According to rumors among the kids from the other side of the station,
in the deepest part of obsolete Space
lives a dangerous Illegal.
Kyoko!
Where are you?
She's got no sense of direction at all.
Anyway, this map never works at critical moments...
The fog.
Now that I think about it,
whenever I couldn't use the map, there was an obsolete Space nearby...
Right, I didn't search on the other side of the station!
If I go there, maybe I can find an obsolete Space!
Service call for a missing child.
Miss Yuko Okonogi!
Your mother is waiting for you.
Miss Yuko Okonogi!
Me?
Third municipal elementary school,
sixth grade, class three...
She is wearing beige clothes and round glasses.
Her name is Yuko Okonogi.
St-St...
Stop it!
Kyoko was the one who got lost, wasn't she?!
Why on earth did you make the announcer call ME?!
Kyo came back right away.
You disappeared, and your cell phone was out of range.
That's because the Space in this town is weird.
Stop blaming that.
You've never had a sense of direction.
You're direction-poop!
Look who's talking!
I remember that
the same thing happened a long time ago in Kanazawa, and we had a hard time.
And also...
Yeah, back at Grandpa's funeral.
Stop digging up all that ancient crap.
Anyway, you were still thinking about your glasses, weren't you?
If you don't cut it out,
you'll become glasses-addicted.
What the heck?
What's wrong?
Get in the car.
I'm not gonna ride.
What? You're still being capricious at your age?
There's a place I want to search.
I'll come back later, by myself.
Hey! Wait!
Yuko!
I'm already in sixth grade!
I'm able to get back home by myself!
Yuko, she said?
If you get lost again, it's none of my business, got it?
I absolutely won't get lost!
I-I got lost!
So I really have no sense of direction...
Oh!
A real dog.
That's rare.
Densuke!
Densuke, wait!
Yuko!
Where are you going?
Poop!
Right...
Back then, Densuke started running on his own...
And a bit later I met that person...
What was that?
It feels like,
something more important happened back then...
This place...
It feels like I've been here before...
It must be just my imagination...
Hey, you!
You...
Is your name Yuko?
What?
I heard it just now.
So, your name is Yuko.
I already know that!
You're...
Yuko Amasawa, from the third elementary school!
Hey, guys.
Come out.
Who are you guys?
We're from the first elementary school.
So, you've been messing with our net lately!
W-Wait!
You're confusing me with someone else!
My name is certainly Yuko, but...
I'm not Amasawa!
So, you really are Yuko.
We finally got you.
Give us that thing.
What thing?
The kirabugs!
We know you're collecting them!
Give us the stuff now!
If you don't, we'll take 'em by force!
After her!
There she is!
What should I do?
Here, here!
Quickly, get inside here!
Where did she go?
She's not here.
She must've taken the other street!
Hurry up!
S-Sorry!
It was so sudden.
Those guys always want to bully new kids.
Uh, thank you!
In any case, this is very...
Yeah.
If you go inside here, you're invisible to people who wear glasses.
Is this an
encode?
Are you an encoder?
Ah... not really.
Someone must've drawn it and then left it here.
So this is...
Yeah,
it must've been made by that Yuko Amasawa they mistook you for.
Do you know her?
Not at all!
Well, actually I got lost.
I have no sense of direction.
Where do you want to go?
Well... err,
Daikoku station.
Well, you see,
the station is right there...
Oh, shoot...
So you really don't have a sense of direction.
I'm Takeru.
I'm in sixth grade at the first elementary school.
I'm Yuko.
I'm in sixth grade at the third elementary school.
Everybody calls me Yasako.
Oh, Yasako...
Yasako, huh!
Can I call you like that, too?
Of course!
Ya-Yasako!
Calling someone by name, without a suffix of -san, -chan, etc., denotes a close relationship. This usually doesn't happen at a first meeting.
I-I'll take you to the station.
Thank you.
Hey,
do you know if this area has always looked like this?
Yeah, I think so.
But around the station, things have changed quite a lot.
What's wrong?
I'm certain I've been here before!
Wh-Where are you going?
What's wrong?
Didn't you want to go to the station?
I... remember this place.
Oh, really?
I know I'm saying something odd...
But I think that when I was a little girl,
I got lost here.
Something...
Something happened.
Something?
What?
I forget.
I was very little.
I'd like to remember.
But I can't.
Is it
something very important?
Yeah... Maybe.
Let's look for it together!
I know this area better than you do.
If we look for it together, maybe we can find it!
B-But...
So, what kind of place is it?
The place you're looking for.
It's a place with stone stairs
and many torii on it.
Maybe it's...
Yeah, maybe it's that place!
Come on, hurry!
Okay!
Look, here!
This must be it!
Wait, Yasako!
Stop!
Watch out!
I didn't know this shrine was being dismantled.
But I'm glad you found
the place you were looking for.
This isn't the one.
Oh?
This isn't the place.
Even if it looks like it.
Is that so?
The stairs continued straight to the top.
They didn't turn in the middle like this.
I see...
Too bad.
Is it just my imagination?
Even ants know where they're supposed to go.
But I can't find it.
I feel so pathetic.
I don't know what happened that day, but...
If that place really exists, you'll certainly find it.
I don't know anymore
whether or not it really existed.
Nah,
I'm certain it really exists.
At least,
your strong desire to find that place is genuine, isn't it?
If you keep searching with that feeling,
I'm sure you'll find it.
That real "something."
You're such a good person.
You saved me from those weird guys,
you're helping me look for the torii...
Oh, I wish that all boys were like you.
Not at all!
Come on, let's go!
Yes!
So,
what happened there?
I can't describe it in just few words.
It must've been something beautiful.
Maybe it wasn't only beautiful.
Something scary?
Or sad?
Well, how was it?
Maybe both of those feelings.
But if we didn't find it after searching so hard,
maybe it means this place doesn't exist for real.
Maybe it was a dream.
Perhaps
this place doesn't exist "in reality."
But perhaps it wasn't a dream, either.
What do you mean?
Were you wearing glasses back then?
I was.
So...
maybe you can only see this place when you're wearing glasses.
When wearing glasses?
Do such places exist?
Obsolete Space.
Obsolete...
Space?
There are many versions of obsolete Space.
Inside them, there can be a time difference between their data and the real world,
so you might see places that disappeared long ago.
You mean... places that don't exist for real?
But,
I'm sure I went to that place...
Anyway,
if there's really obsolete Space near there,
we have to hurry and find it.
Why is that?
Because of Satchii.
They never used to come around here...
but in the last week, I've seen them often.
In our area, they're a daily thing.
That's why there's no obsolete Space around the third elementary school.
I see.
We have to find it before Satchii, or...
You're right.
I wish I could use Imago, but...
Imago?
It's a superpower in glasses that allows you to find obsolete Space.
It's just an urban legend, you know.
When you put on your glasses and hear mysterious sounds or feel strange...
But,
this Imago...
Why does Daikoku City want to delete all the obsolete Spaces so badly?
There are many rumors about obsolete Space, you know.
Like, it disturbs the cyber navi.
I heard that last year, a kid died in an accident that way.
But,
it's the first time I've seen so many of them together.
This is very bad.
Why bad?
Maybe they came to totally erase any obsolete Space from the base.
If we don't find it quickly,
it might even be deleted today!
But still...
there's no way we can find it without some clues.
Hey, what's wrong?
Yasako?
I can hear it.
What can you hear?
Yasako!
After that...
After I parted from that person...
What can I do?
I got lost!
I already passed by here earlier!
I got completely lost on the way home,
and I met something.
If I think about it now,
I understand that it was...
an Illegal.
So a long time ago, you met an Illegal?!
Maybe.
But
I can't remember well.
What happened back then?
What did you just say?
...2-3...
I'm looking for...
He was looking for something.
He was looking for something,
when he got lost, just like me.
It must be like you said.
Both the place where I met that Illegal,
and the place with the stairs and torii...
must be an obsolete Space!
What happened there?
Yasako!
Just like that time!
It's at the end of this street!
W-Wait!
What's the matter with you? Yasako!
It's obsolete Space...
How on earth did you know?
That thing you were talking about...
the Imago!
Perhaps I can use it!
The Imago superpower?
Really?
It happened to me several times before.
I start hearing a mysterious voice...
A-Awesome!
I tried a few times, too,
but I never succeeded!
So, what does it sound like?
Does it come from the glasses' speakers?
Or somewhere else?
I came to look for Densuke, but I got lost.
Do you know the way back home?
I don't know...
What are you looking for?
...Two, three.
Wh-What's wrong?
You're getting pale.
That's right!
Now I remember!
I remember what that black creature was looking for!
...Four, two, three.
Two-three?
4-4-2-3...
I'm looking for that...
Why...
4-4-2-3?
Kyuu-chans!
We won't make it in time!
I can't remember...
But it's only...
only a little bit more!
Run away, quickly!
Yasako!
Run!
Yasako, don't go!
Don't stop me!
I'm sure that at the end of this street, I'll find that place!
Cut it out and get the hell out of here!
Are you okay?
Do you remember anything else?
No...
There's no way it could be real.
It must be just a dream I had when I was little.
And by the way, why did you stop me so suddenly?
As I told you, there are many version of obsolete Space.
Right.
This is the version from that place just now.
Any Space prior to 5.20 causes the fog...
Versions older that that are dangerous, I believe.
Dangerous?
What do you mean?
Take it as just an urban legend, but...
Apparently, if you go too deep into obsolete Space,
you can't get back anymore.
Can't get back anymore?
Yeah.
Your real body and your cyberbody become shifted...
And before long,
even your soul is taken to the other side.
Taken?
By what?
I don't really know either.
But if you're able to find an obsolete Space,
I'll give you some advice.
This is another urban legend, but...
There's a rule one must never break in dangerous Space.
What's that?
You must never take off your glasses
until you go back to normal Space.
If you take them off while your cyber body is shifted...
What would happen?
As I said, you couldn't get back anymore.
It must be just a legend!
You're probably right.
But in these urban legends,
there are kids that fell into a coma
or died.
Thank you for all your help!
It was a lot of fun for me, too.
Although it was a bit rough!
Sorry.
I'm convinced that the place you remember must still exist somewhere.
Yeah...
Okay, I hope we can meet again.
Don't get lost anymore!
Okay!
Goodbye!
I'm home...
You came back, finally.
So you did indeed get lost.
I don't know.
Someone called you.
Who?
Your teacher at the Kanazawa school, Mr. Ishida.
What did he say?
You had a friend called Mayumi, right?
A girl you always used to play glasses with...
She's going to move to Hokkaido.
He phoned because you and she were good friends.
This is Mayumi's phone number.
He sure was a mysterious boy...
But thanks to him, I remembered something.
That Illegal...
And then 4-4-2-3...
I wonder if they're real or not...
May this is just a record I made of some dream I had?
Or...
Yeah...
Yeah.
It wasn't in that Space.
But I accidentally got to know something interesting.
Yeah.
I think she's an Imago kid.
Yeah...
Just like that Kanna.
Next time
on Dennou Coil:
Isako's hospital room.
See you next time.