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| Shizuka
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| Charu, you woke up?
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| Chiharu
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| Shizuka-chan! Thank goodness you're safe!
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| Shizuka
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| Given what you just said, I suppose all of that was real.
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| Shizuka
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| How I almost sank to the bottom of the water, how you purified my jewel...
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| Chiharu
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| Then this is real. That's the rule, after all!
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| Chiharu
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| But, where are we...?
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| Shizuka
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| I don't know either. I'm sure that we're alive, though...
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| Chiharu
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| This is a girl's room, right?
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| Shizuka
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| It could also be an afterlife that's simply disguised as a girl's room?
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| Chiharu
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| Noooo, no way! C'mon, let's at least agree that we're alive.
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| Sunao
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| You are both alive.
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| Sunao
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| And this is my home.
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| Chiharu
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| So Sunao-chan must have saved us!
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| Shizuka
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| I would like to express my gratitude too. Thank you very much.
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| Shizuka
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| Sunao, you're acting a little weird...
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| Sunao
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| I could say the same of you two. You came floating down the river, of all places.
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| Shizuka
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| If you put it that way...
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| Sunao
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| I'm sorry. I didn't. I haven't saved you at all...
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| Sunao
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| In fact, I attempted to kill you...
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| Shizuka
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| Huh? What are you talking about...?
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| Sunao
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| For now, could we just take a moment to talk things over?
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| Sunao
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| I have quite a lot to tell you, and quite a lot I'd like to ask.
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| Sunao
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| I've prepared breakfast as well.
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| Shizuka
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| I don't feel like eating anything...
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| Chiharu
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| ...Sunao-chan was going to...?
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| Chiharu
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| Is what you said a few minutes ago true...?
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| Sunao
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| It's true that I attempted to kill you both.
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| Chiharu
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| But why...? I don't understand!
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| Sunao
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| My role is to eliminate anyone who goes against the village's will...
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| Sunao
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| Therefore, I was attempting to kill you. Mainly... Charu...
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| Sunao
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| If Charu wavered over the contract or said she wanted to go back...
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| Sunao
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| Tried to eliminate the holy Wavering Deity...
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| Sunao
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| Or went deep into the shrine's central building...
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| Sunao
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| I certainly didn't expect you to come floating down the river with Shizuka,
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| Sunao
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| but there were many times when you met the conditions that Lady Mikoshiba gave me.
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| Sunao
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| But Charu narrowly escaped from those moments.
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| Sunao
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| Because of Shizuka's intervention...
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| Shizuka
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| In short, Sunao is Mikoshiba's pawn...
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| Shizuka
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| An assassin that executes those who go against her will.
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| Shizuka
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| So you targeted Charu, because she went against Mikoshiba's expectations, and me, because I tried to protect her.
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| Shizuka
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| So you were her hunting dog...? I can't bring myself to believe this...
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| Sunao
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| But, it's the truth...
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| Sunao
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| I didn't want to do it either.
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| Sunao
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| I thought of the two of you as friends, so I swear I didn't want to hurt you.
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| Sunao
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| But something unexpected happened...
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| Sunao
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| Charu became sensitive to some sort of mysterious scent,
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| Sunao
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| and Shizuka tried to protect her, which raised Lady Mikoshiba's suspicions...
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| Chiharu
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| But you didn't kill us.
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| Chiharu
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| You didn't. You helped us, Sunao-chan.
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| Sunao
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| I heard what Shizuka said beside the river, and that stopped me from going through with it...
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| Shizuka
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| What did I say...?
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| Sunao
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| You said... "I'm going to be another corpse down in those waters."
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| Shizuka
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| What did I say...?
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| Sunao
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| You said... "I will also become a dead body at the bottom of the water."
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| Shizuka
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| How did that very sentence stop you, Sunao...?
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| Sunao
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| ... As you said, I am a puppet.
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| Sunao
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| What I know about myself is confined to my usefulness to the Land of the Rising Sun
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| Sunao
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| and my duty to deal with situations that threaten the village.
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| Sunao
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| I didn't know what would happen when I no longer fight as a diviner...
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| Sunao
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| Or not exactly, I didn't dare to think even if I was doubtful...
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| Sunao
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| I did know that a diviner will go out someday.
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| Sunao
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| But, even if I live outside the village... In the nearest village,
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| Sunao
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| I have never seen any other diviner...
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| Shizuka
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| At that point, my words...
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| Sunao
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| Yes, an awful scene suddenly flashed through my mind…
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| Sunao
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| Could all of those who went out... became the dead body at the bottom of the water...
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| Shizuka
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| That's the reason you helped us...
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| Sunao
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| Yes, to ask you about what happened...
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| Shizuka
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| Then, it's my turn to talk... About what I heard during the coming-of-age ceremony.
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| Chiharu
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| In other words, from the person that I witnessed...
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| Shizuka
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| Yeah, Mikoshiba said these shamelessly to me...
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| Mikoshiba
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| Let me tell thou the truth before thou departest.
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| Shizuka
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| The truth, right?
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| Mikoshiba
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| Exactly. The truth about ye diviners.
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| Shizuka
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| ... Please tell me.
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| Mikoshiba
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| Diviners are existences that shatter devils,
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| Mikoshiba
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| and the existences that will become devils in the future as well.
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| Shizuka
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| Eh, that means...
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| Mikoshiba
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| That literally means ye will become devils in the future.
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| Shizuka
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| No way, is it a joke...?
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| Shizuka
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| If that's true, why did you withhold such an important thing.
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| Mikoshiba
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| Such a harsh thing shouldn't be let out easily.
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| Shizuka
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| ... Does my mother or anyone in the village know that?
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| Shizuka
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| And knowing so, you still turn us into diviners?
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| Mikoshiba
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| People who know are limited to us priestesses and dancers.
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| Shizuka
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| I don't understand...
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| Shizuka
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| If we who shatter devils are going to become devils,
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| Shizuka
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| isn't that a vicious circle? It's meaningless for us to become diviners.
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| Mikoshiba
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| That said, the wishes made in order to save the Land of the Rising Sun do come true.
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| Shizuka
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| Then, after that, we are...!?
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| Shizuka
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| ............ It's too cruel...
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| Shizuka
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| Didn't we just literally sacrificed our souls...!
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| Shizuka
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| Yeah... No... It's not time to cry...!
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| Shizuka
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| If I literally sacrificed my soul to the Land of the Rising Sun...
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| Shizuka
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| my honor can be maintained...!
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| Shizuka
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| Even if I become a devil, what I have achieved won't be wasted.
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| Shizuka
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| Proud of that, I can fight till I eventually fall...!
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| Shizuka
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| I see, the last ceremony was about acknowledging this truth and enduring till the end...
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| Shizuka
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| Then why should you tell the truth!
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| Mikoshiba
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| Thou art becoming a devil before long.
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| Mikoshiba
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| The reason? Because it happeneth when thy jewel loseth its shine.
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| Shizuka
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| ............ Wait...
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| Shizuka
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| What is the ceremony of coming of age about...?
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| Mikoshiba
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| Discarding the diviner that hath made the wish fulfilled and protected the village, and turning her into a devil.
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| Mikoshiba
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| No diviner ever goeth out of the village.
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| Shizuka
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| Mikoshibaーーーーーー!!
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| Mikoshiba
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| Be drown in the waterfall basin... Be stifled and agonized... And become the game of the next diviner...
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| Shizuka
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| These are all that I heard...
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| Shizuka
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| I have told you what you want to know, Sunao.
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| Shizuka
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| As you have worried, no one ever goes out or anything.
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| Shizuka
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| Everyone was trapped at the bottom of the water and never made it...
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| Shizuka
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| Now that you heard it... Are you gonna kill me?
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| Sunao
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| ... I don't want to kill.
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| Sunao
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| Neither do I enjoy being a puppet from whom everything is concealed...
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| Shizuka
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| Then, please be with us.
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| Sunao
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| But my dad and mom may be killed by Mikoshiba!
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| Shizuka
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| What... You mean you were threatened that way...?
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| Sunao
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| So I had to choose who to kill...
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| Sunao
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| Shizuka and Charu... Or my dad and mom...
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| Sunao
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| I dwelled in Mikoshiba's home, tried searching it, attempting to find a vital point to hold over her...
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| Sunao
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| I tried to find things like documentation, passbooks,
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| Sunao
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| or anything that could be utilized to threaten her in turn...
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| Sunao
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| But I found nothing...
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| Shizuka
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| I know I won't be killed... I know Sunao is kind...
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| Shizuka
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| Actually, you are not going to kill, and I don't know what's behind it.
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| Chiharu
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| What I know is just the kind Sunao!
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| Sunao
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| Sorry, Shizuka... Charu...
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| Chiharu
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| And even when left unattended, a diviner will be killed anyway, right!?
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| Chiharu
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| If so, let's launch a preemptive strike!
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| Chiharu
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| The old woman doesn't know I and Shizuka are well, right?
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| Chiharu
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| If so, let's go back and scold her secretly!
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| Chiharu
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| Then pump her for all the secrets!
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| Chiharu
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| About diviners and devils, the reason to sink diviners,
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| Chiharu
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| and about Sunao-chan, everything!
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| Chiharu
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| It'll be great if everyone can be saved that way!
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| Sunao
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| ... Quite straightforward. But what if we keep unfound...
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| Shizuka
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| Wait, I agree to punish her,
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| Shizuka
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| but this time, I think the picture may be a bit more complex.
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| Shizuka
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| Charu and I fought against some followers, right...?
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| Chiharu
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| Yeah, those without a labyrinth?
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| Sunao
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| Without a labyrinth...?
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| Shizuka
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| Yeah, I thought so when I fought before too,
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| Shizuka
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| but now I think the case might just be the opposite, which means it actually had a labyrinth.
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| Chiharu
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| It didn't have, but it had...
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| - Todoriki (Chiharu) -
|
Because the so-called truth
may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity.
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| Chiharu
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| In, the vicinity...
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| Chiharu
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| Shizuka-chan... You mean the village is a labyrinth...?
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| Sunao
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| How can that be...!!
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| Shizuka
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| It could, as Charu said.
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| Shizuka
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| At some point, a devil swallowed the whole Tokime's Village,
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| Shizuka
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| and under Mikoshiba's manipulation, it is eroding us diviners' power...
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| Shizuka
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| If so, the picture that we will be killed eventually,
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| Shizuka
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| the villainy of threatening Sunao and eliminating the undesirable,
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| Shizuka
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| the presence of followers without a labyrinth can all be explained.
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| Sunao
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| ... Indeed they can be explained.
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| Sunao
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| However, if that's the case, everything should have been circulating inside...
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| Sunao
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| Luring people unfamiliar with the conventions like me and Charu in
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| Sunao
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| could only cause unexpected things like what's happening now.
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| Shizuka
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| That could be owed to the devil's stupidity
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| Shizuka
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| or impatience for something.
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| Shizuka
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| These are no more than some guesswork though...
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| Chiharu
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| However, this is probably the evidence that the village is a labyrinth.
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| Shizuka
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| What is that plate?
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| Shizuka
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| The rumored telephone...
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| Chiharu
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| This is a map, but Tokime's Village is missing in the image.
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| Sunao
|
| In that case, the village really already fell into the hand of a devil...?
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| Chiharu
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| Yeah, there must be an enemy to defeat!
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| Shizuka
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| Though I don't know about the smartphone, I believe so as long as you believe.
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| Shizuka
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| Let's hurry up...!
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| Sunao
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| You don't know what will happen if it detects your power and knows you are alive...
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| Chiharu
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| Before everyone is involved in, let's defeat the village's devil!
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| Shizuka
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| Right, let's hurry to the village.
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| Sunao
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| I should tell my dad and mom to escape soon too.
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| Chiharu
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| Shizuka-chan, Sunao-chan, the devil's reaction is getting stronger...
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| Sunao
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| Shizuka's reasoning may be correct...
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| Sunao
|
| Is everyone fine...
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| Chiharu
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| My mother and the man in the village...
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| Sunao
|
| Devils are existences that consume humans by nature. Since things have gone beyond expectation...
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| Shizuka
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| We should first confirm the village's situation...
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| Shizuka
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| No sign of human...
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| Shizuka
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| Everyone in the village is wiped out.
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| Shizuka
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| Even before things about the village is leaked to the outside...?
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| Chiharu
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| But considering the devil is still here, it might not be the case that it has already done so...!
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| Sunao
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| This place would have been useless if it had finished feeding itself.
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| Sunao
|
| Let's stop thinking pessimistically.
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| Chiharu
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| Besides, can it be that it is waiting for us?
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| Sunao
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| ... Thinking from the devil's perspective,
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| Sunao
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| since a diviners meal is more appealing for a devil,
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| Sunao
|
| it might want to entomb us here and reset the situation...
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| Chiharu
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| Yeah, it already anticipated our return...!
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| Shizuka
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| The devil would be alright with some people involved absent...
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| Shizuka
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| If so, it's meaningful to keep the village and spare the villagers' lives...
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| Chiharu
|
| However, you can't get the answer by just thinking...
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| Shizuka
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| Unfortunately, the only fact that we know is that
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| Shizuka
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| the devil is still alive, and the villagers' situation remains unknown...
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| Shizuka
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| What's wrong, Sunao?
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| Sunao
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| Nah, I just have some ill feelings.
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| Sunao
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| (I am probably just anxious because of the contingency...)
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| Sunao
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| (I thought too much...)
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| Sunao
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| Shizuka felt it too!?
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| Shizuka
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| Yeah, I did... But from where...
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| Shizuka
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| What about you, Chiharu?
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| Chiharu
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| I have absolutely no idea... But it surely lies somewhere nearby!
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| Shizuka
|
| Other followers also emerge from the shadow...
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| Shizuka
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| Sunao, that way Charu might later be—!
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| - Sunao -
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| I should have known this, but why...
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| Sunao
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| (It reminds me about that, Mikoshiba...)
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| Mikoshiba
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| But I heard from the daughter of the head family.
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| Mikoshiba
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| It seemeth that Hiroe's daughter gained a troublesome power...
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| Mikoshiba
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| Tokime's daughter...
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| Mikoshiba
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| I am really counting on thee, but thou couldst not help if thou still treatest this emotionally.
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| Mikoshiba
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| Thou art just a little girl after all.
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| Sunao
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| Then, how can I eliminate Hiroe Chiharu...
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| Mikoshiba
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| Even if thou just leavest her alone, the shadow will devour her.
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| Sunao
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| Shizuka, Charu! Your shadows!
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| Shizuka
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| Charu, behind you!!
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| Chiharu
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| It evaded my hit...!!
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| Chiharu
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| Sorry, Sunao-chan, but I can't believe that they just evaded...
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| Sunao
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| I didn't recall it until just now either.
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| Shizuka
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| But you realized that they came from the shadows anyway.
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| Sunao
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| Mikoshiba's word came to my mind.
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| Sunao
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| She said the shadow would devour Charu...
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| Chiharu
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| Exactly, they are the same kind of followers that Shizuka fought...!
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| Shizuka
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| It was at night, so it shouldn't be related to shadows...
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| Shizuka
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| However, Mikoshiba knew that, which means...
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| Sunao
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| Everything, including the center of the clan, is apparently under manipulation...
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| Chiharu
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| More importantly, we have to anyhow make it before the nightfall, right?
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| Shizuka
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| Yeah, but we don't even know the location of the devil at this point...
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| Shizuka
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| So, let's go to check if everyone is safe.
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| Shizuka
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| Maybe we can feel the power of the devil during our action.
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| Sunao
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| Then, I am going to Mikoshiba's home...
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| Chiharu
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| Won't that be dangerous...?
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| Sunao
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| There is possibly some information I can collect.
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| Sunao
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| As the center of the village, her home may be where the devil hides too.
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| Shizuka
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| ... Please don't force yourself.
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| Shizuka
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| this may be dangerous, but let's go separately.
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| Shizuka
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| Time before the sunset is precious.
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| Shizuka
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| Then, let me teach you how to use telepathy.
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| Shizuka
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| That's the technique that we diviners can use to transmit what we think.
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| Chiharu
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| (That's the same thing to the voice I heard under the waterfall.
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| Chiharu
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| (Did everyone escape...)
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| Chiharu
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| (or are they killed by the devil...?)
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| Chiharu
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| (If so, my mom would be in big trouble too!)
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| Chiharu
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| Nah—! No way no way no way!
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| Chiharu
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| (Because it somehow feels weird...)
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| Chiharu
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| (If a devil is an existence that hurts people, and if it manipulates the village,)
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| Chiharu
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| (then the narrative of "wishing for the Land of the Rising Sun" sounds weird.)
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| Chiharu
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| (Yeah, it feels contradictory.)
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| Chiharu
|
| (Plus, if it wants to consume diviners, why not do so straightforward?)
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| Chiharu
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| (Instead, it formulates the trivial rules like the coming-of-age ceremony...)
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| Chiharu
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| (And made a phone call to my home...)
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| Chiharu
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| The phone call was made by the old woman...
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| Chiharu
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| Ah, that's enough! They messed up my mind.
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| Chiharu
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| How would Todoriki Kouichi think in this situation...
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| - Todoriki (Chiharu) -
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| You need to accept weird truths.
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| Chiharu
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| That's the triumphal line after the case is closed. How is that supposed to help the current situation...
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| Chiharu
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| (However, with weirdness intermingled...)
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| Chiharu
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| (Designating the scope, that's what matters...!)
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| Chiharu
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| Huh... Is it even meaningful to keep searching this way?
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| Chiharu
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| I already searched everywhere that I know. It must have escaped. Yeah.
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| Chiharu
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| (This... is not a follower of the devil...)
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| Chiharu
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| (The smell of the strange case from the shrine's direction...?)
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| Chiharu
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| (It seems stronger...)
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| Chiharu
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| Ah, I can't, I can't do that!
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| Chiharu
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| It's not time to be distracted by other things.
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| Chiharu
|
| ... The next would be the devil's followers!?
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| Chiharu
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| I am going to impose punishment on y'all!
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| Chiharu
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| A chink in the armor!
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| Chiharu's voice
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| Execution!
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| Chiharu
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| Good, good, it feels great.
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| Chiharu
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| Uwawa... Are, are you okay...!?
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| Chiharu
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| Well, this person, yeah, is the person who danced!
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| Chiharu
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| (Did she just fall off as the devil's follower was defeated...?)
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| Chiharu
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| (Not that, but Shizuka-chan's mother said that a devil manipulates people...)
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| Chiharu
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| (A person being manipulated...)
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| Chiharu
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| Correct, there is a devil's imprint on her.
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| Chiharu
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| Sorry, but I have to go...
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| Chiharu
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| Hmn—? No, there isn't, seemingly...?
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| Chiharu
|
| (Is she actually someone escaping?)
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| Chiharu
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| (I thought there should be nobody by then, yet there are people who escaped slower...)
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| Shizuka's mother
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| Come here, Ms. Hiroe! An open field is a better place for fighting!
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| Chiharu's mother
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| The place is better for fighting, but Ms. Tokime, this sword isn't, right!
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| Shizuka's mother
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| We have no choice but to do it ourselves anyway!
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| Chiharu
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| Mom and Shizuka's mom!
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| Chiharu's mother
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| Chiharu!?
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| Shizuka's mother
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| Chiharu-chan!?
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| Shizuka's mother
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| Before that...
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| Shizuka's mother
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| Tokime Isshin Style... Meter-Leap Decapitation!!
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| Chiharu
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| Meter-Leap Decapitation—!?
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Ah, the sword...
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| Chiharu
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| Aah, it's okay! I'll defeat it!!
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| Chiharu
|
| After that, we should contact Shizuka's mother and Sunao-chan!!
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| Chiharu
|
| Is mom okay!? What about Shizuka's mother?
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| Chiharu's mother
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| Yeah, I am fine. Thanks, Chiharu...
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| You are such a diviner... There's an untraversable gap between us.
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| Chiharu
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| No, you did an awesome job just now!
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| Shizuka's mother
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| Ha, thanks.
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| Chiharu
|
| Haven't you both escaped?
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| Chiharu
|
| I searched over and over but found no one.
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| Of course, we evacuated with others...
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| However, monsters emerges from shadows on our way,
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| Chiharu's mother
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| and then we were left behind.
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| Shizuka's mother
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| Why did they target us, I don't understand at all...
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| Chiharu's mother
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| Anyway, Chiharu
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| I am not requiring your "hmn"! Where did you go!!
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| Chiharu's mother
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| You just suddenly disappeared, and never came back.
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| Even monsters like that emerged, do you know how concerned I was...!
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| Chiharu
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| Ah... I'm sorry...
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| Chiharu
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| I was worried about the coming-of-age ceremony, so I went to see.
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| Chiharu
|
| Then I fell into the waterfall basin with Shizuka...
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| Chiharu's mother
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| Into the waterfall basin...!?
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| Who did so...!? Is your body alright...!?
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| Chiharu
|
| As for the body, it's as healthy as you see, and I can even fight with it quite well...
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Well, you said you fell into the waterfall basin during the ceremony...?
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| Chiharu
|
| It's like, the coming-of-age ceremony is akin to a ceremony that kills diviners...
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| Chiharu
|
| During which we are turned into devils...
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| It's a bit beyond my comprehension. Is Shizuka alright?
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| She said she would contact me...
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| Chiharu
|
| Yeah, we came together.
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| Shizuka's mother
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| ... Just leave the details untill we evacuate to home.
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| Chiharu
|
| Then we should also take the dancer I met just now.
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| Chiharu
|
| Yeah, a dancer that fell off just now...
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| But there is nobody...?
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| Was there actually anyone...?
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Disappeared all in a sudden...
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Though it's incredible, there is yet another incredible thing...
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| Chiharu
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| Why they always follow and target us?
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| That's what I am talking about.
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| Shizuka
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| But, from now on, we have to spare no effort.
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| Sunao
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| Okay, let's go inside.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Shizuka...
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| Shizuka
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| I'm back, mom. I'll talk about the situation later.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| We are talking precisely about that.
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Shizuka 3
| Shizuka
|
| A devil is lurking in my hometown.
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| Shizuka
|
| (I am trying to explain it myself, yet I find it growingly confusing...)
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| Shizuka
|
| (The customs that we have observed so far, as wells as the wishes made for the Land of the Rising Sun,)
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| Shizuka
|
| (I don't know if they are still trustworthy, just because of the devil's lurking in ...)
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| Shizuka
|
| (Even our becoming devils, was because it wants to kill us in a nefarious manner...?)
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| Shizuka
|
| (It was kept secret from us because of that...?)
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| Shizuka
|
| (Nah, that thing itself might be made-up...)
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| Shizuka
|
| (The hometown that I have always love, now seems completely fake...)
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| Shizuka
|
| (I was fettered by the diviner-consuming rule in the fake world...)
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| Shizuka
|
| (No, I can't... I can't think negatively...)
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| Shizuka
|
| (Even if I was born in a fake world...)
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| Shizuka
|
| The existence of my mom is real...
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| Shizuka
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| So other people... can't be fake either!
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| Shizuka
|
| That house... is illuminated...!
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Shizuka 4
| Welcome back, Shizuka-chan!
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| I wondered if you won't come back after the ceremony.
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| Shizuka
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| I was worried if any contingency would happen, so I came back with Charu and Sunao.
|
| Then we will soon be saved.
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| Shizuka
|
| But why are you all gathering here?
|
| Mikoshiba-sama suddenly came,
|
| saying that monsters were emerging, and ordered us to hide before things would cool down.
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| Shizuka
|
| (Noticing that we were back and then ordered the villagers to evacuate...?)
|
| Shizuka
|
| (As expected, she was trying to wipe us out and revert to the original condition...)
|
| Shizuka-chan, what's up...?
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| Shizuka
|
| (However, everyone is possibly forged... just like the followers...)
|
| Shizuka
|
| ... Is everyone real...?
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| Shizuka
|
| It's the first time that the village becomes like this, so I became anxious.
|
| It's fine, because Shizuka has always been protecting us.
|
| That's it. We also know that you became restless after getting injured.
|
| I believe in you all, so please rest assures.
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| Shizuka
|
| (They are probably real... I'm justified to think so...)
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| Shizuka
|
| It will be fine, thanks, madam.
|
`
Shizuka 5
| Shizuka
|
| Okay! After getting rid of the anxiety, I am fine now!
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| Shizuka
|
| I am gonna defeat the devil!
|
| Sorry for counting fully on you at this point, but please do your best!
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| Shizuka
|
| We diviners are born for this moment!
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| Shizuka
|
| By the way, have all the villagers gathered here?
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| Shizuka
|
| Since this is an emergency, has anyone evacuated to the Great Sanctuary?
|
| No, everyone should have been here.
|
| Shizuka
|
| ... Then even if any contingency happens, it should be fine with my mother here...
|
| Indeed, with the head family here, we feel much more relieved.
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| Shizuka
|
| Can anyone call my mother?
|
| Nah, wait... I haven't seen the head family's people.
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| Shizuka
|
| Eh... Nobody saw them...!?
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| Shizuka
|
| It can't be true...
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| Shizuka
|
| And also, yeah... Where's Chiharu's mother!?
|
| The one who works as a nurse?
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| Shizuka
|
| Yeah, she gave treatment to me!
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| Shizuka
|
| But, what about when she is evacuating!?
|
| We should have been together till then.
|
| Yeah, we witnessed that too.
|
| But I don't think I ever saw her since evacuated to this house...
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| Shizuka
|
| How can that be, only my mother and Chiharu's mother aren't evacuating...
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| Shizuka
|
| The only explanation I can come up with is they got targeted...
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| Sunao
|
| ... Thinking from the devil's perspective,
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| Sunao
|
| since a diviners meal is more appealing for a devil,
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| Sunao
|
| it might want to entomb us here and reset the situation...
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| Shizuka
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| Killing all relatives involved...?
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| Shizuka
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| Telepathy... From Sunao...?
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Sunao 4
| Sunao
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| (Making the situation so complicated, it's probably all my bad...)
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| Sunao
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| (Because I became a diviner without Mikoshiba's permission...)
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| Sunao
|
| (And I was punished by bearing the role of a murderer...)
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| Mikoshiba
|
| What, she already became a diviner!?
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| Sunao's father
|
| But Sunao did nothing wrong!
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| Sunao's father
|
| It's our negligence that we didn't tell her about the diviner...!
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| Mikoshiba
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| It's a grave crime...
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Have ye forgotten that ye are born in the branch family of Tokime Clan!
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| Sunao's father
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| We are fully aware of that...!
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| Mikoshiba
|
| If so, things shouldn't have become like this.
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| Mikoshiba
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| Though ye are too naive, with a daughter entering the age of menarche,
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| Mikoshiba
|
| for what reason ye dare not telling her about that...
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| Sunao's mother
|
| ............
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| Sunao's mother
|
| We wanted to make her interested in that, about diviners...
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| Sunao
|
| Papa and mama did nothing wrong either!
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| Sunao
|
| It's me, it's me who willfully made a wish and became a magical girl.
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| Mikoshiba
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| Were they called like that in the modern world?
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| Mikoshiba
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| Then, what did thou wish for?
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| Sunao
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| ... For my papa and mama.
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Trivial... Wasteful...
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| Sunao
|
| How is that trivial...!?
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| Sunao
|
| Is it so bad to make a wish for important people!?
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Thou under the bloodline of Tokime, let me tell thou what's after that wish.
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| Mikoshiba
|
| ... Come and listen
|
| - Mikoshiba -
|
"Thou wouldst have to
redeem thy parents' crime with thy own behavior."
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| - Mikoshiba -
|
"Even if thou hast become a diviner wastefully
There are mountains of things thou canst do in the village."
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| - Mikoshiba -
|
"If anyone going against my intension appeareth,
Thou shalt kill that person. "
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| - Mikoshiba -
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| "Thou cannot refuse to do so."
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| - Mikoshiba -
|
"Kill others to redeem your crime
or thy parents die to redeem your crime
thou shalt choose one between the two."
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| Sunao
|
| (Still, quite scary...)
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| Sunao
|
| (But if I dealt with the devil faster, maybe I can help my parents too...)
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| Sunao
|
| Ensure Mikoshiba there if she is alive, and question her after the devil is defeated...
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| Sunao
|
| When returned to sanity, ask her about what she thought before that...
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| Sunao
|
| I'm coming in! I got things to do!
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Sunao 5
| Sunao
|
| She really evacuated with other villagers...?
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| Sunao
|
| (Or, maybe, became a puppet of the devil...)
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| Sunao
|
| (Take this chance to search the shelves that I couldn't when Mikoshiba is here...)
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| Sunao
|
| (... A gap in the wardrobe.)
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| Sunao
|
| (Something is leaking out faint light...)
|
| Sunao
|
| ... This is an old computer...
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| Sunao
|
| (This absolutely shouldn't be found in this village...)
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| Sunao
|
| There are many followers in this room... and outside too...
|
| Sunao
|
| which shouldn't be surprising since this is Mikoshiba's home...
|
| Sunao
|
| It's like the followers don't come out until they gather in groups...
|
| Sunao
|
| (Anyway, I'm contacting Shizuka for help when fighting...)
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| Sunao
|
| And I must defend the computer to the last.
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Sunao 6
| Sunao
|
| Disappear from here!
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| Sunao
|
| Though I messed pretty much everything up...
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| Sunao
|
| The computer... seems... intact...
|
| Sunao
|
| (Of course it isn't...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (But I guess at such an age, what she can remember is limited...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (The common sense when people used computers this old should be pretty outdated too...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (Somehow I don't think it should be that complex...)
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| Sunao
|
| (Information that I have collected for revenging someday...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (Seemingly complex things that I have remembered somewhere, like words... numbers...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (The number of the safe box...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (There aren't many files...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (It's connected to the internet...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (Nothing... Neither any in the recycle bin...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (But there isn't much free space left...)
|
| Sunao
|
| (Commonly accessed folders)
|
| Sunao
|
| (A lot of audio files...)
|
| Sunao
|
| ............ It's muted?
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| Shizuka
|
| I'm sorry, Sunao! There are many followers on my way too!
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| Sunao
|
| It's okay. Take it easy. I already defeated them here...
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| Shizuka
|
| ... But, you don't sound well?
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| Sunao
|
| Because I underwent a struggle.
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| Sunao
|
| (Is it something that I can say out easily...?)
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| Shizuka
|
| Can you help me with my searching later...?
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| Shizuka
|
| My mom and Charu's mom went missing...
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| Sunao
|
| How coincidental that they are you two's...
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| Sunao
|
| That aside, do you have any idea about where to search...?
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| Shizuka
|
| That's exactly what I want to know...
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| Shizuka
|
| Wait, I got telepathy from Charu...
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| Sunao
|
| (May as well... carry it to the grave ...)
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| Chiharu's mother
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| ............ Hah
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| Shizuka's mother
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| Ms. Hiroe...
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| The existence of both diviners and Tokime Clan... I haven't settled for them till just now.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| ... I understand your feeling.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| It's hard for me to imagine that the whole village lies inside a labyrinth...
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| Chiharu
|
| I'm sorry for the abrupt comment...
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| You don't have to, Chiharu. We are just a bit surprised.
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| As your mother, I already prepared for the worst the time when you became a diviner.
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| Chiharu's mother
|
| It's okay for me to challenge my common sense to accept them.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Plus, it is harsher for you diviners...
|
| Shizuka
|
| However, we still have no idea about how real they are...
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| Shizuka
|
| Though I know it clear that I was almost killed my Mikoshiba,
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| Shizuka
|
| that Sunao was threatened by Mikoshiba to become an assassin,
|
| Shizuka
|
| and, that followers suddenly emerge from nowhere in the village...
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| Sunao
|
| What about that we may... someday become devils...
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| Shizuka
|
| Just read it as that Mikoshiba was fooling us and attempting to kill us in a nefarious manner...
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| Shizuka
|
| It makes sense to think so, so I don't think it is the fact.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| What's wrong, Shizuka...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| ... Just now, I became worried after some consideration.
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| Shizuka
|
| If, I mean if the village really is a labyrinth of the devil,
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| Shizuka
|
| The sceneries and people that I have seen might be no more than phantoms...
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| Chiharu
|
| I and my mother came from outside, I can guarantee we are real!
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| Chiharu
|
| And Shizuka-chan's mother was also attacked by followers,
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| Chiharu
|
| so she can't be fake either!
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Then from whose womb were you born?
|
| Sunao
|
| Don't think too much about the weird stuff, just focus on the here and now.
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| Chiharu
|
| Anyway, there is a devil, make no mistake.
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| Chiharu
|
| Let's punish it hard and find out the old woman!
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| Chiharu
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| Or we may lose the chance to question her.
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| Shizuka
|
| If manipulated by the devil, she might lose her memories.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| ... You all should go now.
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| Chiharu
|
| It's evening already...!
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| Chiharu
|
| If we don't defeat it before the sunset, it will turn out the way that night did!
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| Shizuka
|
| Right, when darkness falls, it enables the devil to do whatever it wants...
|
| Chiharu
|
| But, is it okay to leave behind our mothers?!?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| If it just comes the devil's followers, I am fully capable of dealing with them.
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| Chiharu
|
| Even when the sword is broken!?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| So I want you to do me a favor before leaving
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| Chiharu
|
| A lot of swords... In the wardrobe...
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Can you infuse the power of diviners into these swords?
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| Chiharu
|
| What does it mean?
|
| Shizuka
|
| The power of diviners can be infused to different items.
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| Shizuka
|
| If you infuse the power to weapons like these,
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| Shizuka
|
| they become weapons that can be used to fight against the devil.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| So please come and infuse your power before leaving
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| We have techniques, but not your power.
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| Chiharu
|
| I see! We'll put it all in!
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| Shizuka
|
| Sunao, you can come and help too!
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| Shizuka
|
| The only question left is where is the devil...
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| Sunao
|
| Well, there is one sword left though.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| It's the treasure, so I guess we should leave it there?
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| Shizuka
|
| It was infused the power of generations of Tokime's diviners.
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| Sunao
|
| I see. It's an important thing.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| But the further story of the sword
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| shall be told to Shizuka when she comes back.
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| Shizuka
|
| What is that feeling of being "halfway" there...
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Be cautious.
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| Shizuka
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| ... Okay, I understand.
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| Shizuka
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| So, got any idea after you both patrolled around the village...?
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| Chiharu
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| Nothing at all here...
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| Chiharu
|
| Still, I feel the shrine smells wrong.
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| Sunao
|
| I went to Mikoshiba's home and find nothing in particular either...
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| Shizuka
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| The same to me, actually.
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| Shizuka
|
| I checked if it was safe and patrolled there, but found nothing worth mentioning...
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| Shizuka
|
| Do all of us really feel nothing...?
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| Sunao
|
| I did feel the atmosphere of the devil.
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| Sunao
|
| But, how can I put it properly... I think it's flat or even...
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| Sunao
|
| It has some weeny changes, but the intensity of the reaction remains the same...
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| Chiharu
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| I guess feel the same.
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| Chiharu
|
| Just feel "it doesn't quite change" and meanwhile search for everybody.
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| Chiharu
|
| What about Shizuka-chan?
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| Shizuka
|
| Unfortunately, the same...
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| Shizuka
|
| Even an idea about whether it is approaching or leaving would be good...
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| Chiharu
|
| Yet the distance remains the same even when we are moving...
|
| Sunao
|
| It doesn't make sense with three of us all feel so...
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| Sunao
|
| It has some weeny changes because it is hiding somewhere...
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| Chiharu
|
| Hiding... Hiding... Hmm, it somehow feels right.
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| Chiharu
|
| It is time to ask Todoriki Kouichi
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| Sunao
|
| Ah, a character in a drama?
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| Chiharu
|
| Sunao-chan knows him!?
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| Sunao
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| Just the name and nothing else.
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| Shizuka
|
| So, what can that Mr. Todoriki do?
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| Chiharu
|
| Become Mr. Todoriki who solves cases in my mind and then ask him.
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| Chiharu
|
| Mr. Todoriki, the reaction remains the same however I move,
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| Chiharu
|
| what should I do at this point!?
|
| - Todoriki (Chiharu) -
|
The culprit is lurking around you
That's for sure
You can try removing the map in your mind
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| - Todoriki (Chiharu) -
|
The world perceived as a flat plain
actually comprises three-dimensional structures like mountains and the sky
You should know that
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| - Todoriki (Chiharu) -
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| Try considering based on that
|
| - Todoriki (Chiharu) -
|
In this world
the so-called truth
may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity
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| Chiharu
|
| Huh... That's what Todoriki told me.
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| Shizuka
|
| You said "told"... But it's all your self-performance...
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| Chiharu
|
| I feel impersonating make my mind smarter.
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| Sunao
|
| But I do believe that there are some perspectives that we have so far missed out...
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| Sunao
|
| Considering the differences between two- and three-dimension...
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| Sunao
|
| To be frank, I think it's underground.
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| Sunao
|
| If you think about it from a two-dimensional perspective,
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| Sunao
|
| your distance to the devil should have been approaching zero meters sooner or later,
|
| Sunao
|
| yet, if it is somewhere 200 meters below the ground,
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| Sunao
|
| The difference of the reaction as you move, if any, won't feel quite significant.
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| Chiharu
|
| With nothing in the sky, so it must be underground.
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| Shizuka
|
| But, under the ground of the village...
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| Sunao
|
| Do you know that...?
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| Shizuka
|
| Yeah... Just one...！
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| Shizuka
|
| By the way, have all the villagers gathered here?
|
| Shizuka
|
| Since this is an emergency, has anyone evacuated to the Great Sanctuary?
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| No, everyone should have been here.
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| Shizuka
|
| The Great Sanctuary...
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| Shizuka
|
| Deep inside the Holy Music Stage that Charu entered, that's where the ancient sanctuary locates...
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| Chiharu
|
| The place that smells awful...！
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| Shizuka
|
| Charu probably felt something at the very beginning...
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| Shizuka
|
| The so-called truth may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity
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| Shizuka
|
| Okay, we are running out of time. Hurry to the Great Sanctuary.
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| Chiharu
|
| It smells stronger just as expected...
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| Shizuka
|
| Is the smell Charu talked about exactly a case-related feeling?
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| Shizuka
|
| For example, feeling the power from a devil, is it relevant?
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| Chiharu
|
| Well... Not something that should be called power.
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| Chiharu
|
| It's a feeling that awful things are going to happen, and the unpleasant feeling nauseates my chest.
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| Shizuka
|
| You have always felt it from here, right...
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| Sunao
|
| We can't know what it really is until we go inside...
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| Chiharu
|
| By the way, what is the Great Sanctuary Shizuka talked about...?
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| Shizuka
|
| The Great Sanctuary is a place to worship the god,
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| Shizuka
|
| like Cubey who realizes wishes
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| Shizuka
|
| and diviners that have fought for the Land of the Rising Sun.
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| Sunao
|
| Have you Shizuka entered it?
|
| Shizuka
|
| People who became dancers have been summoned in,
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| Shizuka
|
| but I don't think most people have been there.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Though it was designated as an emergency shelter, the emergency has never happened until today...
|
| Shizuka
|
| We've arrived. Go into the sanctuary and we should be able to go downstairs.
|
| Chiharu
|
| Ue... It sucks...
|
| Sunao
|
| Wait, are you okay!?
|
| Chiharu
|
| Sorry... But I think I will be able to get used to it a bit later...
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| Chiharu
|
| I don't understand... What is this... ...It's malice, probably.
|
| Chiharu
|
| You feel disgusted when seeing a person who does bad things, right?
|
| Chiharu
|
| I guess, it feels just like that...
|
| Shizuka
|
| If there's no reaction from the devil, can that be someone to arrest...
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| Sunao
|
| Not only the devil, but also Mikoshiba might be there...
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| Chiharu
|
| ... I am well now. I've calmed down
|
| Sunao
|
| Then, let's start descending...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| The reaction can be felt right in front of the staircases.
|
| Chiharu
|
| We did it. This is the right place...
|
| Sunao
|
| How far should we go down...
|
| Shizuka
|
| I don't know... It's the first time for me to go in too...
|
| Sunao
|
| There are a lot of things that Tokime Clan's head family don't know either...
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| Shizuka
|
| Rather, nobody but Mikoshiba know them all...
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| Chiharu
|
| Maybe because the old woman is manipulated.
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| Chiharu
|
| It will be a formidable enemy.
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| Sunao
|
| True, we must be prepared...
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| Shizuka
|
| If we die, everything will be buried into darkness...
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| Shizuka
|
| It's our duty to go back alive and expose everything under the sun.
|
| Chiharu
|
| ... I can see the light.
|
| Chiharu
|
| ... Formidable malice and
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| Shizuka
|
| ... formidable... power of the devil...
|
| Chiharu
|
| ............ What is this place...
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| Shizuka
|
| Such a magnificent place... built without anyone knowing...
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Little girls... Ye actually know it's here...
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| Shizuka
|
| Charu has long felt the smell.
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Troublesome, it's troublesome.
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| Mikoshiba
|
| I should have killed thou earlier.
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| Shizuka
|
| Don't ever talk about killing at ease.
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| Shizuka
|
| Tell us, everything so far, no one less!
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Even if thou never askest, I shall tell thou at thy last breath.
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Well, why not come and play with the devil to decorate the conversation?
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| Sunao
|
| Shizuka, Charu! Behind Mikoshiba!
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Oh, the devil, bury them for me...
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| Mikoshiba
|
| And then it will be their parents' turn.
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| Chiharu
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| The old woman is manipulating the devil...!?
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| Sunao
|
| It looks so, and it turns out to be a trick of manipulating devils...
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| Shizuka
|
| Our enemy is Tokime's priestess.
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| Shizuka
|
| This isn't too weird considering that even diviners can exist.
|
| Chiharu
|
| But... It's possible that she is actually being manipulated.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Go, crush them!
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| Shizuka
|
| Ough...! This is really the devil overwhelming the whole village...
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| Shizuka
|
| Not a critical hit...
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Ye little girls are generations behind
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| Mikoshiba
|
| the devils trained for so many years. Go and melt them altogether...
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| Sunao
|
| What is that water...!
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| Shizuka
|
| Sunao, step back!
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| Chiharu
|
| It's still spraying like crazy!
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| Chiharu
|
| If we can ascend...!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Alongside the wall...
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| Sunao
|
| Kick the walls and hit the devil outright...
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| Shizuka
|
| If so, we will touch its water at the moment we fall.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| The crying voices of the little girls are pleasing and really good.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Here, I can stop it with my power...
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| Sunao
|
| The water flow stop...!
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| Shizuka
|
| Sunao! Escape to its top now!
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| Sunao
|
| But Shizuka, you can't move, can you!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Escape to its top when it stops!
|
| Chiharu's voice
|
| Shizuka-chan! Sunao-chan!
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| Shizuka
|
| Na, the body is wrapped by ropes...
|
| Sunao
|
| A jitte at its end...
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| Chiharu
|
| I'm pullingーーーー!!
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| Shizuka
|
| Thanks, we are saved.
|
| Sunao
|
| There is such a way of making a difference.
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Petty tricks...
|
| Chiharu
|
| The stage where we fight is here!
|
| Chiharu
|
| If we occupy the top of the sanctuary, the pouring water won't be threatening!
|
| Sunao
|
| Right. Let's attack it here!
|
| Shizuka
|
| We just narrowly escaped from death.
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| Mikoshiba
|
| It's useless to escape around.
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| Mikoshiba
|
| collapsing the sanctuary isn't a matter. Be sure to exterminate them all.
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| Chiharu
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| Suffer yourself to be bound!
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| Shizuka
|
| I bound it successfully...
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| Shizuka
|
| Septuple Swords, finish the devil up!
|
| Shizuka's voice
|
| Finally, it's your turn, Sunao!
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| Sunao
|
| If you want to melt us, we will in turn purge you!
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| Mikoshiba
|
| What, can't thou move! Art thou a devil like that and no more!
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Let me see thy potential power!!
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| Chiharu
|
| Getting so angry will blow up your head's blood vessels......
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| Mikoshiba
|
| Dammit... Hiroe's fxxking daughter...
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| Shizuka
|
| Old woman... Wake up.
|
| Shizuka
|
| You probably didn't manipulate the devil. Instead, you were actually manipulated.
|
| Shizuka
|
| If so, you are just killing meaninglessly...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Stop talking nonsense, Tokime's daughter.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Can I ever be manipulated?
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| All I have done is to follow the Shaman Deity's rules.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Everything is real,
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| Mikoshiba
|
| my manipulating the devil, and the fact that ye will become devils,
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| and in addition,
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| that those who go out shall be abandoned; that those come from outside shall be killed...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| For they are necessary for the village... Nothing more and nothing less.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| For the sake of the shadow of the Land of the Rising Sun, all these are necessary.
|
| Shizuka
|
| If so, that thing is too...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| Is it also the village's convention that we became useless after having our wishes granted
|
| Shizuka
|
| and will be killed after being used up?
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| For that reason, ye should be buried
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| so as to make sure that the existence of Tokime is never exposed under broad daylight!
|
| Chiharu
|
| Whatever you say to the old woman, it's useless now...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Yeah... But I still hold the hope
|
| Shizuka
|
| that she will return to normal after the devil is eliminated...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Though Mikoshiba is an annoying old woman, there were times when she was kind...
|
| Sunao
|
| Don't hold that kind of hope on Mikoshiba.
|
| Shizuka
|
| ... It's really just a faint hope.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Oh, devil. This is thy last chance. Don't fail it this time...
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| Shizuka
|
| Sunao, Charu, let's give it the coup de grâce.
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佛色佛諸 應故至貧 以諸靡乃
彼地如國 意聞淨佛 如甚修覆
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| Chiharu
|
| We—we defeated it... Victory...
|
| Sunao
|
| Though we consumed much energy...
|
| Sunao
|
| It dropped its ghost, so I think it's fine...
|
| Shizuka
|
| What about Mikoshiba...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Ough... Nu...u...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Is the old woman fine...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| It would be a big trouble if she dies here.
|
| Sunao
|
| Yes, leaving mountains of questions that we want to ask unanswered...
|
| Shizuka
|
| ... Apparently she has just fainted.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Chiharu! Shizuka-chan!
Sunao-chan!
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| The devil was defeated, right?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| I suppose so because the followers suddenly vanished.
|
| Chiharu
|
| It was pretty tough, but we three endeavored and defeated it!
|
| Sunao
|
| It was nice teamwork.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Yeah. What about mothers...?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| As you can see, exhausted...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Only one sword survives. Another second, and everything would have been over...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Fortunately, we made it in time...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| So, did you see Mikoshiba-sama with the devil...?
|
| Sunao
|
| She was manipulating the devil...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| In other words, they are collusive...?
|
| Chiharu
|
| That is still unknown.
|
| Chiharu
|
| It looked so, but it's possible that she was actually manipulated.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Chiharu, we will talk about that later.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Just ask Mikoshiba after she wakes up.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Then, let's go back to my home for now...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| May I also go to the house Ms. Hiroe rented?
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Ms. Tokime's home was almost devastated after all...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Finally she woke up...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Old woman, are you fine...?
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| ... Ye are diviners'—
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Though there is no injury in particular, do you feel unwell?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Ms. Hiroe, you don't have to take care of her too much.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Tokime's and Hiroe's...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Was that like, I got injured and then fell asleep?
|
| Chiharu
|
| ... Don't you remember anything?
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Sorry... My recent memories are blur...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Huh... Can it be...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| It's possible for one who got a devil's cursing seals to have things forgotten...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Thou mean'st, I, by the devil...?
|
| Sunao
|
| ... But, rather, it looked like you were manipulating the devil...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| I can't remember that... Sorry...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| But it's true that ye saved me, right?
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| I have to express my gratitude to ye three diviners. Thank ye.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Anyway... We have things to ask from you...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Whether your memory is blurred or not, I just want you to let us know.
|
| Shizuka
|
| About us diviners...
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| Mikoshiba
|
| ... They are all that I have said, correct...?
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| Shizuka
|
| Yeah, you said so.
|
| Shizuka
|
| At the coming-of-age ceremony, you said a diviner eventually becomes a devil.
|
| Shizuka
|
| You also said that as the shadow of the Land of the Rising Sun, a diviner can never go out...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| They are all things I don't know...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| But I don't think thou art a dishonest girl...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| So please allow me to make an apology.
|
| Chiharu
|
| The old woman is lying...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| That's troublesome...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Considering what I have done, it's natural for thou to say so...
|
| Chiharu
|
| It smells wrong... Still...
|
| Sunao
|
| It's no longer possible. I can't tolerate anymore...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Toki's daughter...
|
| Sunao
|
| I thought you might admit all of them, but now it seems impossible...
|
| Sunao
|
| To protect Shizuka and Charu from being hurt by the truths, I had held back from telling about them...
|
| Sunao
|
| I thought if Mikoshiba would be punished, may as well bring them to the grave.
|
| Sunao
|
| But, but no longer!
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| What—what arr thou talking about...
|
| Shizuka
|
| What are those things that you held back from telling us...
|
| Sunao
|
| I, I went to Mikoshiba's home, right?
|
| Sunao
|
| At that point, of course, I didn't find Mikoshiba there.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| If so, where was I...
|
| Sunao
|
| At the Great Sanctuary...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| You fool, you mean I was there...!? At the holy place, with the devil!?
|
| Sunao
|
| Don't avoid the topic!
|
| Sunao
|
| You don't remember threatening to kill my parents, do you?
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Then, you shouldn't remember asking me to come and threatening me either...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| That's... true...
|
| Sunao
|
| Since when...? Since when did your memories become blurred?
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| I see... Since Sunao's case, I guess.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| One year... Or maybe... as long as two years if not less...
|
| Sunao
|
| If so, at least you should remember one case as normal...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Which... one...?
|
| Chiharu
|
| Sunao-chan... What are you talking about...?
|
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| Sunao
|
| I went to Mikoshiba's home, and found something...
|
| Sunao
|
| A computer, which shouldn't be here in this village...
|
| Sunao
|
| I entered the same number to the number of the safe box and logged in it.
|
| Sunao
|
| Then, I found some audio files...
|
| Sunao
|
| The files were at least 2 years old...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| ... Thou listenedst to them?
|
| Sunao
|
| Yes... Clearly with my ears...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| So... So... Thou listenedst to them...
|
| Sunao
|
| What are they... Tell me...!!
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Thou'd better not to know.
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Ignorance is bliss.
|
| Sunao
|
| Are you trying to bluff it out!
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| ... Yeah, I shouldn't have allowed people from outside in...
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| Let me tell ye, there is no written documentation,
|
| Mikoshiba
|
| so no villager would be able to read about them.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Wait, what's up...!?
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Leave this house!
|
| Chiharu
|
| The old woman, is dead, really...？
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Poison was put between her back teeth.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Perhaps she attempted to escape to Hades.
|
| Chiharu
|
| Even if she didn't...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Charu...
|
| Sunao
|
| That means she admitted them... Her wrongdoings...
|
| Chiharu
|
| But... but... He said any bad guy can be reformed...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Mr. Todoriki said so...
|
| Shizuka
|
| It's quite possible that people who can't exist...
|
| Sunao
|
| I can't forgive that...
|
| Sunao
|
| Doing malicious things at her will, and even burying them in the darkness when dying...!
|
| Sunao
|
| Sorry... I shouldn't have said like that...
|
| Sunao
|
| I should have... ask more from Mikoshiba before saying that...!
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Sunao-chan, calm down...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Probably, I would have interrogated even if Sunao wouldn't...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Because the dead bodies I saw underwater weren't accumulated within just a couple of years.
|
| Shizuka
|
| She had always... always...
|
| Shizuka
|
| been simply killing diviners, regardless of devils...
|
| Shizuka
|
| ...Son Sunao, what did your heard about...?
|
| Sunao
|
| ... I don't even want to talk about that.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Something to do with me and Chiharu, right...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Just let me know...
|
| Sunao
|
| Don't. You will regret it!
|
| Shizuka
|
| But it's about us, right?
|
| Shizuka
|
| It's unfair if you carry it to the grave.
|
| Chiharu
|
| We want to know about our things, so let us bear it too.
|
| Sunao
|
| What I heard... what I heard was
|
| Sunao
|
| The pricing of lives...
|
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| Chiharu
|
| The pricing of lives...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| Which means, the pricing of my and Chiharu's lives...?
|
| Sunao
|
| A conversation with an unknown man was recorded...
|
| Sunao
|
| Though it was hard to understand at the beginning,
|
| Sunao
|
| the topic gradually shifted to about the wish made when becoming a diviner...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Who is on the other side...?
|
| Sunao
|
| I heard only his voice in the file at that moment. As for his name...
|
| Sunao
|
| Anyway, he must be a celebrity...
|
| Sunao
|
| She talked about the pricing of the wish... and the trend of the time... with that person...
|
| Shizuka
|
| In short, our wishes... Our lives were sold out...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Sorry for telling you straightforward... You are more tolerant than I expected...
|
| Chiharu
|
| We didn't wish for the Land of the Rising Sun...?
|
| Sunao
|
| ... That fact doesn't change.
|
| Chiharu
|
| But, the old woman received money and asked us to make the wishes...
|
| Chiharu
|
| I didn't sacrifice my life to the god...
|
| Chiharu
|
| My life was just sold to an unknown man...
|
| Chiharu
|
| ... My wish... What did I wish for...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Indeed, it was probably sold. Even so... Even so, Charu...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Your wish was indeed realized, and foiled the evil nesting within justice...
|
| Shizuka
|
| So, it was meaningful... It was... Charu...!
|
| Chiharu
|
| By the way, Sunao-chan... How much was I...?
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Wait, Charu... You don't have to ask about that...
|
| Sunao
|
| Yeah, it's not about price.
|
| Sunao
|
| We are friends, and that's priceless.
|
| Sunao
|
| Charu and Shizuka have always been the greatest people.
|
| Sunao
|
| How much are they... I don't know...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Sorry for making you bear that... You are the greatest person too...
|
| Sunao
|
| Even if I attempted to kill you...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| It turned out that Mikoshiba knew everything and manipulated the devil too...
|
| Shizuka
|
| And this village has long been selling lives since ancient times...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Shizuka, not exactly...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| This is Tokime's village. It knows nothing about how things were before Mikoshiba came...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Even if you want to ask, the dead men tell no tales...
|
| Chiharu
|
| If that's the case... If that's the case, just do it till the very end...!
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Charu, what are you doing! Stop!
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| As my mom said, however bad she was, a dead person is dead!
|
| Chiharu
|
| It still smells wrong, didn't I say that just now!
|
| Chiharu
|
| The old woman still smells like a bad person even when she is dead!
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| So what can you do?
|
| Chiharu
|
| The so-called truth may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity.
|
| Chiharu
|
| If it could lie in the computer Sunao-chan found
|
| Chiharu
|
| the real important things may be carried with her, right?
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| I see... Let me search...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| ... I'm sorry.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| ............
|
| Chiharu
|
| Is there... nothing...?
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Something inside the pocket...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| ... This is
|
| Shizuka
|
| a book...? What... what is the weird script...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Nothing can be done if it is unreadable...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| A brain is essential to becoming Mr. Todoriki.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| You promised that you will study and learn the classics now.
|
| Chiharu
|
| H'm. Why the classics?
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| You have to, it is the Hiroe family's tradition.
|
| Chiharu
|
| I'll change this from my generation...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| We... can read it...!
|
| Shizuka
|
| You're kidding...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Our family has the rule of remembering this script...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| But we never expected it to appear in such case...
|
| Shizuka
|
| It can be... deciphered?
|
| Chiharu
|
| Quite possibly...!
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Then I'll leave the deciphering to you. We are going to summon other people.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Other villagers are still in shelters.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Anyhow, Mikoshiba should be carried home too...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Then, Charu... Please...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Okay. I'll try. Mom, try reading this.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Yeah. We probably have to stay overnight.
|
Sunao 7
| Sunao
|
| (A lot of audio files...)
|
| Sunao
|
| ............ It's muted?
|
'About the person to realize the wonder realized
is she prepared yet?'
|
| - Mikoshiba -
|
"Please wait a bit longer,
I can guarantee that will be done within several days."
|
'Things will be screwed up if you don't hurry up.
If it goes well, it will be
an incident that could change the political situation.'
|
| - Mikoshiba -
|
"I know thy circumstances.
Dost thou know how many times I have traded with people like thee?
It's not the first time for thee to ask us for help"
|
'I got your contact information from my teacher,
but whether I will trust you
depends on how this case turns out.'
|
| - Mikoshiba -
|
"Thy political rival hath come to contact me too,
but the price thou suggest is much more favourable"
|
'Please don't be late
I already paid for the wish'
|
| - Mikoshiba -
|
| "Let me tell thee, it will be just several days' wait"
|
| - Mikoshiba -
|
"When that moment cometh
the wish thou paid for will be granted
and thou shalt be thankful to thy teacher too"
|
| 'Thanks. I'm counting on you'
|
| - Mikoshiba -
|
"Besides, thou shouldst know
that our conversations are all recorded as evidence
and will become each other's Achilles' heels"
|
| - Mikoshiba -
|
"Thou shalt never forget that
for thy political career may end because of it."
|
Sunao branch ends. The story continues on the main route (See All 15)
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| Shizuka
|
| Thanks for your hard work, Charu.
|
| Chiharu
|
| It's my first time to stay overnight...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Was it much harder for you to deal with?
|
| Sunao
|
| It's because Mikoshiba died...
|
| Shizuka
|
| And on top of that, the dancers died too, creating a fuss...
|
| Chiharu
|
| That's the reason why people were gathering...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Perhaps only people linked to diviners knew the fact...
|
| Shizuka
|
| The dancers were said to be adopted as Mikoshiba's successors.
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| Sunao
|
| Then, what about Charu's side?
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| Chiharu
|
| Here is it: though we didn't dig into every detail, it's comprehensible overall.
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| Chiharu's mother
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| Though almost all read by your mother.
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| Chiharu
|
| Ur... I will learn it hard...
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| Sunao
|
| But why should we come here?
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| Chiharu
|
| This shrine is the root of Tokime, a good place to start things,
|
| Chiharu
|
| except it isn't — The Wavering Deity is nearby.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Why the Wavering Deity?
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| Chiharu
|
| Just listen to it and you will understand.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| So can we listen to it now?
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Don't just give us cliffhangers and make us impatient.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Okay, the story is divided into two chapters.
|
| Chiharu
|
| One is Mikoshiba's story, another Tokime's.
|
| - Chiharu -
|
Let me begin with Mikoshiba's story
She used to be a warrior dispatched to protect Tokime
who managed to come into power
when there happened to be no diviners in the village
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| - Chiharu -
|
Since then Mikoshiba altered many rules
creating rituals like
Nation's Guard's Holy Music, the ceremony of diviners, and the coming-of-age ceremony
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| - Chiharu -
|
By having the village's girls have their wishes granted
she obtained the ability to manipulate devils
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| - Chiharu -
|
Then
she hid the village in a labyrinth
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| - Chiharu -
|
Which is to say, Mikoshiba
hid the village in which diviners are created for money in a labyrinth
killing diviners in order to monopolize it
so that no information would be leaked out
|
| Shizuka
|
| What Mikoshiba had done on me...
|
| Chiharu
|
| seems to have been long followed...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Then, we might one day become devils...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Seems to be true too...
|
| Shizuka
|
| How can that be...
|
| Shizuka
|
| ... What followings that!
|
| - Chiharu -
|
The following writes about
the Wavering Deity
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| - Chiharu -
|
It is a devil formed by the dumped diviners
who could neither go out
nor return to the village
hence becoming a drifting existence
|
| - Chiharu -
|
The Wavering Deity
would return to the village
as soon as Mikoshiba and the labyrinth of the devil are eliminated
|
| - Chiharu -
|
Ultimately, it will devour the village
and erase all evidence of the diviners — That's all it writes
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| It feels like an obsession that she would never surrender Tokime to anyone else...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Since there is already no labyrinth covering the village...!
|
| Chiharu
|
| Yeah, the Wavering Deity must be returning...
|
| Chiharu
|
| At that time, we must defeat it.
|
| Sunao
|
| We'll attacking our ancestors head-on...
|
| Chiharu
|
| We are going to liberate the diviners who have always suffered...
|
| Chiharu
|
| By us the rules Mikoshiba had set up will be smashed...!
|
| Shizuka
|
| But, since our ancestors have grown for so many years,
|
| Shizuka
|
| are we three capable of defeating them...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| Though we know a battle is inevitable.
|
| Chiharu
|
| This reaction... It's the Wavering Deity...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Now I understand the reason to get all the trouble to take up positions here.
|
| Shizuka
|
| We will attack it head-on here, right?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| I know it's a bad timing, but can you all return to my home...?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| I'll tell you about the sword I talked about last night while walking.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Whew, it still raise my pulse despite my life experience.
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| Shizuka
|
| So what are you gonna inform me?
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Firstly, Hiroe family is the descendant of Mikoshiba, make no mistake.
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| Chiharu
|
| Huh... By Mikoshiba, you mean the old woman?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Exactly.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Only Mikoshiba's people can read that kind of script.
|
| Chiharu
|
| Though I heard from my mom that we came out from Tokime's Village
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| I never expected that to be Mikoshiba...
|
| Chiharu
|
| It's complicated...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Don't say so,
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| because we Tokime's family have been waiting for you
|
| Chiharu
|
| You know we didn't come for that, right?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Even I wasn't aware of that until last night.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| But finally, I understood the meaning of the story that has been passed down by Tokime's...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| When the ones who can read Mikoshiba's script appear, Mikoshiba will collapse.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| Before the collapse, diviners should sharpen a sword.
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| Shizuka's mother
|
| There is a legend goes like this in Tokime's family.
|
| Shizuka
|
| This time we decided to decipher the book after witnessing the situation of the village.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Actually, could we read the book in the first place, we would be able to see the big picture of the plan...
|
| Shizuka
|
| And to annihilate the plan, we will battle against the Wavering Deity...
|
| Sunao
|
| Maybe Shizuka's and Charu's families used to cooperate with each other?
|
| Sunao
|
| And the plan was leaked, so one was banished and lived outside as Hiroe family...
|
| Shizuka
|
| My family has been sharpening the knife...
|
| Chiharu
|
| My family has been passing down Mikoshiba's script...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Shizuka! Accept this!
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| This is the treasured sword to which Tokime's diviners' power has infused.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Use the power incorporated during the 100 years, 200 years, or even 300 years,
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| and liberate the Wavering Deity.
|
| Shizuka
|
| I'll use it properly.
|
| Sunao
|
| This will be the final battle
|
| Chiharu
|
| Those who infused their emotions into the sword must be wandering as the Wavering Deity.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Go and welcome them back, as well as the bright feeling they once had.
|
| Chiharu
|
| At the end of the centuries-long time!
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| Chiharu
|
| The Wavering Deity is pretty close...
|
| Sunao
|
| No, it's still far away...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Will it become excited when seeing the village?
|
| Shizuka
|
| After hundreds of years of wandering, it will finally see its hometown...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Though they are no longer humans they used to be, but just a devil.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Still, seeing the place where it beloned
|
| Shizuka
|
| should make it happy, right?
|
| - Chiharu -
|
-Chiharu-
However, even if it wants to return happily
it is just a venomous devil now
|
| - Sunao -
|
-Sunao-
We can't allow Tokime's village surrendered to it
as its living space
|
| Shizuka
|
| That's why we should liberate it with our hands, right!
|
| Chiharu
|
| Their real destination is the Heaven.
|
| Chiharu
|
| The first shot — nah, the first jitte is mine!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Let us go your boss' place!
|
| Sunao
|
| Go inward at one fling!
|
| Chiharu
|
| Huh... Huh... Hey, Shizuka-chan!
|
| Shizuka
|
| What's up, Charu?
|
| Chiharu
|
| What's next after liberating the Wavering Deity!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Though we don't know, I guess we will have to rebuild the village first,
|
| Shizuka
|
| then explain things that have happened so far.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Everyone will definitely be shocked just like what happened yesterday.
|
| Chiharu
|
| I mean what should we do as diviners!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Well, what should we do...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| We won't know until we defeat it.
|
| Shizuka
|
| You see, finish up what's right in front of you first!
|
| Shizuka
|
| We are entering the deepest part.
|
| Chiharu
|
| The devil's power feels overwhelming...
|
| Shizuka
|
| It's existence per se... seems oppressive...
|
| Sunao
|
| Sorry, the strong power suddenly feels...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Really, my head... feels dizzy now...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Even the followers are bluffing...？It's hard to even stand up, why...
|
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We kill people after becoming a devil
We didn't become the existence that saved the Land of the Rising Sun
We want to tell others, but we can no longer do anything
|
| Shizuka
|
| What, is that voice...!
|
| - ??? -
|
Though 'twas a diviner's body, as a devil, becometh tantamount to death
Even if I save one person tomorrow
may kill a hundred the day after
|
| Shizuka
|
| Don't look at me...
|
| - ??? -
|
| Tainted, stained, we became unclean
|
| Shizuka
|
| Stop... Don't say that...！
|
| - ??? -
|
| 'Tis a body for price evaluation
|
| - ??? -
|
| One silver coin, two silver coins, forty grammes, eighty grammes, price label'd, display'd in shops
|
| Shizuka
|
| (From within my body...!)
|
| - Shizuka -
|
My life isn't mine
I was kept, sold, then became a devil, staining this hateful mortal world
|
| Shizuka
|
| Ye... Yeah... I don't know about what's next.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Because we are existences that will become devils...
|
| Shizuka
|
| We didn't fight for the Land of the Rising Sun, so we are designed to be killed.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Even pricing lives...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Even what Mikoshiba had done might be right.
|
| Shizuka
|
| And that's why we have been living within the confine of these conventions...
|
| Shizuka
|
| I really don't want to consider about what's next after defeating it.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Because, isn't it too horrible!
|
| Sunao
|
| Pricing lives is wrong...!
|
| Sunao
|
| As you Shizuka said to me, I am the best person,
|
| Sunao
|
| there is no difference between lives!
|
| Sunao
|
| Wouldn't Shizuka be admirable if she maintains her honor, never surrendering it, and always does her best?
|
| Sunao
|
| Even if we become devils someday,
|
| Sunao
|
| won't it be good if we fight for the Land of the Rising Sun till the very end!
|
| Sunao
|
| Meanwhile, we may be able to find out...
|
| Sunao
|
| a new path for us, right!
|
| Sunao
|
| Let's find it out together, Shizuka！
|
| Sunao
|
| To compensate your forgiveness for me,
|
| Sunao
|
| I will heal your heart, always...!
|
| Sunao＆Shizuka
|
| Ouuuugh! Aaah!
|
| Chiharu
|
| I am too weak to be the cushion...
|
| Chiharu
|
| Hey, listen to me...
|
| Chiharu
|
| I didn't finish Tokime's story in the book, did I?
|
| - Chiharu -
|
Before Mikoshiba came...
Tokime's people think about national affairs on their own
They made their wishes on their own mind too
|
| - Chiharu -
|
Though when the war became fierce and nobody was trustwrothy
and also when there were no diviners left
they became under Mikoshiba's control
|
| - Chiharu -
|
Those who became coming-of-age
seemed to really have departed and gone out
|
| - Chiharu -
|
After that, they knew their relationship with devils
However, here's how Tokime's people thought
|
| - Chiharu -
|
| "Honor can be maintained as long as souls were sacrificed to the Land of the Rising Sun"
|
| - Chiharu -
|
| "Even if I become a devil, what I have achieved won't be wasted"
|
| Shizuka
|
| If I literally sacrificed my soul to the Land of the Rising Sun...
|
| Shizuka
|
| my honor can be maintained...!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Even if I become a devil, what I have achieved won't be wasted.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Proud of that, I can fight till I eventually fall...!
|
| Shizuka
|
| That's what I said to Mikoshiba...
|
| Chiharu
|
| You did say so...
|
| Chiharu
|
| So, here's what I think:
|
| Chiharu
|
| there is no place for Mikoshiba inside Shizuka-chan's soul, which has always been Tokeme's.
|
| Chiharu
|
| Thus, as Sunao-chan said, let's find it out together!
|
| Shizuka
|
| I was the one who was beaten by the devil...
|
| Shizuka
|
| But I have woken up...!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Let us three keep some distance!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Fortunately, we are a trio.
|
| Shizuka
|
| I want us three to win together and find our new future!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Let's watch over where our ancestors will be liberated!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Oh, Tokime's sword...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Open a future for us...!!
|
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| - Chiharu -
|
Time elapsed hurriedly
after the Wavering Deity was liberated
|
| - Chiharu -
|
That's because we had to tell everyone
the history of Tokime and Mikoshiba
|
| - Chiharu -
|
As well as to search Mikoshiba's home
and investigate into her background so far
|
| Chiharu
|
| Is your family fine, Sunao-chan?
|
| Sunao
|
| Papa and mama also apologized more than before.
|
| Shizuka
|
| I'm glad that everything returned to normal.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Now we have broken free from Mikoshiba's curse.
|
| Chiharu
|
| And we will be together from now on too, right?
|
| Sunao
|
| Of course. Why not?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Ah—, I'm tired; I'm tired...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| It is a feeling of done and dusted though.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Actually, everyone is so unfamiliar with modern society.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Without you, Ms. Hiroe, we couldn't have made clear anything.
|
| Chiharu
|
| Welcome back, mom.
|
| Shizuka
|
| You must be tired.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| On the case of Mikoshiba, everything finally fell into place.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Let Ms. Hiroe tell that.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Eh, ah, okay...
|
| - Chiharu's mother -
|
The root of this incident was indeed the village's convention
but it seems that what triggered it
was the Mikoshiba's debt
|
| - Chiharu's mother -
|
After a huge investment failed
she seemed in trouble of cash flow
Therefore, she took advantages from diviners hurrily
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Regardless of reasons, she used others' kids...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| I can't forgive that, not even if I am dead...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| I don't want to say like that before my daughter, but it's such a feeling of holding a grudge until the doomsday.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Definitely...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| That being said, Ms. Hiroe, the doomsday hasn't come yet, right?
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| ... Don't carp at me pointlessly.
|
| Sunao
|
| Then, the reason she reached out to me and Chiharu was...
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Sunao-chan's becoming a diviner should be out of Mikoshiba's expectation.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| So she turned to us, triggering an unexpected chain of incidents.
|
| Sunao
|
| If so, had I never become a diviner, Charu wouldn't have to bear all of these.
|
| Chiharu
|
| There is no such thing!
|
| Chiharu
|
| We already decided to be together. Don't dither over such thing!
|
| Sunao
|
| O—okay, I know that.
|
| Shizuka
|
| By the way, what about other villagers? It seems that they never calm down...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Eventually, the village has been blessed by diviners.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| In the past, people could grow their own crops and live good lives.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| In other words, adults become worried when losing their financial support.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Of course, I am no exception.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Please don't say that indifferently...
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| What Mikoshiba worried about included the funding of the village too.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| We have to take it into consideration.
|
| Shizuka
|
| ... The same way we also worry everything about the future of diviners...
|
| Shizuka
|
| People in the village have their things to worry about in the future too.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| That's true.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Didn't you find anything else?
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Hmm, if you mean something interesting, I found something like Tokime's family tree.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Actually, Tokime's bloodline seems to have scattered all around.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| It looks like our blood relatives live in other mountains and seaside areas too.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| On top of that, what will you do? That's what I concerned about.
|
| Chiharu
|
| We have a clear answer in our minds.
|
| Chiharu
|
| We already knew what we would fight for in our hearts and what we would aim at!
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Oh, you became pretty reliable.
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| Then, what's your first step?
|
| Chiharu
|
| Firstly, we will have a conversation with Cubey-sama!
|
| Shizuka's mother
|
| With Cubey-sama?
|
| Sunao
|
| Yes, about any method for us to avoid becoming devils,
|
| Sunao
|
| we want to know if he knows anything about that.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Then, we will plan our future living according to the answer.
|
| Chiharu's mother
|
| Anyhow, we three will be together from now on.
|
| Chiharu
|
| Because we must change us diviners' fate!
|
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| Sunao
|
| Can we summon it out without dancers?
|
| Shizuka
|
| It is the god, but we are not the priestess. I'm afraid we can't.
|
| Chiharu
|
| We won't know unless we try!
|
| Chiharu
|
| Then, let's try shouting loudly!
|
| - Three people -
|
| "Kyu———be————sama————"
|
| Kyubey
|
| Hey, it's you who called me out, right?
|
| Shizuka
|
| Then what's the meaning of the dance...?
|
| Sunao
|
| Probably a performance to make it felt solemn...
|
| Kyubey
|
| Did you summoned me for no reason?
|
| Shizuka
|
| Ah, no! We have things to ask you!
|
| Kyubey
|
| I'll answer anything I can.
|
| Kyubey
|
| Then, Shizuka, what do you want to ask from me?
|
| Shizuka
|
| Well, we know that we will become devils...
|
| Shizuka
|
| Do you know any method to avoid that?
|
| Shizuka
|
| The means that we can keep living as diviners.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Because we fight for the Land of the Rising Sun and don't want others to suffer!
|
| Kyubey
|
| I'm sorry, but I cannot satisfy your expectation.
|
| Chiharu
|
| You don't know any...?
|
| Kyubey
|
| At least I don't know any method to avoid it.
|
| Kyubey
|
| There haven't been many successful cases so far.
|
| Chiharu
|
| Did you just say "many"!?
|
| Chiharu
|
| Then it means it's just Cubey-sama doesn't know,
|
| Chiharu
|
| but the method exists, right!?
|
| Sunao
|
| Yet, Cubey-sama doesn't know, right...?
|
| Kyubey
|
| True. It's hard for me to tell you by myself.
|
| Kyubey
|
| But you can see how it works and obtain it.
|
| Kyubey
|
| Do you know a place called Kamihama City or not?
|
| Sunao
|
| Ah, I once heard about it!
|
| Kyubey
|
| There is an automatic purification system in Kamihama City.
|
| Kyubey
|
| Thus, if you manage to obtain it,
|
| Kyubey
|
| I think you will be able to avoid becoming devils.
|
| Kyubey
|
| Of course, I cannot say I am sure about that.
|
| Shizuka
|
| That trivial thing doesn't matter...! I suddenly feel the overwhelming hope...!
|
| Shizuka
|
| Let's go! To Kamihama City!
|
| Sunao
|
| Yeah, I'll guide you using a map!
|
| Chiharu
|
| I will explain everything about modern society to Shizuka-chan!
|
| Shizuka
|
| That—that's not quite necessary.
|
| Chiharu
|
| Can you use an IC card...?
|
| Shizuka
|
| ... Haven't even heard the name.
|
| Kyubey
|
| If you feel like to go to Kamihama, I have several things to explain.
|
| Kyubey
|
| First, there are dozens of girls like you in Kamihama City.
|
| Kyubey
|
| You'd better keep that in mind.
|
| Kyubey
|
| Second, they have some different terminology.
|
| Kyubey
|
| For example, except around Tokime's territory, girls like you
|
| Kyubey
|
| aren't known as diviners.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Then, how they call us?
|
| Kyubey
|
| You are called magical girls.
|
Epilogue
| Chiharu
|
| Well! Grief seed!
|
| Chiharu
|
| I remembered them well though.
|
| Shizuka
|
| I am too familiar with the old names.
|
| Shizuka
|
| It's pretty hard to switch away...
|
| Sunao
|
| That's because of your long experience.
|
| Shizuka
|
| Speaking of which, Charu hasn't since felt the village's awful smell?
|
| Chiharu
|
| No. It's completely away. Now I breathe more freely.
|
| Sunao
|
| Eh, was that a real smell?
|
| Chiharu
|
| Actually not. It was like something from intuition?
|
| Shizuka
|
| It doesn't seem to have anything to do with witches, but is really like a power specialized for any case.
|
| Chiharu
|
| Yeah, I might have felt malice at that time.
|
| Sunao
|
| It somehow sounds like a power that may be useful in the future too.
|
| Chiharu
|
| I'll do my best for that!
|
| Shizuka
|
| That's reassuring.
|
| Chiharu
|
| But it still feels incredible.
|
| Chiharu
|
| It hasn't been long since I met with Shizuka-chan and Sunao-chan,
|
| Chiharu
|
| but we three are actually departing together.
|
| Sunao
|
| Looking back, I couldn't imagine it at all.
|
| Chiharu
|
| It's so exciting!
|
| Shizuka
|
| It's been just a couple of days since Charu became a magical girl.
|
| Shizuka
|
| But for me, it was quite a radical change?
|
| Sunao
|
| Shizuka is more like confused.
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| Shizuka
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| Nah, actually not quite.
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| Shizuka
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| I don't really understand it, but I think something finally started,
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| Shizuka
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| and that's my life.
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-Chiharu-
We will obtain it someday
The means for not becoming witches!
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-Sunao-
And we will keep fighting
for the Land of the Rising Sun till death
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-Shizuka-
That's us
Tokime Clan's long-maintained honor
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-Chiharu-
To do so, first, we have to?
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-Shizuka-
I already got the answer
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-Chiharu-
Great, Shizuka-chan!
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-Sunao-
Then, what's the answer?
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-Shizuka-
We should read the family tree remained in Mikoshiba's home
and get into contact with people from Tokime clan and its branches
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-Shizuka-
We will recruit people who are willing to join us
and found a group of Tokime clan
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-Shizuka-
When prepared
let's go to the other side of this landscape!
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-Sunao-
Exactly
over the mountains to the place beyond them
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-Three people-
To Kamihama City!
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