For some reason, our super lives have become reality
genjitsu wa nantonaku suupaa na watashitachi no nichijou
A mysterious fortune has befallen us
hashiridashita misuteriasu foochun
Don't laugh, I can really feel my arm being overtaken
warawanaide ittemita ma ga sashita
We're trapped just on the verge of change
kawarisou de kawaranai no wa
Why is that?
naze darou ne
My powers have awakened, but my feelings remain in slumber
mezameshi chikara mezamenu omoi
Be still, my other self!
katte ni abareruna!
Everyone wants to try it at least once
dare demo hontou wa suki kamo ne
Putting on a show and acting cool
oogesa de kakko yoku
Try time and again until you get it
naritai naritai narikireru
and your heart will shine
kokoro tte suteki
It's everyone's dream
shounen shoujo no doriimu
For some reason, our super lives
genjitsu wa nantonaku suupaa na
have become overlapped with reality
watashitachi no nichijou no oobaa rappu
Just wait, and you will find
matte itsu no manika
that life is a lot more fun than before
sore sae mo tanoshindeiru yo
Somewhere within these exciting secrets
dakara tokimeita himitsu no naka de
why do I suddenly have the urge to hold you?
fureaitakunatta nee doushiyou?
I wish to shower you with kind words
yasashii kotoba kakete agetai
And yet, it's way too late
sonna koto ima sara de aa
But I'll still try, I love you
muri kana ai rabu yuu
Episode 3 Rendezvous Point
Sleep Promotes a Healthy Child
Andou, do you know why you've been summoned here?
I don't.
Because of your last test.
My test? Was there a problem with it?
First of all, here.
Why did you use "awaken" here?
You wrote "awaken,"
but you even neatly added the reading "wakes up" above it.
What in the world is happening to Tom every morning at six?
Who knows? You'd have to ask Tom.
Well, leaving that and moving on,
I was surprised you could write difficult kanji like "lamenting."
As for the "dark"... I didn't even know this kanji could be read as "dark."
This kanji's generally only used in "twilight."
Aww...
I'm not praising you.
I could endlessly list other examples.
Hey, Andou...
Why do you deliberately use difficult kanji?
Because... Isn't it kind of cooler that way?
What's worse, you still earned a high score, which irritates me.
I want to mark all of these answers you screwed around on as incorrect.
But they aren't exactly wrong.
Okay...
Forget it. I give up.
In fact, I've had it.
In fact, I'm leaving your correction in Takanashi's hands now.
Goodnight, then.
Huh? Andou?
Oh, Sagami...
Did you have business with Satomi-sensei, too?
I'm finished with mine.
So, why are you here, Sagami?
I just came to get my lover back.
Your lover?
Satomi-sensei, please hurry up and return my lover.
Here.
Don't play games during class anymore.
Sensei, I wasn't playing a game.
I was nurturing my love.
You two are both such pains.
Speaking of lovers, Sagami...
I heard you started dating a first-year a while back?
Oh, we already broke up.
Huh? Already?
She dumped me, like all the others.
It's cruel, right? She was the one who confessed.
You bought another bishoujo figure while you were walking home with her, didn't you?
Wrong. This time I bought a galge.
That's the same thing, idiot.
You two get along as well as always.
Satomi-sensei, please don't lump me in with this creepy moe pig.
He's the kind of pig that chooses anime to watch based on voice actresses.
That's right!
I refuse to be associated with this chuuni loser.
Please don't list me with this embarrassing freak who creates his own original characters
so he can project himself into every new anime!
I don't understand what you two are saying,
but it basically means you both like anime, right?
No!
Ah, this is such a pain.
That's enough. Go home, go home!
Andou, do you have club now?
Yeah.
I need to get going, too.
A girl from Class 3 called me behind the gym.
I don't even want to comment on that.
Later!
Yeah.
Huh? Sayumi-san?
Yes, Andou-kun.
What are you doing, just standing here?
Nothing much.
I wasn't observing the interaction between you and Sagami-kun in detail
to use as fantasy fodder or anything.
Um, Sayumi-san, could you seriously not do that?
Now, then... It's about time we headed to the club room.
By now, I think everyone else should be there already.
Oh, that reminds me, today's...
Yes, today is the literature club's recreation day.
Perfect!
Too bad for you!
No way...
This...
ends it!
Tomoyo, don't hit the net in situations like that.
You'll make stopping time to catch it pointless.
I can't help it!
Tennis is harder than it looks!
Also, "This ends it"?
What does it matter?!
I just felt like saying it!
Still, hardball tennis is definitely difficult.
I guess you and I aren't ready to play on a competitive level yet.
We'd need to be at least as talented as they are...
Sayumi-san doesn't surprise me,
but I never thought Hatoko would be this good.
That's because she played soft tennis in middle school.
Hatoko's more athletic than she looks, isn't she?
Where are you looking?
Huh? What are you... I wasn't looking!
I wasn't thinking about how awesome it was that I could almost see, but couldn't!
You pervert!
B-Besides, that's the kind of underwear that it's okay if people see, right?
It's not embarrassing since they're not panties, right?
True, she's wearing an underskirt, but...
No one likes to be leered at.
The female heart is complicated...
Well, it's thanks to Chifuyu-chan that we're all able to do this, though.
Yeah.
Chifuyu-chan made the court and all the equipment.
Think it's about time we switched partners?
Here I go, Ju-kun!
I'll show you a most terrifying nightmare!
Oh, and no overhand serves, okay?
They're too fast for me to return.
Okay!
Fireball...
Huh?
Ah, that's no good, Ju-kun!
You have to return it!
Who can return that?!
Huh? Oh, right.
I thought that, since you used fire,
you'd be able to return a flaming ball.
Interesting.
Let's find out once and for all who the best flame-user is!
I am the Conqueror of Chaos.
My purgatorial hellfire dances in the abyss,
Ah! Ju-kun, sorry!
distorting the dark chaos with turbid crimso—
I hit it already!
Huh?
I thought I was going to die!
No, you nearly did die.
I'm sorry, Ju-kun.
I had to perform another worthless restoration.
However, thanks to wandering between life and death,
I've come up with a new nickname!
Andou fell, and he won't get up.
That would mean I'm still down... Forget it.
"Crimson Bible"
There it is! The notebook of his dark history!
It's not dark history! It's my Bloody Bible!
Hey, Andou...
Hmm?
Right here...
You misspelled "Bible."
Huh?
"Bible" is spelled b-i-b-l-e.
But here, you spelled it v-i-v-r-e.
S-S-Sayumi-san!
Isn't this how you taught me to spell "Bible"?
Sorry.
Sayumi-san?
I taught you the wrong spelling by acci—
Andou, that spells "vivre." "Bloody Vivre"!
Why is the Aeon Group's fashion store covered in blood?
Oh, but Ju-kun...
You bought that notebook at the Vivre stationery store near the station,
so it must be fate!
I feel like going to karaoke today.
Good idea.
Oh, sounds good!
If Andou-kun's coming, I'll pass.
Yeah.
Why?
Because it's you.
Yeah.
What did I do? I didn't do anything, did I?
It's gone!
This is bad! Bloody Bible's gone!
Huh? Your Bloody Vivre's missing?
Don't call it "Vivre"!
And I wanted to record the new nickname
I just thought up before I forgot!
How many nicknames do you come up with in a day?
Oh, crap...
I'm going to look for it, so you guys, go home without me!
I guess we'll go home, then.
Right.
Ju-kun really is scatterbrained.
He doesn't even need to panic.
I'm sure he'll think up lots more nicknames.
Nicknames, huh?
Hmm?
Ah, nothing.
I was just recalling something from the past.
When I was in elementary school,
I was often called "Yakitori-chan."
Huh?
Since my last name is "Kushikawa,"
it came from "kushi," meaning "skewer," and "kawa," meaning "skin."
I don't mind it at all anymore,
but at the time, I really hated being called that.
But then Ju-kun said, "I will not stand for such a lame nickname,"
and he gave me a new nickname.
If I recall...
It was "Fire Phoenix."
Then everyone else said, "What? If we have to call her something dorky like that,
we'll just call her 'Hatoko-chan.'"
From then on, no one ever called me "Yakitori-chan" again.
Hatoko, you don't think
Andou did all of that on purpose, do you?
No, I don't believe that.
When the kids said his nickname was dorky, Ju-kun was sad,
and I'm sure he was just doing what he wanted to, anyway.
But in the end, I do think he saved me.
Yes...
It's true that Andou-kun is a hopeless idiot,
but he's surprisingly reliable.
For example, my power:
Route of Origin,
the power to restore anything to its original state.
The moment I received this power,
a question popped into my head immediately.
The question of whether it could be used to bring back the dead.
However, Andou-kun saved me from that.
Huh?
Listen, Sayumi-san...
No matter what, please don't try to bring a dead person back to life.
No animals, either.
Whether you can or not doesn't matter. Please don't even consider it.
Now I understand him better.
The power to revive the dead
should not exist in our world.
If I were to try it and succeed,
I'm not sure I could maintain my mental stability.
Andou told me something, too.
He said that I shouldn't create life.
Ju-kun has really given a lot of thought to each of our powers, hasn't he?
Yes.
He's thought about our powers more than we have.
He's considered them, analyzed them,
sometimes imagining their scope, sometimes calculating them,
and given us wonderful names for them.
Even if they are lame chuunibyou names.
Now your powers are partly mine.
I've bound them with names.
He's bearing half of our burden.
Hmph, you're overthinking this.
He definitely isn't thinking that deeply about it.
You're right.
Andou-kun only ever thinks about his chuunibyou character setting.
Andou's a super chuuni.
That's right, Ju-kun is a chuuni.
Oh, I can't waste time here!
Huh?
Could this be yours, perchance?
Huh?
Is this notebook yours?
Y-Yes... It's mine.
Then is this your name written here,
"Guiltia Sin Jurai"?
Yes.
You have good naming sense.
Huh?
"Guiltia" recalls guilty, as in "guilty of a crime,"
and "Sin" also brings to mind crime and wrongdoing.
The double meaning makes it deep, too.
"Sin" can also mean a wrong in God's eye, connoting an evil existence
that carries the weight of more wrongs than one can repent.
"Guiltia" also gestures to "Arcadia" and "Utopia,"
suggesting a sinful paradise.
And finally, a cursed thunder.
It gives me goosebumps.
However, this is a coincidence.
I happen to own something similar.
I call it the Reverse Crux Record.
What? Reverse Crux?
A Manifest Renounced by God
An upside-down cross?
The cross of the fallen, a symbol of rebellion against God?
Who in the world are you?
My name is Kiryuu Heldkaiser Luci First.
Although, in this world, I go by the temporary moniker "Kiryuu Hajime."
"Heldkaiser" is a play on "Hell" and "Kaiser,"
recalling the Emperor of Hell.
Which is further emphasized by "Luci First,"
signifying Lucifer, the fallen angel.
Every part of that name symbolizes the rebellion against God...
Wonderful!
You're great!
Jeez, I came to the literature club to play around,
and now, I've found a man of outstanding talent.
Right, Guiltia Sin Jurai?
I sense our encounter was destined,
Kiryuu Heldkaiser Luci First.
Wait, the literature club?
Why are you visiting our literature club?
Oh, I'm an alumnus.
Huh? Really?
This really does feel like destiny.
Oh, sorry, phone call.
Litia?
It's me.
Huh?
Hey, hey... That's the job of you guys in the War Management Committee.
Don't push your failures off on me.
You're ostensibly calling a truce with those
who are trying to break the war system itself,
while secretly crushing them with all your might, huh?
That's so underhanded, it disgusts me.
Fine... I'll do it for you.
I was planning to take them out sooner or later, anyway.
I'll teach them who the real emperor of this war is.
Power on a par with God?
Who cares?
Whether they be a god or otherwise,
whoever stands in my way will be beaten down to heavenly Hell.
Sorry. That was my boss at work.
Okay, we'll just leave it at that.
What were we talking about?
Oh, right, right... Chuunibyou names.
Right.
Hmm? What's wrong?
You're suddenly looking down.
Well, um...
Kiryuu-san, do you think someone like me really is a chuunibyou?
Hmm? Ah.
Hey, Andou...
What is "chuunibyou" to you?
I see it... as not lying to myself.
Good answer, but a bit abstract.
Chuunibyou comes in varieties, but they share a core.
It starts with self-denial.
Creating a different self and a fictional setting,
because you can't accept yourself and the world you live in.
However, those emotions are also a fierce craving for self-affirmation.
You wish for someone to accept you,
just as strongly as you wish to be someone else.
This unresolved paradox of self-denial and self-affirmation
is the root of chuunibyou.
Unresolved paradox?
Endless Paradox.
What? That's—
Huh? Is that you, Andou?
Oh? Tomoyo?
What are you doing here?
I just came here to study.
I often use this family restaurant.
More importantly, Andou, did you find Vivre?
Don't call it Vivre!
Yeah, this kind older man picked it up for me.
It's been a long time, Endless Paradox!
Endless Paradox (Paradox Witch Who Sneers At Twilight)
Hajime-niisan?
Huh? Nii-san?
Not "Hajime-niisan"!
Kiryuu Heldkaiser Luci First!
You came back here?
Yeah.
Then you could've at least called me!
Yeah, sorry.
I see you haven't changed.
Hey, Hajime-niisan, why don't you just come home?
I refuse.
Everyone's worried about you.
Even Dad isn't mad anymore.
I said that I refuse.
When you go home, tell our father this...
"Send living expenses for this month, too."
I don't think that's something to say while trying to sound cool.
It seems we've been interrupted.
Our phantasmal conversation ends here, Guiltia.
After we finally renewed the ties of our past lives, too...
What a shame.
Oh, that's right, Andou.
Huh?
I nearly forgot to mention it.
Both madness and a weapon, a calamitous disaster,
the power of destruction to even topple Heaven...
"Lucifer's Strike."
Lucifer's Strike (Fallen Angel's Hammer Drops on Fools)
That is my other abhorrent alias,
and the name of the power that can overturn this world...
"Dark and Dark."
One day, the wheels of fate will lead you and me to meet again.
I look forward to that moment.
So that guy's your older brother?
It's embarrassing, but yes.
I see.
So Endless Paradox came from Kiryuu-san's naming sense.
Huh?
Oh, yes, that's actually true.
I remembered how Hajime-niisan gave me that nickname, so I...
You know, don't you?
Huh? Wait... Kanzaki and Kiryuu?
Yeah, we're siblings by different mothers.
We share a father, but our mothers are different.
"Kiryuu" is the family name of Hajime-niisan's mother.
He's lived with us since we were little,
but he's always gone by his mother's last name.
Hmm, that sounds complicated.
Do you want to know?
Do you want to share?
I don't.
Then it's fine.
Yeah...
Hajime-niisan was always an incredible person.
Keen intellect, handsome, good in both literary and physical realms.
He was always first or second on the High School National Exams.
During high school, he was in the literature club,
but during middle school, he went to nationals for track.
That's incredible!
But about one year ago, he said, "This world is wrong,"
quit college, and left home.
That's incredible...
Hey, Andou, that reminds me,
Hajime-niisan called you "Dark and Dark."
Oh, yeah.
You haven't told him about our powers, right?
I haven't. Don't sell me short.
Yeah, I thought so.
Still, he really is incredible.
He just casually left me with the entire bill.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.
I'm home.
Hmm?
Good morning, Chifuyu-chan.
Good morning, Andou.
Chifuyu-chan, what are you doing here?
Are you waiting for Satomi-sensei?
Will you be okay with school?
If you don't go soon, won't you be late?
I won't be late.
I don't need to go to elementary school anymore.
I quit school.
Huh?
If you can confirm it with your eyes
hitomi ni utsuru mono nara
then everything points to fatalism?
are ya kore unmeiron e
Don't make me laugh
kojitsukechau
A philosophy based on logic and inverse relationships
rikutsu to hanpire na firosofii
falls apart in the face of common sense, you bad boy
kizukeba mata nichijou oitekebori de Bad My Boy
Logic and gossip are all mixed up now
rojikku goshippu gochamaze
Let it go, spin around, but for how long?
Let it Go Merry Go doko made?
Wait a minute, can't you explain a bit more?!
nee chotto mou chotto setsumei shite yo?!
This is my glimmering heart's request
kirameku tokimeki rikuesuto
You're making a face like you're shouldering the world's fate
sekai no shukumei wo seotta kao de
Please wipe that fantasy from your brain
esoragoto ga kokoro kara sukuriin auto shite
Or so I say, but I'm attracted to you for some reason
demo demo dokoka hikareacchau no wa
Why? Is it the magic of magnets? I'll just leave it at that
Why? N to S no majikku? soyuu koto ni shitageru
You'd better thank me, my d-d-d-darling!
kansha shite yo ne? da-da-da-darling!
Get ready, here I come
toriaezu aki mo sezu
I'll chase you forever until you love me!
Ch-Ch-Chase Ch-Ch-Chain You Gotta Love Me!
Chifuyu-chan, do you have any friends in elementary school?
I have a best friend.
Oh? What's she like?
I'm not telling you, Andou.
Next time, on When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace:
Capricious Lady
Capricious Lady.