One, two!
But that's no-no
See, with that
my heart is evolving more and more.
"If the bond is gone soon as it's put to words."
“Better not say anything"
Or so I thought, backing away.
But huh? Something's wrong with that.
Every long journey starts with one step,
so I'll make my resolve as hard as stone.
Many little things make up Yamato Nadeshiko,
Disregard the 'shi'? No, I mean my life!
Softly, gently, when you call my name,
with just that I float up into space.
Gently, softly, when you laugh,
with just that a smile comes to my face.
Thank you, God.
even if it's just fate pulling a prank,
I'm happy that I could meet you.
But that's no-no.
See, with that,
my heart is evolving more and more.
Right, we can't have that.
Hey, that'll come later.
Keep looking at me, forever and ever.
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S-Sorry to intrude, Koyomi.
Oh, you're here, Sengoku. Come in.
Now that I think about it, I shouldn’t be intruding. I’ll go back home.
Don’t go back the second you make a visit.
F-f-farewell. I had fun today.
There’s no way you did!
I…
It was the best day of my life.
You... what exactly is fun about the Araragi household's entrance?
Master
And are you supposedly a master of life?!
It was early August.
On that day the incident of a certain con man was resolved.
Sengoku Nadeko, came to visit my house.
Anyway, come on in.
I've made all the preparations for entertainment.
Today's party will be an all nighter!
To be honest, Tsukihi was also supposed to be with us…
But it seems she has some clean-up work to do again.
Ah, clean-up work? What kind?
Cleaning up after that con man.
It’s true. It’s a party, you set up a party!
Whoopsie daisy.
Was removing one's socks when you entered somebody's room a form of etiquette?
I.. I know Tsukihi is out, but what about Karen?
Yeah. Those two are a set, after all.
They’re sold as a package deal.
And… your parents?
My parents are out too, that is, they're at work.
Th-then, today it’s just Nadeko and Koyomi. Just the two of us.
Well, I guess it is just the two of us.
Is there something about that?
Of course there’s no problem with it.
Well, first of all. Welcome, Sengoku!
Y-yes! Thank you, Koyomi!
Cheers!
Happy birthday!
My birthday was in April.
I finished telling Sengoku all I could regarding the case of the con man.
Koyomi, In my case it’s obvious…
But how exactly did Mister Con Man spread those rumors?
The rumors…
or charms…
or ghost stories.
The way he did it? That is-
Urban legends,
Street gossip,
Rumors.
Spreading them not as the listener but the speaker.
What specifically did you have to do to do that?
That con man, how did he manage to spread those rumors?
Firstly, who did everyone hear those rumors from?
Not from the con man himself?
Everyone around me said this:
'Rumors in the wind', they said.
Wind?
The process by which rumors spread.
Or is it the process by which one spreads rumors?
How exactly did that con man manage to pull something like that off?
If I wanted to circulate some kind of rumor… Then I would rely on Tsukihi.
She’s a celebrity among middle school girls, so if I tell the influential Tsukihi a rumor,
then it would be almost the same as telling a hundred people.
I doubt that con man probably used the methods we just talked about.
For a person like that, it's likely his plan was to circulate it as being from 'a friend of a friend’.
Even though it sounds contradictory…
Something that spreads without advertising, publicity, or any action whatsoever.
That’s what the ideal virus would be.
But… If you just expect something to spread on its own...
Something more spontaneous…
Aren't you just waiting for coincidence?
And now for the epilogue, or rather, the punch line.
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The power to read the wind, the power to raise the wind.
I don’t have anything like that.
Although, it’s possible that that’s a lie.
However, if you ask me, the power to read the wind isn’t very important in the first place,
because for pandemics, a windless condition is of most importance.
Windless?
When something’s popular,
it means that something else isn’t popular.
About this town specifically, I couldn’t lay a hand here during spring break.
Because the gossip about the 'vampire’ was sweeping over.
So once that rumor died out in a completely empty location,
in a location that was starving, I plunged my own rumors in.
Ghost stories, street gossip, urban legends.
When the human heart is in disarray, these baseless rumors run rampant.
When I say the human heart is in disarray, basically, there isn’t anything to rely on.
Think about what kind of lame ducks a con man might want to target.
I don’t even want to consider such things.
That would be…
The wealthy, right?
Don’t they go for the rich?
A virtuous peron's way of thinking.
Someone who is already satisfied is hard to deceive.
Humans with a surplus in their lives are humans with a surplus in their hearts.
That’s why the people that con men target are the dissatisfied,
the humans without a surplus in their hearts.
That’s why, when you came to this town, you went for the middle school girls?
I suppose. Hearts filled with anxiety are easy to deceive.
Because if they’re then filled up with lies, they don’t have the means to verify them.
You said that for my plan I spread the 'charms’ to cause the deterioration of human relations.
But it’s actually the opposite.
Because human relations were deteriorating, everyone jumped for my 'charms’.
Are you saying it’s their fault for being tricked?
When you say it like that, I want to agree.
Perhaps I should just say that the generation was bad.
'Why is something like this so popular?’
If you want to discuss a chaotic state like that,
you should first discuss the blank space before the chaos.
Blank space?
The darkness, one might say.
That’s why I’ll give you this piece of advice:
If 'something completely incomprehensible' starts getting popular,
doubt your generation.
Consider that something might be very wrong.
That's because the generation has been enveloped by darkness.
Enveloped by darkness.
Now, Araragi.
Now that I’ve taught you a very important trade secret of mine,
why don’t I accept a fee from you?
My guess is that the money you keep for a crucial moment is in your jacket's inside pocket.
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