Original Translation by Shinsen Subs **This was retyped/timed so don't take any spelling or timing errors as a fault on the quality of their original work**
I was here...
... 11 years ago!
Don't go over there!
If I stop him here, my sister...
Let go of my sister!
Damn you!
Stop it!
Stop doing that!
This is...
How do you do?
Hello.
Did you slip out of the ward?
Oh, no, I didn't.
I figured.
You look quite healthy.
You look healthy, too.
All of the patients here suffered from a terminal illness.
Kameiwa Chest Hospital
Please, have a seat here.
What year is it now?
I wonder. I haven't read a newspaper since I got here.
Oh, really?
By the way, where are you from?
Suiten Town.
I'm Komori the brewer's son.
The brewer?
Ah, the sake brewer?
Yes.
Have you heard of Komori wine?
I guess you can't drink while you're here.
Sorry.
That's all right.
I did enjoy sake.
I think it's blessed water given to us by the gods.
Is getting drunk really that great?
I drank a little bit once, and I got really sick.
That's because you're just a kid.
Will it taste better when I grow up?
Do you think you'll have to take over the brewery when you're an adult?
I haven't thought about it all that much.
Probably, yeah.
Whenever I think about it...
Do you parents put pressure on you?
No.
I don't feel like they do.
And yet, you sense that it's something you must do.
Thats's probably true.
How old are you?
Fourteen.
Well, I just turned fifteen.
You have nothing but the future before you.
Don't I have a past?
The past is nothing compared to what's ahead.
Well, I don't feel that way.
All you have is the future.
The future?
What about all of you?
We are no longer alive.
We're living here peacefully for all eternity.
I'd like to keep chatting with you,
but I can't stay here forever.
Thank you!
Those are synapses.
I'm inside my brain.
I don't get this at all!
Um...
Where is this place?
Is this what's on the other side, another Unseen World?
Then, what's above me?
I wonder what's over there.
How long have I been inside the Unseen World?
I get the feeling i've been here for a while.
Since i've come this far, I'm going to see how much farther I can go.
I hope I see my sister.
Nothing's here.
No one's here, either.
I can't see anything.
If you don't try to see, nothing will exist.
What kind of place is this?
I probably just came from where dead people go.
But, no one's here at all.
Hey!
Wait!
Hold on!
I said wait!
Why are you running away?
Well, I never thought that I'd meet somebody in their real form here, of all places.
Real form?
That's right.
That's it.
Look here.
This is a place where there's no need to stick to human form.
Where is this?
And who are you?
I'm pretty sure there's no point in asking that.
As you can see,
this is an abstract space.
I would go so far as to call it an abstract art gallery.
Abstract?
So, are you dead?
Am I dead?
Of course not.
My physical body is very much alive.
Really?
Did you just whisper something to me?
"If you don't try to see, nothing will exist".
No, that wasn't me.
Okay.
It must've been m sister.
Anyway, you look pretty realistic.
When I first started projecting, I was transparent.
Then I turned into some type of extinct animal.
After that, I started to look just like I do in the real world.
You call it astral projection, do you?
When you transfer your consciousness here.
That's fascinating.
Is that from a local dialect?
No, it's not.
Makoto...
I mean, a friend of mine calls it that.
Makoto is Mr. Ogami's son.
Will you tell me your name?
My name?
Ah, yes
I'm Snark.
Snark?
What's a "Snark"?
A Snark is a Boojum, you see.
That makes no sense.
Exactly.
It means the guy who doesn't make any sense.
Are you making fun on me?
No, not at all!
I think it's time for you to go home.
Aren't you a middle school student?
Yes.
This world has been highly abstracted.
It's not the kind of place you want to loiter in.
But, how can I go back?
You just have to think about the place you want to return to.
Of course!
I'm home.
Kei-san and the others aren't here yet.
I was told not to go into the cultivation room.
We're cultivating the last batch of yeast now.
We've been doing it the old man's way so far,
but the boss gave me permission to test the malt bacteria i've been wanting to try.
You must never go inside here.
I won't.
Something's in there.
What is this?
Spirits?
There's a voice coming from here.
Sorry, sorry.
Don't scare me like that.
They're alive.
More and more lives are being born,
and these spirits are celebrating it!
Amazing.
I am the God who leads all good and all evil to its end,
with but a single word.
Miyako, are you still in bed?
Taro!
What's up?
Why're you going home so early?
She's in bed with a fever.
How would you know?
The last time I projected...
Taro-chan, you can't do that!
You can't spy on girls!
That's not it.
I wasn't doing that.
Whatever, man. I don't believe you.
Makoto, Taro wants to visit Miyako.
Let's go with him.
Whatver. I've got time to kill.
Um...
How many steps have we climbed?
This is like hardcore training.
Her fever's gone down,
but she's still sleeping a lot.
Sorry.
You came all this way to see her.
It's good her fever's coming down, at least.
Um...
I was with Miyako when she fell in the river.
You were?
I dragged her out of it right away, of course.
and then I carried her back here.
I wish you'd told me that sooner
Sorry.
I was worried she might get sick.
Anyway, before she fell into the river,
Miyako was possessed by something.
While she was possessed,
she said something strange.
Something strange?
"I am the God who leads all good and all evil to its end with but a single word."
Why would she say that?
I don't know.
Did Miyako really say that?
Yes.
Sorry, but
go home.
You shouldn't talk to us that way.
Just go!
I am the God who leads all good and all evil...
What did that priest's daughter say?
I lead all good and evil to its end with a word.
I've heard that before.
Really?
What's wrong?
Makoto.
That old hag sent her here.
Makoto!
Emanuel Swedenborg, an independent advocate of Christian mysticism,
once studied neurophysiology and anatomy to invetigate the physical basis of the soul.
However, as he experienced visions, and gained the ability to freely visit Heaven and Hell,
he abandoned his studies.
Swedenborg's theories piqued the interest of many,
even Immanuel Kan, author of "Critique of Pure Reason".