# E20 - Wakaba Flourishing
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GX9UQ7MNJ/wakaba-flourishing)
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**[00:08] ---**
Let's live heroically, let's live with style.
*isagiyoku kakko yoku ikite yukou*
**[00:15] ---**
Even if the two of us are torn apart...
*tatoe futari hanarebanare ni nattemo*
**[00:20] ---**
*...take my revolution.*
**[00:20] ---**
Revolutionary Girl Utena
*...take my revolution.*
**[00:23] ---**
Revolutionary Girl Utena
**[00:24] ---**
In the sunlit garden, we both joined our hands.
*hikarisasu garden te wo toriai*
**[00:29] ---**
Drawing close for comfort, we both swore...
*chikai atta nagusame atta*
**[00:32] ---**
...never again would we ever fall in love.
*mou koi wa ni do to shinai yotte*
**[00:39] ---**
I see that photo of us standing cheek to cheek...
*hoho wo yoseatte utsuru shashin no*
**[00:47] ---**
...and place a bit of my loneliness in our smiles.
*egao ni sukoshi no samishisa tsumekonde*
**[00:56] ---**
Even if I dream, even if I cry, even if I get hurt...
*yume wo mite namida shite kizutsuitemo*
**[01:00] ---**
...reality keeps on coming recklessly.
*genjitsu wa gamushara ni kuru shi*
**[01:04] ---**
I wanna find my own place, the value of being...
*jibun no ibasho sonzai kachi wo mitsuketai*
**[01:07] ---**
...the person I've been until now...
*kyou made no jibun wo*
**[01:11] ---**
Let's find the strength to throw it all away.
*isagiyoku nugisuteru*
**[01:13] ---**
Strip down to nothing at all.
*hadaka ni naru*
**[01:15] ---**
Become like rose petals, blowing free!
*jiyuu wo mau bara no you ni*
**[01:19] ---**
Even if the two of us are torn apart...
*tatoe futari hanarebanare ni nattemo*
**[01:22] ---**
...I swear that I will change the world.
*watashi wa sekai wo kaeru*
**[01:27] ---**
**[01:30] ---**
Hey, have you heard the rumors?
**[01:33] ---**
What rumors?
**[01:35] ---**
About Saionji, you mean?
**[01:37] ---**
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
***SIGN*** Senior High 2nd Year, Class A Kyoichi Saionji
**[01:39] ---**
So, is that what really happened?
**[01:41] ---**
Expelled
**[01:41] ---**
What are you talking about now?
**[01:43] ---**
It must have.
**[01:45] ---**
I thought I hadn't seen him all this month.
**[01:48] ---**
But why was he expelled?
**[01:50] ---**
Dunno.
**[01:51] ---**
Man, I really had a thing for
him for a while there, too.
**[01:54] ---**
Really? What'd you see in that guy?
**[01:57] ---**
You're one to talk!
**[01:58] ---**
You used to buy pictures of him!
**[02:00] ---**
And you wanted a kiss from him, right?
**[02:03] ---**
Aw, cut it out!
**[02:05] ---**
Saionji really was cool, wasn't he?
**[02:08] ---**
I wonder where he is and how he's doing.
**[02:10] ---**
Really...
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Welcome back.
**[02:50] ---**
I'm back...
**[02:51] ---**
Wakaba Flourishing
**[03:01] ---**
Did anyone come by?
**[03:03] ---**
No.
**[03:04] ---**
You're home late today.
**[03:06] ---**
Sorry about that.
I had some shopping to do.
**[03:09] ---**
Here, I thought you could use this.
**[03:11] ---**
I'm sorry about this.
**[03:13] ---**
I promised I wouldn't stay long,
**[03:16] ---**
but I just keep hanging around.
**[03:20] ---**
Want some coffee?
**[03:21] ---**
After I was expelled, I had nowhere to go.
**[03:24] ---**
No friends, no money...
**[03:26] ---**
In the end, I had to crawl
back to the academy...
**[03:29] ---**
...and you, as brave as Joan
of Arc, chose to hide me.
**[03:35] ---**
But I can't keep imposing on you forever.
**[03:39] ---**
I'll leave before I cause
any trouble for you.
**[03:42] ---**
No, wait! Saionji!
**[03:44] ---**
Don't worry about that!
**[03:45] ---**
I'm just happy to be of any help to you!
**[03:49] ---**
We'll get through this together!
**[03:50] ---**
And, somehow, we'll get
you back into this school!
**[03:55] ---**
Oh, Wakaba...!
**[03:56] ---**
Now here, drink this and you'll feel better.
**[03:59] ---**
Oh, thank you, Wakaba!
**[04:01] ---**
Um, uh... I'm sorry, but...!
**[04:03] ---**
Oh, s-sorry!
**[04:06] ---**
That was terribly forward of me!
**[04:12] ---**
Um, your coffee's going to get cold.
**[04:27] ---**
Hey... If it's okay with you...
**[04:31] ---**
Um...
**[04:35] ---**
Would you-
**[04:36] ---**
Wakaba!
**[04:38] ---**
It's me! Open up!
**[04:39] ---**
J-Just a minute!
It's me! Open up!
**[04:40] ---**
J-Just a minute!
**[04:41] ---**
What's wrong, Wakaba?
**[04:44] ---**
You busy?
**[04:46] ---**
Uh-uh, not really.
**[04:47] ---**
You're really sweating.
**[04:49] ---**
Oh, uh, I just don't feel that well.
**[04:51] ---**
Oh? Did I imagine it?
**[04:53] ---**
I thought I heard you talking in here.
**[04:55] ---**
You said "thank you" and "I'm sorry."
What's going on?
**[04:58] ---**
Oh, uh, I was... praying! To God!
**[05:01] ---**
Praying?
**[05:02] ---**
Yeah, well, I'm a really
religious person, you know?
**[05:06] ---**
Huh? You are?
**[05:07] ---**
Yeah, I think it's kinda freaky myself!
**[05:14] ---**
Coming in?
**[05:14] ---**
Uh, no thanks! Don't want to be a bother!
**[05:22] ---**
Saionji?!
**[05:33] ---**
This is my secret.
**[05:36] ---**
Mine and his.
**[05:39] ---**
A secret only we share!
**[05:49] ---**
Saionji...
**[05:53] ---**
I've always, always dreamed about you...
**[05:57] ---**
But he was a distant dream that
I thought I could never reach.
**[06:03] ---**
Yes...
**[06:04] ---**
When you think about it,
I never could have had him.
**[06:07] ---**
"And so, I dance with you
in my dreams, dear Saionji."
**[06:11] ---**
"You smile at me, gently."
**[06:13] ---**
"I guess l'm a fool..."
**[06:15] ---**
Oh, man!
**[06:18] ---**
But now...
**[06:22] ---**
But now!
**[06:25] ---**
Hey, Wakaba!
**[06:27] ---**
We're having a game! Come and watch!
**[06:29] ---**
Sorry! I'm busy now!
**[06:32] ---**
Good luck with your game!
**[06:36] ---**
Wakaba! Wanna play some volleyball?
**[06:38] ---**
Sorry! Gotta pass!
**[06:40] ---**
Huh? Again?
**[06:43] ---**
Oh, Wakaba!
**[06:45] ---**
We're doing an experiment
in psychic phenomena...
**[06:46] ---**
Pass!
**[06:56] ---**
Now I'm special!
**[07:00] ---**
As long as I have this secret...
**[07:02] ---**
Yes! I'm special!
**[07:11] ---**
Welcome back.
**[07:13] ---**
You're late today.
**[07:16] ---**
I'm back...
**[07:19] ---**
Now, this part is going
to be on the next test.
**[07:24] ---**
Okay, who wants to tackle this next problem?
**[07:28] ---**
Me!
**[07:29] ---**
Me! Me!
**[07:31] ---**
How about... Miss Tenjou!
**[07:33] ---**
Yes, ma'am!
**[07:39] ---**
Dear Saionji, here's
500 yen for lunch.
**[08:20] ---**
What's up?
**[08:26] ---**
Look, has something good
happened to you lately?
**[08:29] ---**
Not really. Why?
**[08:31] ---**
Nothing. You just seem
really cheerful lately.
**[08:34] ---**
And also...
**[08:36] ---**
Also what?
**[08:37] ---**
Well... You seem even prettier, too.
**[08:40] ---**
What? Oh, Utena, cut it out!
**[08:43] ---**
No, I mean it! I really mean it!
**[08:46] ---**
Oh, sure. You're just saying that!
**[08:50] ---**
I'm serious!
**[08:52] ---**
See ya, Utena! I'm serious!
**[08:52] ---**
See ya, Utena!
**[08:55] ---**
Oh? Your friend Wakaba?
**[08:58] ---**
Yeah. She seems really different.
**[09:00] ---**
Like a goddess whose name is
recorded in the stars, you mean?
**[09:05] ---**
But why would she suddenly seem prettier?
**[09:08] ---**
You wouldn't understand, would you?
**[09:10] ---**
You're born for a special destiny...
**[09:14] ---**
There are special people in the world.
**[09:16] ---**
People who always draw attention. Yes...
**[09:19] ---**
You, for example.
**[09:22] ---**
Me...?
**[09:23] ---**
You see?
**[09:24] ---**
You're not even aware of it, are you?
**[09:27] ---**
That's the special nature you were born with.
**[09:32] ---**
Most people exist as one among many.
**[09:35] ---**
But, given the chance, they can
shine as they never have before.
**[09:40] ---**
Carving Kit 500 yen
**[09:43] ---**
Hey... What are you making there?
**[09:50] ---**
It's secret.
**[09:53] ---**
All I've ever wanted was
for Wakaba to be happy.
**[09:59] ---**
How much sugar do you want?
**[10:01] ---**
Here.
**[10:04] ---**
But it's also said...
**[10:06] ---**
...that the time a person can be special...
**[10:09] ---**
...doesn't last very long.
**[10:12] ---**
It's not finished, but...
**[10:15] ---**
...this is the only way I can thank you.
**[10:18] ---**
Thank you for your devotion...
**[10:23] ---**
No, it's...
**[10:29] ---**
This is... enough for me...
**[10:51] ---**
President Kiryuu's absent
from school right now.
**[10:54] ---**
Nanami's trying hard to
fill in for her brother...
**[10:56] ---**
...as student council
president in the meantime.
**[10:58] ---**
Miki seems to be doing
all he can to help her.
**[11:01] ---**
Miss Arisugawa is the same as always.
**[11:04] ---**
That's how things are going
with the student council.
**[11:08] ---**
I see.
**[11:09] ---**
By the way...
**[11:10] ---**
Yes?
**[11:11] ---**
Look, uh...
**[11:13] ---**
You can ask me anything.
**[11:15] ---**
Right. Okay...
**[11:17] ---**
How is Anthy doing?
**[11:25] ---**
Himemiya, you mean...?
**[11:29] ---**
Well... I just figured I'd ask.
**[11:36] ---**
If Saionji gets back into school...
**[11:39] ---**
If he stops living with me,
**[11:42] ---**
he'll just forget all about me.
**[11:46] ---**
2,060 yen, please.
**[12:03] ---**
It's sunset already?
**[12:05] ---**
You seem to be living well, Kyoichi Saionji.
**[12:09] ---**
You...! Mikage...!
**[12:11] ---**
It's been a while.
**[12:12] ---**
When did you...?!
No... Why are you here?!
**[12:15] ---**
No secret in this academy, however small...
**[12:18] ---**
...escapes the notice of
the Black Rose Circle.
**[12:22] ---**
Never mind that, Saionji.
**[12:24] ---**
To think the former vice-president
of the student council...
**[12:27] ---**
...is now living on the good
graces of a female student.
**[12:31] ---**
I don't plan on wasting my life away here!
**[12:34] ---**
I'm going to return to the academy.
Not just that... I'll return to the council!
**[12:38] ---**
Oh...? How, exactly?
**[12:39] ---**
Well...
**[12:41] ---**
How do you plan to free
yourself from this purgatory?
**[12:45] ---**
Well...!
**[12:46] ---**
How about this?
**[12:48] ---**
What if we helped you a bit?
**[12:51] ---**
What?!
**[12:52] ---**
To be honest, we're worried
about the school's future.
**[12:56] ---**
Talent like yours... shouldn't be wasted.
**[13:02] ---**
I see... All right.
**[13:05] ---**
And what do you want from me in return?
**[13:07] ---**
Good question...
**[13:09] ---**
There is only one thing of
yours that I wish to have.
**[13:13] ---**
Don't worry. It's a trifle, really.
**[13:35] ---**
No matter what I do for him,
**[13:37] ---**
no matter how I think of him,
**[13:39] ---**
in the end, she's the only
one he's ever cared about!
**[13:43] ---**
That girl, with a face that
says she alone is special,
**[13:47] ---**
will steal everything away from me!
**[13:49] ---**
No matter what, I can never forgive her!
**[13:55] ---**
Whether it's with love or my studies,
**[13:57] ---**
all I'll ever be is a face in the crowd!
**[14:00] ---**
Special people may as well
live in another world!
**[14:03] ---**
But... But as long as I had him...
**[14:06] ---**
As long as he lived with me,
**[14:08] ---**
I could be special, too!
**[14:10] ---**
A little longer and I would
have changed myself forever.
**[14:13] ---**
But now...
**[14:14] ---**
But now, that girl...!
**[14:16] ---**
That girl...!!!
**[14:23] ---**
I understand.
**[14:24] ---**
Your only choice is to
revolutionize the world.
**[14:28] ---**
The path you must take
has been prepared for you.
**[14:31] ---**
Come...
**[14:34] ---**
I never thought that thing is all he'd
ask for in exchange for helping me.
**[14:39] ---**
Well, it's not like I could
go on living here forever.
**[14:43] ---**
Okay, all systems go!
**[14:46] ---**
Kyoichi Saionji sets course
for a new age of glory!
**[14:49] ---**
Launch!
**[14:51] ---**
Going somewhere?
**[14:53] ---**
Oh... It's you. I was wondering who it was.
**[14:57] ---**
I'm sorry for having been such a bother.
**[14:59] ---**
I'm going back to my old world.
**[15:01] ---**
Where's that hair clip?
**[15:03] ---**
Oh, that. I wasn't able to give it to you.
**[15:07] ---**
But don't worry.
**[15:08] ---**
I plan on buying you something expensive.
**[15:11] ---**
I'd like to mail it, if I can.
**[15:13] ---**
Is this address all right?
**[15:16] ---**
Never mind...
**[15:17] ---**
I have something even nicer now...
**[15:20] ---**
That's...!
**[15:33] ---**
Hmm, a sun shower...
**[15:38] ---**
To the Engaged: I will be waiting
in the Dueling Arena at sunset.
**[15:41] ---**
Extra! Extra! Extra!
**[15:44] ---**
At last! At last!
**[15:45] ---**
At last, the rain's come!
**[15:47] ---**
When rain falls on a sunny day,
we have to marry, fast!
**[15:51] ---**
For us fox girls... It's our custom!
**[15:54] ---**
You guys are lucky.
**[15:56] ---**
WE have to wait for it
to snow on a sunny day...
**[15:58] ---**
...before we can get married!
**[16:00] ---**
For us rabbit girls... It's the law!
**[16:03] ---**
What's wrong with being single?
**[16:04] ---**
**[16:13] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.
*zettai unmei mokushiroku*
**[16:17] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.
*zettai unmei mokushiroku*
**[16:20] ---**
Birth records, baptismal records,
*shussei touroku senrei meibo*
**[16:27] ---**
records of death.
*shibou touroku*
**[16:30] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.
*zettai unmei mokushiroku*
**[16:34] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.
*zettai unmei mokushiroku*
**[16:37] ---**
My own birth, absolute birth. Apocalypse.
*watashi no tanjou zettai tanjou mokushiroku*
**[16:47] ---**
A shining place in a desert of darkness.
*yami no sabaku ni sanba uba*
**[16:54] ---**
A gold-plated Shangri-La.
*kin no mekki no tougenkyou*
**[17:01] ---**
Day and night turning back on one another.
*hiru to yoru to ga gyaku mawari*
**[17:07] ---**
A time-plated Paradise Lost.
*toki no mekki no shitsu rakuen*
**[17:14] ---**
The darkness of Sodom, the darkness of light.
*sodomu no yami hikari no yami*
**[17:21] ---**
The darkness of distance, the endless darkness.
*kanata no yami hatenaki yami*
**[17:27] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.
*zettai unmei mokushiroku*
**[17:31] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalyptic darkness.
*zettai unmei mokushiyami mokushiroku*
**[17:36] ---**
Mokushi kushimo shimoku
*kumoshi moshiku shikumo.*
**[17:40] ---**
**[17:57] ---**
Upon the Black Rose, I swear...
**[18:00] ---**
Mistress Utena...
**[18:01] ---**
...I shall win this duel...
**[18:04] ---**
Take the sword from me!
**[18:07] ---**
...and kill the Rose Bride!
**[18:09] ---**
Take it now!
**[18:10] ---**
Himemiya... I can't...
**[18:13] ---**
I can't fight her...
**[18:15] ---**
I can't use the sword against a friend...
**[18:17] ---**
Against Wakaba...!
**[18:21] ---**
Take the sword! NOW!
**[18:23] ---**
That's right!
**[18:24] ---**
I'm going to kill her!
**[18:26] ---**
The girl who stole my Saionji from me!
**[18:28] ---**
Saionji?!
**[18:38] ---**
What happened?
**[18:40] ---**
Wakaba, you were shining
so brightly! What happened?!
**[18:42] ---**
You wouldn't understand!
**[18:44] ---**
You aren't capable of understanding!
**[18:46] ---**
Hurry! Hurry, the sword...!
**[18:49] ---**
Oh, it's Saionji!
**[18:50] ---**
Saionji?
**[18:52] ---**
Vice-president of the student council...
**[18:53] ---**
...and captain of the kendo team.
Kyoichi Saionji!
**[18:56] ---**
*Oh, how pitiful...*
**[19:00] ---**
Stop it, Wakaba! Stop it!
**[19:03] ---**
Wakaba!
**[19:03] ---**
**The man puts all his power...**
**[19:05] ---**
So, is Saionji going out
with Himemiya or what?
**[19:08] ---**
No way!
**[19:09] ---**
*...into his familiar, old sword,*
**[19:09] ---**
Someone as cool as Saionji would
never fall for a girl like that!
**[19:13] ---**
*but his aging arms feel pity.*
**[19:14] ---**
They're just together because
they're both on the student council.
**[19:21] ---**
Mistress Utena!
**[19:22] ---**
*His aim falls short, the old man staggers...*
**[19:23] ---**
You and that girl and the
student council, too!
**[19:25] ---**
*...and falls as the blade whiffs.*
**[19:26] ---**
You all look down on me!
**[19:28] ---**
Without a care in the world,
**[19:29] ---**
**...and falls as the blade whiffs.**
**[19:29] ---**
you use the special gifts
you were born with...
**[19:31] ---**
**The howl of the sword's swing.**
**[19:32] ---**
**The howl of the sword's swing.**
**[19:32] ---**
...and without a second thought...
**[19:32] ---**
**The watchtowers of Troy,**
**[19:34] ---**
**with flaming tops flash with lightning...**
**[19:34] ---**
*with flaming tops flash with lightning...*
**[19:34] ---**
Mistress Utena!
**[19:36] ---**
...TRAMPLE THE REST OF US!!!
**[19:37] ---**
...TRAMPLE THE REST OF US!!!
**[19:38] ---**
*...and come crashing down.*
**[19:39] ---**
*Pyrrhus becomes deaf for a time.*
**[19:43] ---**
Wakaba...
**[19:45] ---**
I know there's a lot about
this I don't understand...
**[19:45] ---**
**Behold!**
**[19:47] ---**
**White-haired old man!**
**[19:49] ---**
But there's one thing I'm sure of!
**[19:49] ---**
**The sword raised to slay you...**
**[19:52] ---**
But there's one thing I'm sure of!
**[19:52] ---**
**...has frozen in the sky!**
**[19:54] ---**
You're one of my closest friends...
**[19:54] ---**
*Pyrrhus is completely still!*
**[19:57] ---**
*Pyrrhus is completely still!*
**[19:57] ---**
Hold on... I'm going to save you...!
**[20:02] ---**
* But after a moment, Pyrrhus'*
* animosity returns...*
**[20:05] ---**
*And his hot-tempered sword of blood...*
**[20:09] ---**
*...takes aim at the aging king,*
**[20:12] ---**
*and cuts him down.*
**[20:28] ---**
I could get rid of him for
being no help to us, but...
**[20:32] ---**
Saionji...
**[20:33] ---**
We may as well keep the fool
around here for some laughs.
**[20:46] ---**
Saionji is just beaming with satisfaction.
**[20:50] ---**
Pretty smug for a guy who
was expelled, isn't he?
**[20:54] ---**
You think he intends to return
to the student council?
**[20:57] ---**
He'd need to have a lot of nerve to try that!
**[21:00] ---**
But how did he manage to
get his expulsion reversed?
**[21:04] ---**
I heard the Black Rose Circle
had some influence in it.
**[21:38] ---**
I'm back.
**[21:42] ---**
Missing truth and forever,
kissing love and true your heart.
**[21:47] ---**
Hold me tight with your arms so true.
*dakishimete honto no te de*
**[21:51] ---**
The key to unlock tomorrow is reality.
*ashita wo hiraku kagi wa reality*
**[21:54] ---**
I want to keep on smashing lies apart.
*uso wo kowashi tsuzuketai*
**[22:07] ---**
No matter how much the two of us may talk...
*kore ijou hanashi wo shitemo*
**[22:10] ---**
...you still just can't see anything.
*anata ni wa mienai*
**[22:14] ---**
Excuses are fitting for adults who...
*mukashi no hanashi ni sugaru*
**[22:18] ---**
...just cling to old stories.
*otona ni wa ii wake ga niau*
**[22:23] ---**
The angels who weren't chosen...
*erabarenai tenshitachi ni*
**[22:27] ---**
...don't need wings to fly!
*hane saemo iranai*
**[22:32] ---**
Missing truth and forever,
kissing love and true your heart.
**[22:36] ---**
I like who I'll be tomorrow and...
*ashita no jibun ga suki to*
**[22:40] ---**
...I'll believe in myself because I want to believe.
*shinjiteiru no shinjitai kara*
**[22:44] ---**
I want to be hated by lies.
*uso ni kirawareteitai*
**[22:56] ---**
Next Episode
**[22:59] ---**
Are you kidding me?!
**[23:01] ---**
What's wrong, Mistress Utena?
**[23:03] ---**
Lately, whenever Nanami sees me...
**[23:06] ---**
...she calls me a pest who's crowding Touga!
**[23:08] ---**
That's not very nice.
**[23:10] ---**
That group of girls who
hang around with her...
**[23:12] ---**
...must practically be saints to
put up with her personality!
**[23:16] ---**
Do you really believe that, Mistress Utena?
**[23:18] ---**
Next time, on Revolutionary Girl Utena,
**[23:19] ---**
Vermin
**[23:21] ---**
"Vermin"
**[23:22] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.