# E9 - Letter
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***SIGN*** Kamioni:
***SIGN*** Born from regrets that reside in the hair of the departed.
***SIGN*** An incredibly powerful amasogi that can manipulate its hair at will.
***SIGN*** Tsugumomo
**[00:41] Character Signs**
Kiriha
**[00:45] Character Signs**
Kagami Kazuya
**[00:50] Character Signs**
Kokuyou
**[00:50] Character Signs**
Kukuri
**[00:53] Character Signs**
Chikaishi Chisato
**[00:54] Character Signs**
Shiramine Shirou
**[00:54] Character Signs**
Osanai Osamu
***SIGN*** Kettle
***SIGN*** Letter
***SIGN*** "Letter."
***SIGN*** Hakusan Shrine
**[02:00] K3**
Water Pressure!
**[02:03] K2**
Kazuya!
**[02:03] K1**
Shield Weave!
**[02:07] K2**
Good! Now reweave without
giving her an opening!
**[02:11] K1**
Huh? Uh, let's...
**[02:14] K2**
Untangle it, already!
**[02:15] ---**
Got it!
**[02:16] K1**
Obi Strike!
**[02:19] K3**
Too slow!
**[02:24] K2**
That was pathetic, you dullard.
**[02:26] K2**
You take too long to change patterns.
**[02:28] K3**
He ain't gonna become a master overnight.
**[02:31] K2**
Do not coddle him!
**[02:32] K2**
A hundred basic weaving drills, now!
**[02:42] O**
You seem rather exhausted, Kagami-kun.
**[02:45] K1**
Kiriha-san is running me ragged
every morning and night...
**[02:49] C**
Well, don't you go falling asleep in class.
**[02:52] K1**
No promises.
**[02:56] PA**
*Kagami Kazuya, Osanai Osamu,
and Chikaishi Chisato of Class 2-2,*
**[03:02] PA**
*please report to the student council office.*
**[03:05] O**
I wonder what it is?
**[03:07] C**
If he's looking for us three,
that must mean...
**[03:10] K1**
...nothing good, that's for sure.
***SIGN*** Student Council Office
**[03:15] T**
Come right on—
**[03:19] K1**
A-Are you okay?!
**[03:26] T**
Pardon me. Took a bit of a spill.
**[03:33] T**
Now, have a seat.
**[03:34] K1**
Whoa, hang on! Don't try and brush that off!
**[03:37] K2**
I can explain.
**[03:39] K1**
You can, Kiriha-san?
**[03:43] K2**
Tadataka's hair has fallen out
due to malison atonement.
**[03:49] K2**
Tadataka's desires created a pseudo-kamioni,
which I destroyed.
**[03:55] K2**
An amasogi goes peacefully if it fulfills
its desire or is destroyed by its host,
**[04:01] K2**
but when destroyed by another,
causes malison atonement.
**[04:05] T**
As such, I'm smooth as a baby, head to toe.
**[04:08] C**
Y-You mean, if my amasogi
had been destroyed...
**[04:13] C**
Good morning!
**[04:17] K2**
Don't jump to conclusions.
**[04:19] K2**
The atonement depends on
the nature of the amasogi.
**[04:22] K2**
For the record, the more
powerful the amasogi,
**[04:25] K2**
the greater the atonement.
**[04:26] O**
I see...
**[04:28] T**
Apparently I won't be stuck
this way, at least.
**[04:32] T**
So I'm going to just be patient.
**[04:35] T**
Now, let's get down to business.
**[04:53] T**
And that's the gist of it.
**[04:55] T**
When former Class 1-5 students are alone,
**[04:58] T**
this girl appears to them,
seemingly demanding something.
***SIGN*** Nago Eiko
**[05:03] K1**
That's what you needed us for?
**[05:05] K2**
How asinine.
**[05:06] K2**
Simply warn the girl to stop lurking
about and be done with it.
**[05:10] T**
Well, there was something
I forgot to mention...
**[05:13] T**
That girl, Nago Eiko,
**[05:17] T**
died two years ago.
**[05:22] T**
And so, I would like you
all to investigate this.
**[05:26] K1**
Wh-Why us?
**[05:28] K2**
Who else? To my knowledge,
ghosts don't exist.
**[05:32] K2**
Which means this girl's presence
is likely an amasogi at work.
**[05:37] K2**
It makes sense that we would look into it.
**[05:39] O**
We should start by asking around, then.
**[05:42] K2**
Aye.
**[05:46] Students**
She jumped in the evening, I heard.
**[05:48] Students**
Also, there was no suicide note.
**[05:52] Students**
She was quiet, and never really stood out.
**[05:55] Students**
But a little bit before she died,
**[05:57] Students**
she suddenly became more lively and cheerful.
**[06:00] Students**
I wonder if that was what
she was really like?
**[06:03] Students**
She was in a fan club for this
one boy named Nishina Yuuichi.
**[06:08] Students**
And I also heard she had a little sister
who was all smart and athletic.
**[06:13] Students**
Again? How many times are
people gonna drag this up?
**[06:17] O**
Again?
**[06:17] Student**
I think her name was Nanakai?
**[06:19] Student**
Some first-year in the newspaper
club who keeps digging into it.
**[06:23] Student**
Can't people just let us forget about it?
**[06:25] ---**
Hmm...
**[06:27] O**
That covers what we were able to gather.
**[06:30] C**
We could use more clues.
**[06:33] T**
It'd be worth looking into
the Nishina Yuuichi fan club.
**[06:36] T**
That, and talking to Nanakai
Nanako from the newspaper club.
**[06:40] N**
Please wait, Kosakabe-san!
**[06:43] N**
Please, I need to know what really happened!
**[06:46] K4**
I quit the fan club already,
so I have no idea!
**[06:50] N**
Anything will do! Please, just talk to me!
**[06:53] K4**
I said I don't know!
**[06:56] K1**
Excuse me.
**[07:00] K1**
Are you Nanakai-san from the newspaper club?
**[07:04] N**
And who are you?
**[07:08] N**
It's a ghost story, you know!
**[07:11] N**
Our school—our plain ol' boring school—
is suddenly haunted!
**[07:16] N**
You'd have to be crazy to not get excited!
**[07:19] N**
Don't you all agree?
**[07:21] K1**
W-Well...
**[07:23] O**
Were you speaking with someone
from the Nishina Yuuichi fan club just now?
**[07:27] N**
Yeah, I was hoping she'd have a lead...
**[07:37] N**
Kosakabe-san, are you okay?
**[07:40] K**
L-Look...
**[07:49] K1**
Nago-san...?
**[07:51] NN**
Where is it...?
**[07:56] NN**
Where is the letter?
**[07:58] K2**
Capture her, Kazuya!
**[07:59] K1**
R-Right!
**[08:00] K1**
Obi Binding!
**[08:05] K2**
It's a kamioni?!
**[08:07] K2**
Brace yourself, Kazuya!
**[08:08] K1**
Shield Weave!
**[08:12] K2**
Come on, stay focused!
**[08:14] K1**
Right!
**[08:15] K1**
Obi Strike!
**[08:20] C**
She...
**[08:21] T**
She ran away.
**[08:27] K2**
Too slow!
**[08:29] K2**
I've seen faster-moving glaciers!
**[08:32] K1**
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
**[08:34] N**
So, what exactly is this?!
**[08:35] N**
Fighting with an obi?
And the obi turns into a girl?!
**[08:39] O**
I wonder what letter she meant.
***SIGN*** Nurse's Office
**[08:45] K2**
This amasogi is a kamioni.
**[08:47] K2**
A dangerous foe born from regrets that
linger in the hair of the deceased.
**[08:52] K1**
It's different from Tadata-san's, then?
**[08:55] K2**
He was still alive, and the
hair wasn't real, either.
**[09:00] K2**
It was what you might call a pseudo-kamioni.
**[09:04] C**
If it's an amasogi,
it must have a host somewhere, right?
**[09:08] K2**
Right.
**[09:09] K2**
A living human whose wishes resonate
with the deceased's regrets.
**[09:13] K1**
And if we exorcise it by force,
**[09:16] K1**
the host will suffer malison atonement?
**[09:18] K2**
Aye. It must have some
kind of goal it's after.
**[09:23] K2**
And if it's revenge,
we'll need to prevent it.
**[09:27] K2**
You heard all that, didn't you, Kosakabe?
**[09:30] ---**
Tell us anything and everything you know.
**[09:37] K4**
Okay...
**[09:40] K4**
It was shortly after we entered this school.
**[09:42] K4**
There was this boy in our class
who was really cute.
**[09:45] K4**
Us girls who were in to him
would fawn over him together.
**[09:49] K4**
That was the Nishina Yuuichi Fan Club.
**[09:52] K4**
We got along well on the understanding
that we'd share him.
**[09:56] K4**
But then, Nishina-kun took
an interest in Nago-san...
**[10:01] K4**
After that, things got awkward.
**[10:04] K4**
It was too much for me, so I left the group.
**[10:07] K4**
I can't say for sure, but I think
Nago-san might have been bullied.
**[10:13] K4**
Muratsuki-san was the leader.
**[10:16] K4**
Actually, I think she was the first
one to discover the body, too.
***SIGN*** Kosakabe Yuu, Muratsuki Sakumi, ... Tarako, ... Kanako
**[10:27] T**
Muratsuki and the others are
important witnesses in this case.
**[10:31] C**
There's a good chance the
amasogi will visit them, too.
**[10:35] K1**
Nanakai-san said she'd look into that, too.
**[10:42] T**
Come in.
**[10:43] Secretary**
Excuse me.
**[10:44] Secretary**
President, I have the
details you asked about.
**[10:48] T**
Thank you! What did you find?
**[10:50] Secretary**
It looks like Nago-san's sister is
actually enrolled here.
**[10:55] T**
That's odd.
**[10:57] T**
I have the student roster memorized,
and there's no other Nago in it.
**[11:01] Secretary**
That's the thing.
**[11:03] Secretary**
After her parents divorced,
her family name changed.
**[11:06] Secretary**
Now she goes by...
**[11:14] K2**
Hurry, Kazuya! Weave it like I told you!
**[11:17] K1**
Uh... Obi Wheels?
**[11:22] Girl**
Gah!
**[11:42] N**
*Tsu-gu-mo-mo*!
**[11:47] NN**
*Tsugumomo*.
**[11:51] M**
St-Stay away!
**[11:57] NN**
Where is the letter?
**[12:00] M**
I-I don't know!
**[12:02] M**
I know nothing about any suicide note!
**[12:04] K1**
Hold it right there!
**[12:12] K1**
I'm glad we made it.
**[12:14] K1**
I know you're somewhere around here!
**[12:16] K1**
Come on out...
**[12:18] K1**
Nanakai Nanako-san!
**[12:20] K1**
No...
**[12:22] K1**
Nago Nanako-san!
**[12:24] N**
I guess you figured it out.
**[12:29] K1**
Why are you doing this?
**[12:30] N**
I just wanted to know why
my sister took her own life.
**[12:42] N**
So when, as if responding to my wish,
that lock of my sister's hair took her form,
**[12:47] N**
I thought I could use it
to find out the truth.
**[12:52] K2**
Strange...
**[12:54] K2**
Kamioni are born when the deceased's
regrets resonate with the host's desires.
**[12:59] K2**
But it's not like her sister wished
to know why she killed herself.
**[13:02] K1**
So what's that mean?
**[13:03] K2**
Something else is going on here.
**[13:05] K2**
Some other link between the younger's
wishes and the elder's regrets.
**[13:10] K2**
What's this letter, then?
**[13:12] N**
It's the only thing this mindless version
of my sister has said on her own.
**[13:18] N**
Muratsuki-san...
**[13:20] N**
If you knew the letter was a suicide note,
surely you know more.
**[13:25] N**
Like where it is.
**[13:26] K1**
Note?
**[13:29] M**
They should've just gotten together!
**[13:33] M**
They both liked each other...
**[13:36] M**
But, not wanting to betray us,
Nago-san started to avoid Nishina-kun
**[13:42] M**
So we started harassing her
to make her leave the club.
**[13:45] M**
I'm sorry...
**[13:47] M**
We couldn't put aside our jealousy
and encourage their relationship.
**[13:51] N**
Then my sister killed herself because
she couldn't take the bullying?
**[13:54] M**
That can't be it!
**[13:57] M**
The day she died, she...
**[13:59] M**
She really let us have it.
Everything she'd been bottling up inside.
**[14:04] M**
She seemed so different.
**[14:07] M**
Then she left, saying she was going to
tell Nishina-kun how she felt.
**[14:12] M**
When I saw her headed towards
the roof after school...
**[14:17] M**
I hesitated, but decided
to go after her and apologize...
**[14:23] M**
All that was left were
her shoes and a letter...
**[14:26] M**
A suicide note!
**[14:29] N**
Why did you hide it?
**[14:30] M**
Why wouldn't I?!
**[14:32] M**
Just think about it!
**[14:34] M**
What if she'd named names
and blamed us for her suicide in it?
**[14:39] M**
I was so scared...
**[14:40] M**
I couldn't bring myself to
read it, or get rid of it...
**[14:44] K1**
Then you still have it?
**[14:46] M**
Yes...
**[14:47] M**
I'm sorry.
**[14:48] M**
I'll bring it right away.
**[14:55] N**
"Nanako-chan, by the time you read this,
I will probably already be gone."
**[15:02] NN**
*I'm a filthy person.*
**[15:05] NN**
* I may seem quiet, but there were dark*
* sentiments swirling around inside of me.*
**[15:11] NN**
*I couldn't ask out the boy I liked.*
**[15:14] NN**
*I couldn't stand up for myself to bullies.*
**[15:16] NN**
* I didn't have the courage to speak*
* my feelings, or to act on them.*
**[15:22] NN**
* I was finally starting to get*
* fed up with myself...*
**[15:26] NN**
*when the growth appeared.*
**[15:29] NN**
* It got bigger and uglier*
* with each passing day*
**[15:32] NN**
*until it resembled a human face.*
**[15:37] NN**
* Unable to turn to anyone,*
* I was terrified and suffering.*
**[15:42] NN**
*But then...*
**[15:43] (Flashback) Student**
You didn't prepare these documents?
**[15:45] (Flashback) NN**
I'm sorry...
**[15:46] (Flashback) Student**
What do you expect us to do now?!
**[15:48] (Flashback) NN**
I'm sor—
**[15:48] (Flashback) NN**
Cry me a river, hypocrite!
**[15:51] (Flashback) NN**
Sure, give yourself the easy jobs!
**[15:53] (Flashback) NN**
Then dump a team's work on me!
**[15:55] Eiko**
* The growth would say the things*
* that I felt deep inside.*
**[15:55] (Flashback) (Student**
R-Right...
**[16:00] Eiko**
*After that, my life began to change.*
**[16:03] Eiko**
* I started speaking frankly and*
* stopped caring what others thought.*
**[16:08] Eiko**
* The growth said that it would go*
* away once my wish was fulfilled.*
**[16:13] Eiko**
* And I thought my wish*
* could only be one thing...*
**[16:17] Eiko**
*To tell him how I felt.*
**[16:21] Eiko**
* He said he'd go out with me.*
* I felt like I could fly!*
**[16:26] Eiko**
* But... the growth said my*
* wish wasn't granted yet.*
**[16:31] Eiko**
* That it had to prevent someone*
* from stealing Nishina-kun from me.*
**[16:36] Eiko**
* Someone who was cuter than me,*
* more cheerful, smarter, and more athletic—*
**[16:42] N**
"My little sister"?
**[16:46] N/NN**
"The growth says that Nanako-chan
can't be allowed to live."
**[16:50] N/NN**
* It says that Nanako-chan will*
* steal everything from me...*
**[16:55] N/NN**
*That Nanako-chan is a hindrance.*
**[16:58] N/NN**
* Deep down, that's how I felt*
* about you, Nanako-chan.*
**[17:03] N/NN**
* I'm so sorry. I don't think I can*
* hold the growth back anymore.*
**[17:09] N/NN**
*But...*
**[17:10] N/NN**
* you're my little sister,*
* who means so much to me.*
**[17:13] N/NN**
* And nothing can change*
* the fact that I love you.*
**[17:18] N**
No...
**[17:20] N**
Then the reason my sister jumped...
**[17:22] N**
was to protect me?
**[17:26] N**
Onee-chan! I was the one
who should have died!
**[17:32] K2**
*"I should have died."*
**[17:35] K2**
* Then the reason the amasogi*
* was looking for the letter...*
**[17:38] K2**
*was to make the younger sister feel that way?*
**[17:42] ---**
*Don't tell me—*
**[17:45] NN**
Nanako-chan...
**[17:47] K2**
Kazuya!
**[17:51] K1**
Shield Weave!
**[17:55] K1**
Obi Strike!
**[18:01] K2**
It's just a projection! Don't worry!
**[18:03] K2**
Ready another one!
**[18:05] K1**
Right!
**[18:08] K1**
Shield Wea—
**[18:15] K2**
Kazuya! Are you all right?!
**[18:17] K1**
What is this...?
**[18:19] K2**
Don't you see?
**[18:20] K2**
The amasogi has even recreated
the elder sister's growth.
**[18:24] K2**
The growth wants to achieve the
goal it failed at two years ago.
**[18:30] K2**
And just as it had hoped,
**[18:32] K2**
the younger sister's wish for death has
boosted the kamioni's power to its limit!
**[18:43] K2**
Run, Kazuya! You won't
survive fighting this one!
**[18:51] K2**
Kazuya!
**[18:52] K1**
I can't run. I can't leave Nanako-san behind.
**[18:56] K1**
This only happened because
malison is drawn to me.
**[19:00] K1**
So it's my responsibility to resolve it!
**[19:04] K1**
Sledgehammer Weave!
**[19:08] K2**
Kazuya, wait!
**[19:21] K2**
Shield Weave, two layers!
**[19:23] K1**
Double-Woven!
**[19:28] K2**
You want to die that badly, fool?!
**[19:30] K2**
I suppose I have to humor you, then!
**[19:32] K1**
Kiriha-san!
**[19:33] K2**
That hair armor will be tough!
**[19:35] K2**
Do exactly as I say to breach it!
**[19:38] K1**
But... if we destroy it,
the malison atonement...
**[19:41] K2**
This is not a foe to show mercy on!
**[19:43] K2**
For now, prioritize keeping Nanako alive!
**[19:50] K2**
Kazuya, your weakness is that you take
too long to weave your next form!
**[19:54] K2**
It's time to overcome that handicap!
**[19:56] K1**
Right!
**[19:58] K1**
Obi Strike!
**[20:00] K2**
You need to strike faster!
**[20:02] K2**
Too slow! More!
**[20:08] K2**
Now!
**[20:11] K1**
Spiral Weave!
**[20:25] NN**
Nanako-chan...
**[20:39] N**
Onee-chan...
**[20:45] K2**
Listen, Nanako. Don't misinterpret
what you just learned.
**[20:49] K2**
It's true that the growth was born
from your sister's darker feelings.
**[20:55] K2**
But your sister was willing to
end her life to restrain it.
**[21:00] K2**
She won out over it!
**[21:03] K2**
Her love for you was far stronger
than any fleeting wavering she felt.
**[21:09] K2**
So don't wish for your own death anymore,
**[21:13] K2**
lest your sister's sacrifice
have been in vain.
**[21:17] K2**
Understand?
**[21:19] N**
Yes...
**[21:24] K2**
Now then, Kazuya...
**[21:26] K2**
Your obi technique today... was not bad.
**[21:31] K2**
You have my praise.
**[21:33] K1**
Really?
**[21:33] K2**
However!
**[21:35] K2**
I told you to run, and you defied me!
**[21:38] K2**
You fool!
**[21:41] K2**
You dare defy your master?!
**[21:43] K1**
I-I'm sorry!
***SIGN*** Next Episode Preview
**[23:20] K1**
As I struggle to cope with the
atonement caused by the amasogi,
**[23:23] K1**
I'm left knocked out by a malison cleanser
girl who appears out of nowhere!
**[23:27] K1**
She seems to want... a duel?!
**[23:30] ---**
Next time on *Tsugumomo*,
Chapter 10: "Nude in the Futon."
***SIGN*** Nude in the Futon
**[23:32] ---**
Don't miss it!
***SIGN*** Don't miss it!
***SIGN*** Illustration by Nagabe