The true form of what I gaze at
Is to be shown after I close my eyes
Once again today, time only spins solitude
Seemingly rent asunder, yes?
There are those who cannot forget the white lotus
Blooming in darkness
Yet, recollection inquires from the future
The words that changed into a sigh
Are the wings metamorphed from my soul
Will they scatter all about?
Lost, disordered
I want to carve these letters to you
A fragment of the reality of what I want to say...
Even that I cannot properly send you
If I can write with this blood oozing from my fingertip
Can it spill even into your heart?
Even if the one word left to the living
Is "goodbye..."
When you're standing on the train platform, you know...
Don't you think about it?
Like, what would happen if you jumped...
I do not.
Without any hesitation.
Kotake, you want to die?
Being bullied? Or maybe trouble at home?
No, I'm not talking about wanting to die. I'm talking about jumping.
What's the difference?
If you jump in front of a train, you're pretty much dead.
Well, sure... But that's not what I mean.
Ah, I get it.
I knew you'd understand, Sen!
I bet Kaname's never thought like he wanted to die.
That's what you get?
No. Of course I haven't.
So you have, Sen? You've thought you wanted to die?
Nope...
What's with you?
Don't scare us like that.
This is because you started talking about weird stuff.
Is it so weird?
It's totally weird. You don't have any reason you want to die.
What about you, Sen?
Me?
Sen!
Makki's calling you!
Oh, right.
What is it?
I'm on class duty.
Sen!
Okay...
I'm coming.
Sheesh, and I told you this morning...
You did?
You're always blanking out!
He's a forgetful one.
And you remember too much, Kaname.
Better than forgetting, right?
Humans are able to live because they can forget the sad and embarrassing things.
You're quoting someone.
You knew?
In this game I just beat...
This stage is tough...
What is it, Kaname?
Kotake, have you heard?
Did some plane crash? Or the school burn down?
You idiot. Not that.
Sen's dead.
You're just some gigolo, you got some nerve...
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
You think "sorry" is gonna cut it after knocking up some of our merchandise?
You think getting down and begging is gonna help, idiot?
Wait.
My job comes first.
Job?
This is a restricted area! Get the hell outta here!
Why, you...
Uh, thanks for saving me.
You're really strong... and cool.
Delivery!
A letter?
A Shigofumi. A letter from the land of the dead.
Well that sounds interesting.
So, who's it from? I hope she's pretty...
What the hell is this?
I told you. It's from the land of the dead.
Got it, "Dad?"
My job is finished.
Wait... Didn't you come to save me?
I deliver letters.
Saving people is not my job.
I feel sorry for him.
He reaped what he sowed.
The woman he fooled must have been pretty stupid too.
Something like this, in the end...
From the Gospel Office?
Yes. It says there's another one that's been selected.
I see.
Was there no suicide note or anything?
Like on the roof of his apartment building?
I don't get what people who die must be thinking.
If it's something that awful, they should just run away.
You don't have to die.
You know Daiki Senkawa, correct?
Was he bullied or something?
What time will it be on the news?
I've got to get my parents to tape it!
Hey you! Can we speak for a moment?
How cruel, Sen... Killing yourself like that...
I thought we were friends...
I wish he would have talked with us.
Friends?
Was that it?
Kotake.
It's your turn next.
For what?
The principal is calling.
Our school's honor depends on this!
If you know something, say it. Reporting is a student's duty.
You were close with him, weren't you!
Why did Senkawa die?
It doesn't matter what, just tell us!
So, there were really no clues?
There were no problems here at home.
I'm thinking that the reason Daiki died must have been something at school.
You think so?
Why are you asking me?
You were Sen's friend, right?
So were you.
I... suppose so.
After Sen died, I've been asked a lot of things by the teachers and people in class.
But I couldn't answer them at all.
When I thought about it,
I actually don't know anything about Sen's family or goals or dreams...
I'm thinking that we might have been together, but weren't actually friends.
Obviously.
For him, it's normal not to know what that guy's thinking.
But...
When I was in middle school a girl in my class suddenly shot her father.
We were pretty close.
But I could never have imagined she'd do something like that.
Even now.
I don't get it.
Yeah. Who knows what other people are thinking?
Honestly. Why do humans go and kill themselves?
What happened to the survival instinct?
It's like... blasphemy of life itself!
Because they are broken.
Humans are broken. Suicide. Incest. Patricide.
The only living things with so many flaws are humans.
You got that right. Humans sure are freaky!
Next, about the news of the mysterious suicide of Daiki Senkawa...
They said there was no suicide note, right?
Maybe it was an accident?
It's bullying.
The schools just don't control things. It happens all the time.
I've also heard the possibility he was ill-treated by his father...
No, this is Apathy Syndrome.
He felt like there was no point in going on living.
And when he got older...
They're all wrong. None of those is like Sen.
Then why?
Sen had no reason to die.
Who knows what other people are thinking?
I don't know. But I want to know.
Huh? Who's that?
A teacher?
Nobody move!
This... is now a court of law!
The father of Daiki Senkawa who committed suicide the other day
has taken students hostage and is held up in the classroom.
It seems he is wielding a shotgun.
Please stay calm! It seems he is wielding a shotgun.
Please stay calm!
We're told that after the suicide he's been thinking hard...
Family members this way! We're told that after the suicide he's been thinking hard...
All I want to know is the reason my son died.
You can understand that, right?
Will you tell me?
About Daiki...
What happened to my son?
I don't know! Nothing happened!
Of course something happened.
But he wasn't bullied or anything...
It's the truth! Sen was always smiling and happy!
Everyone, please follow the police's instructions!
You'll agitate the culprit!
Detective Noji! Did you come to give us support?
No... My son's in there.
Hey you...
What is it?
No, never mind.
Then I'll change the question.
Who was closest to my son?
You're in this classroom, right?
Sen's dead...
They say he jumped from the roof of his apartment building.
What?
But he just said that he never thought about dying...
It was at lunch today. It hadn't even been half a day and yet... Why?
So you have, Sen? You've thought you wanted to die?
Nope.
Is it you?
It sounds like you were close with my son. Thank you.
Uh, well...
You should know, shouldn't you?
You should know what drove Daiki to die...
I don't know.
Are you covering for someone?
Or maybe worried about what the school would say?
If you really were his friend, you'd tell me, right?
Friend...
If you were his friend,
you couldn't allow the person that killed him to just keep on living, right?
Why did Sen die?
What?
If you're his father, shouldn't you know?
Don't you know?
Stop it, Kotake!
I want to know, too!
I want to know why Sen died as well!
I'm sorry... Ever since Daiki died he's been...
It wasn't me! I'm sorry... Ever since Daiki died he's been...
It wasn't me!
I was never abusive. I... I...
It's been two hours since the incident began.
However there still haven't been any demands by the hostage taker.
Sorry about this, Detective Noji. Making you wait...
No. I'm involved, so it's only natural I recuse myself.
Kaname...
Metro Police Department Police Squad 1, Swift Attack Team 24, has arrived.
Understood.
The S.A. T?
You're...
Who are you?
I deliver... Shigofumi.
Shigofumi?
Letters from the land of the dead.
The land of the dead?
Then...
The sender is Daiki Senkawa.
It's addressed to Touru Kotake.
To me? Sen sent this?
Wait! If it's a letter from Daiki, then I should read it!
W-what?
Hey, don't just...
It's a letter for me.
That's my son's letter!
It's addressed to me!
Shut up!
It couldn't be...
My job is to deliver Shigofumi.
Don't get in my way.
W-wait!
Will you read it out loud? I want to know too...
I understand.
Kotake...
It's not anything important, really.
They said I had the right to write something, see...
It was in the middle of our conversation on the roof, right?
Something about it interested me.
I also had thought about what it'd be like to jump.
Yeah, I had that feeling.
It's not that I wanted to die.
But it's not like a wanted to live either, I guess.
I see. Sen just jumped, that's all.
That's why he died.
If I had just happened to jump too...
There wasn't any reason.
Like doing something different from the norm, like choosing yakisoba bread for lunch...
It was just something similar to that.
No...
Does that even happen?
Give it to me!
This is a fake!
My Daiki couldn't have written this! This... This...
It's real.
What?
Sen wrote that.
There's no mistake.
And how do you know that?
Because I...
Hostages secured! Hostages have been secured!
Are there any injured?
Confirming...
Everyone is unharmed!
Daiki would never have committed suicide!
He wasn't that kind of kid!
He wasn't that kind of kid... He wasn't that kind of kid!
Because I was his friend.
Sen... I can be your friend, right?
Death won't save people. It just makes them disappear.
What's that?
Kirameki Mikawa...
From one of his popular books a little while ago.
Mikawa!
Mikawa... You're Mikawa, aren't you?
Who?
It's me! We were in the same class in middle school!
Kaname Nojima!
What?
What happened, Mikawa?
Why did you shoot your father?
What?!
Shigofumi Episode 3 Friends
The shining black and white light...
Now flower petals aflutter in the gaps of memory
The water-colored memories...
Go now to a quiet place
Doze into peaceful sleep
Good night, I have no need of a body
Farewell, I'll be getting closer to you
I will connect to eternity
Hey, isn't this is a bit like solitude?
Even if we can never touch each other again
So, I believe that we won't disappear
We won't disappear...
Chain, chain
Happiness...
Chain, connects...
You adored her. You looked up to her.
At the end of those embracing feelings...
...is it hatred, or love?
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