It's a fantasy.
What?
That was my dream.
You saw a prophetic dream.
It can't be...that I was Akumu-chan...
It was a magnificent dream interpretation. As expected from Ayami-sensei.
But...I wonder how she even knew the train's time, huh.
Because whatever future it holds, I will show you that I can change it.
Please let me take back my letter of resignation.
I couldn't consent.
[You're number one distant memory.]
[Kotou, Yuiko]
Did you see another one?
You went there too? To that place.
To that place?
You were scouted, right?
Scouted?
Were you asked to become a reader model? (amateur model who appears in fashion magazines)
A reader model?
We were also asked.
Asked if we would like to become a reader model. They called out to us on the street.
Nope. No, no! That wouldn't happen to me.
But you saw it, right?
That swing...
Swing?
It can't be...have you seen that swing?
Akumu-chan! Episode 9 ~Everyone's Dream~
Subtitles in English by LuffyNoTomo and special thanks ( -o _ o- ) for raws and to Furransu for the use of their Japanese subs~!!
See, here.
Ah.
That fact that you don't know about this, means that the swing Kotou-san saw was merely a coincidence.
What's this?
We don't really quite know.
Nao-chan and I were invited to become a reader model for this magazine.
Go on ahead and please proceed this way!
Watch your step, okay.
Once everyone's out. Then please continue to the left, alright.
This way!
The older lady who called out to us was really nice and cheerful. And because there were a lot of others, we were relieved and got on to the bus but...
When I got home. And my mother called the publishing company, we were told that there were no such people or coverage...
It's not like they took a weird picture or anything.
We don't understand why they might have deceived us.
Then after a little while. My older brother found this site.
Tsukimoto-san's older brother?
Yep. He's a shut-in next door. (A hikikomori)
He's quiet and somewhat of an otaku high school student.
Is that so.
What is written here?
I don't know!
But, I'm scared...
After the photo shoot, I exchanged my email address with the others and kept in contact but...
Gradually, the replies started to stop.
This girl. This girl. And this girl too...
Eventually, the police came to my house.
Because there were e-mails that I had often sent, on the cell phone which was left behind.
They said this girl vanished.
I can't confirm but, perhaps the other girls also might have vanished.
I'm afraid. If everyone else vanished then that would mean that Nanami-chan and I too will vanish, right?
What shall we do.
It's best to tell Ayami-sensei!
At least that's what I think.
Thanks for the meal!
Good morning!
Ahh! What the!?
Hey, what's wrong? Second class, uh?
Is Ayami-sensei not here yet?
Ayami-sensei. Seems like it. But, well...everyone will be here in under 5 minutes.
Before then, I have to eat this. Right.
Go ahead.
Sensei, are you single?
Does Ayami-sensei talk about that sort of thing?
Nope, not at all.
She doesn't, huh.
Because breakfast is lonely...(see notes)
You guys are really kind.
If there's anything where a man can be helpful, then let me know.
Switch over from Ayami-sensei and I, Mugiyama-sensei will be helpful.
No, not particularly.
Good morning.
Look, she's here.
Sensei...
What did you do to my students?
No, no. What's up with that fighting-pose way of saying it!
These girls came here early and were waiting for you!
Sorry. For a moment, I thought you'd eat them.
No, I wouldn't eat them!
Even Mugiyama-sensei would do that in the staff room, right.
Yep, here is just a little...Hey! No! It's not a matter of location!
Besides that. Everyone, what's the matter?
Um...
It seems best if we don't do it here, huh. For now, let's go.
Um...
Yeah?
That girl that has the white bit of hair around here.
Ah. Kotou, Yuiko?
She's the girl who transferred during the second semester, right.
Yeah. Doesn't she sort of have an aura that's leaning towards that of a zashikiwarashi?
I have never met a zashikiwarashi, so I wouldn't know.
No, no. So when the two of them came in. It somewhat felt like there was a spirit attached to them behind their back.
Which two?
The two-top beautiful girls from class two.
Vice principal, shouldn't you report what he just said to the board of education?
Ah. How embarrassing. Although, someday in the future. I will take the position of vice principal, um.
Ah, vice principal.
Ah! Vice principal!
I beg of you, Mugiyama-sensei!
Wow, that's dangerous!
And yet, even under normal circumstances. Within this school that type of prejudice and insolence hasn't stopped! (he means towards the girls - calling them the top beauties)
I didn't mean it that way!
Come to think of it...Mugiyama-sensei. Didn't you add on your attendance record some sort of strange ranking?
No, you see. This is a rank of the number of times that a student has come themselves to talk to me!
Therefore guys and girls, equally!
Yes! That's enough.
This seems like it's not just girls, huh.
But there were no boys on the bus.
I guess they were gathering them up separately.
What in the world is this?
It looks like an adoption service, right.
They're recruiting for people abroad who want to adopt.
In the world of child welfare, from ago, there's been an international social problem.
There's something called the adopted child business, that's performed in the darkness by a crime group.
Among them, one day unexpectedly, a child is abducted.
They register them under a new family name and sell them off abroad as adopted children.
That's right! It's not too much to say that it's a slave trade!
No!
Kotoha-sensei, since you've threaten them to that extent, I think that's enough.
No, but I was just explaining it to them normally.
It's all right. I will show you that I can change this ominous future.
What?
Oh, she's proactive.
What! It isn't? You didn't see a nightmare?
Yeah, I didn't.
What? It's okay, you don't have to be considerate and conceal it from me.
You saw it, right?
I didn't.
Then why did you draw this picture?
That's because, in class that was the subject that you had us draw.
"You're number one distant memory"?
When was this memory?
That was from when I was little, it was the first time I saw a dream about the Dream Beast.
What?
It's my memory of the first time the Dream Beast appeared in my dream.
Dream Beast?
You mustn't come here! It's dangerous if you get to close!
The Dream Beast told you "to not go near it", right.
If that's the case. Then the dream at that time, is now trying to turn into reality, right?
That might have been a prophetic dream.
Besides, this swing. I too, have a memory where I have seen this somewhere before.
What?
Tonight, can I come over to your house?
Yep!
Don't be so happy. I'm just going because of the bad omen. The bad omen!
What do you think? Do you have any recollection of that swing?
Me, recognize this swing?
Why?
Was there anything like that at the orphanage I was in?
Were you in an orphanage, Ayami-sensei?
Yep! And it seems that by chance, your grandfather also came there.
Why?
Huh? Ah! I went to go fix the T.V. that broke down.
Then, it seems that the girl who was there broke down.
Why?
Um...huh. Well...I don't remember this swing but, how long were you in that orphanage?
Until I was eight.
After that, I was taken in by foster parents. Although...because that house had a lot of foster children. It was more like moving into another institution.
You had hardships, right Ayami-sensei.
Not really. As long as I smiled and studied then the adults wouldn't say anything and they would allow me to do anything.
When I said it would be a waste, they let me go to college. Since my independence came fast, it was comfortable. (waste: as in waste of studies if she didn't go)
You didn't see nightmares, right Ayami-sensei.
In its own way, I saw them.
There is no one in this world who doesn't see a bad dream.
But, I changed my own future myself.
What?
You as well, Akumu-chan. You should have that power.
Okay.
Alright! If that's the case, then how about we first go and check out that institute?
What do you mean "alright!". Getting all excited.
[The Dreaming Lamb's House (Orphanage)]
Shall we play shiritori? (a word game - see notes)
Yes!
[Game: Ari (ant), Risu (squirrel), Suika (watermelon), Kame (turtle), Megane (glasses), Karasu (crow), Suzume (sparrow) it only works for Japanese]
Ayami-chan.
You can tell it's me?
Of course I can!
How nostalgic!
Do you know who I am?
Sister Marika.
That's right.
Ayami-chan, welcome back.
All the teachers that you knew, are no longer here anymore.
I'm surprised that even you remembered me.
You were a child, who couldn't be forgotten.
Is that because I saw weird dreams?
Ayami-chan...
I too, am slowly remembering my memories from that time.
Please tell me all that you know.
I have also meet Kotou, Bannosuke the neurocognitive scholar and heard his story.
I went to that college professor for consultation.
You did?
Because your drawings were too accurate.
I made drawings?
Sister, could you please take a look at this drawing?
Was there a swing like this, here a long time ago?
Certainly, there was one. Right.
This way.
Here, a long time ago there was the institution chief's house. A swing like that was placed over there.
Where is the institution chief right now?
He passed away.
Right now, I'm the institution chief.
At the place where that swing was placed, right now as you see, a church has been built.
Is that so.
Why do you want to check on such a thing?
Ah, no. It's just that it was somewhat on my mind.
Is that so. It's no longer here, huh.
Let's have some black tea over there, okay?
Yes./Let's have some.
Watch your step, okay.
This way!
Who's nightmare did you see? Kondou, Nanami's? Tsukimoto, Nao's?
Um, would you like some coffee?
Who's was it!
The one that appeared was Tsukimoto, Nao-san's.
Tsukimoto, Nao huh...
Would you like sugar or milk?
What?
More importantly, let's quickly go to the laboratory.
Why?
In order to see the dream card, right. Hurry up and get the car.
Oh. Now, calm down for a bit.
What do we do if Tsukimoto, Nao get's kidnapped in the mean time!
It's no more.
What?
There's no Tapirus. Here you go.
Why?
I destroyed it.
Why!?
Well, there was a bit of trouble? A delusion? (he's making up reasons for why he did it)
What are we gonna do now! If we don't see the dream card, then I can't make a dream interpretation. Hurry up and fix it!
It can't be repaired instantly.
I even went through the trouble of being all excited. What the hell is up with that.
There is only one way to see the dream card immediately.
You don't mean...
I'll have to see that face again?
I see, um.
Indeed, I am interested in the details of that nightmare.
I don't particularly need your help, so will you just let us borrow the Tapirus?
You're so distant.
I will gladly cooperate.
I thought you might say that.
It's alright, this is just a dream.
I know.
A phocidae, huh. (phocidae are earless seals)
That was a Selkie.
A Selkie?
It's a sprite from the northern region of Scotland in the Orkney Islands. An earless seal who can transform into a human.
What does it do when it transforms?
It seduces a human, has children and then eventually returns to the sea.
I see, um.
Abduct a person, create a new family register and sell them abroad as adopted children. Symbolizing that, huh.
Just now I looked it up, and it says that a Selkie can transform into a beautiful man or woman. What we saw at the end, no matter how you look at it, she became an old lady.
That person was also a beauty.
What?
No, I bet that old lady was also some sort of symbol.
Indicating some sort of change.
I wonder if that girl is acquainted with the Selkie? She raised her hand.
She was also carrying a cram school bag. So, I wonder if she meet someone on her way home from cram school?
That's it!
That wasn't a Selkie. It was a taxi!
A taxi?
It was a symbol of a taxi.
Just like a car's light, the eyeballs lit up.
At night the kidnapper appears disguised as a taxi!
So that's why she raised her hand, huh.
That's right! We can't let Tsukimoto, Nao go home from cram school by taxi!
Not fair!
Huh?
Why didn't you call me!? When you saw such an important dream card.
You want to see it?
Of course I want to see it! Seeing as I'm the school nurse, isn't that obvious?
Is it obvious?
Listen, okay? Next time, please make sure you call me. Being left out is awful.
In the end, you just didn't want to feel left out, huh.
Because protecting the student's mind and body is my job, a dream is a part of the mind, right?
Sorry about that.
So, what shall we do?
Well, we just have to keep an eye on Tsukimoto, Nao. Right.
Wow. An orthodox. (So, traditional)
What? Why shouldn't I go to cram school?
It's not that you shouldn't go. It...It's dangerous, so...
It's fine. Papa and mama drop me off and pick me up regularly.
Always one or the other?
Yep. Because both papa and mama are doctors, the work hours aren't settled.
They are strict when it comes to studying, so they won't let me take a day off cram school.
Since my older brother is like "that", they can't even call a tutor.
Well then, just don't get into a taxi!
Taxi? I wouldn't ride in something like that alone.
Nao, it's almost time for cram school!
Okay!
Well, I'm off. Okay.
From a prophetic dream? A child will be abducted?
That's correct.
This is terrible! We must do something!
That's why, according to that dream, we can't allow them to get into a taxi on their way home from cram school.
To say the contrary. It would mean that there's definitely going to be a time when they will ride it.
We will have to divide the work and stand watch!
Why not let the single guys do that sort of thing? Besides, when the time comes. A man's strength is necessary.
Ah, welcome back. Everyone be careful on your way home.
Thanks papa.
Ah. Tsukimoto, Nao just now safely got in to her dad's car and went home.
Good work, you can go home.
Ah...what's kind of investigation is this?
Just a little background check on Tsukimoto, Nao. Please make sure she doesn't get into a taxi.
I can only rely on Mugiyama-sensei.
Please leave it to me. Please say whatever you like.
I repeat. Please, just make sure that you don't do anything unnecessary.
Shock! Freeeez. (He's making the noises for these words and acting them out)
Ah, welcome back. Wow, it must be hard to do this so late.
Even if you study, what's important is how you make use of it.
One reflects on it, umm.
Thank you.
Welcome home.
Hello. Tsukimoto, Nao just now safely got into her mother's car.
Good work. You too, please be careful on your way home.
Ah...perhaps is this an advance notice of a crime?
In truth, that is correct.
It maybe a prank but please make sure she doesn't ride in a taxi. Please.
Mutoi-sensei, you're still here?
Ah, principal. You're still here too?
Are you worried about something?
Ah, no. Our school hasn't encountered any problems yet.
You say it as if something will happen, huh.
You have chanced once again, um.
You've somewhat become assertive.
Gosh. I can't tell who's the real you anymore.
Me too.
But I can't just sit still.
I'm worried about a certain student.
Is that so.
Oh, welcome home everyone. I bet you're hungry, right.
Hello?
Ah, Nao? Papa and I have an emergency case so we can't come to pick you up. From in front of the cram school, take the taxi and go home. You got it.
Okay.
Huh?
What? It's a taxi today, um. Such luxury, yep.
Ta...Ta...Ta...TAXI! Wooh, hot! Hot!
Do you think it's alright to end with losing sight of her! You idiot!
I'm very sorry! However, she might have just gone straight home.
Mugiyama-sensei, you too should please withdraw and go straight home for today! And as it is you should also quit breathing!
(Startled!) She hates me! (Shock!)
Um...it's not usually this way.
The road is under construction you see. So, we will have to take a little detour. But it's alright.
Well then, just don't get into a taxi!
[Big brother, I got into a taxi but something's strange.]
[In front of the passenger seat, there's the taxi's company and number, tell me what they are.]
Come on answer it! Pick up!
Hello.
Hello! This is Muitoi from Meikei Elementary School. Is Nao-san home?
Not yet.
Okay, listen up. You're the shut-in...um, shy older brother, right. Call the police immediately! You're little sister is in a taxi...
If it's about that taxi, then I know it.
What?
Right now, I'm tracking it's whereabouts.
Ayami-sensei, let's go too!
You're that sort of person?
You didn't know? When I was young, I had a taste for psychology and speed. They were how I would free myself from my mother's control.
A lady's suit?
Big brother. We have past the entrance sign to Minamino street!
[Right now, I got a mail from my little sister saying that they have entered Minamino street. As is, if they leave the suburb then you won't be able to catch them. Everyone, I beg you! Catch up to them!]
Big brother...save me.
Who the hell are these guys!
What's that?
"The Avengers"?
Tsukimoto, Nao's older brother called them out!
What?
Let's go!
The champion of justice has arrived!
Don't let him escape!
Are you alright?
That's a dream too, right.
What's over there is everyone's dream, right.
To some extent, in present day Japan it's a nightmare.
Huh?
Big brother, heroes came to save me!
To forgo confirmation of something, when stating your own opinion is also something important.
Please read it with a bit more clarity.
Yes.
Come on, don't chit chat over there!
Well then, next is Hori-kun.
Yes.
From now on, I will protect my students.
Just kidding.
Sorry to inform you, but by just arresting an end smuggler such as that one guy. Presently, we wouldn't even be able to catch the tail of that organization.
The case isn't solved?
It isn't.
We the police, have also since the olden days set out to clarify the present situation but...
Concerning adopted children who have been slave traded, due to the cause of an international syndicate.
Japanese adopted children, within the world, have become particularly high in popularity.
In other words, they are profitable.
Even still, aren't there also children who become happy?
Indeed...in Japan, instead of being raised by parent's who don't want them. I bet there are some kids who are saved by being taken in to a rich family in the west.
But because of that, that doesn't change the fact that the middleman gains an illegal profit from it.
Has children who have been abused been sent over as well?
I bet there are some who have.
What is it today?
Sister Marika.
Do you remember Kou-kun who was here a long time ago?
He was about the same age as me.
Ah, Kousuke-kun.
Do you know what he's doing now?
I don't...
He left way before me, but was he taken in by his parents?
That's not quite it.
Because there was a bit of a problem with that child's parents.
Although...here, there weren't any without parent problems.
Was he abused?
Huh?
That's why you didn't give him back to his parents. And put him up for adoption?
I don't know...I wonder about that, um.
Since it was during the time of the past institution chief, my records are vague.
You don't even know where he is?
Why do you ask such things?
It was you.
What?
You noticed it.
You, at a young age.
You drew a picture of Kousuke-kun being abused.
And it became just like that.
Sister Marika.
I would like to close this place up soon.
You're right.
What would you like to do? Shall we talk over there.
No, that's alright.
Pardon me.
Was it my fault?
Did this nightmare originally happen because of me?
Would you like to go together with me to America?
The only reason why I'm still here is because you're here.
Senpai, senpai! Some weird people...ouch, ouch...
Who the hell are you guys?
Are you the "men in black"?
My name is Tommy Lee.
No, that's a lie right.
I wanted to help you...
That's why I came here.
You wanted to help me?
You...
Have obtained a certain young lady, right.
We too, regarding that young lady also hold a very deep interest in her.
Tommy Lee-san, is supplying children your job?
That's incorrect.
Our job is...to make a contribution.
A contribution?
Well...it's more like an investment.
New business, new research.
I'm betting a large amount of money on all future possibilities.
As for Shiki-sensei...by any means necessary, I would like to obtain that young lady.
If so, then we will make a limitless finance towards the environment which you desire.
Without interrupting, we will provide money.
As for you and that young lady, umm.
We would certainly like you to play an active role in the world, umm.
We have a network throughout the world.
How about it?
Good morning!
No way! Kondou, Nanami hasn't been home since yesterday?
It's not just your class.
As well as my class's Shibata, Akane.
Also my class's Yazawa, Aki.
And my class's Tokunaga, Shinnosuke too.
A child from class as well.
And a child from mine too.
What's the meaning of this?
From each of our school's class rooms, one child has gone missing.
An incident such as this, even throughout the world is unheard-of.
Of course the police are working on it, but the media might also be making a fuss.
In order for the students to not befall any more harm than this.
Once again, so that we aren't extremely shaken. We must endeavor.
Understand?
Yes.
Aiyami-sensei...
Yes...
Good work.
Yes! It's an unheard-of incident.
At Meikei Elementary School. One by one the students, almost as if they are being spirited away, are disappearing.
Yuiko!
Grandpa!
Yuiko!
Grandpa!
Yui...Yuiko! Yuiko!
Hello.
Huh, Akumu-chan saw something?
With this, the criminal's objective has become clear.
Criminal?
The criminal is searching for Kotou, Yuiko.
They know that a child from that school can see prophetic dreams.
They are searching for her, by kidnapping one student at a time.
How do the plan on checking that.
I don't know!
As to what the criminal is thinking.
Well then, what if they don't find her?
All the children at that school might disappear.
Something like that is impossible!
This criminal is impossible!
For their objective's sake, they will do something impossible without hesitation.
What will you do?
Leaving her at home is too dangerous.
According to her prophetic dream, they will eventually find her. Right.
For the time being, how about letting me take care of her here?
As for here, the security is flawless.
For the time being, why not do that?
And then we will think of what to do after that.
Together.
No.
I will take her to my place.
I will take her home with me.
My granddaughter isn't here.
The police will be arriving soon.
Shh!
They hit Koutou's house.
Staying here is dangerous.
Let's run away.
Why did you betray us? We're you blinded by money?
I didn't betray you.
Believe me.
Where did you hide the children?
Believe in me.
Believe me...
Hand over Kotou, Yuiko.
There was a time when I did believe in you for just a little.
Leave.
Then, I have no choice.
You're going to hand over Kotou, Yuiko.
Hand her over.
I won't give her to you.
I won't give her to anyone.
I will protect her, even if I have to die!
Preview: Now that the carriage has returned to a pumpkin. Have you opened your eyes Cinderella?
A carriage. Does that mean you're the pumpkin?
Of course not!
Thank you! I will desperately search as well.
Give back the children!
If it wasn't for that, then I wouldn't have fallen in love with you!
To think that you would have come to kill me, huh.
[If you answer a quiz on the homepage, the first 20 people will get an Akumu-chan novel] (That's not it, right)
If you leave, then leave your job as a teacher behind you.
Has Nanami-chan not been found yet?
I will search too!
Where did the children go?
I don't know.
Are you saying that Shiki, Takashi is the criminal?