Our group finally has four now.
Rin.
Masato.
Kengo.
We're the Little Busters!
Riki...
You're our leader.
Let's go see Kyousuke!
Right now, Kyousuke is the way I once was.
And just as he did for me then...
This time, I'm going to save him.
I don't know what will happen from now on...
But I'm going to move forward!
I've repeated it over and over.
Again and again, I've tried to achieve the same result.
It may have been my one, my only...
and my final...
role to play since I was given life in this world.
Riki,
the path you and Rin are on leads to a cruel reality.
It's likely
you'll both be engulfed by a dark despair from which you can never recover.
That's why...
I decided to see this through.
To save you both from despair...
I turned back time
and created another world.
That day long before this cruel occurrence...
A world that began on May 13.
Kyousuke has returned!
So, the time has come at last.
Where are you going?
To battle.
Things were still peaceful then.
Riki was weak, relying on me
Kyousuke!
whenever anything happened.
Rin was unable to talk to anyone.
They can't go on that way.
Or they'll never be able to overcome the cruel reality that awaits them.
Hey...
Why don't we do something together, like we used to?
What are you saying, all of a sudden?
Like what?
Well, in grade school,
we hunted down evil and pranced around like we owned the town.
Kyousuke was always our leader
whenever we began something exciting!
Riki, childishly innocent...
You must become stronger.
That was when I thought up a plan
Then...
Let's do something we can only do now.
to force Riki to grow up and become stronger.
Let's play baseball.
We'll make a baseball team.
The team name will be...
The Little Busters!
That's right.
However difficult the plan may be,
we should still have fun doing it.
I had already chosen the members.
Riki, Rin, Masato, Kengo...
And also...
Kamikita Komari,
Kurugaya Yuiko,
Saigusa Haruka,
Noumi Kudryavka,
and Nishizono Mio.
From among those who had shared my fate,
I chose the ones who had carried
some regret in their lives until now.
And I got them involved in my plan.
But why baseball?
Masato was fully aware of what my plan entailed,
and he successfully played the idiot as usual.
Kengo opposed my plan from the start.
I'll wield my sword so that I, too, may continue to be who I am.
He always was the contrary type.
But I suppose that's just one of his charms.
Kengo...
Let him go, Riki.
He'll understand one day.
I started sending Rin tasks
when we began the baseball team.
In this world, Lennon is my alter ego.
There is a secret to this world. If you want to learn it, you must complete all the tasks you are about to receive.
I can control him at will.
As a child, Rin had a frightening experience,
which left her extremely shy around others.
I had to make her grow up alongside with Riki.
Komari started by opening Rin's heart.
One and two!
Gotcha!
Coochie coochie coo!
S-Stop that!
Onii-chan...
Komari-san's brother is dead!
Just like my parents...
Everyone leaves...
Everyone I care about leaves me...
But, Riki, you always
look away from anything that causes you sadness or anxiety.
Every time you ran from your difficulties,
I turned time back again,
to repeat your trial from the beginning.
Even if the world overflows with things we'd rather not know,
is averting our eyes and running away all that we can do?
Running away won't solve anything.
As you repeated
the same day over and over,
you began to conquer your own weakness.
If she keeps turning away from grief,
everything will just happen again.
She has to face the truth head-on!
Nishizono's loneliness...
Saigusa's brush with heartache...
If she's not to blame, then who am I supposed to hate?
Your heart broke many times.
Who?!
But as this all repeated again and again,
you finally overcame it.
In Noumi's case...
Kud will never return from Tebwa.
I told her to face her hardships,
but it just wasn't possible...
By repeating her mistakes,
Noumi finally remembered everything.
If I can't help Riki and Rin-san...
I'll never run from painful things again!
Riki grew along with the rest,
Kudryavka strike box!
gaining the strength to overcome hardship.
Welcome back!
All right!
Rin grew so cheerful, she was almost unrecognizable.
And then...
Let's just give our all, and do what we can do now.
When we all came together as one, Riki,
I wished even more strongly than you...
That these fun times could last forever.
But...
My power to sustain this world began to weaken.
It's gotten pretty lonely around here.
Everyone was smiling...
Because we were all so glad we could live in this world.
We had no more regrets.
Thanks to all of you, Riki and Rin have matured.
They've grown so much stronger...
What will you do, Komari?
I'll stay here just a little longer.
I want to watch over Rin-chan until the very end.
That's the only thing left that I can still do for Rin-chan now...
I assigned the final task.
Tomorrow, members of the prefectural assembly will be conducting an inspection at our school.
I'll need two volunteers from this class to show them around.
I'll send Rin to another school,
separating her from the rest of us.
I have to test her strength.
It'll be hard on Riki,
but they've both realized how the other feels,
and they're connected by a powerful bond.
They should be able to overcome this trial together.
Look at that face...
I want to punch myself for devising this plan.
But, Rin...
I can't protect you any longer.
Come on, chin up.
Do your best.
But Rin had reached her limit...
Rin!
Riki...
Rin!
This reckless method has no purpose anyway...
You're losing something even more important!
Everything we've worked so hard for...
So many precious things...
Do you want to destroy them all?!
I have no choice.
If she can't even overcome this,
how can she ever face the harsh reality yet to come?
There's only one way.
You have to fight Kyousuke.
Kengo meant to go on protecting Riki and Rin,
Riki, believe in your partner.
still childishly weak, on his own.
His sights strayed
from the fact that we will soon have to leave this world.
That's why I set him up.
Using a cunning, devious trap...
These are cheap tricks!
Kyousuke!
I'll do whatever it takes.
Stop it!
Kengo!
Even use dirty tricks.
Go ahead and hit me.
But...
In the very end, I failed.
Riki and Rin ran away.
Was I wrong?
Are they both still weak, as Kengo says?
I alone believed that Riki would grow up,
and continued my plan,
putting Rin through all that trauma.
I cornered her...
And left her in despair.
Even still...
I will repeat it.
As many times as it takes.
I'll keep fighting,
even if I must do it alone.
I have to turn Riki and Rin into people who won't run from hardship.
To achieve that,
I'm willing to break rules.
I'll violate morality.
No matter who opposes me...
I'll keep going.
As many times as it takes.
The smell of gasoline...
Where?
It's much stronger than before...
I have to find it...
I can't go any farther.
It's okay to give up, right?
I knew it would never work.
I don't want
to make them sink into despair anymore.
Time to end this...
Kyousuke? Are you asleep?
Oh, it's you...
What are you doing there?
Who knows?
I can't give up!
Riki, I have to save you and Rin!
I'll be the leader
like Kyousuke used to be!
Let's gather our friends.
We'll start the Little Busters once more!
I c-can't believe it...
Riki, you stood up and faced the task.
You made Rin smile.
You even got Masato to join the group,
through your wisdom and courage...
He's maturing.
Riki won't be a child forever.
He's moving forward.
So I'll also...
Kyousuke, are you here?
All right...
I'm coming.
Oh, you're awake?
Has something happened?
I know.
Kengo must have refused to join the group.
You wanted to complain to me, right?
It's all right... I'll do something.
Follow me.
That's what I want to say.
But I can't.
I just wanted to see you.
You don't want to get sick, so be sure to eat, okay?
Good, Riki. You held it in.
Then, I'll give you a hint.
Kengo is
lying about one thing.
Now, the rest is up to you.
Rely on your own strength.
I believe in you...
It's close...
I finally found it!
If I can just seal it...
This should stop the gasoline from escaping!
I'll prolong these final moments as long as I can
to give Riki another chance.
If I can do that,
in the end, I'll know that my insignificant life
had some meaning...
Isn't that right?
Kyousuke...
We're here.
We're the Little Busters!
Come on, Kyousuke...
You've grown so much more dependable.
When this world first began, I never dreamed it possible.
After repeating it over and over,
you've finally come this far.
Even after I messed up...
You're amazing, Riki.
If I take this hand, everything will end.
I can take this hand, right?
I can entrust everything to you now...
Once we're gone from this world...
Come with us, Kyousuke!
It's up to you now,
Riki.
Episode 10 And Now, I Repeat It All
Everything is over...
And now, everything will begin.
The time has come to say goodbye.
Episode 11 The End of the World
Next time...
The End of the World.