Miyakogawa Gardening
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..."
There's precedent overseas of people that wake up when they are talked to.
Even though they're unconscious?
It probably reaches their subconscious.
Even if it doesn't reach the verbal processing area of the brain.
Herbal what?
Fumi...
I went to see Kiramkei Mikawa.
He hadn't changed a bit. Although he hasn't been able to write at all.
But, he's got a good manager now.
Natsuka's older sister.
You remember Natsuka and Kaname, right?
Both of them are here to visit you.
Fumi, let's go to school again.
You never got to experience cultural festivals or sports festivals or club activities...
Make lots of friends, too...
I'll be waiting for you.
Oh yeah, I've been wondering...
The first time we spoke in the clinic... Was that you, Mika?
Was it?
No. At school, I was...
The first time I talked with her, Fumika was frozen stiff, but then...
I'm Fumika Mikawa. Nice to meet you...
She referred to herself using the male pronoun, just like you do.
Wait, so then you did go to school, Fumika!
School sounds so fun!
I wanted to give her a chance.
A chance for Fumi to make a friend.
Then the person I had a crush on might have been...
Fumika, are you sure we don't have to go soon?
Yeah...
You don't seem so into it.
How rare for Miss Fumika, workaholic.
This last one was somewhat difficult for me.
Would you tell us, Fumika?
What are Shigofumi?
They're letters from the land of the departed, that much I understand, but...
Even if it's not a letter, as long as it has a Shigofumi stamp on it we'll deliver it.
But wow, so that's the truth behind the mysterious Fumika...
The spitting image...
I knew you aging was strange and all.
So it's because you're not actually dead!
Matoma, you said you wouldn't say anything to anyone!
I wrote it.
It's fine... I haven't said anything to the other mail carriers.
You came here on purpose?
Of course not... I don't have that kind of time.
Then, why?
Let's go have some fun!
I still have some travel money left over.
She's got free time all right...
I'm always looking at the mountains, so let's go to the ocean!
Like some south island.
This is destiny. You two come too. It's summer vacation already, right?
Really?
Well you might be free, but we have work to do!
So...
Understood.
You sure?
You get what I'm saying!
But in return, I get to choose the destination.
Wow, so we're actually heading to a southern island.
Well, it's still in Japan.
Why don't you fly?
It's a vacation. Getting there is half the fun.
I don't understand humans.
I understand! Transportation is fun!
Transportation?
I think you are in error.
I am not! Because I'm going to become human.
Still dreaming your dream, I see...
A dream that will come true!
Um, you're also a mail carrier, right Chiaki?
Yup. Been doing this long before Fumika.
But...
I'm a dead person.
Car accident.
A head-on collision with a car coming the opposite way... Kabam!
How short life was...
You sucked at driving?
Idiot...
Driving is something you let men do.
Well, when it comes to men and women, ask your big sis here anything!
Master!
You too, young man.
Why me?
You must have shouted out "I love Fumika" to the sunset, right?
How is that even supposed to work?
Isn't it true?
Fumika, I love you!
Stop it! Fumika, I love you!
Fumika, Fumika, I love you!
Stop it! Enough, Natsuka! Fumika, Fumika, I love you!
Ooh, nice! Stop it! Enough, Natsuka! Fumika, Fumika, I love you!
Fumika!
This is our room?
Is this your first time in a hotel?
It's my first time on vacation.
First vacation even?
Yeah.
All right then! We will now teach you how to have fun on vacation!
First is...
What are you doing?
It's called a pillow fight!
I wanna too!
Um... Shall I make some tea?
I do not mind.
Suitengu Island?
Yes.
It's deserted now, there's nothing there.
I am aware. Even so, I would like to go.
Name: Kaname Nojima
The next island over?
Name: Kaname Nojima Yeah. Fumika said that her goal was that island, not this one.
The one over there...
I wonder what Fumika is thinking?
You too, Kaname.
What do you mean?
You finally reunite with Fumika... Not going to confess?
She told you, remember?
She was just surprised back then, it's not that she didn't like you.
After saying that, you go for a rematch!
That's all back in middle school.
It's past the statute of limitations.
Love has no statute of limitations!
You still have a crush on her, right?
This is none of your business, Natsuka.
Yes it is.
Why?
Because Fumika is my friend too, and...
Oh, youth...
You are evil.
Using the communication function for eavesdropping?
What are you talking about? You're involved, you know.
I'm...
You were confessed to, right? By Specs over there.
What about you, then? Do you have someone else you love?
Yes.
Wait, you do?
Who?
Is it someone alive, or someone dead?
Fumi.
That's yourself!
And you're both girls!
I don't really understand what it means to love.
Oh, I see.
You were always alone together with your father, weren't you?
Yeah.
And you, Chiaki?
Me?
Did you have lots of romance, Chiaki?
Well, I suppose so...
But...
It's a story from long ago...
And this is...
That is Mr. Kirameki Mikawa's manuscripts.
Really? You actually brought them!
Thank you very much!
Excuse me. I'm Shirakawa, and I have a reservation.
Hey... Why did you come with me?
Did you have some work down here at a southern island?
I do right now.
Then...
Oh, I get it!
There's a person on that island you need to deliver a Shigofumi to, I bet.
Pardon me.
But I just heard from that old lady it was uninhabited.
So, Fumika... Is there someone on the island?
A dead person.
What?!
You mean a mail carrier?
No, I think she means a normal corpse.
A body-drop?
Please, stop it! We're going to this island, remember?
The dead are restful.
Really?
Don't worry. Living people are way more scary.
What if the criminal is there?
Oh, you have a point.
Maybe it'll be freshly killed!
The murder weapon could be buried there!
Please don't talk about it like this is fun!
Fumika, please tell me this is a strange joke.
Natsuka...
Ma'am!
Natsuka, are you okay?
I'm fine.
Sorry, are you okay?
Murder... weapons?
I apologize for causing such a commotion.
I am visiting a grave.
That sickle is for tending the grass.
Visiting a grave.
How admirable. And you're so young.
Yeah! I haven't done that in five years!
Um...
That's not all.
You see, I have someone I like, and I want to confess.
But I don't have the courage, and I'm scared...
Then on TV I saw on my horoscope that I'd get a chance at love if I visited my family grave.
And so...
I see. So you're also in a one-sided love.
Other than me, everyone here is like that.
Really?
Well...
I guess it's gotten that way with Fumi.
It's tough, isn't it?
Confessing is like life and death.
You take that step and you either end up alive, or dead.
Yeah, I know!
You know what I'm talking about?
It may turn into love...
But if it fails, we couldn't be friends anymore!
Ah, youth...
You never had that happen, Chiaki?
I was always the one that was confessed to, you see!
I see...
There was this boy who confessed with no finesse.
"Chiaki, I want you to be my Mrs. Lighting!"
What's that?
He meant to say "lightning rod."
You'd usually say something like "my rock..."
That doesn't make much sense either.
Chiaki, what are you pouring?
I'm not underage, you know.
Well, we are!
What? You can't talk about love sober!
You totally like Specs.
You do?
What are you sleeping for, Fumika?
You're drunk.
Tellin' each other who we like is a fundamental part of vacations!
Wake up!
Okay, we're talkin' about love in clockwise order!
Natsuka first!
What, me?
Shall we turn off the lights? What, me?
Agreed.
I'm sleepy...
That's 'cause you were up all night making a fuss.
Girls' night is very important!
I learned a lot! About plenty.
Are you going to the grave immediately when you get to the island?
If you'd like, you can go swimming with us.
Then after I finish my visit.
Sure, we'll wait.
Speaking of which... Whose grave are you visiting?
My grandfather's.
The Kiyosumi house was originally on that island.
Kiyosumi?
That's my grandfather's name.
My mother was his daughter, so I have a different family name.
Oh, I see.
What was your grandfather's name?
Saizou Kiyosumi.
Wow. Was your grandfather a samurai?
Obviously not...
I see...
He got married...
A private beach!
The ocean feels great!
What was the reason Fumika ended up picking this island?
Now that you mention it...
I suppose you could only swim with staves on an uninhabited island, after all.
You got that right!
All right, let's go!
Not going to swim?
I say the same to you.
Kiyosumi Family Grave
Well, let's do this.
The other day I tried going to the town I was born in.
It had been a while.
But there was nothing there.
My house and school, the shop I went to and the park I used to play in...
All gone.
It's been more than 50 years since I died, after all...
It's only natural that things have changed.
I'm the only thing that hasn't.
My parents and friends are all dead.
Your lover, too?
Seems like it.
And he managed to survive...
Well he lived for 50 years after that... You can't ask for more, I suppose.
The person with the cat you talked about?
I'm a little jealous of you, since you grow older.
Chiaki, let's go.
Huh? Where?
To visit the grave.
Hey... That's not food.
Huh?
I'm... okay.
Grandfather... This is Fumika and Chiaki.
I've made friends with them on my way here.
So you actually died...
Saizou Kiyosumi... Was your life a happy one?
Yeah... You got married, and have a cute granddaughter...
I'm sure it must have been happy.
He may have been my last love, but Saizou had a lot of life to live after that.
There, finished. You say something too, Fumika.
Kiyo Kiyosumi
Saizou Kiyo Kiyosumi Kiyosumi
Saizou Kiyosumi
Chiaki Saizou Kiyosumi Kiyosumi
Chiaki
My... name?
The sender was Saizou Kiyosumi.
Then your job is...
Who was this, I wonder? Grandfather was always single...
Then...
My mother was adopted.
Both her parents died in a car accident when she was a baby.
My grandfather took her in.
Say, Chiaki...
What?
I had a lot of fun today.
And I enjoyed the movie last week, too.
Yeah.
The museum was nice.
Yeah.
I've been having so much fun ever since I met you, Chiaki.
So I want to...
So I want to... be with you... from now on...
You were such a fool...
You should have forgotten about me and searched for someone else.
And if you're going to propose, you need a ring!
Using this grave instead? You never had any sense, you know.
But...
Yes. I do.
Ah, that feels good...
Do me next.
Natsuka... When I get back, I'm going to confess.
You've got the confidence?
Yeah.
Somehow or another...
Shigofumi Episode 9 Reunion
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...
A man who thinks toward the past.
A girl who gazes at the future.
The two were tied together by the world inside the LCD.
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