Ｓｕｂｔｉｔｌｅｓ ｂｙ Ｋｏｙｕｕｋｅｋｋａｉ.ｔｕｍｂｌｒ Edited by Tsubame www.chito.se
A cat?
Yeah, I was wondering if you could look after it for a little while.
That'd be a pain in the ass.
Come on, don't say that.
A job suddenly came up and it seems like I'll be away from home for a while.
You know...
I thought to myself, "what perfect timing?"
After all, you've got to take it easy for a while.
You were just seriously injured.
You aren't even used to that artificial arm yet, right?
That's not true.
This is nothing.
I think I should be back in two days and I'll leave plenty of food for the little one.
Be good, okay?
Alright then, I'll leave the rest to you.
Hey, it's not like I agreed to this.
I'm counting on you.
That pushy bastard.
Your artificial arm hurts?
Yeah, can't you do something about this?
Well...
That shouldn't be the case.
Your body's degree of purity is high.
No, perhaps I should say degree of perfection.
The link between your base structure and your soul is flawless.
Any extra parts stuck on after the fact, no matter how exquisite,
will be seen as just that.
That phantom pain is a result of the sense of rejection toward a foreign entity.
Sense of rejection?
Not a mistaken reactive rejection?
A mere defective part wouldn't cause something like that.
This is a problem of the soul-
What you are feeling is an illusion brought on by you yourself.
Not to worry though, there's a solution.
Say that from the start.
Deal with it.
This guy,
is it waiting for Mikiya?
Sorry for the intrusion...
I heard that something happened
but you look totally fine.
Kokutou is just making a big deal out of nothing.
He's just overprotective.
You're healthy enough to be insulting,
or maybe just beyond pretentious is a better way to put it.
It's a shame I didn't get to see you when you were weak and helpless.
Here, your provisions.
Can I even eat something like this?
You know...
I had to bring you this specially at Mikiya's request so you should just
humbly accep-
Is that your cat?
Nope, Kokutou left it here.
No way! It's so cute!
I brought some bread.
I wonder if he'll eat it.
Here you go, eat up!
Hey, don't feed stuff like that to the cat.
I was completely ignored.
What's with this cat?
It's just like you.
Well, whatever.
Well then, I've done what I came for.
Oh,
if that cat is too much I can look after it.
It's fine.
I see.
Well, you are two of a kind after all.
Get along you two.
Well,
after today is over it'll only be one more day until Kokutou is back.
I can look after you for at least that long.
Well, um,
I'm really sorry.
I didn't think that it could possibly take...
a whole week.
You...
Hey you, were you good?
Did you two bond at all?
Not at all.
When you're not here it just sits around.
What?
Cats are pretty self-absorbed,
are you sure you're not just imagining things?
I found your new foster parent too.
Let's go meet your new mom tomorrow.
You're not gonna keep him?
Yeah, I'd like to if I could,
but work keeps me away from home a lot.
It's thinking "I wanna stay with you"
Oh..
Well, cats are strong
I'm sure in three days time it'll already be used to it's new own-
Ow!
Listen, you..
Don't look down the cat!
Okay...?
I'm sorry.
On the last day of summer
this is where
she died.
Two months ago
eight girls killed themselves by jumping off the Fujou Building.
The only common factor among these otherwise unrelated girls
was that not a single one left behind a suicide note.
She...
Andou Yuuko
was one of them.
The sudden and mysterious deaths of the girls
caused a public uproar.
But I...
I alone...
know the real reason Yuuko chose to die.
Asagami Fujino
That voice...
Miyazuki-san?
Asagami Fujino
She is a bit of a celebrity at my school, Reien Girl's Academy.
She was in an accident and had been hospitalized until recently.
Her eyesight
was apparently lost during that incident.
What is it that...
you are doing here?
I could ask you the same thing,
why are you in a place like this?
I'm on my way home from the hospital.
Cars don't pass through here,
and it's a shortcut.
The scent of lilies..
White lily, right?
Andou-san's...
favorite flower.
STOP IT!
I don't want to hear about Yuuko from people that weren't involved!
I'm sorry.
What insensitivity!
I feel bad about her eyes
but
there's no way I could stand here listening to this girl talk about Yuuko like she knows everything.
Coming from me,
these words might not get through to you, but...
Please don't obsess over it too much.
Miyazuki-san?
The reason behind Asagami Fujino's fame:
Hey, you...
The rumors about your connection to the serial murders that happened in July...
are they true?
What are you talking about?
Nothing really..
It's just..
If you know any bloodthirsty killers, be sure to introduce me, okay?
Miyazuki-san,
Andou-san...
was really
important to you, wasn't she?
Of course.
She was my best friend.
Hey..
Let's go together!
Yuuko..
If you kill the you of the future
you can live on forever.
Don't you think that's amazing?
She jumped to attain eternity.
I don't need a filthy future-
Just as it sounds
I...
I couldn't go with her.
I was...
left behind.
As I thought, I couldn't be the only one to keep on living.
but..
I was still working out the method.
Shall I jump from here?
or...
Good evening,
Miyazuki-san.
Asagami Fujino!?
What are you...?
Why...?
I could ask you the same thing, Miyazuki-san, what are you doing?
I'm...
Make-believe suicide?
This doesn't concern you!
That's right!
Dying and saying goodbye to this filthy future
and joining Yuuko in eternity!
So I see...
However...
You won't die with just that cutter.
Even if you jumped,
there's water below so you probably wouldn't die either.
Shall I assist you?
What?
Contort
What?
What exactly...?
Miyazuki-san
You mentioned something...
about those serial murders that happened in July, didn't you?
Do you know anything about
the victims?
All the corpses appeared like they had been twisted up with a vice...
using a force unlike that of which humans are thought capable.
No way...
Have you realized?
There's no way..
That rumor...
That rumor was...
That bloodthirsty killer
was me.
That's no good.
That's...
That's imp-
I...
killed six people using this power.
I regret it very much.
No matter the reasoning, it's unforgivable.
As for assisting in your suicide, I really don't want to.
But...
Six or seven people...
there's not much difference, is there?
Even I...
have killed someone!
Hey, let's go together!
Abandoning this future
we'll be together forever!
It'll be amazing.
Yes...
The thoughtless one who proposed it...
was none other than myself.
Yuuko laughed as if troubled
and chided me.
Just like always.
Traitor!
Living in such a filthy world like this
It'd be better to just get defiled and die!
But...
The one that jumped was her alone.
While I...
was left behind.
I heard about what happened after.
Her family went into debt...
they fell apart.
The one that found her corpse was her mother.
Yuuko's future was...
brought to an end.
Thoughtlessly asking her to die with me...
To her that...
It was no different than me killing her future.
I was...
basically the one that killed her.
Miyazuki-san
"No matter how painful it may be"
"I want you to believe"
"that this world is beautiful."
Those were...
Yuuko's...
last words to me.
Why...?
Why do you...?
She...
said...
those same words to me once.
But the real meaning of those words...
took a long time for me to realize.
I was so stupid.
I did too many things I that can't take back.
I shut out everything around me...
and eventually I couldn't see anything anymore.
After killed for the first time...
I finally realized.
Asagami Fujino...
through those eyes that have long since faded...
I wonder what she has seen?
What has...
she had to see.
I don't know the pain that Andou-san was going through.
Her death may have been resolve, or perhaps there were other reasons.
Ephemeral,
deep eyes.
These words were definitely...
like a prayer.
I hope that...
They're...
they'll reach you too.
somehow...
just like Yuuko's.
Dawn breaks.
How terribly foolish and cruel...
but still...
the pain pierced my heart like a blade.
Her beloved...
prayer.
Aren't you cold, Shiki?
Not really.
I'm surprised though,
you inviting me out.
Hey
The one who suggested it was you, wasn't it?
Our promise from four years ago...
you remembered it after all.
Don't you usually get together with your family on days like this?
Was it alright to skip out?
Yeah, it's fine.
Though...
Azaka did have an expression that I can't quite put into words.
Hey...
Is it really alright then?
Yeah, it's fine.
If you say so.
Winter break
What did Azaka-chan say?
She called from Mifune.
She said she's coming back to Reien
and that we'll celebrate the New Year together here.
Was she mad?
She was mad.
I figured.
Oh, Shiki, I almost forgot.
Do you remember?
That black cat.
You took care of it for a bit last summer.
Yeah,
that one?
Well, after that it ran away from it's foster home.
Wha-
I managed to find it though.
I took it in for a while but...
then I had to go away again.
So you didn't keep him?
I brought him to my parent's house.
It was just like you said.
I just saw it for the first time in three months
but it seems like it still remembers me.
I picked it up and it started licking my face.
Though...
it's a cat so I wonder why it licked my face so much.
Maybe it's because...
I taste good?
That's...
On second thought, forget it.
Figure it out yourself.
Okay...
Oh yeah!
Shiki, you should come over and see it.
I'm sure it'll like that.
No, I'm good.
I'm with you right now.
That's enough.
Nevermind!
We were able to make it to the New Year the safely again.
So it seems.
What'd you pray for Mikiya?
Well... the obvious things.
Stuff like world peace and all that, right?
Yeah, sounds about right.
Seriously...
Take a look around.
Shiki...
It's snowing.
I guess it's about time to get going.
Shiki
I wish us the best this year as well.
I pray for...
continued happiness with you
and this world that surrounds you.
A prayer is
replete with the future's gospel.
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