Futakoi Alternative
Run at once towards a dream.
Let's laugh and break though the troubled yesterday.
Even when our memories are hurt,
directly face your wounds with pride.
I can feel it in the wind.
The hot beat is shining,
especially now...
surely, always, you'll be by my side.
Keep on running the way to the future.
More and more, no matter what happens,
half our tears become double smiles
forever.
Isn't this place all right?
Huh?
Habiko Detective Agency?
Hold on, wasn't that the place we went to earlier?
Really?
Then, how's this...?
Weren't we there earlier, too?
Geez... Are you taking this seriously?
We don't have much time.
If we don't find it quickly...
Y-You're right.
Sorry.
Futaba Detective Agency...
Chief, Futaba Ainosuke...
My dad is dead.
Where is his son?
Who knows? I haven't seen him either.
He's the only relative.
Just what is he thinking?
Not even attending his father's funeral...
Young people these days...
Farewell... dad.
Oh yeah, wasn't that expensive?
EPISODE 7 - Futaba Rentarou's First Case
Winter of 2002.
So far, nothing much has changed.
The same daily life,
the same Christmas song,
the same winter.
Just that single thing was different...
Traffic accident?
Hey, it's okay!
We'll play everyday.
Anyway, what the hell are you going?
You're disturbed.
How scary...
Really scary.
What are you going to do?
You don't have to stop.
It's just a suspension...
But you know, like, you forgot my birthday!
Detective, huh...
How many times did I already apologize for that?
Give it a break!
It's not bad.
Then, give me proof that you love me.
it's be cool to inherit your dad's stuff, wouldn't it?
Proof?
Kiss me now.
What are you doing?
Are you really gonna do it?
UWAAH! Mikaru!
Mikaru! He-Hey!!
Hey, Rentarou!!
Rentarou!
That was my winter of 2002.
I was a violent college student,
but not yet a violent detective.
After I got suspended from college,
everyone was talking about how I should follow in my old man's footsteps.
But, I had no plans to do so at all.
It's just that just about everything was a pain...
And anything was all right...
My dad frequently said something like this...
What are you going to do?
Since I didn't know what I should do...
For the time being, I watched the dusk in the winter of 2002.
* Is it hard to find? *
* Just when you've stopped searching, *
* you find what you've been looking for. It happens all the time. *
* Let's dance. *
* Don't you want to try going into a dream? *
You should try and become an attractive man, like your father.
They always said that.
Hey...
Hey!
Ugh, yes!
Ouch...
Umm... can I help you with anything...?
Anything, you say, This is...
...a detective office,
right?
We wanted,
to ask you,
to do a job.
What?
This is the weather forecast for the Kanto region.
Because of a low pressure front, the good weather will dissipate.
Between evening and midnight, there's a high probability of snowfall.
Before going out, please be careful not to forget your umbrella.
The snow will change to rain past midnight, and in the morning--
Oh.
Err... How much sugar do you want in your coffee?
Umm, well... as I just said, my old man just passed away.
The business is closed for now...
I'm sorry, but you'll have to withdraw your request.
Right now, you are
the chief,
right?
Well... I wonder about that too...
Are we wrong?
Basically, I'm the successor...
In case you forgot, Nidaime means "Second Generation."
I'm the indecisive and disgraceful Nidaime.
Though, honestly, I don't care much either way.
Then...
Huh?
If you're able to fulfill our request, you'll take over the agency.
If you're not able to do it, you won't.
So?
Accepted.
From the beginning, Sara was like that.
For example, like that time...
The criminal is a militant who calls himself Dr. Ocean.
Also, he's armed with a machine gun.
There are two civilian hostages inside the bathhouse.
Request reinforcements from headquarters.
Repeating, please answer!
This is big news which will shock the world.
I'm gonna kill you!
What are you saying!!!
Nothing at all!
Comrades! The slack-jawed police are reporting that all the baths in the world have been taken over.
There is only one place where I can perform this revolution, so I'm asking for your cooperation.
If you don't resist, I won't hurt you.
It really is too dangerous since he aimed his gun at us.
Eh, what?
Won't your nakedness be completely exposed?
If the television notices it, we won't be able to become brides together!
When that time comes, I'll take responsibility.
You're so chatty!
Even for a girl.
That's wro--
S-Sorry, I couldn't keep it in anymore.
That guy thinks that there's only the two of us here.
Our chance will come!
What's happening here?
Hey! You criminal!
Get your ugly butt out here!
I got called out by all the noise.
Isn't this all so exciting?
Come out and show us how ugly you really are!
HERE'S a big man for ya!
That screaming is all so very loud...
******
SHUT UP!!!
Waaah!
Listen up!
The baths have been stolen by the slack-jawed police.
I'll brainwash the minds of 90°% of the people's mi--
SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
Be considerate of the people in the bathhouse!
NOW!
It's an elephant!
An elephant?
DON'T SAY AN ELEPHANT!!!
An opening!!!
From the beginning, Sara was like that.
Unlike those around her, who did things hesitantly,
she would always decide and do everything on her own.
That sort of impulsive foolhardiness...
How should I put it...am I envious, or am I not envious?
Well, it's pretty all right. Okay, okay!
There might be some people who watched the television and will come to me with work. I don't know...
W-What?
Umm...
Nothing at all.
Aah, this is code, a code.
A code?
See here? It's says that you should take out the 'sa'.
So take out the 'sa' and then read the note.
'The west entrance of the park...'
Heh, you're really like a detective.
The detective is you, isn't it?
What?
The detective is you, isn't it?
Wow.
Are you okay?
Well the, the detective is supposedly me.
Darn it, geez!
Head towards the west entrance.
I went there, but there's nothing here!
THE HELL!
Takashima House 5th Floor Inside the water tank of the toilet
Hm?
We will be hiding somewhere in Futagotamagawa.
If you can find us before 6p.m., we will pay the entire fee.
Please search for us.
To go searching all by myself, that's not very funny at all.
Playing hide and seek at this age?
To being with, I wonder why I went along with this game.
It's here!
There's nothing.
That's weird.
Could you describe him more accurately...?
Probably, it was because I didn't know what to do.
What are you going to do?
But, I noticed that I was actually itching to make a move and do something.
[The next clue]
What are you going to do?
You're loitering around here...
The next clue
N-N-No-no-no-no! W-W-Wa-Wait, wait!
In short, I thought that it was good to have this chance.
What are you going to do?
Err, wait--
What am I going to do?
That meat is huge!
More importantly, how am I gonna get it?!
What's up with this Zippo!!
Argh, I'm fed up!
Aaaarrgghh!!
I'll stop.
Thank you very much.
HEY!
Here, here! Hey!
Thanks for taking care of things at the funeral.
We're all equals in times of trouble.
It was bad enought that I didn't go.
I heard from Gen-san that you started your detective work.
Ah... well.
Red banner: Because we love this Nikotama
That made me so happy!
When he said that... you're finally showing some motivation to do it.
I'm going to stop.
W-What?
I have stopped, actually.
I see.
I'm sorry.
Right.
So I wonder what will happen now.
All this is just an idea in his mind.
I wonder if he's going to pursue it though.
Actually, it would take a lot of his skill.
Well, it doesn't matter.
Since I wasn't able to solve it, I won't get paid.
I wasn't really into it from the start.
Well, it doesn't matter either way...
Not let's continue on to the next segment.
I'm so... uncool.
You shouldn't stop!
You are you. Ai-san is Ai-san.
It may be that the people around you are too insensitive, including me.
In the end, it doesn't matter who is replacing whom.
* It's raining, it's raining. I'm so glad...*
That's why you shouldn't worry so much.
You know, there is a path for you to live out.
* that mom has come with an umbrella to pick me up. *
* Pitter Patter. Pitter Patter. La la la.*
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
What is this?!
What is going on with me?!?!
Even needed some 12 years old brats for me to notice it!
How pathetic, pathetic, PATHETIC!
Who am I?
Who am I...?
I'M FUTABA RENTAROU!
Well, I already know that you are Futaba Rentarou, but..
I am not willing to lend you my bike.
Where do you want to go in all this rain?
Hey, Rentarou?
Rentarou!
Hey!
Futaba Rentarou, heading of to solve his first case.
Yup, get going!
Nidaime!
What are you going to do?
I still don't know about that, but... for now, I'm hell-bent on fighting that dog!
From the beginning, Soujyu was like that.
In the event that you couldn't find us,
we have put the money inside the post box.
Thank you for having been with us.
Please work hard at your detective work.
Running away while smiling gently and always thinking about someone else.
ATTACK!
Shall we go home, Sara-chan?
He surely has been searching with all his might,
but since the hints were a bit too difficult, he might not have been able to find us.
Next time, let's make some easier ones, okay?
It can't be helped; we only just met him today after all.
And this stuff would probably be meaningless to him.
He wouldn't find us--
I don't want to...
I don't want to go back!!
I was afraid the whole time in that pitch-black darkness.
I couldn't do anything, no matter what I decided!
Sara-chan...
We...
Isn't it good we can decide our future by ourselves??
The rain...
... stopped.
FOUND YOU!!!
U-Umm...
Caught you.
Also, thank you.
Thanks to you guys, I managed to do it somehow. Yeah...
We got caught.
The same daily life,
the same Christmas song,
the same winter.
The violent college student became a violent detective.
Don't cry... okay?
Nothing much has changed.
It's changed just a little.
We are here.
We will be here.
The slow time is
flowing in this room.
Even if the summer days vanish,
the smiles that remain
are a chain of happiness up to this point.
Ah, the meaning of honesty,
is within the innermost depths of your heart.
Hey, the days are wonderful
in the midst of weakness and anxiety.
I won't say goodbye, Because forever
the days will be unchanged.
Surely forever.
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