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Koyomimonogatari
Koyomi Tea
Koyomimonogatari
Together now!
When I look at the world covered in a sheet of snow
I take a single step forward
The passion in my heart will never change, never wane
Let's dance to its beat
The moon I know since the day you led me to it
looks like a mirror again today, up there in the starlit sky
and glitters with little flashes of light
Some things will change
Some things never change
I used to be so fickle
but now I know what eternity means
and pledge it to you
I'm platinum happy
but when I still get platinum sad
and shed platinum tears
Why? Just why?
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Brother, do you believe in ghosts and the like?
Ghosts?
What’s with that?
Did you hear something from Sengoku?
Why is Nadeko’s name coming up?
Sometimes you say things that make no sense, brother.
No, it's nothing!
But why are you suddenly asking about ghosts?
What, is it something like a ghost appearing in your tea ceremony club?
That’s right!
I’m surprised you got it!
A fluke
Or more correctly, a ghost had been appearing in the tea ceremony club.
Had been appearing? What do you mean by that?
Were there traces of it left in the club room?
No, I wouldn’t say it left any traces…
That kid,
there’s no objective evidence for its existence.
That kid?
A strangely specific way of referring to it.
Tsukihi, I’ll tell you something good.
If there’s no evidence, that means there was no ghost!
Okay, that settles the matter.
Well, we can just chat about something else now.
I want this to be a proper consultation!
Not some idle chatter!
Okay, okay.
Whoa there, now.
I get it, so put that ballpoint pen away.
Put it away?
Of the three colors in this tricolor pen, which are you saying to put away?
All of them!
Red, blue, black, all of them!
So, what exactly are you saying here?
There’s no evidence for the ghost you said appeared in the tea ceremony club.
That’s what I said! Weren’t you listening?
If I were to guess, would you be the one who proved there was no ghost?
Wow. How’d you figure that out?
The story probably went something like this:
Rumors were circulating about a ghost appearing in the tea ceremony club room,
Tsukihi, probably not as part of the Fire Sisters,
but as Araragi Tsukihi individually, set out to investigate the rumor.
And then, she resolved it.
What do you think I should do, brother?
Huh? About what?
So, you see,
I was able to logically explain the fact that there was no ghost…
But nobody believes it, you know?
Everyone believes in the ghost instead of believing in me.
I took all the circumstantial evidence,
including the witness account that started the whole rumor
about an 'eighth person’ in the tea ceremony club
despite it having only seven members, and logically refuted them one by one.
Logically.
You don’t need to emphasize logically.
It almost sounds like you’re lying.
Are you calling me a liar? Rude!
So after going through quite a lot of trouble,
I managed to disprove the eighth person's existence.
But when I told everyone, they just said this:
'That might be the case, but whatever.'
'What Tsukihi says might be right,
and that might be the case in theory,
but, even so, the "eighth person” may still exist.’
- is what they keep saying! The rumors just won’t stop!
So what do you think, brother?
What do you think I should do?
What you should do?
What do you think I should do in this situation?
How should I put it?
I asserted what was right, and everyone understands that it was right,
so the confrontation, the conflict of opinion, is all over now,
but the circumstances haven’t changed at all from before…
It’s as if what’s 'right’ has no meaning, and there’s no effect.
What should I do?
Without even arguing against it, they just ignored you
and continued to make a racket over this 'eighth person,’ is that right?
That's right.
In this case,
what sort of advice can I give?
Hey, Tsukihi. So, what exactly do you want me to do?
What’s with that question?
Brother. Weren’t you listening to what I was saying?
Hey, you don’t need to look so surprised…
You don’t need to look so surprised while sounding like you’re going to attack me.
My skin narrowly avoided being dyed three colors.
Just give it to me straight, Tsukihi.
What do you want me to do?
It bothers me when you say it like that,
So, I want to hear your opinion, as research.
Brother, do you believe in ghosts?
She returned to her first question.
What is it?! Why do you look so cornered trying to answer?!
This is one you can answer and finish off with a simple 'yes’ or 'no’, you know?
No, no, Tsukihi.
The problems of the world aren't all easily finished off with a simple 'yes’ or 'no'.
Is that so?
In this case I’d be okay with finishing off my brother with a simple 'yes’ or 'no’.
It's 'no'.
I don’t believe in ghosts.
The tea ceremony club members besides you are definitely wrong,
and I can guarantee that you’re correct, so don’t worry about it anymore.
You just stay the way you are, and stay true to your own correctness.
You’re right.
But it still bothers me.
Well, It’s not like her acceptance or denial the existence of the 'eighth person'
will cause the tea ceremony club to break up, or anything serious like that.
It’s just that she’s hitting a wall.
A wall?
As someone who advocates justice,
being in an environment that ignores something that’s right
makes her feel ill at ease.
Situations where the unreasonable or irrational are in control actually happen pretty often.
Experiencing irrationality like this can be useful for the future, right?
Irrationality, huh?
But I think reason has already been hunted down enough,
so personally it makes me want to become Tsukihi’s ally.
You’ve always been the ally of cute girls, though.
No, cuteness is not related in this case.
Because if I said that,
it’s possible the other six members of the tea ceremony club are also cute!
What kind of way of thinking that?
But, aren’t you like that, too, Araragi?
Because you and I know about oddities.
The irrational,
the unreasonable,
the absurd.
We know it.
That’s exactly why I want to become Tsukihi’s ally.
For Tsukihi, who’s trying to deny oddities, who’s sacrificing herself for reality.
Well, certainly. When you say it like that, then I want to agree,
but even so, it can’t be helped, can it?
There’s nothing we can do about it, is there?
If you were to insist, Araragi,
then I wouldn't mind marching into
Tsuganoki Second Junior High’s Tea Ceremony Club myself!
I won't insist.
Though I just wonder if there is any way to calm Tsukihi’s temper?
Yeah, there is a way.
If your goal, Araragi, is just to placate Tsukihi for now, then there is a way!
It’s not exactly that I want to placate her, but...
there is?
However, this solution has just one problem.
There's a problem?
It’s not good if there’s a problem.
What kind of problem is it?
The end result will be that we’re deceiving Tsukihi.
Say, Araragi, are you opposed to lying to your sisters in any way?
Not in the slightest.
Now for the epilogue, or rather, the punch line.
Why did Tsukihi’s fellow club members
continue to obstinately believe in the ‘eighth person’?
After the truth was made apparent, after reason was shown,
why did they continue to believe in it based on emotion?
In short, if I were able to explain that,
If I could give a logical explanation for their irrationality,
then Tsukihi might accept it.
So Kanbaru added a reason for it.
The logic she came up with was
that everyone continued believing in the 'eighth person’ for Tsukihi’s sake.
Tsukihi often takes as she pleases from the clubroom’s inventory of tea and snacks.
Well, it wasn’t something to make a big fuss over,
but strictly speaking it was not something to be admired.
If word got out,
it would certainly be possible for club activities to be suspended.
So, by hypothesizing an 'eighth person,’
the rate at which the inventory decreased was accounted for.
Though they never planned to conspire against her, in order to protect Tsukihi,
everyone acknowledged this 'eighth member’ to have joined the club.
Is that so? Everyone did it for my sake!
The idiot fell for it immediately.
And here I was, boorishly saying that there was no such thing as ghosts,
but it was actually my attitude that was the ghost, huh!
That wasn’t clever at all.
All right, I’ll let myself fall for it!
I’ll let myself fall for it.
I’ll let the tea be muddied.
When I told Kanbaru,
The tea ceremony club members or Araragi,
I wonder which one she let herself be deceived by?
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