Though the spring sunshine may herald the coming of summer,
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How can they be offered salvation?
How can they be afforded the warm touch of a gentle melody?
Tell me how, Haruta.
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THE CLOTH CUBE
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a cute girl in the first year of high school, and a wonderful flutist.
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Huh?!
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Okay, that part was a lie. I only picked up the flute once I started high school.
I'm a beginner with a mere month and a half of experience.
This is still too hard for you, huh?
Don't worry!
Your playing is nice and loud.
Be a good girl and hand out these flyers, Chika-chan.
You're nothing if not loud, so there's that.
What was that for?
Good morning.
Has anyone asked to join?
Nobody yet.
But we've had a few stop to listen to us.
We have a chance, then.
Yes.
Let's take it one more time from the top.
Right.
We are the Concert Band!
Please consider joining us!
Here you go!
We are the Concert Band!
Please take one.
We can put on fun performances together—
Knock it off!
Narushima Miyoko, Class 1-3.
You know of her?
Somewhat.
She's an outstanding talent I want in our band at all costs.
In junior high, she played the oboe on stage at Fumon Hall.
What's more,
her band only had twenty-three members— an exceptionally low number.
Despite that, their debut performance earned them silver in the competition.
Huh? Twenty-three is an exceptionally low number?
What are you talking about?
Of course it is.
The All-Japan Concert Band Competition is divided into two categories:
Category A, which allows a max of fifty-five members,
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But Category B only goes up to the regional level.
You can't participate in the All-Japans at Fumon Hall that way.
Just how many people will we have to recruit before the competition?
It's not like we can compete this year regardless.
We'd have a hard time even in Category B with our roster.
Would you like to listen to Narushima-san's performance?
This is your place?
Yeah. I live alone in this apartment complex.
What? Really?
Instead of having my own room, I got an old apartment.
I split the rent with my parents.
Talk about living in comfort.
You remember my older sisters, right?
Minami-san, Tsumugi-san, and Fuyuna-san...
That place is hell.
Come in.
Thanks for having me!
Wait, isn't this a bad idea?
Should I really just waltz into the apartment of a boy who lives alone?
I have zero interest in you, for your information.
I know.
This was at last year's junior high All-Japans.
Wow.
But don't you think she has a problematic personality?
What are you saying?
If we're going to cover for your mistakes,
we need as many good performers as we can get.
Figures.
I want us to take part next year.
I want to help Kusakabe-sensei take the stage at Fumon Hall as a conductor.
Yeah...
We need her skills to achieve that.
I'm done with concert bands, sorry.
And that's a crying shame, isn't it?
I'm sure your oboe must be sobbing its heart out.
Yeah! It's crying so much it's got its own, even smaller violin!
Chika-chan, you're way off. In so many ways.
Take your comedy act elsewhere.
Please! Help us out here!
We have every intention of making it worth your while.
Tell us what you want.
For you to go away.
Other than that.
I'm thirsty.
Grilled Chicken Centre
Where are we supposed to find domestic pineapple juice?!
Here it is!
Chika-chan, money!
Just you wait, Princess Kaguya!
Grilled Chicken Centre
Here you go, Narushima-san.
Hey, you said you wanted this!
Sorry.
It's our bad for disturbing your peaceful school life.
Going to the market was something we decided on our own accord,
and while Chika-chan has absorbed the cost of the juice, she doesn't hold it against you.
How much was it?
How much?
Quite a lot.
After all, it was expensive domestic pineapple juice.
But you nearly bought domestic kiwi fruit juice.
I love kiwi fruit.
Did you know the kiwi fruit is in the genus Actinidia, just like cat powder?
Really? Maybe my cat will like it, then.
So how much was it?
I don't care about the money.
Sorry. I apologise.
If we want you to join the concert band, we should just come out and say it.
You're annoying me.
The way she's acting, we won't get along even if she does join.
Something's not right.
Doesn't it seem off to you?
Not really.
Thought as much.
"He who would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin."
What? No way!
But Koromin said so!
That's just out of the question, right?
Right!
You're Nishikawa Mayu-san, right?
Y-Yes.
Do you have a moment?
Sorry to make you come here.
Don't be!
You were friends with Narushima-san, right?
I noticed you two walking home together in April.
You've had your eye on her for that long?
Narushima-san moved here recently, so she doesn't have any friends from junior high.
Going by roll numbers, you would've ended up sitting behind her.
You struck up conversation first, right?
A lot of people become friends that way.
Wow! Just who are you, Kamijou-kun?
A moron.
But I bet you couldn't handle her control-freak nature after a while.
You shouldn't let it bother you.
That's how oboe players are fated to be.
The oboe changes its tune drastically based on its player's quirks.
It's a very sensitive instrument.
So the longer one plays it,
the more of a control freak they become.
Is that so?
Are you serious?
But you know what?
That's proof that she's given the oboe her all.
We would love to have her as a bandmate.
But Miyo-chan won't...
You know why she quit the oboe, don't you?
I was there when she played at All-Japans last year.
After all the programs had ended, a scream rang across the auditorium.
And she was nowhere to be seen during the awards ceremony.
Does that have anything to do with why she quit?
Miyo-chan's little brother passed away that day.
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Miyo-chan's little brother had been in hospital for a long time.
His condition took a sudden turn for the worse.
Their parents were at the venue as well,
so there was nobody by his side at the end.
So she felt guilty and quit the oboe?
Yeah.
Have you ever gone to hang out?
At Narushima-san's place.
Such a lovely aroma.
Could it be beef stew?
Yes?
It's Nishikawa.
Oh, welcome!
Just one moment!
Long time no see.
Help yourselves.
Sorry for showing up without notice.
Don't be.
It's been such a long time since any of Miyoko's friends stopped by.
Um, where's Miyo-chan?
I'm sorry. I called for her, but...
Oh, it's our fault for dropping in without telling her.
We have plenty of time, so we'll wait as long as it takes.
I even brought along my own chopsticks, just in case.
And Chika-chan was interested in some of that beef—
What was that for?
Miyo-chan...
You can drink that in my room.
The coffee.
Sorry, Miyo-chan.
This is a bother, isn't it?
That should go without saying.
Drink your coffee and go home.
Don't you know?
Haruta once spent five hours on one cup of coffee at a café
just so he could finish reading eighty-three volumes of Patalliro!
You have five minutes.
She says we have five minutes, Haruta.
It's like a little museum of sorts.
I'm lucky I got to see this.
Solitaire
What do you mean?
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All the classics are in here.
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And the pictures on the wall are all trompe l'oeils.
I doubt you collected all of this.
Why is that?
These books are the Bibles for puzzle buffs.
Their author, Dudeney, was a genius whose talents manifested at the age of nine.
Looking at this "exhibit", I find it hard to believe you touch them often.
I bet they all belonged to your little brother.
So what?
It's fantastic.
He must've admired Dudeney, who was already known as a genius at his age.
Look, he signed all the items he made himself.
His devotion to puzzles was truly praiseworthy.
As serious as his illness may have been.
What is with you?
Everything you have here is the mark your brother left on the world.
They're truly precious, and not for show.
Did you actually solve all of them?
I'm not surprised.
You couldn't have. Not in your current state.
They're clearly out of your league.
Haruta!
Because you're carrying a burden that you can never lighten, and you're doing it alone.
And what could you possibly do?
We can help shoulder it together with you.
We can try to solve any puzzle that you can't.
At the very least, you won't be the only one suffering due to the puzzles in this room.
Get out.
Get out!
Sorry.
I've listened to Miyo-chan's All-Japans performance.
Were you at the venue as well?
No, I listened to the recording.
Satoshi-kun had asked Mr. and Mrs. Narushima.
He told them to watch over Miyo-chan on stage
and record her performance for him, or else he'd hate them forever.
Oh...
Nobody was in the wrong.
It was just a perfect storm of bad luck.
So it was nobody's fault.
Miyo-chan?
Try to solve this by yourselves.
A Rubik's cube?
All of its faces are white.
Out of all the puzzles Satoshi left behind, this is the only one I just can't solve.
Is this scrambled?
"Scrambled"?
It's when a puzzle is jumbled up and ready to solve.
He said it was.
And the solution?
He didn't show me.
If we solve this,
will you seriously consider joining the concert band?
You have until after school on Friday.
Got it.
You can't do it.
That cube is impossible to solve.
It's the punishment that Satoshi left me.
Music Prep Room
Monday
Wow!
The issue is this one.
Why the gloves?
I don't want to get her treasured memento dirty.
Memento...
Tuesday
Maybe it sounds different somewhere?
Or maybe there's a subtle colour difference?
The smell, maybe?
It smells weird!
Let me see that.
You're right.
Wednesday
Yeah, I think it's oil paint.
I knew it.
So he painted a regular Rubik's cube white using oil paint?
Yeah.
It looked like one of Narushima-san's parents is an oil painter.
How do you know?
You got distracted by food and let something important slip by unnoticed, like always.
Hey, I noticed the smell!
Is there anything else you've noticed?
Even the slightest of details could help.
This doesn't have Satoshi-kun's signature on it anywhere.
Thursday
Music Prep Room
Give it up and go apologise to Narushima.
Tell her you couldn't solve it, but you want her to join anyway.
We have till tomorrow.
But if we don't know what the solution is, how are we supposed to solve it?
Still, there's bound to be a right answer,
as long as it's a puzzle.
Kusakabe-sensei...
So this is the Rubik's cube everyone's talking about.
Yes.
The person who can tell us its solution is no longer in this world.
If its creator knew that they'd be gone by the time it was attempted,
they must've left some way to tell when it's correctly solved.
On this cube?
This cube is probably made so that the proof will show up by itself when it's solved.
Proof of solution
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I think the steps that need to be taken to find that proof are the crux of this puzzle.
Steps that need to be taken
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This is no punishment.
Con amore.
Connor Moray?
It's a musical term.
It means "with love".
This is a puzzle that was made with love.
Friday
Did you solve it?
We're going to solve it now.
And you'll solve it with us.
You called this cube a punishment, didn't you?
That's right.
Satoshi couldn't make friends because he was ill.
Puzzles were his source of self-esteem and emotional support.
He would make puzzles, and I would solve them.
That's how it was for years...
Until I joined the concert band in junior high.
I was having so much fun that I left him all alone.
So this unsolvable puzzle is a message from him to me.
Saying he wants to cause me trouble, and that he won't forgive me.
You're right. This cube is a message from Satoshi-kun.
Let's begin.
Right now, this cube is in a scrambled state, and all six sides are white.
This is the start line.
But no matter how much you turn it, you'll always go back to square one.
Do you know why Satoshi-kun didn't tell you what the solution was?
Because he wanted you to take a step forward from this scrambled state.
But that's impossible.
Chika-chan, Nishikawa-san.
Wh-What are you doing?
Forgive me, Miyo-chan.
I'll be done in three minutes.
Trust me.
What do you think you're doing?
Stop it!
Hey, do you hear me?!
Please, no!
Let go! Let me go!
All done.
Why would you do this?
It's time for you to move on, Narushima-san.
Shut up.
Are you going to use your sorrow as a shield for the rest of your life?
It's only been a year since Satoshi died, you know.
It's already been one whole year.
A year in our lives is more significant than a year in the life of an adult.
Haruta!
Stay away!
This cube is a message that Satoshi-kun left for you!
No matter what happens, never stop in your tracks.
Keep moving forward.
He wants you to paint this pure-white world in your own colours.
And this is the first step.
Take a good look.
Your little brother sends his best wishes.
Satoshi...
You've solved it, Onee-chan
You've
solved it,
Onee-chan
Any signature on that cube could only have been under the white.
So I thought about how to strip it off.
The squares that were written on had linen applied on them
and were coated with zinc white.
The other squares also had linen applied
but were coated in a different white paint.
When you paint over zinc white using an oil-based paint,
it will peel off.
But the paint needs to dry before that happens.
It usually takes an entire day.
Yes. I'd already painted over it in white yesterday,
so that it would conveniently peel off in front of Narushima-san.
Impressive.
I couldn't have done it without Homura-san's hints.
There's that goody-two-shoes act again.
What will Narushima-san do now?
That's for her to decide.
A promise is a promise.
Oh, come on.
You've solved it, Onee-chan
Where am I supposed to take my first step towards?
Why is Maren in the drama club?
Challenge accepted.
Yes, I call it...
EXIT GAME
"Exit Game"?