07:59] ---
    and still does to this day.
[08:01] ---
    So her mother was murdered,
    Oikura was the murderer,
[08:04] ---
    and she isn't aware of any of it,
    or something?
[08:10] ---
    Hint 3:
[08:11] ---
    Disappearing from a locked room
    isn't necessarily escaping from that room.
[08:16] ---
    In other words, Oikura unlocked
    the door and went in,
[08:20] ---
    but her mother, who was still in the room,
    snuck out behind Oikura's back and left the house?
[08:27] ---
    What reason would there be to do that?
[08:29] ---
    Hint 4:
[08:30] ---
    Araragi, if her mother is already deceased,
    why can't we find her corpse?
[08:36] ---
    Why is Oikura's mother still treated
    as a missing person?
[08:38] ---
    MISSING PERSON REPORT
[08:41] ---
    Hint 5:
[08:43] ---
    This time, I only
    heard everything secondhand...
[08:45] ---
    But Araragi-senpai,
    even if you had chosen me as your partner,
[08:49] ---
    based on Oikura-senpai's stories,
[08:51] ---
    I wouldn't have been able to determine
    the exact details for "that."
[08:55] ---
    Now what is...
[08:57] ---
    ..."that"?
[08:58] ---
    Hint 6:
[09:00] ---
    Oikura's previous house couldn't be cleaned,
    as it was filled with garbage.
[09:06] ---
    Hint 7:
[09:07] ---
    Her mother suddenly disappeared one day.
[09:10] ---
    Suddenly. One day.
[09:11] ---
    Suddenly. On that day.
[09:13] ---
    Then, what about the day before that?
[09:16] ---
    Hint 8:
[09:17] ---
    Because of the family's breakup,
    Oikura's mother had a very weak heart.
[09:23] ---
    To the point where she cooped herself up
    in her room and lost the will to live.
[09:28] ---
    Hint 9:
[09:29] ---
    Oikura-senpai had been
    taking care of her mother,
[09:32] ---
    but, over time, the mother
    supposedly stopped eating completely.
[09:37] ---
    Now, the word "completely" here...
[09:39] ---
    COMPLETELY
[09:40] ---
    Araragi-senpai, you probably thought,
    "You say that, but she must've eaten a little, right?"
[09:44] ---
    or some milder interpretation
    of your own, didn't you?
[09:49] ---
    Hint 10:
[09:50] ---
    Oikura also said that her mother,
[09:52] ---
    from a certain day, wouldn't reply
    even when she talked to her, right?
[09:57] ---
    Hint 11:
[09:59] ---
    And that she stopped moving
    from the corner of her room.
[10:01] ---
    Hint 12:
[10:03] ---
    NOT EATING,
[10:03] ---
    Not eating.
[10:04] ---
    NOT LISTENING,
[10:04] ---
    Not listening.
[10:05] ---
    NOT SPEAKING,
[10:05] ---
    Not speaking.
[10:06] ---
    NOT MOVING.
[10:06] ---
    And not moving.
[10:07] ---
    Do you think someone
    is even alive at that point?
[10:10] ---
    Hint 13:
[10:11] ---
    Can a middle schooler
    really take care of a parent
[10:14] ---
    who's cooped up in their room
    for years on end?
[10:18] ---
    I mean, aside from
    taking care of a corpse.
[10:21] ---
    Hint 14:
[10:22] ---
    How long will a human corpse keep its shape?
[10:26] ---
    Hint 15:
[10:27] ---
    Hint 16:
[10:29] ---
    Hint 17:
[10:30] ---
    Hint 18:
[10:32] ---
    Hint 19:
[10:33] ---
    Hint 20:
[10:34] ---
    Hint 21:
[10:35] ---
    Hint 22:
[10:36] ---
    Hint 23:
[10:37] ---
    Hint 24:
[10:37] ---
    Hint 25:
[10:38] ---
    Hint 26:
[10:39] ---
    Hint 27:
[10:40] ---
    Hint 28:
[10:40] ---
    Hint 29:
[10:49] ---
    I get it already!
[10:53] ---
    Basically, Oikura, for almost two whole years,
    took care of her mother's corpse, right?
[10:59] ---
    Until the corpse fully deteriorated
    and disappeared without a trace,
[11:02] ---
    she didn't even notice!
[11:04] ---
    Yeah... That's right.
[11:06] ---
    In the class assembly two years ago,
    I overlooked the truth.
[11:08] ---
    ABOUT OIKURA'S TRAGEDY/INSANITY
[11:09] ---
    I also overlooked it
    at the ruined house five years ago.
[11:12] ---
    I
[11:13] ---
    I still can't remember anything about
    the childhood friend from six years ago.
[11:16] ---
    Since that's the case,
    I can't run from this here.
[11:19] ---
    MUST CONFRONT IT FACE ON.
[11:20] ---
    I can't just avoid things here.
[11:23] ---
    Good answer.
[11:24] ---
    It wasn't the fact that
    Oikura-senpai's mother suddenly disappeared.
[11:28] ---
    She slowly starved herself to death
    by choosing to not eat.
[11:31] ---
    And, after that, she slowly decomposed.
[11:34] ---
    When her original form decomposed
    and melted away to where it was unrecognizable,
[11:37] ---
    Oikura-senpai must've had the thought,
    "My mother has gone somewhere."
[11:43] ---
    It was just like water evaporating.
[11:45] ---
    "I despise water that thinks
    it boiled itself on its own," was it?
[11:50] ---
    Yes, but her mother, if I may say so,
    boiled herself on her own.
[11:54] ---
    Water...
[11:55] ---
    In other words, Oikura-senpai's mother
    essentially evaporated.
[12:00] ---
    Her mother never left the room.
[12:04] ---
    She didn't disappear in a puff of smoke.
    She disappeared like water.
[12:08] ---
    But humans don't consist only of water.
    What happened to the rest?
[12:13] ---
    It must've been that when they took the garbage
    from the house, she was taken along with it.
[12:19] ---
    So... In other words, this means
    it was suicide by starvation?
[12:24] ---
    Now, we don't know that.
[12:26] ---
    Even though she lost the will to live,
    I think it's different from suicide.
[12:32] ---
    Losing the will to live and wishing to die
    are different things to the human heart.
[12:38] ---
    What do you think, Hanekawa-senpai?
[12:40] ---
    I only wish for Oikura
    to not find out about this,
[12:44] ---
    and to never find out
    for as long as she lives.
[12:49] ---
    But, well, I'm sure she feels
    a bit strange about all of this.
[12:53] ---
    Something is off, she feels like
    she's avoiding something...
[12:57] ---
    She has the feeling that
    she's pretending not to notice something.
[13:00] ---
    I'm sure she's been feeling that way
    for the past three years.
[13:04] ---
    And she will for the rest of her life.
[13:07] ---
    No, that ends today.
[13:10] ---
    I'll tell her. I'll be the one to tell her.
[13:13] ---
    I'm going back to Oikura's room right now
    to tell her everything.
[13:19] ---
    It's about time for the guy from town hall
    to be leaving her place, right?
[13:22] ---
    I'll go by myself.
[13:24] ---
    It'd be great if you two could wait here.
[13:26] ---
    A-Araragi... Are you serious?
[13:29] ---
    I'm serious. I said so earlier, right?
[13:32] ---
    That until now, I've always looked at Oikura
    and pretended not to see.
[13:36] ---
    This has gone on for over six years.
[13:38] ---
    Just like how she couldn't look
    straight at her mother's death,
[13:41] ---
    I couldn't look straight at her.
[13:44] ---
    That's why I can no longer overlook Oikura.
[13:49] ---
    I don't know what will happen
    as a result, Araragi-senpai.
[13:53] ---
    Oikura-senpai might
    hate you more than ever.
[13:57] ---
    She can't hate me more
    than she does now, so it's all right.
[14:00] ---
    Even if she did, if she can love herself
    as a result of her hating me,
[14:06] ---
    well, I guess that'd be a bit better.
[14:10] ---
    As her senior on this path,
    even though I'm only slightly ahead of her,
[14:14] ---
    I'm going to teach her
    how to become happy.
[14:17] ---
    That said, the student is Oikura,
    who is the epitome of a distinguished student.
[14:22] ---
    Even concerning happiness,
    after learning some tips,
[14:26] ---
    she's sure to pass me in no time.
[14:29] ---
    But happiness isn't a race.
[14:32] ---
    If she passes me,
    I just need to learn from her in return.
[14:38] ---
    That's how we learn, teach,
    and take each other to a higher place.
[14:44] ---
    Let's hold a study session.
[14:46] ---
    Even though our foolishness is endless...
[14:48] ---
    We can become wiser together.
[14:50] ---
    We should become happy properly.
[14:56] ---
    Araragi-senpai...
[14:58] ---
    Are you going to repay
    kindness with ingratitude?
[15:03] ---
    Even if it's ingratitude, I'm really glad
    I have something I can repay Oikura with.
[15:10] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI LOST
[15:12] ---
    What you'd call an epilogue...
    Or the punchline for this episode.
[15:15] ---
    The next day, my two little sisters, Karen and Tsukihi,
    woke me up, and I headed to school.
[15:21] ---
    At that time, I asked my two little sisters
    if they remember a child
[15:25] ---
    that was under protective custody
    in this house back in grade school.
[15:30] ---
    Neither of them
    remembered such a thing.
[15:33] ---
    In the end, Oikura won't be coming to school...
[15:36] ---
    Even if I went to school today,
    I'd never be able to see Oikura.
[15:40] ---
    The promise we made
    ended up being discarded,
[15:43] ---
    but that was something
    that was completely unavoidable.
[15:47] ---
    The guy from town hall just told me that my aid
    will be roughly half of what it is now.
[15:52] ---
    So, apparently, I can't live here anymore.
[15:55] ---
    That said, I'll be all right.
[15:57] ---
    He said they already found
    a slightly smaller municipal condo for me.
[16:01] ---
    So, I'll end up having to move again.
[16:04] ---
    I'll be transferring out
    of Naoetsu High School as well.
[16:08] ---
    She was surprisingly calm about all of this.
[16:11] ---
    When I see her alone,
    when I talk to her alone, Oikura is like this.
[16:17] ---
    Just like the summer break back in 7th grade.
[16:21] ---
    Oikura accepted the theory about her mother
    so easily it threw me off.
[16:28] ---
    I see... That must be how it is.
[16:34] ---
    I knew that I'd have to
    leave this town pretty soon...
[16:38] ---
    But you know, that was when I found out
    Tetsujo would be taking time off.
[16:42] ---
    So, that's why I went to school.
[16:44] ---
    I felt like something might be there,
    that something might change.
[16:51] ---
    And then...
[16:53] ---
    After that, I spoke a bit with Oikura,
    then headed back home.
[16:58] ---
    I didn't end up doing anything else.
[17:00] ---
    And so, I'm not worried about
    bumping into Oikura in my classroom today
[17:05] ---
    and am heading to school...
[17:07] ---
    Hi, Araragi-senpai.
[17:11] ---
    Don't you "Hi" me...
[17:13] ---
    Hey, Ougi, why did you
    head home yesterday?
[17:16] ---
    I told you to wait for me.
[17:18] ---
    Hanekawa-senpai said
    we should go home.
[17:21] ---
    Why would Hanekawa say that?
[17:23] ---
    She was saying it in a positive way.
[17:25] ---
    Kind of like,
    "Let's leave them alone."
[17:28] ---
    No, don't say it was "in a positive way."
[17:31] ---
    How surprised do you think I was
    when I saw you guys weren't in that courtyard?
[17:36] ---
    About yesterday...
    That was a loss for me.
[17:39] ---
    I'm terribly sorry.
    I had underestimated you, to be honest.
[17:43] ---
    I was completely under the impression
    that you'd turn tail and run...
[17:47] ---
    At the very end, you showed me
    some unexpected gusto.
[17:51] ---
    Somehow, it all feels a bit strange.
[17:54] ---
    As soon as you transfer to this school,
    Tetsujo went on maternity leave...
[17:57] ---
    Oikura comes to school...
[17:59] ---
    And as I was processing that,
    she transfers away.
[18:02] ---
    Things that were at a standstill,
    things that were avoided,
[18:05] ---
    as if they were suddenly remembered,
    felt as though they suddenly started moving along.
[18:10] ---
    Oh, so Oikura-senpai is transferring
    to another school?
[18:13] ---
    I didn't know that.
[18:15] ---
    She was well cast, too.
[18:18] ---
    But really, I hope she can do well
    wherever she transfers to.
[18:22] ---
    I'm sure she'll succeed if she's in
    a new place where nobody knows her.
[18:26] ---
    Because of Araragi-senpai.
[18:28] ---
    Thanks to you.
[18:34] ---
    Ougi, what are you doing in a place like this?
[18:39] ---
    Is your home nearby?
[18:40] ---
    I've been looking for a lost child.
[18:43] ---
    That was my original starting point.
[18:47] ---
    I'll chalk this one up as my loss...
[18:49] ---
    But, at the least,
    if I was allowed to be a sore loser...
[18:53] ---
    The first move was just something
    to watch how things unfolded.
[18:56] ---
    The objective of seeing how you behave
    with your childhood friends has been met.
[19:02] ---
    So, as far as balance goes,
    I think it was perfect for me to lose here.
[19:06] ---
    Please be careful, Araragi-senpai.
[19:09] ---
    It might not go this well next time.
[19:12] ---
    No one knows what the future holds,
[19:14] ---
    because it's as dark
    as the streets at night.
[19:18] ---
    I see... That's a shame.
[19:21] ---
    I thought I'd be able
    to get along with Oikura.
[19:25] ---
    But I guess we should celebrate
    Oikura's new start in life for now.
[19:30] ---
    That's true.
    Ougi said something like that as well.
[19:35] ---
    Araragi, I have to go request
    a leave of absence,
[19:39] ---
    so can you head
    to the classroom without me?
[19:41] ---
    Oh, sure...
[19:43] ---
    Wait, request for a leave of absence?
[19:44] ---
    What? You're going to
    quit Naoetsu High as well?
[19:47] ---
    No, time off. A leave of absence.
[19:50] ---
    You know how I'm planning to take a trip
    and wander around after we graduate, right?
[19:55] ---
    I thought I'd go scout locations first,
[19:58] ---
    so I'm going to take a quick trip
    around the world.
[20:00] ---
    I'll be gone about a month,
    so I'll leave things to you.
[20:04] ---
    If I see Oshino somewhere during this trip,
    I'll reach out to him for you.
[20:08] ---
    Then, if you see Oshino somewhere,
    tell him I've met his niece.
[20:14] ---
    Yeah. Well, I'll be sure to tell him that.
SIGN    NO SUBJECT / MARK AS UNREAD  TO KOYOKOYO,  I REALLY HAD BROKEN A BONE ON MY FINGER SO I'LL HEAD TO SCHOOL TODAY AFTER GOING TO THE HOSPITAL.
[20:27] ---
    Why does this look like an old telegraph?
[20:30] ---
    TO YOKOYOKO
[20:31] ---
    Side-side (yoko-yoko)?
SIGN    TO YOKOYOKO OIKURA CAME TO APOLOGIZE THIS MORNING. I FORGAVE HER. I'M ALL RIGHT NOW (THOUGH I HAVE A BROKEN BONE)
[20:38] ---
    Apparently Oikura had kept her promise
    to make up with Senjyogahara.
[20:44] ---
    I'm glad.
[20:46] ---
    I should show Hanekawa this text
    before she leaves for her trip.
SIGN    KOYOKOYO, I'M SORRY TO MAKE YOU WORRY SO MUCH. I'LL GIVE YOU LOTS OF FRENCH KISSES ON OUR NEXT DATE, SO FORGIVE ME I'M ADDICTED TO YOUR FRENCH KISSES
[20:55] ---
    These texts are turning into something
    I can't show anyone!
SIGN    A MESSAGE FROM OIKURA. SHE SAID "UNDER THE DESK." FROM YOUR LEFT
[21:02] ---
    FROM YOUR LEFT
[21:05] ---
    "From your left"?
    What kind of a greeting is that?*
[21:11] ---
    Back in the day,
    during summer break five years ago.
[21:14] ---
    Hadn't I had found a similar envelope
    underneath a tea table in a ruined house?
[21:20] ---
    However, that envelope was empty.
[21:23] ---
    From how it felt, I could tell
    that this time around, there was paper inside.
[21:28] ---
    The envelope didn't have a sender or a recipient
    on either the front or the back.
[21:32] ---
    However, it was obvious
    who had taped this to my desk.
[21:38] ---
    Sodachi Oikura.
    She'd kept all of her promises.
[21:44] ---
    Suddenly disappearing without warning...
[21:46] ---
    Oikura, for now, has become a girl
    who wouldn't do that.
[21:52] ---
    It was a small change,
    but it was still a change for her.
[21:55] ---
    That made me happy,
[21:57] ---
    but I felt like she'd gone ahead of me,
    which left me feeling a bit lonely.
[22:01] ---
    Here, I felt I should show
    that I've grown up as well,
[22:05] ---
    so I didn't rip and tear into it
    like I did five years ago.
[22:08] ---
    I opened the envelope
    as carefully as possible
[22:10] ---
    and pulled out multiple sheets
    of paper from within.
[22:14] ---
    Now, are the contents of the letter
    a mathematics quiz?
[22:18] ---
    A letter of thanks she's unlikely to write?
[22:21] ---
    Or will it be a message insulting me?
[22:23] ---
    It's possible it'll be all of the above...
[22:26] ---
    Now, let's see.
[22:32] ---
    I couldn't help but smile.
[22:35] ---
    Hey, what do you think was written?

E8 - Shinobu Mail, Part Two
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[00:16] ---
    Sorry to interrupt
    while you're waxing sentimental, devil boy.
[00:19] ---
    DEVIL BOY
[00:20] ---
    What in the world happened?
[00:22] ---
    You probably can't help
    brooding over that snail girl, but...
[00:26] ---
    I'd prefer that you didn't commit double-suicide
    with some local girl because of it.
[00:31] ---
    That's such a glaring misunderstanding.
[00:33] ---
    DON'T SAY SOME LOCAL GIRL.
[00:34] ---
    KANBARU IS A CUTE UNDERCLASSMAN.
[00:35] ---
    This is Suruga Kanbaru.
[00:38] ---
    Oh, I see. So this is Gaen's niece.
[00:42] ---
    Previously Suruga Gaen,
[00:44] ---
    and once Gaen's big sister
    finished the marriage paperwork, Suruga Kanbaru.
[00:49] ---
    So Ononoki, what are you doing here?
[00:51] ---
    Oh, it's just a coincidence.
    I wasn't planning on rescuing you, devil boy.
[00:56] ---
    I was just doing my job.
[00:59] ---
    At the job site, devil boy was trying to commit
    double suicide with a girl I didn't know.
[01:04] ---
    And I thought,
    "Yahoo, I just have to get in the way."
[01:08] ---
    In any case, thank you, Ononoki.
[01:11] ---
    I keep owing you favors,
[01:14] ---
    but someday, I'll make sure
    to repay you for this favor.
[01:17] ---
    If you say you're going to repay me,
[01:18] ---
    normally I'd like for you
    to pile up a giant fortune.
[01:22] ---
    But this time, I'll let you off the hook
    if you answer my question.
[01:26] ---
    What in the world happened?
[02:29] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[02:30] ---
    SHINOBU MAIL, PART TWO
[02:33] ---
    An armor-clad samurai?
[02:35] ---
    An armor-clad samurai that automatically
    rebuilds itself when broken up
[02:38] ---
    and has the energy drain skill?
[02:41] ---
    Yeah.
[02:42] ---
    However, I didn't tell Ononoki everything.
[02:46] ---
    I hesitated about relating
    to Ononoki the situation
[02:50] ---
    that I hadn't prepared my heart for.
[02:54] ---
    The armor-clad samurai's parting words.
[02:56] ---
    An impossible array
    of the alphabet... "Kiss-shot."
[02:59] ---
    KISS-SHOT
[03:00] ---
    That name not even I call her by anymore...
    is what was said.
[03:03] ---
    And then, the demon sword "Kokoro Watari"...
[03:07] ---
    Ononoki, do you have any ideas?
[03:10] ---
    That armor-clad samurai...
[03:11] ---
    Does it have something to do
    with the job you're currently entrusted with?
[03:15] ---
    It does.
[03:17] ---
    Yup, that's right...
    Indeed, it does. It's within my duties.
[03:23] ---
    But listening to that story,
[03:25] ---
    it's almost completely different
    from the phenomenon
[03:28] ---
    that was the subject of my field work.
[03:31] ---
    It seems it's become much more violent
    since I was investigating it.
[03:36] ---
    What happened in these past few days?
[03:39] ---
    In the first place, it wasn't even
    an armor-clad samurai when I was chasing it.
[03:45] ---
    You know, Ononoki.
[03:47] ---
    What is it, devil boy?
[03:49] ---
    Can I drop this particular case?
[03:52] ---
    Oh no, don't get me wrong. I'm fine.
    I'm perfectly fine, but... Kanbaru...
[04:01] ---
    We can let Kanbaru go home now, right?
[04:05] ---
    What's that?
[04:07] ---
    In other words, devil boy,
[04:09] ---
    you're going to scrap the promise
    you made with Gaen?
[04:11] ---
    Going to scrap...
[04:13] ---
    Saying that you would
    introduce that girl to her,
[04:16] ---
    you borrowed some wisdom
    from Gaen, right?
[04:18] ---
    It was absolutely necessary
    in order to save Mayoi Hachikuji.
[04:23] ---
    So you didn't actually have a choice,
    but still, a promise is a promise.
[04:28] ---
    You've really got some nerve, devil boy.
[04:31] ---
    For you to break a promise you made to Gaen
    almost makes me fall for you.
[04:36] ---
    I don't plan on breaking that promise.
[04:39] ---
    You have good pectorals.
[04:41] ---
    Don't touch on the subject of my pecs.
[04:44] ---
    I want to touch it.
[04:45] ---
    Don't show an abnormal amount
    of interest in muscles.
[04:48] ---
    I'm a corpse, so showing an interest in meat
    is like an instinct...
[04:54] ---
    So what's the reason?
[04:56] ---
    The reason you want to break the promise
    you made with Gaen.
[04:59] ---
    I'm more than happy to introduce
    Kanbaru to her, even now.
[05:04] ---
    But the promise wasn't just that, right?
[05:07] ---
    She was trying to make Kanbaru help
    with the job going on over on your end.
[05:12] ---
    Gaen had said
[05:14] ---
    that she needed Kanbaru's "left hand,"
    that is, her "left arm."
[05:18] ---
    Of course, I was the one that made use
    of Gaen's wisdom and knowledge.
[05:22] ---
    Kanbaru had nothing to do with it.
[05:24] ---
    Therefore, the promise was made with the condition
    that Kanbaru herself agree to do so.
[05:29] ---
    But that was a mistake to begin with.
[05:32] ---
    I knew extremely well
    that Kanbaru would never refuse
[05:36] ---
    if I requested something from her.
[05:38] ---
    As a result, I subjected Kanbaru
    to unthinkable danger.
[05:43] ---
    I completely roped her in.
[05:46] ---
    As her upperclassman,
    I was supposed to decline such an offer.
[05:51] ---
    I understand how you feel, devil boy.
[05:53] ---
    But you should give up on that.
    I can't recommend it.
[05:57] ---
    This is a warning to you as a friend.
[05:59] ---
    I don't remember ever
    becoming friends with you.
[06:02] ---
    Devil boy, I've thought of you
    as a friend for a while now, you know?
[06:07] ---
    It's way past the point of no return.
[06:11] ---
    Why hasn't it crossed your mind that
    even if you were to send that girl home,
[06:15] ---
    that may not be protecting her?
[06:18] ---
    What do you mean?
[06:19] ---
    An apparition affects only by looking,
    curses only by meeting.
[06:24] ---
    And yet, that girl touched
    that armor-clad samurai, didn't she?
[06:29] ---
    I see.
[06:30] ---
    So Suruga Kanbaru already has...
[06:31] ---
    ...NOT ONLY DID SHE TOUCH, SHE PUNCHED.
[06:32] ---
    ...gotten herself involved.
[06:34] ---
    PUNCHED
[06:35] ---
    Devil boy, sit up straight.
[06:38] ---
    Sit up straight. Hurry.
[06:40] ---
    Hurry up.
[06:42] ---
    Hurry, hurry.
[06:43] ---
    HURRY, HURRY
[06:47] ---
    Hold on just a second. It will be real quick.
[06:56] ---
    Um, Ononoki...
[06:58] ---
    Don't think you can go back in time or anything.
[07:01] ---
    Just like the case with Mayoi Hachikuji...
    Devil boy, you don't have enough resolve.
[07:06] ---
    Hey, you, you're thinking you can
    restart your life at any time, aren't you?
[07:12] ---
    You're thinking no matter when you start,
    you'll never be late, aren't you?
[07:16] ---
    Even if you make a mistake, even if you're careless,
    maybe you think you can make something of it?
[07:23] ---
    In the end, the positives
    and negatives of life even out, you say?
[07:28] ---
    Of course, it's a given
    that it turns to zero when you die.
[07:39] ---
    So devil boy,
    if you really care about that girl,
[07:44] ---
    don't be irresponsible
    and send her home right now.
[07:47] ---
    There's more reason to take her
    to where Gaen is now.
[07:51] ---
    And have Gaen protect her.
[07:54] ---
    Have Gaen...
[07:55] ---
    SCRAP (HOGO)
[07:55] ---
    Right. Don't scrap the promise,
    and have the girl be protected.
[07:58] ---
    PROTECT (HOGO)
[08:00] ---
    Indeed.
[08:01] ---
    If we're talking about irresponsible,
[08:03] ---
    sending Kanbaru home now
    would be much more irresponsible.
[08:06] ---
    I DIDN'T SEEK THE FREEDOM TO RUIN MY ENTIRE LIFE
    BY BREAKING A PROMISE I MADE TO GAEN.
[08:07] ---
    BUT THAT ASIDE,
    I WANT TO KEEP MY PROMISE.
[08:08] ---
    I SHOULD KEEP IT.
[08:09] ---
    No... I'll be honest here.
[08:12] ---
    It was a given I didn't want Kanbaru involved
    in something with a dangerous armor-clad samurai.
[08:16] ---
    Then, asking whether or not
    I wanted to be involved myself,
[08:19] ---
    it's definitely the case that I don't.
[08:21] ---
    If anything, it's that I can't help
    but be involved in this.
[08:24] ---
    HE ENTRUSTED ME WITH A MESSAGE.
[08:25] ---
    A MESSAGE TO "MY MASTER."
[08:26] ---
    If the true nature of that armor-clad samurai
    really is what I think it is...
[08:31] ---
    Even if I think such a thing is impossible,
[08:34] ---
    if even the slightest possibility
    that it can be exists...
[08:38] ---
    I can't discard that.
[08:40] ---
    Until I know that... I can't go home.
[08:44] ---
    Looks like you've reached a conclusion.
[08:46] ---
    Oh boy, friends really are troublesome.
[08:50] ---
    Starting now, I'll chase the armor-clad samurai
    apparition you supposedly witnessed, devil boy.
[08:56] ---
    Based on how it disappeared,
    I don't think I can find it,
[09:00] ---
    but it's my job to go on a fool's errand.
[09:04] ---
    It's my job to step on devil boy's face
    and to go on a fool's errand.
[09:07] ---
    Stop saying that!
[09:08] ---
    And don't step on my face
    as part of your job!
[09:10] ---
    So devil boy, you should carry that niece
    and meet up with Gaen.
[09:16] ---
    And explain to her what the situation is.
[09:18] ---
    When you say it that way,
    it sounds like Kanbaru is my niece...
[09:25] ---
    In any case, both you guys and I
    should leave this place pretty soon.
[09:30] ---
    IT'S FINE TO WAX SENTIMENTAL FOREVER
    IN FRONT OF THE BURNED RUINS.
[09:31] ---
    Soon, things like firefighters
    and the police will be rushing over.
[09:35] ---
    Understanding when to retreat
    is a must for a specialist.
[09:51] ---
    Oh, you came to?
[09:57] ---
    Oh, Araragi-senpai! Are you OK?
[10:05] ---
    What's the meaning of this?
[10:07] ---
    I don't understand the situation very well,
[10:09] ---
    but my instincts are telling me
    I shouldn't miss this opportunity.
[10:12] ---
    Your instincts are amazing...
[10:14] ---
    WHAT ARE THEY TELLING HER?
[10:15] ---
    THEY'RE SAYING TOO MUCH.
[10:15] ---
    I don't think I can quite walk yet.
[10:17] ---
    I'll just sit here
    and get a piggyback ride for a while.
[10:22] ---
    Oh, fine... Just a little bit longer, okay?
[10:26] ---
    The physical aspect aside,
    it's a definite that I'm exhausted mentally.
[10:31] ---
    Somehow, I'm feeling out of whack.
[10:32] ---
    Out of whack?
[10:34] ---
    In some way, I'm reminded
    of the North Shirahebi Shrine.
[10:40] ---
    Araragi-senpai...
[10:41] ---
    Am I proceeding toward that someone
    you wanted to introduce to me?
[10:46] ---
    Oh... Yeah, we are.
[10:49] ---
    But about that, Kanbaru,
    I need to apologize to you.
[10:54] ---
    No need for apologies.
[10:56] ---
    In fact, I'd rather you didn't apologize.
[10:58] ---
    Making you bow your head, Araragi-senpai,
    would be a disgrace for Suruga Kanbaru.
[11:03] ---
    If so, wouldn't me giving you
    a piggyback ride
[11:06] ---
    be more of a disgrace for Suruga Kanbaru?
[11:08] ---
    KANBARU / SURUGA
[11:08] ---
    You'd be so disgraced
    you're splintered or something?
[11:10] ---
    No, in all seriousness, it may be more dangerous
    to send you back right now.
[11:15] ---
    At the least, until we figure out the situation,
    I want you to accompany me.
[11:19] ---
    For every favor you ask of me, Araragi-senpai,
    this is how I answer:
[11:24] ---
    Eat up!
[11:25] ---
    Shut up!
[11:26] ---
    Also, that's cute!
[11:28] ---
    WHAT IN THE WORLD DID I ORDER?
[11:31] ---
    But I'll at least ask you
    where we're headed, Araragi-senpai.
[11:35] ---
    Right now, we're headed
    to the aforementioned rendezvous point.
[11:39] ---
    Let's see... You probably know of it.
    It's called Rouhaku Park.
[11:43] ---
    Rouhaku?
[11:44] ---
    It might be Namishiro.
[11:46] ---
    Apparently it was Senjyogahara's neighborhood
    back in middle school.
[11:50] ---
    Then I might remember if I saw it.
[11:54] ---
    In any case, roger that, Araragi-senpai.
[11:57] ---
    Right now, we're headed to that park, right?
[11:59] ---
    And the person you wanted me
    to meet will be there?
[12:02] ---
    Well, yeah.
[12:04] ---
    But, if so, Araragi-senpai...
[12:06] ---
    Aren't you going in
    the completely opposite direction?
[12:12] ---
    Huh? But...
[12:14] ---
    I guess we'll go back a bit
    and correct the route... I'm sorry, Kanbaru.
[12:18] ---
    Well, it's no big deal.
    I trust you with everything.
[12:21] ---
    Araragi-senpai, do as you want.
[12:27] ---
    ONE HOUR LATER
[12:29] ---
    We ended up in a location
    that we didn't know.
[12:35] ---
    Come to think, Araragi-senpai,
    didn't you get lost in the past, or not?
[12:40] ---
    Didn't you say you were about to, but didn't,
    or something like that?
[12:44] ---
    You know, with Hachikuji...
[12:49] ---
    No, wait. The lost cow isn't here any longer.
[12:53] ---
    But...
[12:54] ---
    You shouldn't make any detours
    and go straight home as well!
[12:58] ---
    No, but...
[13:00] ---
    Would he actually set up something like this,
    that's more malicious than harassing?
[13:05] ---
    Besides, even if this "lost" bit is his doing,
    I don't see the objective for doing so.
[13:12] ---
    What is he planning to do with me and Kanbaru
    after we lose our way... after we're lost?
[13:18] ---
    Kanbaru, I'm letting go.
[13:20] ---
    Of the daikon?
[13:21] ---
    No, I mean you.
[13:22] ---
    IF ANYTHING, NOT A DAIKON BUT AN ANTELOPE.
[13:27] ---
    EARLIER, EARLIER TO GIVE UP THE BETTER
[13:32] ---
    CALLING
[13:33] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
[13:34] ---
    Hey, Koyomin...
[13:35] ---
    I've been waiting for you.
    I was anxiously waiting.
[13:37] ---
    I thought it was about time you called me.
[13:42] ---
    So? How is it going right now?
    Do tell Big Sister Gaen.
[13:47] ---
    Let's see...
[13:48] ---
    A crab?
[13:48] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
    CRAB
[13:50] ---
    A snail?
[13:50] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
    SNAIL
[13:51] ---
    A monkey?
[13:51] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
    MONKEY
[13:52] ---
    A snake?
[13:52] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
    SNAKE
[13:53] ---
    A cat?
[13:53] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
    CAT
[13:56] ---
    What do you actually know?
[13:58] ---
    I know everything, as you may know.
[14:04] ---
    That's a joke, a joke.
    Why are you getting so serious, Koyomin?
[14:08] ---
    If I say five things, one is sure to be correct.
    It's a dirty tactic adults use.
[14:14] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
    SNAIL      SNAIL     LOST     COW     LOST
[14:14] ---
    Personally, I'd predict that it's the snail.
[14:17] ---
    SNAIL - LOST COW
[14:18] ---
    She got it right.
[14:20] ---
    Simple. I thought the only one
    you'd have the luxury
[14:23] ---
    to make a phone call
    seeking help would be the snail.
[14:26] ---
    Just an analogy. So, how is it?
[14:29] ---
    That's exactly what it is... Yes.
[14:31] ---
    Right now, together with Kanbaru,
[14:33] ---
    I was heading to the park
    where we were supposed to meet up.
[14:36] ---
    But for over an hour now...
[14:38] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
[14:40] ---
    I was imagining what kind
    of thing it would be, but...
[14:44] ---
    of all those I imagined,
    that's the smallest one.
[14:48] ---
    Koyomin.
[14:49] ---
    Hurry up and join me, please.
[14:51] ---
    I want to hear the details
    face-to-face now.
[14:55] ---
    No, I mean, the story is such that
    joining you is what I can't do right now.
[14:59] ---
    That was why I was seeking
    some advice from you—
[15:02] ---
    This isn't worth me giving advice.
[15:04] ---
    It's merely someone
    meddling in your affairs.
[15:06] ---
    If you can't overcome that small an obstacle
    by yourself, I'd be troubled.
[15:10] ---
    Fortunately, this isn't the first time
    you're getting lost on your way.
[15:14] ---
    Koyomin,
[15:15] ---
    follow Meme's principle here
    and help yourself on your own.
[15:20] ---
    No...
[15:20] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
[15:22] ---
    You're not alone.
[15:23] ---
    That's right, you have your reliable underclassman
    beside you right now.
[15:27] ---
    Then, you can rely on her.
[15:29] ---
    R-Rely on her, but...
[15:33] ---
    What do you think Kanbaru is?
    Kanbaru is—
[15:36] ---
    Suruga Kanbaru is my elder sister's daughter.
[15:36] ---
    IZUKO GAEN
[15:40] ---
    Such a pity to keep talent like that dormant.
[15:44] ---
    SHE JUST HUNG UP ON ME
[15:46] ---
    Oh, so your phone call is over, Araragi-senpai?
[15:49] ---
    And that look on your face...
    I assume you need something from your slave.
[15:53] ---
    I don't have any slaves.
[15:55] ---
    Then you don't need my opinion?
    That's so reassuring.
[15:59] ---
    No, I don't—
[16:04] ---
    I do need it. Kanbaru,
    if you have any thoughts, let me know.
[16:22] ---
    All right, I know. This way.
[16:25] ---
    I don't know the way to the park,
[16:27] ---
    but if it's near where
    Senjyogahara-senpai's old house was...
[16:31] ---
    I know the approximate direction by scent.
[16:33] ---
    Let's go!
[16:35] ---
    It's not by sight, but scent?
[16:45] ---
    Come on, Araragi-senpai.
[16:46] ---
    ARE YOU A NINJA OR SOMETHING?
[16:47] ---
    Araragi-senpai, the apparition called the lost cow
    makes people lose their way, right?
[16:53] ---
    Then all you have to do
    is to not go down the normal paths.
[17:01] ---
    Around three in the morning, at last...
[17:05] ---
    NAMISHIRO (ROUHAKU) PARK
[17:05] ---
    ...we arrived at the park.
[17:08] ---
    Huh?
[17:13] ---
    Of all things, it's only been three hours
    since I made the phone call.
[17:17] ---
    She couldn't possibly have gotten impatient
    and left already.
[17:19] ---
    But Araragi-senpai,
[17:21] ---
    most people would go home if they were forced
    to wait for three hours in the middle of the night.
[17:25] ---
    If you say so, that may be true, but...
[17:28] ---
    I know.
[17:29] ---
    Just like I got lost on my way,
[17:31] ---
    maybe Gaen, who we were going to meet,
    met some sort of apparition phenomenon.
[17:35] ---
    Is it unthinkable that possibility
    is what's causing her not to be here?
[17:39] ---
    Kanbaru, I have a favor to ask.
[17:41] ---
    Eat up!
[17:42] ---
    That's not it.
[17:44] ---
    It may be useless, but I'd like to split up
    and comb the entire park.
[17:48] ---
    If you find something, holler at me.
[17:50] ---
    So I just need to scream?
[17:51] ---
    Don't scream. I'd be the one that gets arrested.
[17:55] ---
    Roger. Will serve you.
[17:56] ---
    ARRESTED (TSUKAMARU)
[17:57] ---
    SERVE (TSUKAMATSURU)
[18:05] ---
    Araragi-senpai! Found her!
[18:12] ---
    It doesn't look like there's anyone there...
[18:15] ---
    No, no, Araragi-senpai.
[18:17] ---
    See? Look closely.
[18:21] ---
    Sh-Shinobu!
[18:27] ---
    Oh, if it isn't my master! You're pretty late.
[18:35] ---
    She's so cute...
[18:39] ---
    Hey, Shinobu.
    Why in the world are you here...
[18:46] ---
    Ka ka!
[18:48] ---
    Monkey, huh...
[18:50] ---
    That gave me a hard time for sure.
[18:54] ---
    Indeed, I found this kitten
    to be one tough customer.
[18:58] ---
    A cat, indeed...
[19:04] ---
    LET'S PUT ASIDE THE PERVERT FOR NOW.
[19:06] ---
    Well, you know... by "monkey"
    I'm not talking about this girl.
[19:10] ---
    It was wearing a raincoat and galoshes,
    but it was someone other than her.
[19:13] ---
    Someone else?
[19:14] ---
    In any case, it was an apparition
    I'd been fighting
[19:17] ---
    somewhere out there until just recently,
    together with the cat.
[19:21] ---
    Wh-What are you talking about?
[19:22] ---
    AND A CAT?
[19:23] ---
    WHAT CAT?
[19:24] ---
    WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON
    IN THIS TOWN RIGHT NOW?
[19:25] ---
    It was a competition you'd dream of,
    in all sorts of ways.
[19:28] ---
    Well, this is nothing more than a scratch,
    nothing serious.
[19:32] ---
    What about on your end? Were you all right?
[19:35] ---
    Y-Yeah. After parting ways with you...
    Let's see. About that darkness...
[19:40] ---
    No need.
[19:41] ---
    I was briefed on that already.
[19:44] ---
    It seems I've had all sorts
    of misunderstandings for over 400 years now.
[19:48] ---
    The epitome of clumsiness, indeed.
[19:50] ---
    You heard? From whom—
[19:53] ---
    I don't have to even tell you.
[19:55] ---
    I heard from the little girl
    who stomped on you.
[19:58] ---
    The little girl who stomped on me?
[20:00] ---
    Well, I have no idea what you're talking about...
[20:03] ---
    Shinobu, you're the only one
    that's stomped on me with a bare foot, you know?
[20:07] ---
    I didn't say it was a bare foot.
[20:10] ---
    Drats! So this is what they mean by the saying
    "the tongue ever turns to the aching tooth"!
[20:14] ---
    Though it looks like
    you're aching as much as you can ache...
[20:18] ---
    More like, you have a cute footprint
    clearly left on your face.
[20:22] ---
    What the...!
[20:25] ---
    Yeah...
[20:26] ---
    I secretly wondered this whole time
    what happened while I was unconscious.
[20:32] ---
    If you saw it, then say something!
[20:35] ---
    You just continued riding piggyback
    on your upperclassman, thinking it was funny?
[20:39] ---
    Well, normally a marking of that sort
[20:42] ---
    would be so resentful that
    I'd want to peel the skin off your face.
[20:45] ---
    But against my will,
    the doll-girl has saved us...
[20:49] ---
    So this one time,
    I'll graciously forgive her.
[20:53] ---
    "Has saved us"? Come now...
[20:56] ---
    What really happened to you, Shinobu?
[21:02] ---
    Well, it's not worth mentioning.
[21:04] ---
    While the cat and I were being
    assaulted by a monkey...
[21:07] ---
    When we were having a tough time...
[21:09] ---
    That doll-girl suddenly appeared,
    and, impressively enough, joined forces with us.
[21:15] ---
    What was that special move of hers?
[21:18] ---
    "A RULEBOOK MOSTLY FILLED WITH EXCEPTIONS"
[21:18] ---
    "Unlimited Rulebook," or something?
[21:21] ---
    She used it to blow off
    the right half of the monkey's body.
[21:25] ---
    And, after she saved you,
[21:27] ---
    Ononoki told you what's happened
    since that incident, or something?
[21:31] ---
    Then...
[21:32] ---
    Assuming she heard about the darkness there,
[21:35] ---
    then, did she hear about
    the armor-clad samurai afterwards as well?
[21:40] ---
    No, that doesn't seem to be the case.
[21:43] ---
    Well, I'm glad both of us
    are safe and sound.
[21:45] ---
    No, I guess we're not quite safe just yet.
[21:49] ---
    Apparently, the so-called master
    of the Hawaiian-shirt boy
[21:52] ---
    is going to restore the pairing
    between you and me?
[21:55] ---
    Doll-girl said that it'd be good
    to meet up with you for that reason.
[21:59] ---
    Yet, I arrive here,
    and neither you or that master are around.
[22:04] ---
    So...
[22:06] ---
    So... that's why you were sleeping
    under the swings?
[22:09] ---
    What kind of idea is that?
[22:11] ---
    How do you think
    outside the box like that?
[22:13] ---
    Even if you were tired
    from an unexpected battle,
[22:15] ---
    at the least, if you're going to sleep,
    there are other places—
[22:17] ---
    Master, we should talk about that later.
[22:20] ---
    Unfortunately, it seems
    we're not quite done fighting just yet...
[22:25] ---
    It seems the battle isn't quite over just yet.
[22:29] ---
    The battle for us seems to be
    what's coming up now.

E9 - Shinobu Mail, Part Three
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[00:01] ---
    THE LEFT HALF IS A MONKEY
[00:02] ---
    THE RIGHT HALF IS A CRAB
[00:03] ---
    THIS ISN'T A MONKEY-CRAB WAR, NO
[00:04] ---
    A MONKEY-CRAB FUSION
[00:14] ---
    RIDDLE
[00:18] ---
    I'LL GO FROM THE RIGHT
[00:19] ---
    ARARAGI-SENPAI, YOU GO FROM THE LEFT
[00:20] ---
    Y-YEAH
[00:22] ---
    Araragi-senpai, let's go!
[00:24] ---
    S-Sure!
[00:26] ---
    "BECAUSE I'M LEFT-HANDED,
[00:28] ---
    SOMETIMES I MISTAKE LEFT AND RIGHT,"
    WAS SOMETHING KANBARU DEFINITELY SAID—
[00:38] ---
    FOR SOME REASON,
    SHE WAS SITTING ON THE SWINGS.
[00:41] ---
    WHY IS IT THE MOMENT AN APPARITION
    SHOWS UP CHASING AFTER HER,
    SHE STARTS PLAYING ON THE PLAYGROUND?
[00:43] ---
    NOT ONLY IS IT UNUSUAL,
    IT'S ABSURD, ISN'T IT?
[00:52] ---
    CRAB
[01:10] ---
    MY ENTIRE BODY IS CREAKING.
[01:12] ---
    Wait up, master!
[01:17] ---
    Use this.
[01:21] ---
    Use it!
[01:23] ---
    The demon sword, "Kokoro Watari"...
[01:25] ---
    There's no need to hesitate.
[01:27] ---
    That thing is an apparition,
    but it's also not an apparition.
[01:30] ---
    It's something bad,
    in a state before it turns into an apparition.
[01:32] ---
    No harm will be done by slaying it.
[01:36] ---
    In the first place,
    this sword is not the original,
[01:40] ---
    but a certain person used his own flesh and blood,
    and slaved away to create it.
[01:45] ---
    After all, without a blade,
    an armor-clad samurai feels incomplete!
[01:49] ---
    In the end, it's been 400 years
    since I lent it to her.
[01:57] ---
    Kanbaru! Out of the way!
[02:10] ---
    SNAKE
[02:13] ---
    Araragi-senpai! Look out!
[02:15] ---
    A snake... Jagirinawa?
[02:24] ---
    Ka ka!
[02:25] ---
    Well done, I guess?
[02:36] ---
    Sixty-two points.
[03:38] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[03:39] ---
    SHINOBU MAIL, PART THREE
[03:43] ---
    That was almost a perfect test
    of your prowess, wasn't it?
[03:46] ---
    Actually, it looks like its specs
    were lower than what it used to be.
[03:50] ---
    When the monkey came up against me by itself,
    it was controlling rain.
[03:55] ---
    That was a troublesome skill.
[04:09] ---
    Are you all right?
[04:11] ---
    Are you hurt anywhere?
[04:17] ---
    I'm not hurt anywhere.
[04:19] ---
    This is warm.
    It smells like you, Araragi-senpai.
[04:23] ---
    Um, can you not say stuff
    that sounds like it's from a romantic comedy?
[04:26] ---
    But is it okay for me
    to be the one wearing this?
[04:29] ---
    Well... Even in midsummer, standing like this
    in the middle of the night can get a bit chilly.
[04:35] ---
    Well then, hold on just a second.
[04:40] ---
    Wear this.
[04:46] ---
    I'm really sorry, Kanbaru.
    To rope you into something like this.
[04:50] ---
    In the first place, fighting is forbidden
    for basketball players, right?
[04:54] ---
    You repeat yourself too much, Araragi-senpai.
[04:56] ---
    If you keep apologizing
    so many times like that,
[04:58] ---
    it makes me doubt
    if you really feel bad about all of it.
[05:05] ---
    Hey, Shinobu.
[05:14] ---
    Well then. Now, master...
    Time to continue the story.
[05:17] ---
    Continue? Let's see...
    what were we talking about?
[05:21] ---
    I was talking about the pairing, master.
[05:24] ---
    We were discussing how we needed to recover
    the pairing between you and me.
[05:29] ---
    Otherwise, we'll have a hard time,
    even against a defective apparition like that.
[05:35] ---
    But what does that have to do
    with being under the swings?
[05:39] ---
    As for recovering the pairing...
    well, we need to ask some specialist about that.
[05:43] ---
    You know... For things like this,
    experience is the best teacher.
[05:47] ---
    You should go over there
    and lie down in that exact location.
[05:52] ---
    If you do, there will be things
    that you'll gain sight of. Now, let's go!
[06:10] ---
    Man, this is totally scary!
    Scarier than an apparition! What is this?
[06:14] ---
    What in the world did Shinobu want me to do,
    sending me to a land like this?
[06:19] ---
    What did she want me to understand?
[06:22] ---
    A bit late now, but I think
    the phrase Shinobu wanted to use
[06:26] ---
    wasn't "Experience is the best teacher,"
[06:29] ---
    but, "A picture is worth a thousand words."
[06:38] ---
    CHANGE —> NORTH SHIRAHEBI SHRINE
[06:47] ---
    "Once I've recovered a bit more,
[06:49] ---
    I'll come see her to regain
    my cherished demon sword 'Kokoro Watari'!
[06:53] ---
    In the end, it's been 400 years
    since I lent it to her.
[06:56] ---
    Tell her that she should prepare herself
    for the late fees!"
[07:00] ---
    Is that what that samurai said?
[07:03] ---
    Yeah. And after that,
    he took off, laughing boisterously.
[07:07] ---
    In what way?
[07:09] ---
    I mean, how did this being laugh?
[07:12] ---
    Recreate it.
[07:13] ---
    Recreate it, you ask?
    That's more or less asking for the impossible.
[07:31] ---
    It was something like that.
[07:35] ---
    Shinobu, could it be...
[07:37] ---
    Don't worry about it.
[07:39] ---
    That's impossible.
    It's nothing more than a lie.
[07:41] ---
    A-A lie? But...
[07:46] ---
    That man died 400 years ago.
[07:50] ---
    I saw it clearly with my own eyes.
[07:52] ---
    Even if heaven and earth flip,
    even if night becomes day,
[07:56] ---
    that is one thing
    that can't be mistaken.
[07:58] ---
    It's so stupid
    it's not even worth discussing.
[08:02] ---
    No, but wait, Shinobu...
[08:04] ---
    If it is the case that this samurai
    is pretending to be him,
[08:07] ---
    it must be due to
    something he's planning.
[08:12] ---
    His objective may be to get myself
    or you feeling uneasy.
[08:16] ---
    That's why you shouldn't worry about it.
    It's inevitable.
[08:19] ---
    No matter what the objective is,
    that demon sword, the Apparition Killer...
[08:26] ---
    I don't intend to hand it over to anyone.
[08:28] ---
    If he says that he's the mastermind behind
    that menagerie that started with the monkey,
[08:32] ---
    next time, I will personally slay him.
[08:35] ---
    And I have nothing more to say about that.
[08:49] ---
    Hey, Koyomin.
    I'm glad we finally got to meet up.
[08:55] ---
    ULTRA ABSOLUTE SUPER RARE
[08:58] ---
    Well, that's the end.
[09:01] ---
    A quick message to Yotsugi...
[09:03] ---
    Saying I safely met up
    with Koyomin and company.
[09:06] ---
    This is why I made her carry
    a cellphone for children.
[09:10] ---
    It seems that doll wasn't herself
    with regard to worrying about your well-being.
[09:15] ---
    It seems... Or rather,
    it's pretty obvious if one looks at your face.
[09:19] ---
    Face?
[09:20] ---
    Koyomin is in high spirits.
[09:22] ---
    Sent.
[09:22] ---
    SEND
[09:25] ---
    Okay, sorry to make you wait.
[09:27] ---
    Hello, Ms. Shinobu Oshino,
    Ms. Suruga Kanbaru.
[09:37] ---
    I'm Izuko Oshino.
[09:39] ---
    You are familiar...
[09:42] ---
    ...with Oshino Meme. I'm his little sister!
[09:47] ---
    To the lie that was told so audaciously,
    I was at a loss of words.
[09:52] ---
    NO, THAT'S NOT IT.
[09:53] ---
    YOUR LAST NAME IS GAEN, RIGHT?
[09:59] ---
    Oh, to think that the Hawaiian-shirt boy
    had a younger sister.
[10:03] ---
    Now that you mention it,
    there is a resemblance.
[10:06] ---
    Shinobu was fooled.
[10:11] ---
    I get that a lot!
[10:13] ---
    Yeah. It seems my pitiful big brother
    caused you guys a lot of trouble.
[10:16] ---
    I'm sorry about that.
[10:20] ---
    I'm Suruga Kanbaru.
[10:22] ---
    My occupation is Araragi-senpai's...
[10:25] ---
    ...sex slave!
[10:26] ---
    You... really use that profile
    to describe yourself to everyone?
[10:31] ---
    I see, a sex slave, huh?
[10:33] ---
    It's so nice to be as young
    as you are uninhibited!
[10:37] ---
    Well then, let's get to the main subject, folks.
[10:41] ---
    I'm talking about business.
[10:42] ---
    First off, tell me the tales
    of your adventures leading up to here.
[10:48] ---
    Tell me your entire story,
    down to the finest detail.
[10:52] ---
    Big Sister here loves hearing stories
    about someone else's life.
[10:57] ---
    Coming this far,
    there was no reason to gloss over things.
[11:00] ---
    I told her of tonight's events,
    just as they happened.
[11:04] ---
    It really shows that you're used
    to telling stories, Koyomin.
[11:06] ---
    That was very interesting.
[11:08] ---
    It's as if you were a professional storyteller.
[11:10] ---
    HANDSOME MAN (KOUDANSHI)
[11:10] ---
    A handsome man
    being a professional storyteller.
[11:11] ---
    PROFESSIONAL STORYTELLER (KOUDANSHI)
[11:12] ---
    That's what it is.
[11:17] ---
    I'll start with my conclusion.
[11:18] ---
    That armor-clad samurai, 400 years ago,
[11:21] ---
    is the first minion that Shinobu's previous self,
    the legendary vampire,
[11:24] ---
    a rare species, the iron-blooded, hot-blooded,
    and cold-blooded vampire,
[11:29] ---
    the Apparition Killer
    and King of Apparitions,
[11:31] ---
    Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade,
    created by drinking his blood.
[11:38] ---
    In other words, Koyomi Araragi,
    you became the second minion
[11:42] ---
    when Shinobu drank your blood
    back during spring break.
[11:45] ---
    So he would be your senior.
[11:47] ---
    In that he was the original Apparition Killer,
    I guess he'd be Shinobu's senior as well?
[11:57] ---
    Hey, master.
[11:58] ---
    This one is unbelievably amateurish.
[12:01] ---
    Is this one really the little sister
    of Hawaiian shirt boy?
[12:05] ---
    Tell her! Tell her, master!
[12:07] ---
    Be blunt, in a sadistic way!
[12:10] ---
    Correct this misunderstanding
    that this super-novice has!
[12:13] ---
    S-Sure...
[12:15] ---
    B-But, Ga—
[12:17] ---
    Just call me Izuko.
[12:19] ---
    ...Ms. Izuko.
[12:20] ---
    I'm saying, just Izuko is fine.
[12:22] ---
    But Ms. Izuko, Shinobu's first minion
    should already be long dead.
[12:27] ---
    Shinobu witnessed it firsthand.
[12:32] ---
    Despite turning into a vampire,
[12:33] ---
    he exposed himself to the sun
    to commit suicide by burning himself.
[12:37] ---
    He burned up, and turned into ashes... So...
[12:40] ---
    So... He's no longer here.
    There's no way that he can be here.
[12:45] ---
    It's impossible for that armor-clad samurai
    to be Shinobu's first minion.
[12:51] ---
    Why?
[12:53] ---
    Well, I said—
[12:54] ---
    Why? Why do you think it's impossible?
[12:58] ---
    Araragi-senpai...
[13:00] ---
    But, if you say that,
    isn't he an immortal vampire that can't die?
[13:06] ---
    That's right, Ms. Suruga Kanbaru.
[13:08] ---
    As expected from someone
    who could animate the Monkey's Paw.
[13:11] ---
    That's outstanding.
[13:13] ---
    In other words, although it took him
    400 years from his suicide by burning,
[13:17] ---
    said vampire has fully revived.
[13:20] ---
    To think he can be revived
    even if he's turned into ashes and bones...
[13:24] ---
    I guess I should say,
    as expected from the first minion
[13:26] ---
    chosen by the legendary vampire,
    Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade.
[13:34] ---
    Now, please observe.
[13:36] ---
    As I stated the conclusion first,
[13:38] ---
    I'll go in order,
    and explain chronologically.
[13:43] ---
    Of course, the sun is the vampire's weakness.
[13:46] ---
    Even grade-school kids know that.
[13:49] ---
    Even the iron-blooded, hot-blooded,
    and cold-blooded vampire
[13:53] ---
    Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade
    isn't immune to that.
[13:58] ---
    Not to mention, her minions as well.
[14:01] ---
    But it's not an exaggeration...
[14:03] ---
    The King of Apparitions,
    whose name was known worldwide,
[14:06] ---
    isn't an exception, but merely
    outside conventional boundaries.
[14:08] ---
    The weakness wasn't functioning
    as a weakness.
[14:11] ---
    It's a fact that Koyomin,
    back in spring break,
[14:14] ---
    you burst into flames
    basking in sunlight, right?
[14:17] ---
    But you fully recovered after that as well?
[14:20] ---
    I know that.
[14:22] ---
    Something similar happened
    to the first minion as well.
[14:25] ---
    That's what this means.
[14:26] ---
    Of course, in his case, unlike Koyomin
    who mistakenly exposed himself,
[14:29] ---
    he intentionally exposed himself
    to the sun in order to kill himself.
[14:33] ---
    So it's not an attempted (misui) suicide,
    but more like a suicide that missed (misu).
[14:37] ---
    And of course, it seems it took him
    a bit of time to revive.
[14:41] ---
    Roughly 400 years or so.
[14:44] ---
    To be more precise, even 400 years
    after the missed suicide attempt,
[14:48] ---
    even now, the first one's body
    hasn't fully recovered.
[14:53] ---
    Koyomin, you must've realized this,
    as you've directly dealt with the armor-clad samurai.
[14:58] ---
    You must've felt that the armor-clad samurai
    was getting stronger as time went on.
[15:02] ---
    But to be precise, he wasn't getting stronger.
[15:06] ---
    He was recovering.
[15:07] ---
    His health is taking a turn for the better.
[15:10] ---
    He is trying to get back
    to his complete self.
[15:13] ---
    The reason why he performed an energy drain
    on you and Ms. Suruga Kanbaru is, right,
[15:18] ---
    to try and fix himself up by eating.
[15:21] ---
    Just like how Shinobu
    ate that imitation apparition
[15:24] ---
    to recover from being scratched
    by that imitation apparition.
[15:27] ---
    Shall I say you're
    an admirable second one, Koyomin,
[15:31] ---
    since you aided the speedy recovery
    of the first one?
[15:36] ---
    No, wait. I'm not just talking about
    what happened tonight.
[15:40] ---
    I'm saying this based off of you as an individual,
    looking at all of your recent behavior.
[15:45] ---
    You don't understand
    what I'm talking about?
[15:47] ---
    It's fine, you'll understand soon enough.
[15:50] ---
    On the other hand, I wanted to end it all
    before it resulted in something like this.
[15:57] ---
    I was going to have Yotsugi
    take care of it all by herself.
[16:00] ---
    There ended up being
    all sorts of miscalculations.
[16:03] ---
    The fact that I know everything
    doesn't mean that everything will go my way.
[16:08] ---
    Especially involving you, Koyomin.
[16:10] ---
    Someone like you that doesn't move
    according to logic,
[16:12] ---
    someone whose activities are unpredictable,
    an aberrant youth.
[16:16] ---
    That's why I took responsibility
    for making mistakes in my calculations,
[16:20] ---
    came all the way out to the front line,
[16:22] ---
    and that's why I asked you
    for your assistance.
[16:25] ---
    You may be thinking that an ill-spirited big sister
    is roping you into some troublesome work.
[16:34] ---
    But the big sister is, in fact,
    giving you a chance.
[16:37] ---
    The perfect chance to claim responsibility
    for happenings you set up.
[16:42] ---
    Though you may not be convinced
    of this right away.
[16:45] ---
    You may never be convinced of it
    in your lifetime.
[16:49] ---
    But Koyomin,
    have you never wondered about it?
[16:53] ---
    About why, for the past six months,
[16:55] ---
    you've encountered phenomenon
    involving apparitions almost monthly?
[16:59] ---
    You never thought it strange?
[17:01] ---
    Why did the legendary vampire
    Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-Blade
[17:07] ---
    visit the town you live in during spring break,
    instead of anywhere else in this world?
[17:13] ---
    Was it just a coincidence...
[17:15] ---
    that a crab girl, a snail girl, a monkey girl,
    and a snake girl were all in this town?
[17:22] ---
    The one that Kagenui, an underclassman
    that even I have trouble with, went after...
[17:27] ---
    Was it just a coincidence that the phoenix apparition
    lived right here in this town?
[17:33] ---
    The cat... Has a slightly special circumstance, though.
[17:37] ---
    That's probably why the armor-clad samurai
    accidentally stomped on the tail of a tiger.
[17:43] ---
    Well, in that regard,
    coincidence has favored you.
[17:47] ---
    A tiger, huh...
[17:50] ---
    For the first one,
    whose entire body became a fireball,
[17:54] ---
    flames and blazes
    must have been traumatic.
[17:58] ---
    Of course he'd choose a momentary retreat.
[18:01] ---
    If you live to meet
    Tsubasa Hanekawa again,
[18:04] ---
    make sure to properly thank her.
[18:07] ---
    You don't know
    what I'm talking about now, either?
[18:10] ---
    Then you don't have to worry about it for now.
[18:12] ---
    Your friend is nothing more than a sad girl
    who protects you, even if it's unintentionally.
[18:19] ---
    It seems, Koyomin,
    your train of thought is that
[18:23] ---
    something that happens to you
    could happen to anyone else.
[18:28] ---
    To this train of thought that denies miracles,
    I do sense quite a bit of modesty,
[18:34] ---
    but it has one major flaw.
[18:37] ---
    FLAW
[18:38] ---
    A huge flaw that makes you say, "You're wrong,"
    to convict someone that thinks you're special.
[18:49] ---
    I'm sorry I'm saying
    so many vague things.
[18:51] ---
    When faced with a young man
    in high spirits like you,
[18:56] ---
    Big Sister here really wants
    to explain the meaning of life.
[19:02] ---
    If this was Big Brother Meme, he'd probably say,
    "You seem to be in good spirits.
[19:04] ---
    Did something nice happen to you,
    or something?" and let it end there, but...
[19:09] ---
    Resentfully enough, yours truly
    isn't as tolerant as that immature man.
[19:15] ---
    Come to think of it, I promised
    to explain chronologically, didn't I?
[19:19] ---
    Then let's keep that promise.
[19:21] ---
    In the end, keeping the promise
    is the shortest route to getting results.
[19:29] ---
    First, 400 years ago.
[19:30] ---
    Currently Shinobu Oshino,
[19:32] ---
    Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade,
    as a vampire, hadn't made any minions until then.
[19:39] ---
    But that was when she made her first slave.
[19:42] ---
    She drank human blood.
[19:44] ---
    The background story of how she ended up
    in that situation can be skipped, right?
[19:50] ---
    It was already told in another location,
    and that is a story of the past.
[19:54] ---
    For you, and for him.
[19:58] ---
    Going from being a specialist in defeating
    apparitions to someone to be exterminated,
[20:03] ---
    the first one couldn't
    tolerate the circumstances.
[20:06] ---
    He couldn't face the reality
    that he had turned into a monster.
[20:10] ---
    That was why he chose death for himself.
[20:13] ---
    He exposed himself to the sun.
[20:16] ---
    He turned into ashes, and was blown
    into the wind and disappeared...
[20:19] ---
    Or so it seemed.
[20:20] ---
    Leaving Heart-under-blade all his grudges
[20:23] ---
    and a replica of the Apparition Killer,
    the demon blade "Kokoro Watari"...
[20:28] ---
    Everyone lived happily ever after.
[20:30] ---
    As stated earlier,
    that's not how things went.
[20:33] ---
    Even turning to ash,
    even becoming nothing, he didn't die.
[20:36] ---
    He may have disappeared,
    but he wasn't eradicated.
[20:39] ---
    He died, but couldn't fully die.
[20:42] ---
    He kept living.
[20:44] ---
    He became nothing,
    he became the void, and lived on.
[20:47] ---
    Taking 400 years, so much time
    that one feels overwhelmed and even disgusted,
[20:53] ---
    he slowly, ever so slowly,
    recovered his physical form.
[20:58] ---
    Each time he recovered,
    the sun would burn him.
[21:01] ---
    Each time he constructed,
    he was shattered.
[21:04] ---
    Even then, he didn't give up,
    his will was never bent... And he recovered.
[21:09] ---
    For an astoundingly long time,
    the futile trial-and-error for recovery continued.
[21:16] ---
    Of course, that first one had turned into ash,
    so there shouldn't have been a clear will or anything.
[21:21] ---
    So such a recovery could be called
    the reaction of a living vampire,
[21:25] ---
    or maybe an involuntary response.
[21:30] ---
    At that point, it seems more pitiful than futile.
[21:33] ---
    Continuing a game an infinite amount of times,
    but never being able to finish the game.
[21:37] ---
    Because he inherited the immortality of vampires
    in a halfhearted way,
[21:41] ---
    he wasn't even able to die.
[21:44] ---
    This was eternal life in its true sense.
[21:47] ---
    If Yoduru had been there,
[21:49] ---
    I'm sure she would've done
    a splendid job of laying him to rest.
[21:51] ---
    But this is a story about 400 years ago, after all.
[21:55] ---
    In any case, repeatedly going through
    a closed-circuit reincarnation over and over by himself...
[22:04] ---
    ...he might have done so
    for the rest of time.
[22:08] ---
    The first Apparition Killer
    had above-average persistence.
[22:12] ---
    It was definitely worthy of the fact
[22:14] ---
    that the legendary vampire chose him
    as her first minion.
[22:18] ---
    With a will that wasn't supposed to be there,
    with what little willpower he had,
[22:21] ---
    he rode the wind as ash.
[22:24] ---
    Even if he was scattered,
    he'd congregate once again.
[22:26] ---
    Grain by grain, with much persistence...
[22:29] ---
    By perseverance alone,
    he returned to this town.
[22:35] ---
    That was what happened 15 years ago.

E10 - Shinobu Mail, Part Four
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[00:06] ---
    R-Returned? To this town?
[00:10] ---
    Yeah. Back when I was in college,
[00:12] ---
    I thought of using a spell of resurrection
    and a corpse that had been in use for 100 years
[00:17] ---
    to create the immortal shikigami apparition
    named Yotsugi Ononoki.
[00:21] ---
    That was exactly 15 years ago.
[00:23] ---
    And the phoenix found its next host
    around then as well...
[00:29] ---
    That's why he, the ashes that make up the first one,
    gathered to this town right around then.
[00:36] ---
    That's what Big Sister here thinks happened.
[00:38] ---
    FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
[00:40] ---
    Speaking of 15 years ago,
    there's one more thing I can associate it with.
[00:45] ---
    Tsubasa Hanekawa became "Tsubasa Hanekawa"
    sometime around when she was three years old.
[00:50] ---
    Which means, that'd be
    about 15 years ago, right?
[00:54] ---
    Tsukumo-gami.
[00:56] ---
    Phoenix.
[00:57] ---
    Cat...
[00:58] ---
    No, if I start saying that,
    there's no need to focus soley on 15 years ago.
[01:04] ---
    If that's the story, then you can think
    of the time between 15 years ago and now
[01:08] ---
    not as a specific moment,
    but as a span.
[01:11] ---
    As of 11 years ago,
    lost on its way was... a snail.
[01:14] ---
    Seven years ago,
    a wish was granted by... a monkey.
[01:17] ---
    Three years ago,
    what took away some weight was... a crab.
[01:20] ---
    Even the snake just two months ago
    would fall under this category as well.
[01:24] ---
    It can't be...
[01:26] ---
    All of the numerous stories of apparitions
    that have been told in this town
[01:29] ---
    ASH
[01:30] ---
    are because that ash or whatever
    came drifting along with the wind?
[01:33] ---
    Of course not.
[01:35] ---
    Yoduru and company making Yotsugi
    wasn't something that happened in this town.
[01:39] ---
    ASH COW CAT BEE SNAKE MONKEY
[01:39] ---
    It's merely a distant cause.
    I guess you can call it a suggestive code.
[01:44] ---
    Basically, all the apparitions
    you've encountered are all your fault.
[01:48] ---
    You can't evade responsibility.
[01:51] ---
    However, during spring break,
[01:53] ---
    the fact that Kiss-shot Acerola-orion
    Heart-under-blade visited this town...
[02:00] ---
    ...definitely had something to do
    with that ash.
[02:05] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[02:07] ---
    SHINOBU MAIL, PART FOUR
[02:11] ---
    You're speaking nonsense.
[02:13] ---
    And you call yourself the younger sister
    of that Hawaiian shirt boy?
[02:16] ---
    I MEAN, THAT'S NOT REALLY THE CASE
[02:17] ---
    The reason I visited this country back then
    was because I wanted to see Mount Fuji.
[02:23] ---
    But this mountain isn't Mount Fuji.
[02:26] ---
    This prefecture isn't Shizuoka or Yamanashi.
[02:29] ---
    Did you get lost on your way?
[02:31] ---
    Or was it because three vampire hunters
    were chasing you?
[02:33] ---
    That's not it. You didn't get lost.
[02:36] ---
    You were guided here... to this town.
[02:40] ---
    Guided...
[02:43] ---
    What can I say. All of the things
    that have tossed me around were...
[02:48] ---
    ...well, converging on this one man.
[02:51] ---
    That manner in which
    Gaen spoke was disgusting.
[02:54] ---
    No. It's simply unpleasant.
[02:57] ---
    What's with this feeling?
    It's as if... I'm feeling jealous.
[03:02] ---
    Impossible.
[03:03] ---
    Such a thing is impossible.
[03:05] ---
    He died. He's dead.
[03:08] ---
    He wasn't persuaded by my words,
    and threw away his own life.
[03:12] ---
    He's a huge idiot.
[03:13] ---
    What you're saying is nothing more
    than a farfetched interpretation.
[03:17] ---
    Don't make fun of my lack
    of a sense of direction.
[03:20] ---
    You seem to be asserting yourself
    pretty strongly there, Shinobu.
[03:24] ---
    It's as if you'd be troubled if the man
    who was the first one was still alive, you know?
[03:30] ---
    If your beloved slave was still alive,
    and if he was about to be resurrected,
[03:35] ---
    that would be cause for congratulations.
[03:38] ---
    CONGRATULATIONS
[03:39] ---
    If anything, I can arrange a party
    or something, you know?
[03:43] ---
    Don't overstep your bounds, specialist.
    Don't cross into a delicate area for me.
[03:48] ---
    What do you claim to know
    about the events 400 years ago?
[03:52] ---
    I know everything...
[03:55] ---
    There's nothing I don't know.
[03:57] ---
    Changing the rendezvous point from the park
    to the shrine has its appropriate reason as well.
[04:00] ---
    CHANGE —> NORTH SHIRAHEBI SHRINE
[04:02] ---
    Can I ask one question, Ms. Izuko?
[04:05] ---
    Sure, Ms. Suruga Kanbaru.
[04:07] ---
    Well, when this guy drifted into this town 15 years ago,
    he was already basically just ashes, right?
[04:13] ---
    Then, how, and with what catalyst,
    did that cycle end,
[04:16] ---
    with him revealing himself to Araragi-senpai
    as an armor-clad samurai like that?
[04:22] ---
    What do you think is the reason,
    Ms. Suruga Kanbaru?
[04:26] ---
    I have no idea.
[04:28] ---
    But that reason has something to do with
    why you changed the rendezvous point, right?
[04:32] ---
    You're sharp.
[04:34] ---
    You truly have talent
    that's a shame to keep out in the wild.
[04:38] ---
    I might only be thinking that
    because I'm often consulted as a senpai.
[04:44] ---
    I do wish, Ms. Suruga Kanbaru,
    that you'd support this upperclassman right here.
[04:50] ---
    TIMELINE
[04:50] ---
    Fifteen years ago was when he -
    the first one - came back to this town.
[04:54] ---
    He ended his wanderings, and drifted ashore
    onto this town that was his homeland.
[04:59] ---
    He reached the goal of the tour of hell
    that he felt was eternal.
[05:03] ---
    Homeland?
[05:04] ---
    And every speck of ash that drifted in
    gathered at the location that was the town's air spot,
[05:10] ---
    right here, at the North Shirahebi Shrine.
[05:14] ---
    FIVE
[05:15] ---
    FOUR
[05:16] ---
    THREE
[05:17] ---
    TWO
[05:18] ---
    ONE
[05:20] ---
    As you can see, this shrine has fallen into ruin.
[05:23] ---
    But of course, it wasn't always like this.
[05:27] ---
    Fifteen years ago,
    this shrine was still properly maintained.
[05:32] ---
    I heard it was a small, coherent, good shrine.
[05:35] ---
    In this case "small" and "coherent" aren't used
    as an insult, but rather as a compliment.
[05:40] ---
    They had to keep it small and coherent.
[05:42] ---
    After all, this place is an air spot.
[05:45] ---
    An air spot for apparitions.
[05:48] ---
    Where they're likely to show up.
    Where they're likely to gather.
[05:51] ---
    A location where "bad things" that aren't
    full apparitions yet gather (shuuketsu).
[05:54] ---
    And the location where apparitions
    are terminated (shuuketsu).
[05:58] ---
    If you sieze point after point like that,
    and control each key location...
[06:02] ---
    You can prevent accidents from happening.
    You can avoid them.
[06:05] ---
    Big Brother Meme's job is to collect stories
    of apparitions that have already happened.
[06:10] ---
    But the job of someone like me
    is originally more along these lines.
[06:12] ---
    In other words, prevention, so that
    things are stopped before they happen.
[06:16] ---
    On the other hand,
    if those scattered spots,
[06:19] ---
    the key locations, can't be controlled,
    we can't prevent accidents.
[06:23] ---
    Because this was such a location...
[06:26] ---
    "AIR SPOT FOR APPARITIONS"
[06:27] ---
    ...in the past, a famed onmyouji I can't even begin
    to compare myself to created the shrine,
[06:32] ---
    enshrined the god,
    and went forth to maintain things.
[06:36] ---
    That had mostly gone well.
[06:39] ---
    The defense system was properly working.
[06:42] ---
    The "bad things" gathered here,
[06:43] ---
    that become ingredients for apparitions,
    were dispersed in moderation.
[06:48] ---
    There must've been a good god here.
[06:51] ---
    But everything has its limits.
[06:54] ---
    Let's see... Koyomin,
    I hear you're prepping for college right now.
[06:58] ---
    If so, do you carry any talismans or anything?
[07:00] ---
    Talismans.
[07:01] ---
    Do you know those things can expire?
[07:04] ---
    When the guardian note inside the bag rips,
    the talisman expires.
[07:09] ---
    It just means that even the most miraculous
    of items doesn't have an infinite effect.
[07:14] ---
    This shrine, and the god enshrined in it,
    reached their limits 15 years ago.
[07:20] ---
    But in that case, it's too harsh to blame
    the shrine's caretaker, or even the enshrined god.
[07:26] ---
    It was completely beyond expectation.
[07:28] ---
    For the ashes of the first minion
    of the legendary vampire to gather...
[07:34] ---
    It reached its breaking point.
[07:36] ---
    Its limit.
[07:38] ---
    As a result, 15 years ago,
    this North Shirahebi Shrine collapsed.
[07:42] ---
    Both in the occult sense,
    and in the physical sense.
[07:46] ---
    To crush a shrine as ash...
    Shinobu, your minion really is something.
[07:52] ---
    The fact that he was originally a specialist
    probably has something to do with it.
[07:56] ---
    What's wrong, Koyomin?
[07:58] ---
    From the look on your face,
    it seems like you understand.
[08:02] ---
    The other day,
    when you time-slipped to the past,
[08:04] ---
    you saw that North Shirahebi Shrine 11 years ago
    was in far worse condition than it is now,
[08:09] ---
    and I guess this inadvertently explained why?
[08:12] ---
    That's right, that was his doing, the first one.
[08:17] ---
    The shrine that was supposed to
    hold down the fort...
[08:19] ---
    Couldn't hold down
    the minion of the vampire.
[08:22] ---
    Just for reference, let me say
    that there wasn't just one,
[08:26] ---
    but two and three
    attempts to renew this shrine.
[08:30] ---
    But an empty shrine with no god
[08:33] ---
    has no constructive meaning,
    even if it's all patched up.
[08:36] ---
    Each time they attempted a renewal,
    it collapsed, broke, and fell into ruin.
[08:41] ---
    The nuisance was that Shinobu, or rather,
    Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade
[08:47] ---
    and her minion, the first one,
[08:49] ---
    have a power that draws apparitions to them
    just by existing, like moths to a fire.
[08:55] ---
    That's what happened 11 years ago.
[08:57] ---
    When you two visited this shrine back then,
    "bad things" filled these ruined grounds, correct?
[09:04] ---
    I'm sure you were wondering why they had gathered
    to such a density, but that's nothing special.
[09:10] ---
    It was what he, the first one - or rather, his ashes -
    had gathered as the ingredients for an apparition.
[09:16] ---
    As ingredients... and as food.
[09:18] ---
    If I explain this much,
[09:20] ---
    even without specialized knowledge,
    you should have a good idea of what happened.
[09:25] ---
    Why the ashes of he, the first one,
    escaped from the cycle of reincarnation.
[09:31] ---
    That's right.
[09:32] ---
    If this shrine was
    a "place that gathers easily,"
[09:34] ---
    and the first one was
    "an apparition that can gather easily"...
[09:38] ---
    In other words, all the conditions
    for an accident to happen converged here.
[09:43] ---
    Accidents overlapped.
[09:46] ---
    The first one, within the grounds of this shrine,
    within the godless grounds of this shrine...
[09:51] ---
    This whole time,
    he kept eating in order to regain his stamina.
[09:56] ---
    The cycle of repeating ash and void now ended.
[10:00] ---
    And what began would span the next 15 years...
[10:03] ---
    A tragic tale of him finding revival.
[10:06] ---
    A tale of revival...
[10:08] ---
    Perhaps this may have been
    a tale of seeking revenge instead.
[10:18] ---
    Looks like this is a good time.
    I finished up with most of the explanations.
[10:23] ---
    Koyomin, Shinobu, Ms. Suruga Kanbaru,
    is there anything else you don't understand?
[10:28] ---
    W-Well, there are so many more things
    that I don't understand at all...
[10:32] ---
    I-In the first place,
    what should we do now?
[10:35] ---
    What do you want us to do
    to try to help your work—
[10:39] ---
    I want you to take responsibility.
[10:41] ---
    Therefore...
[10:42] ---
    I'll let you take it.
    I'll let you inherit the responsibility.
[10:47] ---
    You, Koyomin, and Shinobu.
[10:50] ---
    You said that, at first, you planned
    for Ononoki to do this job alone.
[10:56] ---
    That this situation
    exceeded your expectations.
[10:58] ---
    Then can you tell us
    what the original plan was?
[11:03] ---
    That's fine, but it's impossible to act out,
    so it's kinda pointless to tell you.
[11:09] ---
    Do you remember why
    Big Brother Meme came to this town?
[11:13] ---
    It was because Shinobu came here, right?
[11:15] ---
    I believe it was the same for Kaiki, too.
[11:18] ---
    As for Kagenui, I think she came here
    because she heard the story from Kaiki.
[11:23] ---
    Right. Various specialists, all quirky and distinctive,
    came to this town for similar reasons.
[11:30] ---
    But the reports of their investigations
    came to me.
[11:33] ---
    EVEN STILL, I'M AMAZING.
[11:35] ---
    As a result of that, as the result of the close review
    of the information submitted by each of them,
[11:39] ---
    I came to understand
    that there was a strange chain of events,
[11:42] ---
    a certain situation,
    happening in this town as of 15 years ago.
[11:47] ---
    And so, I sent Yotsugi to this town once again.
[11:51] ---
    Her job was to clean up the ashes.
    Simply put, cleaning up the shrine.
[11:56] ---
    On the last day of summer break,
    when she bumped into me in town,
[12:01] ---
    she didn't seem to know what her mission was.
[12:03] ---
    But after that, she was given a mission
    that resembled the story of Cinderella?
[12:08] ---
    But in the end, this means all of that failed, right?
[12:12] ---
    Would Ononoki even fail a mission?
[12:15] ---
    She's the one that saved
    both my and Shinobu lives in one evening.
[12:19] ---
    She's a diligent worker, you know?
[12:22] ---
    But Ononoki does have
    a super-airheaded side to her as well.
[12:27] ---
    Maybe there are times when she screws up.
[12:29] ---
    You're talking as if
    it has nothing to do with you, Koyomin.
[12:33] ---
    Yotsugi's failure was you guys' fault.
[12:36] ---
    O-Our fault?
[12:39] ---
    Can it be...
[12:41] ---
    ...that it has something to do with the fact that Shinobu and I
    used the "bad things" pooled up in this air spot,
[12:47] ---
    which had been sealed away by Oshino,
    and was merely awaiting to be dispersed, as a source of energy?
[12:56] ---
    IS THERE SOMETHING THAT COMES TO MIND?
[12:58] ---
    Shinobu didn't do anything.
[13:00] ---
    She didn't do anything...
    She didn't have to do anything.
[13:04] ---
    It was enough that she came to this shrine.
[13:08] ---
    Honestly, I don't know just how much
    of the situation Big Brother Meme grasped.
[13:13] ---
    He doesn't speak much
    and only reports the bare minimum.
[13:18] ---
    The only thing that's certain is that he used talismans
    he had on hand to do some first aid on this shrine.
[13:23] ---
    Thanks to that band-aid treatment,
[13:25] ---
    you could say we set it up
    so that we cut off the first one's supply.
[13:30] ---
    But in such a situation of hunger, he...
[13:32] ---
    Being cornered into an extreme case once again,
    in such a mental state, he found out.
[13:38] ---
    He saw Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade.
[13:42] ---
    He witnessed her for the first time in 400 years.
[13:50] ---
    It was a one-sided observation.
[13:53] ---
    Shinobu, that was the first time
    you came to North Shirahebi Shrine, right?
[13:58] ---
    In other words... He found power
    by seeing Shinobu for the first time in 400 years.
[14:03] ---
    That inspired the first one to rise up,
    despite his body being nothing but ashes.
[14:06] ---
    And, even though he was in a state
    of severe hunger, he revived himself?
[14:11] ---
    Who said the situation was so romantic?
[14:14] ---
    Simply put, an existence similar in nature
    to another existence...
[14:17] ---
    LIKE IT'S SOME TEEN ROMANTIC COMEDY
[14:18] ---
    ...showed up in a nearby location.
[14:20] ---
    The first one was affected by that,
    and his apparition's nature swiftly became excited.
[14:26] ---
    That's why, when Yotsugi came here
    after receiving the mission,
[14:29] ---
    the North Shirahebi Shrine
    was completely empty.
[14:33] ---
    After saying this much...
[14:34] ---
    This time for sure, you know what the job
    I want to ask you to do is, right?
[14:40] ---
    It's to look for the first one.
[14:42] ---
    The first and the second one are both slaves,
    so they should be drawn to one another.
[14:45] ---
    If anything, the person to summon
    first and foremost would be Kagenui, right?
[14:50] ---
    Ononoki's master, the violent onmyouji
    that specializes in immortal apparitions.
[14:55] ---
    I can't control her.
[14:57] ---
    I'd like her to lament for her entire life
    that she has no opportunities to use her power.
[15:00] ---
    It's amazing that she'd make Gaen
    say something of this nature.
[15:00] ---
    HINIKU NO TAN
[15:04] ---
    But, well, I guess Ononoki is enough
    for combat personnel, then...
[15:08] ---
    Negative.
[15:09] ---
    At the point when I heard
    the status report from Yotsugi,
[15:12] ---
    in other words, at the point when I heard the report
    that Koyomin had come in contact with the first one,
[15:17] ---
    I called for one more assistant.
[15:19] ---
    I have to go pick him up pretty soon, too.
[15:22] ---
    B-But, an assistant?
    Isn't Ononoki enough for this?
[15:26] ---
    She's not.
[15:27] ---
    Big Sister here wants to settle the score
    once and for all today.
[15:31] ---
    Now that he has a will, has a conscience,
    and can arbitrarily use energy drains...
[15:36] ---
    The longer we leave him be,
    the stronger he gets.
[15:39] ---
    The game keeps doubling up.
[15:41] ---
    If you take it easy,
    he'll be completely revived.
[15:45] ---
    And if that happens,
    he'll be impossible to control.
[15:47] ---
    That will be the point when we have no choice
    but to call for Yoduru.
[15:50] ---
    BIG MONSTER
[15:51] ---
    She speaks of Kagenui
    like some inhumane weapon or something...
[15:54] ---
    No matter what,
[15:56] ---
    I'd like to kill him...
    before he eats a human.
[16:05] ---
    Now, Big Sister will step out for a bit.
[16:07] ---
    5000 YEN
[16:08] ---
    If you get hungry, you can use this
    to go buy some breakfast, Koyomin.
[16:16] ---
    What are we going to do, Shinobu?
[16:18] ---
    There's no ifs, ands, or buts.
[16:20] ---
    There was an irregularity, but from here on,
    everything will go according to that specialist's plans.
[16:26] ---
    No matter what we do,
    he'll be exterminated before the night is over.
[16:31] ---
    That's all there is to it.
[16:33] ---
    It's not something
    we should do anything about at this point.
[16:36] ---
    There's the possibility he'll power up
    if we get close to him.
[16:40] ---
    So unlike you, I probably won't see his face at all.
[16:45] ---
    This will all be dealt with without me.
[16:50] ---
    I'll tell you this. My master,
    you shouldn't think of anything unnecessary.
[16:55] ---
    That woman may have said things
    to rile you up for fun...
[16:59] ---
    But for me, there is no "first" or "second"
    in terms of my minions.
[17:03] ---
    I've lived for over 500 years...
    The order doesn't matter at all.
[17:07] ---
    The other day, when I told the story of the past,
    did I not preface the story with instructions?
[17:12] ---
    P-Preface?
[17:14] ---
    Don't show worthless envy.
[17:16] ---
    Leave it at a cute level of jealousy.
[17:19] ---
    Don't be distressed.
[17:20] ---
    Right now, you're the only one for me.
[17:30] ---
    Given that I can't go home quite yet,
    I can't afford to fast all the way till evening...
[17:35] ---
    With the pairing with Shinobu severed right now,
    I can't say I'm very resistant to hunger.
[17:40] ---
    I can't let my underclassman starve, either.
[17:44] ---
    I request donuts.
[17:46] ---
    Should I go run over and get some?
[17:48] ---
    No, I've hardly done anything up till now,
    so I'd like to at least go do the shopping.
[17:53] ---
    All right. Then I'll watch over Shinobu.
[17:57] ---
    I'll take care of Shinobu for you.
[18:01] ---
    Is it all right to leave Shinobu and Kanbaru alone?
    They've only just met.
[18:07] ---
    But I can't go shopping toting Shinobu around
    in this current situation.
[18:11] ---
    Though it's safe because it's daytime,
    I should have Shinobu stay put for now.
[18:17] ---
    Then, Araragi-senpai.
[18:19] ---
    Since you're going shopping...
    I apologize for being rude,
[18:22] ---
    but can I ask you to get something for me?
[18:25] ---
    What is it? You can ask anything.
[18:28] ---
    I'd like you to buy a book.
    It's a new book that's coming out today.
[18:32] ---
    Coming out today? I see, that's fine.
    Then, I'll go buy it for you.
[18:36] ---
    It's a light-novel, so are you okay with that?
[18:38] ---
    Come on now, that bothers me, Kanbaru.
[18:41] ---
    Do you think I'm one of those people that
    treats light-novels like degenerate art or something?
[18:46] ---
    I'm a high school boy that buys super-girly
    shoujo manga with the cover facing up!
[18:51] ---
    I wouldn't think that
    buying books would be embarrassing!
[18:54] ---
    Hearing that reassures me.
[18:56] ---
    So, what's the title?
[18:58] ---
    "Brutal Garçon Huff-Huffs a Half-Blood Boy!"
[19:00] ---
    BRUTAL GARÇON HUFF-HUFFS A HALF-BLOOD BOY!
[19:01] ---
    That's one of those light-novels
    that aren't exactly light-hearted!
[19:04] ---
    What kind of book are you asking
    your upperclassman to buy you?
[19:07] ---
    In the end, you're reading BL stuff...
    And what's with that title?
[19:11] ---
    BRUTAL GARÇON HUFF-HUFFS A HALF-BLOOD BOY!!
[19:11] ---
    The title isn't everything for a novel.
[19:14] ---
    Lately, the world of literature has been
    putting emphasis on the title as well.
[19:18] ---
    But past masterpieces often have a title that
    makes you think it's nothing more than a vague idea.
[19:23] ---
    BRUTAL GARÇON HUFF-HUFFS A HALF-BLOOD BOY!!
    21ST BOOK
[19:23] ---
    Well, it's true that a novel is about its contents.
[19:26] ---
    But can the contents of that book
    be something to look forward to?
[19:29] ---
    Yes, it can. This one, the 21st book in the series,
    is especially highly anticipated by the experts.
[19:35] ---
    923: NAMELESS EXPERT
    NEW TITLE IS HERE
    BRUTAL ASSAULT IS MY FAVORITE!
    SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THE RELEASE DATE.
[19:36] ---
    The series has gone on way too long!
    And who are "the experts"?
[19:39] ---
    In the newest installment,
    the biggest mystery of the series since volume 1...
[19:44] ---
    BIGGEST MYSTERY
    "GRANDCHILD OF A 'GAL'?"
[19:44] ---
    Whether or not the Brutal Garçon
    is really "the grandchild of a 'gal'" will be revealed.
[19:48] ---
    He probably is the grandchild of a "gal"!
[19:50] ---
    The author really dragged out
    a mystery like that for 20 books?
[19:53] ---
    Actually, the line I said
    to you yesterday, Araragi-senpai...
[19:56] ---
    "Eat up!"
[19:57] ---
    KEYWORD
    "EAT UP"
[19:57] ---
    That line was something I borrowed
    from the main character of that series.
[20:01] ---
    To think it was a line from a boys-love series...
[20:03] ---
    I THOUGHT IT WAS CUTE!
[20:05] ---
    You're not going to buy it for me?
    Then I guess I'll just go home.
[20:09] ---
    I'll buy it! You'll be satisfied if I buy it, right?
[20:11] ---
    Oh, that's right... Araragi-senpai,
    if you could, can you buy me a brassiere?
[20:17] ---
    I can't do that, so I can't buy that for you.
[20:20] ---
    It's fine. I know you can do it, Araragi-senpai.
[20:22] ---
    Kanbaru, for some reason,
    you expect too much from Araragi-senpai.
[20:27] ---
    I don't care about the design.
[20:28] ---
    You can use your aesthetic sense
    to pick one, Araragi-senpai.
[20:30] ---
    Don't ask me about my aesthetic sense
    for picking out a brassiere.
[20:33] ---
    I mean, there are all sorts
    of designs for brassieres,
[20:36] ---
    but in the end,
    it's what goes in it that counts.
[20:39] ---
    Don't make it sound like a good line.
[20:41] ---
    I'm at my limit of being braless.
    I really do want to cherish its contents.
[20:45] ---
    You say "for some reason," but right now,
    I just want to put a brassiere on.
[20:49] ---
    Let's draw the line here.
[20:55] ---
    Here it is...
[20:56] ---
    "Brutal Garçon Huff-Huffs a Half-Blood Boy!"
[20:58] ---
    It's an amazing cover
    that lives up to its title.
[21:01] ---
    BRUTAL GARÇON HUFF-HUFFS A HALF-BLOOD BOY!
    (SECOND HALF)
[21:01] ---
    It is a bit embarrassing
    to buy just these two books...
[21:03] ---
    21ST BOOK PUBLISHED!!
    THE MYSTERY OF WHETHER GARÇON
    IS A GRANDCHILD OF A "GAL"!
    "EAT UP"
    GARÇON SERIES 1-20 ON SALE!!
[21:06] ---
    I don't think it's manly to buy other books
    as camouflage when buying certain books.
[21:06] ---
    BRUTAL GARÇON HUFF-HUFFS A HALF-BLOOD BOY!
    (FIRST HALF)
[21:11] ---
    But in this case, I think it might be better
    to hide the manliness instead.
[21:17] ---
    Come to think, it's been a long time
    since I was paired with Shinobu.
[21:21] ---
    But because it was severed
    by the "darkness,"
[21:24] ---
    for the first time in a while,
    I was acting alone in the true meaning of the phrase.
[21:29] ---
    Taking my own course.
[21:30] ---
    Freedom.
[21:31] ---
    If so, can I take this momentary freedom,
    without worrying about people's or apparitions' eyes,
[21:35] ---
    this gap of lost time,
    and make the most of it?
[21:37] ---
    IDOL - ACTRESS
    PHOTO COLLECTION CORNER
[21:40] ---
    GRAVURE IDOL!
    SLIGHTLY PERVERTED OLDER SISTER
    SUPER-HOT PHOTO COLLECTION
[21:42] ---
    It seems that lately, because I've often
    been having fun with Shinobu, Ononoki, and Hachikuji,
[21:48] ---
    the suspicion that I have a Lolita complex
    is growing day by day.
[21:51] ---
    The times are the times,
    the situation is the situation.
[21:54] ---
    In order to clear me of any suspicion,
    I need to employ the opposite strategy right now.
[21:58] ---
    HOUSEWIFE PHOTO STUDIO
    FULLY RIPE BODY, SPORTY MATURE LADY PHOTO COLLECTION
[21:58] ---
    In other words... Mature ladies!
[22:02] ---
    THE EMPLOYEES LAUGH
[22:06] ---
    THE EMPLOYEES LAUGH
[22:11] ---
    THE EMPLOYEES LAUGH
[22:14] ---
    THE EMPLOYEES LAUGH
[22:25] ---
    Hey, second one.
[22:35] ---
    Were you able to relay my message to Kiss-shot?

E11 - Shinobu Mail, Part Five
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[00:06] ---
    There's no reason to have
    such an uneasy look on your face, second one.
[00:10] ---
    I'm a specialist.
[00:13] ---
    Though times have changed,
    as a warrior,
[00:15] ---
    I don't ignore signatures
    left by those in the trade.
[00:23] ---
    "This is my prey, so hands off."
[00:26] ---
    A sign used among specialists
    to mean something along those lines.
[00:29] ---
    As long as that's there,
    I can't raise a hand against you.
[00:33] ---
    If you didn't have that...
[00:38] ---
    There's no way I'd let a vampire live,
    even for a moment.
[00:42] ---
    IT WAS WORTH GETTING STOMPED ON
    BY A LITTLE GIRL.
[00:44] ---
    Here should be fine.
[00:48] ---
    We can take our time to chat here.
[00:55] ---
    I believe your name was Koyomi Araragi?
[00:58] ---
    I guess I should call you Sir Araragi.
[01:03] ---
    I'll be straightforward, Sir Araragi.
[01:08] ---
    I want you to break up with Kiss-shot.
[02:10] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[02:12] ---
    SHINOBU MAIL, PART FIVE
[02:19] ---
    My objective is...
[02:21] ---
    Kiss-Shot.
[02:23] ---
    To make amends with the one
    you call Shinobu Oshino.
[02:27] ---
    M-Make—
[02:28] ---
    Amends.
[02:31] ---
    I ended things with Kiss-shot
    with an argument.
[02:34] ---
    A momentary delusion caused me
    to hurl some inconsiderate words at Kiss-shot.
[02:40] ---
    I'd like to apologize for that
    and seek her forgiveness.
[02:44] ---
    And like we did in the past...
[02:45] ---
    I'd like to fight apparitions
    together with her.
[02:49] ---
    As beautiful as a goddess...
    so beautiful that your spine freezes...
[02:53] ---
    I'd like to protect her back,
    and be the sword that fights for her.
[03:00] ---
    You may not understand, but...
[03:03] ---
    I can't help but think you're only saying that
    to get close to Shinobu to get revenge.
[03:08] ---
    Revenge? What revenge
    is this revenge you speak of?
[03:12] ---
    Are you saying I have a reason
    to hold a grudge against her?
[03:15] ---
    A reason to hold a grudge...
[03:17] ---
    There is.
[03:19] ---
    Don't fool yourself by saying
    something like "a momentary delusion."
[03:22] ---
    You said some really harsh words to Shinobu.
[03:25] ---
    Yes, I won't deny that part.
    That's why I want to apologize.
[03:30] ---
    I want to see her in person and apologize.
[03:34] ---
    She only needs to have one minion.
[03:40] ---
    She brought me back from near death.
[03:43] ---
    I was upset at the time,
    but nowadays, I truly appreciate it.
[03:48] ---
    Is what I'm saying all that strange?
[03:52] ---
    The fact he's saying it feels strange.
    But I can't deny the statement itself...
[03:59] ---
    Because I've basically done the same thing.
[04:03] ---
    I guess you wouldn't want to break up.
[04:05] ---
    However, anyone can be your replacement,
    but nobody can replace me.
[04:11] ---
    Because I'm special. I'm the chosen one.
[04:15] ---
    I idolize lines like that.
    I'd like to say something like that for once...
[04:20] ---
    It's way too presumptuous, though,
    so I'd never be able to say it.
[04:30] ---
    Sparks flying between us will benefit no one.
[04:34] ---
    In the end, this is just like
    two men fighting over one woman.
[04:40] ---
    A fight between two minions is something
    not even apparitions would gobble up.
[04:53] ---
    Then what should we do?
[04:55] ---
    Are we going to praise each other
    from now on?
[04:57] ---
    That would be such a hideous sight.
[04:59] ---
    Therefore, I shall propose
    something of merit for you.
[05:02] ---
    Sir Araragi, I'll let you know what benefits
    you'll see if you break up with Kiss-shot.
[05:08] ---
    Meanwhile, you can think about what benefits
    I'll see if you don't break up with Kiss-shot.
[05:15] ---
    M-Merit? Benefits?
[05:17] ---
    If you break up with Kiss-shot for me,
    you'll be liberated from Kiss-shot.
[05:23] ---
    In other words, all the responsibility
    that you feel for Kiss-shot right now
[05:28] ---
    can be placed on none other
    than my shoulders instead.
[05:32] ---
    I did relay your message.
[05:36] ---
    She didn't seem to have any intention
    of seeing you, though.
[05:42] ---
    I see. Well, I guess that's how it would be.
[05:45] ---
    But well, no matter what Kiss-shot's intention is,
    I need her to return what I lent her.
[05:53] ---
    My sword, and my position.
[05:59] ---
    I want to flourish once again.
[06:02] ---
    After these 400 years,
    I want to sparkle one more time.
[06:06] ---
    I don't find this to be disgraceful.
[06:11] ---
    Don't you want to flourish again,
    not as Shinobu's minion, but as a human?
[06:16] ---
    The fact that you want to see Shinobu,
    even if revenge wasn't the objective,
[06:19] ---
    perhaps you want to be human.
[06:21] ---
    I can no longer return to being human.
[06:24] ---
    It's been 400 years after all.
    Too much time has passed.
[06:27] ---
    Looking at things from that perspective,
    I'm different from you.
[06:33] ---
    Well, I no longer see it
    as something sad.
[06:36] ---
    Because I can't make it in time,
    that's why I can, for half an eternity,
[06:40] ---
    spend my time with Kiss-shot.
[06:44] ---
    You may be thinking
    that's something similar to pure love...
[06:47] ---
    But in modern society,
    people like you are called "stalkers."
[06:51] ---
    As I said, let us stop insulting each other.
[06:54] ---
    Besides, have you thought of anything?
[06:57] ---
    If you don't break up with Kiss-shot,
    what benefit will there be for me?
[07:16] ---
    You shouldn't drink something given to you
    by the enemy without doubting it first.
[07:22] ---
    If you were tricked into drinking holy water,
[07:24] ---
    even though your pairing is severed for now,
    you'd be a goner.
[07:29] ---
    Totally makes me laugh.
[07:33] ---
    Looks like we've been interrupted, Sir Araragi.
[07:38] ---
    The story would've progressed much faster
[07:39] ---
    if you had drank the goblet of poison,
    or rather, the chalice.
[07:44] ---
    It wouldn't have been ignoring
    the signature on you, either,
[07:47] ---
    if you were purified by your own will.
[07:50] ---
    Don't get upset, minion of Heart-under-blade.
[07:53] ---
    When it comes to defeating apparitions,
    anything goes.
[07:56] ---
    Foul play and ambushes
    are among the proper methodologies.
[08:04] ---
    Looks like we made it in time. Good.
[08:08] ---
    Nice to meet you, first one.
[08:11] ---
    I'm Izuko Gaen.
[08:13] ---
    A big sister that knows everything.
    I came here to negotiate with you.
[08:18] ---
    Sir Araragi, it seems our conversation
    has come to an end.
[08:22] ---
    I shall excuse myself now.
[08:24] ---
    We couldn't find
    a point of compromise between us.
[08:27] ---
    In this case, our relationship
    must move to the next phase.
[08:32] ---
    Conversation?
[08:34] ---
    It's time to duel.
[08:37] ---
    Tonight, we fight to the death.
[08:41] ---
    I'll leave the logistics
    to those specialists over there.
[08:44] ---
    Until then, I'll try to recover to as close
    to maximum potential as possible.
[08:49] ---
    Sir Araragi, you should get the signature
    removed from your face.
[08:53] ---
    I won't run, nor will I hide.
[08:58] ---
    Ru—
[08:59] ---
    WHY AREN'T EPISODE AND GAEN GOING AFTER HIM?
[09:07] ---
    Th-That's not what it looks like!
[09:11] ---
    BRA        DONUTS
    
    BOOK         BOOK
[09:25] ---
    BRA        DONUTS
    
    BOOK         BOOK
[09:29] ---
    Devil boy, shh.
[09:31] ---
    O-Ononoki...
[09:32] ---
    By the time I got here,
    things were already like that.
[09:37] ---
    They were already like that?
[09:43] ---
    Hey.
[09:45] ---
    I'll admit you've got some nerve.
[09:47] ---
    The courage you show by not taking
    even one step back while facing me
[09:50] ---
    makes me think satisfactorily of you
    as my master's underclassman.
[09:54] ---
    So I won't be emotional,
    and as an adult that has lived for 500 years,
[09:58] ---
    I'll be very tolerant of a brat.
[10:01] ---
    If you're willing to take back
    what you said earlier,
[10:04] ---
    I can forget the various exchanges
    that have gone on here.
[10:08] ---
    If you apologize, I'll forgive you.
[10:11] ---
    I won't take it back. I won't apologize.
[10:14] ---
    I'll say it again and again.
[10:15] ---
    Shinobu. You should meet him.
[10:19] ---
    You should go meet that first apparition killer!
[10:35] ---
    To end things without seeing your previous partner,
    who's revived after 400 years of trying...
[10:40] ---
    That's not a good thing.
[10:42] ---
    That's a terrible thing.
[10:44] ---
    That isn't the right thing to do.
[10:50] ---
    I have no idea what you're talking about.
[10:53] ---
    If, as a human, you want to lecture me,
    speak with at least a smidgeon of logic.
[10:58] ---
    Like I know anything about logic!
[11:00] ---
    You should stop making excuses
    and go see him!
[11:03] ---
    This man spent 400 years reviving himself
    just so he could see you!
[11:06] ---
    Why won't you meet with him?
[11:08] ---
    I've been telling you,
    you've misunderstood.
[11:11] ---
    He didn't revive due to
    that sort of silly emotional reason.
[11:16] ---
    The dispersed ashes gathered
    and became excited, as if they were magnets.
[11:20] ---
    It's a natural phenomenon.
[11:21] ---
    The feeling of falling in love
    with someone is natural, too!
[11:25] ---
    Don't deny someone's
    feelings of love for you!
[11:27] ---
    I'm telling you...
[11:30] ---
    You really don't get it at all!
    It really is nothing like that.
[11:35] ---
    A vampire's minion...
[11:36] ---
    The vampire master/servant relationship
[11:39] ---
    isn't something you speak of
    in terms of love or hate, you romance-brain!
[11:46] ---
    "The master/servant relationship
    isn't about love or hate."
[11:49] ---
    Can you say that
    in front of Araragi-senpai as well?
[11:54] ---
    It's just like what I told my master back then.
[11:58] ---
    For me as I am now, the only partner
    I can call my minion is your upperclassman.
[12:03] ---
    For my current self...
[12:06] ---
    Shinobu, you say you don't understand
    what I'm saying.
[12:10] ---
    But that's what I don't understand.
[12:12] ---
    What I don't like about all of this
    is that right there.
[12:20] ---
    You make it sound as if
    you're only allowed to have one minion.
[12:24] ---
    For instance, isn't it possible for you,
    Araragi-senpai and that first apparition killer
[12:29] ---
    to get along amiably as a trio?
[12:32] ---
    As a trio?
[12:35] ---
    What, are you being cheeky
    and saying we should make amends?
[12:39] ---
    I don't care if you make amends or not.
[12:42] ---
    If you're saying you'd choose Araragi-senpai
    over the first apparition killer, that's fine.
[12:48] ---
    But you have to be the one
    that tells him that.
[12:52] ---
    You shouldn't rely on Izuko or Araragi-senpai
    to convey the message to him for you.
[12:55] ---
    You don't know anything
    about the situation.
[12:58] ---
    You don't know about
    my relationship with him.
[13:00] ---
    No, you probably don't even know anything about
    my relationship with my current master, do you?
[13:07] ---
    It's true that I don't. But I can tell.
[13:11] ---
    About the feelings of being the first one,
    and of being the second one.
[13:17] ---
    In Kanbaru's mind, the first apparition killer's
    feelings resonate more with her.
[13:22] ---
    The feeling of paranoia...
    as if it was pure love.
[13:25] ---
    Even if I were to see him now,
    there's nothing I can say to him.
[13:31] ---
    Look at reality, monkey-girl.
[13:33] ---
    Now that he's basically the tale of apparitions
    that fill this town nowadays,
[13:38] ---
    he has no choice
    but to become prey for the specialists.
[13:40] ---
    I know that. That's why—
[13:42] ---
    That's why?
[13:43] ---
    That's all the more reason
    for me to go see him, you say?
[13:46] ---
    That man harbors a grudge against me.
[13:49] ---
    If I see him, I may be killed.
[13:51] ---
    Apparently he's asking for me
    to return the demon blade.
[13:54] ---
    The ones to get slain by that blade
    may not only be us.
[13:57] ---
    With all that in mind—
[13:59] ---
    With all that in mind,
    I'm telling you that you should go see him.
[14:03] ---
    That's why logic doesn't matter at all!
[14:05] ---
    Why do people refuse
    to see others like that?
[14:08] ---
    It's complete nonsense!
[14:10] ---
    Everything's complete nonsense
    unless someone goes and meets someone else!
[14:13] ---
    You can't make any stories that way!
[14:16] ---
    You should just be blunt
    and say it, Shinobu.
[14:19] ---
    That you're scared.
    That you're scared of seeing him.
[14:22] ---
    That you don't want your emotions swayed
    by meeting with and talking to him.
[14:26] ---
    You feel that seeing him
    is like betraying Araragi-senpai,
[14:31] ---
    so you don't intend
    to see him ever again.
[14:35] ---
    But that's not true.
[14:37] ---
    The only one you're betraying is yourself.
[14:43] ---
    You should just tell him
[14:44] ---
    that a love that takes 400 years to return
    is too heavy for you.
[14:48] ---
    That you're troubled to see him return to life
    now that you're doing well with Araragi-senpai.
[14:54] ---
    That his feelings are nothing but a nuisance.
[14:56] ---
    That he should've just stayed dead.
[15:01] ---
    Just say it. If you can't say that...
[15:03] ---
    Don't speak about masters
    and lords and stuff.
[15:06] ---
    That's not being aloof, nor is it noble.
[15:09] ---
    You're simply being bashful.
[15:15] ---
    What's with a master and servant relationship?
[15:18] ---
    You don't have the right to own a slave,
    nor the right to serve under a master.
[15:22] ---
    Ka...
[15:23] ---
    You have no right to form a relationship.
[15:26] ---
    Ka ka.
[15:32] ---
    Why interlock the fingers?
[15:34] ---
    Whoa, made a mistake.
    Thought you were Senjyogahara.
[15:36] ---
    You're the worst.
[15:38] ---
    Hold on just a bit longer, Ononoki.
[15:41] ---
    Why? The situation is already pretty bad.
[15:43] ---
    Even so.
[15:45] ---
    Ka ka ka.
[15:47] ---
    Ka ka ka.
[15:49] ---
    Do you want those to be
    your dying words?
[15:51] ---
    I feel like crushing your head right now,
    even if it makes everything for naught.
[15:57] ---
    Do it, then.
[15:59] ---
    I'm not going to apologize.
[16:01] ---
    Do it, and then you can start to feel awkward
    with Araragi-senpai.
[16:05] ---
    Just like how you're avoiding
    the first apparition killer right now,
[16:07] ---
    you're going to start avoiding
    Araragi-senpai.
[16:10] ---
    Just like how you made him
    a story of your past,
[16:13] ---
    you can turn Araragi-senpai
    into a story of the past, in the future.
[16:17] ---
    Like how you dismissed the first one,
    you'll someday dismiss the second one.
[16:20] ---
    You can't face the first one directly,
    so there's no way you can with the second one.
[16:24] ---
    Or the third one, the fourth one, the fifth one.
    You can keep saying goodbye to people forever.
[16:29] ---
    Forever...
[16:30] ---
    You're immortal, right?
    Araragi-senpai said that at some point.
[16:34] ---
    "If Shinobu is going to die tomorrow,
    I'm fine with my life ending tomorrow."
[16:39] ---
    But I'm sure you wouldn't
    say something like that.
[16:42] ---
    Even if you did...
    You'd say the same thing to the third one.
[16:45] ---
    And the fourth one. And the fifth one.
[16:48] ---
    You'll continue to say it forever,
    and continue to live on forever.
[16:56] ---
    Don't think that being sociable like you
    is a trait everyone has.
[16:59] ---
    Earlier, you stated
    I was simply being bashful...
[17:02] ---
    But isn't the feeling that
    you don't want to see anyone also natural?
[17:06] ---
    That's unnatural.
[17:07] ---
    It's possible that someone
    won't get along with others,
[17:10] ---
    but it's never that they
    don't see anyone.
[17:11] ---
    I'm not human.
[17:14] ---
    That might be, based on how you're acting.
[17:19] ---
    Even if I were to see him, you realize
    there's nothing I can say to him right now?
[17:24] ---
    We parted harboring hatred, and we parted
    by death harboring hatred. That's our relationship.
[17:28] ---
    I have no intention of getting back together,
    and I have no intention of making a friendly trio.
[17:32] ---
    I've no intention of lining the first one
    and second one up to talk about them.
[17:36] ---
    I feel that the act of comparison
    in of itself is rude to my master.
[17:42] ---
    What meaning is there in showing
    how amiable I am with my master right now?
[17:48] ---
    By showing that man
    I have no feelings for him now whatsoever...
[17:52] ---
    What meaning is there?
    You wish for me to do something so cruel?
[17:56] ---
    Yeah. I'm telling you to do something cruel.
[18:00] ---
    It's your job to hurt the man from your past.
[18:04] ---
    You want to be liked, and on top of it,
    stay a good person?
[18:08] ---
    You want to end everything being loved?
[18:10] ---
    What you're saying...
[18:12] ---
    That's like saying if something is going to erode
    or be worn down, it's better to just destroy it.
[18:18] ---
    That's what I've been saying!
[18:22] ---
    If he holds a grudge against me
    and is trying to kill me,
[18:25] ---
    that means I'll kill him in return.
[18:28] ---
    You're still fine with that?
[18:29] ---
    That's still fine.
[18:31] ---
    If that's the case, then you can
    respond to his feeling of hatred.
[18:34] ---
    You can sever him from those feelings.
[18:37] ---
    But, if you apologize
    and he forgives you, in that case...
[18:39] ---
    It's the same thing even then.
[18:42] ---
    The moment he forgives me,
    he'll be exterminated by a specialist.
[18:47] ---
    You're still fine with that?
[18:48] ---
    That's still fine.
[18:50] ---
    That's still fine!
[18:54] ---
    If your silly assumptions are correct
    and he revived himself thinking of me...
[19:00] ---
    I'd be able to respond to his feelings.
[19:02] ---
    What I can do by meeting him
    is to harshly and roughly dump him.
[19:07] ---
    You're still fine with that?
[19:10] ---
    That's still fine.
[19:12] ---
    If I met him, and felt like I wanted
    to respond to his feelings, then what?
[19:17] ---
    What would you do if I chose the first apparition killer
    instead of your upperclassman?
[19:21] ---
    You're still fine with that?
[19:22] ---
    That's still fine.
[19:25] ---
    If that's the case...
[19:26] ---
    If that's the case,
    make a clean break with Araragi-senpai,
[19:29] ---
    and you can live happily ever after
    with that guy.
[19:37] ---
    I have, for the first time,
    seen Shinobu Oshino lose a one on one battle.
[19:44] ---
    Ononoki.
[19:45] ---
    I have a favor to ask you.
[19:47] ---
    Can you take this stamp off of me?
[19:51] ---
    If I take that off, I won't be able
    to ensure your safety anymore, you know?
[19:57] ---
    I want to try out this "duel" thing.
[20:04] ---
    Are you done with
    all the formalities or whatever?
[20:06] ---
    Yeah, of course.
[20:08] ---
    She definitely knows
    her business in that respect.
[20:11] ---
    After all that, she tracked down
    the first apparition killer and properly negotiated.
[20:17] ---
    Where's the location for this duel
    that you guys set up for us?
[20:20] ---
    Where do I need to go tonight?
[20:23] ---
    Oh, that's...
[20:25] ---
    A place that's very familiar to you.
[20:28] ---
    And it's a place deeply connected to me, too.
[20:31] ---
    Deeply connected?
[20:33] ---
    The courtyard of Naoetsu Private High School.
[20:38] ---
    After that fierce encouragement from Kanbaru,
    Shinobu's next action...
[20:43] ---
    was to pout and take a nap.
[20:45] ---
    She withdrew deep into the shrine building.
[20:48] ---
    The fact that a high school girl refuted her
    seems to have gotten to her more than expected.
[20:56] ---
    Huh? Kanbaru, what's wrong?
    What are you doing lying there?
[21:00] ---
    Your head's bleeding. Are you okay?
[21:04] ---
    Araragi-senpai, you were watching until
    a few minutes ago, so you know everything, right?
[21:07] ---
    You found me out!
[21:10] ---
    It's fine. Shinobu didn't notice.
[21:13] ---
    So, Araragi-senpai, did you buy the book
    I asked you to get me?
[21:17] ---
    BRUTAL GARÇON HUFF-HUFFS A HALF-BLOOD BOY!
[21:18] ---
    You're too obsessed with that book.
[21:20] ---
    Just how important is this book you wanted?
[21:23] ---
    At least show me the wound on your head.
[21:30] ---
    Well, I guess it'll be all right.
[21:33] ---
    Now, let's eat lunch, Kanbaru.
[21:35] ---
    Then, I'll just read my book here like this,
    so Araragi-senpai, please feed me.
[21:40] ---
    Aah!
[21:41] ---
    Don't "aah'" me. No upperclassman
    would spoil someone that much.
[21:45] ---
    What about Shinobu?
[21:50] ---
    So, Araragi-senpai, what about the bra?
[21:53] ---
    I bought one for you. Here you go.
[21:54] ---
    BRA
[21:56] ---
    Then, I'll just read my book here like this,
    so Araragi-senpai, you can put it on for me.
[22:00] ---
    Aah!
[22:01] ---
    You totally changed the meaning of "aah" there!
[22:05] ---
    Kanbaru.
[22:06] ---
    By any chance,
    do you have something for me?
[22:08] ---
    Like, some advice
    you'd risk your life to give me.
[22:13] ---
    If anything, DIY.
[22:16] ---
    "DIY"?
[22:18] ---
    "Do your best." So yeah, do your best!
[22:21] ---
    Abbreviating that would be DYB.
[22:24] ---
    DIY = SUNDAY CARPENTERS
[22:24] ---
    I thought DIY was "Do it yourself,"
    like a weekend carpenter.
[22:27] ---
    But I didn't press the issue.
[22:30] ---
    Because, "Do it yourself"...
[22:32] ---
    ...being told I should do it myself was,
    in this case, very fitting advice for me.

E12 - Shinobu Mail, Part Six
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[00:01] ---
    HITAGI SENJYOGAHARA
    SEN JYO GAHARA
    NO GROUP
[00:01] ---
    Hello, Senjyogahara?
[00:04] ---
    What's wrong?
[00:05] ---
    Does the fact that
    you're calling me like this
[00:07] ---
    mean that this round of trouble
    has already been resolved?
[00:10] ---
    I'm not quite done yet.
[00:13] ---
    I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
    I was feeling a bit helpless.
[00:17] ---
    I see. Well, leave everything
    concerning Hanekawa to me.
[00:22] ---
    Did something happen to Hanekawa?
[00:25] ---
    You haven't heard from Kanbaru?
[00:27] ---
    Heard what?
[00:28] ---
    Well, if you haven't heard...
[00:31] ---
    You can hear the story directly from her
    once you come back.
[00:36] ---
    You know, Senjyogahara...
[00:39] ---
    There's one thing I want you to tell me.
[00:41] ---
    One year ago, when Kanbaru entered
    Naoetsu High School and came to visit you...
[00:47] ---
    Honestly speaking, how did you feel?
[00:49] ---
    Let's see. Frankly, it felt like a burden...
    her feelings, that is.
[00:56] ---
    But that was partly a showing
    of how light-hearted I was
[00:59] ---
    with my inability to tolerate
    the weight of her burden.
[01:03] ---
    If I were to be together with Kanbaru,
[01:06] ---
    I'd probably have to become someone
    that could bear that weight.
[01:10] ---
    Even now, that's how I feel
    as I try to improve myself.
[01:13] ---
    It may not look it, but...
[01:16] ---
    I'm making quite the effort
    to become Araragi's bride.
[01:20] ---
    Is that a heavy burden?
[01:20] ---
    HITAGI SENJYOGAHARA
    SEN JYO GAHARA
    NO GROUP
[01:21] ---
    No, it's not necessarily that...
[01:30] ---
    This may be our last call,
[01:33] ---
    so can I ask you something
    that you might upset you?
[01:35] ---
    HITAGI SENJYOGAHARA
    SEN JYO GAHARA
    NO GROUP
[01:38] ---
    If someone with better qualifications
    were to confess his love to you, what would you do?
[01:44] ---
    In that case,
    I think I'd switch to the new guy 100%.
[01:48] ---
    You're amazing...
    You're amazing because you can actually say that.
[01:54] ---
    I know there's no bond that's absolute.
[01:59] ---
    I learned that from watching my parents.
[02:01] ---
    Senjyogahara... No, that's—
[02:04] ---
    An absolute bond, when you think about it,
    is pretty scary.
[02:08] ---
    That's why you need to work hard,
    so you don't get dumped for someone else.
[02:13] ---
    Even if you can't become a special person in general,
    you can be a special person for someone.
[02:19] ---
    A special person for someone...
[02:21] ---
    HITAGI SENJYOGAHARA
    SEN JYO GAHARA
    NO GROUP
[02:21] ---
    I make endless efforts to be
    a special person for Kanbaru and Araragi.
[02:28] ---
    Rest assured, Araragi,
    you're already plenty special enough of a person.
[02:33] ---
    For myself, for Kanbaru - for Shinobu, too.
[02:38] ---
    We are all choosing you.
[02:41] ---
    You really understood what I meant...
    That's amazing.
[02:44] ---
    HITAGI SENJYOGAHARA
    SEN JYO GAHARA
    NO GROUP
[02:45] ---
    I am your girlfriend after all.
    I was very happy that you called me.
[02:50] ---
    I love you.
[02:52] ---
    I love you.
[02:54] ---
    When I get back, a little more...
    we should have conversations like this more often.
[02:59] ---
    HITAGI SENJYOGAHARA
    SEN JYO GAHARA
    NO GROUP
[02:59] ---
    Yes. I'll be waiting in my birthday suit.
[03:03] ---
    Kanbaru's perverseness
    is strongly affected by you, isn't it?
[03:08] ---
    OWARIMONOGATARI
[03:10] ---
    SHINOBU MAIL, PART SIX
[03:25] ---
    Then, let's hurry up and start this,
    so we can hurry up and end it.
[03:28] ---
    Come here.
[03:35] ---
    Okay. All good now.
[03:39] ---
    We're done getting ready.
    Now you're prepared for battle.
[03:44] ---
    Done getting ready?
    Done getting ready with just that?
[03:47] ---
    Come now, hold on a moment...
[03:50] ---
    What happened to the pairing, Sir Araragi?
[03:53] ---
    You aren't going to stay that weak
    and duel against me like that... Are you?
[03:59] ---
    THAT VOICE, IT WAS NO LONGER
    THAT WHICH HE HAD PILFERED FROM ME.
[04:00] ---
    IT HAD CHANGED INTO THAT OF HIS OWN.
[04:01] ---
    Oh, brother. It looks like the bond between you
    and Kiss-shot wasn't as weak as I had feared.
[04:09] ---
    I can't believe that she'd send her servant
    into combat in such a weak state.
[04:16] ---
    I don't want to win
    because of Shinobu's power.
[04:20] ---
    I want to win,
    and be an supporting power to Shinobu.
[04:23] ---
    Well, fine...
[04:26] ---
    But Lady Izuko.
[04:27] ---
    If this is the case, I'd like you to select
    a method of dueling that has a handicap.
[04:33] ---
    I wouldn't like to hear unpleasant excuses.
[04:36] ---
    Of course.
[04:37] ---
    I plan on using an unchanging format of dueling
    that has been used since ancient days.
[04:42] ---
    As occasion permits, it should allow you two
    to compete in a fair manner.
[04:54] ---
    Call it an imaginary demon sword
    "Kokoro Watari" or something.
[04:58] ---
    Of course, electricity is running through it.
[05:01] ---
    Well, yeah, just think of it as a stun gun
    that works for both of you.
[05:06] ---
    First off, I'll have you two stand back to back,
    on either side of this wooden sword.
[05:11] ---
    And, on my count,
    walk forward ten steps from there.
[05:16] ---
    The tenth step will be the last,
    as the battle will begin there.
[05:19] ---
    The one who dashes to this wooden sword
    and deals a blow to his opponent is the winner.
[05:24] ---
    Of course, you can take the wooden sword
    from your opponent and then deliver a blow.
[05:27] ---
    Strictly speaking, the criteria
    for this match is a "one-blow duel."
[05:31] ---
    In other words...
[05:33] ---
    More than just making the conditions fair,
[05:36] ---
    this is you looking out for Sir Araragi,
    so he doesn't die in this duel.
[05:41] ---
    Impressive that you came up
    with something like this.
[05:44] ---
    Any other questions?
[05:45] ---
    Negative.
[05:46] ---
    Araragi, do you have any questions?
[05:48] ---
    I'm an amateur in terms of
    both swordsmanship and combat...
[05:51] ---
    So can I at least be lectured from a specialist
    concerning that ten-step run?
[05:55] ---
    A specialist?
[05:59] ---
    Okay. A handicap of that level
    should be all right to add.
[06:04] ---
    Since it's 7:30 right now...
[06:07] ---
    The duel will begin at 8 o'clock sharp.
[06:09] ---
    Both of you, be diligent in your warm-ups.
[06:15] ---
    Guessing from your height, Araragi-senpai,
    your stride is 72 centimeters wide.
[06:21] ---
    In other words, a span of ten steps
    would be 7 meters and 20 centimeters.
[06:25] ---
    A marathon has a strategy
    just for marathons,
[06:27] ---
    and the 100-meter dash has a strategy
    just for the 100-meter dash.
[06:31] ---
    Likewise, to run seven meters,
    there's a strategy to run seven meters.
[06:35] ---
    However, the task here may be
    how to reserve some strength for later.
[06:39] ---
    Why a task?
[06:40] ---
    I mean, running the dash isn't the end of it all.
[06:44] ---
    You have to grab the wooden sword
    and deliver a blow with it, right?
[06:47] ---
    Oh, right.
[06:51] ---
    I think that in the end,
[06:53] ---
    the swordplay after pulling out the wooden sword
    will be more important.
[06:56] ---
    Araragi-senpai,
    even if you draw the wooden sword,
[06:58] ---
    if he dodges your attack,
    takes the wooden sword
[07:01] ---
    and pummels you with it,
    all of the effort will be for nothing.
[07:05] ---
    That's true...
[07:07] ---
    But all I can say about that is,
    "Whatever will be, will be."
[07:10] ---
    I can't trouble you that much, after all.
[07:13] ---
    Then, at the least, I'll lend you my shoes.
[07:16] ---
    We wear the same size, right?
[07:18] ---
    Yeah, thanks.
[07:25] ---
    What is this?
[07:27] ---
    Wh-What in the world has been happening
    in the short time I haven't been at school?
[07:31] ---
    Kanbaru, do you know anything about this?
[07:33] ---
    No, I have no clue at all,
[07:36] ---
    but all I can think of is that after
    Hanekawa-senpai's home was burned down,
[07:39] ---
    Senjyogahara-senpai informed Karen and Tsukihi
    of the situation to get their help
[07:43] ---
    by letting her stay at Araragi-senpai's house.
    That's the only thing I can think of.
[07:47] ---
    That's probably the right answer!
[07:49] ---
    Wait, a fire?
[07:50] ---
    Her home was burned down?
[07:51] ---
    What's that story about?
[07:53] ---
    My oh my. Her story also seems to be
    reaching its climax...
[07:57] ---
    What will you do, Koyomin?
[07:58] ---
    Izuko, you know something about this?
[08:01] ---
    Hanekawa is...
[08:02] ---
    No, wait, do you even know
    who Hanekawa is?
[08:05] ---
    And what's this about
    what I'm going to do? Do what?
[08:08] ---
    I know everything.
[08:10] ---
    I mean, it's the tiger, Koyomin.
[08:12] ---
    The tiger that ironically saved you
    back in the cram school ruins...
[08:16] ---
    Tsubasa has apparently decided to face-off against
    that big tiger that controls the flames of purgatory.
[08:23] ---
    Actually, Tsubasa isn't the only one in a crisis.
[08:26] ---
    Your girlfriend Senjyogahara
    is also in a crisis.
[08:29] ---
    What?
[08:31] ---
    Perhaps, as we stand here now,
    they may be burning furiously...
[08:36] ---
    If you're going to save her, you need to go
    as soon as possible - right now if you can.
[08:40] ---
    You should, by abandoning meaningless this duel.
[08:44] ---
    It saves me a lot more
    if you don't fight this duel.
[08:49] ---
    I'd be troubled if you were to die.
[08:51] ---
    I can't be the one that breaks the rules,
[08:54] ---
    so if you could break the rules of your own accord,
    that would help me a whole bunch.
[08:59] ---
    Koyomin, good for you.
[09:02] ---
    You have the perfect reason
    to cancel the duel.
[09:09] ---
    You need to choose, Koyomin.
[09:11] ---
    Are you going to stay here, so you can fight
    a duel that accomplishes nothing,
[09:14] ---
    or start running in order to save
    Tsubasa and Senjyogahara?
[09:18] ---
    Are you going to choose Shinobu?
[09:19] ---
    Are you going to choose Tsubasa?
[09:21] ---
    Are you going to choose Senjyogahara?
[09:24] ---
    Of the three of them...
    Who do you love the most?
[09:27] ---
    Kanbaru. I'm counting on you.
[09:29] ---
    You can count on me.
[09:30] ---
    I just have to go to your house, right?
[09:33] ---
    Yeah. Tell Karen to let you in.
[09:36] ---
    I'll catch up soon enough,
    so I want you to check things out first.
[09:39] ---
    Details understood!
[09:44] ---
    Are you sane? This is unthinkable.
[09:47] ---
    Can you really only see
    what's directly in front of your eyes?
[09:51] ---
    It's true that by letting Suruga Kanbaru,
    who's a lot more mobile than you, run for you,
[09:56] ---
    you might be able
    to deal with both situations.
[09:59] ---
    Tsubasa just might be able to face the perils
    with only her own powers.
[10:03] ---
    You're the only one who can fight here,
[10:05] ---
    so it may be the correct answer
    for you to remain.
[10:09] ---
    However, that's all logic.
[10:11] ---
    Humans have emotions.
[10:13] ---
    Didn't she send you that text
    because she believed in you?
[10:18] ---
    Are you going to betray that trust?
[10:22] ---
    With this betrayal,
    maybe they'll never trust you again?
[10:30] ---
    That may be so.
[10:33] ---
    But, I have faith in them.
[10:37] ---
    I believe in Hanekawa, and in Senjyogahara.
[10:40] ---
    From the bottom of my heart.
[10:42] ---
    IF IT'S ABOUT THOSE TWO, WHO ARE SPECIAL TO ME.
[10:42] ---
    IF IT'S TSUBASA HANEKAWA
[10:43] ---
    AND HITAGI SENJYOGAHARA.
[10:45] ---
    A guy by the name of Koyomi Araragi
    sometimes prioritizes a young girl,
[10:48] ---
    more than the one
    he owes his life to, or his lover.
[10:51] ---
    I have faith they'll understand that.
[10:56] ---
    I'd someday like to believe in people
    like I was lending my cellphone out to someone.
[11:16] ---
    Totally makes me laugh.
[11:17] ---
    As the master, she's making preparations
    for the battle between her slaves, huh?
[11:22] ---
    No, in this case, it's the prize, isn't it?
[11:25] ---
    Like, whoever wins is given
    the demon sword or something.
[11:28] ---
    Perhaps. In any case, the wooden sword
    I took the effort to prepare is split in two,
[11:34] ---
    so we'll have to use the real thing.
[11:40] ---
    Koyomin, first one. We're a little past time now,
    but let's have you begin.
[11:46] ---
    As planned, stand with your backs to one another,
    with the sword between you.
[11:53] ---
    Coming so close, but yet,
    why is my master Kiss-shot not showing herself?
[12:01] ---
    Does Kiss-shot not want
    to meet me that much?
[12:05] ---
    Sir Araragi, what do you think?
[12:07] ---
    Is the dispute between you and me
    nothing but deeply troubling for Kiss-shot?
[12:14] ---
    For you, Sir Araragi,
    what meaning is there to this duel?
[12:19] ---
    The meaning for me is something
    not even you'll understand.
[12:26] ---
    You may be a special person,
    a chosen one.
[12:30] ---
    I may not be special nor chosen.
[12:34] ---
    Nobody might be able to take your place,
    and anyone might be able to take my place.
[12:40] ---
    But still...
[12:45] ---
    You can't be me.
[12:47] ---
    There are a lot of people that can take my place,
    but I'm the only me.
[12:53] ---
    You're not me, and I'm not you.
[12:56] ---
    Isn't that how it is?
[13:00] ---
    ONE
[13:00] ---
    One.
[13:02] ---
    TWO
[13:02] ---
    Two.
[13:04] ---
    THREE
[13:04] ---
    Three.
[13:06] ---
    FOUR
[13:06] ---
    Four.
[13:08] ---
    FIVE
[13:08] ---
    Five.
[13:09] ---
    SIX
[13:09] ---
    Six.
[13:11] ---
    SEVEN
[13:11] ---
    Seven.
[13:13] ---
    EIGHT
[13:13] ---
    Eight.
[13:15] ---
    NINE
[13:15] ---
    Nine.
[13:17] ---
    Ten!
[14:04] ---
    Meme's... Oh, so that's how it is.
[14:10] ---
    Surprising... This is really beyond my expectations.
[14:13] ---
    To think that the rule I set as whoever
    delivers one blow (hito-tachi) is the winner
[14:17] ---
    would be twisted around so whoever
    delivers one touch (hito-tacchi) is the winner!
[14:27] ---
    K-K-iss-shot, Kiss-shot, Kiss-sho—
[14:56] ---
    Kiss-shot... kiss... shot...
[15:00] ---
    Kiss-shot... Kiss-shot!
[15:06] ---
    Well, I don't know
    what age I'll live to be...
[15:11] ---
    But if we see each other again
    while I'm alive...
[15:15] ---
    If we meet again...
[15:17] ---
    ....we'll meet again.
[15:28] ---
    You don't have to apologize. I forgave you.
[15:42] ---
    I'm the one that was at fault...
[15:50] ---
    Seishiro...
[16:00] ---
    I was glad to see you.
[16:03] ---
    Because I thought I'd never see you again.
[16:08] ---
    But I won't be seeing you anymore.
[16:15] ---
    Currently, I have someone
    that's more important to me than you.
[16:19] ---
    For a little while longer,
    I'd like to be someone who's there for him.
[16:27] ---
    It wasn't refreshing. It didn't feel good.
[16:30] ---
    NAOETSU HIGH
[16:31] ---
    By being clearly told,
    it actually made it harder to feel at ease instead.
[16:34] ---
    There was no distinct salvation.
[16:36] ---
    But, even then,
    400 years after he committed it...
[16:43] ---
    ...his suicide had finally succeeded.
[16:50] ---
    Yes, yes. And so, what happened
    after that, Araragi-senpai?
[16:55] ---
    What you'd call an epilogue...
    Or the punchline for this episode.
[16:58] ---
    Everything after that is exactly like
    what I've said before.
[17:01] ---
    I met up with Kanbaru,
    who had gone to my house ahead of me,
[17:04] ---
    REFERENCE BOOK
[17:05] ---
    and joined up for the part
    about Hanekawa's tiger.
[17:07] ---
    I headed to where Hanekawa was,
    and Kanbaru headed to where Senjyogahara was.
[17:14] ---
    I see, I see.
[17:16] ---
    Well, thank you very much, Araragi-senpai.
[17:19] ---
    With this, all the puzzle pieces
    have fallen into place.
[17:23] ---
    There were places where the outline of the story
    slightly contradicts the stories I've heard thus far.
[17:28] ---
    But as the listener of all kinds of stories,
    making sense of such contradictions
[17:32] ---
    is what I, Ougi Oshino, have fun doing.
[17:35] ---
    KOYOMIST
[17:38] ---
    Today is March 13th... early morning
    of the day of my actual college entrance exams.
[17:44] ---
    Then, I'll be going home for today.
[17:47] ---
    If you're still alive, I'll see you again.
[17:49] ---
    One more thing.
[17:51] ---
    Did Shinobu, in the end,
    finish eating the entirety of her first minion?
[17:56] ---
    Well... I said so, didn't I?
[17:58] ---
    Without missing anything?
[17:59] ---
    Yeah, without missing anything.
[18:01] ---
    Even the suit of armor?
[18:05] ---
    She ate it... I think.
[18:07] ---
    Perhaps she did, but...
[18:12] ---
    Is that an important point?
[18:15] ---
    I mean, that suit of armor is the blood and flesh
    of the first apparition killer,
[18:19] ---
    as well as its skeleton, right?
[18:20] ---
    Then, if you melted that
    suit of armor down, and then forged it...
[18:26] ---
    You could make an additional one, you know...
    another demon sword "Kokoro Watari."
[18:31] ---
    Not only that, but if things go well,
    even the short sword "Yume Watari" as well.
[18:35] ---
    "Yume Watari"?
[18:36] ---
    If I was Gaen, I'd retrieve the armor
    before Shinobu ate it.
[18:42] ---
    Surprisingly enough, maybe that's why
    she summoned Episode there.
[18:47] ---
    There's no reason for Gaen
    to do such a thing.
[18:50] ---
    I think Shinobu simply ate the armor as well.
[18:54] ---
    Yeah, I think that's how things went.
[18:57] ---
    Then, lastly, allow me
    to give a thank-you gift
[19:00] ---
    by answering one more question
    you have, Araragi-senpai.
[19:03] ---
    A question I have?
    What is this question I have?
[19:07] ---
    Seishiro Shishirui.
[19:08] ---
    SEISHIRO SHISHIRUI
[19:10] ---
    That's the full name
    of the first apparition killer.
[19:13] ---
    Even you, Araragi-senpai, like to be fully aware of
    the name of your romantic rival, correct?
[19:25] ---
    I just happened to hear
    what you were talking about.
[19:27] ---
    This again?
[19:28] ---
    IT'S ALL RIGHT.
    I AVOIDED CONTACT WITH THAT GIRL.
[19:29] ---
    WHEN SHE WAS PASSING BY,
    I CLUNG TO THE CEILING TO AVOID HER.
[19:30] ---
    Devil boy, you really are so chatty
    around that girl.
[19:33] ---
    Don't you think you babble too much?
[19:34] ---
    You think so?
    I don't think that's the case.
[19:38] ---
    If you're fine with it, devil boy,
    then that's fine.
[19:41] ---
    I'm going to head to North Shirahebi Shrine now.
    You want to come with me?
[19:46] ---
    Where is that?
[19:47] ---
    Don't forget it.
    You forget way too much.
[19:51] ---
    It's the place where your master went missing.
[19:54] ---
    I'm not going on a morning date
    with you, devil boy.
[19:57] ---
    Though, that said, there is something
    I want you to tell me as well.
[20:00] ---
    What is that?
[20:01] ---
    Devil boy, are you happy
    that you've become a vampire?
[20:06] ---
    The first apparition killer
    was saying something along the lines
[20:09] ---
    of "what benefits I'll see"
    from devil boy being with Shinobu-sensei.
[20:15] ---
    In the end, devil boy, you were unable
    to present the merits of such a situation to him.
[20:21] ---
    But the feeling behind it still hasn't changed?
[20:23] ---
    Devil boy, do you still feel that by you being together
    with Shinobu-sensei, nobody becomes happy?
[20:32] ---
    I still feel that way.
[20:35] ---
    Nobody becomes happy,
    and nobody can become happy.
[20:39] ---
    By me being a vampire,
    by me being together with Shinobu,
[20:43] ---
    I can only cause trouble to others.
[20:45] ---
    More than anyone else,
    I'm bringing misfortune to Shinobu.
[20:50] ---
    Though, that can come across
    as just an excuse.
[20:54] ---
    "Please pardon me,
    because I won't be happy.
[20:57] ---
    Please forgive me,
    because I won't try to become happy.
[21:01] ---
    Please gloss over me."
    That's what it might sound like.
[21:04] ---
    Or, it might sound like you're asserting.
[21:07] ---
    "Since we're so misfortunate,
    don't blame us. Aren't we pitiful?"
[21:10] ---
    Hey, devil boy, can it be that you think of putting up
    with misfortune or unfortunate circumstances
[21:15] ---
    as putting forth a good effort?
[21:19] ---
    In society, things like that
    are called "doing nothing."
[21:23] ---
    Don't think you'll be forgiven
    because you're misfortunate.
[21:25] ---
    You should be aiming
    for the happy ending.
[21:27] ---
    Or do you want me to stomp
    on your face again?
[21:31] ---
    Ononoki, you're really strict.
[21:34] ---
    Staying misfortunate is negligence,
    and not trying to become happy is cowardice.
[21:39] ---
    If you stay like that, the forefather that
    committed suicide can never be truly rewarded.
[21:43] ---
    I'll make note of that.
[21:47] ---
    Nobody has become happy.
    Not I, not Shinobu, no one.
[21:52] ---
    FOR NOW, THAT'S WHAT I THINK—
[21:53] ---
    THAT'S WHAT I STILL THINK.
[21:54] ---
    But perhaps, a long time from now,
    far, far in the future - say, like 400 years from now,
[22:02] ---
    that train of thought may be slightly altered,
    I think among other things...
[22:08] ---
    ...it's fine. Even if we aren't happy,
[22:10] ---
    fortunately for us,
    we still have plenty of time ahead of us.
[22:14] ---
    Time alone - time to think, time to live -
    is there to the point we're disgusted.
[22:19] ---
    We have so much time that
    a corpse can rot and turn to ash.
[22:24] ---
    But such time being taken from us...
[22:27] ---
    ...perhaps was also a matter of time as well.

Season 2

E1 - Chapter One - Mayoi Hell
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SIGN    CHAPTER 001
[00:04] Koyomi
    If I could see Mayoi Hachikuji
    one more time, I wouldn't mind dying.
[00:08] Koyomi
    For a while, I truly thought that.
[00:12] Koyomi
    As for why I didn't do so...
[00:14] Koyomi
    Much though I was okay with dying,
    perhaps more so,
[00:17] Koyomi
    I still wanted to live, contrary to expectations.
[00:21] Koyomi
    I felt there was something
    for me to do while I'm alive.
[00:26] Koyomi
    When there's family or a lover,
[00:29] Koyomi
    benefactors or friends,
    those are factors to consider.
[00:33] Koyomi
    However, humans, or at least I,
[00:36] Koyomi
    aren't creatures with such strong self-control
    that one would die for an emotion.
[00:42] Koyomi
    I don't need friends.
[00:47] Koyomi
    Because my strength as a human decreases.
[00:50] Koyomi
    Those pet phrases became nostalgic,
    so weak I've become.
[00:54] Koyomi
    I am weak as a human.
[00:56] Koyomi
    Weak, so weak...
[00:58] Koyomi
    What's weakest of all is that
    I don't particularly loathe my weakened self.
[01:06] Koyomi
    I hold no grudge against it.
[01:11] Koyomi
    However, there may be people out there
    who cannot forgive me for becoming weaker.
[01:19] Koyomi
    Overcoming the hell from spring break,
    I still continued to live,
[01:23] Koyomi
    and I'm not one who can't notice
    someone glaring at me, wishing for me to die.
[01:28] Ougi
    You really are a fool, Araragi-senpai.
[01:34] Koyomi
    Yeah, it's true.
[01:36] Koyomi
    "He that is born a fool
    is never cured until death."
[01:38] Koyomi
    On the other hand,
    if it's something that death will cure,
SIGN    KOYOMI ARARAGI
[01:42] Koyomi
    being a fool may not have been
    that terrible of an illness, either.
SIGN    OWARI MONOGATARI Mayoi Hell
SIGN    MAYOI HELL - PART ONE
SIGN    CHAPTER 002
[03:26] Koyomi
    H-Hachikuji?
[03:28] Mayoi
    Yes.
[03:30] Koyomi
    Hachikuji?
[03:31] Mayoi
    Yes, that's right.
[03:34] Koyomi
    Mayoi Hachikuji?
[03:36] Mayoi
    Yes, I'm Mayoi Hachikuji.
[03:41] Koyomi
    Now wait, hold on.
[03:42] Koyomi
    Don't panic.
SIGN    ARARAGI
SIGN    KOYOMI
[03:44] Koyomi
    Right, just remember...
[03:45] Koyomi
    What kind of a situation was this now?
SIGN    Exam-taker number: 0049 Name: Araragi, Koyomi  Foreign Subjects Taken: English, German, Chinese, Russian, Japanese (circle two subjects that apply)
[03:48] Koyomi
    Right. Today, March 13th
    was the day of my entrance exams.
SIGN    Exam Date: 3/13/xxxx (Tue) General Entrance Exams Japanese - oo:oo ~ oo:oo
[03:53] Koyomi
    Before heading to the college campus
    to take the exam, I had made a detour.
[03:57] Koyomi
    There, I saw the leader of the specialists,
[04:00] Koyomi
    Gaen Izuko-san, waiting for me within
    the shrine grounds, and I had to face her.
[04:10] Koyomi
    And?
[04:11] Koyomi
    And, why Hachikuji?
[04:13] Koyomi
    Mayoi Hachikuji-san?
[04:22] Koyomi
    Oh, brother.
    Looks like there's a problem.
[04:25] Koyomi
    From this turn of events,
[04:26] Koyomi
    I'm sure everyone is thinking of
    a surprising reunion with someone
    
[04:30] Koyomi
    Koyomi Araragi would never see again,
    the one close to his heart, Mayoi Hachikuji,
[04:34] Koyomi
    jumping for joy, choked with gratified tears,
    trembling from the touching moment,
[04:38] Koyomi
    rejoicing and screaming nonsense,
    and he would first attempt to hug her.
[04:44] Koyomi
    I'm sure that's what everyone expects.
[04:46] Koyomi
    I'm sure that's what is expected of me.
[04:50] Koyomi
    That's quite the burden of expectation.
[04:52] Koyomi
    My adolescent self, the one who
    jumped at Hachikuji with a rocket-like start
[04:57] Koyomi
    each time he saw her walking around town,
    is no longer here.
[04:59] Koyomi
    If that is Koyomi Araragi, then he is already dead.
[05:03] Koyomi
    He. Is. Dead.
[05:05] Koyomi
    Such a Koyomi Araragi
    that is better off dead, really was dead.
[05:10] Koyomi
    He met a fitting end.
[05:12] Koyomi
    But well, that said...
[05:14] Koyomi
    That said...
[05:16] Koyomi
    Tracing back the faint threads of memory,
    I am indebted to Hachikuji quite a bit as well.
[05:22] Koyomi
    Benevolence, justice, rites, knowledge,
    loyalty, integrity, filial piety, sibling piety.
SIGN    BENEVOLENCE, JUSTICE, RITES, KNOWLEDGE, LOYALTY, INTEGRITY, FILIAL PIETY, SIBLING PIETY
[05:26] Koyomi
    Return gratitude worth returning.
[05:28] Koyomi
    It is only natural to approach someone who took care of you with gratitude.
[05:32] Koyomi
    If that's been decided, then all is well.
[05:36] Koyomi
    On your mark, get set...
[06:03] Koyomi
    Hachikuji!
[06:10] Koyomi
    Hachikuji! Hachikuji! Hachikuji!
[06:16] Koyomi
    What are you doing here?
    Why are you here for me right now?
[06:20] Koyomi
    No, I don't care about the reason,
    I'm just happy that you're here for me.
[06:23] Koyomi
    I can't put these touching feelings to words!
[06:32] Koyomi
    Oh, how this feels to the touch...
    The feeling of huggin you...
[06:34] Koyomi
    This size, and how it
    completely fits within my arms!
[06:37] Koyomi
    This truly is Hachikuji!
[06:39] Koyomi
    Thankful, so thankful!
[06:41] Koyomi
    The more we rub cheeks,
    the more it feels like Hachikuji!
[06:44] Koyomi
    The more I lick around,
    the more it feels like Hachikuji!
[06:46] Koyomi
    The more it ripens,
    the more I can lick Hachikuji!
[06:50] Koyomi
    Come on, let me touch you more!
[06:52] Koyomi
    Let me hug you more!
[06:53] Koyomi
    Let me lick you more!
[06:58] Koyomi
    Hey now! Don't thrash about!
    It's harder for us to get naked!
[07:08] Koyomi
    Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!
    What the hell are you doing, brat?
SIGN    CHAPTER 003
[07:20] Koyomi
    How to put it...
[07:22] Koyomi
    That's right. After I parted ways with you,
SIGN    SEISHIROU SHISHIRUI
[07:24] Koyomi
    Shinobu's first minion showed up,
[07:27] Koyomi
    Oikura returned,
SIGN    SODACHI OIKURA
[07:29] Koyomi
    Sengoku had all that happen
    to her here at this shrine,
SIGN    NADEKO SENGOKU
SIGN    DEISHU KAIKI
[07:32] Koyomi
    I bumped into Kaiki,
SIGN    KOYOMI ARARAGI
[07:34] Koyomi
    I turned into a vampire on my own,
[07:36] Koyomi
    that and I had Ononoki-chan
    kill one of her own creators,
SIGN    YOTSUGI ONONOKI
SIGN    SURUGA KANBARU
[07:40] Koyomi
    oh right, that was here at this shrine, too.
SIGN    KAREN ARARAGI / TSUKIHI ARARAGI
SIGN    YODURU KAGENUI
[07:44] Koyomi
    And also at this shrine,
    Kagenui-san went missing, too.
[07:48] Koyomi
    I had one bad thing
    happen to me after another.
[07:51] Koyomi
    For all this time, I called the two weeks
    of spring break as a hellish time for me.
[07:56] Koyomi
    But the true hell
    may have been the past six months—
[07:59] Mayoi
    That's incorrect, Araragi-san.
[08:02] Koyomi
    Hm? What is?
[08:04] Mayoi
    Ara-lucky-san.
[08:07] Koyomi
    Hachikuji, I was just talking about how
    unfortunate of a person I had been.
[08:12] Koyomi
    I don't care how you flub, but just don't flub
    in such a positive, happy light like that.
[08:17] Koyomi
    At the least, you should have said Un-lucky-san.
[08:20] Koyomi
    That, and my name is Araragi.
[08:23] Mayoi
    I'm sorry. I flubbed.
[08:24] Koyomi
    No, that was intentional.
[08:26] Mayoi
    I fwubbed.
[08:27] Koyomi
    It's not intentional?
[08:29] Mayoi
    Flub-dub-cub-hub-stub-grub-sub-bub-rub-club-tub.
[08:33] Koyomi
    How can you recite that without flubbing?
[08:35] Koyomi
    I can't help but marvel at you as you do that!
[08:38] Mayoi
    You're incorrect, Araragi-san.
[08:46] Mayoi
    It's more realistic an error,
    or rather a more practical error...
[08:50] Mayoi
    To be frank, the location is different.
[08:54] Koyomi
    Location?
[08:57] Mayoi
    For a while, Araragi-san,
[09:00] Mayoi
    you've been saying
    "this shrine" this, "this shrine" that.
[09:06] Mayoi
    But, this isn't North Shirahebi Shrine.
[09:11] Mayoi
    Huh? What?
[09:14] Mayoi
    And, it's not even that park
    where I first met you, Araragi-san.
[09:18] Koyomi
    What?
[09:21] Mayoi
    Araragi-san,
    please stay calm and listen to me.
[09:26] Mayoi
    Araragi-san, you may be thinking that I,
[09:28] Mayoi
    someone who has rested in peace,
    have returned before you.
[09:33] Mayoi
    But actually, in reality, that is not the case.
[09:37] Koyomi
    What?
SIGN    WHAT
[09:38] Mayoi
    It's not that I have appeared
    before you, Araragi-san.
[09:41] Mayoi
    Araragi-san, you were the one
    who appeared before me, okay?
SIGN    WHAT
[09:44] Koyomi
    What, what?
SIGN    WHAT²
[09:45] Mayoi
    Araragi-san, early in the morning on March 13th,
    you visited said North Shirahebi Shrine,
[09:51] Mayoi
    met with Gaen Izuko-san,
    and you were murdered.
[09:58] Izuko
    And that solution is for you to die.
[10:01] Izuko
    It's all right. It will only hurt for an instant.
SIGN    HACHIKUJI BUS
[10:06] Mayoi
    This place, Araragi-san...
[10:08] Mayoi
    is Hell.
[10:10] Koyomi
    What?
[10:11] Mayoi
    The bottommost layer of hell
    among all hells...
[10:16] Mayoi
    Avici Hell.
SIGN    CHAPTER 004
[10:23] Koyomi
    Hell? Hell? Avici Hell?
SIGN    SANJIVA / KALASUTRA / SAMGHATA /
    RAURAVA / MAHARAURAVA / TAPANA
[10:27] Koyomi
    Let's say this is indeed Avici.
    I have one big question.
[10:32] Mayoi
    Oh, you're wondering why you fell into
    such a deep part of hell, Araragi-san?
[10:38] Mayoi
    You see, Araragi-san,
    you have turned into a vampire, right?
SIGN    HMRGH?
[10:42] Mayoi
    The main sin that lowered you down
    to Avichi is just that. Saving a demon.
SIGN    TOUR OF HELL
[10:48] Mayoi
    Of course you'd go to hell for that.
[11:00] Koyomi
    I see.
[11:02] Koyomi
    No, the big question I had
    wasn't about my grave sin.
[11:08] Koyomi
    What the hell are you doing here?
[11:11] Mayoi
    Why, you ask...
[11:13] Mayoi
    But well, you see, I fell down to hell.
[11:21] Koyomi
    You've got to be kidding me.
    After such a touching resting into peace!?
[11:25] Koyomi
    You fell to hell after that?
    Seriously? That was such a waste!
[11:29] Koyomi
    What are you doing? This just can't be!
[11:34] Mayoi
    See, I didn't know
    until I fell down here myself.
[11:39] Mayoi
    When children die before their parents,
    they apparently go straight to hell, no matter what.
SIGN    IT'S THAT BIT ABOUT PILING UP STONES ON THE BANKS OF HELL
[11:48] Koyomi
    You're kidding, right?
[11:52] Mayoi
    Hmm? What's the matter, Araragi-san?
[11:55] Koyomi
    But still...
[11:57] Koyomi
    That's not a sin that would make you fall
    all the way down to Avichi unlike me, right?
[12:03] Koyomi
    Shouldn't you be piling stones
    on the banks of hell?
[12:06] Mayoi
    Yes, that's right, Araragi-san.
[12:10] Mayoi
    I knew this is where
    you'd come falling down to, Araragi-san.
[12:14] Mayoi
    That is why I took a trip
    from the banks of Hell to pick you up.
[12:22] Mayoi
    "It looks like I'm having a friend come nearby,
    so I'll take a break from piling stones today!"
[12:27] Mayoi
    That's how I got out of there.
[12:29] Koyomi
    So the banks of hell
    is that easygoing a place to be?
[12:38] Koyomi
    You had known in advance?
[12:40] Mayoi
    No, it's not that I knew.
    The person who told me about it, did know.
[12:47] Mayoi
    Apparently that person...
[12:50] Mayoi
    ...knows everything.
SIGN    CHAPTER 005
[12:55] Mayoi
    Now that all the detailed explanations
    for every mystery has been explained,
[12:59] Mayoi
    let us start heading over.
[13:02] Mayoi
    Let's go, Araragi-san.
[13:07] Koyomi
    Hachikuji, you haven't had any hesitation
    in your steps at all until here.
[13:10] Koyomi
    At the least, can you tell me
    where our destination is?
[13:13] Mayoi
    To tell you the destination where we are heading
    based on the objective for heading there...
[13:18] Mayoi
    Araragi-san, it's my job
    to resurrect you back to life.
[13:22] Koyomi
    Eh? I can be resurrected?
[13:25] Mayoi
    Of course you can.
    What are you going to do by staying dead?
[13:28] Koyomi
    But, Gaen-san...
[13:30] Mayoi
    No, that's why you need
    to get a grip, Araragi-san.
[13:34] Mayoi
    In other words,
    "dying then resurrecting" was included
[13:37] Mayoi
    in everything proceeding according
    to her calculations.
[13:40] Koyomi
    What's up with that fruitless calculation?
[13:42] Koyomi
    That's a pretty meaningless act, much like
    dividing by two after multiplying by two.
[13:47] Mayoi
    It's not "dividing by two
    after multiplying by two."
[13:50] Mayoi
    There is subtraction as well.
[13:53] Mayoi
    Well, I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually.
[13:58] Mayoi
    Oh, Araragi-san.
[14:01] Mayoi
    Someone has sunken into the ground over there.
SIGN    CHAPTER 006
[14:09] Koyomi
    Sh-Shinobu!
[14:19] Mayoi
    Was it like your body
    moved on its own, Araragi-san?
[14:23] Mayoi
    That's strange. Araragi-san, you regretted
    saving Shinobu-san over spring break so much.
[14:29] Mayoi
    But here, in the same situation,
    why did you try to do the same thing again?
[14:34] Koyomi
    Well, that's... Um...
[14:37] Koyomi
    All I can say is that my body moved on its own.
[14:42] Koyomi
    Well, I still do wonder
[14:43] Koyomi
    to this day, what would have happened
    if I had ignored Shinobu back then.
[14:47] Koyomi
    I think and dream about it even now.
[14:51] Mayoi
    Over here!
[14:57] Mayoi
    Oh, Araragi-san, a pervert
    is coming this way. Please be careful.
[15:01] Koyomi
    A pervert is coming? That's a big deal.
[15:04] Koyomi
    Hachikuji, hide inside my clothes,
    I mean, behind my back.
[15:07] Mayoi
    You've already said "inside my clothes" there.
[15:12] Mayoi
    You could say, Araragi-san,
    that your life turned tumultuous
[15:15] Mayoi
    from when you saved Shinobu-san.
[15:18] Mayoi
    But if you say that,
    a big aspect was you getting to know
[15:21] Mayoi
    Hanekawa-san right before
    you saved Shinobu-san.
[15:24] Koyomi
    Well, I won't deny that it was
    Hanekawa's fault in all sorts of ways.
[15:29] Koyomi
    Because she doesn't know everything, but knows only
    what she knows, and exposed truths she didn't need to,
[15:36] Koyomi
    and because she forgot truths
    that she didn't have to forget,
[15:39] Koyomi
    we went through reckless shortcuts
    and impossible detours this whole time.
[15:44] Koyomi
    But...
[15:45] Koyomi
    Even then, I am glad
    that I became friends with her.
[15:49] Koyomi
    That, I believe from the bottom of my heart.
[15:59] Koyomi
    Senjyogahara!
[16:05] Mayoi
    I believe there was an option here to not catch
    Senjyogahara-san after her foot slipped.
SIGN    BACK THEN, SENJYOGAHARA-SAN HAD ALMOST NO WEIGHT
SIGN    SO SHE PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN INJURED
[16:13] Mayoi
    But Araragi-san...
[16:15] Koyomi
    I'll catch her, as many times as I need to,
[16:17] Koyomi
    if Senjyogahara would come falling down.
[16:20] Mayoi
    Suppose that, back then,
    if you had not caught Senjyogahara-san.
[16:26] Mayoi
    That con artist is going to show up
    in this town shortly after this, right?
[16:31] Koyomi
    The con artist... Deishu Kaiki.
[16:35] Mayoi
    If, back then, you had not gotten
    in the way, Araragi-san,
[16:38] Mayoi
    perhaps they may have
    gotten back together again?
[16:45] Mayoi
    How is it, Araragi-san?
[16:47] Mayoi
    If you imagined that perhaps you got in the way
    of Senjyogahara-san and Kaiki-san's romance...
[16:53] Koyomi
    If I imagined?
[16:55] Koyomi
    All the same, I can't help but think,
    "Serves you right!"
[17:01] Koyomi
    It seems she was obliged
    to Kaiki concerning Sengoku.
[17:05] Koyomi
    But, that is a completely different matter.
[17:08] Koyomi
    I can say from the bottom of my heart
    that I was better off never meeting him.
[17:12] Mayoi
    Then lastly, let's walk around the bit
    about Sengoku-san, who you just mentioned.
[17:17] Koyomi
    Wait, what about Kanbaru?
[17:20] Mayoi
    That is a different part.
[17:24] Koyomi
    About Shinobu, about Hanekawa,
    about Senjyogahara, and of course about Hachikuji...
[17:30] Koyomi
    If I were to come across
    the same situation again,
[17:32] Koyomi
    I'm sure I would do the same thing
    over and over again.
[17:35] Koyomi
    But, no matter what I do, I can't deny
    the feeling that I could have done it better.
[17:40] Mayoi
    I think you are doing plenty fine,
    Araragi-san.
[17:44] Mayoi
    At least, everything that concerns myself.
[17:47] Koyomi
    When you say that,
    it gives me a small feeling of salvation.
[17:52] Koyomi
    But at the least, when we're talking
    about Sengoku, I failed.
[18:05] Koyomi
    On the steps of the actual mountain,
    when I passed by Nadeko Sengoku...
[18:09] Koyomi
    Back then, I couldn't come to realize
    that she was her.
[18:21] Mayoi
    I don't know about that.
    After all, you aren't omnipotent.
[18:25] Mayoi
    You should distinguish things like that,
    like Hanekawa-san.
[18:32] Mayoi
    Come to think, is Ononoki-san doing well?
[18:36] Koyomi
    Well, she's doing well.
[18:37] Mayoi
    I see. Then, as the one who assigned her
    to be my successor,
[18:42] Mayoi
    it makes me want to sigh in relief.
[18:44] Koyomi
    Ononoki-chan was your successor?
[18:46] Mayoi
    Yes. The sanctioned successor.
SIGN    SANCTIONED (KOUNIN)
SIGN    SUCCESSOR (KOUNIN)
[18:50] Mayoi
    I'm sure she has delightful chats
    unfolding around you, Araragi-san.
[18:57] Koyomi
    Come to think, Ononoki-chan isn't included
    in this 89-spot pilgrimage, either.
SIGN    WRAP IT UP!
[19:04] Mayoi
    We have time constraints as well.
[19:06] Koyomi
    Time constraints?
[19:08] Mayoi
    Yes. Producer Hachikuji
    had to make a tough decision.
[19:11] Mayoi
    Well, the anime shed a lot of light
    onto Ononoki-san close up, so it's fine.
[19:15] Koyomi
    You don't have to balance things out
    with such a thing.
[19:19] Koyomi
    Balance.
[19:22] Koyomi
    That's what was on my mind.
[19:25] Koyomi
    Balance.
[19:37] Koyomi
    The right thing.
[19:38] Mayoi
    Yes? What was that, Araragi-san?
[19:41] Koyomi
    Well, I was thinking
    I had a debate with the Fire Sisters,
[19:44] Koyomi
    an advocate of justice,
    about something like that.
[19:47] Koyomi
    I suddenly was reminded of it.
[19:50] Mayoi
    Well, we're almost at the pinnacle, so if
    there's more you want to discuss, keep it short.
[19:55] Mayoi
    Because that will most likely be
    our final talk session.
[19:58] Koyomi
    What?
SIGN    THEN, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE.
[20:04] Koyomi
    It was a talk about how it's difficult
    to do the right thing.
[20:08] Koyomi
    Most people are eager to correct mistakes
    more than doing the right thing, right?
[20:14] Mayoi
    Doing the right thing
    and correcting mistakes are different?
[20:18] Koyomi
    It's similar but different.
    It's not on the mark, but pretty close.
SIGN    THE ACT OF "CORRECTING A MISTAKE"
SIGN    MAKES PEOPLE FEEL LIKE
SIGN    THEY ARE "DOING THE RIGHT THING"—
[20:25] Koyomi
    If you keep correcting mistakes...
[20:27] Koyomi
    If you crush mistakes one by one,
    will it be a pure white kind of right someday?
[20:33] Koyomi
    If I had to pick, I'd say
    it would be a pitch black kind of right.
[20:37] Koyomi
    Anyways, in a nutshell,
    that's what I want to know.
[20:41] Mayoi
    But, if you go that route,
    you won't obtain what you really want.
[20:46] Koyomi
    I can't obtain...
[20:49] Koyomi
    ...what I really want?
[20:51] Mayoi
    Because it's on the premise
    that someone else is evaluating.
[20:54] Mayoi
    At that rate, you'll only receive
    what others give you.
[20:57] Mayoi
    Of course, I'm not saying that's a bad thing
[21:00] Mayoi
    If, like you, Araragi-san, one sought something
    beyond reach, or something you don't deserve,
[21:05] Mayoi
    such a method
    would prove to be impossible.
SIGN    MAKING MANY MISTAKES
SIGN    HAVING MANY FAILURES
SIGN    DOING THINGS OVER REPEATING THINGS
SIGN    HESITATING STAMPING ONE'S FEET IN FRUSTRATION
SIGN    REPEATING BY TRIAL AND ERROR
SIGN    AND BEYOND LOUD PROTESTS—
[21:12] Mayoi
    The only thing you can do is succeed, right?
[21:16] Koyomi
    It's not like I didn't particularly
    want to talk about myself here.
[21:21] Koyomi
    But well, maybe that is the case.
    No, that's how it should be.
[21:26] Mayoi
    You just said you weren't speaking
    about yourself.
[21:30] Mayoi
    Then, who were you speaking about?
[21:39] Koyomi
    Was it the defenders of justice,
    the Fire Sisters?
[21:42] Koyomi
    Was it a story about Oshino?
[21:46] Koyomi
    That's not it.
[21:47] Koyomi
    Probably, what I wanted to say...
[21:50] Koyomi
    What I wanted to talk about... was her.
[21:53] Koyomi
    The transfer student.
[21:55] Koyomi
    Meme Oshino's niece.
[21:57] Koyomi
    Ougi Oshino. It was about her.
[22:01] Koyomi
    Why didn't her name
    cross my mind until right now?
[22:05] Koyomi
    Why couldn't I remember her?
    Isn't that a bit strange?
[22:09] Koyomi
    She is the one who, of my past year,
[22:12] Koyomi
    was the most important person
    in the second half.
[22:23] Tadatsuru
    Hello, Araragi-kun.
    I've been waiting for you.
SIGN    CHAPTER 007
[22:31] Koyomi
    Wha—
[22:33] Koyomi
    Wh-Why are you here?
[22:41] Mayoi
    The one who notified me of "her" will
    was Teori-san over there.
[22:47] Koyomi
    N-Notify?
[22:48] Tadatsuru
    Don't give me that look, Araragi-kun.
[22:51] Tadatsuru
    I'll give you a full round of explanations.
[22:55] Koyomi
    You're, I mean...
[22:57] Koyomi
    a specialist who specializes in the extermination
    of immortal apparitions, right?
[23:02] Tadatsuru
    You don't have to worry
    about that for now.
[23:05] Koyomi
    What?
[23:07] Tadatsuru
    From you, your vampiric nature...
[23:09] Tadatsuru
    ...has been subtracted.
[23:16] Koyomi
    Oh, I see.
[23:18] Koyomi
    So that's what Hachikuji meant
    about what she said earlier.
[23:22] Koyomi
    It wasn't just multiplication and division,
    but there's subtraction involved as well.
[23:26] Koyomi
    The subtracted number
    was my vampiric nature.
[23:31] Tadatsuru
    Is Yotsugi doing well? I hope she didn't
    worry about the fact that she killed me.
[23:38] Tadatsuru
    After all, she wasn't told
    of the circumstances that we were in.
[23:42] Koyomi
    What were the circumstances?
[23:46] Tadatsuru
    To put it plainly...
[23:48] Tadatsuru
    Being killed by Yotsugi in that manner
    was the true role that had been given to me.
[23:57] Tadatsuru
    To fall to hell ahead of time, and have
    all preparations to resurrect you be completed.
[24:04] Tadatsuru
    That was my job as a professional specialist.
SIGN    MAYOI HELL - PART TWO
SIGN    CHAPTER 008
[24:15] Koyomi
    Huh?
SIGN    FIVE MINUTES LATER
[24:26] Koyomi
    You mean you feigned death?
[24:30] Tadatsuru
    The individual known as me had already
    passed away at a point in the distant past.
[24:36] Tadatsuru
    Back then, my self that Yotsugi killed
    was a puppet that I controlled.
[24:46] Koyomi
    You said that Ononoki-chan
    didn't know about that?
[24:50] Tadatsuru
    Yup, that's right. Not just Yotsugi,
    but Yoduru didn't know, either.
[24:56] Tadatsuru
    The ones who knew about this technique were
[24:58] Tadatsuru
    Gaen-senpai, and Meme Oshino.
    Nobody else.
[25:05] Koyomi
    If so, then what in the world was that farce?
[25:09] Tadatsuru
    A farce? That was the best act in my book.
[25:15] Tadatsuru
    I mean, dying and resurrecting.
[25:18] Tadatsuru
    You could say it's my specialty
    even more than it is for vampires.
[25:22] Tadatsuru
    Though, strictly speaking,
    I'm not really resurrecting back to life.
[25:27] Tadatsuru
    I am merely possessing a doll,
[25:29] Tadatsuru
    and through that medium,
    I am regressing into the material world.
[25:32] Koyomi
    From when?
[25:33] Tadatsuru
    I became a puppeteer
[25:36] Tadatsuru
    after I created the doll known as Yotsugi,
    and parted ways with them.
[25:42] Tadatsuru
    Whoa.
SIGN    WHITE FRAME
[25:48] Tadatsuru
    It seems I am being hurried.
[25:50] Tadatsuru
    Allow me to explain plainly.
[25:54] Tadatsuru
    I quit college, and entered this field.
[25:58] Tadatsuru
    But as Gaen-senpai was glaring at me,
    I couldn't really get things to go my way.
[26:04] Tadatsuru
    So, the hasty decision I had come up with
    was to call the forbidden technique.
[26:10] Tadatsuru
    As a specialist, it's too powerful of a spell
    to use, more than being a forbidden move.
[26:15] Tadatsuru
    I had tried to create a doll apparition
    named Tadatsuru Teori.
[26:20] Koyomi
    Did that succeed?
[26:23] Tadatsuru
    I failed, and what you see here is the result.
[26:27] Tadatsuru
    I became something
    like half-man and half-monster,
[26:30] Tadatsuru
    wandering the boundaries
    of the material world and the afterlife.
[26:34] Tadatsuru
    Well, I say it was a failure,
    but I can continue to live through my dolls.
[26:40] Tadatsuru
    And since then, I succeeded
    in the mass-production of the dolls.
[26:44] Tadatsuru
    So, if you say I'm immortal, I'm immortal.
[26:46] Tadatsuru
    If you say I'm an apparition,
    I'm an apparition.
[26:49] Tadatsuru
    At most, I make good use of my special
    constitution to strive in my own business.
SIGN    BECAUSE HE HAD SUCH A SPECIAL CONSTITUTION
SIGN    HE WAS ABLE TO COME THIS FAR OUTSIDE OF GAEN-SAN'S NETWORK...
[26:56] Koyomi
    Then, why did you pretend to die?
[26:59] Tadatsuru
    It was last month.
[27:01] Tadatsuru
    One request came flying for me
    as a specialist.
[27:06] Tadatsuru
    It was a request to resolve the anomalies
    that were happening in your town.
[27:12] Tadatsuru
    The contents of that request
    had targeted you and ex-Kiss-shot.
[27:18] Tadatsuru
    You guys were certified as harmless
    within Gaen-senpai's network,
[27:24] Tadatsuru
    but an apparition guarded by the network
    was something I targeted as my top priority.
[27:30] Tadatsuru
    Request or not, you were a target
    that I should be on the move for.
[27:34] Koyomi
    This guy took my two little sisters
    and one underclassman as hostages.
[27:39] Koyomi
    He pulled off such a vicious, cruel act.
SIGN    BLACK FRAME
[27:44] Tadatsuru
    If something had
    not been done in advance,
[27:47] Tadatsuru
    I wonder if I would have been
    unscathed by it all.
[27:50] Koyomi
    Don't say scary things like that.
[27:52] Tadatsuru
    I'm the one who is scared saying this.
[27:55] Tadatsuru
    To think that Suruga Kanbaru
    was the daughter of the Gaen clan...
[27:59] Tadatsuru
    When I think about what would've happened
    if I had injured her without
[28:02] Tadatsuru
    knowing anything, I start trembling.
[28:04] Tadatsuru
    I'm glad that I had heard things in advance.
[28:08] Koyomi
    Tadatsuru, so you had heard something
    from Gaen-san before you received the request?
[28:14] Tadatsuru
    No, it was someone else that was
    the middleman between me and Gaen-senpai.
SIGN    MIDDLEMAN
[28:22] Koyomi
    To the word "middleman,"
    I had one inspiration.
[28:27] Koyomi
    Oshino?
SIGN    OSHINO
[28:30] Koyomi
    Meme Oshino?
SIGN    CHAPTER 009
[28:32] Tadatsuru
    Correct.
[28:33] Tadatsuru
    Yes, that man
    who acts as he sees through things.
[28:37] Tadatsuru
    Despite being one of the leading members
    of Gaen-senpai's network,
[28:40] Tadatsuru
    he reached out and contacted me.
[28:43] Tadatsuru
    That made me feel like
    he was still a free man as ever.
[28:47] Tadatsuru
    He had said that because I was outside
    of Gaen-senpai's network,
[28:51] Tadatsuru
    there was something I could do.
[28:54] Koyomi
    And that was when you had heard
    of Kanbaru's background in advance?
[28:59] Tadatsuru
    Yup. And there was talk about you as well,
    or should I say, talk about you guys?
[29:05] Tadatsuru
    Now that I think about it, he was appealing to me
    about how safe you guys were.
[29:11] Tadatsuru
    By the way, I realized that he had
[29:14] Tadatsuru
    seen my true identity as just a doll,
    was at that time as well.
[29:18] Tadatsuru
    No, now that I think about it,
    maybe he was threatening me?
[29:22] Tadatsuru
    Like, "if you laid a hand on my friends,
    I'll disclose your true nature."
SIGN    TO THINK HE HAD TAKEN COUNTERMEASURES TO PREPARE FOR A SITUATION THAT IS EXPECTED TO HAPPEN
[29:34] Tadatsuru
    This was the argument he had made.
[29:37] Tadatsuru
    "Koyomi Araragi and Shinobu Oshino."
[29:39] Tadatsuru
    "Currently, they are basically harmless."
[29:42] Tadatsuru
    "As long as you leave them untouched,
    there are no problems."
[29:45] Tadatsuru
    "However, I'm not saying cases
    that deviate from the norm don't exist."
[29:49] Tadatsuru
    "The case IS where Araragi-kun colludes with
    Shinobu-chan, and continues to vampirify himself."
[29:55] Tadatsuru
    In other words, that man was deeply concerned
    about the arrival of a situation
[30:01] Tadatsuru
    where you had to do as such, Araragi-kun.
[30:03] Tadatsuru
    He seemed to know you'd willingly be reckless
    when it came to situations of that sort.
[30:10] Koyomi
    Even if he knew...
[30:12] Tadatsuru
    If such turn of events were to happen,
    I may receive some sort of a request.
[30:17] Tadatsuru
    A request to hunt down vampires, that is.
[30:21] Tadatsuru
    He wanted me to "forget my grudges from the past,
    and seek contact with Gaen-senpai."
[30:26] Tadatsuru
    "And at that point, Gaen-senpai
    should be waiting to hear from you."
[30:31] Tadatsuru
    "Because Gaen-senpai can't move,
    as she has her position to hold."
[30:35] Tadatsuru
    Back then, I didn't really understand
    what he was talking about.
[30:40] Tadatsuru
    But in reality, things went exactly
    like he thought it would go.
[30:44] Tadatsuru
    And that's why, when that request came flying in,
    indeed, to exterminate you guys,
[30:50] Tadatsuru
    it sent shivers up my spine.
[30:53] Tadatsuru
    At the same time,
    I found it rather strange.
[30:56] Tadatsuru
    If he was so concerned
    about this turn of events,
[30:59] Tadatsuru
    why didn't Oshino want to do something
    about it on his own?
[31:03] Tadatsuru
    That was something I became intrigued in.
[31:05] Tadatsuru
    That's why I thought I'd play along
    with his little arrangement.
[31:10] Tadatsuru
    I contacted Gaen-senpai.
SIGN    AND SO, THE CURTAIN ROSE ON THE FARCE PLAY.
SIGN    CHAPTER 010
[31:24] Mayoi
    Araragi-san, that's your ride
    to go back to the material world.
[31:28] Mayoi
    You really are running out of time.
[31:31] Mayoi
    If you miss that thread, Araragi-san, you really
    will continue to burn forever here in Avici.
[31:38] Mayoi
    And so, Teori-san, I'm terribly sorry,
    but can you cut that story out about here?
[31:44] Koyomi
    No, wait, Hachikuji.
[31:47] Koyomi
    It wasn't okay to just
    merely turn down the request?
[31:52] Tadatsuru
    "It's better for me to play along
    with what the enemy intended."
[31:56] Tadatsuru
    That was the conclusion
    Gaen-senpai and I came to.
[32:01] Tadatsuru
    I did say it was better to play along
    with what they intended,
[32:04] Tadatsuru
    but their intent is not something
    I clearly understand.
[32:08] Tadatsuru
    I'm doing this because
    I want to find out what it is.
[32:11] Tadatsuru
    That, and simultaneously,
[32:14] Tadatsuru
    it was a measure necessary in order to stop
    progression of you turning into a vampire.
[32:19] Tadatsuru
    So that I can come to this side
    like this, and guide you...
[32:23] Tadatsuru
    Since it was right after
    I played a despicable character,
[32:26] Tadatsuru
    I also had to have some assistance
    from Hachikuji-chan right there to pull it off.
[32:31] Mayoi
    I was allowed to assist for this.
SIGN    KOYOMI ARARAGI TADATSURU TEORI
[32:33] Mayoi
    It's in the parenthesis, cameo appearance.
[32:35] Mayoi
    It shows up
    at the end of the ending credits.
SIGN    MAYOI HACHIKUJI  (CAMEO APPEARANCE)
[32:39] Koyomi
    So kill once to reset, and resurrect just
    the "human" part of my physical body, huh?
SIGN    IF SO, THEN, IT WOULD'VE BEEN NICE
SIGN    IF THEY TOLD ME IN ADVANCE,
SIGN    BUT IF THEY DIDN'T TELL ME, THAT MEANS
SIGN    THERE WERE CIRCUMSTANCES PREVENTING THEM FROM TELLING ME IN ADVANCE
SIGN    THAT PART MAY BE THE TACTIC THEY ARE TAKING AGAINST THE ENEMY
SIGN    THERE'S NO WAY FOR ME TO KNOW FROM MY VIEWPOINT.
[32:55] Tadatsuru
    Of course, if we were to use the demon sword
    "Yume Watari" to revive you
[32:59] Tadatsuru
    after killing you with
    the demon sword "Kokoro Watari,"
[33:02] Tadatsuru
    it may revive you
    just the way you were, as a vampire.
[33:06] Tadatsuru
    That would have put us back
    at square one.
[33:10] Tadatsuru
    In order to not do that, we needed me
[33:12] Tadatsuru
    to interfere as a specialist
    over from the hell side of things.
[33:17] Tadatsuru
    Without making that correction, there was
    nothing we could do against the enemy.
[33:25] Tadatsuru
    That was the mutual conclusion
    that both Gaen-senpai and I came to.
[33:31] Mayoi
    Let us be on our way, Araragi-san.
[33:41] Koyomi
    This thing is alive.
[33:50] Koyomi
    Come to think, I hadn't asked yet.
[33:52] Mayoi
    Yes?
[33:53] Koyomi
    I was supposedly slain at
    North Shirahebi Shrine in the real world.
[33:57] Koyomi
    Why did I wake up
    in that park over in hell?
[34:00] Mayoi
    That bothers you that much?
[34:02] Koyomi
    It's not enough to bother me per se, but...
SIGN    NO.
SIGN    I KNOW. I'M JUST DELAYING.
SIGN    TO CLIMB THIS WHITE SNAKE— TO RESURRECT BACK INTO LIFE.
SIGN    I'M DELAYING IT FURTHER AND FURTHER
SIGN    PARK
[34:10] Koyomi
    About the shift, well, I don't care.
[34:12] Koyomi
    But, if you know what the name
    of that park is, I'd like to know.
SIGN    NAMISHIRO
[34:18] Koyomi
    Is it "Namishiro," or "Rouhaku"?
[34:20] Tadatsuru
    "Shirohebi" Park.
[34:22] Tadatsuru
    The correct way to read the name
    is "Shirohebi" Park, if you go back to its origin.
[34:26] Koyomi
    Eh? Shirohebi?
SIGN    HEBI (SNAKE)
[34:29] Tadatsuru
    It's not the "insect" radical,
    but the "water" radical.
SIGN    HEBI
[34:32] Tadatsuru
    Shirohebi.
SIGN    SHIROHEBI
[34:34] Tadatsuru
    Somewhere along the way,
    someone miswrote and HEBI turned into NAMI.
[34:38] Tadatsuru
    It's why the location became hard to read.
SIGN    HEBI
SIGN    NAMI
[34:41] Koyomi
    Wait, "shirohebi"...
[34:43] Koyomi
    ...North "Shirahebi" Shrine.
SIGN    NORTH SHIRAHEBI SHRINE
[34:46] Tadatsuru
    Yup. That's what it means.
[34:48] Tadatsuru
    Originally, North Shirahebi Shrine
    used to be at that location.
[34:51] Tadatsuru
    That's why that slight shift occurred.
[34:53] Tadatsuru
    You've heard the story that this shrine
    was one that had been relocated, perhaps?
[34:58] Koyomi
    Yeah, that's—
[35:01] Koyomi
    I think it was a mistake in connection,
[35:03] Koyomi
    and became a reason for distortion,
    or something.
[35:06] Tadatsuru
    Right, as it was something like bringing
    the god of the seas on top of a mountain.
[35:11] Tadatsuru
    Though, to be precise, it wasn't a sea but a lake.
[35:15] Koyomi
    Lake? I think I've heard about that
    from someone at some point...
[35:21] Tadatsuru
    Well, you should
    get on your way soon, Araragi-kun.
[35:25] Tadatsuru
    Please give my regards
    to Gaen-senpai. And to Yotsugi.
[35:29] Tadatsuru
    Please cherish Yotsugi on my behalf as well.
[35:32] Koyomi
    Yeah, got it.
[35:35] Koyomi
    But is it all right
    for someone like me to resurrect?
SIGN    CHAPTER 011
[35:44] Koyomi
    Hachikuji!
[35:47] Mayoi
    "Is it all right
    for someone like me to resurrect?"
[35:50] Mayoi
    What kind of a statement is that?
[35:56] Mayoi
    What, Araragi-san.
    Are you chickening out?
[35:59] Mayoi
    You don't want
    to go through difficult ordeals?
[36:03] Mayoi
    Are you tired of it all?
[36:09] Koyomi
    No.
[36:11] Koyomi
    There really was a feeling
    like a tense thread snapping.
[36:16] Koyomi
    I didn't really have the feeling of
    "I was finally able to die," either.
[36:21] Mayoi
    You can only say that because
    you don't know the hardships of hell.
[36:24] Mayoi
    You really are quite fortunate
    merely because you can be resurrected.
SIGN    FORTUNATE
[36:31] Koyomi
    But I feel like there are tons of other people
    who deserve to be resurrected more than me.
[36:37] Koyomi
    Is it all right for me to be resurrected?
[36:40] Koyomi
    It's not that I don't want to be resurrected,
    but I feel I'm cutting in line when I shouldn't be.
[36:46] Mayoi
    You do, indeed!
[36:47] Mayoi
    You have the right to be resurrected.
[36:49] Mayoi
    Araragi-san, you have at least
    that much of a qualification.
[36:52] Mayoi
    Because you've done
    at least that much to begin with!
[36:55] Mayoi
    Yes, you have. I know all too well!
[37:02] Mayoi
    If you're not being resurrected,
    who are you saying should be resurrected?
[37:05] Mayoi
    Without a doubt,
    you are the first person in line!
[37:10] Mayoi
    If you say weak-minded things so much,
    I might end up hating you.
[37:21] Mayoi
    Listen up, Araragi-san.
[37:23] Mayoi
    The Araragi-san that I know...
[37:26] Mayoi
    loves girls, loves young girls, loves little girls,
    loves the skirt linings, loves women's hips,
[37:31] Mayoi
    loves big boobs, loves to be handled roughly,
    loves his older little sister,
[37:35] Mayoi
    loves his younger little sister, loves mature women,
    loves toplessness, loves bloomers,
[37:40] Mayoi
    loves school-issued swimsuits,
    loves class reps,
[37:42] Mayoi
    loves girls who use "boku,"
    loves cat ears, loves girls playing sports...
[37:46] Koyomi
    Hold on a second.
[37:47] Koyomi
    Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it!
[37:49] Koyomi
    My heart is about to completely snap right now.
[37:54] Mayoi
    And you were someone who loves to be alive.
SIGN    IT WAS SO OBVIOUS THAT I HAD FORGOTTEN.
SIGN    I CAME TO THE BRINK OF DEATH MANY, MANY TIMES— AND EACH TIME, I NARROWLY ESCAPED DEATH
SIGN    BECAUSE OF THAT, I HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN.
[38:04] Koyomi
    You're right.
[38:06] Koyomi
    If I'm not alive, I can't cherish girls at all.
[38:10] Mayoi
    Uhm, no, that's not exactly
    what I wanted to tell you.
[38:16] Koyomi
    To say there was a shift
    in the meaning of life...
[38:20] Koyomi
    There was plenty of meaning
    merely by staying alive.
[38:31] Koyomi
    If you love being alive,
    that's all you really needed.
[38:36] Koyomi
    Because I was able to love
    all sorts of things, and people.
[38:40] Mayoi
    When you say that in this context,
    it may be a bit misleading.
[38:46] Tadatsuru
    If I give the signal from this end, Gaen-senpai
    will pull you up from her end. That's about it.
[38:53] Koyomi
    Got it.
[38:54] Koyomi
    I'm much obliged, Tadatsuru.
[38:58] Koyomi
    Tadatsuru-san.
[38:59] Tadatsuru
    No need to be formal
    after all we've been through.
[39:02] Tadatsuru
    As long as you continue to attempt protecting
    Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade,
[39:07] Tadatsuru
    ...you will be my enemy.
[39:11] Koyomi
    Even then, I'm much obliged
    for this particular case.
[39:15] Koyomi
    I never thought I'd be able
    to chat with you like this.
[39:19] Koyomi
    Someday, when we have time,
    I'd like to settle down and talk with you again.
[39:25] Tadatsuru
    If you don't mind doing so
    while we kill each other.
[39:31] Koyomi
    Hachikuji.
    What are you going to do from here?
[39:34] Mayoi
    What?
[39:35] Mayoi
    Me? After I see you off, Araragi-san,
[39:39] Mayoi
    I'm going back to the banks of hell
    to pile stones up every day.
[39:42] Mayoi
    Perhaps I may reincarnate as the child
    of you and Senjyogahara-san.
[39:48] Koyomi
    That's pretty heavy.
[39:50] Mayoi
    Now then.
[39:55] Koyomi
    I'm good. Send me off at any time.
[39:58] Tadatsuru
    Then, let's countdown.
[40:01] Tadatsuru
    10... 9...
[40:03] Tadatsuru
    8...
[40:04] Tadatsuru
    7...
[40:05] Tadatsuru
    6...
[40:06] Tadatsuru
    5...
[40:07] Tadatsuru
    4... 3...
[40:09] Tadatsuru
    2...
[40:10] Tadatsuru
    1...
[40:11] Tadatsuru
    Ignition.
[40:18] Koyomi
    That's right. Hachikuji said the first person
    who should be resurrected is me.
[40:23] Koyomi
    But, at the least, I am being
    resurrected by shoving Hachikuji aside.
[40:29] Koyomi
    To part with Mayoi Hachikuji...
[40:32] Koyomi
    How many times does this make?
[40:35] Koyomi
    H-Hachikuji!
[40:46] Tadatsuru
    Oh, Araragi-kun, one more thing!
[40:50] Tadatsuru
    I'll tell you the name of the "enemy"
    who requested me to exterminate you!
[40:57] Tadatsuru
    Ougi.
[40:59] Tadatsuru
    Ougi Oshino.
SIGN    CHAPTER 012
[41:05] Koyomi
    This is the epilogue,
    or the punch line for this episode.
[41:16] Izuko
    Really...
[41:17] Izuko
    To bring Hachikuji-chan with you, Koyomin.
[41:20] Izuko
    You always are someone who goes
    way beyond any of my expectations.
[41:25] Izuko
    But for now, Koyomin,
[41:27] Izuko
    can you please ask this scary,
    beautiful lady to pull back her claws?
[41:32] Kiss-shot
    Hey, you.
[41:37] Kiss-shot
    Hmph. Well, I guess both needless killings
    and futile gashes have been avoided.
[41:42] Kiss-shot
    Though, it was the first time for me
    to see "Yume Watari" activate.
[42:08] Kiss-shot
    You fool, you made me worry.
[42:11] Kiss-shot
    And, you abducted a young girl from hell.
    You really are reckless.
[42:20] Koyomi
    Hey, Shinobu. This is really bad
    no matter how you think about it, right?
[42:24] Koyomi
    Did once again, Hachikuji fulfill the conditions
    for the "darkness" to be triggered?
[42:28] Izuko
    And I'm saying that's why
    you made a fine play, Koyomin.
[42:32] Izuko
    Thanks to Koyomin's miracle here,
[42:35] Izuko
    it looks like we'll be able to take
    a slight advantage in the battles to come.
[42:38] Izuko
    The lost girl.
    She's a pawn that I had been wanting.
[42:43] Izuko
    But with how things are turning out,
[42:44] Izuko
    it looks like I must request help
    for a little while longer.
[42:53] Izuko
    For now, Koyomin, I want you
    to head over to your entrance exams.
[42:57] Izuko
    If you head over now, you'll still make it.
[42:59] Izuko
    Do your best.
[43:00] Koyomi
    Well, I will do my best.
[43:06] Izuko
    Koyomin, I'll have you working for me
    starting tomorrow.
[43:09] Izuko
    Everything will be over
    before the graduation ceremony.
[43:12] Izuko
    I have all of my weapons now.
[43:14] Izuko
    Let's settle the score, Koyomin.
[43:17] Izuko
    Strangely enough, tomorrow is White Day, right?
[43:20] Izuko
    It's the perfect timing to end the story of this town,
    where a white snake once reigned.
[43:27] Izuko
    We're starting our counterattack!

E2 - Chapter Two - Hitagi Rendezvous
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[00:09] Koyomi
    I truly love Hitagi Senjyogahara.
[00:11] Koyomi
    I can say so without shame.
[00:14] Koyomi
    However, to think that I would actually feel
    about someone else in this manner...
[00:20] Koyomi
    ...was something that would never
    cross my mind a year ago.
[00:24] Koyomi
    To love someone else...
    was something I feared.
[00:29] Koyomi
    Then why was I so cowardly about
    loving someone like that?
[00:38] Koyomi
    That is a simple, straightforward story.
    It was just a self-preservation instinct.
[00:44] Koyomi
    I loved who I was,
    and I was afraid of losing that.
[00:47] Koyomi
    I was scared of changing.
[00:49] Koyomi
    I was scared of being changed.
[00:56] Koyomi
    If I don't abandon the
    foundation of narcissism,
[00:59] Koyomi
    I can't possibly love anyone
    other than myself.
[01:04] Koyomi
    For this one point, perhaps Hitagi
    Senjyogahara feels more strongly about it than I do.
[01:10] Koyomi
    And, I think that's perfectly fine.
[01:13] Koyomi
    Her affection is... probably...
[01:15] Koyomi
    ...too heavy a burden to
    point just at herself.
[01:18] Koyomi
    It's just about right when
    she shares it with me.
[01:21] Koyomi
    After imagining that far, I had a thought.
[01:24] Koyomi
    I truly love Hitagi Senjyogahara.
[01:27] Koyomi
    And I can say so without
    shame... but in return,
[01:31] Koyomi
    from some point, perhaps I
    have lost my narcissism.
[01:35] Koyomi
    Sure enough, am I able to love
    myself just like I love her?
[01:41] Koyomi
    If that is not the case...
[01:45] Koyomi
    I am as good as dead as a human.
SIGN    Part One
SIGN    March 13th
[01:55] Hitagi
    We're going on a date.
[01:58] Hitagi
    That's not it. That's not how it goes.
[02:00] Koyomi
    N-Not it?
[02:02] Hitagi
    Well, it's been quite a while since the last
    time I had a proper appearance like this,
[02:05] Hitagi
    so I've forgotten what
    my character is like.
[02:10] Hitagi
    Date me.
[02:14] Koyomi
    I-Isn't your character straying
    off course, Senjyogahara-san?
[02:17] Hitagi
    Tomorrow. Let us use the day called
    tomorrow to its full potential,
[02:21] Hitagi
    and go on a date worth six
    months' time, Araragi-kun.
[02:23] Hitagi
    Do you understand what I am talking about?
[02:27] Koyomi
    No, unfortunately, not at all...
[02:29] ---
    Recording
[02:30] Hitagi
    Then, I will explain it to you, much
    like the supplementary audio channel.
[02:35] Hitagi
    First off, thank you for all
    the hard work, Araragi-kun.
[02:37] ---
    Araragi
[02:38] Hitagi
    You gave so much effort until today, so
    even if it doesn't lead to good results,
[02:42] Hitagi
    you shouldn't feel ashamed.
[02:44] Hitagi
    You have already completed your mission.
[02:46] Koyomi
    Can you stop moving along on the
    premise that I don't get accepted?
[02:49] Koyomi
    That's not kindness, but consolation.
[02:51] Koyomi
    Don't set up foreshadowing for consolation.
    I haven't said anything yet.
[02:55] Koyomi
    It's not over until the results are out.
[02:57] Hitagi
    No, it is already over.
[02:59] Hitagi
    Your battle ended right here.
[03:05] Hitagi
    And so...
[03:06] Hitagi
    I have been voluntarily refraining
    from dates for the past
[03:09] Hitagi
    six months or so, and want to resume them.
[03:11] Hitagi
    That is what I am desiring, Araragi-kun.
[03:15] Hitagi
    I will use all the points I
    have saved up until now.
[03:17] Hitagi
    Strangely enough, tomorrow is
    March 14th, White Day.
[03:21] Hitagi
    It is an anniversary perfectly
    suited for a date.
[03:25] Hitagi
    You just thought how you hated
    anniversaries right now, didn't you?
SIGN    How did that come across even when I'm silent?
SIGN    Can telepathy really be this one-sided?
[03:34] Hitagi
    Our graduation ceremony is the day
    after tomorrow, Araragi-kun.
SIGN    Monday,  March 13th
[03:37] Hitagi
    In other words, the way we are now,
[03:39] Hitagi
    we will end our blossoming days in
    high school with hardly any dates.
SIGN    Naoetsu High
[03:43] Hitagi
    Isn't that just too sad a thing?
[03:45] Koyomi
    Well, if you put it that way...
[03:48] Hitagi
    That's why.
[03:49] Hitagi
    We are going to go on enough
    dates for the past six months'
[03:51] Hitagi
    worth in one fell swoop
    tomorrow, Araragi-kun.
[03:53] Hitagi
    In other words, it's the
    abridged "digest" version.
[03:55] Hitagi
    We are going to execute the highlight
    reel of our high school life.
[03:58] Koyomi
    Highlight reel...?
SIGN    The main portion doesn't even exist - how are  you going to create a digest version of it?
[04:01] Hitagi
    I've already got the scoop
    on you, Araragi-kun.
[04:04] Koyomi
    Eh?
[04:05] Hitagi
    Araragi-kun, your body somehow
    has recovered, so I hear?
[04:09] Koyomi
    Oh, well...
[04:11] Hitagi
    So for you, Araragi-kun,
    all your pending issues,
[04:13] Hitagi
    both the entrance exams and your
    physical body, are done, yes?
[04:16] Hitagi
    It means that they have come
    to a conclusion, right?
[04:19] Hitagi
    Then, there should be no reason why you
    should hesitate in going out on a date with me.
[04:23] Hitagi
    If there's any time to resolve the status
    of lacking dates, that time is now.
[04:27] Koyomi
    Status of lacking dates?
[04:30] Hitagi
    And so, you should go on a
    date with me, Araragi-kun.
[04:37] Koyomi
    I get it, Senjyogahara.
[04:39] Koyomi
    It'll be more of the wrap-up ending
    than a highlight reel...
[04:41] Koyomi
    Let's use the day tomorrow to its fullest,
    and go on six months' worth of dates.
[04:45] Hitagi
    Oh, I'm sorry. The full day is a bit much...
[04:49] Hitagi
    I have something I need
    to do in the evening.
[04:51] Koyomi
    Eh?
[04:52] Hitagi
    So, it's more like early in the morning
    until late afternoon, or something like that.
[05:00] Hitagi
    It's fine. All plans are already in here.
SIGN    I'd be lying if I said that...
SIGN    ...I didn't feel a vague sense of anxiety.
[05:07] Koyomi
    Roger, roger... Araragi, roger that.
[05:09] Koyomi
    By the way, what's this that you
    need to do in the evening?
[05:14] Hitagi
    See, tomorrow is White Day, right?
[05:17] Hitagi
    So I'm going out to dinner
    with Father in the evening.
[05:24] Yotsugi
    Date? Tomorrow?
[05:26] Yotsugi
    Come on now, you should tell me
    these things a bit earlier.
[05:29] Yotsugi
    It's a bit rushed.
[05:30] Yotsugi
    I have my own circumstances, too.
[05:33] Yotsugi
    But well, it can't be helped.
[05:35] Yotsugi
    This is for Devilish Big Brother's
    sake. I'll somehow make some time.
[05:38] Koyomi
    Wait, why are you speaking on the
    premise that you are tagging along?
[05:41] Koyomi
    What kind of position are you taking?
[05:45] Yotsugi
    What is it?
[05:46] Yotsugi
    Devilish Big Brother. Big
    Demo-ther for short.
[05:49] Yotsugi
    You are staring at my face.
[05:51] Yotsugi
    Is there anything stuck (tsuku) on my
    face? After all, I'm a Tsukumo-gami.
[05:55] Koyomi
    Well, hold on a second.
[05:56] Koyomi
    Ononoki-chan, I have a serious topic
    to talk about. You have a moment?
[05:59] Yotsugi
    I am always serious. I have never had any
    conversation that was not serious.
[06:03] Yotsugi
    Being serious (majime) got so bad that they
    called me Grapevine Stretch (manji-gatame).
[06:08] Yotsugi
    I see.
[06:10] Koyomi
    Come on. You don't feel anything after
    hearing tales of Tadatsuru, one of your creators?
[06:15] Koyomi
    He told me to send you his regards.
[06:17] Yotsugi
    Not really. I told you, right?
[06:20] Yotsugi
    Don't ask me to harbor
    such humanly emotions.
[06:23] Yotsugi
    Even if he was dead to begin with, even if he's
    immortal in some way, even if he's a living doll,
[06:28] Yotsugi
    that doesn't change the implications
    of what I have done.
[06:31] Yotsugi
    Not for the implications
    on you, Big Demo-ther.
[06:34] Yotsugi
    However, there are other
    important matters for me.
SIGN    I can't keep from speaking about her master, Kagenui-san.
[06:38] Yotsugi
    Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade
    has fully revived.
[06:44] Yotsugi
    Let's hear the details about that.
[06:47] Yotsugi
    That is something that directly
    relates to my own safety.
[06:54] Yotsugi
    I had thought she was a young
    girl that were some dregs,
[06:56] Yotsugi
    so I've been merciless with the insults.
[06:59] Yotsugi
    But, if she is back to her complete self, I
    have to alter that attitude drastically.
[07:05] Yotsugi
    Big Demo-ther.
[07:06] Yotsugi
    Can you teach me how to speak politely?
[07:07] ---
    Black Scene
[07:09] Yotsugi
    Is Heart-under-blade-sama taking a drink
    (kikoshi-mesu) within that shadow?
[07:12] Koyomi
    You're using the phrase
    "kikoshi-mesu" wrong.
SIGN    I'm guessing that the intended question was  whether or not she was lurking inside the shadow.
[07:17] Koyomi
    No, she's not here.
[07:21] Koyomi
    Shinobu is with Gaen-san
    together with Hachikuji.
[07:25] Koyomi
    A meeting, or rather, a discussion,
    about what to do from here on.
[07:28] Yotsugi
    "What to do from here on"
    arouses my interest.
[07:31] Yotsugi
    After all, Big Demo-ther, you finally were
    able to return to being a normal guy.
[07:35] Yotsugi
    What, are you still going to
    do something from here on?
[07:38] Yotsugi
    Even if it is exactly what Gaen-san wants?
[07:40] Koyomi
    Well, concerning that case, I don't
    think I gave a clear answer...
[07:45] Koyomi
    Besides, there's the bit
    about Kagenui-san, too.
SIGN    Yoduru Kagenui
SIGN    And—Meme Oshino. Where are they now?
[07:51] Yotsugi
    If it's about Big Brother Oshino, isn't he
    just leading his usual wandering lifestyle?
[07:57] Koyomi
    We've gone this far to search for him, but
    he's still nowhere to be found, you know?
[08:01] Koyomi
    Even the Hanekawa is searching,
    and can't find him, right?
SIGN    Yeah. The girl that doesn't run everything...
SIGN    No, that doesn't know everything.
[08:05] Yotsugi
    It's not like that person is a professional
    at finding people or anything.
[08:09] Yotsugi
    Well, I have no intent on meddling
    in how you think, Big Demo-ther.
[08:13] Yotsugi
    By the way, in the case of Big Sister,
[08:15] Yotsugi
    I deduce that she went on a trip to
    perfect her martial arts skills.
[08:18] Koyomi
    But Ononoki-chan, what will you do if
    Kagenui-san is gone like this and never returns?
[08:23] Koyomi
    What happens if Kagenui-san
    doesn't come to pick you up?
[08:25] Yotsugi
    In that case...
[08:27] Yotsugi
    I guess I'd have to be
    in this house forever.
[08:29] Yotsugi
    Of course, Big Demo-ther, if you
    get married and leave this house,
[08:32] Yotsugi
    I'll tag along to wherever you go.
[08:34] Koyomi
    Don't be putting up some
    preposterous plan for your life.
[08:36] Koyomi
    What do you mean, "of course (touzen)"?
[08:38] Yotsugi
    Would it have been better to say
    "astonishingly (gakuzen)"?
[08:40] Yotsugi
    But still, Big Demo-ther, watching over you is
    the task that I am currently assigned to do.
[08:45] Yotsugi
    Until I am relieved of that, I can't
    possibly separate myself from you.
[08:48] Yotsugi
    In other words...
[08:49] Yotsugi
    If Big Sister is gone like
    this and never returns,
[08:52] Yotsugi
    Big Demo-ther, you and I will
    be in an eternal fellowship.
[08:55] Koyomi
    Eternal...
SIGN    Back to the main story
[08:57] Yotsugi
    By the way, Big Demo-ther.
[09:00] Yotsugi
    By the way, by the way, Big Demo-ther.
[09:02] Yotsugi
    How in the world did those
    college entrance exams go?
[09:04] Koyomi
    Well, I did what I could. You did take
    care of me, so thank you for that.
[09:09] Yotsugi
    You're welcome.
[09:10] Yotsugi
    Were the results being announced after the
    graduation ceremony, or beforehand?
[09:13] Koyomi
    After.
[09:15] Yotsugi
    Hmm, then it may be a good idea to
    have the date sooner than later.
[09:19] Yotsugi
    After all, it'd be hard to go out
    after one of the two gets rejected.
[09:24] Koyomi
    I would like to think Senjyogahara didn't set
    the date to be tomorrow from such an intent...
[09:34] Tsukihi
    Big Brother!
[09:35] Tsukihi
    You took one of the plushies from
    my room again, didn't you!?
[09:38] Tsukihi
    Oh!
[09:40] Tsukihi
    Here it is! Just as I thought!
[09:41] Tsukihi
    Geez, stop it already. Don't enter
    my room without permission!
[09:44] Tsukihi
    You have it lying on your bed and stuff.
[09:46] Tsukihi
    You weren't using it for weird things
    or anything, were you, Big Brother?
[09:49] Tsukihi
    This is my precious plushie.
[09:51] Koyomi
    No, it wouldn't even be exaggerating
    if I said I was entertaining it...
[09:55] Tsukihi
    I'm not the type that has a
    lot of plushies and stuff.
[09:59] Tsukihi
    But for some reason, I feel sympathy
    for this particular plushie.
[10:03] Tsukihi
    That's why I've told you again and
    again that you can't take it out!
[10:07] Koyomi
    Sympathy, huh?
[10:09] Tsukihi
    Big Brother, you were home.
[10:11] Tsukihi
    Now that entrance exams are over,
    you can play as much as you want!
[10:15] Tsukihi
    Big Brother is going to be in
    college from next month, huh?
[10:18] Tsukihi
    That's cause for celebration! I'll
    prepare for a celebration!
[10:21] Tsukihi
    Tonight, we'll gather all the neighborhood
    middle school girls, and have a party!
[10:24] Koyomi
    So optimistic...
[10:25] Koyomi
    Hm... That's not a bad proposal,
[10:28] Koyomi
    but unfortunately, I already have
    an appointment for tomorrow.
[10:30] Koyomi
    But, if it's sometime this month,
    I can manage to make some time.
[10:34] Tsukihi
    Oh, Big Brother, you've gained
    some composure now.
[10:38] Tsukihi
    Until a short while ago,
[10:39] Tsukihi
    when your little sister invited you to go
    play, you just punched her on the spot.
[10:43] Koyomi
    Was I that raging a big brother?
[10:45] Tsukihi
    Then, we'll say sometime this month.
[10:47] Koyomi
    Yeah. I'll leave you to do the planning.
[10:50] Tsukihi
    I see, but Big Brother's going on a date
    with Senjyogahara-san tomorrow, huh.
[10:55] Tsukihi
    I'm jealous that you're so lovey-dovey..
[10:57] Tsukihi
    I've been dating Rousokuzawa-kun for so
    long that we've basically settled down.
[11:02] Tsukihi
    Or rather, he invited me to go
    out somewhere for White Day...
[11:04] Tsukihi
    ...but for some reason or
    another, I declined.
[11:07] Koyomi
    Wait, huh? Did I tell you that my prior
    appointment was with Senjyogahara?
[11:12] Tsukihi
    I can tell even if you didn't tell me.
[11:14] Tsukihi
    A prior appointment on March 14th means that
    it's with a lover, or with Einstein.
[11:19] Koyomi
    If it was with Einstein, that
    would be a huge deal!
[11:24] Koyomi
    Well, you're right.
[11:25] Tsukihi
    All right, then tomorrow I'll
    go visit Nadeko-chan.
[11:31] Tsukihi
    She got released from the hospital, but
    she's still resting up back at home.
[11:35] Tsukihi
    Apparently, she'll start going
    to school in the new term.
[11:38] Tsukihi
    I'm sure she's lonely if she's
    cooped up all alone in the house,
[11:40] Tsukihi
    so I should go over and be really rowdy!
[11:43] Koyomi
    You're going there pretty often.
[11:46] Koyomi
    To be honest, it's unexpected.
[11:47] Koyomi
    Even if you said you were friends,
[11:49] Koyomi
    you and Sengoku didn't give me an image
    that you were that good friends.
[11:53] Tsukihi
    That's not true. We're
    totally best friends!
[11:58] Tsukihi
    She told me a secret the other day, too.
[12:01] Koyomi
    A secret? What's that?
[12:03] Tsukihi
    It's a secret, so of course
    I won't tell you.
[12:06] Koyomi
    Eh?
[12:08] Tsukihi
    Now, now... Leave Nadeko-chan to me,
[12:11] Tsukihi
    and Big Brother, you can just go
    lovey-dovey with Senjyogahara-san!
SIGN    March 14th
SIGN    Naoetsu
SIGN    Judging from the plates,
SIGN    it's a rental car.
SIGN    201
[12:30] ---
    Black Scene
[12:34] Hitagi
    Welcome to a wonderful today.
[12:37] Hitagi
    I tried to be conscious of
    the old Hanekawa-san.
[12:40] Koyomi
    Your sense of friendship
    is a bit too big a burden...
[12:43] Hitagi
    Even for you, Araragi-kun,
[12:45] Hitagi
    doesn't it make you happier if I got myself
    closer to what Hanekawa-san is like?
[12:50] Koyomi
    That's another heavy statement there...
[12:52] Hitagi
    Now, let's go. I have to
    be back here by 7:00PM.
[12:57] Hitagi
    I can't be late for my appointment with
    Father, so we have to hurry things a bit..
[13:01] Hitagi
    We don't have a moment to spare!
[13:03] Koyomi
    Um, can you not have your dinner with
     your father tonight be your main event for today?
[13:08] Koyomi
    It's okay if it's the main event for you,
[13:09] Koyomi
    but please don't bring it to words.
[13:12] Hitagi
    Heh.
[13:13] Hitagi
    Then, why don't you quiet
    me down with a kiss?
[13:20] Hitagi
    Now, go into the passenger seat.
[13:23] Koyomi
    Eh?
[13:25] Koyomi
    Eeh?
[13:26] Koyomi
    Eeeeehh?
[13:28] Koyomi
    Waitgahara-san,
[13:29] Koyomi
    Wait, wait, wait, wait!
[13:31] Koyomi
    Perhaps it may be, but can it be that
    you're driving the car today!?
[13:37] Koyomi
    You're going to be controlling
    the steering wheel?
[13:39] Koyomi
    Hitagi Drivergahara!?
[13:42] Hitagi
    Ta-dee-dah!
SIGN    Name: Hitagi Senjyogahara
SIGN    Valid Until August 7th
[13:45] Hitagi
    Hehe, were you surprised?
[13:47] Hitagi
    Araragi-kun, while you were feverishly
    studying for entrance exams,
[13:50] Hitagi
    I was also studying hard for the exam
    to obtain a driver's license, too.
[13:56] Hitagi
    Got it on the first shot.
[13:59] Koyomi
    Y-Y-You know your school rules!?
[14:02] Koyomi
    Not only would acceptance to a college
    by recommendation be cancelled,
[14:05] Koyomi
    this level of barbarism will cast
    shadows on graduation, too.
[14:08] Koyomi
    In the first place, Senjyogahara,
    why did you do such a thing?
[14:12] Hitagi
    I mean, I didn't have to go
    to school for the third term,
[14:15] Hitagi
    so I was bored, so bored,
    that I couldn't help it.
SIGN    An idle brain is the devil's shop.
[14:19] Hitagi
    Besides, see? Araragi-kun, you probably wouldn't
     be able to obtain a driver's license,
[14:22] ---
    so I thought I'd get ahead.
[14:27] Hitagi
    Well, in the end that turned out to be
    unnecessary anxiety for me, it seems.
[14:32] ---
    Photo Booth
[14:32] Koyomi
    Until yesterday, one symptom of the physical
    advancement of my vampiric nature...
[14:36] Koyomi
    ...caused me to not show
    up in photographs.
SIGN    Test #
[14:40] Koyomi
    That means I would not be able to have
    a driver's license issued to me...
SIGN    Name: Koyomi Araragi
[14:44] Koyomi
    And so for that aspect, Senjyogahara was
    being attentive in her own way, I guess.
[14:49] Koyomi
    When I think about it that way, it was
    misconduct that was hard for me to scold her for.
[14:53] ---
    Black Scene
[14:53] Koyomi
    No, wait, that just can't be.
[14:55] Koyomi
    Don't think that I'd get
    moved by emotions.
[14:58] Koyomi
    I won't be moved by affection, either.
[15:02] Koyomi
    If you become unable to graduate, that
    would mean you had the wrong priorities.
[15:05] Hitagi
    If that happens, I'll break
    up with you, Araragi-kun,
[15:07] Hitagi
    and be chummy with Kanbaru,
    so I'll be fine.
[15:10] Koyomi
    Don't nonchalantly say that
    you'll break up with me.
[15:12] Koyomi
    And Kanbaru would surely get
    slightly bewildered by that,
[15:14] Koyomi
    if she ends up in the same class as you.
[15:17] Hitagi
    I think she'd rejoice
    in a carefree manner.
[15:22] Koyomi
    It seems like I'm the one
    that has to compromise.
[15:26] Hitagi
    Araragi-kun, you're the one that needs
    to remember to fasten your seatbelt.
[15:31] Koyomi
    Yeah, I know...
[15:33] Koyomi
    I don't have enough courage to ride with someone
    who just got their license without a seatbelt.
[15:37] Koyomi
    Normally I'm called a raging bull,
    but for today, I'm a chicken.
SIGN    BABY ON   BOARD
[15:41] Koyomi
    If possible, I'd even like
    to be in a child-seat.
[15:46] Koyomi
    So, where is our destination?
[15:49] Hitagi
    The planetarium.
[15:52] Koyomi
    Planetarium?
[15:54] Hitagi
    Yes. Planetarium.
[16:23] Hitagi
    Oh, by the way, Araragi-kun.
[16:25] Hitagi
    I received a phone call from
    Hanekawa-san last night.
[16:27] Koyomi
    Eh? Really?
[16:29] Hitagi
    Yes. It was something about somehow being
    able to make it back for graduation.
[16:33] Koyomi
    I see...
[16:37] Koyomi
    It feels like I haven't seen Hanekawa
    in quite a long time now.
[16:43] Koyomi
    What? That means that she called
    you, but she didn't call me?
[16:49] Hitagi
    Right.
[16:50] Hitagi
    I wonder why Hanekawa-san
    didn't call Araragi-kun.
[16:54] Hitagi
    Perhaps it was because I told her
    that I'll tell you for her.
[16:59] Koyomi
    No other reason can be thought of!
SIGN    "Tsubasa Hanekawa-sama,  The weather has been warming up lately. How have you been doing?  I have acknowledged your intent to attend the Naoetsu High School Graduation Ceremony on 3/14.   I am very pleased that we will be able to share in the joy of that day together.   (Excised)  Note that I will tell all parties involved, particularly Koyomi Araragi, about this, so no need to worry.  (Excised)  So Please do not contact Koyomi Araragi yourself.   Thank you.  PS: Please do not called Araragi-kun Directly"
[17:01] Hitagi
    Specifically, it might be because I asked
    her to not call you, Araragi-kun.
[17:05] Koyomi
    You went that far? You said something that
    specific? Why did you do such a thing?
SIGN    Petition
SIGN    Petition
SIGN    Petition
[17:11] Hitagi
    Oh, that's right. I had been given a message
    by Hanekawa-san to convey to you.
[17:15] Koyomi
    Convey?
SIGN    That's some mysterious polite talk.
[17:17] Hitagi
    She said she found Oshino-san.
[17:20] Koyomi
    Hmm...
[17:21] Koyomi
    Huh!?
[17:25] Koyomi
    Seriously?
[17:26] Hitagi
    Seriously.
[17:27] Hitagi
    Well, to be precise, the story was that she
    found out where Oshino-san was hiding...
[17:32] Hitagi
    Though, I don't remember it too well.
[17:34] Koyomi
    I beg of you, please remember.
    Give it everything you got.
[17:39] Hitagi
    Though, she said after many deductions,
[17:41] Hitagi
    Oshino-san's possible whereabouts were
    narrowed down to two locations.
[17:45] Koyomi
    Two locations?
[17:46] Hitagi
    Yes. I wasn't interested so I didn't ask about the
    details. But that's definitely what she had said.
[17:52] Hitagi
    I wonder what it was.
[17:56] Hitagi
    She said it was the reverse.
[17:58] Koyomi
    Reverse?
[17:59] Hitagi
    Yes. That her approach was the reverse.
[18:02] Koyomi
    Reverse? What does that mean?
[18:05] Hitagi
    She was making remarks such as
    "This is a pen" or something.
[18:08] Koyomi
    Making remarks?
[18:10] Koyomi
    "This is a pen"?
SIGN    There is much to think about,
SIGN    and I'm still worried,
SIGN    but it seems there's nothing I can do in my current state.
[18:17] Koyomi
    What other stuff did you
    talk about with Hanekawa?
[18:20] Koyomi
    Did she say anything other
    than the bit about Oshino?
[18:22] Hitagi
    Let's see. I consulted with her
    about my plans for today's date.
[18:26] Hitagi
    I'll confess.
[18:28] Hitagi
    Actually, it was Hanekawa-san's
    idea that it would be good
[18:30] Hitagi
    to first head over to a planetarium.
[18:32] Koyomi
    Is that so?
[18:34] Hitagi
    Personally, a planetarium is a place
    where I frequently go to begin with.
[18:38] Hitagi
    So, for me, it doesn't feel like
    much of a special event.
[18:42] Hitagi
    But, it's rather stylish to go
    together with you, Araragi-kun.
[18:46] Koyomi
    Hmm... But, that said, wouldn't it be a date
    that's lacking in amusement for you?
[18:52] Hitagi
    Well, when I go to a planetarium,
    it's not for leisure,
[18:56] Hitagi
    and the side about learning
    something tends to kick in...
[18:59] Hitagi
    Once in a while, I'd like to head into seeing
    artificial stars without mentally preparing to do so.
[19:03] Hitagi
    It's not a case where I lack enthusiasm,
    either. So, rest assured in that aspect as well.
[19:07] Koyomi
    The side about learning
    something? Oh, I see.
[19:11] Koyomi
    You were rather acrobatic for
    being a student at our school...
[19:15] Koyomi
    in selecting geoscience for
    your science elective.
SIGN    I must say, I don't even know what  people study in the field of geoscience...
SIGN    For Senjyogahara, who cherishes memories of going to  the observatory with her family  when she was young,
SIGN    it seems that she has special emotions  invested into celestial bodies after all.
[19:24] Koyomi
    I want to know something.
[19:26] Koyomi
    Senjyogahara, what do you
    study in geoscience?
[19:29] Koyomi
    It's not like you simply learn all
    about celestial bodies, right?
[19:33] Hitagi
    To be precise, it's an abbreviated
    form of "earth sciences".
SIGN    Earth Sciences
[19:37] Hitagi
    In other words, we mainly learn about
    Earth as a celestial body, I guess.
[19:41] Hitagi
    I can't help it that my fascination points
    towards the entire universe, though.
[19:46] Hitagi
    Someday, I'd like to draw the perfect space
    map, and be dubbed Tadataka Inou the Second.
[19:51] Hitagi
    That's my dream.
[19:52] Koyomi
    Tadataka Inou the Second...
[19:55] Hitagi
    That is what I want to do in college.
SIGN    This is the first I've heard of this.
SIGN    But my girlfriend is striving  to become an astronaut...
SIGN    Is that for real?
[20:00] Koyomi
    More like, what's a space
    map? Such a thing exists?
[20:05] Hitagi
    Most of space is a vacuum,
    and galaxies, groups of stars,
[20:09] Hitagi
    are sporadically placed in it.
[20:12] Hitagi
    Probability-wise, it seems like stars are
    dispersed equally within the vacuum,
[20:17] Hitagi
    but in reality nothing like that happens.
[20:19] Hitagi
    The stars clump up, and exist
    terribly out of balance.
[20:22] Hitagi
    Drawing that into a diagram
    is a space map.
[20:26] Hitagi
    Perhaps stars are like people,
    and easily feels loneliness.
[20:33] Koyomi
    You talk like this is a lesson,
[20:34] Koyomi
    but I've never seen an actual space map, so
    it just doesn't click with me at all...
[20:39] Hitagi
    By the way, a space map is not a square like
    a map of the world, or a map of Japan.
[20:45] Hitagi
    It's in the shape of a hand fan (ougi).
[20:49] Koyomi
    Ougi...
[20:50] Koyomi
    To that word, I... don't react.
SIGN    Part Two
[21:07] Ougi
    Yes, yes, hello there, Araragi-senpai.
[21:11] Ougi
    This is Ougi Oshino.
[21:12] Ougi
    Now today, we will be studying
    about constellations.
[21:17] Koyomi
    I realized right away
    that this was a dream.
[21:23] Ougi
    For Araragi-senpai, who lives in Japan, the
    constellations in the southern skies may be difficult.
[21:29] Ougi
    Though my rival, Hanekawa-senpai, may perhaps
    be looking at them now from around Australia.
[21:36] Ougi
    No, but really,
[21:37] Ougi
    the southern hemisphere has many unfamiliar
    constellations, so it is amusing.
[21:42] Ougi
    There is Chameleon over that way.
[21:45] Ougi
    There's also Pictor (easel) and Vela (sail).
[21:48] Ougi
    There's even a constellation
    called Hydrus (water snake).
SIGN    Water Snake
SIGN    Snake—with a "water" radical
[21:52] Ougi
    I guess it's what we would call
    the Hydra (sea snake).
[21:56] Ougi
    Surely you know of this one, the Hydra?
[21:59] Ougi
    It's the biggest of the 88 constellations.
[22:03] Ougi
    Though, it's difficult to determine how the
    size of a constellation is measured.
[22:11] Ougi
    When you think of it three-dimensionally,
    it pretty much falls apart.
[22:14] Ougi
    However, the presence
    that this Hydra has...
[22:18] Ougi
    ...reminds one of Kiss-shot
    Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade.
[22:25] Ougi
    They call the creature
    in Hydra a "sea snake",
[22:28] Ougi
    but it actually points to
    the legendary hydras.
[22:32] Ougi
    Do you know what a hydra is?
[22:33] Ougi
    It's not an exaggeration
    to say it's immortal.
[22:36] Ougi
    It's a monster that keeps regenerating
    no matter how much you cut off.
[22:40] Ougi
    The one that defeats that hydra is
    the famous, courageous Heracles.
[22:47] Ougi
    You probably cannot defeat Kiss-shot
    Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade with this method,
[22:53] Ougi
    but he chopped the nine heads
    of the hydra one by one,
[22:56] Ougi
    and burnt the cut sections shut with a
    flame to prevent them from regenerating.
[23:02] Ougi
    As a side note, during this fight
    between Heracles and the hydra,
[23:06] Ougi
    the crab from Cancer sided with the
    hydra and attacked Heracles.
[23:12] Ougi
    It used its big claws you know
    of to cut at Heracles.
[23:16] Ougi
    Its attitude of challenging a giant
    enemy with a small weapon is,
[23:19] Ougi
    in fact, Senjyogahara-senpai herself.
[23:22] Ougi
    When you awaken, please tell
    Senjyogahara-senpai about this episode,
[23:27] Ougi
    so that you can be well-liked.
[23:30] Ougi
    Serpens, the one that isn't Hydra,
[23:33] Ougi
    is also a symbol of immortality,
    though not as much as the hydra.
[23:38] Ougi
    After all, Serpens has a special
    characteristic that you can say
[23:42] Ougi
    is unique among all 88
    constellations in the sky.
[23:46] Ougi
    Do you know what it is, Araragi-senpai?
SIGN    I don't know.
[23:51] Koyomi
    Does Ougi-chan know what it is?
[23:54] Ougi
    I don't know anything.
[23:56] Ougi
    It's what you know, Araragi-senpai.
[24:02] Ougi
    In reality, you should know what it is.
[24:05] Ougi
    See, like this.
[24:07] Ougi
    Serpens is the only constellation that exists
    split up into the eastern and western parts.
[24:12] Ougi
    As a snake... It has been chopped up.
[24:15] Ougi
    This clearly shows immortality.
[24:18] Ougi
    It's still alive despite its
    body chopped in half.
SIGN    Well, Araragi-senpai, you seem to have your  body chopped into half rather often as well.
[24:23] Ougi
    Actually, in the gap where it is split up, a
    different constellation has been drawn in.
[24:30] Ougi
    I'm sure you know of it, Araragi-senpai,
    but it's Ophiuchus (snake charmer).
[24:35] Ougi
    The picture depicts the snake charmer
    holding the upper and lower halves...
[24:38] Ougi
    ...of the snake's body with his left
    and right arms, respectively.
[24:43] Koyomi
    If I recall, that snake charmer was
    Asklepios, dubbed the sage physician?
SIGN    Sage physician
[24:49] Ougi
    That's right. Nothing less from you,
    Araragi-senpai. You really have extensive knowledge.
[24:54] Ougi
    Asklepios' medical skills were
    honed remarkably quickly,
[24:57] Ougi
    and it got to a point where he
    could even resurrect the dead.
[25:02] Ougi
    However, that was going too far.
[25:05] Ougi
    Going too far. Against the rules.
[25:07] Ougi
    I guess you could say it went
    against the logic of the world.
[25:10] Ougi
    Bringing forth anger of Hades
    the god of the underworld,
[25:12] Ougi
    Asklepios was struck by lightning
    and literally sent to heaven.
[25:18] Ougi
    Well, bringing a person back to life -- to
    mass-produce immortals -- is quite the sin.
[25:25] Ougi
    Yotsugi Ononoki-chan is also among those
    who were resurrected after death, but...
SIGN    Tadatsuru Teori
[25:32] Ougi
    All parties responsible for
     her resurrection faced retaliation...
SIGN    Yoduru Kagenui
SIGN    Meme Oshino
SIGN    Deishu Kaiki
[25:38] Ougi
    ...and had curses placed
    upon their bodies.
SIGN    Hm? What's this about?
SIGN    Curses?
[25:42] Ougi
    If that's the case, what's
    going to happen?
[25:44] Ougi
    What kind of penalty will Gaen-san pay in the
    future for reviving Araragi-senpai from hell?
SIGN    Izuko Gaen
[25:52] Ougi
    Ha-hah...
[25:54] Koyomi
    Ougi-chan, if you're going to sit
    down, sit on my left side.
[25:56] Ougi
    Hmm? Why is that?
[25:59] Koyomi
    That's Senjyogahara's seat.
[26:02] Ougi
    My oh my, that is not a cheap seat.
[26:05] Ougi
    Well, please don't worry.
[26:07] Ougi
    I have never had any intentions of taking
    over the throne of the main heroine.
[26:11] Ougi
    I wouldn't mind striving to be a
    "little sister" character...
[26:16] Ougi
    But, Karen-chan aside, I wouldn't want
    to compete against Tsukihi-chan.
[26:22] Koyomi
    She is... Her true identity is...
[26:28] Koyomi
    Tadatsuru Teori said it.
[26:30] Koyomi
    He told me at the bottom of hell.
[26:33] Koyomi
    He mentioned the name of the client who
    requested him to exterminate me and Shinobu...
[26:39] Ougi
    Araragi-senpai. What do you
    think is the right thing?
SIGN    Oh no, you don't have to think  too seriously about it.
[26:45] Ougi
    It is difficult to be
    doing the right thing.
[26:48] Ougi
    It is especially difficult to
    do "just the right thing."
[26:53] Ougi
    If you try to do the right thing, you
    end up also having to do attachments,
[26:57] Ougi
    wrong things or things that are not right.
[27:01] Ougi
    So that's why, Araragi-senpai.
SIGN    To win, there is an absolute need  to lose somewhere along the way.
[27:04] Ougi
    As long as you are being the right self,
    you should not be doing the right thing.
[27:09] Ougi
    In the end, if a mistake always accompanies
    you when you try to do the right thing,
[27:13] Ougi
    and if that's the case...
[27:15] Ougi
    In the end it all balances out to zero.
[27:19] Ougi
    Therefore, the way of life that Kagenui-san
    and the Fire Sisters practice
[27:24] Ougi
    is something they claim to be justice.
[27:27] Ougi
    But, it is not necessarily
    "doing the right thing."
[27:30] Ougi
    To stay the right selves, they
    do not do the right thing,
SIGN    MISTAKES
[27:35] Ougi
    but correct mistakes...
SIGN    INJUSTICE
[27:36] Ougi
    ... and correct injustice. That is
    the way of life they choose.
SIGN    EXAMINE (tadasu)
[27:40] Ougi
    Examine (tadasu)...
[27:41] Ougi
    ...or Inquire a question (toi-tadasu),
    I guess you could say.
SIGN    INQUIRE (tadasu)
[27:44] Ougi
    In other words, your foe's foe is not your
    ally, but by becoming a foe against evil,
[27:50] Ougi
    by becoming the antonym to evil, you
    assign yourself justice, so to say.
[27:55] Ougi
    And I am also one that seeks the type
    of "right" that corrects mistakes.
[28:05] Ougi
    It is my role to eject those
    that have broken the rules.
SIGN    TO SCATTER (kakusan)
[28:09] Koyomi
    Broken the rules...
SIGN    TO DISPERSE (musan)
[28:10] Koyomi
    ...ejection.
[28:12] Ougi
    Araragi-senpai, the program
    is about to end.
[28:16] Ougi
    It's better for you to
    wake up now, isn't it?
[28:20] Ougi
    You should at least continue to enjoy
[28:22] Ougi
    the rest of your date with the
    person you're in love with.
[28:26] Ougi
    But, since you have the
    chance, Araragi-senpai...
[28:29] Ougi
    Please think about the answer to
    the question of what you think
[28:32] Ougi
    is the right thing when you
    have to kill some time.
[28:34] Ougi
    Let's talk about it again when
    I see you in real life.
SIGN    Yeah, I got it.
SIGN    If I still remember when I wake up.
[28:40] Koyomi
    But really, what in the world
    is your true identity?
[28:43] Ougi
    That too will be discussed
    the next time I see you.
[28:48] Ougi
    But well, if I were to force myself to
    say what I can say at this moment...
[28:52] Ougi
    I am...
[28:54] Ougi
    ...the principles of the universe.
[28:56] Koyomi
    Space map...
[28:58] Koyomi
    ...in the shape of a hand fan (ougi).
[28:59] Koyomi
    Pitch black vacuum...
    and unbalanced galaxies.
[29:03] Ougi
    Don't think about this too hard, either.
[29:06] Ougi
    Now that you came back from hell, and returned
    to being completely human, Araragi-senpai...
[29:10] Ougi
    Surprisingly enough, I may no longer have to be
    concerned with you anymore... if things go well.
[29:17] Ougi
    So, please.
[29:18] Ougi
    I beg of you, don't get suckered
    into Gaen-san's slick talk.
[29:22] Ougi
    Concerning Kiss-shot Acerola-orion
    Heart-under-blade now in her complete form,
[29:27] Ougi
    or Mayoi Hachikuji who has,
     after resting in peace, returned again,
[29:30] Ougi
    got lost again, within this world...
[29:33] Ougi
    This time, I expect, from
    the bottom of my heart,
[29:36] Ougi
    that you'll make the right
    decision to forsake them...
[29:40] Ougi
    Araragi-senpai.
SIGN    I woke up.
SIGN    I woke up?
[29:52] Koyomi
    Senjyogahara....
[29:58] Hitagi
    I'm not asleep.
[30:00] Hitagi
    I'm not asleep at all.
[30:02] Hitagi
    I'm not asleep at all. I was just
    thinking with my eyes shut.
[30:08] Hitagi
    I'm sorry. I was actually asleep.
[30:11] Koyomi
    It's fine. I was asleep for a bit, too.
[30:15] Hitagi
    I see. I guess it means
    we were both tired?
[30:20] Hitagi
    I guess it was too hasty to go on a date
    after we only decided on it yesterday.
[30:27] Koyomi
    So, what kind of plans did
    you have after this?
[30:32] Hitagi
    We're going to learn the state-of-the-art
    science at the adjoining science museum.
[30:36] Hitagi
    After doing a tour of the science
    museum, we'll have lunch.
[30:39] Hitagi
    The plan was to study during the morning,
[30:40] ---
    Floor Map
[30:41] Hitagi
    so I have mainly leisurely activities
    planned for the afternoon.
[30:44] Hitagi
    We'll go out to the city by car, and
    spend the first half bowling.
[30:47] Hitagi
    After a bit of tea time, we'll spend
    the second half singing karaoke.
[30:50] Koyomi
    Oh...
[30:51] Hitagi
    Araragi-kun, what's your
    high score in bowling?
[30:54] Koyomi
    Well, I'm a novice at bowling altogether,
    like I don't think I've ever played before.
[30:59] Hitagi
    Got it. There will be a
    penalty on the loser.
[31:02] Koyomi
    Don't set up a penalty after it came
    to light that I'm a novice!
[31:05] Hitagi
    The loser must swear absolute
    obedience to the winner.
[31:10] Koyomi
    That's a really harsh penalty!
[31:46] Hitagi
    Dammit... To think that Araragi-kun
    would actually lie to me...
[31:50] Hitagi
    You're not a novice at all.
SIGN    KOYOKOYO
SIGN    HITAGI
[31:54] Koyomi
    From about the first frame
    till about the fifth frame,
SIGN    HITAGI
SIGN    KOYOKOYO
[32:01] Koyomi
    she showed amazing skill.
SIGN    HITAGI
SIGN    KOYOKOYO
[32:05] Koyomi
    However, starting at the sixth
    frame, her playing...
SIGN    HITAGI
SIGN    KOYOKOYO
SIGN    LIMITS OF ACTIVITY
SIGN    HITAGI
SIGN    KOYOKOYO
[32:10] Koyomi
    ...suddenly changed.
    Completely changed...
[32:15] Koyomi
    Right.
[32:16] Koyomi
    Senjyogahara was exhausted.
[32:19] Koyomi
    Seems that her arm went numb.
SIGN    KOYOKOYO
SIGN    HITAGI
[32:23] Hitagi
    Fine. I will admit defeat.
[32:26] Hitagi
    You can order me to do anything.
[32:29] Hitagi
    So, I wonder what kind of lewd
    request will you make of me?
[32:33] Hitagi
    My anticipation only heightens.
[32:36] Koyomi
    Just for reference, if you
    had won, Senjyogahara,
[32:39] Koyomi
    what kind of request were
    you going to make?
[32:41] Hitagi
    I was going to make a lewd
    request, of course!
[32:48] Koyomi
    I struck a deal with something like, "Then
    let's walk arm-in-arm until our tea time."
[32:55] Hitagi
    Hmm... To think that you were having an adventure of
    that sort on the actual day of the entrance exams.
[33:00] Hitagi
    It's unexpected, but it's so
    fitting for you, Araragi-kun...
[33:03] Hitagi
    Though, I have to ask, what in
    the world were you doing?
[33:07] Hitagi
    it's unclear exactly what Gaen-san
    is fighting against...
[33:10] Hitagi
    But perhaps you, Araragi-kun, are
    the opponent of that battle.
[33:17] Hitagi
    No, it's more of a hunch than any meaning.
[33:20] Hitagi
    Compared to your stance, Araragi-kun, where you
    can only see what is right in front of your eyes,
[33:23] Hitagi
    that macroscopic stance Gaen-san takes would
    clash no matter how you look at it.
[33:28] Hitagi
    Clash... or oppose, if you want
    a slightly harsher term.
[33:35] Hitagi
    We'll duke it out for two hours, and
    the one who loses in total points...
SIGN    Karaoke
    Red-White Song Battle
[33:41] Hitagi
    ...swears absolute obedience
    to the winner.
SIGN    Song: "Futakotome"
SIGN    Setting: Original Key
[33:45] Hitagi
    I'll go first. You listen well.
SIGN    Challenger: Hitagi-san                                            Song: Futakotome Score: 82.107%
SIGN    Analysis: You have very high singing skills,  but emotional expression seems slightly weak.  It will be better if you add  more intonation to your singing.
[33:52] Hitagi
    An 82...
[33:53] Hitagi
    Lies.
[33:54] Hitagi
    82 percent is a failing score. This is the
    first time I've ever scored in the low eighties.
[34:00] Koyomi
    What kind of test is it if 82
    percent is a failing score?
[34:03] Hitagi
    Araragi-kun, you spent the majority of your
    high school career feeling like this?
[34:07] Hitagi
    I was not able to understand it at all.
[34:09] Hitagi
    I was supposed to be a lot kinder to you.
[34:12] Hitagi
    What kind of horrible things have
    I been saying to Araragi-kun?
[34:15] Koyomi
    You're saying those horrible
    things right now.
SIGN    Song: chocolate
SIGN    Setting: original key
SIGN    Challenger: Koyokoyo-san                   Song: chocolate insomnia Score: 82.438%
SIGN    Analysis: All elements are coming together  at a very high level. Keep it up,  and 100% is not just a dream.
SIGN    Loser - Red 819           RESULTS       Winner - White 822
[34:31] Koyomi
    And once again, I was the winner.
[34:34] Hitagi
    Impossible... To think that I would lose
    against Araragi-kun twice in one day.
[34:40] Hitagi
    Now, feel free to give
    me any order you want.
[34:44] Hitagi
    How about you carry me to
    our car like a princess?
[34:49] Hitagi
    I'll kill you if you say I'm heavy.
[34:54] Hitagi
    Nothing less from you, Araragi-kun.
[34:56] Hitagi
    It shows that you're used to cradling young
    girls in your arms in everyday life.
SIGN    That particular expression  leads to misunderstandings.
SIGN    I'd like you to stop that.
[35:00] ---
    Hourly Parking
     Entrance 50m ahead
[35:02] Hitagi
    Whew. That was embarrassing.
[35:05] Hitagi
    I just saw hell.
[35:07] Koyomi
    You'd go that far?
SIGN    MORE HELLISH THAN HELL
[35:18] Koyomi
    Senjyogahara....
[35:20] Koyomi
    I have something important to talk about.
[35:22] Hitagi
    If it's a request to get
    married, I'm okay with it.
[35:24] Koyomi
    No, it's not that important a topic.
[35:27] Koyomi
    And that was way too instant a reply.
SIGN    IT TURNED INTO A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
[35:30] Koyomi
    Actually, it's about a gift in return for the
    chocolate I received for Valentine's Day...
[35:34] Koyomi
    I haven't been able to get one ready.
[35:36] Koyomi
    I'm sorry. I didn't have
    time to get one ready.
[35:39] Koyomi
    In thinking of what to get,
    I thought way too much.
SIGN    HONEST MAN
[35:42] Koyomi
    So, can you wait two or three more days?
SIGN    THINKING TOO MUCH
[35:46] Koyomi
    Of course, I'll tack on the interest
    accrued during that period.
[35:49] Hitagi
    What, you were worried about such a thing?
[35:52] Hitagi
    It was enough for me that you went on
    a date with me the whole day today.
[35:57] Hitagi
    It's fine for you to just give me
    something when you feel like it.
[35:59] Hitagi
    It wasn't like I made that chocolate
    expecting to receive something in return.
[36:12] Hitagi
    Araragi-kun.
[36:13] Hitagi
    It's unforgivable.
[36:15] Koyomi
    Eh?
[36:15] Hitagi
    I can't hardly believe that, on White Day,
     one of the three big events of the year for couples,
[36:19] Hitagi
    you don't have anything
    prepared for your lover?
[36:22] Hitagi
    I have to doubt that you have
    any affection towards me.
[36:25] Koyomi
    Eh? Ehh?
[36:29] Hitagi
    All day today, I was wondering exactly what
    kind of surprise Araragi-kun had prepared for me.
[36:33] Hitagi
    My heart was racing, and I was so excited...
    But you didn't have anything ready.
[36:38] Hitagi
    What a sidestep that was!
[36:40] Hitagi
    I had assumed that you would get me a
    cruiser or something as a present.
[36:45] Koyomi
    I-Isn't that expectation a bit too
    mega-sized, don't you think?
[36:48] Hitagi
    Oh, brother. I wonder if I
    should just kill myself.
[36:53] Koyomi
    I-I'm sorry. That's why I'm apologizing.
[36:57] Koyomi
    Please don't commit suicide.
[37:00] Koyomi
    T-Then, what can I do for
    you to forgive me?
[37:03] Koyomi
    I can't get you a cruiser, but
    I'll do whatever I can-
[37:06] Hitagi
    Did you just say you'll
    do whatever you can?
[37:09] Hitagi
    Did you say absolute obedience?
[37:13] Koyomi
    N-No, I didn't say that...
[37:18] Koyomi
    I did, I did! Indeed, I did say "absolute
    obedience" with these lips!
[37:24] Hitagi
    I see. Nothing less from you,
    Araragi-kun. Such a generous heart.
[37:28] Hitagi
    You really are the man
    I fell in love with.
[37:30] Hitagi
    I've fallen in love with you over again.
[37:32] Hitagi
    You don't know what I'm
    going to request of you,
[37:35] Hitagi
    but you're willing to be absolutely obedient
    to my requests for the rest of your life.
[37:38] Koyomi
    The rest of my life!?
[37:41] Koyomi
    S-Sure. The rest of my life.
[37:44] Koyomi
    I got it. What should I do?
[37:48] Hitagi
    Call my name.
[37:52] Hitagi
    Call me... by my name.
[37:55] Koyomi
    Eh?
[37:56] Koyomi
    I do call you. "Senjyogahara."
[37:59] Hitagi
    Not that. My first name,
    with no honorifics.
[38:06] Koyomi
    So that's why she tried to set up a
    penalty for bowling and karaoke.
[38:12] Koyomi
    If it wasn't for an opportunity like this, it may
    have been something I'd have never been able to say.
[38:17] Koyomi
    Absolute obedience for
    the rest of my life.
[38:20] Koyomi
    Calling her by that name for
    the rest of my life.
[38:25] Koyomi
    ...Hitagi.
[38:29] Hitagi
    Thank you... Koyomi.
SIGN    ARARAGI
[40:12] Ougi
    Hello, Araragi-senpai.
[40:14] Ougi
    I've been waiting for you.
[40:15] Ougi
    I've gotten tired of waiting.
[40:17] Ougi
    I got exhausted just by waiting.
[40:20] Ougi
    How was it?
[40:21] Ougi
    Did you enjoy your last date
    with Senjyogahara-senpai?
[40:25] Ougi
    At the least, I was being considerate and
    avoided butting in over on the physical world.
[40:30] Ougi
    I'd like you to be appreciative of that.
[40:32] Koyomi
    I will be appreciative.
[40:34] Koyomi
    But, how you said "the last date"
    creates misunderstanding.
[40:37] Koyomi
    It was merely the last date
    of my high school life.
[40:41] Ougi
    So is it? Yes, that would be nice if it is...
    It'd be nice if the two of you had a future.
[40:50] Koyomi
    Ougi-chan. Did you try to exterminate me?
[40:53] Koyomi
    You asked a specialist to do such a thing?
[40:56] Ougi
    Oh, you heard from someone...
    of such false rumors?
[41:01] Ougi
    But still, that is a sad false alarm...
[41:04] Ougi
    I would like an explanation.
[41:06] Ougi
    There is no way I would do anything
    to harm you, Araragi-senpai.
[41:11] Ougi
    That's why I told you, right?
[41:12] Ougi
    That I am expecting you, Araragi-senpai,
    to make the right decision...
[41:15] Ougi
    ...and withdraw, instead of getting
    suckered into Gaen-san's slick talk.
[41:20] Koyomi
    Did you say that?
SIGN    Well...
SIGN    If she is saying she said  it, she probably said it.
[41:23] Koyomi
    But, it's nonexistent. The choice of forsaking
    Shinobu and Hachikuji is something I don't have.
[41:29] Koyomi
    There is no choice. I have no
    surplus within my heart.
[41:33] Koyomi
    I don't know what the right thing is, but
    I do know what path I should take.
[41:38] Ougi
    I wish you wouldn't hurry to
    conclusions like that...
[41:41] Ougi
    But well, that's fine. I tried to ask you
    because I had nothing left to lose.
[41:46] Ougi
    That said, it's disappointing.
[41:49] Ougi
    For me personally, I'd like to see you,
    Araragi-senpai, retire voluntarily right about now.
[41:54] Ougi
    But egging you on to do so too much
    would be going beyond my bounds.
[41:58] Ougi
    Hey, Araragi-senpai.
[42:01] Ougi
    Let me correct one thing that you may
    have a misunderstanding about.
[42:06] Koyomi
    Misunderstanding? What is
    the misunderstanding?
[42:10] Ougi
    I am not the "darkness."
[42:17] Ougi
    By the way, Araragi-senpai.
[42:20] Ougi
    Araragi-senpai, you've fallen to
    hell, and you've gone on a date,
[42:23] Ougi
    so you may have nothing you look
    back on with regret anymore.
[42:26] Ougi
    But I currently have one thing that I
    look back on with regret in this town.
[42:32] Koyomi
    Something you look back on with regret?
[42:34] Ougi
    Something you wouldn't
     mind dying to achieve...
[42:37] Ougi
    Once you achieved this, you wouldn't mind if you died.
     Do you have such a goal, Araragi-senpai?
[42:43] Ougi
    I have one. I have just one more.
[42:46] Ougi
    That's why I have to do it even if I
    have to put everything else aside.
[42:51] Ougi
    That is why if Izuko Gaen, the leader of the
    specialists, were to place a trap, it would be there.
[42:58] Ougi
    Yes, I know.
[43:00] Ougi
    I know, but I still have
    to fall for that trap...
[43:03] Ougi
    I have to resign myself to
    suffer that counterattack.
[43:09] Ougi
    In other words, starting right now, I am going to
    fight the big sister that knows everything,
[43:14] Ougi
    with a frontal assault,
     with no fudging around...
[43:17] Ougi
    Araragi-senpai, in this fight,
    can you be on my side?
[43:26] Ougi
    Please, help me.

E3 - Chapter Three - Ougi Dark
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[00:04] Koyomi
    The present is what it is
    because of Ougi Oshino.
[00:07] Koyomi
    Because that mysterious girl, as if an
    unknown was wrapped with unknowns,
[00:12] Koyomi
    was here in our town,
[00:14] Koyomi
    I, and all of us, were able to arrive
    where we are now.
[00:19] Koyomi
    We have the present, and
    we have a future.
[00:21] Koyomi
    Someday the day will come
    when I can feel that way.
[00:26] Koyomi
    That's just who I am.
[00:28] Koyomi
    And that's just who she is.
[00:32] Koyomi
    Ougi Oshino.
[00:33] Koyomi
    She was a symbol of my adolescence
    -- that is how I remember her.
[00:39] Koyomi
    That smirking smile of hers.
[00:43] Koyomi
    I'm sure that to her, my stupidity
    was something she found highly amusing.
[00:48] Koyomi
    I find myself laughing as well.
SIGN    Koyomi Araragi
[00:50] Koyomi
    I burst into laughter.
[00:54] Koyomi
    So in the end, maybe this
    whole thing was just a comedy.
[00:57] ---
    2                                                                                                3
[00:57] Koyomi
    My youth,
[00:59] Koyomi
    The last year I spent as
    a high school student...
[01:04] Koyomi
    It was painful, it was sad,
[01:06] Koyomi
    it was bitter, it was ugly,
    and all in all, it was a hell of a year.
[01:11] ---
    Thursday, March 15th
[01:11] Koyomi
    But even so, when I look
    back on this someday,
[01:13] Koyomi
    when I tell someone, or
    everyone, about this...
[01:17] Koyomi
    I know that maybe I should tell it with
    a smile, like it was a simple, happy story
[01:21] Koyomi
    that makes everyone who hears it laugh.
[01:24] Ougi
    You "maybe" know? No, you know.
    I don't know anything, though.
[01:30] Koyomi
    I'm sure this is what Ougi-chan would say.
[01:33] Ougi
    You know, Araragi-senpai.
[01:37] Koyomi
    That's right. I had known.
[01:39] ---
    Naoetsu High
[01:40] Koyomi
    I'm sure I knew exactly what Ougi
    Oshino was from the very beginning.
[01:45] ---
    Naoetsu High School
[01:46] Koyomi
    And it's hilarious.
[02:25] ---
    Owarimonogatari
[02:27] ---
    Ougi Dark
SIGN    Ougi Dark Part One
SIGN    Shirohebi Park
[03:39] Mayoi
    Hey, hey! The pitcher is
    getting spooked!
[03:41] ---
    She was wearing a skirt,
     but crouching down and opening her legs like a catcher,
    so you could see her panties easily.
    She was really letting her guard down,
     but honestly, I didn't want to see them anyway.
SIGN    A rock?
SIGN    They're throwing rocks and  batting with swords...
SIGN    What kind of baseball is this?
[03:52] Yotsugi
    No.
[03:55] Yotsugi
    You're going to settle
     the score tonight, right?
[03:58] Koyomi
    Well, yeah, but...
[04:00] Yotsugi
    Now that Big Sister isn't here,
    I can't be of any help to you...
[04:04] Yotsugi
    But at the least, I can watch you fight
    with my own eyes, Big Demo-ther.
[04:08] Yotsugi
    So... let's hurry up and join that circle.
[04:12] Kiss-shot
    Oh, if it isn't you, my master!
[04:31] Koyomi
    H-Hachikuji...
[04:33] Mayoi
    No, you did plenty of that back in hell.
    Haven't you had enough, Baragaki-san?
[04:38] Koyomi
    Well, that sounds really cool, but Hachikuji,
[04:41] Koyomi
    don't refer to me as if I was
    Toshizo Hijikata in his youth.
[04:44] Koyomi
    My name is Araragi.
[04:46] Mayoi
    I'm sorry, I flubbed (kami-mashita).
[04:48] Koyomi
    No, that was intentional.
[04:49] Mayoi
    I fwubbed.
[04:50] Koyomi
    It's not intentional?
[04:52] Mayoi
    I crouched.
[04:53] Koyomi
    You were indeed sitting
    catcher-style there, but...
[04:57] Mayoi
    It's good to see you too, Ononoki-san.
    Thank you for your help earlier.
[05:01] Yotsugi
    Yup. I feel happy about your return.
SIGN    There was a matter that I  should have checked up on.
[05:13] Koyomi
    What's wrong, Hachikuji?
[05:15] Mayoi
    No, what's wrong with your brain?
[05:17] Mayoi
    Why did you so suddenly attempt to
    clutch my growing breasts?
[05:24] Koyomi
    Well, I was wondering what kind of
    condition you were in right now.
[05:28] Izuko
    She's a phantom, just like she was
    when you first met her here in this park.
[05:34] Izuko
    She's a ghost.
[05:39] Koyomi
    I'm sorry, Hachikuji. I wasn't
    thinking when I brought you here.
[05:43] Koyomi
    Come to think of it, I've made your labors piling
    stones for the past six months all for naught.
[05:49] Mayoi
    It's fine, Araragi-san.
    Don't worry about it.
[05:53] Mayoi
    I've already settled things with
    Gaen-san concerning that.
[05:58] Koyomi
    Settled things?
[06:00] Izuko
    Well, we can discuss all that in
    the briefing. Let's get started.
[06:05] Izuko
    For the moment, Koyomin, can you give orders
    to your now-mature, beautiful slave girl,
[06:09] Izuko
    and have her stop bullying my
    junior colleague shikigami?
[06:14] Kiss-shot
    There, there, there!
[06:22] Koyomi
    She seems to be doing what
    Ononoki-chan feared.
[06:24] Koyomi
    Getting revenge for all of the insults she
    received back in the summer.
SIGN    Shinobu Oshino The complete form of the legendary vampire  who flew in from overseas.
SIGN    Mayoi Hachikuji A ghost that returned from hell.
SIGN    Yotsugi Ononoki A shikigami corpse doll whose master has ran away.
SIGN    Izuko Gaen The leader of a group of specialists who defeat apparitions.
SIGN    And me, Koyomi Araragi, once human,  previously vampire, and currently human.
SIGN    Stop it, Hachikuji.  Don't look at me like that.
[06:55] Izuko
    All right. It's time for your big sister
[06:58] Izuko
    to tell you about the plan she spent
    the last few days working on.
[07:01] Izuko
    Koyomin, did you bring it as I asked?
[07:05] Koyomi
    I did bring it.
[07:07] Koyomi
    But this belonged to you in the first place,
    Gaen-san, so I wanted to return it to you.
[07:15] Izuko
    Mm, indeed. It has been preserved well.
[07:19] Izuko
    It looks like you took
    very good care of it.
[07:23] Izuko
    Ougi Oshino.
[07:25] Izuko
    That is the enemy who we are
    going to face right now.
[07:29] Izuko
    The opponent we must fight, the target we
    must eliminate, and the focus of our hatred.
[07:34] Izuko
    Isn't that right, Koyomin?
[07:41] Izuko
    Naturally, this is the
    most important point.
[07:44] Izuko
    The name "Ougi Oshino" was merely used
    as a convenience. Don't forget that.
[07:51] Izuko
    The true nature of Ougi Oshino is unknown.
[07:56] Izuko
    The loss of her true identity is the
    only identity she has.
[08:01] Izuko
    First, let's go over it step-by-step.
[08:03] Izuko
    We don't have time, and I'll only
    explain once, so listen up.
SIGN    Notes
[08:08] Koyomi
    There's one thing I want to confirm.
[08:11] Koyomi
    Are you sure that Ougi-chan will
    be on the move sometime tonight?
[08:15] Izuko
    She will. I'm not simply "sure."
    That's just the reality of it.
[08:19] Izuko
    She only has tonight. If she doesn't act tonight,
    that would imply that it's not actually her.
[08:24] Izuko
    And thus, there is no threat at all.
[08:27] Koyomi
    Well, for this case, I did toss out the
    question, but I was pretty convinced, too.
[08:31] Koyomi
    Because she said so herself.
[08:34] Ougi
    Araragi-senpai, could you be on my side?
[08:38] Ougi
    Please, help me.
[08:42] Izuko
    We'll start by talking
    about the relationship
[08:45] Izuko
    between this park and
    North Shirahebi Shrine.
[08:48] Izuko
    From the source that leads
    up to the current tragedy.
[08:51] Izuko
    From the tragedy 400 years ago
    that fell upon Shirohebi Shrine,
[08:54] Izuko
    the previous incarnation of
    North Shirahebi Shrine.
[09:00] Izuko
    Now, what exactly happened 400 years ago?
[09:08] Izuko
    Right. The legendary vampire, Kiss-shot
    Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade visited Japan.
[09:14] Izuko
    Now, when she landed,
[09:16] Izuko
    all the water that had built up in a
    lake in that particular area of Japan
[09:19] Izuko
    was dispersed.
[09:21] Izuko
    She scattered it.
[09:23] Izuko
    That lake was no ordinary lake.
[09:27] Izuko
    It was a sacred lake that was the
    focus of worship for the whole region.
[09:32] Izuko
    But this blasphemous deed of hers
    proved to be to the region's benefit.
[09:38] Izuko
    Because the water from the lake that
    flew up from the impact of landing...
[09:42] Izuko
    ...fell back down onto the area,
[09:44] Izuko
    which was suffering from a drought
    at the time, as blessed rain.
[09:47] Izuko
    As a result, the Western apparition
[09:50] Izuko
    Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade,
    a vampire, took over the local religion.
[09:56] Izuko
    You could say that she defeated the
    previous god and took over its position.
[10:01] Izuko
    With no more lake, and no more god to
    worship, they had to find a new god.
[10:08] Izuko
    No, they had to create a new god.
[10:12] Izuko
    That is why they relocated the shrine.
[10:15] Izuko
    The locals, who'd lost both their
    faith and much of their numbers,
[10:19] Izuko
    decided to try and survive by
    merging with a local folk religion.
[10:24] Izuko
    And this wasn't necessarily a bad decision.
[10:27] Izuko
    There was a tie between these
    two that enabled the grafting.
[10:30] Izuko
    A tie, an axis... A cord that
    connected the mountain and the lake.
[10:35] Izuko
    Though I guess I should call it
    a rope (nawa), and not a cord.
[10:38] Izuko
    A kuchinawa—in other words, a snake.
[10:41] Izuko
    The god that was worshiped at the lake
[10:42] Izuko
    took the physical form of a water snake.
[10:46] Izuko
    And the object of worship for
    the small indigenous faith
[10:49] Izuko
    in the mountains was shaped
    like a mountain snake.
[10:52] Izuko
    A water snake and a mountain snake.
[10:54] Izuko
    A snake connection.
[10:55] Izuko
    But this grafting proved to
    be just a bit too forced.
[11:00] Izuko
    It might have appeared successful,
[11:01] Izuko
    but there was still this
    sense that something was off.
[11:04] Izuko
    And being "off," being unbalanced, in
    that way, created a type of air pocket.
[11:08] Izuko
    An air pocket that gathered bad things.
[11:11] Izuko
    The site of the eradicated lake
    is here, Shirohebi Park...
[11:16] Izuko
    ...and the mountain shrine where the faith had been
    transferred is North Shirahebi Shrine, you see.
SIGN    North Shirahebi Shrine
[11:25] Izuko
    By the way,
[11:26] Izuko
    Shirohebi Shrine, now "North Shirahebi Shrine,"
     managed to survive in a much diminished state,
[11:32] Izuko
    until finally collapsing 15 years ago.
[11:35] Izuko
    He—the first minion of Shinobu-san—
    his ashes came back to his homeland,
[11:40] Izuko
    and as a result, he ate the "bad things"
    that had gathered within the shrine grounds,
[11:43] Izuko
    and the god itself.
[11:47] Izuko
    Because of all that had gone on, after the
    case of that minion had been resolved...
[11:52] Izuko
    I had planned to enshrine Shinobu-san as
    the new deity of North Shirahebi Shrine.
SIGN    If you had explained everything with that reasoning from the beginning...
SIGN    That's what I was going to say,
SIGN    but even if she had taken  the time to explain it,
SIGN    I doubt I ever would've thought about  using that talisman on Shinobu.
[12:04] Izuko
    Koyomin, why don't we take a little break
    and make it clear where we both stand?
[12:10] Koyomi
    Where we both stand?
[12:13] Izuko
    What we want, if you prefer
    to put it that way.
[12:15] Izuko
    Or what, exactly, we think we're doing here.
[12:18] Izuko
    We don't have any kind of alliance here.
[12:23] Izuko
    I brought you here expecting one of the
    miracles you pull off.
[12:27] Izuko
    But I can't deny that it might
    just bring forth another disaster.
[12:32] Izuko
    For example, when I put you
    in charge of Shinobu-san,
[12:35] Izuko
    or Shinobu-chan, as she was known back then,
[12:36] Izuko
    I never thought that the end result
    would be an unrelated middle school girl
[12:39] Izuko
    being enshrined as a god.
[12:43] Koyomi
    Yeah, you've kinda got me there.
SIGN    In other words, since she couldn't trust  me, she wanted to know what I was after...
SIGN    What was inside my heart.
[12:51] Koyomi
    I'll tell you, then. My objective is...
[12:54] Koyomi
    For now, I'd like to do something
    about Hachikuji and Shinobu.
[12:59] Koyomi
    Especially Hachikuji, as she might be
    swallowed up by the darkness at this rate.
[13:03] Izuko
    Well, remember that I said I
    had a plan for Hachikuji-chan.
[13:08] Izuko
    So, next I'd like to hear your
    worries about Shinobu-san.
[13:11] Izuko
    You want to do something about Shinobu-san?
    Koyomin, specifically what do you mean by that?
[13:17] Koyomi
    So like, she's like this now...
[13:22] Koyomi
    And of course, I'm concerned about how
    Oshino and Kagenui-san's whereabouts are unknown.
[13:32] Koyomi
    Of course, I think it would be good for
    the town I live in to be peaceful.
[13:37] Koyomi
    But I'm not capable of really
    thinking about things in that way.
[13:42] Koyomi
    At most, I can think about the safety
    of the people around me.
[13:47] Izuko
    And that's what makes this dangerous for me.
[13:50] Izuko
    But we can deal with that.
[13:53] Izuko
    At least, this time around.
[13:56] Koyomi
    By that, you mean..
[13:57] Izuko
    You're worried about the people
    close to you, but not yourself.
[14:05] Izuko
    Since your own safety isn't a concern,
    we can come to an agreement.
[14:11] Izuko
    What about you, Shinobu-san?
[14:14] Izuko
    What is your objective?
[14:16] Izuko
    Shinobu-san, what are you thinking about
    right now? What do you want to do?
[14:22] Kiss-shot
    I merely obey my master's orders.
[14:26] Kiss-shot
    If my master says he will assist you,
    that's what I will do as well.
[14:31] Kiss-shot
    And if my master decides to oppose you,
    that's what I will do as well.
[14:38] Kiss-shot
    Specialist, if I could speak for myself,
    my desire is, if at all possible...
[14:46] Kiss-shot
    ...to be returned to the
    form of a young girl.
[14:57] Izuko
    Now that our stances are all clear,
[15:01] Izuko
    I'll explain what, exactly,
    we're about to do.
[15:04] Izuko
    I will explain the minimum requirements for
    fulfilling Koyomin's objectives, my objectives,
[15:09] Izuko
    Shinobu-san's objectives, and
    Hachikuji-chan's objectives simultaneously.
SIGN    Minimum Requirements
[15:14] Izuko
    There are two minimum requirements.
[15:15] Izuko
    One is to enshrine a new deity
    in North Shirahebi Shrine,
[15:19] Izuko
    and the other is the
    extermination of Ougi Oshino.
SIGN    Extermination
[15:25] Koyomi
    Gaen-san...
[15:26] Koyomi
    If you're talking about turning
    Shinobu into a god—
[15:29] Izuko
    That's what I had been planning on.
[15:31] Izuko
    But since Koyomin brought Hachikuji-chan back
    from hell, the situation has changed.
[15:36] Izuko
    In a way, a surrogate god that is
    even more fitting than Shinobu-san...
[15:40] Izuko
    No, the successor to a god has appeared.
[15:43] Koyomi
    The successor to a god?
[15:46] Izuko
    It's Hachikuji-chan.
[15:50] Koyomi
    N-No, that's even worse!
    I mean, Hachikuji is—
[15:55] Izuko
    Hachikuji is?
[15:58] Kiss-shot
    Well, I suppose she's qualified.
[16:02] Kiss-shot
    At the point where she returned from hell,
[16:04] Kiss-shot
    that lost girl undoubtedly
    performed a miracle.
[16:09] Koyomi
    But if that's the case, the condition is
    also met by me, or even by Ononoki-chan—
[16:15] Izuko
    It's not the same. It's different.
[16:17] Izuko
    You all returned, but in different ways.
[16:20] Izuko
    The difference is that if she doesn't
    turn into a god right here,
[16:22] Izuko
    Hachikuji-chan will be swallowed
    up by the darkness.
[16:27] Izuko
    In other words, there are three choices.
[16:29] Izuko
    One, she goes back to hell again.
[16:32] Izuko
    Two, she gets swallowed up
    into the "darkness."
[16:34] Izuko
    Three, she becomes a god.
[16:37] Izuko
    By becoming enshrined at
    North Shirahebi Shrine,
[16:40] Izuko
    Mayoi Hachikuji will be granted
    an existence in this material world.
SIGN    She gains citizenship.
SIGN    She gains proof of residence —so the story goes.
[16:47] Izuko
    So for Hachikuji-chan, it's basically
    nothing but good things.
[16:51] Izuko
    Of course, I'd have to
    have her work a bit.
[16:54] Izuko
    But if she at least maintains the air pocket,
[16:57] Izuko
    that will be good enough as
    a preventative measure.
[17:00] Mayoi
    There you have it.
[17:01] Koyomi
    B-But, it's a shrine that
    deifies a snake, right?
[17:05] Koyomi
    If you enshrined a snail apparition like
    Hachikuji, wouldn't that cause a distortion?
[17:11] Izuko
    And that is the miracle
    that makes it impossible
[17:13] Izuko
    to believe that you did this
    without thinking, Koyomin.
[17:16] Izuko
    Without that miracle, I never would've thought
    about enshrining Hachikuji-chan as a god.
[17:22] Izuko
    A snail is a superior version of a snake.
[17:25] Koyomi
    Huh?
[17:26] Izuko
    No, "superior version" is perhaps stretching
    things a little too much.
[17:31] Izuko
    But Koyomin, you've at least
    heard of a three-way deadlock?
[17:37] Koyomi
    A snake, a frog, and a slug...
[17:41] Koyomi
    Slug? Haven't I heard
    about that somewhere?
[17:45] Koyomi
    Oh, right.
[17:47] Koyomi
    The Slug Tofu.
[17:49] Koyomi
    The fake apparition that
    Kaiki used on Sengoku...
[17:52] Izuko
    Right. An apparition effective
    against snakes... a slug.
[17:56] Izuko
    And, a slug and a snail
    are related species.
SIGN    Slug                                     Snail
[18:02] Koyomi
    Then, it's not that a snail has
    nothing to do with a snake.
[18:06] Koyomi
    A snail can freeze a snake in place.
[18:09] Koyomi
    She won't run wild like Sengoku.
[18:11] Koyomi
    She won't be swallowed by
    the snake like Sengoku.
[18:14] Koyomi
    Instead, she can swallow the snake.
[18:18] Mayoi
    In other words, I'm Mayoi Slug (Namekuji).
[18:21] Koyomi
    Hachikuji, are you really
    all right with that?
[18:24] Mayoi
    Yes, I'm fine with it. A god!
    That gets me all hyped up!
[18:28] Koyomi
    Hyped up?
[18:30] Mayoi
    Excuse me, I god-ed (kami-mashita)!
SIGN    God-ed
[18:34] Koyomi
    Putting it that way makes it
    sound like a gag, so stop it.
[18:37] Koyomi
    This is really important! Don't
    try to make a joke about it!
[18:40] Mayoi
    It's way more than just two ranks up!
    A tremendous promotion!
[18:44] Koyomi
    No, you probably don't understand...
[18:47] Mayoi
    I have a proper understanding.
[18:49] Koyomi
    Is that so? Do you properly understand
    the responsibilities and meaning,
[18:53] Koyomi
    the weight and duties of the
    act of becoming a god?
[18:56] Mayoi
    No, I don't understand any of
    those things. Not at all!
[18:59] Koyomi
    You don't understand?!
[19:01] Mayoi
    However...
[19:02] Mayoi
    I do know that if I do this,
[19:03] Mayoi
    I'll continue to be able to play merrily
    with you from now on, Araragi-san.
[19:09] Izuko
    Well, that fulfills one of the conditions.
[19:14] Izuko
    If Hachikuji-chan swallows this talisman,
[19:17] Izuko
    it's the birth of a new god
    at North Shirahebi Shrine.
[19:21] Izuko
    If Koyomin wants Hachikuji-chan to
    be swallowed up into the darkness,
[19:25] Izuko
    well, I'll leave that to your discretion.
[19:28] Izuko
    For me, it's a matter of the means.
[19:32] Koyomi
    Oh, right.
[19:34] Koyomi
    Gaen-san.
[19:35] Izuko
    What is it, Koyomin?
[19:36] Koyomi
    Um... About the "darkness"...
[19:39] Koyomi
    Perhaps we've suffered
    a terrible misunderstanding.
[19:44] Koyomi
    Ougi Oshino may not be the darkness.
[19:48] Izuko
    I know that.
[19:50] Yotsugi
    Seriously? She wasn't? You're kidding!
[19:53] Yotsugi
    I totally thought that was the case,
[19:55] Yotsugi
    and I put tons of foreshadowing of
    that nature all over the place!
SIGN    If so, I really wish she hadn't done that.
SIGN    Please don't deliberately add foreshadowing.
SIGN    She had a troublesome character trait, or rather, she was a troublesome character.
[20:09] Izuko
    Why did you think that in the first place?
[20:11] Izuko
    That Ougi Oshino was the "darkness."
[20:13] Koyomi
    Well, because...
[20:16] Izuko
    Oh, that was a bad way to ask.
[20:18] Izuko
    What I want to ask is, at what point did you,
    Koyomin, get that idea?
[20:24] Koyomi
    There was no specific point.
[20:26] Koyomi
    As I watched and listened to her,
    I naturally started thinking that way...
[20:30] Koyomi
    In reality, she was seeking Hachikuji,
    and the cases concerning Sengoku and Tadatsuru.
[20:37] Koyomi
    No, in the end, it was just a sense I had.
[20:42] Koyomi
    I mean, she felt so shady and
    dark... Like darkness itself.
[20:47] Koyomi
    A shadow that appreciates the rules.
[20:50] Koyomi
    A pitch black that reveres balance.
[20:53] Izuko
    In the beginning, she herself
    probably thought that way, too.
[20:58] Izuko
    It's certain that even now, she imposes
    tasks of that sort on herself.
[21:02] Izuko
    Ougi Oshino is not the "darkness,"
    but she does the same thing.
[21:07] Izuko
    She plays the same role.
[21:09] Koyomi
    The same role as the "darkness"...
[21:12] Izuko
    Let me clear things up just in case—
[21:15] Izuko
    If we leave Hachikuji-chan
    in her current condition,
[21:18] Izuko
    the "darkness" we were worried
    might reappear in this town
[21:22] Izuko
    will be the true "darkness".
[21:26] Izuko
    On the other hand, if we set up and enshrine
    Hachikuji-chan as the god of North Shirahebi Shrine,
[21:30] Izuko
    it's possible that Hachikuji-chan
    will be attacked
[21:35] Izuko
    by Ougi Oshino, who performs the same
    role as the "darkness."
[21:44] Koyomi
    After we enshrine... attacked?
[21:48] Izuko
    Well, that's why I said there were two
    minimum requirements, didn't I?
[21:52] Izuko
    Merely enshrining Hachikuji-chan
    as a god is not enough.
[21:55] Izuko
    If we don't exterminate Ougi Oshino,
    the story doesn't come to a conclusion.
[22:00] Koyomi
    Exterminate, exterminate...
    You keep repeating that.
[22:03] Koyomi
    But can you stop that?
[22:06] Koyomi
    When you say exterminate, it's as
    if Ougi-chan was an apparition.
[22:11] Izuko
    That's right.
[22:15] Izuko
    She is an ordinary...
[22:17] Izuko
    ...monster.
SIGN    Ougi Dark Part Two
[22:25] Koyomi
    Ougi-chan... is an apparition?
[22:28] Koyomi
    On what basis, Gaen-san, are you
    calling Ougi-chan a monster?
[22:34] Izuko
    Then on what basis do you call
    Ougi Oshino "Ougi-chan"?
[22:40] Izuko
    Aren't you merely calling her "Ougi-chan"
    because she called herself Ougi Oshino,
[22:45] Izuko
    and you just believed her?
[22:48] Mayoi
    It's unlike you to be so
    dense about this, Araragi-san.
[22:51] Mayoi
    I'm guessing that this Ougi Oshino-san
     was introduced to you by Kanbaru-san,
[22:56] Mayoi
    the previous star of the basketball team,
    as one of her fans?
[23:00] Koyomi
    Yeah, that's how things went.
[23:03] Mayoi
    A fan. In other words, a fan (ougi).
[23:06] Koyomi
    Eh? But what about her last name?
[23:10] Izuko
    The last name "Oshino" is
    slightly more complicated.
[23:14] Izuko
    But it is certain that her claim
    of being Meme's niece is a lie.
[23:18] Koyomi
    If Ougi Oshino isn't Ougi Oshino,
    then what in the world is she?
[23:24] Izuko
    What is she, really?
[23:27] Izuko
    What she is, right now, is "an unknown."
[23:31] Izuko
    That is why it is clear how we will
    exterminate her. In my original plan,
[23:36] Izuko
    Ougi Oshino was going to be exterminated
    with the demon sword "Kokoro Watari."
[23:40] Koyomi
    So you were planning to slay Ougi-chan
    with the Apparition Killer?
[23:44] Izuko
    Come on, don't glare at me like that.
    Which side are you on, exactly?
[23:49] Izuko
    Slaying an apparition with
    the Apparition Killer...
[23:52] Izuko
    Normally, something like that
    wouldn't even raise an eyebrow.
[23:54] Izuko
    As a specialist, that's my job.
[23:57] Koyomi
    Is that why you created the
    demon sword "Kokoro Watari"?
[24:02] Koyomi
    The armor worn by the first
    minion, Seishiro Shishirui.
[24:07] Koyomi
    The sword was created by reforging it
    after it went missing in August.
[24:12] Izuko
    I didn't create it to slay Ougi Oshino.
[24:15] Izuko
    However, I did predict the
    appearance of Ougi Oshino.
[24:18] Kiss-shot
    Hmph. No different than someone
    who loots during a riot.
[24:22] Kiss-shot
    No wonder I felt like that
    meal was a bit lacking.
[24:26] Izuko
    Don't say that. That's why I've already
    returned it to you, Shinobu-san.
SIGN    Based on that comment,
SIGN    the demon sword "Kokoro Watari" that  was used earlier to play cricket
SIGN    was not Shinobu's, but apparently  the replica created by Gaen-san.
[24:34] Izuko
    I no longer have a need for it.
[24:36] Izuko
    If I can count on Koyomin's assistance,
    there's no need to do this the hard way.
[24:41] Izuko
    As a specialist in exterminating monsters,
    I can use the proper means,
[24:45] Izuko
    the standard approach,
    to exterminate Ougi Oshino.
[24:50] Koyomi
    What do you mean by saying you predicted
    the appearance of Ougi-chan?
[24:54] Izuko
    Well, I'm just speaking from experience.
[24:56] Izuko
    I wouldn't say it was exactly
    the same as Ougi Oshino...
[24:59] Izuko
    but I've seen an apparition
    similar to her in the past.
[25:04] Izuko
    Strictly speaking, I was not the
    one that experienced it.
[25:07] Izuko
    It was my older sister, Tooe Gaen.
[25:11] Izuko
    You know well of Suruga Kanbaru...
    it's her mother.
SIGN    Tooe Gaen
[25:15] Izuko
    In a way, she was like you, Koyomin.
[25:18] Izuko
    As a grade school student, I thought
    my older sister was bad news.
[25:21] Izuko
    I was well aware that she
    was a dangerous individual.
[25:23] Izuko
    How do I put it...
[25:25] Izuko
    She wasn't a monster,
    but she was like a monster.
[25:29] Izuko
    Tough on herself, and tough on others.
[25:32] Izuko
    The tougher it got, the more
    she thought it was for good.
[25:35] Izuko
    That's the type of person she was.
[25:37] Izuko
    But I digress. It's not that I want to
    introduce my older sister's personality to you.
[25:43] Izuko
    For now, I just want to say that such a
    personality my older sister had reminds me of Koyomin.
SIGN    Tough on oneself, and tough on others?
[25:50] Koyomi
    Did I have that kind of a personality?
[26:00] Izuko
    I will have Koyomin do the same
    thing my older sister did.
[26:03] Koyomi
    I'm going to do it? Not you, Gaen-san?
[26:07] Izuko
    You're the only one that can do it.
[26:10] Izuko
    You. By yourself.
[26:12] Izuko
    You must do it.
SIGN    People just...
SIGN    help themselves
SIGN    out on their own.
[26:19] Izuko
    The threat that the unknown
    apparition Ougi Oshino poses...
[26:23] Izuko
    ...ultimately boils down to one point,
    that she is an unknown.
[26:27] Izuko
    Therefore, disclosing her true identity
    would cause it to collapse.
SIGN    Collapse
[26:30] Koyomi
    Collapse?
[26:32] Izuko
    You could call it "pair
    annihilation" as well.
[26:34] Izuko
    But what's important here is that she's a
    fake, who lies about what she really is.
[26:41] Izuko
    What happens when that lie is exposed...
[26:43] Izuko
    Shinobu-san and Hachikuji-chan
    should know all too well.
[26:51] Koyomi
    The "darkness".
[26:56] Izuko
    Right. Apparitions that lie about what they are
    get swallowed by the "darkness".
[27:00] Izuko
    Especially in her case, she falsified
    herself as that "darkness" itself.
[27:04] Izuko
    The punishment for such a rule
    violation will be the most severe.
[27:10] Izuko
    You reap what you sow.
[27:12] Izuko
    Everything she's done around
    Koyomin for the past six months,
[27:16] Izuko
    all of that will now come
    bearing down on her.
[27:24] Izuko
    Well, an apparition is something
    intrinsically of that nature.
[27:27] Izuko
    That is why I call Ougi Oshino
    "an ordinary monster."
SIGN    If you explain an apparition with science,
SIGN    it turns into an ordinary superstition, right?
[27:33] Koyomi
    Gaen-san, so your older sister defeated
    an apparition similar to Ougi-chan...
[27:37] Koyomi
    A "darkness", no,
    a quasi-darkness, in that manner?
[27:41] Izuko
    Yup, that's right.
[27:43] Izuko
    In my opinion, a quasi-darkness is more
    dangerous than the "darkness" itself.
[27:49] Izuko
    It refuses to allow a tidy ending.
[27:52] Izuko
    It says that giving everyone
    a happy ending is cheating.
[27:55] Izuko
    That's how it works.
[27:58] Izuko
    That is why we absolutely must
[28:00] Izuko
    settle the score once and for all today,
    before the night is over.
[28:04] Ougi
    Please, help me.
[28:05] Ougi
    Could you be on my side?
[28:08] Ougi
    Please, help me.
SIGN    I don't know why Ougi-chan said that to me.
[28:17] Koyomi
    In the past,
[28:19] Koyomi
    there was a time when I rejected a request
    from Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade.
[28:26] Koyomi
    I will give Ougi-chan the
    same answer as back then.
[28:31] Koyomi
    I understand.
[28:33] Koyomi
    I will not save Ougi Oshino. So...
[28:35] Koyomi
    So, please tell me, Gaen-san.
[28:39] Koyomi
    What is the true identity of the mysterious
    transfer student, Ougi Oshino?
[28:43] Izuko
    Her true identity is...
[28:47] Nadeko
    Thank you, Tsukihi-chan. Thanks to you,
    it looks like I'll make my deadline.
[28:51] Tsukihi
    Nothing, it's nothing!
SIGN    This is Ran Hokkyokusei, transferring  from Shogo Academy.
[28:56] Tsukihi
    I don't know much about manga and stuff.
[28:59] Tsukihi
    But Nadeko-chan, how confident
    are you about this?
[29:02] Tsukihi
    If you win an award, you get
    prize money and stuff, right?
[29:05] Nadeko
    Mm... I don't know.
[29:08] Nadeko
    I stopped thinking about confidence
    and stuff like that.
[29:11] Tsukihi
    Hmm...
[29:12] Nadeko
    There have been people that
    said I might have talent.
[29:16] Nadeko
    But even for people with talent,
[29:18] Nadeko
    sometimes these things just don't work out.
[29:22] Tsukihi
    You won't be at the top tier unless
    you believe in your talent.
[29:26] Tsukihi
    Otherwise, you won't have anything to keep you going
    when you can't put in any more effort.
[29:30] ---
    This is Ran Hokkyokusei, transferring
    from Shogo Academy.
[29:31] Tsukihi
    People with only effort will become disheartened
    when they can no longer put in that effort.
[29:37] Nadeko
    It feels kind of like
    you're trying to trick me.
[29:42] Nadeko
    I just do what I want to do.
[29:45] Nadeko
    No matter how unsightly
    or embarrassing it is.
[29:49] Nadeko
    Tsukihi-chan, aren't you like that, too?
[29:52] Tsukihi
    I really don't have things I want to do,
    or goals, or stuff of that sort.
[29:58] Tsukihi
    That's why I like supporting what
    other people do like this, I guess?
[30:03] Nadeko
    Hmm?
[30:06] Nadeko
    To me, there isn't anyone else with as clear
    a stance on life as you, Tsukihi-chan.
[30:11] Tsukihi
    Hahaha! I'm honored by you saying that.
    Just how lucky is Tsukihi-chan?
[30:17] Tsukihi
    But I'm a bit more nihilistic,
    or maybe destructive,
[30:23] Tsukihi
    so there is a part of me that gets drawn
    to people who want to do things.
[30:27] Nadeko
    Are you talking about
    Karen-san or Koyomi-san?
[30:32] Tsukihi
    Well, yeah.
[30:34] Tsukihi
    That, and helping Nadeko-chan's job like this
[30:38] Tsukihi
    is me getting drawn to
    Nadeko-chan's enthusiasm.
[30:41] Nadeko
    Job...
[30:43] Nadeko
    It's not my job at all yet.
[30:49] Tsukihi
    I wonder what eventually
    happens to people like me?
[30:53] Tsukihi
    I have to think about planning for
    the future before it's too late.
[30:57] Tsukihi
    Karen-chan is entering high school,
    and Big Brother will be going to college.
[31:02] ---
    A normal middle school girl
    who goes to 15 Academy!
[31:02] Tsukihi
    Because right now I'm getting a taste of being
    left behind for the second time in my life,
[31:05] ---
    But what was
     that guy's problem?
[31:05] ---
    And it feels like
     I've seen him before...
[31:06] Tsukihi
    the last time being two years ago
    when I was in sixth grade,
[31:07] ---
    What's going to happen to
    my ordinary school life?
[31:09] Tsukihi
    I should decide what I want
    to do, who I want to be.
[31:14] Tsukihi
    Just like you, Nadeko-chan.
[31:15] Nadeko
    Just having you say something
    like that, Tsukihi-chan,
[31:18] Nadeko
    makes it worth putting effort into this.
[31:23] Nadeko
    Even if people can't become happy, good things
    happen to them... as long as they are alive.
[31:30] Tsukihi
    Hmm... Well, I guess that's true.
[31:37] Ougi
    Oh? Is that... Araragi-senpai's
    little sister right there?
[31:46] Ougi
    I met you yesterday, too. Hello.
[31:49] Tsukihi
    Hello.
[31:51] Tsukihi
    Did I meet her?
[31:52] Ougi
    My name is Ougi Oshino. I hear much
    about you from your big brother.
[31:58] Ougi
    He says he's very proud of you.
[32:00] Tsukihi
    Okay...
[32:01] Ougi
    It's getting late, so I'll take
    you home. Hop on back here.
[32:14] Ougi
    Was Sengoku-chan doing well?
[32:18] Ougi
    How was her electrocardiogram (shindenzu)?
[32:21] Ougi
    Was she dead-zu (shindenzu)?
    Or not dead-zu?
[32:24] ---
    Dead-zu?
     Not Dead-zu?
[32:26] Tsukihi
    She's all right, I guess.
[32:30] Tsukihi
    She's not dead. If anything, it's more
    like she had been dead before now.
[32:35] Ougi
    Perhaps.
[32:37] Ougi
    Well, they say that everybody has something
    more to them than just being cute.
[32:41] Ougi
    The way I think, girls like that
    are cuter when they aren't cute.
[32:47] Ougi
    Good, good.
[32:49] Ougi
    Being a "pretty girl" ended
    up only being a blade
[32:52] Ougi
    Sengoku-chan used to inflict
    wounds on herself.
[32:56] Ougi
    Things like that are so sad.
[32:58] Tsukihi
    Sad? Aren't you lucky if you are cute?
[33:04] Ougi
    For Sengoku-chan, cuteness was also
    a chain to bind herself with.
[33:09] Ougi
    But still, I'm sure it was too precious
    a talent to get rid of on her own.
[33:13] Ougi
    She needed some drastic measures.
[33:16] Tsukihi
    Drastic measures?
    What are you talking about?
[33:19] Ougi
    Who knows? I don't.
[33:22] Ougi
    I don't know anything.
[33:25] Ougi
    Araragi-senpai is the one that knows.
[33:29] Ougi
    Sengoku-chan seems to want to become
    a manga artist in the future.
[33:35] Ougi
    Tsukihi Araragi-chan,
    what do you want to become?
[33:38] Tsukihi
    What I want to be?
[33:42] Tsukihi
    I don't really have anything.
[33:45] Tsukihi
    I'm fine as long as I'm
    enjoying the present.
[33:48] Tsukihi
    I feel like times like that link
    together to form the future.
[33:52] Ougi
    You're not the type that knows everything,
[33:55] Ougi
    but you are the type that
    can do everything.
[33:58] Ougi
    You may not be omniscient,
    but you are omnipotent...
[34:00] Ougi
    You have too many choices,
[34:02] Ougi
    and so your objectives may be
    scattered all over the place.
[34:05] Ougi
    Though I say future...
[34:08] Ougi
    ...your future is much too large in scale.
[34:12] Tsukihi
    Are you saying that I'm too dependent?
[34:18] Ougi
    Tsukihi-chan, it's a fact that you live
    based on support from those around you.
[34:22] Ougi
    They are keeping you alive.
[34:24] Ougi
    Without your big brother
    and big sister's help,
[34:27] Ougi
    you could've died during summer break.
[34:31] Tsukihi
    During summer break?
[34:35] Tsukihi
    The thing about people is,
    they can't live all alone!
[34:39] Ougi
    People live of their own accord.
[34:45] Ougi
    What can't live of their own accord...
    are monsters.
[34:48] Ougi
    Just like you and me.
[34:53] Tsukihi
    Oh... huh?
[34:55] Tsukihi
    Wait, Oshino-san...
[34:57] Ougi
    "Ougi-san" is fine.
[34:58] Tsukihi
    Ougi-san, this isn't the right way at all.
[35:02] Ougi
    Whoa. Sorry, sorry. It looks
    like I've gotten lost.
[35:06] Ougi
    Let's stop for a moment and check
    the map on a smartphone.
[35:14] ---
    Private Property                    No Entry
SIGN    Danger            Watch Your Stay Out!            Head
SIGN    Danger No Entry
[35:17] ---
    Danger
    Stay Out!
SIGN    No Entry Danger           Danger
SIGN    Warning Watch Your Head         Danger
[35:20] Tsukihi
    Huh?
[35:21] Tsukihi
    Oh, that's right.
[35:23] Tsukihi
    Wasn't this the building that burned
    down back around August?
SIGN    No Entry Danger           Danger
SIGN    Warning Watch Your Head         Danger
[35:26] Ougi
    Wow, how strange.
     So this is like the ghost of a building?
[35:32] Ougi
    Why don't we try going in?
[35:39] Tsukihi
    A school... No, it looks like
    it used to be a cram school.
[35:44] Ougi
    Yeah, it seems that way.
[35:46] Ougi
    Oh my.  It was so exciting to come barging in
    like this, but now we know exactly what it is.
[35:51] Ougi
    When we figure out its true identity,
    it ceases to be scary at all.
[35:57] Ougi
    Mystery novels are like that, too.
[35:59] Ougi
    You read them on the edge of your seat, heart
    racing, because you don't know who did it.
[36:03] Ougi
    When the mystery is no longer a mystery,
    and the number of suspects is down to one...
[36:07] Ougi
    Honestly, after that point, it's no fun.
[36:11] Ougi
    I wish all solution scenes
    were just one line long.
[36:14] Ougi
    When the true identity is known,
[36:16] Ougi
    the fear and the fun disappear.
    That's how things are.
[36:26] ---
    Emergency Exit
[36:26] Tsukihi
    Do you really think so?
[36:29] ---
    Danger
[36:29] Tsukihi
    Well, in a mystery novel,
    that might be right.
[36:33] Tsukihi
    But in reality, doesn't it get scarier
    after the culprit is caught?
[36:37] Tsukihi
    You confirmed the existence
    of something that scared you.
[36:41] ---
    Cram School
[36:42] Ougi
    Oh?
[36:43] Tsukihi
    The real story only begins when
    you know what they really are.
[36:46] ---
    Emergency Exit
[36:47] Tsukihi
    I mean, all the paperwork and stuff after
    the culprit is caught takes way longer, right?
[36:49] ---
    Unauthorized Entry Forbidden
    Trespassers Will Be Reported to the Police
[36:52] Tsukihi
    Besides, you say the true identity,
    but it's not always going to be correct.
[36:56] Tsukihi
    There actually might be an even
    bigger unexpected plot twist,
[36:59] Tsukihi
    if you're talking mystery novels.
[37:02] ---
    Danger
[37:03] Ougi
    That may be true. I see, "true identity"
    is written as the "right body."
SIGN    True identity  (right) (body)
[37:08] ---
    Danger
[37:09] Ougi
    In the end, a body is merely a body.
[37:11] ---
    Cram School
[37:12] Ougi
    You got one on me there. Nothing less
    from Araragi-senpai's little sister.
[37:19] Ougi
    Tsukihi-chan, they may have
    accepted your true identity.
[37:22] Ougi
    Or perhaps they're amused by it.
[37:27] Ougi
    But, the same probably
    won't happen for me.
[37:32] Ougi
    My true identity is... unsightly.
[37:38] Ougi
    Tsukihi-chan, unfortunately for you,
[37:41] Ougi
    what you call a "future"
    doesn't actually exist.
[37:44] Ougi
    It's not that you don't know what will
    happen in the future. There is no future.
[37:48] Ougi
    No matter how much of the present you
    pile up, it won't lead to a future.
[37:52] Ougi
    All you have is an eternal present.
[37:56] Ougi
    Even so, are you able to live in the present,
[37:59] Ougi
    without heeding what is to come,
    with disregard of the future?
[38:03] Tsukihi
    Well, probably. I'm pretty good at living.
[38:10] Ougi
    It's a marvelous thing
    that you can say that.
[38:13] Ougi
    I'm jealous.
[38:20] Koyomi
    You're late, Ougi-chan.
[38:23] Koyomi
    I've been waiting for you.
[38:25] Ougi
    Tsukihi-chan, I'm sorry, but can you take
    my bike and go home alone?
SIGN    No Entry Danger           Danger
SIGN    Warning Watch Your Head       Danger
[38:32] Ougi
    I have something important to talk
    about with your big brother.
[38:36] Ougi
    The combination on the chain is "1-2-3-4."
[38:42] Ougi
    What is Shinobu-chan doing right now?
[38:45] Ougi
    She's supposedly back in
    her complete form now...
[38:48] Ougi
    She's not together with you?
[38:50] Koyomi
    That hasn't happened yet.
[38:52] Koyomi
    We decided that we will bind
    ourselves to one another
[38:55] Koyomi
    once again after everything
    is said and done.
[38:58] Ougi
    Hmm...
[39:00] Ougi
    Shinobu-chan wished to end up
    right where she started, huh?
[39:04] Ougi
    And Araragi-senpai, you want
    to become a quasi-human,
[39:08] Ougi
    a failed attempt at being
    a vampire once again?
[39:11] Koyomi
    I just love young girls.
SIGN    I answer,
SIGN    while feeling that this  conversation is meaningless.
[39:17] Ougi
    So what will happen to the girl?
[39:21] Koyomi
    She will be enshrined at
    North Shirahebi Shrine.
[39:23] Koyomi
    That also is for when everything
    is said and done.
[39:27] Ougi
    Hmm. So that shrine...
[39:30] Ougi
    It was a big problem, what to do with
    the giant hole that opened in this town.
[39:36] Ougi
    You sure found a convenient
    solution for it.
[39:39] Koyomi
    A problem... Your job?
[39:42] Ougi
    Well, yes. I said something
    like that at some point.
SIGN    No Entry Danger             Danger
SIGN    Warning Watch Your Head         Danger
[39:49] Koyomi
    Speaking of jobs... My little sister...
[39:52] Koyomi
    What kind of lively conversations
    did you have with her?
[39:56] Ougi
    I didn't even get to finish.
[39:58] Ougi
    It's a shame. My job
    ended up being half-done.
[40:05] Ougi
    That was a tough one.
[40:07] Ougi
    Nothing less from a phoenix.
    It's beyond what I can handle.
[40:10] Ougi
    How in the world was Yoduru Kagenui going to
    exterminate such a long-living creature?
[40:16] Koyomi
    You can exterminate monsters when you
    disclose their true identities, right?
[40:20] Ougi
    That's why I'm saying it doesn't
    look like you can exterminate
[40:23] Ougi
    her even if you disclose
    her true identity.
[40:26] Ougi
    Because she has a big brother
[40:28] Ougi
    that refuses to stop loving her, even
    knowing what her true identity is.
[40:33] Ougi
    Mm... That may be why
    Yoduru Kagenui had given up.
[40:38] Ougi
    But I'd surmise that I can't
    quite do the same thing.
[40:44] Ougi
    Isn't that so?
[40:45] Ougi
    Araragi-senpai will disclose my true identity,
    and I'll be exterminated right here.
[40:50] Ougi
    That's how this works, right?
[40:54] Koyomi
    A one-on-one duel, as they say.
[40:58] Ougi
    That is quite exciting.
[41:04] Koyomi
    This time, it's something
    that I have to do myself.
[41:08] Koyomi
    It's something that only I can do.
[41:10] Koyomi
    And it's something that
    I want to do alone.
[41:13] Ougi
    What you "want to do," huh?
[41:16] Ougi
    Perhaps you only think that because those
    adults smooth-talked you into it?
[41:20] Ougi
    Araragi-senpai, you may think you
    are working yourself to the bone
[41:23] Ougi
    for the sake of Shinobu-chan
    and Hachikuji-chan.
[41:25] Ougi
    But isn't that just habit?
[41:29] Ougi
    How foolish.
[41:31] Ougi
    One tends to find excessive value
    in something that was almost lost.
[41:34] Ougi
    But if you bind yourself to such nostalgia,
    you will never ever arrive at your future.
[41:40] Ougi
    Oh, let me just make it clear that
    this is me pleading for my life.
[41:45] Koyomi
    Pleading for your life?
[41:47] Ougi
    I've been telling you, haven't I?
[41:48] Ougi
    "Could you be on my side?"
[41:51] Ougi
    "Please, help me."
[41:53] Ougi
    It seems that those requests were
    fleeting and flatly denied.
[41:58] Ougi
    Was I not charming enough?
[42:02] Ougi
    Well, that is the correct
    answer, Araragi-senpai.
[42:06] Ougi
    That is the right thing.
[42:07] Ougi
    What, so you can do the right thing, too?
[42:12] Ougi
    Unfortunately, I wanted
    you to decline that.
[42:18] Ougi
    Well, this party hasn't quite
    gotten into full swing yet,
[42:21] Ougi
    but let's have you close it
    out now, Araragi-senpai.
[42:24] Koyomi
    Yeah, I'll have the honor of doing so.
[42:29] Koyomi
    Ougi-chan, your true identity...
[42:35] Koyomi
    Your true identity... is me.
[42:48] Izuko
    Ougi Oshino's true identity
    is Koyomi Araragi.
[42:51] Izuko
    Ougi Oshino is an apparition
    created by Koyomi Araragi.
[42:55] Izuko
    Just as my older sister, Tooe Gaen,
    created an apparition called the Rainy Devil.
[43:00] Izuko
    The unknown apparition created by Tooe Gaen
    was the materialization of her self-control.
[43:07] Izuko
    Taking that quasi-darkness,
[43:09] Izuko
    and arranging it into the form of
    the western apparition called Rainy Devil,
[43:12] Izuko
    she settled the score.
[43:14] Izuko
    You could say that Ougi Oshino
[43:16] Izuko
    is your own desire to criticize yourself.
[43:19] Izuko
    Of course, that's not all she is.
[43:26] Izuko
    It was last August.
[43:28] Izuko
    The case where Hachikuji-chan
    was assaulted by the "darkness".
[43:31] Izuko
    The first phase was that Koyomin, through
    the incident, learned about the "darkness".
[43:36] Izuko
    You learned of a phenomenon
    that corrects mistakes.
[43:39] Izuko
    It tells you that what's
    forbidden is forbidden.
[43:40] Izuko
    What is wrong is wrong.
[43:43] Izuko
    It judges things.
[43:48] Izuko
    Now, the second phase was the confrontation
    with the first Apparition Killer.
[43:53] Izuko
    During the first encounter,
[43:55] Izuko
    Suruga's Rainy Devil left arm had been hit
    by the Energy Drain from the first one, yes?
[44:00] Izuko
    Here, the undiluted essence of the
    "unknown" my older sister created
[44:03] Izuko
    combined with the original.
[44:06] Izuko
    Through Shinobu Oshino,
    you and he understand one another.
[44:10] Izuko
    In fact, Shinobu-chan
    had eaten the first one.
[44:15] Izuko
    Thanks to that food chain,
    a part of my older sister's legacy
[44:19] Izuko
    flowed into you through Shinobu-chan.
[44:23] Izuko
    And the result was the birth
    of an "unknown" equipped with
[44:28] Izuko
    all of the apparitions in this town, and
    everything that had happened with them.
SIGN    Because of its nature and how it was created,
SIGN    Ougi Oshino is able to  wield Heart-under-blade's
SIGN    physical materialization skill,
SIGN    at the very least.
[44:34] Izuko
    By the way, concerning the surname "Oshino,"
    it originates from Shinobu Oshino.
[44:40] Izuko
    The fact that I foolishly called
    myself that guy's little sister
[44:44] Izuko
    turned out to set a bad precedent.
[44:48] Izuko
    However, Koyomin's singularity
    was that the apparition
[44:52] Izuko
    he created was an apparition
    that attacked himself.
[44:55] Izuko
    You have, from spring break,
    somewhere in your heart,
[44:58] Izuko
    had awareness that you are
    cheating all over your body.
[45:03] Izuko
    You helped Kiss-shot Acerola-orion
    Heart-under-blade out of sympathy...
[45:08] Izuko
    and you wanted to face the consequences.
[45:11] Izuko
    You grew a friendship
    with Tsubasa Hanekawa...
[45:14] Izuko
    but you kept worrying if you were worthy,
    since you couldn't live up to her feelings.
[45:21] Izuko
    You helped Hitagi Senjyogahara
    with her long-term worries...
[45:24] Izuko
    but you kept thinking how you ended up dating
    her as "taking advantage of her weakness."
[45:32] Izuko
    You respect Suruga Kanbaru...
[45:34] Izuko
    but you felt inferiority because you couldn't
    live in her straightforward manner.
[45:38] Izuko
    You helped Nadeko Sengoku...
[45:40] Izuko
    ...but back then, the person you really
    wanted to help wasn't just Nadeko Sengoku.
[45:46] Izuko
    You gradually reconciled
    with Shinobu Oshino...
[45:49] Izuko
    but was that even allowed?
[45:53] Izuko
    In the first place, isn't it unfair
    to freely use powers of immortality?
[45:57] Izuko
    Shouldn't there be
    consequences to face for it?
[46:00] Izuko
    Aren't I...
[46:01] Izuko
    the worst kind of human imaginable?
[46:05] Izuko
    The portion of your mind
    that criticizes itself
[46:08] Izuko
    manifested itself entirely
    in the form of Ougi Oshino.
[46:12] Izuko
    The girl you could call Dark Koyomin.
[46:14] Izuko
    That is why, like the darkness,
    she took things one by one,
[46:18] Izuko
    with the case of Sodachi Oikura as
    a springboard, and crushed them.
[46:24] Izuko
    Meme Oshino and Yoduru Kagenui...
[46:26] Izuko
    That, and probably Deishu Kaiki after he
    finished the case concerning Nadeko Sengoku.
[46:31] Izuko
    Rest assured, Koyomin.
[46:33] Izuko
    If you exterminate Ougi Oshino,
    you'll probably find them easily.
[46:40] Izuko
    She still has things that are left undone.
[46:44] Izuko
    Right. Tsukihi Araragi, your little sister.
[46:47] Izuko
    The immortal apparition, the Shideno-bird.
[46:50] Izuko
    There's no chance whatsoever that
     part of you isn't concerned with whether
[46:56] Izuko
    it's okay for her to live
    while pretending to be a human being.
[46:58] Izuko
    That's why I used her as a lure.
[47:04] Izuko
    Yup, that's right. I have no evidence.
[47:06] Izuko
    Everything I said just
    now is only speculation.
[47:09] Izuko
    But you understand it, don't you?
[47:11] Izuko
    You know better than anyone else
[47:13] Izuko
    the true identity of Ougi Oshino.
[47:15] Izuko
    That is why it must be you who
    discloses her true identity.
[47:20] Izuko
    Go be victorious in the
    battle against yourself.
[47:22] Izuko
    It's rather simple, isn't it?
[47:25] Izuko
    Killing yourself for the sake of others.
    It's something you do every day.
[47:29] Izuko
    It's Koyomi Araragi, the one
    that you loathe the most.
[47:34] Izuko
    So... go end it all.
[47:36] Izuko
    By your hands, you need to end it all.
[47:39] Izuko
    That is the end... of your adolescence.
SIGN    Ougi Dark Part Three
[47:49] Koyomi
    Your true identity... is me.
[47:52] Koyomi
    You are me.
[47:54] Koyomi
    Ougi Oshino... is Koyomi Araragi.
[48:12] Ougi
    Wow, that was rather quick.
    The main act has already arrived?
[48:18] Ougi
    Is it because of the severity of the
    lies I told, the sins I have committed?
[48:27] Ougi
    To think I was trying to act
    the part of such a thing...
[48:30] Ougi
    I have to say, I must
    have been rather insane.
[48:35] Koyomi
    Didn't you know that this
    was going to happen?
[48:40] Koyomi
    If you really are me,
[48:44] Koyomi
    the fact that I'd be waiting here,
[48:46] Koyomi
    the fact that I'd already
    learned who you really are...
[48:50] Koyomi
    If you knew, then why come?
[48:53] Ougi
    There are times where you have to fight,
    even if you know you're going to lose.
[48:57] Ougi
    If I could say something akin to dying words,
[49:00] Ougi
    I believe that, in my own way,
[49:02] Ougi
    I was able to make Koyomi Araragi's
    adolescence into something more right,
[49:05] Ougi
    even if I couldn't make it better.
[49:08] Koyomi
    If you're saying that this is right...
[49:11] Koyomi
    Then I don't need what's right.
[49:14] Koyomi
    Do you know how many problems you've
    caused, for how many people?
[49:18] Ougi
    If you're saying someone was harmed,
    then I'll say that they deserved it.
[49:23] Ougi
    It is not that I personally
    have done anything.
[49:26] Ougi
    In reality, you fully understand
    that as well, don't you?
[49:28] Ougi
    That trouble, harm, misfortune...
    They aren't things that are cut-and-dry.
[49:36] Koyomi
    So the right thing is cut-and-dry?
[49:39] Koyomi
    What is right, and what is wrong...
    Can you cut them apart?
[49:44] Ougi
    Even if you can't decide what's right,
[49:46] Ougi
    you can decide which side
    is right, can't you?
[49:50] Ougi
    In Sodachi Oikura's case, I was wrong.
[49:53] Ougi
    In Nadeko Sengoku's case, I was right.
[49:57] Ougi
    In Tadatsuru Teori's case...
    I guess we call that a draw.
[50:01] Ougi
    I had thought that I could win
    that in a one-on-one fight.
SIGN    Challenge
[50:06] Koyomi
    So after all this, Ougi-chan...
    Me or you—who was right?
[50:12] Ougi
    As I am the one disappearing like this,
    it means that Araragi-senpai, you were right.
[50:18] Ougi
    Congratulations, Araragi-senpai.
[50:25] Ougi
    Everything you have done until
    now has not been wrong.
[50:28] Ougi
    It was right.
[50:31] Ougi
    This is the end of adolescence.
[50:33] Ougi
    Or perhaps the end of a story?
[50:36] Ougi
    Oh, this is nothing significant at all.
[50:39] Ougi
    It's not the end of one's life, and it's
    far from enough to be the world's end.
[50:44] Ougi
    It's just the end of one
    of your many stories.
[50:48] Ougi
    It's not even the final episode or anything.
[50:50] Ougi
    I'm glad that I could disappear
    like this before you graduated.
[50:58] Ougi
    Thank you for all your hard work.
[51:00] Ougi
    Farewell, Araragi-senpai.
[51:06] Koyomi
    Farewell, Ougi-chan.
[51:10] Koyomi
    Farewell, Ougi Oshino.
[51:13] Koyomi
    Farewell, my adolescence.
[51:23] Koyomi
    Never mind! I just can't do it!
[51:36] Ougi
    A-Araragi-senpai? Wh-What are...
[51:40] Ougi
    What are you... thinking?
[51:48] Ougi
    You're not immortal, but you're
    trying to save someone else.
[51:52] Ougi
    I-In the end, that's how you are?
[51:55] Ougi
    Do you throw your life away so
    easily for the sake of others?
[52:00] Ougi
    So you are going to save
    even someone like me,
[52:02] Ougi
    who did nothing but criticize
    you and make you suffer?
[52:08] Ougi
    What good does it do if you die?
[52:10] Ougi
    What's the point of saving me here?
[52:13] Ougi
    You're wrong after all.
[52:17] Ougi
    You are wrong as a person.
[52:20] Ougi
    You are the absolute worst as a person.
[52:27] Koyomi
    I didn't... save someone else.
[52:32] Koyomi
    Right now... I just saved myself.
[52:37] Koyomi
    Hitagi did. Hanekawa did. Shinobu did.
    Ononoki-chan did. Everyone saved me.
[52:45] Koyomi
    If everyone had saved me,
    and I didn't save myself?
[52:51] Koyomi
    I just can't allow such a thing to happen!
[53:04] Ougi
    Oh, brother.
[53:06] Ougi
    I had planned for a solo suicide, but this ended
    up being a lover's suicide, Araragi-senpai.
[53:10] Ougi
    Let me make it clear, but I'm
    not a young girl, you know?
[53:14] Koyomi
    That doesn't matter. Even then, you're like a
    newborn baby, born merely six month ago, right?
SIGN    Babies should be protected like this.
[53:23] Koyomi
    If you're saying what I have been
    doing until now wasn't wrong...
[53:27] Koyomi
    ...the fact that I'm doing this right now
     should not be wrong, either.
[53:34] Koyomi
    I am not wrong.
[53:37] Koyomi
    Yup.
[53:38] Koyomi
    Just as you are not wrong.
[53:44] Ougi
    Really...
[53:46] Ougi
    You are foolish.
[53:48] Meme
    Not quite.
[53:57] Meme
    I can't make fun of you...
[53:59] Meme
    ...as you finally fight for your own sake.
[54:04] Meme
    I respect you, Araragi-kun.
[54:10] Tsubasa
    I win.
[54:15] Ougi
    This a joke.
[54:16] Ougi
    Hanekawa-senpai really brought him here...
    all the way from Antarctica.
[54:22] Ougi
    She's really insane.
SIGN    Hitagi, if this is the case, it wasn't,  "This is a pen." It was "dépaysement."
SIGN    Come to think of it, Ougi-chan had been  alarmed at Hanekawa from the beginning.
SIGN    The name "Ougi"...
SIGN    actually was "ougi" because you put  a "door" on "wings (hane)," wasn't it?
[54:34] Meme
    Araragi-kun...
[54:38] Meme
    You oh-so-violently pushed my cute little
    niece down. What are you planning to do?
[54:44] Meme
    Really, Araragi-kun, you're
    so full of spirit.
[54:48] Meme
    Did something nice happen
    to you or something?
[54:52] Meme
    You shouldn't be doing obscene things to your
    underclassman when you have a lover.
SIGN    Niece?
SIGN    That's what he said. In reference to Ougi-chan.
SIGN    Meme Oshino said so.
[55:05] Koyomi
    Meme Oshino acknowledged
    Ougi Oshino as a relative.
[55:11] Koyomi
    What that signifies... is the
    existence of Ougi Oshino.
[55:15] Koyomi
    She was no longer a fabrication or a lie.
SIGN    That is why...
SIGN    ...the "darkness" disappeared.
[55:25] Koyomi
    You helped us, Oshino.
[55:28] Meme
    I didn't really help or anything.
[55:30] Meme
    You just helped yourself out
    on your own, Araragi-kun.
[55:37] Meme
    Well done.
[55:42] Ougi
    Gweh...
[55:46] Koyomi
    Ougi Oshino became Ougi Oshino.
[55:49] Koyomi
    And thus, the adolescence of me,
    Koyomi Araragi, came to an end.
[55:53] Koyomi
    I had believed that not taking care of
    myself was the act of loving others.
[55:58] Koyomi
    The days of kind deception, filled with thin,
    weak euphoria, have now come to an end.
[56:09] Koyomi
    An epilogue.
SIGN    March 15th
[56:12] Karen
    Big Brother! It's morning, damn it!
[56:14] Tsukihi
    If you don't get up, you'll be late!
[56:16] Karen & Tsukihi
    Jeez!
[56:25] Koyomi
    By the way, Tsukihi-chan,
    what were you wishing for?
[56:29] Koyomi
    I mean, about your hair.
[56:31] Tsukihi
    I was actually wishing your exams would go well,
    and also a bit about Nadeko-chan.
[56:36] Tsukihi
    As it was about my hair (kami), I was
    wishing upon the Lord God (kami).
[56:38] Tsukihi
    That is, if he exists.
[56:41] Tsukihi
    In any case, Big Brother's entrance exams are
    over, and Nadeko-chan has gotten better for now.
[56:46] Tsukihi
    Mm, maybe there is a God out there.
[56:49] Koyomi
    Yeah, starting yesterday.
[56:51] Tsukihi
    Hmm?
[56:52] Koyomi
    Oh, nothing.
[56:54] Tsukihi
    I see.
[57:00] Karen
    Big Brother, Big Brother! Since I'm going
    to be in high school starting next month,
[57:04] Karen
    we won't be able to make
    out like we have been.
[57:09] Karen
    So let's take one last meal,
    feeding mouth-to-mouth!
[57:13] Karen
    And let's brush each others' teeth!
[57:16] Koyomi
    What you need to brush
    up is your intelligence.
[57:18] Koyomi
    Well, you know, Karen-chan.
[57:21] Koyomi
    Even after you disband the Fire Sisters
    of Tsuganoki 2nd Middle School,
[57:24] Koyomi
    are you going to continue acting
    as an advocate of justice?
[57:26] Karen
    I can't help it!
SIGN    To correct, maybe she wanted  to say, "By all possible means!"
SIGN    To be right, that is.
[57:30] Koyomi
    Karen-chan, in your case, what did
    the "right thing" turn out to be?
[57:34] Karen
    Helping others!
[57:36] Koyomi
    I see.
[57:40] Koyomi
    Then why not start by helping yourself?
SIGN    You too.
[57:47] Koyomi
    Hey, Hachikuji!
[57:49] Mayoi
    Please don't speak to me!
SIGN    Name: God Mayoi Hachikuji
[57:51] Mayoi
    I am a god now!
[57:55] Mayoi
    If you insist that you wish to speak to me,
    after two bows, two claps, and one bow...
SIGN    One bow               Two claps                 Two bows
SIGN    Manners in visitation
[58:00] Mayoi
    ...make a monetary offering, and speak
    as if you were speaking to a god.
[58:04] Koyomi
    Who would talk to someone like that?
    I'll totally ignore you.
[58:08] Mayoi
    Araragi-san, are you heading to
    your graduation ceremony today?
[58:11] Mayoi
    Thank you for all your hard work.
[58:17] Mayoi
    Normally, I would attend the graduation
    ceremony and celebrate your achievement.
[58:22] Mayoi
    But if a god were to attend, the common people
    might start clamoring... so I'll be considerate.
[58:27] Koyomi
    Nobody will visit your shrine. We're going
    to end up as a town without a god again!
[58:32] Mayoi
    Hahaha! Oh, don't say that.
    You can come by any time.
[58:36] Mayoi
    North Shirahebi Shrine is free to visit,
    so really, come visit at any time.
[58:42] Koyomi
    Yeah, I'll go visit at any time.
[58:45] Koyomi
    At your home.
[58:46] Mayoi
    Yes, at my home!
[58:51] Izuko
    By the way, are you really all
    right with this, Shinobu-san?
[58:54] Izuko
    Your desire to be sealed away once
    again within Koyomin's shadow
[58:58] Izuko
    is something I find difficult to comprehend.
[59:01] Izuko
    If there's some rationale behind
    this, I'd like to know it.
[59:06] Kiss-shot
    There is none.
[59:07] Kiss-shot
    Besides, my desire to once again be
    deemed harmless, as I tire of battle...
[59:14] Kiss-shot
    is something a specialist shouldn't
    find too difficult to comprehend.
SIGN    From a young girl (youjo)  to a phantom woman (youjo).
SIGN    And then, to wish to return  to a young girl once again.
[59:21] Kiss-shot
    Of course, if my master, now that his vampiric
    nature has been successfully removed,
[59:29] Kiss-shot
    is unwilling to return once again to the
    state of being a quasi-human, quasi-vampire,
[59:35] Kiss-shot
    I shall retract my own desires.
[59:39] Kiss-shot
    After I heal that arm, I will retreat to a
    mountain somewhere, and live a secluded life.
[59:45] Koyomi
    Like I'd let you.
[59:48] Koyomi
    The mountains don't have any
    Mister Donut stores, Shinobu.
[59:54] Kiss-shot
    Oh, that's right.
[59:58] Koyomi
    If you were to die tomorrow, I'd be fine with
    tomorrow being the last day of my life.
[1:00:03] Koyomi
    If you were to live through today,
    I will also choose to live through today.
[1:00:09] Kiss-shot
    If you were to die the day after tomorrow,
    I shall live for three days' time...
[1:00:14] Kiss-shot
    and tell a tale about you to someone.
[1:00:18] Kiss-shot
    I shall recite the story of my master
    with pride to a listening ear.
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony
SIGN    Naoetsu High
[1:00:39] Tsubasa
    Morning, Araragi-kun.
[1:00:41] Koyomi
    Morning, Hanekawa.
[1:00:45] Koyomi
    Why are you here at the bicycle lot?
[1:00:47] Tsubasa
    Of course, I was waiting
    for you, Araragi-kun.
[1:00:49] Tsubasa
    Because there were a lot of things
    I wanted to talk to you about.
[1:00:53] Tsubasa
    I have to take off right after
    the graduation ceremony is over.
[1:00:58] Tsubasa
    So I thought this was the only
    time I'd get to talk to you.
[1:01:03] Koyomi
    Do you have to leave right away
     because of the flight you booked?
[1:01:08] Tsubasa
    Mm... Actually...
[1:01:12] Tsubasa
    In bringing Oshino-san back from Antarctica,
    I sold off a bit of my brains.
[1:01:17] Koyomi
    Sold off your brains?
[1:01:19] Koyomi
    What? That doesn't sound good...
[1:01:21] Tsubasa
    I guess you call them "jet setters"?
[1:01:23] Tsubasa
    Well, I had to go that far
    to charter a fighter plane.
[1:01:29] Tsubasa
    It's fine. I sold it off to a
    relatively honest institution.
SIGN    Stare Stare
SIGN    Stare Stare
SIGN    Stare Stare
[1:01:42] Tsubasa
    I'll knock you out!
[1:01:44] Koyomi
    Scary!
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony Site
[1:01:46] Koyomi
    By the way, they think that Kagenui-san
    is probably at the North Pole.
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony Site
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony
[1:01:51] Tsubasa
    I see... I had a hunch
    so I chose the continent.
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony Site
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony Site
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony
[1:01:55] Tsubasa
    So even if I had gone to the North
    Pole, it still would've worked out.
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony Site
[1:02:00] Koyomi
    Ononoki-chan wanted to go get her, but she declined,
[1:02:04] Koyomi
    saying she's busy with some kind of
    familiar sounding training ritual
[1:02:08] Koyomi
    which involves fighting polar bears.
[1:02:09] Tsubasa
    Oh? Then, what happened to Ononoki-chan?
    What is she doing now?
SIGN    Graduation Ceremony Site
[1:02:13] Koyomi
    She's still at my house.
[1:02:15] Tsubasa
    That's...
[1:02:16] Koyomi
    Well, a part of it is that Gaen-san
    and Oshino left all too suddenly.
[1:02:21] ---
    Graduation Ceremony
[1:02:21] Koyomi
    It looks like adults are
    pretty busy in many ways.
[1:02:24] Tsubasa
    Adults?
[1:02:25] ---
    Graduation Ceremony
[1:02:26] Tsubasa
    But we're going to join
    them starting tomorrow.
[1:02:29] Koyomi
    Hitagi and I are still students.
[1:02:31] ---
    Graduation Ceremony
[1:02:32] Koyomi
    You're the only one that
    is becoming an adult.
[1:02:35] Tsubasa
    "Hitagi"?
[1:02:36] Tsubasa
    Oh, I see, I see. Something like
    that happened while I was gone?
[1:02:41] ---
    Graduation Ceremony
[1:02:42] Koyomi
    Wait, wait, wait. Don't make hasty decisions.
[1:02:44] Koyomi
    Perhaps things haven't gone
    as far as you think they have.
[1:02:48] Tsubasa
    I'm glad, I'm glad. Now, I can take off
    without worrying about a thing.
[1:02:56] Hitagi
    Morning, Araragi-kun.
[1:02:58] Tsubasa
    Oh? You're not going to call him "Koyomi"?
[1:03:07] Hitagi
    Morning, Koyomi.
[1:03:11] Hitagi
    And welcome back, Tsubasa.
[1:03:17] Tsubasa
    I'm back, Hitagi-chan.
SIGN    Thursday, March 15th
[1:03:21] Hitagi
    Koyomi, Kanbaru apparently has prepared
    a present for us as a graduation gift.
[1:03:26] Koyomi
    Really? A present from Kanbaru...
    That makes me nervous.
[1:03:32] Hitagi
    Well, she isn't one to prepare something
    strange for something like this.
[1:03:36] Hitagi
    I probed a bit, and it seems to
    be an ordinary flower bouquet.
[1:03:41] Koyomi
    Flowers, huh...
[1:04:01] Hitagi & Tsubasa
    Off you go!
[1:04:05] Koyomi
    Yeah.
[1:04:07] Koyomi
    Pick up my diploma for me!
SIGN    I'm on my way.
[1:04:24] Ougi
    You haven't changed, Araragi-senpai.
[1:04:28] Koyomi
    No, I'm changing.
[1:04:30] Koyomi
    But no matter how much I change...
[1:04:33] Koyomi
    I am still me.
[1:04:40] ---
    Graduation
     Ceremony
[1:05:27] Shinobu
    Once upon a time, in a certain place,
    there was a weirdo called Koyomi Araragi.
[1:05:32] Shinobu
    And he still is around to this day.
[1:05:36] Shinobu
    And they all lived happily ever after.
[1:05:39] Koyomi
    I heard the story recited from
    the shadow that was running with me.
[1:05:43] Koyomi
    I was curious to see
    what happened next in the story.
SIGN    Owarimonogatari The End