Found you!
Mika!
Fumi!
I found you, Fumi.
Mika, you're like a boy.
Sure! Then you can be the girl, Fumi.
The two of us make one, you know.
Yeah!
Two of us...
...make one!
Mitsumeteru mono no hontou no sugata
Me wo tojita ato ni miseru tame
Mata kyou mo toki wa hikisakaresou na
Kodoku dake tsumugu darou
Yami ni saku byakuren wasureenu hitobito
Sore de mo tsuioku wa mirai kara otonau
Toiki ni kawaru kotoba-tachi wa
Ukasuru tamashii no tsubasa yo
Maichiru deshou ka
Mayotte midarete
Anata e to kizamitai kono moji ga
Tsutaetai koto no shinjitsu no kakera
Sore sae mo umaku todokanai
Yubisaki ni nijimu chi de shitatametara
Kokoro made kobosemasu ka
Ikiru warera ni nokosareta hitokoto ga
Sayonara da to shite mo
Fumika, give me authorization, quickly!
F-Fumika!
See, it hurts, doesn't it? These are dangerous!
Understand, Fumika? You shouldn't point these at people.
Fumika! Are you okay? Fumika!
A doctor! An ambulance!
Uh, no doctors! Or hospitals, either.
She's your daughter, you bastard!
Stop it! That's the author, Kirameki Mikawa! So...
Why, you...
Open it! Open this door now!
Are you the one that seduced my Fumika?
Tell me your name! Your full name!
Um, I apologize Mr. Kirameki. Please wait in there for a bit.
Hell no! You're fired!
I'll make sure you never work in the business again!
Um...
Here, wipe the side of your mouth.
Thanks.
Don't worry, it wasn't looking too good anyway.
N-no way!
See, I told you.
If a doctor saw this there'd be a big fuss.
Natsuka!
Wait a sec.
You can come in now.
Is Mikawa okay?
Yeah, actually.
She was shot! We have to call an ambulance.
Fumika won't die.
The staff...
...spoke.
I'm not "the staff," I'm Kanaka!
Kanaka...
But it's a pain!
Better than calling the authorities and having it turn into a big mess.
What the heck?
A speaker?
Obviously not.
The staff is speaking.
That's right, isn't it? "Kanaka" here is alive and talks.
Yeah.
I wonder if they really get it?
You'll tell me, right? About what happened...
About growing up...
Are you talking about Fumika?
Are there any other mail carriers who grow older I'd be talking about?
The mail carriers are all among the dead.
Therefore their time is stopped, as well as their growth.
They cannot die any more.
In other words, she's different than us.
She's actually as old as she looks.
So you're saying she's just a child.
She's far too young to be a mail carrier. Or something like that.
I was once a human named Fumika Mikawa.
I knew it!
Then who is the girl sleeping in the hospital?
That's right!
She's been sleeping the whole time these past three years, right? And yet...
Why don't you try letting Fumika finish first? She's been sleeping the whole time these past three years, right? And yet...
Why don't you try letting Fumika finish first?
You can ask questions later.
Sorry...
Go on, Fumika.
My father is Kirameki Mikawa, the man who just shot me.
My mother divorced him soon after I was born.
Aizawa Kirei.
She's an actress, right?
Yes, and beautiful, just like her name "Kirei."
I'm pretty sure she's remarried and living overseas, however.
And that's why I don't know Aizawa Kirei, my mother.
My father, Kirameki Mikawa, raised me himself.
Fumika, it's dinner time!
Look, I made it easy for you to eat.
Yay!
Here, Dad! Say ah!
Kirameki was a kind father.
As he loved himself, he loved me, an offshoot of himself.
But...
Dad! Look, look, it's you Dad!
Fumika, it's time for art.
I don't remember when or why it started.
The afterlife resembles a world of ice.
No one is alive. There is no color.
There is no grass or flowers or seasons or anything.
And yet, the world of the dead is beautiful.
A single-colored, unharried world, with no insects, or mold, or uncleanliness!
A world of ultimate... Clear?
Pure?
Beautiful..."Kirei?"
Father...
No!
No! This is not "Kirei!" It's not you!
Ouch!
Kirei? Kirei, you say? What is beauty?
It's dirtied black!
Woman, lies, vanity!
Betrayal?
That's right! You traitor!
It hurts!
Why would Mr. Kirameki do that?
Drafting...
Kirameki would write draft after draft on my body, searching for ideas.
I hated it... I feared it...
But all I could do was withstand it.
I knew no other father than Kirameki, you see.
I loved you. Pure, like ice...
Beautiful like sin...
And yet!
I hate you! I hate you so!
I love you! I love you father!
I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!
But I love you, Father... I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!
But I love you, Father... I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!
Begone, you defiled woman!
Leave my sight for eternity!
Be lost! Be fallen!
Grow old and die!
My kind father should not be doing something like this.
This is me.
This isn't me!
This is me!
This is wrong!
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!
You should just disappear!
That is how I was born.
Two personalities.
But there are actually two of them.
Yeah... One in the hospital, and one... A Shigofumi deliverer.
I am Mika. The personality that escaped.
I pushed all the bad things onto Fumi, I'm the wicked child.
I'm a bad girl.
That's not true! You're a good girl, Fumi.
Mika... You came again?
Yeah!
Ow...
Does it hurt?
No, I'm okay... Thank you, Mika.
After we get out of the bath, let's draw a picture of a castle!
A castle?
Yeah!
A castle with a princess and a prince, and they have a ball during the night!
Is there a cat jester, too?
You bet! And an owl that's a home tutor.
I'd like it if there was an anteater as a maid.
But she eats too much, so she's always getting turned down.
We were friends. The only friends we had in the world.
The Mr. Hippo troops sure love to eat...
They'll eat anything, they'll drink anything...
Even that... Even this...
Thank you Mr. Hippo. Thank you Mr. Hippo.
All of you, lend me your power!
Mr. Kirameki was mistreating his daughter, wasn't he?
He's not right in the head. All artists are like that.
So what? Thanks to that we can sell 800,000 copies!
That's why we covered it up.
We covered it up all right.
Well, we're a publishing house.
Are you sure you're okay?
Yeah. It still hurts a little bit, though.
No one noticed about you... and her?
We weren't allowed to leave the house.
We had never seen any people other than Kirameki.
We didn't go to kindergarten or elementary school.
Middle school was the first school we knew.
Fumika Mikawa
It was our first time seeing lots of people.
So that's why you stayed in the clinic.
You were scared, weren't you?
Yeah, but...
But it wasn't all scary.
People's hearts inside them get tired, they get nervous...
But Fumi did her best and went to school.
Because she liked school.
She liked it?
So, um... You're the Mika part, right?
Right.
And the one that went to school was...
Fumi. I just watched over her from inside her mind.
And the one that rejected you.
Fumi didn't dislike you. She was just surprised.
Good for you, Kaname!
It was back in middle school!
If you weren't still interested you wouldn't have searched so hard for Fumika.
Hey, big sister! Get over here and reign in your little sister!
Huh?
What the...
A gas explosion?
Kirameki...
Yippee!
Mikawa!
Fumika!
Hey, don't leave me!
I must punish them.
Which one would be good? Which one?
I can't choose!
Huh?
Do you remember?
I'm the one that shot you.
Fumika, Fumika, Fumika!
It's locked from the inside!
Mikawa!
Open the door!
Mikawa, Mikawa!
Fumika!
Damn it!
Fumika!
Use me!
Sis!
Fumika!
How dare you hit me! I loved you so much!
I hate you! Disappear and die!
You did all that to her, and yet Fumi loved you to the end.
But...
I love you, Dad!
Are you going to betray me, too?
I'll get all the Kirei out from you!
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
Fumi's going to die, Fumi's going to die...
It hurts! It hurts, Father! It hurts! Fumi's going to die, Fumi's going to die...
It hurts! It hurts, Father! It hurts! Fumi's going to die, Fumi's going to die!
It hurts! It hurts, Father! It hurts!
Fumi is... going to die...
Don't hurt Fumi any longer!
The one who shot you wasn't Fumi, it was me.
But Fumi thought it was she who did it, and closed herself off.
She can't hear my voice any longer.
It should be Fumi who sits in judgment upon you, but...
You will die now!
Don't, Fumika! If you kill a human, the Gospel Office won't stay silent!
You think I give a damn!
As much as Fumi loved you, I loathe you!
What Fumi can't do, I will!
Fumi will... Fumi will...
Kanaka, it would be a problem for you if the police found out about your job, correct?
No police, no way! How'd we explain ourselves to them?
Then it's decided.
We'll put him to work, and he'll pay for Fumika's hospital bills.
And I want to read this poor, pitiful Kirameki Mikawa's new work.
Now Mr. Kirameki... You can write, can't you?
I can't... Without Fumika, I...
Well that won't do. If you can't write, then...
I tried but... I can't do it! So it's too late, I...
Don't be such a baby!
I'm surprised by your sister.
She's pretty strong when the chips are down.
And yet, man...
Yeah. Who'd know she could do that?
Fumika, you too.
I've never seen you like that before, Fumika.
No more secrets from now on, okay? We're partners, after all.
Yeah.
You became a mail carrier in order to wait for the other Fumika, didn't you?
And you chose this delivery area on purpose.
Yeah. I promised, after all. That we'd always be together.
Hey, do you mind if we wait, too?
Just like you love Fumika, we liked her as well.
I like her too! So...
Okay?
Thank you, everyone.
Shigofumi Episode 8 Beginning
Monokuro ni sasu hikari
Ima kioku no hazama tayutau hanabira
Suisai no omoi-tachi
Saa shizuka na basho e
Kiyoraka na madoromi
Oyasumi karada wa iranai no
Sayonara motto chikaku ni yuku yo
Watashi to eien wo musubu
Nee kodoku to sukoshi niteru
Nido to wa fureaenakute mo
Nee shinjite kie wa shinai no
Kie wa shinai no
Chain Chain
Shiawase yo
Chain tsunagaru
You, cheerful.
You, smiling.
Your truth in the sparkling south seas.
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