I captured that scene subconsciously in my head.
This is not the future
I've been longing for.
Unknown to me, never before seen smile...
I stood there completely frozen, as if rooted to the spot.
Both of us just act so erraticaly. Our worlds stray from each other.
Everything is just so erratic. I can't shake off these contradicting feelings.
With my reckless heart
Someday I will leave you behind
and go on
Before I noticed, my blind heart
managed to outstrip me.
Entwined by feelings,
Run, run. There's only one thing I can do.
Hurry, hurry, hurry to a place beyond here.
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Kanbaru, you didn’t do anything like filling up this room
with junk from other rooms just to harass me, knowing I'd be coming to tidy up, did you?
What are you saying? You are casting unfounded suspicions on me.
Although, if it's Araragi who casts them,
I'm happy whether they're words of praise or suspicion!
What's the point in praising someone who's like that?
Well, I’ll be going now. It’s gotten really late.
Hold it right there, Araragi!
Did you think that, after Araragi, who I hold in the highest esteem,
cleans my room for me
I would send him off without doing anything?
Without doing anything…
What were you planning on doing to me!?
I thought I'd make some tea.
No, tea won't do.
I should at least prepare a meal for you, Araragi.
'Kay, I'll let you treat me to dinner.
Now then, Araragi. Before we go for dinner,
please take a bath.
Eating dinner looking that dirty would be...
bothersome!
…I can't relax at all.
What’s this?! The door won’t open!
It’s locked!
Are you all right, Araragi?!
I’ll come save you!
Open up immediately!
Come out with your hands up!
That's an order!
I am Kanbaru Suruga!
Araragi’s sex slave.
Red
My special move is the Wall Jump!
Why won’t it open…
I have no choice. I’ll go get those sticks that the riot police use when they break in!
Stop it! And don't go bringing those things you don't know the name of!
Oh, Araragi? So you’re safe...?
That really surprised me…
I thought you'd been been imprisoned, Araragi,
so I was really worried.
There's only one person in the world who'd want to imprison me, and that's you!
Not necessarily.
Senjougahara might be likely to do it.
No way. Not even Senjougahara would go that far.
If you’re misunderstanding something then I’d like to correct it, but Araragi,
I just thought I’d wash your clothes for you while you bathed.
I had no shameful thoughts whatsoever.
If you’d like, as well as your clothes,
I can wash your body for you, too!
Front and back!
As thanks for making my room nice and clean.
I’m saying I’d like to make your body nice and clean, Araragi!
Clean up your mind first of all!
Even though you use such a nice bath every day, you have such a dirty mind!
When you say that it is a nice bath, I cannot help but say that it is so.
If I act humbly here, it might seem sarcastic.
But not only the bath, the water is nice too.
We boil the water drawn from the well in our yard.
Deep somethingwater with lots of somethingsium.
Speaking of which, Araragi.
What is it, young Kanbaru?
The water from the well actually has a past, you know?
What kind of a past are you talking about?
It’s a story about my father, you see.
Naturally, my father also used this bath on a regular basis.
On a regular basis, huh?
However, since childhood, whenever he took a bath, on rare occasions,
something very curious occured.
Something curious?
A curious phenomenon,
I guess you could say.
I wouldn't call it oddity-related,
but a mysterious phenomenon occured.
That's quite a, or rather,
a considerably specific detail.
Araragi. Have a look at the water's surface in the bathtub.
I’m looking. It may be too late now… But is there something about this water?
No, not the water.
I said it clearly, didn’t I? It’s not the water I wanted you to look at,
It’s the surface.
From : Senjougahara Hitagi
Subject : So apparently you went to Kanbaru's room.
Body : Empty
Calling
Call in Progress
Die.
Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die.
I-I can't die just yet.
I’ve only just become your boyfriend.
We’ve only just started going out.
I want to go on more dates with you.
Life is way too precious to die right now!
Senjougahara Hitagi
Hands Free
Oh my.
You say some pretty nice things, don’t you.
Then, you don’t have to die.
Senjougahara, you're too soft.
Tell me to die a little more than that.
And so that's why I went to clean at Kanbaru’s house today.
Senjougahara Hitagi
Hands Free
To clean the room of an underclassman,
aren't you the caring role model.
Although taking a bath there is rather impudent. I think you should die.
Don’t think that.
It's better than saying I'll kill you, isn't it?
So, Araragi. What do you think of what Kanbaru said?
Well, it sure was a mysterious story.
No, maybe it wasn’t mysterious?
I don’t know if I should say it was a romantic story.
In the surface of the water, Kanbaru’s dad
saw the image of the girl he would would be tied to in the future.
That was the story.
Not always, but occasionally.
Apparently he saw the image of the partner he would elope with in the surface of the water,
But after a while it stopped appearing.
So when Kanbaru’s dad met Kanbaru’s mom, that is, Gaen Tooe,
he was extremely shocked.
Senjougahara Hitagi
Hands Free
Incidentally, when Kanbaru told you
to look at the surface of the water,
who was reflected there, I wonder?
Me?
Or perhaps me?
You’re annoying!
Hanekawa?
Kanbaru?
Hachikuji?
Scary!
Black
No, there wasn’t anybody reflected there…
It was just my own reflection, like normal.
Senjougahara Hitagi
Hands Free
Well, I’ve heard about it from Kanbaru before, you see.
Well, the truth was that I had forgotten until you told me.
Back then I was a good kid and didn’t say anything unrefined.
Like I said, at the time my personality was quite pleasant.
Senjougahara Hitagi
Hands Free
Back before I was a contrarian,
ill-natured, awful-tempered girl.
Too much self-awareness.
I didn’t add interpretation to that inelegant,
romantic, oddity free love story, is what I mean.
And now for the epilogue, or rather, the punch line.
Eh? What?
So, Kanbaru’s dad simply saw his own face reflected on surface of the water like a mirror,
and thought it was his ‘fated companion’, is what you're saying?
No, I don’t think… that could happen.
The water's surface shifts, sparkles and sways.
It different to a mirror's appearance.
Thus isn’t it possible that he might have seen his own shifting reflection as a girl?
Well… Certainly, for very young kids,
gender difference are few, so in that case it may be possible.
But surely once he became an adult,
or even just reached some level of discernment, he’d normally notice.
He did notice. That’s why it stopped appearing.
However, the memories of person he saw in the surface of the water remained.
And that's why he thought it was his 'fated companion’?
That’s quite the deduction.
That sequence is backwards, you see.
It was after he met someone he thought to be his 'fated companion,’
that she resembled the reflection in the water's surface he'd seen long ago.
Oh, so that's how it goes
from his point of view?
Senjougahara Hitagi
Hands Free
In romance, one is prone to look
for someone who resembles oneself.
That's just an interpretation of mine, though.
If you say too much to Kanbaru, I’ll kill you.
If you do tell her, I won’t forgive you.
If you let something slip by accident, please kill yourself by tomorrow.
Call in Progress
Call Terminated
Araragi Koyomi
Call Incoming
Call In Progress
Hey, Kanbaru. There was something I forgot to ask you, but what about you?
What do you see when you look at the surface of the water in that bath?
If Kanbaru’s dad’s explanation was correct, then Kanbaru’s fated companion would appear.
But if Senjougahara’s explanation was right,
then the image that might be reflected could be Kanbaru's mom.
It wouldn’t be strange if Kanbaru saw her dad’s reflection instead.
That being the case, that would be pretty romantic in itself.
Hm? Oh. I can see my own breasts of course.
If I do say so myself, they’re very erotic, and I stare at them all the time when I’m bathing.
The contrast with my abs below is really vivid,
and every night I feel a rush of blood when I look at them.
In all honesty nothing else enters my vision.
So, what about it, Araragi―
Kanbaru Suruga
Hands Free
Black
I kick a stone away to get rid of my worries,
I'm downplaying the flutter I feel this April.
We were happy children full of curiosity,
I was the one who pushed you forward,
from that day onward.
Let's escape our confines
and take our time along the way
Let's ride our bikes to far away
carrying our hopes and dreams in the basket
Is the future we heard so many rumors about,
A nice place to be?
Even if we ask our extending shadows about it,
we'll still be none the wiser