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E24 - The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya Part Five

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    I do.
[00:24] ---
    Nagato led us to the back
    of her apartment building.
[00:31] ---
    Oh, they all seem used to people.
[00:36] ---
    Black cat, black cat...
[00:43] ---
    Oh well. Let's use this one.
[00:46] ---
    And she's changed the set up again.
[00:48] ---
    It's not black, but I guess
    we don't have a choice.
[00:51] ---
    Okay, Yuki! This is your partner!
[00:54] ---
    Be good friends!
[00:57] ---
    The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
[01:03] ---
    The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya V
[01:04] ---
    And so we started filming again.
[01:06] ---
    It looks like it doesn't matter where we shoot.
[01:08] ---
    Yuki! Attack Mikuru!
[01:12] ---
    Take this...
[01:16] ---
    Okay, cut! Nice!
[01:18] ---
    We'll make that cat talk!
[01:21] ---
    He's a witch's cat, after all.
[01:23] ---
    So he should at least make
    one or two snide remarks, right?
[01:25] ---
    How absurd.
[01:26] ---
    Your name is Shamisen!
    Come on, Shamisen, say something!
[01:32] ---
    There's no way he'd talk.
    Actually, please don't talk.
[01:36] ---
    Wait, "Shamisen"?!
[01:39] ---
    Hmm, pretty good.
[01:41] ---
    Kyon, I'm going to
    leave that cat's care to you.
[01:44] ---
    Take him home with you.
[01:46] ---
    You have until tomorrow
    to teach him a trick or two.
[01:49] ---
    Like jumping through a ring of fire!
[01:52] ---
    Okay, we're done for today!
[01:54] ---
    Tomorrow we'll be shooting the climax!
[01:57] ---
    The filming's going smoothly!
    Everyone's healthy!
[01:59] ---
    Rest well, everyone!
    And prepare yourselves for tomorrow!
[02:15] ---
    Good work. I'll buy you
    a can of cat food in a bit.
[02:20] ---
    Or would you prefer dried sardines?
[02:22] ---
    I'm okay with either.
[02:29] ---
    Hey now, was that you, Nagato?
    I was asking the cat.
[02:33] ---
    That was my intention. That's why I answered.
[02:37] ---
    Did I say something wrong?
[02:43] ---
    What a surprise. He's a calico and he's male.
[02:46] ---
    No, that's not why you should be surprised.
[02:49] ---
    What a surprise.
[02:50] ---
    For a cat to speak...
[02:53] ---
    I don't understand why you're all surprised.
[02:57] ---
    He's a bakeneko,
    or some kind of nekomata.
[03:00] ---
    It's true that the sounds
    that are coming from me
[03:03] ---
    might sound like human words to you.
[03:06] ---
    If that's the case,
    then why are you trying to confirm
[03:10] ---
    that I said what it sounds like I said?
[03:14] ---
    Well, you know. It's because you're
    actually answering my questions.
[03:18] ---
    But it might just be that
    the sounds that I'm making
[03:22] ---
    just happen to mesh with
    what you're saying, right?
[03:26] ---
    If that's the case, then that
    wouldn't make it a conversation,
[03:29] ---
    even if it were between two humans.
[03:32] ---
    Exactly.
[03:34] ---
    Even if two people are acting like
    they're talking to one another,
[03:37] ---
    no one can be sure if they're
    properly expressing how they feel.
[03:43] ---
    Many people do say one thing
    even if they feel another way, after all.
[03:46] ---
    Shut up, you.
[03:47] ---
    Now that you mention it, that's true...
[03:51] ---
    I'm sorry, but could you
    please be quiet, too?
[03:58] ---
    The situation is pretty bad.
[04:01] ---
    We've underestimated Miss Suzumiya yet again.
[04:06] ---
    Umm... What do you mean?
[04:10] ---
    There's a chance that the setting
    of Miss Suzumiya's movie
[04:12] ---
    will become the everyday
    reality of the world.
[04:16] ---
    If she thinks to herself, "I'd like to shoot
    a scene of a giant meteor impact,"
[04:20] ---
    then it might become reality.
[04:26] ---
    Then what can we do?
[04:28] ---
    We have to prevent the erosion
    of our reality by her imagination.
[04:32] ---
    Right now, she's unconsciously
    mixing up reality and fiction.
[04:36] ---
    She is getting pretty carried away.
[04:39] ---
    Miss Suzumiya's
    unusual abilities are coming out
[04:42] ---
    through the filter of her moviemaking.
[04:45] ---
    To prevent this, we need to
    make Miss Suzumiya understand
[04:48] ---
    that this is simply fiction, and logically
    guide this film into something more stable.
[04:54] ---
    And how are we supposed to
    rationalize a talking cat?
[04:57] ---
    I'm not talking about rationalizing things.
[05:00] ---
    If we did, we'd end up with
    a world setting where cats talk.
[05:05] ---
    But that's not possible in our world.
[05:08] ---
    Well, what about you guys?
[05:11] ---
    Well, it's true that we exist
    thanks to Miss Suzumiya.
[05:16] ---
    The same as that talking cat.
[05:18] ---
    Can't we do something about this?
[05:20] ---
    If this were a fantasy world,
    then we wouldn't need any explanations.
[05:24] ---
    But the moment we show proof
    of a talking cat or a Mikuru Beam,
[05:30] ---
    then our world will change.
[05:32] ---
    The world will have to change from one
    where there are no supernatural phenomena
[05:37] ---
    to one that is aware of them.
[05:39] ---
    Okay, then what do we do?
[05:41] ---
    We just have to put an ending on
    the movie that Miss Suzumiya will accept.
[05:46] ---
    Does that even exist?
[05:47] ---
    It does.
[05:49] ---
    It's an incredibly simple ending that
    can take any events that make no sense
[05:52] ---
    and make them all reasonable in a second.
[05:57] ---
    Spit it out.
[05:58] ---
    "It was all a dream."
[06:02] ---
    I wasn't joking.
[06:05] ---
    Do you think you'll be able to
    convince Haruhi to do that?
[06:08] ---
    It might be difficult.
[06:10] ---
    But in this case, mentioning that
    everything in the movie is a dream,
[06:16] ---
    a lie, or a misunderstanding
    is the best way to resolve it all.
[06:21] ---
    That's probably true for you...
[06:23] ---
    I might think that's the best way, too.
    But what about Haruhi?
[06:41] ---
    Okay, don't say a single word in the house.
[06:44] ---
    Act like a cat, got it?
[06:46] ---
    I don't know what "like a cat" means,
    but I'll do as you ask.
[06:51] ---
    Don't talk. Make all of your answers "meow."
[06:54] ---
    Meow.
[06:56] ---
    Cat cat cat!
[06:59] ---
    Meow.
[07:01] ---
    There we go.
[07:05] ---
    All right, see you later.
[07:07] ---
    As you wish.
[07:10] ---
    Only a few days remained
    until the school festival.
[07:13] ---
    It felt as if a chaotic atmosphere
    was steadily spreading
[07:16] ---
    throughout the school, connecting
    everyone to Haruhi's excitement.
[07:21] ---
    We have to find the legendary
    Crystal Crescent Orb, and quickly!
[07:25] ---
    Yeah, yeah, yeah!
[07:27] ---
    It's like it wouldn't be strange at all
[07:29] ---
    if a couple of people from
    another world got mixed up in all of this.
[07:34] ---
    Kyon!
[07:36] ---
    Mikuru says she has something
    she wants to talk to you about!
[07:38] ---
    Go on, Mikuru, give that to him!
[07:42] ---
    Oh, this... umm... it's a c-c-coupon!
[07:45] ---
    Oh, this... umm... it's a c-c-coupon!
[07:45] ---
    Yakisoba Café Acorn
[07:45] ---
    Discount coupon
[07:47] ---
    It's for the yakisoba café our class is doing!
[07:51] ---
    Thank you very much.
[07:53] ---
    Please bring some friends with you.
[07:56] ---
    That's all! See ya!
[08:13] ---
    Kyon...
[08:14] ---
    What's up?
[08:16] ---
    Well, if I say this, it will look like
    Koizumi is one of those...
[08:21] ---
    And... I don't like it, but...
[08:24] ---
    Uh-huh.
[08:25] ---
    I, you see... I have
    a different way of thinking...
[08:29] ---
    In other words... it's a different
    interpretation from Koizumi's.
[08:36] ---
    Are you talking about the whole
    "Haruhi is God" thing?
[08:44] ---
    There's no mistaking that Miss Suzumiya
    has the power to change the present.
[08:49] ---
    But I don't think it's the power
    to change how the world works.
[08:53] ---
    The world has always been like this.
[08:55] ---
    I see... This is completely opposite
    of what Koizumi says.
[09:00] ---
    I think that Miss Nagato
    probably thinks differently, too.
[09:05] ---
    Umm... This might give you
    a bad impression of him, but...
[09:10] ---
    ...if I said... you shouldn't trust Koizumi...
    it might be misleading, but...
[09:19] ---
    Umm, I'm sorry...
    I'm no good at explaining things,
[09:23] ---
    and I'm under certain restrictions,
    so I... But l...!
[09:31] ---
    I understand. There's no way
    Haruhi could be God.
[09:36] ---
    Your explanation is easier to understand
    than Koizumi's, Miss Asahina.
[09:42] ---
    Thank you...
[09:44] ---
    But please understand. I don't have
    anything against Koizumi himself.
[09:51] ---
    Sure.
[09:52] ---
    Literature Club
[09:54] ---
    This is what is believed to be
    Mikuru Asahina's assertions.
[09:57] ---
    Haruhi Suzumiya is not
    the one who created the world,
[10:00] ---
    but that this world has always been this way.
[10:04] ---
    Psychic powers and time travel,
[10:06] ---
    extraterrestrial life forms and other
    supernatural beings have always existed.
[10:11] ---
    Haruhi Suzumiya's role is to
    unconsciously discover them,
[10:16] ---
    and that this ability
    manifested three years ago.
[10:19] ---
    However, while she can find
    the unusual, she can never realize it.
[10:24] ---
    Because there exists something to interfere
    with her making those realizations.
[10:29] ---
    And that is us.
[10:33] ---
    So Miss Asahina has
    a different reason from Koizumi
[10:36] ---
    for not wanting Haruhi
    to discover anything mysterious?
[10:39] ---
    Yes. She came to this era
    to protect the future that she is from.
[10:46] ---
    It almost feels like she's revealing
    vital information like it's no big deal.
[10:50] ---
    Itsuki Koizumi and Mikuru Asahina will never
    agree with each other's interpretations.
[10:55] ---
    To them, the other's theory can only serve
    to disrupt the basis of their own existence.
[11:02] ---
    Hold on. Koizumi said that he didn't have
    his esper powers until three years ago.
[11:07] ---
    There is no proof anywhere
    that what Itsuki Koizumi says is true.
[11:14] ---
    It's true. There's no proof...
[11:15] ---
    Koizumi's theory just attaches
    an acceptable explanation
[11:18] ---
    to some events that have involved me.
[11:21] ---
    Who knows if that's correct?
[11:23] ---
    And Miss Asahina's theory is the same.
[11:26] ---
    Who can guarantee that
    the Asahina version is correct?
[11:31] ---
    What do you think? Which one is right?
[11:35] ---
    What about the possibility of autonomous
    self-determination you mentioned?
[11:40] ---
    No matter which truth I present,
[11:42] ---
    there is no way for you to obtain any proof.
[11:44] ---
    Why not?!
[11:52] ---
    Because there is no proof anywhere
    that I'm speaking the truth.
[11:58] ---
    Not to you...
[12:06] ---
    I don't know. Who would, normally?
[12:09] ---
    Koizumi, Nagato,
[12:10] ---
    I won't give you the orb!
[12:10] ---
    please give me an easier to understand explanation.
[12:12] ---
    Come back here!
[12:17] ---
    The only one who thought
    the filming was going well was Haruhi.
[12:21] ---
    Because of this, the grim looks
    on the faces of Koizumi,
[12:23] ---
    Miss Asahina, and myself
    had awfully dark shadows.
[12:28] ---
    At some point, the model guns started firing
[12:31] ---
    water-hammer rounds instead of BBs.
[12:34] ---
    Haruhi brought Miss Asahina contacts
    of other different colors,
[12:37] ---
    and she started firing off
    other dangerous things.
[12:39] ---
    And every time, she was bitten by Nagato.
[12:42] ---
    Just as the cherry trees
    were starting to blossom,
[12:44] ---
    a few days later they had all fallen off.
[12:46] ---
    The white pigeons at the shrine
[12:48] ---
    had turned into passenger pigeons,
    which have long since been extinct.
[12:52] ---
    And it looks like the progression
    of the seasons is a little bit off.
[12:58] ---
    The current highs for Nikkei futures
    have risen to 9360 yen,
[13:02] ---
    with a low of around 9250...
[13:02] ---
    Kyon, your friend's here!
[13:08] ---
    Yo.
[13:13] ---
    The details and foreshadowing
    don't matter to Miss Suzumiya.
[13:18] ---
    She probably hasn't
    thought of an ending, either.
[13:21] ---
    It might end incomplete.
[13:25] ---
    That would be a problem, right?
[13:28] ---
    Our theory is that it would be problematic
    if the world became more like fiction.
[13:36] ---
    To tell the truth,
    my agency and Miss Asahina's group
[13:40] ---
    aren't the only ones whose theories
    center around Miss Suzumiya.
[13:46] ---
    There are a lot of them.
[13:49] ---
    There have been enough conflicts
    and bloody exterminations
[13:54] ---
    for me to want to
    explain it all in digest format.
[13:57] ---
    Alliances and betrayals,
    interference and sneak attacks,
[14:00] ---
    destruction and mass murder.
[14:02] ---
    Each group has brought forth all of
    their strength in an attempt to survive.
[14:08] ---
    Well, this has nothing to do with you.
    Or Miss Suzumiya.
[14:15] ---
    And I would prefer that Miss Suzumiya
    never found out about any of this.
[14:19] ---
    I don't want to do anything
    that will cloud her mind.
[14:23] ---
    My criterion is that Miss Suzumiya
    has a character that should be loved.
[14:30] ---
    Oh, you do too, of course.
[14:33] ---
    Why are you telling me this?
[14:36] ---
    I just blurted it out. There's no reason.
[14:40] ---
    After all, it's just nonsense.
[14:43] ---
    That's true. It's not amusing at all.
[14:47] ---
    There's one more bit of nonsense.
[14:50] ---
    Have you ever wondered
    why Miss Asahina has joined us?
[14:58] ---
    Her job is to get you on her side.
[15:02] ---
    The only one that can get Miss Suzumiya
    to listen to them at all is you, after all.
[15:08] ---
    Being able to get a grip
    on you would be perfect.
[15:12] ---
    Her young appearance,
[15:14] ---
    her submissively obeying
    Miss Suzumiya's unreasonable demands,
[15:17] ---
    and her pitiful demeanor.
[15:20] ---
    It's all to get you to focus on her.
[15:24] ---
    I'm tired of you and your jokes.
[15:32] ---
    Oh, I'm sorry.
[15:34] ---
    It looks like I lack
    the ability to keep a joke going.
[15:39] ---
    I'm lying. Did you take that seriously?
[15:43] ---
    Between Miss Suzumiya's movie
    and my class's play,
[15:47] ---
    I'm under a lot of pressure.
[15:50] ---
    If a closed space opened up
    in addition to all that,
[15:53] ---
    I'm pretty sure that I would collapse.
[15:56] ---
    Which is why I came to make a request of you.
[15:59] ---
    Please, can you do something
    to stop Miss Suzumiya's movie
[16:02] ---
    from being the source of
    all of the strange phenomena?
[16:05] ---
    Make Haruhi realize that
    her movie is nothing but nonsense?
[16:12] ---
    Was that it?
[16:13] ---
    As long as she clearly understands that.
[16:17] ---
    And if possible, before we finish filming.
[16:27] ---
    I'm counting on you.
[16:33] ---
    What the heck is up with him?
[16:35] ---
    Did he come just to
    push the responsibility onto me?
[16:40] ---
    But still...
[16:46] ---
    I guess I can't just let it be.
[16:48] ---
    God, this is annoying.
[16:51] ---
    A movie is a movie, and reality is reality.
[16:54] ---
    They're two different things.
[16:56] ---
    That's so obvious, so why in the world
    do I have to convince her of that?
[17:00] ---
    Koizumi said to make it "all just
    a dream," but what else is there...
[17:14] ---
    The next day, I went to Haruhi
    with a single suggestion,
[17:18] ---
    and after a lot of discussion,
    I got her to understand.
[17:22] ---
    Okay, then!
[17:23] ---
    Good work, everyone!
    With this, we're finished filming!
[17:28] ---
    You all did your best!
[17:30] ---
    Let's meet up in the clubroom
    first thing tomorrow morning
[17:32] ---
    and preview the movie!
[17:36] ---
    Mikuru, it's too soon to cry!
[17:38] ---
    Save those tears for when
    you get a Palme d'Or or an Oscar!
[17:42] ---
    Let's all be happy together!
[17:46] ---
    Mikuru and Yuki's last battle suddenly
    awakens Itsuki Koizumi's powers
[17:51] ---
    and this hard to understand,
    deus ex machina power
[17:54] ---
    knocks Yuki to the far reaches of the universe.
[17:57] ---
    With this, the curtain closes
    on our story. Wait, it's closing?!
[17:59] ---
    So it's finally over.
[18:04] ---
    Okay, Mikuru, come here!
[18:04] ---
    You know, it feels like it all ended in an instant.
[18:06] ---
    Miss Suzumiya, aren't we done?
[18:08] ---
    They say time flies when you're having fun...
[18:11] ---
    Though I wonder who was
    the one having fun here.
[18:14] ---
    Who knows?
[18:16] ---
    Can I leave the rest to you?
[18:20] ---
    My head is packed with the things
    I need for my class' play.
[18:23] ---
    Unlike a movie, I don't get
    a retake if I mess up a line.
[18:31] ---
    Oh, one more thing.
[18:33] ---
    We're grateful to you.
    Both the agency, and me personally.
[18:41] ---
    Okay, shout it loud!
[18:44] ---
    We're aiming for a Hollywood blockbuster!
[18:47] ---
    We'll get the Golden Bear
    and the Golden Lion awards!
[18:50] ---
    That's it! Now, Mikuru, point at the future!
[18:54] ---
    Oh brother.
[18:58] ---
    To be honest, up until the end I didn't have
    a pixel's worth of understanding
[19:03] ---
    of what Haruhi was trying to film.
[19:05] ---
    It's probably obvious,
    but no matter where we searched,
[19:08] ---
    we didn't have the time to put in the visual
    effects, or the technology for that matter.
[19:14] ---
    And so Haruhi complained.
[19:16] ---
    We can't show off an unfinished film like this!
[19:19] ---
    Do something about it!
[19:20] ---
    The school festival
    is tomorrow. I'm at my limit.
[19:24] ---
    If you stay up all night, you'll make it, right?
[19:26] ---
    You can just stay here overnight.
[19:31] ---
    And I'll help, too.
[19:36] ---
    They'll know that those are BBs!
[19:36] ---
    In the end, Haruhi was of no help whatsoever.
[19:49] ---
    To be fair, I fell asleep, too.
[19:55] ---
    Kyon! Hey, wake up!
[20:03] ---
    So, how did it turn out?
[20:05] ---
    There was no point to staying overnight.
    The movie is still unfinished.
[20:10] ---
    ...from the future!
[20:21] ---
    It's not bad. It's not quite all there,
    but for you, it's pretty good.
[20:26] ---
    It wasn't me. Someone else did it.
[20:30] ---
    Best odds, Nagato. Next best, Koizumi.
    Miss Asahina, unlikely.
[20:34] ---
    And the long shot would be
[20:36] ---
    someone who has yet to appear.
[20:36] ---
    Mikuru, you have to fight back!
[20:39] ---
    Good morning. How did it turn out?
[20:43] ---
    Good morning...
[20:45] ---
    Good morning! It's done, of course!
[20:48] ---
    Our feature-length spectacle
    built on our blood, sweat, and tears!
[20:53] ---
    Oh, is that so?
[20:55] ---
    That's wonderful.
[20:59] ---
    Let's all watch it together!
[21:01] ---
    Audio/Visual Room
[21:01] ---
    Mikuru, you were great!
[21:04] ---
    You'll completely capture the hearts
    of the whole audience with this!
[21:07] ---
    It's perfect, Mikuru!
[21:10] ---
    The school festival started,
    and there was nothing more for me to do.
[21:14] ---
    The changes to reality that we feared
    seemed to come to a stop.
[21:18] ---
    I knew this when Shamisen stopped talking.
[21:23] ---
    Speaking of stopping, I stopped seeing
    those strangely dressed guys
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    that I had seen a lot in the days
    before the school festival.
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    There weren't any plays in the festival
    that they might have been in,
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    so I wonder who they were.
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    North High Fest
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    Screening in progress
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    The movie ended with Haruhi doing some narration.
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    I convinced her to close the movie
    with a director's speech
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    by telling her it was important
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    This story is fictional.
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    to mention that it was all in fun.
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    Characters, organizations, incidents...
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    Those were the magic words
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    that cancelled out everything.
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    ...other proper names, and events are not real.
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    It's all a lie.
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    Even if there's a resemblance, it's coincidence.
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    Oh, not the ads.
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    Support Ohmori Electronics and
    Yamatsuchi Model Shop. Buy lots.
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    Say it again?
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    This story is fictional.
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    Characters, organizations, incidents...
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    Hey, Kyon, why do I have to say that?
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    Kitaguchi Station-front Park
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    If there's one thing that bothers Haruhi
    in spite of her devil-may-care attitude,
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    it's that "the world is too normal."
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    As for what she considers to be "not normal,"
    it would be the supernatural.
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    She expresses this by saying things like,
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    "Why haven't I seen even
    a single ghost? What's up with that?"
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    I've got something important
    to tell you, so listen closely.
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    What is it?
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    You want there to be aliens, future people,
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    and people with esper powers, right?
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    Well, yeah. What about it?
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    There actually are aliens,
    future people, and espers,
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    closer than you could ever imagine.
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    Really, and who would they be?
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    Don't tell me that you mean
    Yuki or Mikuru or Koizumi.
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    They wouldn't count as
    "closer than I could imagine."
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    Umm, actually...
    That was what I was going to say.
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    Are you stupid?
    There's no way it would be that easy.
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    Well, if you think about it, that's true.
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    Okay, so who's what?
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    Listen and rejoice. Yuki Nagato is an alien.
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    The Information something-or-other Entity?
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    She's an agent for something like that.
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    Oh yeah! Humanoid interface!
    That's what it was!
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    What about Mikuru?
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    Miss Asahina is pretty simple
    to explain. She's a future person.
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    She came from the future,
    so she's a future person.
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    How far in the future did she come from?
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    I don't know. She wouldn't tell me.
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    Aha, I get it.
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    So you understand now?
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    Which means that Koizumi is an esper?
    That's what you're going to say, right?
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    Yes! That's exactly what I was going to say!
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    Don't screw around with me!
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    Why is this crazy woman
    so realistic about the weirdest things?
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    If she would just believe me,
    everything would be so much easier.
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    T-Thank you very much!
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    Then again, if Haruhi just knew about
    all of the phenomena around her,
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    I don't know what would happen to the world.
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    Oh brother.
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