Excuse me. Where's Homura-san?
Looks like she already left for band practice.
Oh...
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First Love Sommelier
"First Love Sommelier"...
One Saturday in June
Two months to go until the All-Japan qualifiers.
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We've decided on our performance piece, and it feels like things are starting to get real.
Here's your lunch.
You're making lunch for Kamijou-kun as well, Homura-san?
Yeah. As his pay for tutoring me before the exams.
I thought the deal was that you'd make him dinner.
It was, but my mum's away this week.
She's gone to take care of my dad, who caught a cold while living in another town for work.
Wait, so you're home alone right now?
Jeez. Serves you right for eating too fast.
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What kind of rice balls are these?
Mixed vegetable.
Unbelievable!
I make them myself.
The filling is canned mackerel.
Full of DHA that'll make me at least a little smarter.
Kaiyuu, please share them with Chika-chan!
Joo wad?! Joo needem morean I do!
Less talking with your mouth full, more eating.
The choir will be using this room from 1PM.
We start practice at 3:30PM today.
Until then, you're free to take a break or practise by yourself.
Okay!
Maren, would you like to rehearse the F part together?
Sure.
Count me in.
Would you like to join us, Kamijou-kun?
Yeah. How about you, Chika-chan?
Oh, uh, I'll practise alone.
I want to get used to the score.
You should just memorise it.
Yeah.
Where should we rehearse, by the way?
I looked all over for you.
Serizawa-san?
You have to play with the alto sax here, so make sure you keep an ear out for it.
Do you want me to teach you more?
You'll do that for me?
I don't mind helping you out.
I'll even give you a one-day lesson, if you like.
What's the catch?
My aunt is here at school right now,
having an interview with a shady guy who calls himself the First Love Sommelier.
I want to save her, so come with me.
I didn't get any of that.
That doesn't mean you have to drag me into it.
I have an aunt who runs a general store in Australia.
She'll move back to Japan once I graduate, and the two of us are to live together.
You're moving out, Nao-chan?
I don't want to stay in that house anymore.
I see...
And?
When she visited a month ago, she hired a local detective agency to look for someone.
Who?
Her first love.
Is your aunt single?
Yeah. Anyway, that investigation has been completed already.
She found out where her first love lived over a decade ago,
but his current whereabouts are unknown.
Now we get to the heart of the problem.
The sole heir of the detective agency she hired sent her a provocative postcard.
I'm sorry we couldn't provide you with a satisfactory result. As the sole, third-generation heir of our agency, I can't help but feel disappointed myself. However, if you don't mind my directness, is the first love in your memories genuine first love? I'm researching methods to verify the authenticity of first loves like yours. What is first love? If you're interested, please pay us a visit at our laboratory. Shimizu Minami High School First Love Research Club Head:
Dear Serizawa Kyouko-sama,
First Love Sommelier, Asagiri Tohru.
"Researching methods to verify the authenticity of first loves"?
"First Love Sommelier,
Asagiri Tohru."
You know of him?
I think he's President Katagiri's classmate.
Even Hinohara-san, the student council president, pays him special attention.
Oddball incoming.
He's an oddball.
Knew it.
Can you hear over all the noise?
I can handle this much.
What is this First Love Research Club?
Asagiri considers first love as nothing but material to be researched.
Stay away from him, or he'll violate every last private detail of your first love.
You seem awfully well-informed.
What? I-I guess.
Where is this club?
The old school building's ground floor,
where the drama club, the inventor club, and the geological research club are also located.
Also known as the Teenager Safari Park.
Thanks.
Asagiri's one of the sharpest tools in the shed.
If Serizawa goes at him head-on, it'll end in tears for her.
Let's go!
So this is the Teenager Safari Park...
It was just a figure of speech.
Yo! Say hi to Kaiyuu for me.
Tell him to come hang out sometimes.
What's with that girl?
If your first love was genuine...
That'll be a huge load off my mind.
But if it wasn't...
Everything will be buried in the dark once more.
Aunty!
Oh, Naoko.
I came because I was worried about you. Come on, let's leave.
But, Naoko...
I'm about to start appraising her first love.
Could you wait outside?
No way.
Is that the First Love Sommelier?
Looks like it.
Asagiri-san, do you mind if Naoko and her friends stay here?
Of course not.
Then, Serizawa Naoko-san...
Huh? Me?
How would you define first love?
Literally just the first time you fall in love, I guess?
What a baby.
Th-There, there.
First love is, by nature, always a flashback.
This is what allows one to look back on it and convince themselves it was love.
Not only that, it gets embellished beyond recognition.
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Isn't that how it usually goes with memories?
That is exactly why first loves need to be appraised, don't you think?
Nope.
By removing the false and exaggerated elements from the memories,
we reproduce the exact circumstances of the time and perform an appraisal.
How, exactly?
Tasting.
We have our clients smell an aroma.
The Proust effect.
The phenomenon where smell can awaken one's memories.
Bingo.
Reproducing that aroma using wisdom and creativity is the First Love Sommelier's job.
Let's get everything ready, then.
Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
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Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
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In your daily life,
simple is best.
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In your daily life,
simple is best.
Table Salt
Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
Table Salt
Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
Table Salt
Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
Table Salt
Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
Table Salt
Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
Table Salt
Domestic Salt
In your daily life,
simple is best.
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In your daily life,
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I've never heard you talk about your first love.
Naoko, there are things you can reveal to a stranger but not to those important to you.
I can't accept this!
Though I'm a total stranger...
I understand what you just said.
Pardon me for being too forward, but I daresay you're not being fair to Naoko-san, your niece.
Aren't you misusing the word "fair" there?
Let me put it this way, then.
I understand your reasoning, but it doesn't sit right with me.
You weren't kidding about being too forward, eh?
Is it wrong to help a friend in need?
I'm glad Naoko has such wonderful friends.
Asagiri-san.
Do I have time to tell Naoko and her friends about my first love?
A little, sure. But do you really intend to give them the whole story?
I'll tell the story as I see fit.
Whether you can read between the lines is up to you.
Okay.
I experienced my first love when I was a nineteen-year-old college student.
That boy and I shared a certain something.
What was it?
Rice balls.
Rice balls?
This is a story of a girl who left home for the city and ended up lost in a deep forest.
We stand in firm opposition of the invasion of dark forces
and demand that our forest brethren criticise themselves!
We must reach out for the stars and survive this fight to the death!
My fellow forestmen!
Who are you people?
We are the Forest Brotherhood.
I'm Venganto, and I'm in charge of making rice balls.
Forest Brotherhood?
It's a metaphor, Chika-chan.
How many "brothers" were there in total?
Eight.
The birds would leave immediately after the commotion died down.
The girl believed she'd be able to get out of the forest someday
and started making rice balls for them.
Hey!
Step on it, you useless hacks!
Got it!
Dimwitted fools.
You take the rice balls to the birds, and I'll take them to the Brotherhood.
Thank you, Venganto.
I'll give you a name too.
Purastelo.
That's your name from now on.
Purastelo...
He was very knowledgeable and taught her a great many things.
To the girl, he was the first boy she'd spent a long time with.
So this Venganto was your first love?
Yes.
He was a nice guy, huh?
Or so I thought, until that day.
You take the rice balls to the birds...
...and you'll take them to the Brotherhood.
Thanks as always.
This is Venganto's...
Your rice ball—
That's awful! What a jerk!
Such a petty man.
There are times when a man hurts himself more than the one he is punching.
Get out, asshole.
I'm your senior! How dare you speak to me that way?
This is my lab!
What happened after that?
Purastelo was immediately exiled from the Brotherhood by Venganto.
That's the end of the story.
Shall we begin the first-love tasting, then?
Based on the information you gave us, we reproduced the rice ball you ate that day.
Is that water from back then too?
We researched the water standards and calci usage of the time at the bureau to make this.
Cow's eye?
Calci. Calcium hypochlorite.
Commonly known as chlorine or bleach powder.
Aroma certainly does have mysterious powers.
I feel like I'm about to remember even things I don't want to.
Excuse me.
This is the salt that's dominated the market since then.
Yes.
Can I really eat this?
Of course.
It's been forty years since I last had a rice ball.
Are the memories of your first love that precious to you?
This isn't it.
It tastes different to the rice ball I had back then.
What's the matter?
I see.
So that's it.
Thank you, First Love Sommelier.
Aunty!
Serizawa-san?
What's going on, Haruta?
After taking just one bite, Serizawa's aunt declared that the rice ball tasted different.
So they failed to replicate the rice ball from back then?
Of course not. The rice balls we made are perfectly accurate.
Besides, her aunt seemed like she'd come to terms with something.
So this appraisal had another objective besides recalling her past memories?
That would be the implication, yes.
This is it for us, Chika-chan.
Let's go.
What? But...
We're ten minutes late already.
Oh, practice!
Serizawa-san will be fine.
If she needs help, she'll come to us directly.
True that.
She doesn't hold back.
On a Sunny Day
Homura Chika
The opening is important!
Listen carefully!
Look at
the Conductor!!
Slur
melody
Emphasise
Important!
Loud (next to it) Steady!!
Weaken~
Change the "colour"
Put your back into it!
Serizawa-san?
Huh?
Haruta?
Um, why are you here this late at night?
We're taking the first train tomorrow to Hanamaki, Iwata.
Here. Your travel expenses.
You're kidding, right?
We'll stay here tonight and take a taxi to the station early tomorrow.
It's only a day trip.
You silly goose!
Please. You and Kamijou-kun are the only ones I can ask for help.
Why drag me along, then?
Did something happen?
My aunt called me and said she's going to Hanamaki tomorrow.
Okay, and?
Venganto is in Hanamaki.
Huh? Weren't his current whereabouts unknown?
Sorry. Client confidentiality.
I can't let her meet that shady man all alone.
We have to get there before her and stop her!
Still, going to Hanamaki all of a sudden?
Please come with me.
One ought to help a friend in need, right?
You made this bed, Chika-chan. Now we get to lie in it.
Jeez, we have practice...
Well, we'd better get to sleep soon. We're taking the first train, after all.
Chika-chan, could you lay the beds out—
Make your own!
Homura-san...
Thank you.
I was scared to be by myself.
Wanna sleep together?
That's not what I meant.
I know.
You know, I was sure there was nothing you'd be afraid of.
You've got the talent, not to mention the riches.
I actually envy you.
Why? Because I have nothing to lose?
Because you're always surrounded by people.
I don't want my aunt to leave me.
I don't want to be alone anymore.
I've got my own fears, you know.
Of what?
Nothing. Never mind.
Good night.
Hanamaki
Station
Welcome to Hanamaki, the Ihatov
The name
was coined by
"Ihatov"
Miyazawa Kenji
,
The name "Ihatov" was coined by Miyazawa Kenji,
who described Hanamaki, his birthplace, as
"the utopia I always imagined".
It is believed to have been written in
Esperanto
, inspired by the word "Iwate".
It is believed to have been written in Esperanto, inspired by the word "Iwate".
"Ihatov"
Miyazawa Kenji
Esperanto
I'll wait over there.
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Don't worry.
We took the first train, so if we just wait here, she'll show up eventually.
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Let's take this opportunity to practise, Chika-chan.
What, here?
Closed hours
Info
Centre
Tourist
That may help my aunt notice us, too.
On a Sunny Day
There aren't many, but it feels so mysterious having complete strangers listening to us.
My attention is drifting away from my fingertips
and towards Haruta—towards someplace far away.
Aunty!
Naoko? What are you doing here?
Let's go back.
Nothing good will come of meeting Venganto.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Naoko dragged you here, didn't she?
We're technically here to protect you from the clutches of the evil Venganto.
Venganto is a formidable opponent.
For what it's worth, I'll fight too.
I don't think you can beat him now.
Do you mean it's no longer possible to meet Venganto?
That's right. He's no longer in this world.
Not just Venganto, either.
All the members of the Forest Brotherhood died of the same illness.
At first, it was just a normal search for a first love.
I found out immediately that he'd passed away.
But I got greedy and requested further investigations,
and ended up learning things I would've been better off not knowing.
What are the odds of the entire Brotherhood succumbing to the same illness?
Astronomical. Even I knew straight away.
I realised that I, too, might fall victim to it some day.
That made me so scared I couldn't sleep at night.
What the...
So when I got the postcard from Asagiri-san, I came up with this idea.
The purpose of this first love appraisal
was to recreate the salted rice balls from back then and compare them to your memories.
You thought they were the cause of the illness.
Yes.
If the rice balls Asagiri-san made tasted the same as the ones from back then,
that would've meant that the Brotherhood was eating ordinary rice balls,
and their cause of death would've been buried in the dark.
But it was different.
Indeed.
The rice balls Venganto was feeding to the birds and me were different.
So the one who served the Brotherhood poisoned rice balls and caused their deaths
was Venganto.
What?!
On that day, he was trying to stop Purastelo from eating the poisoned rice balls.
And he tried to protect her by throwing her out without telling her a thing.
But why would he poison the Brotherhood?
Only Venganto knows the answer to that.
Vengeance.
It's Esperanto.
Venganto means "avenger".
Esperanto Dictionary
Avenger
_
Avenger
That's what he always called himself when we were alone.
What does Purastelo mean, then?
Pura Stelo.
A pure star.
First Love Sommelier.
Yes?
What's your appraisal of my first love?
The certified real deal.
Naoko.
I'm sorry to have worried you.
I was afraid of dying.
Because I wanted to live with you.
I'm sorry.
But why did Venganto kill himself?
Maybe he couldn't live with the guilt.
Are you really going back today?
I can pay for hotel rooms and tickets.
We can't skip out on practice any more.
The others must be rehearsing hard right now.
Listen carefully!
Look at
the Conductor!!
Slur
melody
Emphasise
Important!
Weaken~
Loud (next to it) Steady!!
I felt like I was close to something back there,
but looking at the score only makes me anxious now.
Listen carefully!
Look at
the Conductor!!
Slur
melody
Emphasise
Weaken~
Loud (next to it) Steady!!
I must be tired.
This isn't like you.
Don't get the wrong idea.
I just decided to come along because I was worried about my attendance.
Watching you makes me worried sick—
H-Hey!
You're so shy!
Shut it!
Give back Kusakabe-sensei!
Sorry to have caused you trouble.
Bring me the gorilla's head.
Seating chart No. 3
The demon of lust...
Seating chart No. 3
I'll be Kusakabe-sensei's knight in shining armour!
THE GAZE OF ASMODEUS