# Season 1
# M0 - To Every You I've Loved Before
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GG1U2ZXD3/to-every-you-ive-loved-before)
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**[00:31] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
*Very soon, I will finish my life happy.*
**[00:48] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
So, I'm still alive.
**[01:07] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Huh?
**[01:14] IP device**
*Schedule notes.*
**[01:16] IP device**
*On today's page, 1 entry has been input.*
**[01:20] IP device**
* 10 AM. August 17th.*
* Showa-dori Intersection.*
**[01:28] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
An entry you don't recall?
**[01:31] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Yeah.
**[01:32] Koyomi (Age 73)**
I have absolutely no memory of it,
but it was entered into my IP device.
***SIGN*** Fri.
***SIGN*** Sat.
***SIGN*** Sun.
***SIGN*** 10 AM Showa-dori Intersection
***SIGN*** Mon.
***SIGN*** Tues.
***SIGN*** Wed.
**[01:43] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
I see. How strange.
**[01:47] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
That's in about two and a half hours.
**[01:50] Ai (Age not specified; but probably around 10)**
Some Grandpa from a parallel world
probably came and input it.
**[01:55] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
That might be it, actually.
**[01:59] Ai (Age not specified; but probably around 10)**
That, or you've gone so senile that you forgot
you put it in there yourself, Grandpa.
**[02:05] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
Ai!
**[02:07] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I'd say that's the far
more likely possibility.
**[02:11] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
So? Are you going?
**[02:14] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
That's a good question.
**[02:16] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
It does read like a promise, or something.
**[02:19] Ai (Age not specified; but probably around 10)**
I don't think you should go, Grandpa.
**[02:23] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Why?
**[02:24] Ai (Age not specified; but probably around 10)**
'Cause you'll only realize
you really have gone senile.
**[02:27] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
Ai, that's quite enough.
**[02:30] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
And the chilled chocolate
is a treat you get at 3 PM.
**[02:36] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
I thought you were studying
in your room until lunch?
**[02:40] Ai (Age not specified; but probably around 10)**
Which is why I need some
barley tea as a study buddy.
**[02:52] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
So, kids these days already know the term
"parallel world" in elementary school.
**[02:58] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
Supposedly, they learn it
in the early grades.
**[03:00] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
Eri-san mentioned it.
**[03:03] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Is that so...
**[03:05] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
Why not go?
**[03:08] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
Aren't you curious?
**[03:11] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
If you go there, you might
remember something.
**[03:14] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
That's true. And it's in the neighborhood.
**[03:24] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I'll be back in a bit.
**[03:25] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
Yes, dear. Be careful.
**[03:30] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
Hold on.
**[03:32] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
Your hat. I'll go get it.
**[03:35] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Oh, that one's fine.
**[03:38] Kazune (Age not specified; but most likely 73)**
This one?
***SIGN*** Please wait until the traffic signal changes.
**[04:12] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Tell me, dear. Why are you standing there?
**[04:15] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
It's dangerous.
**[04:20] Shiori (Ghost/status not clear)**
You came for me?
**[04:23] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Yeah. I'm here.
**[04:51] Traffic Light**
* The light is changing.*
* Please exit the crosswalk.*
**[05:02] Traffic Light**
* Take care not to stop*
* in the middle of crossing.*
***SIGN*** Please wait until the traffic signal changes.
***SIGN*** Please wait until the traffic signal changes.
**[05:12] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Did I Parallel Shift?
**[05:15] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Display IEPP.
**[05:23] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
An error?
**[05:25] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Where am I?
***SIGN*** To Every You I've Loved Before
***SIGN*** To Every You I've Loved Before
**[05:39] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* From the moment they're born,*
* people make countless choices.*
**[05:44] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* The worlds with the option you*
* didn't choose are alternate realities.*
**[05:49] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*In other words, parallel worlds.*
**[05:52] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* And their existence has now*
* been demonstrated.*
**[05:56] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* Moving into a parallel world*
* is called Parallel Shifting.*
**[06:01] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* That said, it's not your physical*
* body that does the moving.*
**[06:05] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* Your consciousness, termed*
* your imaginality, trades places.*
**[06:09] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* Small Parallel Shifts are*
* an everyday occurrence,*
**[06:13] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*but you basically never notice.*
**[06:17] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* When you can't find something*
* where you left it,*
**[06:20] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*but then it's there when you double-check,*
**[06:23] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* it's often because*
* of a small Parallel Shift.*
**[06:28] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*If we say your original world is "0",*
**[06:30] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* you Shifted from world 0, where you left*
* the item there, to world 1, where you didn't,*
**[06:35] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*then Shifted back to 0.*
**[06:41] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* The farther from 0 you go, the greater*
* the difference in the tangible world.*
**[06:46] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* You might have a different occupation than*
* you did in world 0, or a different spouse.*
**[06:51] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* Still, they're all worlds*
* that your choices can lead to.*
**[06:56] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* The first time I made*
* a major choice was when I was 7.*
**[07:03] Shoudai (Age not specified; but probably 35)**
Between Dad...
**[07:04] Mayumi (Age not specified; but probably 35)**
Or Mom...
**[07:06] Shoudai & Mayumi**
*Who do you wanna go with?*
**[07:08] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* I no longer remember where*
* or how exactly they said it.*
**[07:12] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*But that was essentially the situation.*
**[07:15] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*I wonder how I felt, and what I said.*
**[07:20] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*Even after my parents' divorce,*
**[07:22] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* several times a month we'd*
* all go on outings together.*
**[07:26] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*But, once fun time was over,*
**[07:29] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* we'd leave my dad, and I'd go with*
* my mom back to her childhood home.*
**[07:35] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*Her home was large but very old.*
**[07:38] Koyomi's Grandpa**
* "It was already ancient when*
* your old Grandpa was a kid."*
**[07:41] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*Old enough for my grandpa to say that.*
**[07:45] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* Despite there being no second*
* floor, it had two entryways,*
**[07:48] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*but it wasn't a two-family home.*
**[07:50] Mayumi (Age not specified; but probably 35)**
* The one in front is only ever opened*
* during New Year and on special days.*
**[07:55] Mayumi (Age not specified; but probably 35)**
* Normally, we just use*
* the smaller one in the back.*
**[07:59] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* We lived there with my grandfather,*
* my grandmother, and a big dog.*
**[08:05] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* The pond in the inner yard*
* didn't have fish or turtles,*
**[08:08] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
*and most of the rooms were empty.*
**[08:11] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/not 7 or 8)**
* The only things it had in excess*
* were empty space and ceilings.*
**[08:31] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Koyomi, where'd you get that?
**[08:34] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Dad bought it for me last time I saw him.
**[08:37] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
It's my present for my eighth birthday!
**[08:50] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Yuno.
**[08:53] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Bang.
**[08:57] Koyomi's Grandpa**
You're too young to have this.
**[09:00] Koyomi's Grandpa**
It says for ages 10 and up.
**[09:03] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Yeah...
**[09:04] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
But the other kids have them, too.
**[09:07] Koyomi's Grandpa**
You don't need to copy bad stuff
from the other kids.
**[09:10] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Grandpa!
**[09:22] Koyomi's Mom**
Koyomi, is something wrong?
**[09:29] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
I'm never talking to Grandpa again!
**[10:08] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Mom.
**[10:10] Koyomi's Mom**
Yes, dear?
**[10:12] Koyomi's Mom**
Can I take Yuno for her walk?
**[10:15] Koyomi's Mom**
Go ahead. But come back early so
you can get ready for the wake.
**[10:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Yuno?
**[10:38] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Geez...
**[10:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
You can't just take off.
**[10:42] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Hey! Yuno!
**[10:43] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Stop, Yuno!
**[10:44] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Wait! W—
**[11:15] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Hey. Can you open this?
**[11:17] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Open this lid.
**[11:28] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Thanks.
**[11:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Hey, wait a second!
***SIGN*** Imaginary Science Research Institute
**[12:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Imaginary Science...
**[12:35] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
This is where Dad works.
**[12:38] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
U-Um! Um, excuse me, ma'am?
**[12:42] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Excuse me. Could I borrow your phone?
**[12:46] Koyomi's Mom**
I was really surprised to get a call
from you all of a sudden.
**[12:50] Koyomi's Mom**
You could have just called your dad
since you were at the Institute.
**[12:54] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
I don't have Dad's cell phone number, though.
**[12:58] Koyomi's Mom**
You had mine?
**[13:00] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
I don't have it. I know it.
I call it all the time.
**[13:04] Koyomi's Mom**
What are you talking about?
You're a goofball.
**[13:13] Koyomi's Mom**
Koyomi, what are you doing?
**[13:16] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Um, nothing. I'm coming.
**[13:24] Koyomi's Mom**
I'm home. Koyomi's visiting.
**[13:27] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Visiting?
**[13:30] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Hey there, Koyomi.
**[13:32] Koyomi's Mom**
Is Mom in the kitchen?
**[13:34] Koyomi's Grandpa**
She is.
**[13:36] Koyomi's Grandpa**
It's been a while. Tell me, how've you been?
**[13:42] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
*I'm in a different world.*
**[13:44] Koyomi's Grandma**
If I'd known I could've
made something special!
**[13:47] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Not that you ever need to call us first.
This is your home, too, Koyomi.
**[13:48] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
* This is a world where*
* I chose to go with my dad.*
**[13:53] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
* And it's a world where*
* Grandpa's still alive.*
**[13:54] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Right?
**[13:55] Koyomi's Mom**
Right.
**[13:56] Koyomi's Grandma**
That's right. Come by any time.
**[14:00] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Now then, I think
I'll go give Yuno her supper.
**[14:06] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
I'll come with you.
**[14:10] Koyomi's Grandpa**
You will?
**[14:11] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Let's both go, then.
**[14:19] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Yuno, Koyomi came to see us today.
**[14:31] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Grandpa.
**[14:33] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Ah, Koyomi.
**[14:34] Koyomi's Grandpa**
What is it?
**[14:36] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Can I sleep in your room with you tonight?
**[14:40] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Yes, of course you can.
**[14:44] Koyomi's Grandpa**
That reminds me.
**[14:46] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Is this the first time you've
visited since you turned eight?
**[14:58] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
So Yuno's gone.
**[15:00] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Yeah.
**[15:05] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
There's no way we could
make it so she's alive again?
**[15:08] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Unfortunately, that's not possible.
The dead can't come back to life.
**[15:19] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Grandpa, I'm sorry.
**[15:21] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
I never got to say sorry after our fight.
**[15:26] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Our fight?
**[15:27] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Did we have a fight
the last time you came over?
**[15:35] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Did your old Grandpa
scold you for something?
**[15:40] Koyomi's Grandma**
Even when that happens, it doesn't
mean Grandpa doesn't love you.
**[15:44] Koyomi's Grandma**
Don't worry.
**[15:46] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Really? How come?
**[15:50] Koyomi's Grandpa**
How do I explain it?
**[15:52] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Would you rather be sad yourself,
or for someone else to be sad?
**[15:58] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Well, I mean... *I* don't wanna be sad.
**[16:03] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Right. And everyone's like that.
**[16:06] Koyomi's Grandpa**
So, because of a momentary mood
or whatever other reasons,
**[16:10] Koyomi's Grandpa**
people do things that make others sad.
**[16:14] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Usually, they only realize
their mistake later,
**[16:17] Koyomi's Grandpa**
and wonder why they ever did those things.
**[16:23] Koyomi's Grandpa**
But at that point, they can't fix it,
**[16:27] Koyomi's Grandpa**
so they suffer the pain of that
sadness over and over.
**[16:31] Koyomi's Grandpa**
It's truly a difficult thing to go through.
**[16:37] Koyomi's Grandpa**
So you see, your old Grandpa
**[16:40] Koyomi's Grandpa**
is only trying to help you avoid that
based on his own experiences.
**[16:44] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Because Grandpa loves you.
**[16:47] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Because you love me?
**[16:49] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Yup, it sure is.
**[16:52] Koyomi's Grandpa**
But y'know, your old Grandpa
makes mistakes sometimes, too.
**[16:57] Koyomi's Grandpa**
So in the end, what you do is
for you to decide, Koyomi.
**[17:02] Koyomi's Grandpa**
You're going to experience
all sorts of things.
**[17:06] Koyomi's Grandpa**
You might encounter situations where
nobody knows what might happen.
**[17:11] Koyomi's Grandpa**
That's just how plentiful
the choices you have are.
**[17:16] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Choices...
**[17:18] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* Then my grandfather explained*
* the significance of possibilities to me,*
**[17:23] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* but at that age, I couldn't*
* really wrap my head around it.*
**[17:28] Koyomi's Grandpa**
It's even hard for your Grandpa
to figure out a simple explanation.
**[17:33] Koyomi's Grandpa**
You're bright, Koyomi,
**[17:35] Koyomi's Grandpa**
so once you get it, make sure
you can explain it clearly to others.
**[17:39] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Okay.
**[17:41] Koyomi's Grandpa**
Even when you mess up, your
old Grandpa will never hate you.
**[17:45] Koyomi's Grandpa**
So even when Grandpa occasionally
makes a mistake of his own,
**[17:49] Koyomi's Grandpa**
don't go hating him immediately, okay?
**[17:54] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
I love you, too, Grandpa.
**[18:18] Koyomi's Mom**
Good morning.
**[18:22] Koyomi's Mom**
Mom?
**[18:28] Koyomi's Mom**
What is it?
**[18:30] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Where's Grandpa?
**[18:32] Koyomi's Mom**
The funeral people made
him look really nice,
**[18:35] Koyomi's Mom**
and now he's resting in the main hall.
**[18:42] Koyomi's Mom**
Is something wrong?
**[18:44] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Mom, yesterday I...
**[18:47] Koyomi's Mom**
There's no reason to feel embarrassed.
**[18:49] Koyomi's Mom**
This is a tough time.
**[18:51] Koyomi's Mom**
It's perfectly normal to want some company.
**[18:56] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Okay.
**[18:57] Koyomi's Mom**
Now, let's get ready.
**[19:00] Koyomi's Mom**
We've gotta give Grandpa a proper sendoff.
**[19:08] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* The man in my grandfather's altar*
* photo wore a stern expression,*
**[19:13] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* and looked nothing like the same,*
* mellow man from the previous night.*
**[19:18] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* The thin-looking man in the coffin*
* didn't look like the picture, either.*
**[19:27] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
I brought fresh water.
**[19:29] Koyomi's Mom**
Thanks.
**[19:30] Koyomi's Mom**
Put it down there.
**[19:33] Koyomi's Mom**
Now, take a look in the top
section of that tall cabinet.
**[19:37] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Okay.
**[19:38] Koyomi's Grandma**
Be careful, honey.
**[19:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but should be 8)**
Yes, Grandma.
**[19:45] Koyomi's Mom**
Mom, look.
**[19:47] Koyomi's Grandma**
Oh my. I'm amazed he saved this.
**[19:51] Koyomi's Mom**
What do we do with it?
**[19:52] Koyomi's Grandma**
Well, it's not like we need to
completely empty this room out,
**[19:55] Koyomi's Grandma**
so let's put it back and...
***SIGN*** Happy 10th birthday, Koyomi.
Don't point this at people or animals.
-Grandpa
***SIGN*** -Grandpa
**[20:02] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* In that moment, the three versions*
* of my grandfather finally merged together,*
**[20:06] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
*becoming a single person in my mind.*
**[20:13] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
**This* was the first incident where
I became conscious of parallel worlds.*
**[20:18] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* The Yuno in my world died*
* of old age 2 years later*
**[20:22] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* and now rests in the same place*
* I saw in that other world.*
***SIGN*** Imaginary Science Research Institute
**[20:28] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* "We have demonstrated*
* the existence of parallel worlds."*
**[20:30] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* It was Japan's Imaginary Science Research*
* Institute that first announced that.*
**[20:34] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* As in, the research facility*
* where my father works.*
**[20:38] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* The research done by him and his*
* colleagues garnered global attention.*
**[20:43] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
*Perhaps thanks to having a brilliant father,*
**[20:45] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* my grades were abnormally good,*
* even if I never did much studying.*
**[20:51] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
*Still, having abnormally good grades*
**[20:54] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* basically translates*
* to isolation in adolescence.*
**[20:59] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
*At least, that's how I thought at the time.*
**[21:04] Mayumi (Age not specified)**
* Koyomi, could it be you*
* don't have very many friends?*
**[21:07] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* That's how my mother put it.*
* But that was incorrect.*
**[21:11] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* In middle school, I didn't*
* have a single friend.*
**[21:16] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
*So I swore to myself*
**[21:17] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
*that in high school I would make friends.*
**[21:21] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* And so, when I was asked to give*
* the entrance ceremony speech*
**[21:25] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* due to having the highest*
* entrance exam scores,*
**[21:27] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
*I politely declined.*
**[21:32] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* That way, I wouldn't draw*
* attention to myself.*
**[21:36] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
*I wholeheartedly planned to make friends.*
**[21:40] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
*But reality was not so obliging.*
***SIGN*** Prior Academic Year University Entrance Ex
National & Public University Pas
***SIGN*** University of Tokyo
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hitotsubashi University
Ochanomizu University
Tohoku University
Nagoya University
**[21:52] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* At that top class feeder school,*
* the atmosphere was not at all friendly,*
**[21:58] Koyomi (Age not specified; older/adult?)**
* and my high school life hurtled*
* yet again toward lonely choices.*
**[22:10] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Koyomi.
**[22:15] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
What're you ignoring me for, Koyomi?
**[22:19] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh? Uh, um... Takigawa-san?
**[22:25] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Um, by "Koyomi," do you mean me?
**[22:28] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Who else is there?
**[22:31] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I'm not angry anymore.
**[22:34] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[22:35] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
If you still want to apologize,
I'll hear it on the way home.
**[22:39] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Oh—
**[22:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Um, h-hold on a moment, Takigawa-san!
**[22:45] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
What was with you just now?
Why are you calling me that?
**[22:47] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[22:48] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I hate that way of doing things.
**[22:51] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Um... is something wrong, Takigawa-san?
**[22:54] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Something's definitely off.
**[22:56] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
It's true that it's felt like
we're on different pages lately,
**[22:59] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
but for you to act like this,
it's not like you, Koyo—
**[23:10] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
My apologies.
**[23:31] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Excuse me, got a sec?
**[23:35] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Was there something else?
**[23:36] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I need to talk to you. It's for real.
**[23:40] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I'll explain everything, so come with me.
**[23:45] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[23:58] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Karaoke?
**[24:08] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
You can sit down.
**[24:12] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Okay.
**[24:21] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Do you know what this is?
**[24:23] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[24:25] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Um, it's... not a watch, huh?
**[24:30] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Have you heard of an IP device?
**[24:34] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
More or less. It's a device that displays
which parallel world you're in, right?
**[24:41] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
If I remember right, they're
still in the development stage,
**[24:44] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
and researchers in imaginary science or
similar fields are doing the testing.
**[24:49] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
My dad is one of those researchers.
**[24:52] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Oh, my dad also works at the—
**[24:55] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I know.
**[24:57] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I see...
**[25:00] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Good. You have the same level of
knowledge as the Koyomi in my world.
**[25:06] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
"My world"?
**[25:09] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Um... So then, uh...
**[25:11] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
the Takigawa-san I'm talking to...
**[25:20] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
From your perspective, I came from
the world that is a distance of 85 away.
**[25:25] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
What?
**[25:27] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Basically, I hadn't realized
I had Parallel Shifted
**[25:32] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
when I called out to you, Koyomi—
I mean, Takasaki-kun.
**[25:46] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
You can drink that. Aren't you thirsty?
**[25:53] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
B-But um, why call out to *me*?
**[25:59] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
My boyfriend, you mean?
**[26:01] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I see.
**[26:03] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
So, what's my relationship to this boyfriend?
**[26:20] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Me? Your boyfriend?!
**[26:22] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
B-By "boyfriend," you mean we're
like, dating and everything?
**[26:28] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
You're a regular Sherlock.
**[26:30] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
So then, have we, um...
**[26:32] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
You could really use some tact.
**[26:39] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I'm sorry.
**[26:40] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Ugh.
**[26:41] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
This just throws me off!
**[26:43] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
You're totally different from my Koyomi!
**[26:47] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Sorry.
**[26:49] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
The Koyomi I know is more
put-together and dependable...
**[26:54] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Dependable?
**[26:55] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
That's right!
**[26:56] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
When I was about to be attacked by
a wild dog, you saved me, didn't you?
**[27:01] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
A wild dog?
**[27:03] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
When?
**[27:06] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Forget it.
**[27:10] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Um...
**[27:13] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Just to confirm, you *are*
Koyomi Takasaki, aren't you?
**[27:18] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Well...
**[27:19] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I'm Koyomi Takasaki all the time,
not just when someone's asking.
**[27:24] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
But I can't really help it if
I'm different from your Koyomi.
**[27:28] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Since 85 should be quite far away,
**[27:31] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
shouldn't we be almost
entirely different people?
**[27:34] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I'm not so sure.
**[27:35] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Well, I mean, I don't know
the you here at all,
**[27:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
and the one over there doesn't—
**[27:42] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
"One over there"? Which one of us is that?
**[27:44] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Oh, the Takigawa-san from here,
who's over there...
**[27:47] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
This is irritating.
**[27:49] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[27:50] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
All this "here" and "there" stuff.
**[27:52] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Can't we just distinguish ourselves
with first and last names?
**[27:56] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
The us from this world will be
Takasaki-kun and Takigawa-san.
**[27:59] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
The us from my world
will be Koyomi and Kazune.
**[28:02] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Which would mean...
**[28:04] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
It's, um... okay for *me* to
call you Kazune? Wait, is it?
**[28:10] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Yeah. What's the issue?
**[28:13] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I take it that's what
Koyomi calls you, right?
**[28:17] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
For me to address you the same way
he does, it just feels kinda...
**[28:21] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
It's just a name to use.
**[28:23] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Besides, I am who I am.
**[28:29] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Well, if you're okay with it... Kazune.
**[28:31] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
To get back on track,
**[28:32] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
an IP device reads an imaginality's
Imaginary Elements Print
**[28:36] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
and represents it as a number.
**[28:38] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Right.
**[28:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
It replaces the number of splits
with an expression of distance.
**[28:44] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
A Parallel Shift distance of 85
is quite far, isn't it?
**[28:47] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
But until I spoke to you
after school, Takasaki-kun,
**[28:51] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I didn't notice a Shift had occurred.
**[28:54] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
That's how similar our worlds are.
They just don't seem 85 apart.
**[29:00] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Which got me thinking...
**[29:02] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Among the many worlds derived from
two worlds that were far apart at first,
**[29:07] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
maybe a series of splits toward
the same direction occurred,
**[29:10] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
and then two coincidentally
similar worlds were produced.
**[29:14] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
The paths they took were different,
but they arrived in the same place...
**[29:18] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Sort of like fluctuations?
**[29:21] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
This presupposes that imaginality behaves
similarly to physical matter, though.
**[29:26] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
If so, then what happens next is...
**[29:29] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Convergence.
**[29:30] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
The two worlds would overlap each other...
**[29:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Wait, the two worlds would've
traced different histories,
**[29:37] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
so I guess that wouldn't happen.
**[29:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Like binary stars, they could influence
each other and remain equidistant...
**[29:43] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
and continue in the same
direction. Like that?
**[29:47] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
The fundamental model of Imaginary Science
likens parallel worlds to bubbles in water.
**[29:52] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
If we follow that model,
**[29:54] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
the two bubbles would circle each other
as they ascend in the same direction.
**[30:00] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Something like that.
**[30:02] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
But right now, you and Koyomi
are totally different...
**[30:06] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Maybe this is over-thinking things,
**[30:08] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
but could there be some reason
why Takigawa-san and I
**[30:12] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
underwent a distance-85 Shift?
**[30:16] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
The ability to keep the two
bubbles from separating...
**[30:20] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
What do you make of that?
**[30:22] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Well, for instance, Takigawa-san—
**[30:24] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I mean, Kazune dating me is an option.
**[30:29] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
As in *me* dating you, Takasaki-kun?
**[30:31] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Oh—
**[30:32] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
S-Sorry!
**[30:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
My bad. That's too much of a leap.
**[30:35] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
No, wait, I mean... I got confused...
**[30:39] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I don't really like-*like* you, Takasaki-kun.
**[30:43] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Right. Duh.
**[30:44] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
But, I *do* adore Koyomi,
**[30:48] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
so it might be a possibility for Takigawa-san
to like-*like* you, too, Takasaki-kun.
**[30:53] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
There should be a path of choices
for you to reach that point as well.
**[30:57] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Well, if you're interested, go for it.
**[31:04] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I don't know what will happen,
but let's keep this a secret for now.
**[31:08] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I'd prefer to avoid a fuss.
**[31:11] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
And let's leave here separately.
**[31:13] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Yeah. Good point.
**[31:16] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I'll pay.
**[31:18] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
You're a guest here, Kazune.
**[31:20] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
An amusing way to look at it.
**[31:23] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Thanks.
**[31:25] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Once we leave, act naturally.
Go about life the same as before.
**[31:30] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Yeah. Naturally. Got it.
**[31:33] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
That's right. Go with the flow.
**[31:37] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Well, who knows if I'll see you tomorrow.
**[31:41] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[31:42] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Oh. Yeah.
**[31:45] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Goodbye.
**[31:48] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Goodbye.
**[31:51] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*With those final words,*
**[31:52] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* the Takigawa-san I'd never seen before,*
* "Kazune" from world 85 and I parted ways.*
**[32:02] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Parallel world 85...
**[32:14] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* The next day, she came to*
* school like any other day.*
**[32:22] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*But,*
**[32:23] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*was it Kazune?*
**[32:25] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*Or was it Takigawa-san?*
**[32:30] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*With a distance as large as 85, there
had to be* some *difference in demeanor.*
**[32:35] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* But the way she carried herself*
* only read as "Kazune" to me.*
**[32:39] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* Of course, I'd never even said*
* hello to Takigawa-san before,*
**[32:44] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* so I had no point of comparison*
* for how different they might be.*
**[32:49] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*And the next day,*
**[32:51] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* and the next day after that,*
* and the next next day after that,*
**[32:54] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*I saw her, of course.*
**[32:58] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*Except I didn't speak to her.*
**[33:01] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*I couldn't.*
**[33:07] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*Her world had its own version of me.*
**[33:15] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*Another me, not the one here now.*
**[33:37] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*In that world,*
**[33:39] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* she and I were apparently going out*
* as boyfriend and girlfriend.*
**[33:49] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*The other... me and her...*
***SIGN*** Cigarettes Liquor
**[34:12] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*Hey, so...*
**[34:13] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* is it possible to go to, or return to,*
* a particular parallel world?*
**[34:19] Shoudai (Age not specified; but probably 41)**
*Theoretically, yes, it's possible.*
**[34:21] Shoudai (Age not specified; but probably 41)**
* And in actuality we're currently*
* researching Optional Shifting,*
**[34:25] Shoudai (Age not specified; but probably 41)**
*meaning Shifting to an arbitrary world.*
**[34:29] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*You are? So then—*
**[34:31] Shoudai (Age not specified; but probably 41)**
* However, that doesn't mean*
* the technology is established.*
**[34:35] Shoudai (Age not specified; but probably 41)**
* I expect it'll take... 10 more years*
* to reach practical realization.*
**[34:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I see... Thanks.
**[34:43] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Me too. Talk to you soon.
**[34:47] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
10 years, huh?
**[35:05] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Morning, Kazune.
**[35:11] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Kazune?
**[35:20] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*That's Takigawa-san.*
**[35:27] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*So Kazune made it home.*
***SIGN*** Takigawa-san
**[35:57] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Hey. Sorry for calling you here.
**[36:02] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Then this was...
**[36:03] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Yeah.
**[36:04] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Well, come on in and sit down.
**[36:14] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Want something to drink?
**[36:16] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
No.
**[36:18] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Oh, wanna sing something?
**[36:20] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Excuse me?
**[36:20] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Erm, never mind...
**[36:28] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Um, so... I'll just
get straight to the point.
**[36:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Like I wrote in the note,
**[36:35] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
you were in parallel world 85
for a while recently, right?
**[36:41] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Yes.
**[36:42] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
So then, um...
**[36:45] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
How was it?
**[36:47] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
What do you mean?
**[36:49] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Erm, well, um...
**[36:53] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
With the me over there...
**[37:02] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
No, forget it. Sorry.
**[37:08] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
How were things here?
**[37:10] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh? Right.
**[37:13] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Yeah.
**[37:14] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I had a talk here. With Kazune.
**[37:17] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Kazune?
**[37:18] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Oh, sorry!
**[37:20] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
If you don't like it, I'll stop.
**[37:24] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
No. It doesn't bother me.
**[37:28] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Could I see the menu?
**[37:30] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Uh, yeah. Sure.
**[37:34] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Here.
**[37:41] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
What was your impression?
**[37:43] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[37:44] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Of... that "Kazune."
**[37:48] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I guess that Kazune was
in love with Koyomi.
**[37:54] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
In love?
**[37:55] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Yeah.
**[37:56] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Oh, but I don't mean with *me*, of course.
**[37:59] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
By "Koyomi" I mean the one from that world,
the Koyomi Takasaki of world 85.
**[38:04] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Is that so?
**[38:06] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Yeah. It is.
**[38:12] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Look, I'm not saying it's
a good reason, but...
**[38:16] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Takigawa-san, w-would...
**[38:23] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
would you be f-friends with me?
**[38:32] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Be... friends?
**[38:34] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Uh, yeah.
**[38:47] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Takigawa-san!
**[38:57] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Takigawa-san?
**[38:58] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
S-So... you go with... "friends" there?
**[39:03] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[39:05] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Hey, take a look.
**[39:13] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[39:16] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Ka-Kazune?!
**[39:18] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Y-You tricked me!
**[39:20] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
And here I was, being happy for you
for getting to go back to your world!
**[39:25] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
You've got it all wrong.
**[39:27] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
The thing is...
**[39:29] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
See?
**[39:37] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
A sticker?
**[39:38] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Pretty well-made, right?
**[39:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Um, uh, so this means...
**[39:43] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Meaning, I was never off in any
parallel world from the start.
**[39:50] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I've been the Kazune Takigawa
of this world the whole time.
**[39:54] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
There never *was* a Kazune 85.
**[39:59] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Wh-Why?
**[40:01] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Why do all that?
**[40:05] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
To get back at you.
**[40:07] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
To get back at me?
**[40:09] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Because you forgot about me.
**[40:11] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[40:17] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
As I was saying, you had
the top entrance exam scores,
**[40:20] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
yet you declined the ceremony speech, right?
**[40:23] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Uh, yeah... I did.
**[40:26] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
The student who gave
the speech instead of you
**[40:30] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
was me.
**[40:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Was it?
**[40:34] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
See? You don't even remember!
**[40:36] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I was so proud of myself.
**[40:40] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
But I didn't actually earn it.
**[40:42] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
How could I let that go?!
**[40:47] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Um, I don't suppose *that's* the whole
reason you wanted to get back at me?
**[40:54] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
It's how a person would react normally.
**[40:59] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I don't think they would, normally.
**[41:04] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Look, I just wanted to avoid standing out.
**[41:08] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I guess it caused a problem...
**[41:14] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
What's this for?
**[41:17] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Reconciliation.
**[41:19] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I feel better after laughing that hard.
**[41:23] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Thanks.
**[41:36] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Kazune.
**[41:37] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Yes?
**[41:39] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
W-Would you go out with me?
**[41:42] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
No.
**[41:43] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[41:44] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I told you before.
**[41:46] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I like Koyomi. He's a more
dependable person.
**[41:54] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
So my answer to Takasaki-kun
**[41:56] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
is no!
**[41:58] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* And thus my very first*
* confession of feelings...*
**[42:01] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Keep things like before and
don't say hi when you see me.
**[42:06] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*...ended in spectacular failure.*
**[42:11] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
What's even going on here? Man...
**[42:21] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* Nevertheless, even though*
* she said not to even greet her,*
**[42:24] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* it was Kazune who first struck up*
* our next conversation.*
**[42:28] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
What is it?
**[42:30] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
This.
**[42:31] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
95, eh? You were really close.
**[42:34] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Not that.
***SIGN*** First-Years First Semester Mid-term Exam Answer Sheet
Math I
**[42:36] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
This question.
**[42:38] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
The teacher said only you
got it, Takasaki-kun.
**[42:41] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Oh? Huh.
**[42:44] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Tell me.
**[42:46] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Why were you the only one not
fooled by the tricky question?
**[42:49] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
It wasn't tricky so much as something
not covered yet in class.
**[42:53] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Really?
**[42:55] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Yeah.
**[42:56] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Except, if you expand
the previous concepts...
**[43:00] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* Perhaps her previous prank*
* hadn't been enough,*
**[43:02] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* because she started competing*
* with me in everything.*
**[43:05] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* But I don't know whether to call*
* her methods forceful, or meek.*
**[43:08] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Oh.
**[43:11] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I see it now.
**[43:13] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Thanks.
**[43:17] Kosugi**
Whoa, she was kinda cool.
**[43:19] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Huh?
**[43:20] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Takasaki-kun.
**[43:22] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
You didn't get a 100 on
the Classical Japanese test.
**[43:25] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
Need any advice?
**[43:28] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
For that, I don't really...
**[43:30] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
I knew it!
**[43:31] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
You weren't trying.
**[43:33] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
You need to take it seriously!
**[43:36] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Why?
**[43:38] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*I don't really get why,*
**[43:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*but during lunch or after school*
**[43:42] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* Kazune and I started little*
* semi-study sessions.*
**[43:47] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*At the beginning I was distrustful,*
**[43:49] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* but when all is said and done,*
* I was happy to get to talk with her,*
**[43:53] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*so I started participating in earnest, too.*
**[43:56] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* Our study sessions became*
* a great source of joy for me,*
**[44:00] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* but perhaps it looked like the two top*
* students were pushing each other farther,*
**[44:04] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*because our classmates gradually joined us,*
**[44:07] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* and just like that, our*
* private bubble was popped.*
**[44:11] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* "Ugh, if you wanna raise your*
* grades, go to a cram school."*
**[44:15] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*I had that thought a few times, to be honest.*
**[44:18] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* Still, the study sessions spurred*
* the class to talk to each other more,*
**[44:23] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* and in part because*
* everyone's grades went up,*
**[44:26] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* the mood in the classroom*
* became increasingly congenial.*
**[44:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*I even found people I could call friends.*
**[44:36] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*But still, even after we got close...*
**[44:38] Sonoda**
Well, we all know Takasaki
lacks a human heart.
**[44:42] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
They'd occasionally say stuff like *that*.
**[44:45] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*And with Kazune...*
**[44:46] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
"You really need a sense of tact."
**[44:48] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*...was a frequent refrain.*
**[44:51] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* Basically, they said I didn't*
* have a human heart,*
**[44:54] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* and therefore I was*
* unable to be considerate.*
**[44:58] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
What's more, you have
absolutely no awareness of it.
**[45:06] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*That couldn't be true.*
**[45:09] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* During high school, with*
* my friends' collaboration*
**[45:12] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*—well, more amusement-motivated help—*
**[45:15] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*I confessed to Kazune.*
**[45:17] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Kazune.
**[45:19] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
What is it?
**[45:21] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
I think you already know,
but, I really do like you.
**[45:25] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
Will you—
**[45:28] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
No.
**[45:46] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* I don't have a human heart?*
* Could they be any more wrong?*
**[45:54] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
*Kazune wouldn't engage at all,*
**[45:56] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* and even breezily sidestepped*
* my confession on graduation day.*
**[46:02] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* I enrolled at the first*
* university in the world*
**[46:05] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
* to establish an imaginary*
* science department.*
**[46:09] Koyomi (Age not specified but probably 14/15)**
And so did Kazune.
**[46:13] Kazune (Age not specified; in college)**
By the way,
**[46:15] Kazune (Age not specified; but probably 14)**
there's something I want to ask you.
**[46:17] Koyomi (Age not specified; in college)**
What is it?
**[46:19] Kazune (Age not specified; in college)**
Wanna go out?
**[46:21] Koyomi (Age not specified; in college)**
Sure. Where to?
**[46:37] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*And so, we started going out.*
***SIGN*** An unexpected error occurred.
Program halted.
Error Code (S0108)
**[46:42] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* Kazune fundamentally maintained*
* her silent, cool, brilliant style,*
**[46:46] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* but when we were alone, she'd make*
* jokes or be more sweet and vulnerable.*
**[46:51] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* But, she'd often get angry for*
* reasons I didn't understand,*
**[46:55] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* and as a result, our relationship*
* was often on-again off-again.*
**[46:59] Kazune (Age not specified; in college)**
Ta-ka-sa-ki!
**[47:07] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Morning.
**[47:08] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Morning.
**[47:10] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
You look sleepy.
**[47:11] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Yeah. I *am* sleepy.
**[47:24] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Your hair!
***SIGN*** Imaginary Science Research Institute
***SIGN*** Imaginary Science Research Institute
**[47:28] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* After graduating, we both joined*
* the Imaginary Science Research Institute,*
**[47:33] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*where my father served as Deputy Director.*
**[47:37] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
What's wrong?
**[47:39] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Hmm.
**[47:40] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
You've been here before.
**[47:42] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Huh?
**[47:43] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Multiple times, between
the tours and interviews.
**[47:47] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Oh, right. That's true.
**[47:50] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* At this time, IP devices were just*
* on the verge of practical realization,*
**[47:55] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*but they were occasionally malfunctioning.*
**[47:58] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* The first team we joined was assigned*
* to improve their reliability.*
**[49:18] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I think this will work.
**[49:19] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I think so, too.
**[49:22] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
This is pretty good.
**[49:23] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Actually, it's perfect.
**[49:26] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Thanks for letting me use this.
**[49:28] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Calligraphy pens are
pretty easy to use, huh?
**[49:31] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
It's eyeliner.
**[49:33] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Eyeli—
**[49:38] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Are you actually gonna
tell me you never noticed?
**[49:41] Koyomi's Mom (age not specified)**
Do you have a moment?
**[49:42] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Sure!
**[49:47] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
The input on smart phones is time-consuming,
**[49:50] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
and the small screen makes it
hard to see the entire formula.
**[49:54] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
So, what'd your mom say?
**[49:57] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
You mean about the dry
cleaning bill? I'll cover it.
**[50:01] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
No need.
**[50:03] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Oh, I see. Sorry.
**[50:06] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I'll pay you back for the shirt.
**[50:07] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
It's *fine*.
**[50:19] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* The idea Kazune and I had drastically*
* improved IP device performance.*
**[50:25] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*Due to that, it was discovered*
**[50:28] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* that people routinely Shift to extremely*
* close parallel worlds with no awareness.*
**[50:33] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* The devices were even*
* distributed to general testers,*
**[50:36] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*and the collection of further data began.*
**[50:41] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Please do me the honor of marrying me.
**[50:52] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
You got an aquamarine.
**[50:54] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Yeah. I heard it's the birthstone for March.
**[51:00] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
This is well done for you, Koyomi.
**[51:04] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Something wrong? It's the left ring finger.
**[51:11] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Thank you.
**[51:12] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Why say that? It's the
beginning, not the end.
**[51:16] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
To our wonderful future.
**[51:23] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I guess it's a little cold now
for having a beer outside.
**[51:27] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Is it?
**[51:28] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Hmm, well, I *do* think it'd
be nice to have a glass.
**[51:32] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Also, there's supposed to be
a nifty view here at night.
**[51:38] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
But it looks like I got the time wrong.
**[51:42] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Now that's much more like you, Takasaki-kun.
**[51:45] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
What do you mean by that?
**[51:47] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I'll look forward to seeing that view.
**[51:51] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Okay?
**[51:55] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Is something wrong?
**[51:57] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I don't see my bag.
**[51:59] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Other side.
**[52:00] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
What?
**[52:04] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
That's strange.
**[52:06] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I could swear I put it on my right.
**[52:12] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Sorry. Where were we?
**[52:17] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
How far back should I go?
**[52:19] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*I suddenly had this thought.*
**[52:22] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*Was it "Kazune 0" who accepted the ring?*
**[52:26] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*Was I "0" at the time?*
**[52:30] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Come in.
**[52:32] Wedding Venue Official**
Koyomi Takasaki, sir, it's time.
**[52:51] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
No IP device.
**[52:53] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Yeah. You, too.
**[52:55] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Yes.
**[53:25] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*Who exactly will I be marrying?*
**[53:35] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*As research on parallel worlds advanced,*
**[53:38] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*parallel worlds communicated with each other.*
**[53:41] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*Consequently, the world quantum computerized,*
**[53:44] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* and not just imaginary science, but all*
* science and tech development accelerated.*
**[53:51] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* At the same time, the front entryway at*
* my home opened twice in quick succession,*
**[53:56] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*making things pretty lonely.*
**[54:00] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*But we also welcomed new family.*
**[54:03] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
What color?
**[54:04] Ryou**
Orange!
**[54:06] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Look, right here.
**[54:07] Ryou**
Oh, there it is.
**[54:11] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
What are you drawing?
**[54:14] Ryou**
I dunno.
**[54:15] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
You don't know what it is?
**[54:18] Ryou**
Nope.
**[54:20] Ryou**
I don't know what it's called,
but it was cool.
**[54:22] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Oh, I see.
**[54:24] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Where did you see it?
**[54:25] Ryou**
Um, well... I went to see it
with Papa one day.
**[54:30] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Where?
**[54:32] Ryou**
I don't know.
**[54:34] Ryou**
It's a secret.
**[54:35] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Oh? Where is it?
**[54:37] Ryou**
It's a secret!
**[54:39] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Hey, tell Mommy!
**[54:41] Ryou**
I'm not telling!
**[54:44] Ryou**
Mama, I'm trying to draw!
**[54:47] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Come on, tell me!
**[54:49] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Coochie-coochie-coo!
**[54:52] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Sorry to interrupt the fun,
but we'd better get going.
**[54:55] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Get this. Ryou won't tell me
what place he's drawing.
**[54:59] Ryou**
Papa, you'll know!
**[55:00] Ryou**
It's a place you like.
**[55:02] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Hmm, I'm not sure.
**[55:05] Ryou**
Well, it's not finished yet.
**[55:09] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Okay, time to get going.
**[55:11] Ryou**
Aww.
**[55:12] Ryou**
Can I draw a little more first?
**[55:14] Ryou**
Please!
**[55:17] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
What if...
**[55:18] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
just for today, we leave the crayons out?
**[55:22] Ryou**
We aren't picking up?
**[55:24] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
That way you can go back to
drawing as soon as you get home.
**[55:27] Ryou**
Okay!
**[55:31] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Make sure not to step on them, okay?
**[55:33] Ryou**
I know.
**[55:35] Audience**
Incredible!
**[55:45] Guide**
* The grounds contain low-illumination*
* areas for the purposes of the exhibit.*
**[55:50] Guide**
* "Fantastical Zoo" is a work of moving*
* monumental sculpture by Claire Udesky.*
**[55:56] Guide**
*The names of the individual works are...*
**[56:03] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
The line's not moving. Looks like
it'll take a little longer.
**[56:07] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Maybe five or ten minutes.
**[56:10] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Where are you right now?
**[56:12] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
*The hill in the central plaza.*
**[56:14] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
*By the fog whatchamacallit.*
**[56:18] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Kazune?
**[56:20] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Hello?
**[56:27] Audience (male)**
Run!
**[56:41] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Ryou? Ryou!
**[56:48] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Ryou, I'm over here!
**[56:51] Ryou**
Mama!
**[57:01] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Ryou!
**[57:50] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
What's wrong?
**[57:53] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Nothing, I just had a nightmare.
**[57:57] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
It's no wonder after what happened.
**[58:00] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Yeah.
**[58:00] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
But it's all right.
**[58:03] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
There's nothing to worry about now.
**[58:05] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
That's true.
**[58:07] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
They even apprehended the guy at the scene.
**[58:15] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm just glad Ryou is okay.
**[58:19] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
And all thanks to you
tackling the guy, Koyomi.
**[58:22] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I seemed kinda cool, right?
**[58:25] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I guess I've managed to be more
like Kazune's version of me.
**[58:28] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Huh?
**[58:30] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Remember? What you said way back when.
**[58:32] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
That the Koyomi you knew
was a more dependable person.
**[58:42] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm so glad that nothing
happened to you and Ryou.
**[58:47] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Kazune...
**[59:12] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
* It's not healthy to let this*
* keep a grip on us,*
**[59:14] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
* so I think we should try*
* to get back to normal.*
**[59:18] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
How do you feel about starting
kindergarten again next week?
**[59:21] Ryou**
I wanna go!
**[59:23] Ryou**
I wanna go to school!
**[59:24] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
No!
**[59:25] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
What'll we do if we let him out
and something happens?!
**[59:31] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
It's okay.
**[59:32] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Mama's not angry. Right?
**[59:38] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Did I startle you?
**[59:39] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm sorry, honey.
**[59:41] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Oh, hey. What do you want for lunch?
**[59:44] Ryou**
Huh? Mama, we just ate breakfast.
**[59:49] Ryou**
They're gonna crash!
**[59:54] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm off to work.
**[59:55] Ryou**
Have a good day, Papa!
**[59:57] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Be safe.
**[59:59] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Anything I should grab on the way home?
**[1:00:01] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Let's see...
**[1:00:04] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I think we're good.
**[1:00:05] Ryou**
Can I fly the Flying Humanoid
outside through the window?
**[1:00:09] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
The wind will carry it off and it'll get lost.
**[1:00:11] Ryou**
What?
**[1:00:12] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
See, I told you.
**[1:00:16] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Hey, Ryou. Remember your drawing?
**[1:00:20] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
You don't want to finish it?
**[1:00:23] Ryou**
I don't remember what I was gonna draw.
**[1:00:30] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
How's Kazune-kun?
**[1:00:33] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Immediately after, she was calmer than I was,
**[1:00:36] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
and I thought, "That's so like her."
**[1:00:40] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
But for the past three days, it's like...
**[1:00:43] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
she won't leave Ryou's side
even for a moment.
**[1:00:46] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
Well, that was quite a thing to go through.
**[1:00:49] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
Isn't that a natural reaction for a mother?
**[1:00:52] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I suppose so...
**[1:00:55] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
But...
**[1:00:57] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
Don't worry too much.
**[1:00:59] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
You're okay because you protected Ryou,
**[1:01:03] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
but if you hadn't, who knows how you'd react?
**[1:01:06] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
If I hadn't?
**[1:01:09] Institute Employee**
Pardon me. Do you have a moment?
**[1:01:12] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
What is it?
**[1:01:13] Institute Employee**
Deputy Director, I need to speak with you.
**[1:01:22] Institute Employee**
We received an emergency message
from the Imaginary Science Agency.
**[1:01:26] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
Emergency?
**[1:01:27] Institute Employee**
Regarding the newly established
Shift Monitoring Office.
**[1:01:43] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
The relative SIP value is 22 plus 10?
**[1:01:47] Institute Employee**
The issue is the Shift distance.
**[1:01:50] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm going to leave early today.
**[1:01:52] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
Stop, Koyomi.
**[1:01:54] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
Apparently an unauthorized Optional Shift
targeting Kazune-kun has been confirmed.
**[1:02:00] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*An Optional Shift.*
**[1:02:02] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* A Shift where a magnetic device is used to*
* artificially cause a Parallel Shift*
**[1:02:07] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*and swap into a designated parallel world.*
***SIGN*** Kazune
***SIGN*** Calling
**[1:02:12] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* Optional Shifting experiments*
* began to be conducted*
**[1:02:15] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*over 10 years ago at the Institute,*
**[1:02:18] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*but even back then, oversight authorities*
**[1:02:20] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* had already mandated filings*
* to conduct an experiment.*
**[1:02:25] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* Optional Shifting poses*
* a variety of problems.*
**[1:02:28] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* One of which is the possibility*
* of it being used for crime.*
**[1:02:32] [Itoko] (Age not specified)**
*This goes without saying,*
**[1:02:34] (Flashback) [Itoko] (Age not specified)**
but your family's safety is the top priority.
**[1:02:37] (Flashback) [Itoko] (Age not specified)**
Still, depending on the outcome,
**[1:02:40] (Flashback) [Itoko] (Age not specified)**
the impact on the academic world
and society will be large.
**[1:02:43] (Flashback) [Itoko] (Age not specified)**
We must proceed carefully.
**[1:02:45] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* What concerned us in this case was*
* a different, more complicated problem.*
**[1:02:53] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm home.
**[1:03:05] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Kazune, it's me.
**[1:03:09] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Ryou, I'm coming in.
**[1:04:13] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
You aren't cold out here?
**[1:04:15] Ryou**
Papa!
**[1:04:17] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I bought these on the way.
**[1:04:19] Ryou**
I want the cocoa!
**[1:04:26] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
That fact that you're here means
you knew what the picture was.
**[1:04:30] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
No, I figured it out this morning.
**[1:04:34] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I didn't know before, really.
**[1:04:37] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Oh.
**[1:04:39] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
At that point we were still
in the same world.
**[1:04:45] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Should I open your cocoa?
**[1:04:47] Ryou**
I'll have it later.
**[1:04:48] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Okay.
**[1:04:51] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I'll put it here, then.
**[1:04:53] Ryou**
Okay.
**[1:04:54] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I brought this for Mama.
**[1:04:57] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Taking this off this doesn't mean your
Optional Shift won't be noticed.
**[1:05:01] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
It wasn't a logical choice.
**[1:05:03] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I hated that it wouldn't show 0.
**[1:05:06] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
You're risking an identity diffusion.
**[1:05:21] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*"Identity diffusion."*
**[1:05:24] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* If a split occurs while you're*
* Shifting to a far-off world,*
**[1:05:29] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* you get even farther*
* from your original world.*
**[1:05:32] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* Also, from the perspective of*
* the consciousness you swapped with,*
**[1:05:35] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*there ends up being two points of return,*
**[1:05:38] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* and every action causes*
* complicated splits.*
**[1:05:43] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Let's go straight to the Institute and—
**[1:05:45] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
No!
**[1:05:48] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm never leaving my son again!
**[1:05:52] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
You aren't the Kazune of this world.
**[1:05:54] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I finally found him!
**[1:05:56] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
No.
**[1:05:58] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
He isn't "your" Ryou.
**[1:06:00] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Your...
**[1:06:02] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Your world's Ryou is...
**[1:06:08] Ryou**
Where's Mama?
**[1:06:11] Ryou**
Hey, tell me. Where'd Mama go?
**[1:06:17] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I have to face it.
**[1:06:19] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
You aren't my Ryou anymore, are you?
**[1:06:23] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Only the one who died is my Ryou.
**[1:06:28] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
My legs...
**[1:06:31] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
wouldn't move!
**[1:06:34] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I was too scared...
**[1:06:37] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I couldn't save him!
**[1:06:42] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm sorry, Ryou.
**[1:06:44] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I couldn't protect you...
**[1:06:47] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm so sorry!
**[1:06:53] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Ryou, pick up your crayons.
**[1:06:56] Ryou**
Okay. But...
**[1:06:59] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Make sure not to step on them, okay?
**[1:07:02] Ryou**
Okay.
**[1:07:15] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
It's not your fault.
**[1:07:16] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
It *is* my fault!
**[1:07:18] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
I killed him!
**[1:07:21] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
And Koyomi must think that, too!
**[1:07:25] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
He doesn't think that. I promise you.
**[1:07:27] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
You don't get it!
**[1:07:29] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
You got to go down the happy path!
**[1:07:32] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
How could you possibly...
**[1:07:36] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Maybe I don't.
**[1:07:39] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
But, I can tell.
**[1:07:42] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Because no matter what path, I'm still me.
**[1:07:47] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Right now, I'm waiting, hoping
for Kazune to come back to me.
**[1:07:53] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
So I'm sure that the me in your world
is waiting for you to return, too.
**[1:08:07] Ryou**
Look!
**[1:08:12] Ryou**
They turned on!
**[1:08:13] Ryou**
Did you see?
**[1:08:14] Ryou**
The lights turned on!
**[1:08:18] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
It's pretty, isn't it?
**[1:08:43] Imaginary Science Agency Bureaucrat**
Mr. Hidaka, what's that?
**[1:08:45] Shoudai (Age not specified)**
Ah, yes. We're making a clone
of the IP device for investigation.
**[1:08:57] Ryou**
I finished it!
**[1:09:01] Institute Employee B (female)**
Hey! Come back. You can't come in here.
**[1:09:04] [Itoko] (Age not specified)**
It's all right.
**[1:09:06] [Itoko] (Age not specified)**
It's not a problem.
**[1:09:08] Ryou**
This is for you.
**[1:09:14] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
This is what I wanted to see.
**[1:09:18] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Thank you.
**[1:09:26] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Kazune.
**[1:09:33] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Well then... Take care of yourself.
**[1:09:37] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
You could really use a sense of tact.
**[1:09:40] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Sorry.
**[1:09:48] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* "It's not fair." That's what*
* it looked like she said.*
**[1:09:53] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Why not us, too?
**[1:10:02] Institute Employee A (male)**
Starting Optional Shift protocol.
**[1:10:05] Institute Employee C (male)**
Vitals normal.
**[1:10:06] Institute Employee B (female)**
Magnetic field set up.
**[1:10:09] Institute Employee A (male)**
Beginning Optional Shift.
**[1:10:16] Institute Employee A (male)**
Optional Shift complete.
**[1:10:20] Institute Employee C (male)**
Vitals look good, but
brain waves a little weak.
**[1:10:37] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* At the time, an IP Capsule could*
* only be operated from the outside.*
**[1:10:43] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* I'm reasonably certain that*
* Kazune 13's collaborator was me 13.*
**[1:10:48] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* They were probably driven from*
* academia over this incident.*
**[1:10:52] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*Having lost both Ryou and their research,*
**[1:10:54] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*they would have to find another way to live.*
**[1:11:00] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* Because of the identity diffusion,*
* this person was no longer 0 numerically.*
**[1:11:05] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* Her world had split,*
* so when she Shifted back,*
**[1:11:08] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* she split into two people and*
* ceased to be 0 numerically.*
**[1:11:13] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
*But there was no one closer to 0 than her.*
**[1:11:17] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating)**
* From her frame of reference,*
* Ryou and I weren't 0.*
**[1:11:26] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I once had someone talk to me about
the significance of possibilities,
**[1:11:31] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
but as an elementary
schooler, I didn't get it.
**[1:11:34] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Okay.
**[1:11:36] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
He said it was my homework.
**[1:11:38] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Except it seemed like he didn't
have a clear answer himself.
**[1:11:42] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Wait, really?
**[1:11:44] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I still haven't found my answer.
**[1:11:47] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
But, I do know I love possibilities.
**[1:11:51] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
In trying to find the answer,
I ended up loving them.
**[1:11:56] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
This is about love?
**[1:11:57] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Regarding people, I want my love to
also encompass their possibilities.
**[1:12:01] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Love that encompasses...
their possibilities?
**[1:12:05] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Every part of them, in their entirety,
**[1:12:09] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
including possibilities for
both happiness and sadness.
**[1:12:14] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
There must be as many possibilities
for sadness as for happiness...
**[1:12:19] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
As I see it, as long as we're alive,
we'll go from one to the other in turn.
**[1:12:26] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
For example, let's say there were 100
worlds with 100 of me and 100 of you.
**[1:12:32] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
I'm sure the 100 me's
would love the 100 you's.
**[1:12:37] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
Whether life was happy or sad.
**[1:12:40] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
In each individual world, each
individual me loves Kazune.
**[1:12:46] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
Kazune, I—
**[1:12:59] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
*I love every you, too.*
**[1:13:04] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
* I love the you that saved me from*
* the wild dog, and the you that didn't.*
**[1:13:08] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult)**
*Huh? What are you talking about?*
**[1:13:11] Kazune (Age not specified; adult)**
*Oh, nothing.*
**[1:13:25] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*After that, we peacefully grew old,*
**[1:13:29] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
* and went from being called "Mom"*
* and "Dad" to "Grandpa" and "Grandma."*
**[1:13:35] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
* Out of the people close to us, the older*
* ones departed one after the other,*
**[1:13:41] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
* but the front entryway of my home never*
* opened for anything but the New Year.*
**[1:13:47] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*However, apparently it will soon.*
**[1:13:49] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
* And the one who leaves*
* through it will be me.*
**[1:13:53] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
* It was just before my*
* granddaughter Ai turned ten*
**[1:13:56] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*that the doctors broke the news to us.*
**[1:14:01] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*Kazune didn't say anything.*
**[1:14:06] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*Strangely, I felt calm.*
**[1:14:14] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Well, good night, dear.
**[1:14:17] Koyomi (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Good night.
**[1:14:21] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*I didn't want to burden my family,*
**[1:14:25] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*but partly at Ryou and Eri-san's suggestion,*
**[1:14:27] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
* I decided to spend my final days in*
* the familiar surroundings of my home.*
***SIGN*** Kazune Takasaki-sama
**[1:15:05] Kazune (letter)**
*"Kazune Takasaki-sama. Greetings.*
**[1:15:08] Kazune (letter)**
*My name is Kazune Takigawa.*
**[1:15:11] Kazune (letter)**
*I must start with an apology.*
**[1:15:14] Kazune (letter)**
*I am sorry for Optional Shifting like this.*
**[1:15:17] Kazune (letter)**
* I'm currently borrowing your*
* hands to write this letter.*
**[1:15:23] Kazune (letter)**
* The truth is, there is something*
* I badly wish to ask of you.*
**[1:15:28] Kazune (letter)**
*In order to do so,*
**[1:15:30] Kazune (letter)**
*I need to tell you my story.*
**[1:15:33] Kazune (letter)**
* The story of me and my world's*
* Koyomi, Koyomi Hidaka.*
**[1:15:38] Kazune (letter)**
* This might be end up being a long letter,*
* but please bear with me to the end."*
**[1:15:48] Kazune (letter)**
*Koyomi Hidaka and I are not married.*
***SIGN*** Imaginary Science Research Institute
**[1:15:53] Kazune (letter)**
* We spent many years together,*
* always as research partners.*
***SIGN*** Entrance Ceremony
**[1:15:58] Kazune (letter)**
* The point of divergence*
* between your world and ours*
**[1:16:02] Kazune (letter)**
* appears to be which of his divorced parents*
* he chose to live with when he was seven.*
**[1:16:10] Kazune (letter)**
* It was when I was in high school*
* that I met Koyomi Hidaka.*
***SIGN*** Entrance
Ceremony
**[1:16:15] Kazune (letter)**
* He talked to no one and*
* was frequently absent,*
**[1:16:18] Kazune (letter)**
* yet had the highest grades.*
* It got on my nerves.*
**[1:16:21] Kazune (letter)**
*I unilaterally viewed him as my rival.*
**[1:16:25] Kazune (letter)**
* So when I learned he*
* wouldn't be attending college,*
**[1:16:29] Kazune (letter)**
* I felt somehow relieved,*
* and somehow lonely...*
**[1:16:32] Kazune (letter)**
*a complicated bundle of feelings.*
**[1:16:35] Kazune (letter)**
* Looking back on it now, my attitude*
* might have been more than simple rivalry.*
***SIGN*** First Semester Exams
***SIGN*** Hidaka
Koyomi
***SIGN*** Takigawa
Kazune
**[1:16:42] Kazune (letter)**
*Whatever the case,*
**[1:16:43] Kazune (letter)**
* I eventually joined the Research Institute,*
* where our paths crossed again.*
***SIGN*** News
***SIGN*** Latest Technology
***SIGN*** Research Studies
***SIGN*** Opinion
***SIGN*** Data Science
***SIGN*** The Inevitable Event Radius
***SIGN*** (Imaginary Science Research Institute)
**[1:16:49] Kazune (letter)**
*I suppose that's a misleading way to put it.*
**[1:16:52] Kazune (letter)**
* I joined the Research Institute*
* specifically to see him.*
**[1:17:13] Kazune (letter)**
* Before long, he offered me an opportunity*
* to join him in his secret research.*
**[1:17:21] Kazune (letter)**
*Research into time travel.*
**[1:17:25] Kazune (letter)**
*I was taken aback.*
**[1:17:26] Kazune (letter)**
* It all seemed so ridiculous*
* and lacking in common sense.*
**[1:17:31] Kazune (letter)**
*I imagine you understand why.*
**[1:17:34] Kazune (letter)**
*At first, I thought it was a joke.*
**[1:17:37] Kazune (letter)**
*The best attempt at a joke*
**[1:17:39] Kazune (letter)**
* that the Institute's biggest*
* eccentric could muster.*
**[1:17:42] Kazune (letter)**
* But, he wasn't the type of*
* person who could tell jokes.*
**[1:17:46] Kazune (letter)**
* I was witnessing him at his*
* most heartfelt and earnest.*
**[1:17:51] Kazune (letter)**
*As for why, it was because time travel*
**[1:17:54] Kazune (letter)**
* was the sole way to save*
* the ghost of the intersection.*
**[1:17:59] Kazune (letter)**
*This ghost was his young sweetheart.*
***SIGN*** Beds Bedding
***SIGN*** Adjustable Beds
**[1:19:53] Kazune (letter)**
* A certain accident untethered*
* her imaginality from her body,*
**[1:19:57] Kazune (letter)**
*and she became a ghost at the intersection.*
**[1:20:01] Kazune (letter)**
*"It's my fault,"*
**[1:20:03] Kazune (letter)**
*he told me.*
**[1:20:06] Kazune (letter)**
*And that thought alone*
**[1:20:08] Kazune (letter)**
* drove him to continue his research*
* to save her from that intersection.*
**[1:20:14] Kazune (letter)**
*Looking at him, he seemed...*
**[1:20:16] Kazune (letter)**
* I don't know, but somehow*
* tinged with madness.*
**[1:20:21] Kazune (letter)**
* But in another light, he looked just*
* so incredibly pure and pitiful...*
**[1:20:27] Kazune (letter)**
* It felt just like looking*
* at a small, crying boy.*
**[1:20:33] Kazune (letter)**
*And the answer this man had arrived at*
**[1:20:36] Kazune (letter)**
*was time travel.*
**[1:20:39] Kazune (letter)**
*Of course, not physical time travel,*
**[1:20:43] Kazune (letter)**
*but time travel in the imaginary world.*
**[1:20:46] Kazune (letter)**
*That is to say, Time Shifting.*
**[1:20:51] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Time Shifting...
**[1:20:55] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 27)**
Just you wait!
**[1:20:57] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 27)**
I swear I'll save you!
**[1:21:04] (Flashback) Shiori (Ghost)**
You've done enough for me, Koyomi-kun.
**[1:21:08] (Flashback) Shiori (Ghost)**
A whole lot of time has
passed now, hasn't it?
**[1:21:12] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 27)**
Shiori?
**[1:21:13] (Flashback) Shiori (Ghost)**
Only for me...
**[1:21:16] (Flashback) Shiori (Ghost)**
For you to be living
your life solely for me...
**[1:21:20] (Flashback) Shiori (Ghost)**
That isn't what I want.
**[1:21:23] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 27)**
What are you saying?
**[1:21:24] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 27)**
I promised, remember?
**[1:21:27] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 27)**
I'd help you no matter what.
**[1:21:39] Kazune (letter)**
* Koyomi and I spent decades*
* investigating Time Shifting,*
**[1:21:44] Kazune (letter)**
*and at last we discovered a way to do it.*
**[1:21:49] Kazune (letter)**
* We also discovered Koyomi would be*
* left brain dead as a result.*
**[1:21:55] Kazune (letter)**
* I swear, he can be so*
* self-centered, so self-righteous,*
**[1:21:58] Kazune (letter)**
*so inconsiderate of his impact on others...*
**[1:22:01] Kazune (letter)**
* Well, I suppose I'm the only one*
* who will suffer an impact, but still...*
**[1:22:06] Kazune (letter)**
* Regardless, his determination didn't waver,*
* no matter the cost to him.*
**[1:22:12] Kazune (letter)**
*I wasn't taken aback that time.*
**[1:22:16] Kazune (letter)**
*As I could have predicted, it was just...*
**[1:22:18] Kazune (letter)**
* a jerk giving no thought*
* to me being left behind.*
**[1:22:22] Kazune (letter)**
*In that case, why* not *follow
through to the end, right?*
**[1:22:26] Kazune (letter)**
*It was that kind of stubbornness,*
**[1:22:28] Kazune (letter)**
*and the knowledge that I was
the only one who* could*....*
**[1:22:33] Kazune (letter)**
* We carefully selected*
* a destination for the Time Shift.*
**[1:22:38] Kazune (letter)**
*That destination was this world, your world.*
**[1:22:43] Kazune (letter)**
* Koyomi wouldn't say a word about*
* what happened between them.*
**[1:22:49] Kazune (letter)**
* He only repeated that*
* the accident wouldn't happen*
**[1:22:53] Kazune (letter)**
*in a world where they never met.*
**[1:23:21] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 73)**
I'm sorry you had to wait so long.
**[1:23:26] (Flashback) Shiori (Ghost)**
What do you mean?
**[1:23:29] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 73)**
We met as kids and you
suffered your accident...
**[1:23:35] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 73)**
It's been six decades since then.
**[1:23:39] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 73)**
It's truly been a long time.
**[1:23:42] (Flashback) Shiori (Ghost)**
Koyomi-kun?
**[1:23:44] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 73)**
Shiori,
**[1:23:46] (Flashback) Koyomi (Age 73)**
this is farewell.
**[1:23:52] Kazune (letter)**
*Yesterday, Koyomi executed the Time Shift.*
**[1:23:57] Kazune (letter)**
*In our world,*
**[1:23:59] Kazune (letter)**
* from the outside, it looks like*
* an old man collapsed mid-research*
**[1:24:02] Kazune (letter)**
*and fell into a state of brain death.*
**[1:24:06] Kazune (letter)**
*But* I *know the truth.*
**[1:24:10] Kazune (letter)**
*That he went to your world's past.*
**[1:24:15] Kazune (letter)**
* Inside Koyomi Takasaki,*
* the husband now sleeping at your side,*
**[1:24:21] Kazune (letter)**
* dwells Koyomi Hidaka's imaginality,*
* which joined with him at age seven.*
**[1:24:26] Kazune (letter)**
*And within her counterpart in your world*
**[1:24:29] Kazune (letter)**
*dwells *her* imaginality, which Koyomi saved.*
**[1:24:34] Kazune (letter)**
* If we just let them live*
* their respective lives,*
**[1:24:37] Kazune (letter)**
*the two of them probably won't meet.*
**[1:24:40] Kazune (letter)**
*That would be all right.*
**[1:24:43] Kazune (letter)**
* After all, they chose a world where*
* they would absolutely never meet.*
**[1:24:49] Kazune (letter)**
*But, just before the Time Shift,*
**[1:24:53] Kazune (letter)**
* Koyomi told me he made*
* a promise with her to reunite.*
**[1:24:58] Kazune (letter)**
*The promise was to meet at the intersection*
**[1:25:01] Kazune (letter)**
*at the end of their lives in your world.*
**[1:25:05] Kazune (letter)**
*According to theoretical predictions,*
**[1:25:07] Kazune (letter)**
* the possibility of memories from my*
* world remaining after the Time Shift*
**[1:25:12] Kazune (letter)**
*can be considered essentially nonexistent.*
**[1:25:15] Kazune (letter)**
* And so, it sounds like it was a way*
* to persuade his young sweetheart.*
**[1:25:21] Kazune (letter)**
*A promise that would be difficult to keep.*
**[1:25:25] Kazune (letter)**
*Rather than a promise,*
**[1:25:27] Kazune (letter)**
* you might say it was*
* a faint hope on Koyomi's part,*
**[1:25:30] Kazune (letter)**
*that such a miracle might occur.*
**[1:25:48] Kazune (letter)**
* My desire at present is to*
* bring about that miracle.*
**[1:25:55] Kazune (letter)**
* It's true that deep down, a part of me*
* didn't want the two of them to meet.*
**[1:26:02] Kazune (letter)**
*But,*
**[1:26:05] Kazune (letter)**
* I just input an entry about*
* the Showa-dori intersection*
**[1:26:11] Kazune (letter)**
*on your husband's IP device.*
***SIGN*** Showa-dori Intersection
**[1:26:19] Kazune (letter)**
* I ask that in one month's time, you please*
* send him off to the site of the promise.*
**[1:26:27] Kazune (letter)**
*I'll be honest with you.*
**[1:26:30] Kazune (letter)**
* I imagine that as another me, you*
* already have in inkling of this, but...*
**[1:26:37] Kazune (letter)**
*I love the Koyomi of my world.*
**[1:26:39] Kazune (letter)**
*I love Koyomi Hidaka.*
**[1:26:43] Kazune (letter)**
* Of course, that love was not*
* part of a romantic relationship,*
**[1:26:47] Kazune (letter)**
*nor was it a love that led to marriage.*
**[1:26:52] Kazune (letter)**
* But all the more, I can feel that*
* I spend my life loving Koyomi Hidaka.*
**[1:26:59] Kazune (letter)**
*At this moment, I feel it, deeply.*
**[1:27:04] Kazune (letter)**
*I know this is a self-centered request.*
**[1:27:07] Kazune (letter)**
*After all, for you—though for me, as well—*
**[1:27:13] Kazune (letter)**
* this would mean sending the person*
* you love to someone else's side.*
**[1:27:19] Kazune (letter)**
* I ask that you let my love*
* act through your feelings.*
**[1:27:28] Kazune (letter)**
*Happiness and sadness in life come to an end.*
**[1:27:33] Kazune (letter)**
*But one person caring for another—*
**[1:27:36] Kazune (letter)**
*if I can believe that feeling continues on,*
**[1:27:45] Kazune (letter)**
* the fact that we're born*
* into a certain world,*
**[1:27:50] Kazune (letter)**
*meet,*
**[1:27:52] Kazune (letter)**
*live,*
**[1:27:54] Kazune (letter)**
*and die will have meaning.*
**[1:27:57] Kazune (letter)**
* I'll be able to say that*
* at the end of my life.*
**[1:28:13] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Morning.
**[1:28:14] Kazune (letter)**
*P.S.*
**[1:28:16] Kazune (letter)**
*The truth is, I Shifted here once before.*
**[1:28:20] Kazune (letter)**
* I saw your aquamarine ring then, and*
* I copied you by getting one of my own.*
**[1:28:26] Kazune (letter)**
*Sorry.*
**[1:28:50] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Error?
***SIGN*** Please wait until the traffic signal changes.
***SIGN*** Please wait until the traffic signal changes.
**[1:28:52] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Where am I?
**[1:28:55] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
How far away did I end up?
**[1:29:03] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
*Assuming a Parallel Shift occurred,*
**[1:29:06] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
* I'm not in that world where*
* the girl in the crosswalk is,*
**[1:29:09] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
*so there's nothing I can do about that.*
**[1:29:14] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
* I can only pray that the me*
* I swapped with doesn't get confused...*
**[1:29:21] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Prayer, huh?
**[1:29:25] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
*But, why does it say there's an error?*
**[1:29:27] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
* Assuming inability to measure,*
* one possibility is...*
**[1:29:32] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
*If by chance, my imaginality itself changed—*
**[1:29:36] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
*Hold on.*
**[1:29:37] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
* This idea sounds like*
* something I've heard before.*
**[1:29:40] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
*What was the paper?*
**[1:29:42] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
*Did I hear it at a conference?*
**[1:29:45] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
*Who did I discuss it with?*
**[1:30:23] Old Woman**
Excuse me. Are you alright?
**[1:30:27] Old Woman**
Hello? Sir?
**[1:30:28] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
My medicine.
**[1:30:30] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Get... my medicine.
**[1:30:37] Old Woman**
Is this it?
**[1:30:39] Old Woman**
Oh, I'll open it for you.
**[1:30:44] Old Woman**
Here. Can you take it?
**[1:31:11] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I'm all right now.
**[1:31:13] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
You were a great help.
**[1:31:16] Old Woman**
Thank goodness.
**[1:31:20] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Thank you.
**[1:31:23] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Excuse me, ma'am. If possible,
might I ask your name?
**[1:31:28] Old Woman**
My name's not important. I'm nobody special.
**[1:31:32] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Huh?
**[1:31:34] Old Woman**
Oh, you see,
**[1:31:37] Old Woman**
it was something on my bucket list.
**[1:31:41] Old Woman**
To say, "My name's not important.
I'm nobody special."
**[1:31:45] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Well, my goodness.
**[1:31:47] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I'm honored I could help.
**[1:31:50] Old Woman**
Your hat.
**[1:31:51] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Sorry for the trouble.
**[1:31:52] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Woops.
**[1:31:54] Old Woman**
Oh my, this...
**[1:31:56] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Yes, it's a ladies' hat.
**[1:31:59] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I'm borrowing it.
**[1:32:01] Old Woman**
I see.
**[1:32:05] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Um, haven't we met somewhere before, ma'am?
**[1:32:09] Old Woman**
Have we?
**[1:32:13] Old Woman**
Pardon me, but could I get your name?
**[1:32:16] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
It's Takasaki.
**[1:32:24] Old Woman**
I'm sorry. I just don't seem
to recognize you or your name.
**[1:32:30] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Is that so?
**[1:32:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Then perhaps we might have
met in a parallel world.
**[1:32:38] Old Woman**
Oh, that's true.
**[1:32:40] Old Woman**
That is possible, isn't it?
**[1:32:45] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Um...
**[1:32:48] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Is your life... happy?
**[1:32:55] Old Woman**
Yes.
**[1:32:56] Old Woman**
It *is* happy. Very much so.
**[1:33:02] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I'm glad.
**[1:33:04] Old Woman**
Well, then.
**[1:33:07] Old Woman**
Take care.
**[1:33:09] Old Woman**
Goodbye.
**[1:33:12] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Goodbye.
**[1:33:14] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Thank you.
**[1:33:41] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Welcome back.
**[1:33:43] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Thanks.
**[1:33:45] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
You waited for me?
**[1:33:47] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Maybe.
**[1:33:50] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
By the way,
**[1:33:52] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
who are you?
**[1:33:53] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Huh?
**[1:33:56] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
My IEPP is reading "error", so
I don't know where I am right now.
**[1:34:01] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Don't phrase it like that.
**[1:34:03] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Sorry, sorry.
**[1:34:06] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Look. Think it's a malfunction?
**[1:34:10] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
That's unusual.
**[1:34:12] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I left to go to the Showa-dori
intersection. Is that accurate?
**[1:34:17] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Yes. At 10.
**[1:34:22] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Even if I did Parallel Shift,
**[1:34:25] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I seem to be in the neighborhood,
so I guess it'll go back to 0 soon.
**[1:34:30] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
So, this mysterious appointment.
How did it go?
**[1:34:34] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Right. Nobody showed up.
**[1:34:37] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Oh.
**[1:34:42] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Maybe my schedule malfunctioned, too.
**[1:34:46] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
But, I did have a lovely
interaction with someone.
**[1:34:50] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Who was it? An old acquaintance?
**[1:34:53] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
No. Someone I don't know.
**[1:34:57] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
She said her life was happy,
and I was very happy about that.
**[1:35:08] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Wasn't she a total stranger?
**[1:35:11] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Yeah. I took pleasure
in a stranger's happiness.
**[1:35:16] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I realized that the reason I could
take joy in a stranger's happiness
**[1:35:19] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
is because I've known happiness myself.
**[1:35:24] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Nice and simple.
**[1:35:26] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
It is.
**[1:35:28] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
When I try to put it into simple
terms, that's just how it goes...
**[1:35:33] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Kazune, because I had you with me,
**[1:35:37] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
my life right now is happy.
**[1:35:44] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
Tell that to your Kazune 0.
**[1:35:47] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I absolutely will.
**[1:35:49] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
But I want to tell *every* you.
**[1:35:56] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
* At the same time, to each me who*
* loved someone who wasn't Kazune:*
**[1:36:01] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*Because you loved someone other than her,*
**[1:36:05] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*I got to love Kazune.*
**[1:36:09] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*Thank you.*
**[1:36:12] Ai (Age not specified; but probably around 10)**
Grandpa, welcome back!
**[1:36:15] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I'm home.
**[1:36:17] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
I take it you watched Grandpa
go out instead of studying?
**[1:36:22] Ai (Age not specified; but probably around 10)**
I couldn't help it. I was so curious!
**[1:36:26] Koyomi (Age not specified but most likely 73)**
Ai sure has a strong sense of curiosity.
**[1:36:29] Kazune (Age not specified; adult; elderly)**
She wanted to look out for you.
**[1:36:33] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
* And finally, to the someone who wasn't*
* Kazune that loved a different me:*
**[1:36:41] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*I pray that you and the person you love*
**[1:36:45] Koyomi (Age not specified; narrating; elderly)**
*find happiness somewhere out in the world.*
***SIGN*** To Every You I've Loved Before