# E10 - Complex Congratulations
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYKEN8G4Y/complex-congratulations)
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**[00:04] ---**
*Well then, Maiko-chan,
shall we go home together?*
**[00:09] ---**
*Okay!*
**[00:12] ---**
This is Big Sister...
**[00:14] ---**
If I try hard enough,
maybe I can meet her someday.
**[00:35] ---**
Sheesh, they should hurry and make up.
**[02:09] ---**
I'm home.
**[02:11] ---**
You're late.
**[02:13] ---**
I was cooking, doing laundry
and cleaning over there.
**[02:19] ---**
That's it?
**[02:21] ---**
For today, my honest feelings are that
you guys should hurry and make up.
**[02:27] ---**
I see...
**[02:29] ---**
I'm turning in.
**[02:30] ---**
Eh? No rewards for going over
to check on how she was doing?
**[02:34] ---**
I have an early morning meeting
to prepare for the gig tomorrow.
**[02:38] ---**
SEPTEMBER 8th
**[02:46] ---**
*Oh no, I left my window open.*
**[02:52] ---**
*Care to try being dead, too?*
**[02:56] ---**
No, that's not the smile you want!
**[02:58] ---**
If you're going to study up on Mai-san,
make it something a bit more exhilarating.
**[03:02] ---**
Oh, what should I do?
**[03:05] ---**
The retake for the commercial is tomorrow!
**[03:07] ---**
I haven't grasped anything yet!
**[03:09] ---**
Things probably won't change
going into tomorrow, anyway.
**[03:11] ---**
Y-You don't have to be so blunt!
**[03:13] ---**
Maybe you don't have to try
doing things you can't do.
**[03:17] ---**
Just be mediocre. You're being too greedy.
**[03:21] ---**
What, going home already?
**[03:23] ---**
If I'm home late, Mai-san gets in a bad mood.
**[03:26] ---**
Hold on!
**[03:28] ---**
Y-You know...
**[03:30] ---**
I want to take my time with a bath...
**[03:34] ---**
...so can you stay until I'm out?
**[03:36] ---**
Huh? I don't see why I have to stay.
I don't flippin' get it.
**[03:40] ---**
Wh-When I'm bathing by myself,
I sometimes have a bad feeling...
**[03:47] ---**
So you're just scared.
**[03:48] ---**
You jumped at that bath scene earlier, too!
**[03:51] ---**
I'm okay if I can bathe with you.
**[03:53] ---**
Y-You'd have to ask Big Sister about that...
**[03:56] ---**
All right, let me call Mai-san.
**[03:58] ---**
N-Never mind! Die!
Seriously, die!
**[04:02] ---**
I'm home!
**[04:04] ---**
W-Welcome back, Big Brother.
**[04:08] ---**
Y-You're home early.
**[04:11] ---**
Is that a new game?
**[04:13] ---**
I-If you think Kaede is playing games
all the time, you're seriously mistaken.
**[04:16] ---**
Kaede has a lot of things on her mind, too.
**[04:19] ---**
What are you thinking of
to end up like that?
**[04:23] ---**
Big Brother, you promise not to laugh?
**[04:26] ---**
I won't laugh.
**[04:31] ---**
What do you think?
**[04:34] ---**
It smells like the closet.
**[04:36] ---**
That's it?
**[04:37] ---**
Hmm... You kinda look
like a middle school student.
**[04:40] ---**
K-Kaede is a bona-fide middle school student!
**[04:44] ---**
I think it's almost time for Kaede.
Almost time to put in some effort.
**[04:52] ---**
Don't overdo it.
**[04:54] ---**
Since Big Brother keeps bringing
one new girl after another,
**[04:59] ---**
Kaede feels she needs to shape up soon.
**[05:03] ---**
I'm home!
**[05:04] ---**
Welcome back, Nodoka-san.
**[05:06] ---**
Your uniform?
**[05:07] ---**
It's great! So cute!
**[05:09] ---**
Really!?
**[05:11] ---**
Yup.
**[05:12] ---**
Oh, I have a souvenir.
**[05:13] ---**
Thank you so much!
**[05:17] ---**
Oh, it's slightly better pudding!
**[05:19] ---**
That's right. I got this, too.
Tickets for the gig at the end of the month.
**[05:23] ---**
Give one to Nodoka, too.
**[05:25] ---**
You can give it to her yourself...
**[05:27] ---**
There's one for you too,
so come see the show together.
**[05:29] ---**
I sent one to Nodoka's mom, too.
**[05:32] ---**
SEPTEMBER 19th
**[05:34] ---**
Ready...
**[05:35] ---**
Start!
**[05:41] ---**
Yes! Okay!
**[05:43] ---**
That's a wrap!
**[05:44] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[05:53] ---**
Good thing that went well.
**[05:55] ---**
That didn't go well at all.
Twelve takes? You've got to be kidding!
**[06:01] ---**
It really is impossible for me
to be like Big Sister.
**[06:05] ---**
I seriously can't think about living
under this much pressure every day.
**[06:10] ---**
Totally impossible. Oh man, what should I do?
**[06:14] ---**
Worry about that once you're
actually that popular.
**[06:17] ---**
That's not what I'm talking about.
**[06:21] ---**
What about you?
Do you want to be like Mai-san?
**[06:25] ---**
I'm not sure.
I think I wanted to in the past.
**[06:29] ---**
And now?
**[06:36] ---**
Answer.
**[06:39] ---**
*Hello?*
**[06:40] ---**
Why are you answering, Sakuta?
**[06:42] ---**
*Well, I needed to tell you something,
so it's all right.*
**[06:45] ---**
Me?
**[06:46] ---**
Your dad called a few minutes ago.
**[06:49] ---**
I didn't answer, but when
the answering machine picked up,
**[06:52] ---**
*he asked if you could see him
two nights from now.*
**[06:54] ---**
Got it. Thank you so much.
**[06:57] ---**
Oh, and the commercial shoot ended well.
**[07:00] ---**
Though she had like thirteen takes.
**[07:01] ---**
*Twelve!*
**[07:02] ---**
I see. Tell Nodoka she did a good job.
**[07:05] ---**
See you.
**[07:10] ---**
That's right. Mai-san told me to give you this.
**[07:14] ---**
The ticket for the gig at the end of the month.
**[07:18] ---**
I still remember when I first met Big Sister
at an audition, back when I was a kid.
**[07:21] ---**
Audition Area - historical drama "Kokonoe"
**[07:25] ---**
*I was just thinking
how I wanted a little sister!*
**[07:31] ---**
I was so happy...
**[07:33] ---**
Big Sister was just so awesome.
**[07:36] ---**
Well, Mai-san is still awesome as always.
**[07:39] ---**
But recalling it now,
I think Big Sister was bewildered.
**[07:43] ---**
But, she was still Big Sister...
**[07:50] ---**
I know I can't be like Big Sister,
but I'll continue my work as a pop idol.
**[07:54] ---**
The gigs are fun,
and I have fans that cheer for me.
**[07:58] ---**
I see.
**[07:59] ---**
Yeah...
**[08:00] ---**
So I'll first work hard on getting a song
where I'm the main singer.
**[08:04] ---**
That way, Mother may be
more understanding of me.
**[08:09] ---**
Hey, what do you think about your parents?
**[08:13] ---**
Do you know of the situation
regarding my family?
**[08:15] ---**
Yeah. I've heard most of it from Big Sister.
**[08:19] ---**
Your little sister developed Puberty Syndrome,
**[08:22] ---**
your mother was hospitalized
because she couldn't accept that fact,
**[08:25] ---**
and your father had to stay by her side...
**[08:28] ---**
Well, that's about it.
**[08:31] ---**
In the end, they left everything
about Kaede to me, and now we live apart.
**[08:37] ---**
And? How do you feel about your parents?
**[08:40] ---**
They're my parents.
**[08:42] ---**
Huh? What's up with that?
Surely, you have other feelings.
**[08:45] ---**
Like you love them, hate them,
they piss you off or are annoying...
**[08:48] ---**
Well, all of the above?
**[08:53] ---**
No grudges?
**[08:54] ---**
Not really.
**[08:55] ---**
Why?
**[08:56] ---**
Probably because they're my parents.
**[09:05] ---**
Something wrong?
**[09:07] ---**
Mother...
**[09:08] ---**
Where is Nodoka?
This is an important time for her.
**[09:12] ---**
Please return her!
**[09:14] ---**
Sorry, I don't understand...
**[09:17] ---**
She's at your place, isn't she?
**[09:18] ---**
No, she is not.
**[09:20] ---**
Don't lie to me!
**[09:22] ---**
She really isn't here.
Would you like to come in and see for yourself?
**[09:27] ---**
No, that's fine.
**[09:29] ---**
If you hear from Nodoka,
please tell her to hurry back home.
**[09:36] ---**
SEPTEMBER 21st
**[09:43] ---**
It's been a while.
**[09:45] ---**
Perhaps.
**[09:48] ---**
How's Mom?
**[09:49] ---**
Getting better.
**[09:51] ---**
I see. That's good.
**[09:54] ---**
- Oh—
- Ka—
**[09:57] ---**
H-How's Kaede doing?
**[09:59] ---**
She was wearing her uniform
when I came home the other day.
**[10:02] ---**
It's still hard for her to go outside, but I think
she feels that she can't stay like this forever.
**[10:09] ---**
I see...
**[10:12] ---**
You know...
**[10:13] ---**
What is it?
**[10:14] ---**
How does it feel to be a parent?
**[10:16] ---**
You can't possibly have a kid—
**[10:18] ---**
No, not that!
I haven't done that stuff yet!
**[10:20] ---**
That's not what I wanted to ask.
**[10:24] ---**
I see, not yet...
**[10:27] ---**
Well, you can find out what it feels like
once you've become a parent.
**[10:32] ---**
Will I be one someday?
**[10:35] ---**
Honestly, your mother and I were in turmoil
when you were born.
**[10:40] ---**
It was a first time for everything,
which made us feel uneasy...
**[10:43] ---**
One time, when I was changing your diapers,
my head so hazy from utter fatigue,
**[10:47] ---**
I feel asleep before finishing.
**[10:49] ---**
If you're going to tell me anything,
can you make it something more decent?
**[10:53] ---**
SEPTEMBER 30th
**[10:57] ---**
Amazing. You're pretty popular.
**[11:00] ---**
For now, it's all we can do
to fill up a place of this size.
**[11:04] ---**
So your mother is somewhere in the crowd?
**[11:07] ---**
Somewhere towards the front, I think.
**[11:54] ---**
Good evening!
**[11:56] ---**
We're Sweet Bullet!
**[11:58] ---**
Well, it's finally started.
**[11:58] ---**
Toyohama, were you "Doka-chan"?
Should I go along with it?
**[12:00] ---**
Wait, Zukki, aren't you sweating a ton?
**[12:01] ---**
You don't have to!
**[12:03] ---**
Eh? Idols don't sweat.
**[12:05] ---**
No, you are. Quite a bit.
**[12:06] ---**
You always say how even your panties
are drenched after a gig.
**[12:10] ---**
I-Idols don't wear panties!
**[12:13] ---**
Eh? You're not wearing panties?
**[12:16] ---**
Oh no, no, that's not what I wanted to say.
I wanted to say, idols never sweat!
**[12:19] ---**
Then, what's that?
**[12:20] ---**
This is, well...
Some kind of strange juice!
**[12:24] ---**
If we keep this up, she might say
something fatal to a pop idol's career.
**[12:30] ---**
Okay, on to the next song, "BABY"!
**[12:34] ---**
I WANNA KISS YOU, LOVE ME BABY!
**[12:40] ---**
I WANNA KISS YOU, LOVE ME BABY!
**[12:52] ---**
Yeah, yeah!
**[12:53] ---**
Today's Set List
1. Sweet Bullet
2. BABY
**[12:59] ---**
You know,
**[12:59] ---**
Nee, watashi
**[13:00] ---**
My brain has been in a traffic jam all day long
**[13:00] ---**
Asa kara shikou kairo ga daijuutai desu
**[13:04] ---**
I won't look so flat and exhausted like before
**[13:04] ---**
Mae mitai ni kino nuketa kao nante shinaiwa
**[13:11] ---**
Calculating to pretend that it's just a coincidence
**[13:11] ---**
Guuzen wo yosoou tame no keisan wo shite
**[13:16] ---**
Words to approach you with
are what I desperately--
**[13:16] ---**
Kimi ni kakeru kotoba hisshi--
**[13:19] ---**
am searching for
**[13:19] ---**
Sagashiteru
**[13:23] ---**
Confidence that I can speak well
**[13:23] ---**
Jouzu ni hanaseru jishin nante
**[13:29] ---**
is something I don't have one bit of
**[13:29] ---**
Koreppochi mo nai kuse nine
**[13:34] ---**
For you, KISS YOU, LOVE ME BABY
**[13:34] ---**
Kimi ni KISS YOU, LOVE ME BABY
**[13:37] ---**
This story's just begun
**[13:37] ---**
Hajimatta bakari no STORY
**[13:40] ---**
Big Sister is amazing...
**[13:40] ---**
- Yoshuu mo nanimo dekite naikedo
- I haven't beenn able to study in advance at all
**[13:44] ---**
And now, the usual event
for Sweet Bullet...
**[13:46] ---**
Announcing the featured member
for the next single!
**[13:50] ---**
Clap, clap, clap!
**[13:53] ---**
Wait, since I'm the one announcing it,
that means I'm out of the running!
**[13:58] ---**
Maybe it's a surprise and
you're announcing yourself, Zukki!
**[14:01] ---**
Well, here goes!
**[14:04] ---**
Announcing!
**[14:07] ---**
The featured member of our next single...
**[14:11] ---**
...is Doka-chan!
**[14:16] ---**
Grats!
**[14:18] ---**
Thank you!
**[14:20] ---**
I'll do my best to not lose
to everyone else, including Zukki!
**[14:32] ---**
Man, that was fun.
**[14:34] ---**
I can kinda see why some people
get totally obsessed with pop idols.
**[14:40] ---**
What are they waiting for?
**[14:43] ---**
That.
**[14:47] ---**
Good for you. Good for you.
**[14:50] ---**
I'm so happy for you.
You really tried so hard.
**[15:01] ---**
Mother was smiling...
**[15:04] ---**
It's normal to smile sometimes.
**[15:06] ---**
No way. She's never looked like that
in front of me.
**[15:11] ---**
So in the end, it's all about Big Sister.
**[15:15] ---**
So Mother thinks Big Sister is better after all...
**[15:24] ---**
I don't want to go home.
**[15:26] ---**
I want to go to the beach.
**[15:32] ---**
All right. Just for a bit.
**[15:47] ---**
Hey!
**[15:53] ---**
Hold on!
**[15:54] ---**
Let go!
**[15:55] ---**
Nobody really needs me at all!
**[15:58] ---**
Toyohama!
**[16:00] ---**
What the hell are you doing?
**[16:01] ---**
I've had enough of this!
**[16:02] ---**
No way you've had enough!
**[16:04] ---**
Let go! Let go of me, you idiot!
**[16:05] ---**
Who's the idiot here!?
**[16:07] ---**
This has nothing to do with you!
**[16:08] ---**
Then don't test me so unfairly!
**[16:11] ---**
Don't go into the ocean assuming
someone will save you, idiot!
**[16:14] ---**
Shut up!
**[16:16] ---**
All you care about is Big Sister!
**[16:18] ---**
That's right! If something happened to you,
Mai-san will be sad!
**[16:21] ---**
That's a lie!
**[16:22] ---**
It's not a lie!
**[16:24] ---**
If something happened to you,
I know Mai-san will be sad!
**[16:26] ---**
She said she hated me!
**[16:28] ---**
And that was the lie!
**[16:33] ---**
Do you have proof?
**[16:36] ---**
Fine. I'll show you.
**[16:43] ---**
You shouldn't do that.
Swimming is prohibited in this area.
**[16:53] ---**
What is this?
**[16:54] ---**
You'll see when you open it.
**[16:56] ---**
Annoying.
**[17:02] ---**
These are... all letters I wrote.
**[17:05] ---**
Why?
**[17:06] ---**
I don't get it... Why... Why?
**[17:11] ---**
Obviously, because she was happy
to receive them.
**[17:14] ---**
She kept all the letters from you
safe and sound.
**[17:18] ---**
There's no way she hates you
if she's done this.
**[17:20] ---**
But I'm not... her real little sister!
**[17:25] ---**
What's that about?
**[17:29] ---**
Back when I wrote these,
**[17:31] ---**
I didn't know that Big Sister and I
had different mothers, and what that meant...
**[17:36] ---**
So, after I figured it out,
I always felt uneasy...
**[17:40] ---**
When I thought that I was being a nuisance
to Big Sister, I couldn't write letters anymore!
**[17:47] ---**
Or so she says.
Mai-san, how did you really feel?
**[17:53] ---**
Don't look through people's treasures
without permission.
**[17:57] ---**
Why...
**[18:00] ---**
Big Sister...
**[18:02] ---**
All I remember from back then is
how dizzy I felt from how busy I was.
**[18:07] ---**
All I did after going home was sleep, and didn't
have time to watch the shows I appeared in.
**[18:13] ---**
So many people complimented me,
but all I thought was, "Who are these people?"
**[18:21] ---**
But you were different, Nodoka.
**[18:23] ---**
Honestly, I was bewildered when you
were introduced as my little sister...
**[18:28] ---**
But you always gave me letters saying,
"You were awesome!" or "You're amazing!"
**[18:34] ---**
And it gave me courage each time.
**[18:37] ---**
I felt that I could keep working hard
as long as it made you happy.
**[18:41] ---**
And thanks to that, I came to like my job.
**[18:44] ---**
So, Nodoka...
**[18:46] ---**
Thank you.
**[18:49] ---**
Thank you for being my little sister.
**[18:55] ---**
Big Sister...
**[18:57] ---**
Not fair! You're not fair, Big Sister!
**[18:59] ---**
Saying that after everything's
said and done... It's too late!
**[19:03] ---**
I tried to do my best, too....
**[19:06] ---**
But why do you get a featured song before me?
**[19:10] ---**
Why are you being complimented
by my mother!?
**[19:13] ---**
Because I practiced.
**[19:15] ---**
I practiced bit by bit every day.
**[19:17] ---**
That's what I mean!
**[19:18] ---**
No matter how hard it is,
you do what you need to properly!
**[19:21] ---**
It's your fault if you can't do it!
I hate how you're awesome like that!
**[19:28] ---**
Ouch! Why me!?
**[19:31] ---**
Sorry. She sounded like a spoiled brat,
so my anger flared up.
**[19:34] ---**
Then you slapped the wrong person, right?
**[19:37] ---**
She has a fashion magazine
photo shoot tomorrow, right?
**[19:39] ---**
What'll she do if she's scarred because of me?
**[19:42] ---**
Stuff like that, too...
**[19:44] ---**
Your professionalism is too strong!
I can't even compete!
**[19:48] ---**
I can't even compete...
**[19:56] ---**
Nodoka.
**[19:58] ---**
You know how your mother was
in the line of high-fives after the gig, right?
**[20:03] ---**
Her hand was trembling on her turn,
and she held my hand.
**[20:09] ---**
I think she felt really uneasy until now.
**[20:12] ---**
Uneasy?
**[20:13] ---**
Seeing you do everything
to meet her expectations,
**[20:17] ---**
she was uneasy about whether or not
you were truly happy this whole time
**[20:22] ---**
But I don't know anything about that.
I haven't heard a thing.
**[20:25] ---**
Like parents would be able to tell their child
about how uneasy they feel about raising them.
**[20:31] ---**
But I... I...
**[20:35] ---**
I just wanted my mother to be happy
since she was always mad, you see?
**[20:39] ---**
She always talked about you,
so I wanted her to compliment me for once!
**[20:43] ---**
I wanted my mother to smile at me!
**[20:47] ---**
Then, from now on, make her happy
with something you choose for yourself, Nodoka.
**[20:52] ---**
Not something she tells you to do.
**[20:57] ---**
Yup... Yup...
**[21:03] ---**
Sorry... I'm sorry, mother...
**[21:19] ---**
You know, Big Sister...
**[21:21] ---**
What?
**[21:23] ---**
I don't have to be exactly like you, do I?
**[21:27] ---**
You can if you want to be.
**[21:30] ---**
I don't.
**[21:40] ---**
Huh?
**[21:41] ---**
Eh? What?
**[21:42] ---**
We're back?
**[21:44] ---**
I think so...
**[21:47] ---**
We're back! We're back to normal, Big Sister!
**[21:50] ---**
Nodoka! I'm so glad!
**[21:56] ---**
Now, I can be all lovey-dovey with Mai-san...
**[21:59] ---**
Big Sister!
**[22:01] ---**
Oh, don't cry...
**[22:02] ---**
But...
**[22:06] ---**
In the end, I wonder what this was all about.
**[22:10] ---**
First of all, it wasn't their personas
that had swapped, right?
**[22:13] ---**
I guess so. You could say it was only
their appearances that swapped.
**[22:17] ---**
The little sister's consciousness, thinking
"I want to be like Big Sister" or "I have to be like her,"
**[22:22] ---**
probably changed her appearance
into that of Mai Sakurajima.
**[22:26] ---**
Probably, but what kind of reasoning is that?
**[22:29] ---**
As for the principle, it's probably adequate
to assume it's a type of quantum teleportation.
**[22:32] ---**
Quantum Mechanics Stories that
Even Gorillas Can Understand
**[22:36] ---**
Gorillas are smart, aren't they?
**[22:38] ---**
In other words...
**[22:39] ---**
Sakurajima-senpai's little sister took the blueprint
for her big sister's physical body for her own,
**[22:44] ---**
and gained the guise of our senpai
by observing it for herself. That's what I think.
**[22:50] ---**
Then, why did Mai-san
look like Toyohama as well?
**[22:53] ---**
Is it possible to think that she may have
been slightly jealous of her little sister, too?
**[23:45] ---**
*It's unlocked. Come in.*
**[23:47] ---**
Excuse me!
**[23:50] ---**
Why are you here, Toyohama?
**[23:52] ---**
I'm going to live here, too.
**[23:54] ---**
I thought you mended fences with your mom.
**[23:56] ---**
I had another fight soon after.
**[23:58] ---**
I mean, she was so annoying,
telling me to do this and that, you know?
**[24:01] ---**
Don't "you know" me!
**[24:02] ---**
Are you okay with this, Mai-san?
**[24:04] ---**
Oh, sorry. It's a call from my agency.
**[24:07] ---**
Hello. Thanks for the hard work.
**[24:09] ---**
When I talked to Big Sister about it, she asked,
"Do you want to live at my place for a while?"
**[24:14] ---**
And, well... Thank you.
**[24:18] ---**
Big Sister said I should give a proper thanks!
**[24:20] ---**
I troubled you in many ways...
And you saved me...
**[24:24] ---**
Don't worry about it.
**[24:26] ---**
I just wanted to be lovey-dovey
with Mai-san as soon as possible.
**[24:32] ---**
I think I understand it a bit now.
**[24:34] ---**
Huh?
**[24:35] ---**
Why Big Sister chose you, Sakuta.
**[24:39] ---**
I am terribly sorry about that.
**[24:42] ---**
Yes, I realize I'll be troubling you.
**[24:44] ---**
Yes...
**[24:46] ---**
Is something wrong?
**[24:47] ---**
I think we've got a slight problem now...
**[24:50] ---**
Showbiz news
Shocking Scandal for Mai Sakurajima!
Is that her boyfriend walking next to her!?
**[24:55] ---**
Nothing less from you, Sakuta-kun.
What a rascal.
**[24:57] ---**
Next Time
#11 The Kaede Quest