[The guys are changing. Please knock before entering]
Wow. That's not gonna look good.
Quit touching me. Ow!
What should I do? My gym clothes are inside.
Hey! Wait!
The boys are changing.
What to do... P.E. is about to start.
Huh? What...w-wait!
Huh? Why? Why'd she...?
Maybe nothing causes Kyuuto dislike...
nothing makes her hesitate...
nothing embarrasses her into unexpected tears...
nothing makes her wish she could undo it.
Tenka toru! [Be victorious]
- Seriously? - We're gonna do that?
As you all know...
this was a ritual for good luck when this was an all boys school.
We're doing this on Festival Eve?
- Why's it only guys? - That's unfair.
Last year, Horiuchi, top of his class...
said this was stupid and refused to participate.
And what happened to him?
On the day of entrance exams he got the flu. All his work - gone.
That's how it goes. Everyone, take this seriously.
- Hey, who had the nicest body? - Kageyama.
He's the childish type.
But he's pretty ripped.
Listen to you! He's well muscled but slender.
Now, now, everyone. Everything will be revealed on Festival eve.
No need to guess.
Only Heita.
What? Fukai?
Only Heita had a mark.
I hate the Culture Festival.
Last year, I used my illness as an excuse to stay home.
As for the year before that...
No. It-it's not like that.
Yay! You having fun?
- He's horrible. - Just mean.
[Yaki-soba]
The Culture Festival makes me remember things I forgot.
They say you'll never feel the same wind blow twice...
You can never undo some things...
That empty, helpless feeling...
That's right. You always hated that stuff...
like fireworks and long novels.
Well, it's sad when they're over.
What about this year's Festival?
Maybe I'll stay home.
The whole "be victorious" thing?
Think that really helps you pass?
- Well, no, but... - Oh yeah, on Festival eve...
can I stay here?
You mean "here"?
Let's have our own Festival Eve.
What?
I'll say cool stuff like "are you depressed?".
I'll borrow that bed.
You might get to see the Night Nurse.
What Night Nurse?
At 8 pm, a female nurse comes.
She says, "I'm the Night Nurse!"
"Night Nurse"...what's that mean? Now it's gonna bother me.
I don't know what it means. She says it!
"I'm the Night Nurse"? What's she look like?
The same wind never blows twice.
Even though I'm not in love with Shibata Kyouko anymore ...
whenever I see her, my breath catches in my throat.
Even if I want to take it back...
there are some things you can never get back.
That helplessness hurts.
This feeling is something
Kyuuto probably doesn't understand.
[Kyuuto] Episode 3
Can someone nominate themselves as rep for the "Miss" Contest.
Anyone?
No way. It's embarrassing.
Class-C's Shibata Kyouko's gonna win anyway.
Shibata Kyouko's super serious about it.
She already got contest clothes though she's not their rep yet.
That's right. If you get picked, you have to buy new clothes.
Don't worry. You won't be picked.
Isn't there anyone?
You have to perform too, right?
If you're talking about cute, in our class that'd be...
Kawai-san?
That's just a pun!
Yeah, let our class rep do it.
Enough jokes already!
Really, no joke, pick the class rep.
Sure. We have to study for exams.
Excuse me.
I have to study too.
So this is a chance for you to take a break, Kawai.
Who thinks Kawai should do it?
Here...
Then it's decided.
Turn this way more...
Perfect!
And smile.
Good.
I didn't think you'd raise your hand too.
Huh? What about?
The Miss Contest rep.
Well...you're cute, Kawai.
I didn't think you'd make fun of me.
Huh? What do you mean?
You really are pretty!
I really think so.
Fukai-kun.
I was chosen as rep for the Miss Contest.
Oh.
If I...
if I win...
Sorry. It's nothing.
"Will you go out with me?" is what she wanted to say.
"I've been waiting a long time."
I'm Fujino.
Fujino Tsukiko.
- Oh. The recluse. - You've heard of me.
Where's 3rd Year, Class-B?
Classes are already over.
Fine. I prefer no people
or my energy gets sapped.
Huh?
Mark?
- On Fukai's chest? - Yes.
It's his surgery scar.
- Surgery? - Yes.
Ah! That's it! That's why...
That's why Fukai wasn't coming to the Festival.
I mean, there's that "be victorious" thing.
I guess you won't know.
I see. He didn't want people to see his chest scar.
Honestly. He was worried about that?
Is having a scar that bad?
I think it's cool.
Amazing...
it's stifling in here.
This place is impossible for me.
Hey! Fujioka!
Nishi-senpai?
You're looking good.
I've got this friend with an amazing plan.
Plan?
Even without doing a thing...
money just rolls in.
I see.
Wanna join us?
Oh! No!
Think it over.
What's with him?
Is all this for Festival Eve?
- Isn't it too much? - We're staying up all night.
How'd you get this?
It is happening to Nakaon too.
What?
Nakao... Nakao!
Fukai...
You!
Ow! Ow, ow...
So...
All of this...is special effects make-up?
The eye?
Since we were doing it anyway,
I chose the style.
You mightn't want to show your scar in the "Victory in Exams Invocation."
If you failed entrance exams because of that...
it's something you can't take back, so...
I thought I should just make obvious scars.
Why'd you go out of your way for me, making scars and stuff?
You ran to help me when you thought I was in trouble!
Even though you shouldn't run...
I'm worn out.
Looks like...
I have to be in that "Victory in Exams Invocation," you know?
Yeah...but after I'm done for the day, I'll come back.
I gotta see that Night Nurse, right?
Nakao's a good guy, huh?
Yeah.
Later.
Bang.
Let's go.
It's a charm to ward off evil.
If anything else happens, I'll need time off school.
Is it all right to dispose of money?
That's not throwing it away.
It's an offering.
Fujioka disposed of some too.
He made a wish at a shrine too?
30,000 yen.
30,000 yen?
So you can do stuff like this.
I've got this friend
with this amazing plan.
Plan?
- What? (Even without doing a thing)
money comes rolling in.
This is bad! That job's gotta be something dangerous!
What do I do...
Think it over.
What're we gonna do about Fujioka?
We will tell him not to do it.
Well...yes, but...
I can't just say, "don't do it."
We can't take care of Fujioka's living expenses.
If he had money, Fujioka would not have to do dangerous work?
Well, for now anyway...
30,000, huh?
What?
We will have everyone dispose of their money here for Fukioka.
"Everyone," who?
The people I meet. Everyone.
Please dispose of some.
- Huh? Me too? - Yes.
I guess I really can't... I'll return the money.
What? You spent it already?
You're careless with money, huh?
You've got a little brother.
What're you gonna do?
There's no helping it, huh?
Think it over, one more time.
That's 440 yen.
A friend is poking his nose into dangerous business.
Please, dispose of your money.
Money?
Could you lend me some?
I can't ask mom.
- Another idol? - No.
Clothes.
Clothes?
Are you stupid?
Clothes aren't important enough to borrow money for.
I was chosen as the rep.
Rep?
From my class, for the Miss Contest.
What?
Someone as ugly as you would never be in a "Miss" Contest.
I really was chosen.
Then they're just harassing you.
They make the ugly girl feel good, then laugh at her.
You get excited and buy clothes...
How stupid are you?
Don't even think of entering.
You should enter.
Yamamoto.
No, it's true, so...
What is?
It's only because I study hard that people treat me like one of them.
Just like my older brother said, I'm ugly, so...
This "brother" of yours is wrong.
Kawai, you're beautiful.
No, I can't be...
No way that's true.
I see.
So you won't believe what I say.
It's not like that!
Yamamoto...
it isn't that I don't trust you.
I want to believe...
but I can't.
Because I'm...
Kawai...
You've come all this way...
without saying wrong things are wrong, haven't you?
If you don't say "that's wrong"...
the "wrong" things become the truth.
Unless you say it as loud as you can...
no one else will say it for you.
Say it. Scream it...
"I am beautiful."
Who cares if people make fun of you?
- Get out of my way! - What's with her?
Say "it isn't true," as loud as you can.
A friend has poked his nose into dangerous business.
Please save him.
Thank you very much.
I'll just keep screaming...
I don't have love or money
I'm just a proud ne'er-do-well
Here.
They're beautiful.
You don't mind?
Sure. I won't wear them again.
Thank you.
I am not ugly.
I am not ugly!
- Kyuuto? - Yes.
She just got back...worn-out.
Worn out?
She was serious.
Shikahamabashi High School is about to begin Festival Eve events.
Senior boys, please be ready for the "Victory in Exams Invocation."
I been tellin' you! You talk weird!
Say it proper. Proper, got it?
Go on.
Your money...
Are you okay, Miss?
Are you okay, Miss... Ow, hot!
Hot... Hot!
Shall I bring in ice? Miss...
Are you okay?
But what if she's actually...
a crane or something.
- Sensei, may I borrow the yellow paint? - Go ahead.
Hello. Pardon me for intruding.
- Hello. - Why're you here?
What? You said you'd be late, so I brought ohagi.
- Thank you! - Why'd you bring ohagi?
- I'm his mother. - Okay, I get it! Thanks. Let's go home.
You're not leaving yet?
Haven't you had enough?
Wasn't it your fault we didn't get to Koshien?
That again? I've heard it enough...
To make that mistake at such an important moment...
I was incredibly embarrassed.
I didn't think I could live but
it was unexpectedly easy to keep living
for me and you.
I guess.
What do I do? It's impossible now.
The dress I borrowed was put in the wash.
It must mean I shouldn't be in it.
Right? I mean...
no-one will be put out if I don't enter.
I'll go tell them I'm not participating.
I'll do something about the clothes.
It's like my brother said.
It was wrong of me to enter.
No matter what you may say...
I am ugly.
Will you believe your brother?
Or believe in yourself?
In your life, who will you believe in?
I want to believe in myself
- I just push here? - Right.
How simple!
It'd be nice if people were that simple too.
What?
Well...
words don't get through, and I can't give a hug.
What should I do at a time like that?
All that's left is passion.
You see... here you can feel heat simmering, and soon...
pop! The lid comes flying off
and it lands, clink, on the person you want to reach.
It hits its target that easily?
Don't aim, just hope it flies.
Like this...Pop!
Be victorious!
Has it started?
Nishi?
You're looking good!
School's doing the same old ridiculous stuff.
I suppose so.
That's right! I have to give them back, don't I?
Come on. Come on.
Here you are.
I don't need these after all this time.
What are you saying?
Here, this too.
You know, this was the one thing
you always tried your hardest in.
Be victorious.
Be victorious!
There she is! I found her!
- Kawai, you have to come! - This way! Come on!
Okay. Here we are.
Kawai is beautiful!
I'm so jealous!
Kawai is beautiful!
He's risking his entrance exams. Lift your head and listen, for him.
Kawai is beautiful!
Oh, that's right.
Will you give this back to Kageyama for me?
Kawai is beautiful!
- The Miss Contest is about to start! - Seriously? Better move!
Huh?
Don't tell me it reached her?
I was chosen as rep for the Miss Contest.
You're leaving without watching the Miss Contest?
I promised someone else.
Watch, for her.
Nothing will change if I watch.
You think so?
Even though this moment will only happen this once...
This is...uniforms from other schools?
We'll coordinate a one-of-a-kind uniform.
[Sorry. Gonna be a bit longer]
Thank you.
Next up, class 3-B, Kawai Emiko.
Here she is!
Let's go.
- Amazing... - We've been waiting!
I am Kawai, 3rd year, class B.
I'll be singing, "The Wind."
Every single person
sets out on their journey alone
Every single person
looks back at the home they've left
feeling just a little bit lonely
even if you turn and look back
all there will be is the wind blowing
Every single person
stumbles in their lives
Every single person has their dream crushed
and turns to look back
Dry sycamore leaves dance
on this winter road
At the sound of the sycamore leaves falling
I turn and look back
Even if I hear "please, come home" and turn back
all there will be is the wind
If I'd just smiled and said, "it's fine," after you shook me off...
do you think we'd still be together?
If I won the Miss Contest...
I thought I could get that back.
For me, will you say, "Of course we can get it back"
even if it's a lie.
If we started dating again...
would that mean we'd gone back and fixed it?
That's not how it would be.
And you know...
it wouldn't be. Right?
"Getting something back"...
probably means...
being able to move on.
Shibata Kyouko. Stand-by, please.
Okay.
Shake my hand off...
...and go.
We'll take back everything. Okay?
Now...we're even.
Yeah.
Please look out for my son.
- Huh? Leaving already? - I've somewhere to go.
Oh! I have one of these.
Chiro!
What's wrong? Chiro?
Chiro licked that amulet, and now...
- It's because it wards against evil spirits! - What do you mean?
If anything not human touches it...
it's said it will suddenly vanish from this world.
- Anything not human? - Well, Chiro is an animal.
Chiro-chan!
What? Nothing inhuman should touch it?
What do I do? I gave one to Kyuuto!
What? Kyuu-chan?
It's really that effective?
It's extraordinarily effective.
Lightning struck.
It couldn't be...
not Kyuuto...
Come on, get back. Stand back.
Kyuuto...
- Kyuuto! - Get back!
Calm down! No-one's there. It's just a machine!
Kyuuto! Kyuuto...
Kyuuto!
Kyuuto.
Don't move.
Are you okay?
Give me a break...
Excuse me.
I'm looking after you tonight. I'm Kagawa. Nice to meet you.
What? I mean...um...
Where's the "I'm the Night Nurse"?
Oh. Kanai-san. Didn't you hear she got married.
She's in Italy now. I'm so jealous.
We're home!
Honestly, Tou-san...
He gets like this when we leave him alone.
If you sleep there, you'll catch a cold.
Welcome home.
The crane...
Where's the crane?
What are you talking about?
There was a crane here!
- A robotic Crane Wife. - You drank too much.
No! She...she was in that room!
She had her wings spread, like this, but they were mechanical.
What are you saying?
No! Stop!
Nothing's there.
Huh? You're kidding.
One sec.
Sh-she was right here.
The machine was flashing.
You were dreaming.
I was?
You drank too much.
Are you okay?
Fujioka!
Kyuuto collected this for you.
It's so you won't get involved in anything dangerous.
Sorry. We overheard you and Senpai talking.
Loose change like this won't change anything.
That might be true but...
Look.
This has nothing to do with you.
That's right. It's not my problem.
But I don't like seeing people crushed.
You don't either.
Silently watching someone get crushed.
You hate it, right?
Nishi-senpai...
wouldn't do that to me.
Seriously, what is this?
You really are an idiot.
I picked up the money you tossed.
That's right.
It's like he said.
I was going to crush you under my heel.
Being made to carry all this junk...
cut through the lies.
Are you okay?
Kubo? Sorry to keep you waiting.
Who's there?
Fukai asked me to come play games all night in his place.
Which do you want first?
Heita hates endings.
Really...
And because he's afraid of endings...
he's not good at starting things.
Well, you can't live that way, can you?
Humans die, 100%...
Everyone... Oh!
Everyone knows that's why you live.
Tell Heita that.
Did I die? Here, did I die?
Yes, you died perfectly.
Oh no, no, no. Bring me back to life.
I ended up spending the whole time at school.
Sorry! Are you okay? You aren't hurt?
I'm okay.
Where on earth did she learn that?
Guys! Quit goofing off!
[You can still take it back. Hang in there!]
[Come back]
[No such thing as too late. Don't give up]
[Just a little more! Keep trying!]
The same wind...
will never blow twice.
And in the midst of that...
we go on living.
That's right. Screaming and crying.
It's the first time I'd seen that.
It creeped me out but...
somehow it was moving.
[Heita]
I had a dream.
Kyuuto was human...
and I was a robot.
When I asked, sobbing, why I wasn't a human...
Kyuuto came to my side and said this...
"Being human or not..."
"doesn't matter."
"Right now, you and I, Heita, are becoming human."
"Having others worried about us..."
"worrying about others... We can do that."
"We are becoming people others can love."
"Isn't that enough?"
Kyuuto's words were so kind...
even in my dream, I sobbed uncontrollably.
In a corner, on the stairs [Kaidan no katasumi ni]
that person cowering, crouched [suwari uzukumaru no ano hito ni]
I wonder what happened [nani ga atta n darou]
What did that person see? [Ittai nani wo mitekita n darou]
In a crowd of people [Hitogomi no naka de]
that man and woman glare at each other [niramiau danjou no aida ni]
I wonder what happened between them [nani ga okottarou]
What circumstances led them there? [Ittai donna jijou ga atta n darou]
Once, you called me outside [Itsuka boku wo yobidashita...]
and the teacher yelled; that scene [sensei ga donatteta sono scene ha]
I wonder what it looked like [donna dattarou]
What on earth did I learn from it? [Ittai boku ha nani wo shitta n darou]
On the other side [Itsu kara ka tsuzuiteru]
of this war that's lasted since who knows when [sensou no hate ni donna koto ga]
I wonder what waits for us [matteru n darou]
And what can I do? [Soushite boku ni nani ga dekiru n darou]
The truth of things [Koto no shinsou ha nani mo]
we feel like we know, but we can't learn [shitteiru you de shirienai]
Even so, somehow or another [Sore demo dou ni ka kou ni ka]
It's like we were never here [ikiteita naka ga nai]
It's not enough to face futility [Muda ga atteba tarirarenai]
But there are too few things to believe in [Demo shinjirareru mono mo sukunai]
The only certain thing is my feelings [Tada hitotsu tashika na no ha boku no kimochi]
Let me hear that voice of yours [Kimi no sono koe wo kikashite yo]
That's where I find something to believe in [Shinjireru mono ga soko ni aru yo]
The only certain thing is my time with you [Tada hitotsu tashika na no ha omae to no toki]
I love you [Kimi ga suki]
This world has stuff that doesn't matter and stuff you can do nothing about.
He is a merciless man.
It has to be you, Sensei!
There's no such thing as "forever".
Everything ends, one day.
I knew it. She isn't human.
If you let go, it's all over.
I want to say what I think, but...
it'll put the people I talk to in a bind, so...
The Rice God is always with you, but
without effort, not a single grain of rice will grow.