Haru! Rin!
Makoto!
You came all this way to meet us?
You must be tired after your trip.
Haru...
Welcome home.
Thanks.
Let's go.
Everyone's waiting.
Feels like we're finally getting used to this pool.
Yes.
Two days from now, the stands will be packed with spectators, won't they?
Are you nervous, Rei-chan?
No. It's the day we've worked so hard for.
This is no time to be nervous!
You really have grown some hair on your chest!
I told you...
Makoto-senpai should be getting back with them soon!
It's already that time?
We'd better hurry!
Rei-chan?
Do you think
Haruka-senpai will come back to us feeling better?
Don't worry.
I'm sure he'll come back feeling better.
Shall we go?
Yes.
We all got here today to start preparing for nationals.
I'm gonna go meet up with my team.
See ya.
Rin!
Thank you.
You bet!
The Eternal Summer of Beginnings!
Hey!
Haru-chan!
Haruka-senpai!
Nagisa, Rei.
Welcome back, Haru-chan!
I'm so glad you made it home safely!
Jeez, Rei-chan was really worried about you, you know.
N-Nagisa-kun!
I'm sorry I made you worry.
It's fine.
More importantly, please rest up for our race
in two days.
After that, we only need to make our final adjustments to prepare for the tournament!
Yeah!
Makoto...
Nagisa, Rei...
There's something
I'd like to tell you.
Before now,
I never cared about times or winning.
I only swam because I wanted to.
If I worried about those things, my swimming would lose its meaning.
That's what I thought.
Rin has a dream of swimming on the world level.
He's about to dive into the world of competitive swimming to fulfill that dream.
So should I really go into that world just because I want to swim?
Go into that world of wins and losses?
That's not right.
I'm not like Rin.
I don't have strong feelings toward swimming like he does.
That's why
I wasn't able to respond to the things you said to me.
I couldn't believe that a dream was something I could find just by looking.
But then, Rin took me with him and showed me all these different sights.
I realized how big the world really is.
If you did find one, what would you do?
And then, I found it...
I want to swim
in that world.
I want to keep on swimming.
So I'm going to start caring about times and winning.
For the sake of my dream.
So this trip really did end up being a special one for you, Haru.
I'm really glad for you, Haru-chan!
If that's the dream you've found for yourself, Haruka-senpai,
we will certainly cheer you on as hard as we can!
Thank you, guys.
Good morning!
Morning.
Welcome home, Rin-senpai!
Good to be back.
Did anything change during our off-time?
Everyone's in top condition—
Rin-senpai! Can I have my souvenir, please?
You're so annoying. Jeez...
Koala! Kangaroo!
Here you go.
Yahoo!
A boomerang! Look, guys!
It's perfect for you.
Yahoo!
Where's Sousuke?
Calm down, Momo!
Yes! Yes!
He's meeting up with us later.
This really is nationals.
Everyone's so fast!
Makoto...
I...
said something
really awful to you before.
I'm sorry.
Haru...
No,
I'm the one who's sorry.
For not being able to tell you about my plans.
I felt like I wasn't suited for competitive swimming.
The world of competition isn't for me.
So I'd been thinking I'd just go to our local college or something,
since there wasn't anything in particular I wanted to do.
But then, I ended up helping Coach Sasabe at the club.
At first, I only thought of it as helping him out.
But then, I started really having fun teaching the kids how to swim.
I met Hayato,
and I really wanted to do something to help him swim.
Remember how you gave me advice when I was at a loss over him?
I didn't really do anything...
When I taught Hayato how to swim backstroke,
he told me, "I'm not scared of swimming anymore! I had fun!"
It made me so happy.
That's why I wanted to show even more kids just how fun it is to swim!
I want to join the teaching side of the swim world.
And to learn how to do that, I'm going to college in Tokyo.
That's the dream I've found for myself.
I see.
You'll definitely make it happen.
Thanks!
All that studying won't be easy, though.
True.
Your recovery time is too short.
Watch your center of balance.
Yamazaki-senpai!
Sousuke.
Sorry I'm late.
Welcome back, Rin.
Yeah. I'm home.
Jeez, talk about going overboard!
Yeah, I might've.
But,
going overboard was worth it.
I see.
It's the night before nationals, so order absolutely anything you want!
It'll be my treat!
Wow, Sensei! That's really generous!
In that case...
Let's get the potato salad, seafood salad, fish and chips, roast beef,
onion soup, Yorkshire pudding, spaghetti alle vongole, arrabbiata pasta,
pasta pescatore, jellied eels, spicy french fries, cheese omelet, porcini cream risotto,
egg-topped lobster, grilled lobster, lobsters in—
Stop!
Hazuki-kun, why don't we go with that for now, huh?
But without the lobster.
Aww...
Nagisa-kun, you're truly merciless.
Is there miso mackerel?
They definitely wouldn't have that here.
They do have mackerel meuniere, though!
How about salt-grilled?
I told you, they won't have that here!
Is there something different about Nanase-kun?
Let's order already!
Until just recently,
Excuse me!
Nagisa!
I haven't decided yet!
things were kind of strained between all of them.
Grilled mackerel...
Haru, just let it go.
It seems he found something in Australia with my brother.
How about this?
What is it?
Found something?
It's a seafood risotto.
Let's try it!
Isn't there any Japanese food?
Japanese?
Haru-chan is starved for Japanese cuisine!
You're right.
I'm so glad.
What a great meal!
Didn't you overeat a bit, Nagisa?
It's fine! I'm a growing boy, after all!
That's true.
Honestly! We're swimming in the national tournament!
We need to stay focused!
The ocean is glowing!
It is!
It's totally different from the ocean back in Iwatobi.
It's finally happening tomorrow...
Yeah.
If you think back to when we first started our swim club,
it's pretty amazing that we made it this far.
We couldn't even use our pool in the beginning.
That's right!
Everything started with us fixing up that pool.
Back then, all Haru-chan cared about was getting to swim.
Remember when we went to the hardware store
and you started stripping in front of the fish tanks?
Unbelievable...
You weren't in the club yet at the time, were you, Rei?
You had originally joined the track team, right?
Yes. At first, it made no sense to me at all.
But then Nagisa-kun invited me to join,
and I became fascinated with Haruka-senpai's swimming...
But I just couldn't keep up with all of you.
At our training camp, I even had to be rescued by Makoto-senpai.
It's because of all of you
that I learned how fun swimming and the relay could be,
and managed to come this far.
Yeah.
It was all thanks to Nagisa suggesting that we form a swim club in the first place.
You don't have to mention that again, Haru-chan.
I think you've really worked hard, Nagisa.
I was a little worried when you ran away from home, though.
But since then, you've truly worked hard
to manage both the club and your studies.
You're more amazing than me, Rei-chan.
You went from sinking like an anchor to being able to swim butterfly!
Even when your goggles slipped off, you still swam the best you could.
That wasn't beautiful at all...
That's not true!
But now,
you're able to swim all the different strokes.
You really are amazing.
I'm not!
It was really all thanks to Rin-san—
That's right, it was thanks to Rin-chan!
How did you know?
Sorry. We knew you tried hard to keep it a secret, so...
If you knew, you should have told me!
I'm sincerely grateful to Rin-san.
I'm grateful to Rin, too.
It was because we met again, raced again,
and misunderstood each other that I lost sight of myself for a while.
But that's what finally made me realize how you guys really felt.
It was why I wanted to try swimming the relay with you all.
That was the first relay the four us swam together.
At first, we were all so frantic just to get our exchanges right.
Yeah.
But we kept training hard and even got to compete in relays.
Swimming the relay together was really fun!
It was!
Though the time we lost to Samezuka's team was quite frustrating.
Yeah. It was you who got us fired up again, Rei.
Then we started training hard to perfect our exchanges.
And our hard work sure paid off at regionals!
I bet we'll be able to go even further next year!
With lots more practicing and training camps,
we'll be even more amazing next year!
What are you saying, Nagisa-kun?
After tomorrow's tournament, our third-year members are retiring.
That's right...
Of course it is!
Be it our daily practices, or training camps, or tournaments, or the relays,
next year, it won't be the four of us anymore.
Rei...
Huh? How odd...
Rei-chan...
No! I want to keep on swimming
with Haru-chan and Mako-chan
and Rei-chan!
I want the four of us to keep swimming together forever!
I do, too!
I finally, finally, learned how to swim, and now...
It can't end here!
Don't cry, Nagisa, Rei.
You're men, aren't you?
Mako-chan!
Besides, there's nothing to cry about.
The four of us are swimming together tomorrow, aren't we?
Nothing's over yet.
But...
He's right.
Haru-chan?
Swimming the relay together connected us.
So even if we end up walking different paths,
we'll always be connected to each other.
There won't be an end for us.
Haruka-senpai...
You're right.
Yeah.
I wonder if we'll see another sight we've never seen before.
We will. The four of us together.
Indeed!
Let's go.
We will now begin the men's 400m medley relay, first heat.
Makoto!
Makoto-senpai!
Ready...
Go!
The sight I saw back then...
Nagisa!
Rei-chan!
Haruka-senpai!
Haru...
Haru-chan...
Haruka-senpai...
Haru!
Haru-chan!
Haruka-senpai!
Sensei!
What's the matter?
Isn't there anyone here who can beat me?
Momo!
Aww, cut me some slack...
Today marks the retirement of us third-years.
When April comes, new members will join you, and a new team will form.
My hope is that you will make that team into the ultimate team.
And the year after that, yet another new team will form,
and it will carry on our dream.
That's why I want all of you
to look toward that unending dream, too,
and keep pushing forward!
Yes, sir!
You're not crying today.
And that's why... Ai!
Y-Yes!
You will be the new captain.
Take care of them.
I will!
Take care of us!
Captain Nitori!
Rin.
Who says your shoulder can't be healed?
Huh?
So what if it's wrecked?
Don't crush your own potential before you even try.
I'll be waiting for you.
I'll be waiting for you
to come back.
It figures...
That's just what you would say.
Well, I'll give it some thought.
Hey, won't Onii-chan ever come back?
Don't cry, Ren!
Onii-chan's studying really hard and getting super smart!
And then he'll definitely come home!
Dang it! It's already time?!
He's hopeless...
Sorry for barging in.
I'm coming in...
Let's go.
We'll be late for our flight,
Haru-chan.
I told you, stop calling me -chan.
Arrivals
Nagisa! Rei!
Sorry for the wait!
Shall we be on our way, then?
Before we head to Rin-chan's, there's someplace I'd like to stop first.
Oh? What's this?
We all wrote down the sights we saw during the relay that we'd never seen before.
That sounds interesting! Let me take a look...
You can't, Coach Sasabe!
We're going to open them
a few years from now, when we're all together again.
Until then, what's inside is a secret!
Nagisa
Rei
Makoto Haruka
Okay, let's bury it!
I've been waiting for you.
Now, I'll show you...
the most incredible sight you've never seen before, right here!
First-year Club Assembly
Come, All! To the Swim Club!
National Tournament - 6th Place Winners
Take your marks.