I like beautiful things.
I believe beauty is the greatest value a thing can have.
The Beautiful and Cruel Poet Mr. Mika Kirameki
Well, you really are beautiful, Mr. Kirameki.
The Beautiful and Cruel Poet Mr. Mika Kirameki Compared to me...
I'm not talking about outward appearance.
In sports there's "beautiful form," correct?
The manner in which one behaves, the way one speaks,
and even what is inside your heart...
I believe the world can be separated into two.
The beautiful, and the ugly.
That's unfortunate...
I think I might have to be in the ugly part...
What should I do?
Why don't you just die?
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..."
Found you!
It ran away again!
Chiaki...
Fumika! Why are you here?
Work.
So you're also delivering to Schroedinger?
Sheesh...
How am I supposed to deliver a Shigofumi to a cat?
They can't understand us, so they won't stop when you yell at them.
After chasing it around so much, I ended up here.
What? You chased that cat all the way from there to here?
Well, guess so.
That cat's got some guts.
That's a two hour train ride to the boonies.
It's 1 hour 48 minutes on the express.
That's called 2 hours, sheesh!
You can't meet your quota with that kind of "approximate" attitude.
We have the number one, 100% delivery rate, so eat it.
Kanaka.
Yes, yes. I won't fight with him.
It seems you finally know your place.
I meant you're not worth my time!
Who sent it?
The old woman who kept him.
It seems he was the pet of an elderly couple with no children.
And yours?
The old man's.
Ah, I see. Guess they went at about the same time.
Perhaps that's a blessing.
Being left alone is incredibly cruel.
You remember, right? Fumika Mikawa, in the same class as ours.
Oh yeah... She was really quiet.
To think she'd go shooting her dad like that.
I guess it was one of those things
where she'd store it up over time and then it just all exploded out.
Are you talking about Kirameki's daughter?
She shot her father! Amazing...
Stop it, don't!
Those daughters of artists like that are definitely weirdos.
Kirameki Mikawa Shot by Only Daughter "A", aged 13? Those daughters of artists like that are definitely weirdos.
What happened, Mikawa?
Why did you shoot your father?
Mikawa...
I knew it... You're just searching randomly.
No wonder it seemed like you don't know what you're doing.
Easier for you to say after chasing it randomly for 3 days.
This just means we should use our heads.
Matatabi.
Exactly!
I see! Use matatabi for cats!
It's an effective strategy, in theory.
Exactly.
Matoma, 0923!
What are you planning to do?
Isn't it obvious?
We don't have any of this world's money.
Wait, you plan on... stealing it?
Just borrowing it for eternity.
Stealing is wrong.
What choice do we have? We don't have any money!
Since I can't see you, I can't hold back.
I might cause you mortal injury.
Liar! You can totally see me, right?
Stop it!
Then how do you plan on searching for Schroedinger?
I don't have any money...
What?
This isn't like you, Chiaki.
Yeah.
You'd usually just report "address unknown" and give up.
And yet you chased after a cat for 3 days.
You were even going to steal... That's seriously dedicated.
W-why not? Sometimes even I want to...
Hey there, girls.
How cute! Are those matching outfits?
You know them?
Not at all.
Ventriloquism?
That's a really great talent you have there.
I bet you'd be popular real fast.
Then who are they?
Catchers.
Catchers?
Parasites.
Human trash.
Fleas.
Losing horse ticket.
Bent nails.
Photochemical smog.
Combs for bald heads.
The runners left over from finished plastic models.
Don't make fun of us, you shrimp!
Good. Now it's self-defense.
Hey wait, Fumika...
Not with me again!
W-w-we're sorry...
Take this and please forgive us!
Yay!
More traveling money!
Um, can you please stop using me as a weapon?
Good morning.
Good morning, Mr. Sleepyhead.
Where's Kaname?
He's been in his room all this morning on the phone.
The phone?
I think he's been calling friends from middle school.
He asked me where the directory was yesterday.
Middle school?
Fluffy ain't coming.
Its name is Schroedinger.
It's got a really long name for a cat!
Say Fumika... Tell me.
Why are you the only one that ages?
The mail carriers should be picked from the dead.
And you should have the appearance of how you were when you died.
So then, why?
Don't hide it, answer me! I...
What are you doing?
That's not Schroedinger.
But why are you chasing it away?
Schroedinger won't come either then, right?
Wait... Are you afraid of cats?
That's not true.
Well look at this...
Oh? So Kazuo is the older brother and Chiyonosuke is the younger.
How austere...
Hello! Natsuka at your service.
It's Nojima, actually. We were together in middle school?
Kaname?
It's been a while.
Yeah, it has.
What's up all of a sudden?
You wouldn't happen to know how to contact Mikawa, right?
Something happened, see... I want to contact her.
You two were close, right? I thought you might know.
Maybe some clue...
Kaname, listen!
Did you and she go out?
Tell me the truth. If you do I'll tell you a hint.
A hint? Do you know something?
You had a crush on her, didn't you?
Mikawa...
She turned me down.
So that's what happened.
Don't tell anyone.
Don't worry, I'll keep it a secret.
Then tell me.
The hint! How can I get in contact with Mikawa?
I think she's in the hospital.
The hospital?
I heard the head teacher over the phone.
Yuzawa General Hospital.
If she was admitted there for a little bit,
then you should go there and ask them how to contact her.
Yuzawa General Hospital?
Thank you, Natsuka!
You turned him down, Fumika?
But I thought she liked him too...
Fumi...
You're awake?
You've got some cute traits to you.
To think you'd be scared of cats.
Here, we had some change from the matatabi.
It's open...
Worried about a second-hand kiss?
What does it matter? We're both girls.
But what should we do? He didn't appear in the end.
Yeah.
No matter how hard we try spreading the scent of matatabi, we shouldn't expect much.
To cover this entire town would be really, really...
That was...
Schroedinger!
Ooh, nice Fumika!
0825!
Oww...
You're in my way.
Same to you! Stay outta my way!
Kanaka, 0809.
Don't tell me twice!
Fumika, in front of you!
I've been chasing him for three days.
Let your big sister handle this.
Big sister? You don't even age.
Yeah, that's right. Unlike you I'll stay young forever.
Which means you'll stay flat forever.
You're just as flat as me!
I'll have a nice body in 5 years.
And how do you know that?
Nobody knows what they'll look like when they grow up!
Except for you, Chiaki.
Oh, yeah?
Fumika, in front! Look front!
I'm sorry, you there!
Mikawa!
What the hell?
What is it?
Uh, sorry, will you stay quiet a moment?
I've got my own issues here, and...
What do you mean, issues? Were you climbing the tree?
You're trying to escape the hospital!
Well, that's not it...
What the...
Sorry, there was a bit of an accident, see...
Calm down, Fumika!
B-but...
Now is my chance.
Are you sure he's okay?
He'll be fine. He's right in front of a hospital.
Uh, that's not what I meant...
Chiaki, the flight mode is almost out of time.
Do your best, I've almost got 'im!
Chiaki.
Fumika?
They're tearing it down?
Go back, Chiaki.
No, not yet. I can make it.
Chiaki.
Time's up.
You're all right...
Kanaka, undo the code.
0913.
Authorized!
Stay away!
I-I-It's cursed! Run for it!
There, there. It's okay now.
You like cats.
It's not so much that I like them. They're my lucky item.
When I got first place at the sports festival,
and when my dad came home early from his business trip...
When I met him, too...
I felt our time together started with this...
So, you want to age?
Not really. I'm already dead, after all.
Chiaki, today is your lucky day.
How? When I get back I'm going to have a lot of papers to file.
You made a friend.
That room...
It's where the senders lived when they were alive.
You wanted to go home, didn't you?
I see.
The keys to this room.
So that's why it came from so far away.
For that old man and woman, this cat was their only family.
That machine is only held up until tomorrow.
Say all your goodbyes in this one day.
Fumika, do you have any family?
I ended it.
Mikawa...
You did well getting here.
Father...
Mikawa?
She hasn't opened her eyes once since the incident three years ago.
She won't wake up? Then...
Who was that?
Shigofumi Episode 5 I'm Home
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...
What's done close at hand seems so far away.
Are people's despair coincidence, or an inevitability?
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