Original Subs by Genjo Subs
Maybe these are edible. Still, they might be poisonous...
Huh? When did I leave my body?
I'm able to change my appearance while in Kakuriyo?
Lately, I've been leaving my body without even noticing.
Ko-mo-ri!
You've been dozing off a lot lately.
Sorry...
Oh, so you're doing PR for the city?
I guess it's something similar to being a PRC?
Editor's Note: A PRC is a Public Relations Consultant.
Well, I decided to start with researching this town for the time being.
I see. But you know, there's nothing really interesting in this town,
although the sake and tea from the region are excellent.
I've already visited Mr. Komori Shizou.
That's good to hear.
This town seems very peaceful, but there was a lot of trouble after the dam was constructed, wasn't there?
The Kameiwa Dam was built by both local and national government agencies for the sake of this town!
Of course. You're right.
The Japan Bio Tech plant, which has been in operation for two years, is the same.
If we don't build things like this, there will be no future for Suiten!
People will leave the city, and it will end up like the Kameiwa village at the bottom of the dam.
Still, there are always people who don't understand such simple things.
Excuse me.
Hello? This is Yazaki.
What? A corpse has been found?!
W-Where?!
At the Kameiwa Dam?
Why there of all places?
Yeah, I understand.
Your name was Suzuki, right?
I'm terribly sorry, but there has been an incident and I have to attend to my duties.
Thank you for the interview, despite your busy schedule.
Chiho, here!
Chiho!
Are you all right?
Here.
I'm really bad at ball games.
Miyako?
It's cold...
What do you mean, "It's cold?"
Miyako, is something-
Wow, you're really cold!
Komagusu, what's wrong?
Inside...... water.
Inside... the cold...
Inside... the cold... water.
Miyako?
You're like a different person.
Miyako?
The Kameiwa Dam...
Someone died at the Kameiwa Dam!
Makoto showed up?
Yeah, he's coming to school more often recently.
Just now, I left my body again in the middle of class.
You should stop doing that.
What if you can't go back to your body anymore?
I'll be careful, but that's not the point.
When I was flying over Kameiwa Mountain, I saw a corpse!
I-It's cursed...
A corpse?
Hey, a corpse has been found at the Kameiwa Dam!
Faster!
I'm the one who's pedaling!
Hey, do we really have to see that corpse?
Do we have to climb these stairs again?
I'm sure it'll be faster if we go this way. Right, Makoto?
A-Are you really going? To the Kameiwa Dam...
Of course. There are a lot of curses there.
I can turn into a wolf.
Now that you mention it, I've seen a ghost that looks like a wolf. I always thought it was Tarou.
It wasn't me.
I thought I might be able to transform like Tarou did, and I was right.
That's right! When I left my body a little while ago, I could fly normally because I wasn't a nitoushin.
Editor's Note: Nitoushin, or "big headed," is the baby form they have been taking when they leave their bodies.
I was able to use the weapons from that game, too.
Perhaps in Kakuriyo, you can assume the shape of whatever you want.
Awesome!
Are you guys in elementary school?
When you talk about leaving your bodies, do you mean an OBE?
Yeah. Has it ever happened to you?
Well, I have strange dreams sometimes, but...
You'll be able to leave your body soon, too, then.
Yeah.
Security has gotten stricter.
Especially today.
How is it?
A bit sooner...
I never thought something like this would happen right after I showed up.
Everyone came from the other side by car.
Looks like the corpse hasn't been brought up yet.
But what's with them? Is this a festival or something?
Maybe it has to do with the abandoned hospital?
I can't see the hospital from here...
This corpse... When did the person die?
I don't know. I only saw it from really high up.
Maybe it's a corpse that was in the hospital.
Maybe it was somewhere in the hospital when we went inside.
Look, there are those sophomores.
Heiichi, how about we teach them a lesson?
Makoto...
Now you go crying to your seniors...
Please, let them die in the dam too.
Masayuki, I think we should get out of here.
We can't keep running forever.
Don't try to act cool!
Don't be so cocky, okay?
You're the guy from the convenience store...
Ei! Ei!
What happened?
Hi.
Miyako, is there really...
There's a dead person here. I felt it.
I left my body a little while ago, and I could see this area from the sky.
That person possessed my body.
Stop it, Miyako.
Why did it have to be here? Now it really looks like...
Here?
Are you talking about the curse?
Hey, wait a second! The high school student who went in there thirty years ago and got cursed is...
Sanae...
Is that Makoto's mother?
I don't know her!
That's pretty bad, isn't it?
For you to just say Makoto's mother's name like that.
It'd be easier if you just told us the truth about what happened when you were in high school.
That's disrespectful of you. Don't talk to me like I'm some criminal.
Tell them the truth.
Okay.
Well, you can tell by looking at that photograph.
Makoto's father, Ogami, and Yazaki the mayor were good friends of mine.
Sanae, although she used an old style of speaking, was a Madonna of sorts.
Gradually, it seemed that she became more and more attracted to Ogami.
And we stopped having fun as a group of four.
That's what I felt.
Around that time, the construction of the dam was completed and the Kameiwa village was put underwater.
That hospital hadn't been used in ten years, and there were all sorts of rumors about that place.
So, finally, the four of us decided to look for the cursed room, which was said to be in the basement of that hospital.
Weren't there just three of you?
So you did the same thing we did.
Yeah, the same thing.
Jeez...
Nobody believed that story, that there was a room with a cage, and everyone who looked inside it would be cursed into death.
But still, it took quite a lot of guts to go there.
When we went there, the basement was filled with mud.
I see...
When we got there, we were able to go to the basement.
Originally it was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, so there was no reason for a cage to be in there.
But for some reason, back then, we felt that there actually was such a room.
When you think about it for a bit, it's pretty obvious what you would find in the basement of a hospital.
A mortuary and an autopsy room.
I remember being disappointed when I thought the cursed room was just the mortuary.
Really, a mortuary isn't somewhere you want to go except when you're saying farewell to your relatives.
Of course, there wasn't anything that cursed us.
We somehow felt a kind of fulfillment.
But at the same time, it felt like the event that held us together had ended.
I think Ogami might have suffered even more than I did.
There was a small door connected to the autopsy room.
It was a door that only dead bodies were supposed to go through.
When a body with a personality left the mortuary through that door, the body would not be treated as a person anymore.
This systematic structure was a bit of a shock to me.
Ogami proposed that we exit through that door.
In fact, there was a corridor that was used to get the corpses out of the autopsy room.
But we felt that something horrible would happen if Ogami went through that door, and we tried to stop him.
Back then, I didn't know why Ogami insisted on going through that door, which was reserved only for the dead.
But I somehow had the feeling that it was because he felt like his love was a crime.
I don't know why Ogami committed suicide when you were a young child, either.
But, I somehow had the feeling that it would end up like that.
M-Makoto!
Sorry for staying so long.
Hey!
Makoto!
Makoto...
Tarou... was I... able to meet my father?
Yeah.
"Able to meet my father?" What the hell does that mean?
"Memento mori." Without being told to, people unwillingly fear death.
Whatever someone thinks of the afterlife,
the pain of losing someone close to them is unmistakably the same, regardless of the person's views on death or religion.
TL Note: "Memento mori" is a Latin phrase meaning "remember that you will die."
"Memento mori." It is probably one of the few consensuses among the people who live in this world.