Come on, it was this easy!
According to Yuko Amasawa,
the path of feelings that connects people
is thin and breaks easily.
Yuko!
I was so worried!
What happened to me?
Oh, right! I have to call the doctor!
Doctor!
Oh my! Doctor, where are you?
Excuse me, doctor!
If you're looking for your glasses, your mother took them.
Aunty.
She's a bit spacey, just like you.
But she's a good person.
Thank goodness.
I was so worried, thinking that you might not come back.
Amasawa...
Right.
I went to school with Amasawa, and...
What happened to Amasawa?
Aunty!
All the links have been disconnected.
And possibly,
the Space those links went to as well...
has already...
Thank goodness!
Oh, thank goodness.
I was really worried!
Well, I...
I thought you might've been taken to the other side.
The other side?
Everyone's talking about it.
They say Isako was taken away.
By Miss Michiko.
Anyway, cheer up already!
Well, I'm gonna see how Kyoko is doing.
I'm hanging up.
What's wrong with Kyoko?
Yasako,
Densuke is...
Densuke?
He was involved in yesterday's mess.
And so...
The memorial
has just arrived at your home.
Kyoko is kicking up a fuss again.
I'll call you back!
You gotta hang in there, Yasako.
Densuke's gone!
Where are my glasses?!
Oh no... What a bother!
Yasako's mother confiscated Kyoko's glasses as well!
Densukeee...
Oh? Who could it be?
Mom?
Mrs. Okonogi told me you were here.
G-Give them back!
What are you doing?!
No way.
I won't allow you to play with glasses anymore.
But why?!
There is no "why"!
I know everything about your classmate.
I heard she was badly hurt because of the glasses.
I know everything.
This Amasawa infiltrated the school at night,
and she fell down the stairs while using her glasses.
It's all a lie.
That's because...
It's not a lie!
Come on, stop disturbing other people and come back home.
But...
You'll be taken away by Miss Michiko too!
Give them back!
Idiot!
I already told you!
If you always use these, you won't be able to distinguish reality from illusions anymore!
They say you can leave the hospital today.
It must have been a mild anemia or something like that.
The facts about yesterday's events won't be disclosed to the public.
I was also interrogated about it,
but this will be left as a simple mystery story.
Just like the accident I caused four years ago.
Megamass also knows about this.
That's why they dispatched Nekome and me.
Four years ago, Nekome was the guy who collected kirabugs with me.
Although now he's helping with the cover-up.
Both kirabugs and Coil Space
have completely disappeared.
And even if they're still around somewhere,
it must be at some place like the Loophole Nexus from urban legends.
There's no way to bring back Isako's consciousness...
anymore.
It's as if...
It's as if I can't feel anything anymore.
As if it was a bad dream,
or something like that.
Nothing but a dream.
Yasako...
I see...
Densuke...
The memorial has arrived.
Your mother is almost done filling out the forms.
I'm off for a while too.
You should know that during yesterday's fuss, Mega-baa also went to the hospital.
Well, that's for her strained back.
Oh, my back...
I told you not to call me when I'm at work, didn't I, Takeru?
But I'm...
I'm worried that what I did was wrong.
Don't worry.
Until now, did you ever make a mistake by doing what I said?
Never, brother.
Also, about Kanna,
everyone believes what I wrote.
Okay, take care of the Mystery Club.
If it's for you,
I'd do anything.
Yes, I know.
Bye.
We've got nothing to do.
You're right, Daichi.
Everyone else in class got their glasses confiscated as well.
We can't even make a phone call.
Oh?
You too?
Yup.
Tsk...
Without my glasses, I don't even feel like fighting.
Does it hurt somewhere?
You fell as well, didn't you?
No, I'm all right.
You know, Dad has gone to Kanazawa for work.
He's never here when I need him.
Your friend...
Amasawa, right?
I hope she gets better soon.
You're good friends, right?
Isn't that so?
Yuko...
We received a "memorial" from the pet company.
Your glasses pet...
Densuke was his name, right?
Really, I don't know anything about your friends, Yuko.
Densuke...
is dead, you know.
The Cybermanagement staff can forcibly enter the domain of any ministry.
But they say this time is just an exception, ending at four this afternoon.
In this case,
I don't think there will be another massive 2.0.
Yeah, it put the Operations Center in turmoil.
Nekome? You were here?
The supervisor is out of town for work, so I'm taking his place for now.
Listen, do you know which hospital room is Amasawa's?
I'd like to meet her relatives,
but the hospital won't tell me.
I don't know either.
Megamass is in possession of her body, actually.
Amasawa tried to open the same passage a year ago, but she failed.
Actually, she must be involved somehow in Kanna Ashihara's accident.
I'd like to think you're wrong.
Don't throw away your hopes, Tamako.
After all, Ken's case was also solved somehow.
I'm gonna look for some more clues.
You're such a reliable man!
To think that you used to be my porter!
Hey, I'm nothing more than the replacement room supervisor.
Then you too should do everything in your power to find the truth.
Sure, I'll try.
Yuko,
please sit down for a moment.
Poor little Densuke.
I don't use glasses much, so I don't really know, but...
You know, mama also used to have a pet.
He died after about a year.
I cried so much.
I couldn't accept it.
Why a little creature...
dies so soon?
Well, it's a fact that a pet's life is shorter than a person's.
Why is it like that?
If only pets lived longer than people,
I wouldn't have to be so sad...
And then,
my Granny from Kanazawa said,
"The owner doesn't want to see his pet die,
and perhaps the pet too doesn't want to see its owner die?"
That's why a human, who can resist sadness better,
feels that pain instead of a pet.
After all, a human's body is bigger.
But I'm talking about real pets.
Yuko...
Mom.
Is Mama's body warm?
Yeah.
Soft?
Yeah.
Does it hurt a bit?
Yeah.
Do you understand, Yuko?
The things you can touch, like this,
the warm things,
are the things you can believe.
Things that when you hug them feel a bit tickly, or hurt a bit.
Got it?
Mom...
Yuko.
This is what it means to be alive.
There's nothing like this
in the world of glasses, is there, Yuko?
Come back.
To the world of the living.
To a warm world.
Mom...
So, be done with glasses now.
I'll buy you a cell phone instead.
If you're bored, I'll play with you.
So...
So, be done with glasses now.
Yes.
From now on, this will be her hospital room.
The reorganization will end soon.
For an explanation, come here.
So he was lying, after all.
4-4-2-3?
There wasn't a room like this when I was here last time!
Who are you?
That's everything I know about the story.
I see...
You don't seem surprised.
Yuko believed that she was the one who made her brother die.
Maybe that's...
Yes, Nobuhiko has passed away.
You know, she's been very unfortunate.
She lost her father when she was little,
and the only one who could console her was her brother.
In addition, her mother fell ill and needed time to recover.
So my wife and I had to take care of Yuko and her brother.
But the day they moved,
Yuko and Nobuhiko were involved in a car accident,
and they both were knocked unconscious.
Both of them?
Yes.
The one who healed Yuko was Dr. Okonogi.
That must've been the Imago cybercure.
I haven't the slightest idea
what it was,
but only Yuko regained consciousness.
She lost her memory of that time.
That's also the time when Dr. Okonogi passed away.
Then what happened to Nobuhiko?
Well...
Because of my contract with Megamass, I can't tell you.
I beg you! No matter what it costs!
Twenty two.
That's all I can say for now.
Hey, honey!
You're from Cybermanagement, aren't you?
Don't come here anymore!
Wait!
What does 22 mean?
Yasako!
Snap out of it!
My glasses have been confiscated too.
I wonder why.
The tears won't come.
Yasako...
Somehow...
I still can't believe that Densuke's dead.
And...
Also about Amasawa.
Maybe I'm heartless?
It's like you said.
If you get too attached, you'll get hurt.
Yasako...
But I feel so stupid.
It hurts here.
As if Densuke was a real dog.
He always did everything he could
to cheer up Kyoko and me.
I couldn't even say goodbye.
I always wanted to stroke his fur.
When I was little,
I couldn't understand why I didn't feel Densuke's fur when I touched him.
So I believed that one day I would be able to feel it.
I knew it.
I knew that Densuke wasn't real.
So...
I think he didn't feel pain when he died.
Yasako...
So I don't feel pain anymore either.
It's only data that has disappeared.
Only that.
That's why...
What's wrong?
Densuke?
Yasako?
What on earth is wrong with you?
I heard it!
What?
I heard Densuke's voice!
Only for an instant...
I'm not lying! I'm sure he's here!
Densuke!
He's dead...
He's really dead... really.
Densuke...
So, every Coil Domain in the records has vanished.
The only possible clue, now, is the urban legends...
What's this?
Hello.
Wait!
Please listen to me!
In Kanna's glasses, there was some information that my nephew parsed!
I feel like...
everything was just a dream.
He was so fluffy.
He smelled so good.
He was so warm...
I told you! Yuko wasn't hurt.
How many times do I have to tell you?
I'll put you through to her.
Yuko, it's Daddy.
She's still a child, after all.
Right, they're not here anymore.
Neither my glasses,
nor Densuke.
I wonder what this is?
My heart hurts.
"All the things you see with glasses are nothing but fakery."
"Believe only in things you can touch with your hands."
Amasawa thinks the same thing.
This world is really made only of things people can touch with their hands.
When you touch something,
it can feel silky... or fluffy...
From now on,
I want to live by believing only in what I can touch with my hands.
Things I can't touch are nothing but illusions.
So these sad feelings must be illusions too.
Actually, I'm not sad at all.
These painful feelings will vanish in no time.
After all,
they're just illusions.
In reality...
What is "real"?
Are things I can touch real?
So, things I can't touch
aren't real?
What things are actually here?
The things that are here without any doubt...
What are they?
The pain in my heart.
The thing that's really here, at this moment,
is the pain in my heart!
It's not an illusion.
I can't touch it with my hands,
but all I can feel right now
is this pain.
Where the pain is coming from,
there is something real.
Yuko!
Ken!
Brother...
Is what we're doing really going to help clear our father's name?
That again?
But involving people who have nothing to do with it...
It's so...
Are you talking about Kanna Ashihara?
You know that was clearly an accident.
But I used the 4423 handle to provide a warning twice.
Of all things,
how could I ever expect that right in the middle of opening the passage,
someone would come out of nowhere...
And as if that wasn't enough, she had the Imago too.
The Cybernavi dodged Kanna's shifted cyberbody, but crushed her flesh-and-blood body.
As heartbreaking as that was, we couldn't do anything about it.
But we also lost a rare opportunity and our kirabugs.
Remember what terrible hardships we went through?
Come on, eat.
I justified your absence from school today as illness.
I heard that both of them are missing!
Maybe it's...
a love tryst?
Stop it already!
What?
You worm! You're powerless without your glasses!
Please stop!
Shut up!
Stop it already!
Don't interfere!
Stop! Stop!
Shut up, I say!
No!
One, two...
Good.
So it's all about the hips, after all.
Daichi?!
Hey, you damn bastard! What the hell are you doing?
So it really is all in the hips.
You're awesome, Daichi!
It's actually true that the more you're thrown, the stronger you become!
Hey, you!
Don't lay your hands on the kids here anymore!
Yah...
Boss!
What do you want, Namecchi?
Your zipper is open.
All right, I can login.
After all, I can't connect to her...
What the hell are the two of you thinking?
Great! It's still working.
She's not around...
Mail, mail...
Here!
It's this one!
These manholes...
As I thought...
The place Mayumi was talking about back then is...
the Loophole Nexus!
Mayumi, we can't face each other easily.
Back then, many things happened.
I can't say it in few words, but...
But I want to meet you.
The place you were talking about...
the place with the four manholes...
it really exists.
In the obsolete Space.
But not only that.
Mayumi,
I don't think anymore that you were bullying me.
You were only afraid of Miss Michiko, because you'd never...
I did bully you.
It wasn't you who did the bullying.
Next time on Dennou Coil:
Kanazawa City, Loophole Nexus.
See you next time.