E4 - Strange Stories of the High Tower

Source: Crunchyroll
Translator:
Editor:
Timer:
QC:
(Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.)
[00:06] woman
    ...throat...
[00:09] woman
    ...moon...
[00:26] Takuboku
    This is such a great help! But...
[00:29] Takuboku
    You were saving this to buy an unabridged
    dictionary of Japanese history, right?
[00:33] Kyousuke
    No, it's all right.
[00:34] Kyousuke
    If you can use it, that's enough.
[00:37] Takuboku
    Then I'll be sure to use it well.
[00:42] Kyousuke
    You were playing Humoresques, weren't you?
[00:44] Takuboku
    Yes.
[00:45] Takuboku
    The truth is, I want to play Wagner,
    but I just can't play well enough,
[00:49] Takuboku
    and Nomura-san recommended it so
    ardently, I decided to try it...
[00:49] (Flashback) Nomura; bakground
    Have you gotten used to it yet?
[00:52] (Flashback) Nomura; bakground
    That part where it changes keys 
    is particularly tricky, right?
[00:58] Takuboku
    The rain's stopped.
[01:01] Takuboku
    Come with me to the Twelve-stories.
[01:03] Kyousuke
    What? Now?
[01:06] Takuboku
    The thing is... I received
    a detective request, you see.
SIGN    Maichou Shimbun 
    Demon's Hour at the Skyscraper
[01:12] Kyousuke
    In these modern times,
[01:14] Kyousuke
    something like that couldn't possibly exist.
[01:17] Takuboku
    Oh! Looks like a crowd is gathering!
[01:20] Takuboku
    7:30, huh? It's just about
    the right time for...
[01:36] Kyousuke
    That's...
[01:39] Takuboku
    The phantom of the demon tower...
SIGN    Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN    Poem 4
     Strange Stories of the High Tower
[03:13] Man 1
    Summer's long over already...
[03:15] Man 2
    It must be holding a grudge.
[03:16] Man 3
    Namandabu, namandabu, namandabu...
[03:17] Kyousuke
    I-It really appeared... A ghost!
[03:20] Takuboku
    Yes...
[03:22] Takuboku
    It did appear, but...
[03:23] Yamaoka
    Ishikawa-san!
[03:26] Yamaoka
    It's me. Yamaoka.
[03:29] Takuboku
    It's been a long time!
    Have you been well?
[03:32] Yamaoka
    Yes.
[03:34] Takuboku
    Oh, this is Kindaichi Kyousuke-san.
    My talented investigative assistant.
[03:40] Takuboku
    Kyousuke-sa—
[03:41] Takuboku
    Kindaichi-kun.
[03:42] Kyousuke
    Huh?
[03:43] Takuboku
    This is a reporter for the Maichou 
    Shimbun, Yamaoka-kun.
[03:47] Takuboku
    Oh. I've just started 
    proofreading for the Asahi.
[03:51] Yamaoka
    Really?
SIGN    Maichou Shimbun  Demon's Hour at the Skyscraper
[03:55] Takuboku
    Well, let's not stand around talking.
[03:57] Takuboku
    How about a little refreshment?
[04:07] Takuboku
    Three orders of your finest kabayaki eel,
    and three bottles of sake, too.
[04:11] Kyousuke
    I'm not very hungry, so... just two of each.
[04:16] Kyousuke
    I'm not feeling very well either, you see.
[04:18] Takuboku
    Really?
[04:19] Kyousuke
    Really.
[04:20] Takuboku
    That's all.
[04:21] Takuboku
    Oh! Maybe we should have
    had monkfish instead.
[04:26] Takuboku
    Oh. Your nails.
[04:29] Takuboku
    Did you do that with
    the person you mentioned?
[04:31] Yamaoka
    No, these aren't really...
[04:43] Yamaoka
    I was wondering. You said
    something about investigating?
[04:47] Takuboku
    That's right.
[04:48] Takuboku
    I recently started working as a detective.
[04:52] Takuboku
    My talent flowers best, you see,
    when confronted by reality.
[04:57] Takuboku
    Poems, tanka, and novels
    are all just fictions in the end.
[05:00] Kyousuke
    Still, saying that poets and
     detectives are alike is...
[05:04] Yamaoka
    So... what are you looking into?
[05:08] Takuboku
    The ghost at Ryouunkaku.
[05:12] Takuboku
    Are you here gathering material, too?
[05:15] Yamaoka
    No...
[05:17] Takuboku
    The manager of the Twelve-stories
    asked me to reveal the truth behind it.
[05:23] Takuboku
    He said it was just too eerie.
[05:25] Yamaoka
    To tell the truth... it's causing
     me problems, too.
[05:30] Yamaoka
    I work at the sumo hall next
    to the Twelve-stories.
[05:33] Takuboku
    What?
[05:34] Takuboku
    Did you end up quitting the newspaper?
[05:36] Yamaoka
    Yes. At the end of September.
[05:39] Takuboku
    The end of September...
SIGN    Eel
[05:43] Takuboku
    Keep the change!
[05:44] Kyousuke
    What?
[05:47] Yamaoka
    Thank you for treating me.
[05:49] Takuboku
    It doesn't even come close
    to repaying your kindness.
[05:52] Yamaoka
    As conscientious as ever, I see.
[05:56] Takuboku
    And you... you've changed a little, I think.
[06:04] Yamaoka
    I haven't changed at all.
[06:08] Takuboku
    Three years ago, when
    I was moving back to Kozukata,
[06:11] Takuboku
    he really helped me out.
[06:13] Takuboku
    Speaking of which...
[06:14] Takuboku
    Kyousuke-san, you haven't
    been home in a while.
[06:17] Takuboku
    Aren't you starting to miss your hometown?
[06:20] Kyousuke
    Ishikawa-kun.
[06:22] Takuboku
    Is something wrong? That's quite
    a frightening expression.
[06:25] Kyousuke
    I'm not... lending you any more money!
[06:29] Kyousuke
    I feel you need to grow up a little.
[06:37] girl
    Oh! The moon is so pretty!
[06:40] mom
    You're right. It's beautiful.
[06:42] girl
    Isn't it?
[06:45] Yamaoka
    Throat...
[06:47] Yamaoka
    ...moon...
[06:57] Takuboku
    So, you're saying all the ghost
    commotion at Ryouunkaku
SIGN    Woodpecker Detective's Office
[07:00] Takuboku
    is because of a trick being played
    by an entertainer in the area?
[07:03] Rokurou
    People are turning away from the
    Twelve-stories and the moving pictures.
[07:09] Rokurou
    The traditional entertainers
    are all excited.
[07:13] Takuboku
    I see.
[07:15] Kyousuke
    Ishikawa-kun?
[07:17] Takuboku
    Kindaichi-kun!
[07:18] Takuboku
    This is Asakusa's Rokurou-san.
[07:20] Takuboku
    He's notorious in Asakusa,
[07:22] Takuboku
    If he sets his sights on you,
    you're as good as dead in Asakusa.
[07:25] Takuboku
    A very scary person.
[07:26] Rokurou
    No, no. Nothing like that.
[07:28] Kyousuke
    My name is Kindaichi Kyousuke.
[07:30] Takuboku
    Sorry, but could you make some tea for us?
[07:32] Kyousuke
    What?
[07:34] Takuboku
    And if you could put these golden
    lace flowers I bought in a vase?
[07:38] Takuboku
    I remembered the way they bloom at the foot
    of Mount Iwate, and I couldn't help myself.
[07:43] Takuboku
    Now then.
[07:44] Takuboku
    If we assume that the ghost is a trick
    being played by the entertainers,
[07:47] Takuboku
    then exposing the truth behind it
    might be simpler than I thought.
[07:51] Takuboku
    For example... a magic lantern?
[07:55] Rokurou
    That sounds like a good line of inquiry.
[07:58] Rokurou
    If I make a move, people get upset,
    so I'll just ask around a bit.
[08:03] Kyousuke
    Here you go.
[08:05] Rokurou
    Sorry for the trouble.
SIGN    Kikunyuusha                 Milk
     Newspapers
SIGN    Milk Newspapers Kikunyuusha
[08:14] Takuboku
    Thanks for waiting.
[08:15] Yamaoka
    Um... Is it true?
[08:18] Yamaoka
    You've discovered the truth
    behind the ghost?
[08:21] Takuboku
    The articles on the ghost 
    in the Maichou Shimbun...
[08:24] Takuboku
    You wrote them, didn't you?
[08:26] Yamaoka
    What?
[08:27] Takuboku
    You quit at the very end of September.
[08:29] Takuboku
    And the daily ghost articles also
    stopped abruptly on September 30th.
SIGN    Maichou Shimbun 
    Demon's Hour at the Skyscraper
[08:34] Kyousuke
    W-Wait, hold on a minute.
[08:35] Kyousuke
    There were articles about it after
    that, too, weren't there?
[08:38] Takuboku
    Yes.
[08:39] Takuboku
    Even major papers who hadn't
    reported on it at all before
[08:42] Takuboku
    started reporting on it simultaneously
    starting on October 10th.
[08:47] Takuboku
    What do you think about that?
[08:49] Kyousuke
    What do we think?
[08:50] Kyousuke
    You can't mean... There's no reason for 
    the Maichou Shimbun to print a false story.
[08:54] Takuboku
    That's exactly what I mean.
[08:56] Takuboku
    Just what I'd expect from you, Kyousuke-san.
[08:59] Takuboku
    In short, up until that point,
    no ghosts had appeared.
[09:03] Takuboku
    That's why the big papers had
    no reason to write about it.
[09:06] Takuboku
    To put it a different way, the ghost
    began to appear on October 10th.
[09:11] Takuboku
    And the one who made it appear...
[09:13] Takuboku
    was you, wasn't it, Yamaoka-kun?
[09:17] Takuboku
    Come to think of it, Rokurou-san
    got in touch with me recently.
[09:21] Takuboku
    He told me a gentleman
    named Koiso Matsukichi
[09:23] Takuboku
    used to be a magic lantern operator.
[09:28] Takuboku
    Yamaoka-kun, you wouldn't
    know him, would you?
[09:31] Yamaoka
    I have no idea what you're talking about.
[09:34] Yamaoka
    I have work, so...
[09:37] Takuboku
    Your nails!
[09:38] Takuboku
    Crimson nails, right?
[09:41] Takuboku
    "In the pale crimson
[09:42] Takuboku
    lingering emotions of balsam flowers
[09:45] Takuboku
    a breath blown across
[09:47] Takuboku
    nails waiting for snow."
[09:50] Takuboku
    There's a poem about it.
[09:52] Takuboku
    The ghost wouldn't have anything to do
    with those crimson nails of yours, would it?
[10:00] Takuboku
    You can't tell me about it?
[10:03] Yamaoka
    Throat. Moon.
SIGN    Woodpecker 
    Detective's 
    Office
SIGN    Three Years Earlier
[10:20] (Flashback) Yamaoka
    What time is your train?
[10:22] (Flashback) Takuboku
    Three o'clock.
[10:24] (Flashback) Takuboku
    I'll leave once I've finished this.
[10:26] (Flashback) Yamaoka
    It's a shame.
[10:28] (Flashback) Yamaoka
    A talent like yours...
[10:31] (Flashback) Yamaoka
    Actually, I'm going to start working 
    at the Maichou Shimbun.
[10:35] (Flashback) Takuboku
    Oh, that's great news.
[10:37] (Flashback) Takuboku
    So you can write your novel
    while you're working.
[10:39] (Flashback) Yamaoka
    No. I won't be writing a novel...
[10:43] (Flashback) Yamaoka
    There's someone
    I've grown very fond of,
[10:46] (Flashback) Yamaoka
    but right now, there
    isn't any way for me to...
[10:51] (Flashback) Takuboku
    To live for love... that's life, too.
[10:57] (Flashback) Takuboku
    Well then, let's meet again one day.
[11:01] (Flashback) Yamaoka
    I like your poetry.
[11:05] (Flashback) Takuboku
    In that case, I'll accept.
[11:11] Takuboku
    I'll leave the money here.
[11:13] waitress
    Thank you!
[11:14] Takuboku
    The dango here really are exceptional.
[11:18] Takuboku
    After seven, is it?
[11:20] Takuboku
    We should arrive at the prearranged
     spot right on time.
[11:25] Kyousuke
    This is crazy, isn't it?
[11:28] Takuboku
    What is?
[11:29] Kyousuke
    You never have money, and you just went
    and paid without any prompting!
[11:33] Takuboku
    Kyousuke-san.
[11:35] Takuboku
    I simply want to be honest
    with myself, that's all.
[11:39] Kyousuke
    Honest?
[11:42] Kyousuke
    Why are we meeting in a place like this?
[11:48] Kyousuke
    What's wrong?
[11:50] Takuboku
    It seems we're being followed.
[11:52] Kyousuke
    What?
[11:53] Takuboku
    Don't look back.
[11:55] Takuboku
    See?
[11:59] Kyousuke
    You're right!
[12:01] Kyousuke
    Now that I think about it, they say
    a woman was killed here not long ago.
[12:07] Takuboku
    Kyousuke-san!
[12:13] Kyousuke
    I wonder who was following us.
[12:16] Takuboku
    The only ones who knew we'd be
    in Asakusa at this time were...
[12:22] Kyousuke
    Rokurou-san,
[12:23] Kyousuke
    and the man he introduced us to,
    Matsukichi, makes two.
[12:26] Kyousuke
    Oh, but Rokurou-san is helping you, so...
[12:30] Takuboku
    Yamaoka-kun?!
[12:32] man
    Someone's dead over here!
[12:34] crowd
    That's Mattsan!
[12:36] crowd
    It's old man Koiso!
[12:36] Kyousuke
    This man is Matsukichi-san?
[12:39] Kyousuke
    An artificial leg!
[12:43] Kyousuke
    Wait!
[12:44] Kyousuke
    You shouldn't just go touching things...
[12:50] Kyousuke
    This is from over two months ago.
[12:52] Takuboku
    "In a copse behind Sensou-ji,
[12:55] Takuboku
    an unidentified young woman,
    collapsed and bleeding from the head,
[13:00] Takuboku
    was discovered by a man
    named Koiso Matsukichi.
[13:03] Takuboku
    With her last breath,
[13:06] Takuboku
    the woman was heard to say these
    mysterious words: 'throat moon.'"
[13:11] Takuboku
    Throat moon...
[13:13] Takuboku
    Throat... moon...
[13:24] Takuboku
    Throat moon, huh?
[13:27] Takuboku
    That's what it was, Kyousuke-san!
[13:29] Takuboku
    The ghost of Ryouunkaku. This newspaper
    article is what caused it to rise.
[13:38] Takuboku
    A throat moon...
[13:44] Nomura
    Did you hear? About the man who worked
    the magic lanterns getting killed.
SIGN    Kikunyuusha                 Milk
     Newspapers
SIGN    Milk Newspapers Kikunyuusha
[13:48] Yoshii
    The man on the run is named Yamaoka.
    A friend of Ishikawa-kun's I believe.
[13:53] Sakutarou
    About two months ago,
[13:56] Sakutarou
    the woman he loved was
     killed behind Sensou-ji.
[13:59] Sakutarou
    He thought the magic lantern
    operator who found her had done it,
[14:01] Sakutarou
    and this crime was the result.
[14:05] Yoshii
    Oh, right. Are you feeling better?
[14:08] Kyousuke
    Huh?
[14:09] Kyousuke
    There's nothing particularly
    wrong with me...
[14:10] Yoshii
    Well, Ishikawa-kun came to me recently
    saying you weren't feeling well,
[14:14] Yoshii
    and to build your stamina,
    he wanted to feed you monkfish,
[14:17] Yoshii
    so could I please help.
    He was quite persistent.
[14:19] Sakutarou
    Really?
[14:20] Sakutarou
    With me he said that Kyousuke-san
    was always helping him,
[14:23] Sakutarou
    and wanted to give him
    a history dictionary,
[14:24] Sakutarou
    but he didn't have the means, so...
[14:26] Nomura
    Hold on!
[14:27] Nomura
    With me he said he wanted to
    help him go back home for a visit
[14:30] Nomura
    and could I help with travel expenses...
[14:31] Takuboku
    This is where you were!
[14:33] Kyousuke
    Ishikawa-kun!
[14:34] Kyousuke
    Feeding me monkfish! Buying me
    a dictionary! Sending me home!
[14:37] Kyousuke
    What were you think—
[14:37] Takuboku
    This is no time for that!
[14:39] Takuboku
    Come on! Hurry up!
[14:40] Kyousuke
    Wh-What? Wait!
[14:42] Nomura
    My, my...
[14:51] Takuboku
    It just won't focus correctly,
    but that's part of the fun.
[14:55] Kyousuke
    Where did you get something like this?
[14:58] Takuboku
    To expose the truth of the ghost,
[15:00] Takuboku
    I asked the client to borrow it for me.
[15:02] Kyousuke
    But, there wasn't really a need
    to try it yourself, was there?
[15:05] Takuboku
    In addition to the client's request,
[15:07] Takuboku
    I thought I'd try reeling in
    the Matsukichi-killer.
[15:10] Kyousuke
    You're saying Yamaoka-san will come here?
[15:14] Kyousuke
    Oh. That's right!
[15:16] Kyousuke
    You went and made out I was sick so
    you could borrow money, didn't you?
[15:19] Kyousuke
    And you said you wanted to buy me
    a dictionary and send me home...
[15:23] Takuboku
    But... Kyousuke-san, you did seem unwell, 
    and you wanted that dictionary,
[15:28] Takuboku
    and said you wanted to go home
     for a visit, didn't you?
[15:30] Kyousuke
    But you ended up using the money
    you borrowed on yourself, didn't you?
[15:33] Takuboku
    It just happened to turn out that way.
[15:35] Kyousuke
    Happened to?
[15:37] Takuboku
    Yes.
[15:38] Takuboku
    I wasn't lying when I said
    I wanted to feed you monkfish,
[15:42] Takuboku
    but it so happened that on the way back
    I caught sight of the golden lace flowers.
[15:46] Kyousuke
    But, that's...
[15:47] Takuboku
    That's right.
[15:49] Takuboku
    Now that I think about it,
[15:51] Takuboku
    Wagner, and Wordsworth, too...
[15:53] Takuboku
    all the geniuses were
    burdened by tremendous debt!
[15:58] Kyousuke
    You're just so...
[16:02] Takuboku
    Someone's here.
[16:13] Takuboku
    It was you, wasn't it?
[16:18] Takuboku
    Asakusa's Rokurou-san.
[16:20] Rokurou
    Wh-Why are you here?
[16:22] Takuboku
    And you, Constable Sahara. We've met before.
[16:26] Sahara
    You're... from that other case...
[16:28] Sahara
    Wasn't Yamaoka supposed to be here?
[16:30] Rokurou
    Well...
[16:31] Takuboku
    The person who killed
    Matsukichi-san wasn't Yamaoka-kun.
[16:35] Takuboku
    Rokurou-san. You killed him and tried to
     frame Yamaoka-kun for it, didn't you?
[16:41] Rokurou
    D-Don't be stupid.
[16:43] Rokurou
    Why would I do something like that?
[16:45] Takuboku
    The thing that made me suspicious
[16:48] Takuboku
    was that despite you profiting
    from the uproar about the ghost,
[16:51] Takuboku
    you offered to help me in trying
    to expose the truth behind it.
[16:56] Takuboku
    And when you even offered to
     introduce me to Matsukichi-san,
[16:58] Takuboku
    I was certain my suspicions were right.
[17:02] Rokurou
    And why would I need to kill Matsukichi?
[17:05] Takuboku
    Because... there was a certain fact
    regarding the origins of this ghostly uproar
[17:10] Takuboku
    that Matsukichi-san had figured out.
[17:19] (Flashback) Rokurou
    Kicking up a fuss...
[17:21] (Flashback) Matsukichi
    Is someone there?
[17:29] (Flashback) woman
    ...throat... moon...
[17:33] Takuboku
    It's very likely that Matsukichi-san
    realized that you were the killer,
[17:38] Takuboku
    but as an entertainer in Asakusa,
[17:40] Takuboku
    crossing Asakusa's Rokurou-san
    was strictly forbidden.
[17:44] Takuboku
    On the other hand... he felt sorry for
    Yamaoka-kun, who had lost his beloved,
[17:49] Takuboku
    and to expose the killer, he agreed
    to help create the ghost.
[17:54] Rokurou
    If that's the case, then it
    would be even stranger
[17:57] Rokurou
    for me to help you meet
    Matsukichi, wouldn't it?
[17:59] Takuboku
    You made sure Matsukichi-san knew of us,
    while keeping your name out of it,
[18:05] Takuboku
    in order to test his loyalty.
[18:09] Takuboku
    Matsukichi-san brought the newspaper
    article about the murder,
[18:13] Takuboku
    intending to meet with us, so...
[18:15] Takuboku
    You decided he meant to betray you, and...
[18:20] Takuboku
    you killed him.
[18:22] Kyousuke
    But, then... What about
    when you saw Yamaoka-san?
[18:26] Takuboku
    Rokurou-san used Matsukichi-san's
    name to call him out,
[18:30] Takuboku
    intending to frame him for the murder.
[18:33] Sahara
    What are you talking about?
[18:35] Kyousuke
    Well...
[18:36] Kyousuke
    When we were on our way
    to the meeting place,
[18:39] Kyousuke
    we were followed by Matsukichi-san...
[18:41] Sahara
    By Matsukichi?
[18:43] Takuboku
    I'm sure he must have agonized
    to the very last moment.
[18:49] Rokurou
    This is hilarious.
[18:51] Rokurou
    So, you're saying that just before
    Matsukichi's body was found,
[18:55] Rokurou
    the man was following you, right?
[18:58] Kyousuke
    Well, I suppose so.
[19:01] Rokurou
    But, you see...
[19:03] Rokurou
    I was drinking in a place on Nakamise
    when I got word that he'd died.
[19:08] Rokurou
    If Matsukichi was out by the haunted
    jizo statue playing tag with you,
[19:13] Rokurou
    then I couldn't have killed him.
[19:15] Takuboku
    How did you know we were
    near the haunted jizo?
[19:19] Takuboku
    I'm asking you how you knew where we were
    when Matsukichi-san was following us.
[19:27] Takuboku
    It's because the one following us...
[19:36] Takuboku
    was you.
[19:39] Rokurou
    I don't know what you're talking about.
[19:42] Takuboku
    Rokurou-san.
[19:43] Takuboku
    Would you mind taking off your scarf?
[19:47] Takuboku
    "Throat moon."
[19:49] Takuboku
    The strange words in the article
    Matsukichi-san was holding,
[19:54] Takuboku
    are referring to your neck, right?
[19:56] Takuboku
    Not "throat moon," "throat wound."
[19:59] Rokurou
    This is stupid. I'm leaving.
[20:06] Rokurou
    You're...
[20:10] Yamaoka
    Show us.
[20:11] Yamaoka
    Your neck! Show us!
[20:24] Yamaoka
    Throat wound...
[20:27] Takuboku
    Yamaoka-kun!
[20:43] Kyousuke
    He'd been searching this whole time
[20:45] Kyousuke
    for someone with a scar
    on their throat, hadn't he?
[20:49] Kyousuke
    He started by writing
    an article about the ghost,
[20:51] Kyousuke
    then he made the ghost appear,
    making everyone look up.
[20:57] Kyousuke
    Oh! It's the first snow.
[21:02] Takuboku
    "In Asakusa
[21:04] Takuboku
    atop the tower that scrapes the clouds
[21:06] Takuboku
    arms crossed, I ponder the day
[21:08] Takuboku
    a long journal entry, perhaps?"
[21:11] Takuboku
    It's a little... too late, isn't it?
[21:14] Kyousuke
    Too late?
[21:16] Takuboku
    Crimson nails... it's another name
    for balsam flowers.
[21:20] Takuboku
    You crush the petals
    and paint your fingernails,
[21:23] Takuboku
    and if the color lasts
    until the first snow falls,
[21:26] Takuboku
    then your love will endure.
    That's what they say.
[21:32] Takuboku
    Living for love... and dying
    for love the way he did...
[21:37] Takuboku
    I believe I'm a little bit jealous.
[21:44] Kyousuke
    What do you say to some
    monkfish on the way back?
[21:46] Takuboku
    What?
[21:47] Kyousuke
    I'll pay, of course, so if you'd
    just feel greatly indebted to me...
[21:53] Kyousuke
    It's true. You are a very honest person.
[21:56] Kyousuke
    You eat what you want to eat,
[21:57] Kyousuke
    wax nostalgic when you
    want to wax nostalgic,
[22:00] Kyousuke
    when you feel something,
    you compose a poem...
[22:03] Kyousuke
    In short, you are a genius...
[22:05] Kyousuke
    and a child.
[22:08] Kyousuke
    And I... I want to help you,
    just the way you are.
[22:14] Takuboku
    Somehow... I don't feel the need
    to fight you on that.
[23:38] Takuboku
    What's this? Hagiwara-kun, are you lovesick?
[23:40] Sakutarou
    What? It's... um...
[23:42] Takuboku
    Yoshii-kun and Nomura-san
    were looking dazed, too.
SIGN    Next Time: "Accursed Beast"
[23:44] Takuboku
    Ah, the season of love!
SIGN    Illustration: Saki Kaoru