Hurry up!
You're so slow, Manatsu.
We have luggage here!
You could have just sent yours ahead like we did.
We've still got plenty of time.
That's what you always say,
until we have to start running.
She's dissing our planning skills, Shinkou.
Huh? Me?
Who's Shinkou?
I used an alternate pronunciation for the characters that make your name.
You didn't like it when I called you Miyuki, right?
There it is!
Red Data Book
A book which contains data about species in danger of extinction.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature first published it in 1966.
The ones deemed in gravest danger had their articles printed on red paper.
I go toward your voice as we speak, into the light...
About "Red Data Girl"
She is a girl from an endangered species.
The term originates from a book which contains data about species in danger of extinction,
called the Red Data Book (abbreviated RDB).
Many wish to have control over her, for such is the vast mystery of her power.
Through thin silk I watch the world outside
I can't fly with my wings in that little box
Flowers bloom one after another into a windswept forest,
and I imitate their breathing, and flaps my wings a little
Look,
your voice, though faint as ever,
guides me from where I cowered
The future is so very far away and obscure for me,
but I will abandon my fear of it and find you
We cannot touch each other, but know the other's feelings
That gives me the strength to look ahead
so that I may change
This is a little hard to believe.
What is?
That I'm taking the bullet train to hang out at your house in Nagano.
That's not all.
After that, we're meeting the rest of the student council executive committee at Togakushi.
The executive committee...
I still can't believe I'm a member.
Really?
You've been a real help since you joined, Izumiko.
Sagara invited you first, Mayura.
I just got thrown in as an afterthought.
I've been meaning to ask you this for a while now.
Izumiko, why are you in the same exchange bracket as Sagara?
It was our fathers' decision.
Family reasons?
Something like that.
I've gotten used to it now.
But you fit so well together.
You split your duties so well, as man and woman.
Like when you were dealing with Takayanagi's homunculus, I mean.
As man and woman?
Boyfriend and girlfriend.
D-Don't get the wrong idea!
Sagara is quite stubborn.
I could easily see him having a girlfriend,
and yet he refuses all advances as though he already has someone.
You're basically describing yourself.
I have no time for a boyfriend.
Besides, my brother and I have issues of our own.
Also...
Also, Masumi...
Masumi will never grow up.
When is Masumi's death anniversary?
The fifth of this month.
How old was he?
Six.
We all took an afternoon nap one day, and Masumi never woke up.
They said it was heart failure.
After the funeral, we moved from Togakushi to Nagano and never uttered his name again.
Doesn't Masumi ever appear to your parents?
Our mother's an ordinary person.
Happier matters! I'm really glad you're coming to visit!
What? How much longer?
We're at the roundabout.
We live ten minutes from the station by car.
Our mother was supposed to come pick us up, but...
Hey. Where are you two headed?
Waiting for anyone?
For us, right?
Want to go to a café or something?
Sorry, we've already got plans.
Aw, come on.
Just for a bit.
You really will be here in five minutes, right?
What's that? I can't hear you.
Okay, got it.
We'll just wait here, then.
Did you want someone to hit on you?
You lack common sense.
Says you?
You said yourself that you care more about Tabi than the rest of this trip.
Tabi is important to me.
Um, what's Tabi?
Our first horse!
Horse?
A horse?
Look!
The equestrian club at Togakushi is taking care of him for me.
He's an old gent now.
Even Masumi rode him back in the day.
He's adorable!
Yeah, I knew you'd get it!
Wanna meet him? I'll introduce you two.
What's Togakushi like?
It's a cool plateau with great air.
They have great soba noodles there.
It's a famous place for Shugendou monks.
Togakushi is also famous for its ninja villages.
Ninja?
They told me our ancestors were priests at Togakushi Shrine.
Shrine?
That's why I was able to use my connections with the inn.
Sorry!
Wait long?
I've always wanted to live in a house like this.
We're having a barbecue party tonight.
I invited a few people from your father's university too.
It's gonna be lively!
Yay! Meat! Meat!
It's not fair.
You just never put on weight.
Honestly. How can twins be so different?
Now then, high school students!
Help me with the preparations.
You've gotten a tan, haven't you, Manatsu?
Are you still doing practicing your Ogasawara-style horseback archery?
Of course.
And Mayura's even more beautiful than I remember.
Isn't it about time she started looking for a husband?
You think she'll find one?
I heard that, Manatsu!
Sagara.
Here. Eat as much as you want.
I will.
Thank you.
I heard you went up Mount Haguro. Quite impressive.
Have you been there too, Professor?
Yes, because both Mount Haguro and Togakushi are famous places for the Shugendou.
Be that as it may, would you tell me a little about Houjou Academy?
Izumiko.
Want some fruit punch?
I'd love some.
Here.
Thanks.
Oh right, Manatsu.
Have you ever heard of SMF?
Is it some sort of organization?
Are you in it?
No way.
That's Mayura's fanclub.
Fanclub?
Manatsu!
You're the last person I expected to hear about that from.
Why do you still have no girlfriend?
Souda Mayura Fanclub...
SMF...
Why did Miyuki tell me to ask them?
Houjou Academy must be a great institution.
I'm very grateful for the independence they allow.
You need to get out more. Study how to be normal.
Mayura, Manatsu, and Sagara all look like normal high schoolers.
Izumiko?
What's wrong?
You look strange.
I'm fine.
I feel so floaty.
Floaty?
How much of that did you have?
There was a good deal of liquor in it!
This isn't good!
This really isn't good!
You're acting so weird, Miyuki.
Oh, man.
Just lie down for the time being.
What can we do?
Can we give her something to drink?
There's no way I could get possessed when I'm feeling so good—
Hey, Suzuhara!
Are you okay?!
Izumiko!
She's already asleep.
I wonder if Manatsu and Miyuki are still up.
I must be dreaming.
Not there.
I'm over here.
Oh, it's him.
Masumi.
Episode 6
The First Sleepover
Suzuhara, right?
You remembered my name!
What are you doing here?
I didn't really expect to meet you here.
Right now not even Manatsu and Mayura can see me.
Have you come home alone before?
No, it has nothing to with my home.
Oh, I know!
This is all a dream!
You're a funny one, Suzuhara.
You're the first one who's talked to me without the other two around.
Really?
Will you let me hit on you, Suzuhara?
It might be nice with you.
Do you realize what you're saying?
Of course.
I don't really understand what being hit on by you would mean.
You'll understand at Togakushi.
Let's redo our meeting there, okay?
You had way too much.
You just have no idea when to stop, do you?
But you're the one who really surprised me, Shinkou.
You really lost your cool.
Shut up.
Good morning!
Did you have to wait long?
No.
Not at all.
Everyone's here now, I see.
I leave the trip's organization to you, Souda.
Have no fear.
It was me who suggested it to begin with.
Mount Togakushi is 1904 meters high.
When Amaterasu hid inside Ama-no-Iwato,
legend has it that Ame-no-Tajikarao flung the rocks
that barred the entrance all the way to this mountain.
The deity celebrated at Togakushi Shrine is a great nine-headed dragon.
Since ancient times, Mt. Hiei and Mt. Kouya have—
It's similar to Tamakura in some ways, but different in others.
Maybe it's because they're both sacred mountains?
Do you come here every year, Souda?
Not exactly, but there's an equestrian club nearby that I go way back with.
Souda, on top of the Executive Committee,
isn't your Japanese History Society also on a camping trip? Right next door.
What exactly are you up to?
I'm not up to anything!
What makes you think so?
Everyone knows that the Japanese History Society is really just your fanclub.
We also know that you're trying to win over members of the executive committee.
If you try to take over the student council as well, don't expect things to go the way you want!
Akinokawa, I'm doing no such thing.
What did I ever do to deserve such treatment?
Tell me why I can't be part of the executive committee!
Reina never said that you can't be on the committee.
She may have been a little impolite, but we just wanted to get it out of the way early.
The executive committee will not shun those willing to join,
but we are adamant about maintaining a neutral standing.
We will not participate in any of the games on campus.
We are judges, after all.
I'm one of the judges, after all.
Judges...
You don't have to deny that you formed SMF or that you're working to improve your position.
Takayanagi Ichijou was working behind the scenes as well.
But bear in mind that the student council is not easily swayed.
I understand.
Thanks for the warning.
This is a nice place to spend the summer.
It'd be a shame to spend all our time fighting after coming so far.
Well then, let's begin our meeting to discuss arrangements for the fall festival.
Hayakawa Yoshiki,
second year and chair of the executive committee, is on a field trip with the baseball team,
but let us hold this meeting regardless.
As we decided the other day, the theme will be the Warring States period.
What's going on? The Japanese History Society is the SMF?
And Kisaragi is going to remain neutral?
Takayanagi and Mayura are in a special type of power struggle?
Just how many of the students know about this?
That sums up the schedule.
You are all free to do as you wish until dinner.
It's over.
Yes.
Yes, please do that.
Oh, here you are, Mayura.
Izumiko!
Can we talk about what Kisaragi said earlier?
Oh, yeah...
They really gave me an earful.
I felt like I'd been smacked in the face.
What are you and Takayanagi fighting over?
Why are you fighting with him, anyway?
Izumiko, shall we take a walk?
Yeah, I admit that the whole sorcery thing just rubs me the wrong way.
We will never get along.
Does it have anything to do with your ancestors being priests here
and Togakushi being a ninja village in the past?
Maybe.
But that's not all.
Kisaragi's words came at a pretty good time.
Even though Akinokawa was so harsh to you?
Well, everything she said was true.
Even about how the Japanese History Society is really your fanclub?
I know people have been saying that. I'm the one who allowed it to persist.
The most important thing she said is that the executive committe's stance is undeniably neutral.
I imagine that is probably top secret information, even at Houjou Academy.
No one is supposed to know who the judges are.
Top secret?
Didn't Kisaragi introduce you to the former student council president, Murakami Hodaka?
You knew?!
Takayanagi probably knows too.
But I don't know what happened between you three.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you.
I didn't know when or even how to bring it up.
We both had secrets of our own.
Hey, Mayura.
In the end, Kisaragi just invited me to watch her dance.
I figured as much.
None of the judges are going to stand out,
but those with the power to see them, will see them.
Honestly, I was expecting Houjou Academy to be split in two by the final round, the festival,
but now I know that there's a third area, void of outside influence.
By "split in two," do you mean a Mayura faction and a Takayanagi faction?
He's the Academy's favorite by far.
There are even some who think
that the whole Academy was founded just to test his skills in the first place.
You can't be serious.
His homunculi were registered as students, you know.
I have no intention of stooping to his methods, though.
Is Masumi the reason you wish to oppose Takayanagi?
Yeah.
I'm doing it for Masumi and Manatsu.
What happens if you win the confrontation?
You don't know that?
Didn't they tell you anything before you enrolled at this school?
Hey, let's go to the rear shrine now that we're here.
Okay.
Whoever wins will be a candidate for the world heritage collection.
The world heritage collection?
I'm sure it'd be of great benefit to not only the person selected, but those around them as well.
Have you never talked to Sagara about this?
No way!
He might know about it, but...
It's not like he tells me everything.
He's a bit mysterious, isn't he?
Apparently Manatsu and Sagara are nearby.
Really?
Yeah.
This is perfect.
Want to go meet them?
What do you mean, 'perfect'?
I was meaning to ask whether you had the guts to do what it takes to beat Takayanagi Ichijou.
Academically?
You know what I'm talking about.
He's the number one because of his homunculi tricks, right?
Yes.
In other words, unless you're prepared to beat his little tricks,
you won't beat him academically either.
I don't really care if I'm the number one student or not.
Then why did you join the student council executive committee?
Why did you invite us?
Because the student council is neutral.
Did you want to make everyone neutral?
Why do those exchange brackets exist to begin with?
Are there others besides us and you two?
Personally, I think they were put in place to make it easier for Takayanagi and his homunculi.
The ones who are placed in such brackets
are those that can, to some degree, pose a danger to Takayanagi.
That's why I want to know who you really are, Sagara.
Are you in or are you out?
Haven't you known the answer for a while now?
Why on Earth would someone with as little power as me want to be your enemy?
That's what I thought too.
But my father thinks otherwise.
He said you must be hiding something.
The professor and I didn't talk about any of that crap!
Is that why you invited us?
That wasn't why, although I doubt you'll believe me now.
I want Izumiko on my side.
Izumiko can tell who the homunculi are.
Before we face Takayanagi, I want to make it clear which one of us stands above the other!
I don't serve Suzuhara.
I just want to be a normal guy, go to university, and find a normal job.
I'd like to believe that, but...
No.
I choose to trust what my father said.
Show me the true extent of your powers!
Somebody calls me
From somewhere they call me
From far away that gentle sound drifts near and pulls my heart away
Tell me something, my sad, beautiful flower,
right before me here
Do the feelings I don't understand yet
make their own music?
I dreamed of freedom
and yet keep hesitating about it
With a tiny voice
I prayed that I could
laugh together with everyone
Suzuhara can't defend herself!
That's enough, Mayura! Don't do this!
Episode 7
The First Time I Got Lost
Episode 7
The First Time I Got Lost