E9 - One-on-one Route After 8 Years

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[00:27] ---
    That's not an answer!
[00:29] ---
    Tomoya, you haven't given me one
    straight answer for a while now!
[00:43] ---
    Good morning, Mr. Ethical.
[00:53] ---
    Stay calm, everything is all right now.
[00:55] ---
    No, this current situation
    is anything but all right.
[00:58] ---
    What are you doing here, Utaha-senpai?
[01:00] ---
    Because I had zero screen time
    in the last episode, obviously.
[01:04] ---
    That's not a reason!
[01:06] ---
    And what do you mean, "screen time"?
    What do you mean, "last episode"?!
[01:09] ---
    Oh, you're awake, Aki-kun.
[01:11] ---
    Senpai, what are you doing?!
[01:13] ---
    Don't look! Stop her, Kato!
[01:15] ---
    Um, okay.
[02:50] ---
    Oh, so Kato called you here, Utaha-senpai.
SIGN    #9: One-on-one Route After 8 Years
[02:53] ---
    Setting that aside,
[02:55] ---
    isn't your casually entering his house
    a topic for discussion, Kato-san?
[03:00] ---
    Actually, isn't the real topic of discussion
[03:02] ---
    the fact that you rushed over in 15 minutes
    just because I said "Aki-kun is in trouble"?
[03:09] ---
    So, what happened?
[03:11] ---
    What do you mean?
[03:13] ---
    I got the gist of what happened from Kato-san,
[03:16] ---
    but I won't understand why you and Sawamura-san
     ended up in that situation
[03:20] ---
    unless I hear it from your own mouth.
[03:23] ---
    Come on, out with it.
    And then let's think of a way to fix it.
[03:28] ---
    But this is a problem between me and Eriri.
[03:31] ---
    I can't drag you into it.
[03:33] ---
    Kato-san, what you see here
    is a textbook example of
[03:37] ---
    the "wimp protagonist" who is so
    common in the dating sim world.
[03:39] ---
    Whenever there's trouble, he makes
    a show of indecisive worrying,
[03:42] ---
    and then annoys everyone around
    him by dragging them into it.
[03:44] ---
    If you are going to be the main heroine,
[03:46] ---
    you are going to have to deal
    with his sort in the future,
[03:49] ---
    so observe his behavior closely.
[03:51] ---
    That sounds like a hassle...
[03:53] ---
    Uh, I'm sorry, but I genuinely am worried.
[03:58] ---
    Ah, I see.
[03:59] ---
    Basically, when you sang the
    praises of Hashima-san's book,
[04:02] ---
    Sawamura-san flew off the hilt
    for some reason, berated Hashima-san,
[04:05] ---
    and then, after she tore her book to shreds,
[04:08] ---
    she shoved her into a mud puddle and
    laughed at her with her posse.
[04:12] ---
    Right?
[04:13] ---
    That turned into a certain someone's
    writing style halfway through,
[04:16] ---
    but the first part was pretty much accurate.
[04:18] ---
    That's rather immature.
[04:19] ---
    That's for sure.
[04:21] ---
    She doesn't act like the big-name
    doujinshi creator that she is.
[04:25] ---
    I was referring to you.
[04:27] ---
    Me?!
[04:28] ---
    Was it really necessary
[04:30] ---
    to praise someone else's book
    in front of Sawamura-san?
[04:34] ---
    You were going to put your foot in your
    mouth no matter what you said to her,
[04:38] ---
    so perhaps you should have kept how
    you actually felt to yourself?
[04:42] ---
    I... can't do that.
[04:45] ---
    I can't say that something
    that I think is great isn't.
[04:49] ---
    I'd sooner quit being an otaku than say
    Izumi-chan's doujinshi or your novels aren't great.
[04:56] ---
    B-B-Be that as it may!
[04:59] ---
    Be that as it may, your words were
    a fatal blow to Sawamura-san.
[05:04] ---
    Nothing I say could make a dent
    in Eriri's popularity or ability.
[05:09] ---
    But it certainly made a dent in her heart.
[05:12] ---
    It's possible that this might
    leave her unable to draw.
[05:15] ---
    Come on, that would never happen.
[05:17] ---
    Sawamura-san must have felt like everything
    had been stolen from her.
[05:21] ---
    What do you mean, everything?
[05:23] ---
    Her dignity as a creator, as well as
    her position as "childhood friend."
[05:28] ---
    I mean, Hashima-san had grown close to you,
    so it was like she had an extremely high
[05:34] ---
    initial likability stat in spite of the fact that
    she had only recently appeared.
[05:36] ---
    The sort who will confess her love for the
    protagonist when he fails to conquer his intended girl...
[05:41] ---
    That makes me so angry...
[05:42] ---
    A "hidden savior heroine" should stay
    hidden until the very end!
[05:43] ---
    Senpai!
[05:48] ---
    In any event, for the circle to overcome
    this threat to its very existence,
[05:52] ---
    you will have to work hard, Mr. Ethical.
[05:54] ---
    What do you think I should I do?
[05:56] ---
    Conquer the childhood friend heroine,
    Mr. Wimp Protagonist... Mr. Ethical, rather.
[06:02] ---
    That would have made for a
    touching scene, but you wrecked it.
[06:06] ---
    Hazy memories, fond recollections,
    promises made as children...
[06:10] ---
    Use every last childhood friend advantage
    to raise Sawamura-san's flags.
[06:15] ---
    Do you think she'll fall
    for something that obvious?
[06:18] ---
    I think it will work.
[06:21] ---
    Aki-kun, you need to be the
    heroine here, not the protagonist.
[06:41] ---
    Eriri, daddy and I are leaving, okay?
[06:45] ---
    Summer Comiket, day three! The final
    day! The day of the sacred battle!
[06:49] ---
    Yes, off to bask in works of
    the "male-oriented" genre!
[06:53] ---
    Have fun.
[06:54] ---
    Oh, and about the party tonight...
[06:57] ---
    I know.
[06:58] ---
    I wouldn't dream of embarrassing daddy.
[07:16] ---
    You're heading out already?
[07:18] ---
    Yeah, I'm leaving.
[07:21] ---
    To Summer Comiket day 3,
    East A276, Egoistic Lily.
[07:26] ---
    Do you think Sawamura-san will come?
[07:29] ---
    Probably not, but I have to go.
[07:33] ---
    Sure. Good luck.
[07:35] ---
    Kato, thanks.
[07:37] ---
    But I haven't done anything.
[07:39] ---
    It was Kasumigaoka-senpai who
    did all the work last night.
[07:43] ---
    Maybe, but thanks all the same.
[07:50] ---
    That reminds me, you need to come up
    with a name for our circle soon.
[07:54] ---
    Oh, you're right.
[07:57] ---
    Well, I'm off.
[07:59] ---
    Sure. See you later.
[08:22] ---
    Iori.
[08:23] ---
    My goodness! Tomoya-kun!
     Funny seeing you here!
[08:26] ---
    Uh, you've been watching me since I got here.
[08:29] ---
    To what do I owe the honor of
    you paying our space a visit?
[08:33] ---
    I hate to break it to you, but I'm not
    going to back down on Eri Kashiwagi.
[08:37] ---
    I don't want you to back down.
    I just want your help.
[08:42] ---
    My help? Doing what?
[08:44] ---
    What else? To drag Eriri back to my circle!
SIGN    Servis
[10:13] ---
    Over here, Eriri!
[10:22] ---
    What are you doing, Tomoya?
[10:24] ---
    May I take you away from it all for a while, Eriri?
[10:28] ---
    What are you–
[10:29] ---
    Come into town with me!
[10:38] ---
    Let's go, Eriri!
[10:40] ---
    Aren't you embarrassed doing that?
[10:41] ---
    Totally embarrassed! I could die of shame!
[10:45] ---
    But I can't die, not yet!
[10:47] ---
    I refuse to die until I've
    patched things up with you!
[11:10] ---
    All right, the plan will be
    carried out tomorrow night.
[11:12] ---
    I assume the location will be
    Sawamura-san's balcony?
[11:15] ---
    Every year, her family throws a party
    the night of the fireworks display.
[11:19] ---
    So that will be my only opportunity
    to win her back.
[11:21] ---
    Very well.
[11:22] ---
    We'll base the situation on the fireworks
    display event in Little Love Rhapsody.
[11:26] ---
    Kato-san, can you play that scene right now?
[11:30] ---
    Sure.
[11:31] ---
    This plan will be designed to stimulate
[11:33] ---
    past memories and nostalgia
    to get her to make up with you.
[11:36] ---
    Do you think it will work?
[11:37] ---
    Don't worry.
[11:38] ---
    Because Eriri Spencer Sawamura
    is by nature a maiden!
[11:43] ---
    She's a nerdy girl waiting for her otaku prince to
    arrive in his white itasha and sweep her off her feet!
[11:51] ---
    Can you believe that? Isn't that a bit
    too romantic for a porn doujin artist?
[11:54] ---
    I'm not so sure. Maybe she's a romantic
    because she's a porn doujin artist.
[11:58] ---
    Utaha-senpai is one thing,
    but don't you join in, Kato! That's mean!
SIGN    Shimamura Grade School
[12:10] ---
    I guess they built a new school
    building since we left...
[12:14] ---
    They rebuilt it the year before last, I think.
[12:18] ---
    Oh.
[12:23] ---
    Say, Eriri...
[12:26] ---
    Why are you trying to make up now?
[12:28] ---
    LitRhap was the first game that
    I made you a convert to.
[12:31] ---
    You're right. I never knew that girls'
    dating sims were a thing before then.
[12:35] ---
    But when I tried one, I had a blast playing it.
[12:37] ---
    And then you turned another girl onto them.
    Don't you think that's a betrayal?
[12:44] ---
    Eriri...
[12:46] ---
    I'm glad that you found a nice book!
[12:48] ---
    And the girl who made it is both a childhood
    friend and your #1 disciple?
[12:53] ---
    How could anything top that?
[12:55] ---
    I guess you don't need me anymore.
    Just let her into the circle.
[13:00] ---
    So leave me alone.
[13:07] ---
    Sorry, Utaha-senpai. Sorry, Kato.
[13:13] ---
    Eriri, hear me out!
[13:19] ---
    There's something that I've never
    been able to say to you.
[13:22] ---
    Even if you apologize, it's too late.
[13:27] ---
    For a long time now, I've felt–
[13:30] ---
    That's no fair, playing that card now!
[13:32] ---
    I've felt incredibly pissed at you!
[13:37] ---
    Make up with you, my ass!
    How can I do that?!
[13:41] ---
    I can't forgive you, not after what you did!
[13:43] ---
    What do you mean?
[13:45] ---
    What's that supposed to mean?!
[13:47] ---
    I'm the one who was wronged here!
    What's this crap?!
[13:51] ---
    You're the one who turned
    your back on me, Eriri!
SIGN    Otaku Couple: Sawamura + Aki
SIGN    Little Love Rhapsody
SIGN    Class Meeting
SIGN    Little Love Rhapsody
[14:37] ---
    Eight years ago,
[14:39] ---
    you're the one who pretended you'd quit
    being an otaku and made new friends
[14:43] ---
    and abandoned me!
[14:45] ---
    You...
[14:48] ---
    You're still carrying a grudge
    over a little thing like that?
[14:50] ---
    "Little thing"?! How can you
    call that a little thing?!
[14:53] ---
    I didn't have a choice!
    Back then, that's all I could do!
[14:57] ---
    You think that excuses it?!
[14:58] ---
    Was making new friends
    that important to you?!
[15:02] ---
    Was it more important than
    talking to me about anime?!
[15:05] ---
    Tomoya?
[15:06] ---
    Do you have any idea how much
    you meant to me back then?!
[15:10] ---
    I'd made enemies of just about all the guys!
[15:13] ---
    It was all to protect what we had!
[15:17] ---
    Back then, you were all I had!
[15:23] ---
    It took years, but I can finally
    talk to people normally now!
[15:28] ---
    But even so, I'll never forget how
    badly you treated me back then!
[15:32] ---
    That was... that was just you
    getting carried away on your own!
[15:36] ---
    Apologize!
[15:39] ---
    I won't apologize.
[15:40] ---
    No matter what happens,
    I'll never apologize to you!
[15:44] ---
    You don't know how much
    I cried, Tomoya!
[15:48] ---
    Eriri?
[15:49] ---
    Because I severed ties with you and couldn't
    talk to you at school and had to ignore you!
[15:54] ---
    Because of how lonely, how frustrating,
    and how painful it was!
[15:57] ---
    I've suffered way more than you have!
[15:59] ---
    All these years, I've had a
    boomerang stuck in my heart!
[16:03] ---
    So I have no reason to apologize!
[16:04] ---
    Even though it was your own fault?!
[16:06] ---
    Yeah! Is that so wrong?!
[16:07] ---
    It is!
[16:08] ---
    I couldn't care less!
    You apologize to me!
[16:11] ---
    Why?!
[16:12] ---
    Why would you choose
    that girl's book over mine?!
[16:15] ---
    My popularity and ability and the amount of
    time I've known you, they're all way higher!
[16:20] ---
    Why wouldn't you pick me?!
[16:26] ---
    I like what I like!
    I don't care about our history!
[16:31] ---
    Izumi-chan's book excites me more!
[16:33] ---
    You're saying I'm inferior to that girl?
[16:34] ---
    That's right!
[16:36] ---
    You're beneath her!
    Inferior to her! Not as good!
[16:39] ---
    Even with all that hard work? Even though
     I work myself into the ground?
[16:43] ---
    Screw talent and hard work! The book you put
    out at Summer Comiket today was a loser!
[16:47] ---
    Right now, you don't have what it takes!
    Not even close!
[16:50] ---
    But I worked so hard...
[16:53] ---
    I wore a mask outside,
    but worked myself to death at home!
[16:57] ---
    I wanted to get back at those
    jerks who split us up!
[17:00] ---
    I wanted to go back to how it was.
    I thought I'd come so far...
[17:05] ---
    You're right. You've come a long way.
[17:08] ---
    You're fast and skilled and consistent.
[17:11] ---
    So next, become great!
[17:13] ---
    Let's see you become great and
    fast and skilled and consistent!
[17:17] ---
    How do I do that?!
    I can't work any harder or any better!
[17:20] ---
    How should I know?! It's your art!
    Figure it out yourself!
[17:24] ---
    That doesn't make any sense!
[17:25] ---
    That's right! It's crazy!
[17:27] ---
    So if you don't want to,
    you don't have to become great!
[17:30] ---
    I don't care if you're my #1!
SIGN    Egoistic Lily New edition is sold out!
SIGN    East Hall 5, Shi-46A Egoistic Lily Line Ends Here
[18:07] ---
    Just watch me.
[18:09] ---
    I'm gonna become your #1.
[18:14] ---
    Until then, I'm never gonna apologize.
[18:33] ---
    Whatever.
[18:49] ---
    U-Uh, so, Eriri...
[18:52] ---
    You twisting your ankle, that was lie, right?
[18:56] ---
    You can walk, right?
[18:57] ---
    A knight who pulled the princess away from
    her castle doesn't get to complain.
[19:05] ---
    But I guess we haven't made up.
[19:10] ---
    I guess not.
[19:12] ---
    We're still on the outs, aren't we?
[19:25] ---
    Finished!
[19:27] ---
    The circle banner illustration is done!
[19:29] ---
    Show us, show us!
[19:32] ---
    For you, that's almost pleasant, Sawamura-san.
[19:34] ---
    Hey, wait a minute! Is it just me,
    or is that girl not wearing anything?
[19:39] ---
    It's fine, Kato-san.
[19:41] ---
    I think I've perfectly captured the
    figure of her model, meaning you.
[19:45] ---
    That's not perfectly fine at all!
[19:47] ---
    What are you saying? A real heroine
    is one who strips when told to strip
[19:50] ---
    and who breathes heavily
    when told to breathe heavily.
[19:55] ---
    Oh, I had no idea.
[19:56] ---
    Relax, this is a game for everyone.
[19:58] ---
    One more thing, Tomoya.
[20:00] ---
    Put the finishing touch on it, Producer.
[20:04] ---
    Sure.
[20:09] ---
    "Blessing Software," huh?
[20:12] ---
    Good name, huh?
[20:14] ---
    For you, I guess.
[20:16] ---
    Loosely translated, that's
    "Megumi Software," though.
[20:23] ---
    Um. Uh, I just thought–
[22:01] ---
    Big brother, you know Eri Kashiwagi?
[22:05] ---
    You also got to know her
    without realizing it, Izumi.
[22:08] ---
    Hey, wait a minute!
[22:10] ---
    Why would an artist from a famous
    circle draw something for me?
[22:14] ---
    Actually, she says she's a longtime LitRhap fan
[22:16] ---
    and that your doujinshi
    really touched her.
[22:20] ---
    Hang on, did you give Eri Kashiwagi
    a copy of my book?!
[22:24] ---
    No, it sounded like she stood
    in line and bought it herself.
[22:27] ---
    Why?! She should have introduced herself!
SIGN    To Izumi Hashima-san: Keep up the great work! Eri Kashiwagi (egoistic lily)
[22:34] ---
    Oh, wow!
SIGN    To Izumi Hashima: I'm not about to lose! You bet your ass I'm gonna win! Eriri Spencer Sawamura