# E12 - Endless Eight I
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It was a lazy, but normal day
after Obon at the height of summer.
**[00:38] ---**
I had absolutely no interest
in the prefectural game on the TV,
**[00:43] ---**
But because of my sympathetic personality,
**[00:45] ---**
I ended up kind of rooting for the losing side.
**[00:48] ---**
Once I did, my cell phone began ringing.
**[00:53] ---**
Incoming call: Haruhi Suzumiya
**[00:53] ---**
Haruhi, huh?
**[00:56] ---**
You're not doing anything today, right?
**[00:57] ---**
We're all meeting at exactly
two o'clock in front of the station.
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And just like that, she hangs up.
**[01:06] ---**
How does she know
I'm not doing anything today?
**[01:08] ---**
I mean, I'm...
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Well, okay, I don't have any plans at all, but...
**[01:20] ---**
What?
**[01:20] ---**
I forgot to mention this--
bring a swimsuit and come on your bike.
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And be sure to bring plenty of money.
That's all, over and out!
**[01:29] ---**
Ugh, no.
**[01:31] ---**
What in the world is going on?
**[01:46] ---**
Oh well.
**[02:09] ---**
*Day by day, everything's just so dull*
**[02:14] ---**
*That's why you need to become
someone that can just reject it all*
**[02:19] ---**
*Oh my boy, you need to be decisive*
**[02:23] ---**
*I won't deal with any lies
in this small world*
**[02:29] ---**
*I found myself on my own,
it's natural you'd fall for me*
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*Kick away the boring ways of doing things,*
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*I'm going to decide everything*
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*I say, I say my heaven*
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*Super driver, leave everything to the rush*
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*And just keep going forward, no matter what*
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*Surpass (Don't you stop me)
The idea of "impossible"*
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*Take it easy, go!*
**[02:52] ---**
*I agree, it's going to be a huge victory*
**[02:54] ---**
*Of course, it'll feel pleasant,
no matter what happens*
**[02:57] ---**
*A review meeting? (Get back to wild)
Forget that, now hurry up*
**[03:02] ---**
*We haven't tried this or that,
we always do things how we want*
**[03:07] ---**
*Everything's a new experience,
let's try them out*
**[03:12] ---**
*We haven't tried this or that,
we always do things suddenly*
**[03:17] ---**
*Everything's a new experience,
what about it?*
**[03:22] ---**
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
**[03:32] ---**
Endless Eight I
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You're late, Kyon!
**[03:39] ---**
Show some more motivation!
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Who do you think you are,
making the brigade leader wait?
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There'll be a penalty for this.
**[03:46] ---**
I came fifteen minutes early,
and I'm still the last one to arrive?
**[03:51] ---**
Okay, we're all here, so let's go.
**[03:56] ---**
Koizumi, let Mikuru ride on your bike.
**[03:59] ---**
Yuki and I will ride
on the back of Kyon's bike.
**[04:04] ---**
Well, let me ask, where are we going?
**[04:07] ---**
To the public swimming pool, of course!
**[04:09] ---**
We have to do summer vacation-y
things during our summer vacation!
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We can never get back
the time that we've lost!
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And so we're going to
do them now, during this,
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our one and only summer as tenth graders.
**[04:23] ---**
The time that we've lost, eh?
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Oh, the scent of chlorine.
This really makes it feel like a pool!
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Here I go!
**[04:46] ---**
Here we go!
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No diving
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It's dangerous
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Hurry up and get in!
The water's warm so it feels fine!
**[04:54] ---**
Can't she read the
"no diving" signs posted everywhere?
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This makes me smile, though.
**[05:01] ---**
Miss Suzumiya has some rather normal ways
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of enjoying her time, don't you think?
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Suddenly calling us up out of the blue,
**[05:09] ---**
and only giving us a general idea
of what's going to happen...
**[05:12] ---**
That's not all that normal to me.
**[05:15] ---**
Well, at least Miss Suzumiya,
laughing and having a good time,
**[05:19] ---**
isn't likely to shake up the world.
**[05:21] ---**
I hope that's the case...
**[05:25] ---**
There's no need to worry.
**[05:26] ---**
We haven't noticed any problems
since the outing a while back.
**[05:31] ---**
Right now, to Miss Suzumiya, and to us as well,
**[05:36] ---**
the world is at peace.
**[05:43] ---**
Let's have lunch.
**[05:45] ---**
Surprise! Today Mikuru made us sandwiches!
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Wow!
**[05:51] ---**
This is delicious.
**[05:52] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[05:53] ---**
I'm having more fried chicken!
**[05:55] ---**
Mikuru, get the tea, would you?
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Okay!
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Things certainly do seem to be peaceful.
**[06:02] ---**
Sorry!
**[06:03] ---**
Okay, here I go!
**[06:05] ---**
I think it'd be better to call this
a communal pool than a public pool.
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Come on, Mikuru, what are you doing?
**[06:18] ---**
This isn't a bad way
to spend my summer vacation.
**[06:23] ---**
Kyon!
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These are my brigade members.
**[06:27] ---**
They'll do anything you ask,
so ask for anything you want!
**[06:30] ---**
Okay!
**[06:36] ---**
I've been thinking about how we
should spend our summer vacation.
**[06:39] ---**
What do you think?
**[06:39] ---**
Club schedule
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What is this?
**[06:41] ---**
It's a schedule of how we'll spend
the rest of our short summer vacation.
**[06:45] ---**
For the SOS Brigade?
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Yup. There're only two weeks
of summer vacation left, right?
**[06:51] ---**
And yet it feels like there are
a lot of things we've yet to do!
**[06:54] ---**
We're going to pick up the pace!
**[06:57] ---**
Things that we have to do
during the summer vacation, you say?
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Summer outing, go to the pool,
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go to a Bon festival, go to a fireworks show,
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have a part-time job, stargazing...
There's a lot here, isn't there?
**[07:08] ---**
So we have to do all of this in just two weeks?
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Is there anything else you want to do?
**[07:15] ---**
Umm... I'd like to try goldfish scooping.
**[07:18] ---**
Okay! Goldfish scooping...
**[07:22] ---**
We start the plan tomorrow!
**[07:24] ---**
Is there a place nearby
having a Bon festival?
**[07:28] ---**
A fireworks show would work, too.
**[07:30] ---**
At least try to find this stuff out first.
**[07:32] ---**
I'll check around.
I'll contact you when I find out.
**[07:36] ---**
Don't forget about the goldfish scooping!
It's Mikuru's sole request, after all.
**[07:41] ---**
Right.
**[07:45] ---**
Why am I always the one
that has to pick up the check?
**[07:48] ---**
Isn't it obvious? It's because you were late.
**[07:50] ---**
Don't make us wait tomorrow!
**[07:52] ---**
All right, then, we're done for today!
**[07:57] ---**
Good grief. So we're going
to be playing around every day?
**[08:06] ---**
The next morning, it was a call from Haruhi
**[08:09] ---**
that awoke me from my slumber.
**[08:15] ---**
They found a place that was
holding a Bon festival.
**[08:17] ---**
Time: Tonight. Place: A public park.
**[08:21] ---**
Convenient how they found one so quickly.
**[08:23] ---**
Just as I was being
impressed by that, Haruhi said,
**[08:28] ---**
"We're all going to go buy yukata!"
**[08:30] ---**
Both Mikuru and Yuki
said that they don't own one.
**[08:32] ---**
There's a place selling them
in sets for cheap, so let's go!
**[08:36] ---**
Haruhi just went and chose yukata
for Miss Asahina and Nagato,
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then headed straight for the changing rooms.
**[08:42] ---**
This ended up taking quite a bit of time.
**[08:46] ---**
We waited for about an hour,
while the other women ignored us,
**[08:50] ---**
and finally the three of them came out at once.
**[08:53] ---**
Kyon!
**[08:57] ---**
You all look wonderful.
**[09:00] ---**
Of course! I chose these yukata, after all.
**[09:03] ---**
Especially Mikuru.
**[09:05] ---**
Just what you would expect
from my choice, it's so cute on you!
**[09:07] ---**
There's nothing wrong with my fashion sense!
**[09:12] ---**
This certainly was the cream of the crop
**[09:15] ---**
of all of the costumes that Haruhi has forced on her.
**[09:15] ---**
Yuki is pretty too, don't you think?
**[09:17] ---**
Rather, it really looks great on her!
This is a definite yes!
**[09:20] ---**
So this is the kind of clothing
**[09:22] ---**
that the people of this country
wore in historical times.
**[09:24] ---**
It's a little tight around the chest,
but it's beautiful.
**[09:27] ---**
Okay, we're ready to go now.
**[09:29] ---**
Let's go to the festival, everyone!
**[09:37] ---**
Wow!
**[09:38] ---**
A Bon festival, huh?
It's been a while since I've been to one.
**[09:43] ---**
Mikuru, they even have
goldfish scooping, just like you wanted!
**[09:47] ---**
Be sure to catch a bunch!
**[09:49] ---**
Black Demekins are worth
200 points, you know!
**[09:51] ---**
Shall we play, too?
How about seeing who can catch more?
**[09:55] ---**
I'll pass. I'm more interested in the food.
**[09:59] ---**
What about you, Nagato?
Want to eat something?
**[10:06] ---**
You're interested in that stuff?
**[10:15] ---**
This one.
**[10:16] ---**
Right-o, that'll be 800 yen.
**[10:22] ---**
Thirteen!
**[10:23] ---**
I caught a lot, but I don't
need so many, so I just kept one.
**[10:28] ---**
I didn't catch any at all.
**[10:31] ---**
Scooping goldfish is difficult, isn't it?
**[10:33] ---**
Oh no, it's not normal to catch so many.
**[10:36] ---**
If you can figure out the trick, it's easy!
**[10:40] ---**
Huh? What's with the mask, Yuki?
**[10:42] ---**
I bought it.
**[10:43] ---**
I see. But why that one?
**[10:47] ---**
Maybe it appeals to a particular wavelength.
**[10:50] ---**
One only aliens would get.
**[10:52] ---**
Okay, then.
**[10:53] ---**
There are things over there
we haven't seen yet, so let's go!
**[10:57] ---**
You're still going to mess around?
**[10:58] ---**
Of course! Come on!
**[11:27] ---**
Here.
**[11:28] ---**
You can have one, but only one.
**[11:31] ---**
Oh, thanks.
**[11:35] ---**
Is it tasty?
**[11:36] ---**
Good.
**[11:37] ---**
Now, we've pretty much
seen all of the Bon festival.
**[11:41] ---**
Now let's launch some fireworks!
**[11:43] ---**
Fireworks?
**[11:44] ---**
We've gone through the trouble
of getting all dressed up,
**[11:47] ---**
so let's do that to finish off the day!
**[11:49] ---**
Why not? There was a store
over there selling them,
**[11:52] ---**
so let's head over to the riverside.
**[11:54] ---**
This looks like it will be fun.
**[11:56] ---**
Okay, here we go!
**[12:09] ---**
Kakizaki!
**[12:25] ---**
Oh, they're so beautiful.
**[12:28] ---**
Bon festival, fireworks... Okay, done.
**[12:32] ---**
Okay, tomorrow we'll be catching bugs!
**[12:34] ---**
Haruhi, it's fine to want to play around,
**[12:36] ---**
but are you finished
with your summer homework?
**[12:39] ---**
Not that I've any right to talk,
since I'm nowhere near done.
**[12:41] ---**
What, you can finish
all of that in just three days.
**[12:46] ---**
Three days?!
**[12:46] ---**
I finished it all in July.
**[12:49] ---**
I took care of all of that bothersome stuff
**[12:52] ---**
so I could have fun
without having to worry about it.
**[12:54] ---**
That's how you enjoy your summer vacation.
**[12:57] ---**
Why is she so smart?
**[13:00] ---**
It seems like the guys up in heaven
that were divvying up our stats
**[13:02] ---**
were being pretty lax about it.
**[13:03] ---**
In any case, we're going
to go bug catching tomorrow!
**[13:06] ---**
Whoever catches the most bugs...
**[13:08] ---**
That's right. They'll get to be
the brigade leader for a day!
**[13:12] ---**
Ugh, no thanks.
**[13:14] ---**
That sounds interesting. Are any bugs okay?
**[13:17] ---**
Hmm... Only cicadas!
**[13:20] ---**
That's it, this will be the SOS Brigade's
Cicada Capturing Competition!
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Whoever catches the most wins!
**[13:31] ---**
The next day, I wanted it to rain so much
**[13:33] ---**
that I drove a nail through a *teruteru bouzu*.
**[13:36] ---**
But despite that, it was
an incredibly beautiful and clear day.
**[13:39] ---**
It felt like the warmest day of the summer,
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and it seemed like it was
making all of the cicadas happy.
**[13:44] ---**
I wonder if you can eat cicadas.
**[13:47] ---**
No idea.
**[13:49] ---**
They might be delicious
if you fried them in tempura.
**[13:51] ---**
Fine. Try it out yourself.
**[13:53] ---**
You know, sometimes, I wonder...
When it comes to tempura,
**[13:56] ---**
maybe it's just the outside
that's delicious.
**[13:58] ---**
If that's the case,
maybe it's the same with cicadas.
**[14:01] ---**
Apologize! Apologize to the
tempura restaurants across Japan!
**[14:05] ---**
So what's with making all of us, at our age,
**[14:10] ---**
walk here carrying
bug-catching nets and cages?
**[14:13] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[14:15] ---**
If we didn't have bug-catching nets,
**[14:16] ---**
we wouldn't be able to
catch any cicadas, would we?
**[14:18] ---**
That's not what I'm talking about.
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Okay, we're going to start!
**[14:22] ---**
The winner is the brigade leader for a day!
**[14:24] ---**
Ready... start!
**[14:26] ---**
She's not listening.
**[14:28] ---**
Umm...
**[14:29] ---**
It looks like she really wants to win.
**[14:31] ---**
I think that's a good thing, don't you?
**[14:34] ---**
Sheesh. I haven't caught cicadas
since I was in elementary school.
**[14:39] ---**
Same here. Let's do our best.
**[14:48] ---**
Have you already caught one?
**[14:52] ---**
That's not a cicada.
**[14:54] ---**
Oh.
**[14:57] ---**
That's a Hercules beetle!
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And now, the results!
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Mikuru caught one.
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Yuki caught four.
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Koizumi caught seven.
**[15:41] ---**
Kyon caught nine.
**[15:42] ---**
And the top record is...
**[15:44] ---**
We already know. You don't have to say.
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Me, with twelve!
**[15:48] ---**
I guess I can't give up the brigade
leader position, even for a day.
**[15:52] ---**
Sorry, everyone!
**[15:53] ---**
Now, you're not actually going to
make these into tempura, are you?
**[15:57] ---**
What? Do you want to eat them?
**[15:59] ---**
Why does it come back to me?
**[16:00] ---**
I'm kidding. A catch-and-release
attitude is important, right?
**[16:05] ---**
If we let them go,
then they might come back to repay us.
**[16:09] ---**
There you go! Go back to the mountains!
Don't get caught again!
**[16:20] ---**
Hold on a second.
That may be a good deed and all,
**[16:23] ---**
but all you did was catch them
and then let them go.
**[16:27] ---**
The next day...
**[16:30] ---**
...Haruhi found us part-time jobs
somewhere that was glad to have us.
**[16:36] ---**
Our job was to bring in customers...
**[16:37] ---**
Brigade Leader
**[16:37] ---**
Do your best!
**[16:39] ---**
...for the local supermarket's anniversary sale.
**[16:45] ---**
Thank you...
**[16:47] ---**
Here you go.
**[16:51] ---**
Here.
**[16:56] ---**
Why do I have to wear this outfit?
**[17:01] ---**
If you want to work a part-time job,
**[17:02] ---**
there are more appropriate ones
for the summer, you know?
**[17:06] ---**
And to top it all off,
Haruhi is still nice and cool!
**[17:08] ---**
If we end up getting the same
amount of pay, I'm going to riot!
**[17:14] ---**
I really understand how
a snake that's shed its skin feels.
**[17:18] ---**
That's a good analogy.
**[17:20] ---**
Good work, everyone. The manager is thankful.
**[17:24] ---**
I don't care about his thanks.
Where's our pay?
**[17:27] ---**
This is it.
**[17:28] ---**
Huh?
**[17:30] ---**
This costume is our pay.
**[17:32] ---**
I've wanted this for a while.
**[17:34] ---**
The owner said that
he'd give it to us for Mikuru's sake.
**[17:38] ---**
We'll hang this frog up
in the clubroom as a memento!
**[17:42] ---**
Mikuru, you can wear it whenever
you want. You have my permission!
**[17:48] ---**
Ribbit.
**[17:52] ---**
We went to the pool, to a Bon festival,
**[17:53] ---**
caught bugs, and worked a part-time job.
**[17:56] ---**
Next up, Haruhi had us
scheduled to go stargazing.
**[17:59] ---**
Wow, so this is a telescope from this era.
**[18:03] ---**
It doesn't seem that different
from the ones from Kepler's time.
**[18:06] ---**
No, I think it's pretty different.
**[18:08] ---**
Did you buy this for tonight?
**[18:11] ---**
No, this was my hobby when I was younger.
**[18:15] ---**
I was pretty moved when I caught
a glimpse of the moons of Jupiter.
**[18:21] ---**
I've spotted Mars.
**[18:26] ---**
I wonder if they exist.
**[18:27] ---**
If who exists?
**[18:29] ---**
Martians.
**[18:30] ---**
I kind of don't want them to.
**[18:32] ---**
If there were octopus-like
monsters wriggling around,
**[18:34] ---**
planning on conquering the Earth,
**[18:37] ---**
there's just no way I could say
that sounded like "fun."
**[18:38] ---**
Why not? They might be
a very friendly people.
**[18:43] ---**
I'm sure they're a reserved people,
secretly living in underground caverns.
**[18:48] ---**
I'm sure they're just trying
not to surprise us Earthlings.
**[18:51] ---**
Exactly how reserved
are the Martians you're imagining?
**[18:56] ---**
I've had enough of Mars. Let's look for UFOs!
**[18:59] ---**
Their scouting fleets
should be standing by in orbit.
**[19:04] ---**
Come on, Mikuru, help out!
**[19:07] ---**
U-F-Os, U-F-Os!
**[19:19] ---**
Our summer vacation continued.
The next thing Haruhi said was:
**[19:23] ---**
We're going to a batting center!
**[19:25] ---**
Why there?
**[19:26] ---**
It came to me this morning while
watching the news from Koshien.
**[19:29] ---**
We can't be satisfied by
a mere sandlot baseball game.
**[19:32] ---**
I think that the SOS Brigade needs to
form its own national-level team.
**[19:41] ---**
*Chuka soba*!
**[19:47] ---**
She sure is something.
Where does she get her energy from?
**[19:51] ---**
She may have a different amount
of mitochondria packed into her cells.
**[19:57] ---**
She should use her gifts for
the sake of the world some more.
**[20:00] ---**
All right!
**[20:01] ---**
Home Run
**[20:07] ---**
After that, in an attempt to run through
the schedule that she had set for us,
**[20:11] ---**
we kept going, day after day,
**[20:13] ---**
too fast for anyone to hit the pause button.
**[20:18] ---**
We went to a real fireworks show.
**[20:21] ---**
The fireworks burst into bloom
in the sky, one after another,
**[20:24] ---**
leaving us with a grand feeling in our hearts.
**[20:26] ---**
That one was awesome!
**[20:28] ---**
Goby Fishing Tournament
**[20:29] ---**
On yet another day,
she also made us take part
**[20:31] ---**
in a goby fishing tournament
at the prefectural river.
**[20:42] ---**
Ah! Mikuru, your fishing pole!
**[20:44] ---**
Leave it to me, I'll get it back.
**[20:47] ---**
It continued on.
**[20:49] ---**
While it's admittedly a staple of the summer,
**[20:51] ---**
there probably aren't many people
who do tests of courage.
**[20:57] ---**
We went to see a movie that was
hyped so much it was overblown,
**[21:00] ---**
but it was just your usual
"summer blockbuster."
**[21:06] ---**
We went to the beach when
the jellyfish were closest to the shore.
**[21:12] ---**
We went bowling, but we couldn't
leave until we all got a strike,
**[21:15] ---**
as if we were playing some kind of penalty game.
**[21:19] ---**
We went to karaoke, singing for a long time,
**[21:22] ---**
as if we were trying to
challenge the limits of our voices.
**[21:29] ---**
In short, it felt like there were
non-summer things in there as well,
**[21:33] ---**
but we ended up enjoying ourselves
to the fullest these two weeks.
**[21:44] ---**
As of today, August 30th,
we have pretty much completed our list.
**[21:48] ---**
Good grief, we're finally done.
**[21:51] ---**
I wonder if this was good enough.
**[21:54] ---**
But, hmm, well... I guess this works.
**[21:58] ---**
Hey, is there anything else you want to do?
**[22:00] ---**
Not particularly.
**[22:01] ---**
We've done enough, haven't we?
**[22:03] ---**
I'd like to sleep for a while.
**[22:05] ---**
What about you, Yuki?
**[22:08] ---**
I see.
**[22:09] ---**
That's fine, then. We were
able to do a lot this summer.
**[22:13] ---**
We went all over the place, we wore
yukata, and caught a lot of cicadas.
**[22:19] ---**
Yeah, that works.
**[22:22] ---**
Is there something that
she would regret not doing?
**[22:26] ---**
Okay, we're done for today.
**[22:27] ---**
I had tomorrow set aside just in case,
but you can just take the day off.
**[22:34] ---**
Let's meet again in the clubroom
the day after tomorrow.
**[22:51] ---**
Man, I haven't done
any of my homework at all.
**[23:03] ---**
August 31st, the last day
of our summer vacation.
**[23:06] ---**
No matter how hard I tried, there was no way
I'd be able to finish all of my homework.
**[23:10] ---**
I couldn't recover from all of
the running around we did, either,
**[23:14] ---**
so in the end I just spent the day slacking off.
**[23:21] ---**
What the heck're you talkin' about?
**[23:22] ---**
Boring.
**[23:28] ---**
Whatever. It'll work out.
**[23:51] ---**
I guess I'll go to sleep...
School's starting back up, after all...
**[23:56] ---**
Beep.
**[24:07] ---**
*It fell from the sky*
**[24:09] ---**
*With all of the wishes that were made upon it*
**[24:12] ---**
*Maybe it was a little too heavy for a single star*
**[24:17] ---**
*Something just doesn't seem right*
**[24:20] ---**
*The image of you in my mind has vanished*
**[24:22] ---**
*Can I say that I remember you clearly?*
**[24:27] ---**
*Stop!*
**[24:28] ---**
*The past belongs to me*
**[24:32] ---**
*Of course I don't want
to trade it with anyone else*
**[24:37] ---**
*That's because*
**[24:38] ---**
*It was my birthday,
and when we saw each other*
**[24:43] ---**
*We could see the first dream*
**[24:46] ---**
*That we had when we were born*
**[24:48] ---**
*Worrying about "what do I do?"*
**[24:53] ---**
*Is laughable when I think about it now*
**[24:57] ---**
*I've already forgotten it*
**[25:00] ---**
*Let's search for you*