E2 - Sodachi Riddle, Part One

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    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
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    Sodachi Oikura despises me.
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    To the point that it's like
    I killed her parents or something.
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    At the same time, I find it strange...
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    The fact is, I don't particularly
    despise Sodachi Oikura at all.
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    Why she despises me so much.
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    And why I can't bring myself to despise her.
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    I ended up finding out the answers.
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    It was a truth that unfolded two years
    from its onset.
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    And at the same time, it was a truth
    that unfolded five years from its onset as well.
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    Then, mathematically...
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    Or perhaps similar to a mystery novel,
    let's strike a dramatic pose and set up the question.
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    Prove that when Sodachi Oikura
    despises Koyomi Araragi,
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    that Koyomi Araragi cannot bring himself
    to despise Sodachi Oikura.
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    However, Ougi Oshino can be
    left out of any consideration.
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    OWARIMONOGATARI
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    SODACHI RIDDLE, PART ONE
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    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
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    701 MIDDLE SCHOOL, A PUBLIC SCHOOL
    FRONT GATES
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    So this is the middle school
    you attended, Araragi-senpai?
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    Now that you mention it,
    an extraordinary presence can be felt here.
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    Let's go, Araragi-senpai.
    It was the shoe locker, right?
[02:44] ---
    Yeah. The shoe locker.
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    It's such a strange coincidence.
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    Right after I hear the story about Oikura-senpai
    from you, Araragi-senpai...
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    The next day, Araragi-senpai and
    that very Oikura-senpai are reunited.
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    It's quite a strange twist of fate.
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    STRANGE TWIST OF FATE
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    Well, I was surprised.
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    As for me, I didn't even know
    she was in the same class as me.
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    701 MIDDLE SCHOOL, A PUBLIC SCHOOL
    ENTRANCEWAY
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    Oh, so this is it?
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    Araragi-senpai was changing shoes right here
    everyday back in 7th grade.
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    This is very moving.
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    It's not moving at all...
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    Why would my changing shoes
    be so moving?
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    My, oh my.
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    So this is a letter addressed to you, Araragi-senpai?
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    TO: KOYOMI ARARAGI IN 1-3
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    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
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    FLASHBACK
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    NAOETSU HIGH SCHOOL
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    The recollected memory
    is still in the middle of chaos...
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    Therefore, the circumstances
    should be discussed first.
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    I mean, the circumstances
    that caused me to visit my alma mater.
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    Araragi, you didn't get along with her, if I recall?
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    So, I thought you should mentally prepare
    before you enter the classroom.
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    There's nothing to worry about.
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    Though we didn't get along,
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    that's talking about something
    from two years ago, the distant past.
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    I don't care about any of that at all.
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    You sure?
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    Oikura kept asking me.
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    "How is Araragi doing right now?"
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    "What is Araragi doing right now?"
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    "What kind of person is Araragi now?"
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    "Has he grown taller?"
    "What kind of food does he normally eat?"
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    "Around what time does he arrive at school?"
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    That's asking way too much...
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    I thought it'd be strange not to answer,
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    so I answered
    the harmless kind of questions.
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    HARMLESS KIND
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    And, it seemed a bit threatening,
    so I didn't tell her about Senjyogahara, either.
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    Araragi.
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    Before Senjyogahara arrives at school,
    you should at least have a goal set for all this.
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    But just hold on a second, Araragi.
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    I have to go discuss the matter of Oikura's return
    to school with Ms. Hoshina right now.
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    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.
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    Six months until we graduate.
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    I'd like to spend my adolescence in comfort.
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    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
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    Huh?
[05:53] ---
    Huh?
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    Aren't you Oikura?
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    Yeah, you are Oikura!
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    Man, you surprised me!
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    If it isn't Oikura,
    who was in my first-year class,
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    in the distant past
    known as two years ago!
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    Do you remember me?
    I'm sure you've already forgotten.
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    You know, I was attendance number 2. I'm Araragi!
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    ATTENDANCE NUMBER / NAME
    1 / KEIRI ASHINE
    2 / KOYOMI ARARAGI
    3 / BIWA ARIKURE
    4 / MICHISADA IGAMI
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    I do remember.
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    Of course.
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    You are someone...
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    ...that I would never forget about.
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    SODACHI OIKURA
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    Araragi.
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    I'm glad you remember me.
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    As previous attendance number 2,
    I, Araragi, am happy.
[06:44] ---
    You seem to be doing well, unlike me.
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    Really, you make me jealous.
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    While I was cooped up
    in my own house,
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    you studied, decided to try for college,
    got a girlfriend...
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    Araragi, your life is truly
    one of smooth sailing.
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    Thanks to you.
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    Thanks to me?
[07:04] ---
    Thanks to me?
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    I haven't been to school this whole time.
    What are you saying I did for you?
[07:11] ---
    Well, that's...
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    Well, I'm sure that you'd be able
    to go to any college you wanted, Araragi.
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    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—
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    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.
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    Those that don't even think about
    why they're happy.
[08:45] ---
    I despise water
    that thinks it boiled itself on its own.
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    DESPISE
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    I despise seasons
    that think they cycle naturally.
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    DESPISE
[08:51] ---
    I despise the sun
    that thinks it rose on its own.
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    DESPISE
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    Despise, despise, d-d-despise...
    I despise them.
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    I despise you.
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    Oikura...
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    Because someone like you
    is influencing others,
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    no one's reaching out to me,
    no matter how much time passes.
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    I despise people who think they're living
    using only their own power...
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    People can't be happy
    unless someone else saves them.
[09:21] ---
    An idiot that can't even understand that...
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    I despise them, despise them so much
    I feel like I'm going to die.
[09:26] ---
    WHAT HAD CORNERED HER TO THIS EXTENT?
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    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—
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    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.
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    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!
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    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.
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    OWARIMONOGATARI
    SODACHI RIDDLE
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    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...
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    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.
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    SLAP
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    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,"
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    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
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    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,
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    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,
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    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.
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    That's what this means.
[19:47] ---
    In the first place,
    if you say that she's despised me
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    from the day that we first met
    in the classroom for class 1-3
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    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...
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    Those that despise you
    for some incomprehensible reason
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    and attack you are the scariest.
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    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...
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    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.