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.
In Shiritori, you take turns saying a word that start with the last syllable of the previous word. Once a word ending in "n" is said, the game ends.
Go... Gorilla.
Rappa. (Trumpet)
Pa... Pan-Panda!
Daria.
How fast!
Umm...
Amenbo. (Water Strider)
Boushi. (Hat)
Shimauma. (Zebra)
Manto. (Cape)
To... Tofu.
Futakoi?
[Episode 9 of Futakoi]
Does such a word even exist?
I wonder.
Same blood type...
According to statistics on the blood types for people who eat bread versus those who eat rice,
the most common type for both groups is type A, but the second most common is more interesting.
The second one in different, they say.
What is the second one?
For people who eat bread, after A-type, B-type is the most numerous.
For people who eat rice, 0-type is the most numerous.
Rentarou, you're B-type?
I dunno.
Really?
What is a B-type person like?
B-type is...
Futakoi!
Shiritori again?
Futakoi-i-i...
Setting off on a good day
Il hi tabitachi.
You're hitting your stride.
Ch... Choushi detekita.
Going out once in a while.
Tama ni wa dekakeyo.
All right! Where are we going?
Yoshi! Doko e iku?
Kunitachi.
Chi... Choufu?
Florida!!
Daruma,
Let's watch some TV first.
Ma...Mazu wa terebi demo mite.
Let's watch the weather forecast!
Tenki yohuo demo mite.
Noooo waaay...
From looking at this...
This time the drama...
Woooow!!!
Here's the weather forecast for the Kanto regon.
It will be cloudy today,
with a 10 percent chance of rain.
Due to a low pressure front over the Sea of Japan,
the temperature will drop, and it will be the coldest day of the year.
Since the atmosphere will be dry, please be careful around fire.
Well then everyone, goodbye.
Hey.
Um...
Takashima is a well known department store in Japan.
Should we go to Takashimaya?
Well, I...
I... was thinking that, too.
And just like that, Shirogane Sara left our regular triangle.
I'm back.
It's just me by myself now.
What should I do?
Really...
I thought that it sounded very typical of Sara.
Unlike those around her, who did things hesitantly,
she was always decisive, and did everything on her own.
Starting today, this will be your home.
Yes.
You'll catch a cold. You should take a shower.
Deciding things by herself, and doing everything alone.
Sara-chan is...
Sara-chan...!!!
It really sounds typical of Sara.
Yes. Right now, somehow...
Yeah, I think it's all right.
Yes.
To have caused such painful memories...
No.
I'm sorry that you had to go out of your way to cell me.
It's only natural.
I'm also worried about Soujyo.
Also, even now, you are Sara-'s real guardian.
Right?
Hey, Futaba-kun.
Yes.
I think it might be better if this were the last time we contacted each other.
For me, for Sara... and for you two as well.
I know that it is a shameless suggestion...
Understood.
I also think that that's for the best.
Make love to us.
W-wait!
That's bothersome!
Please give it back!
What are you?
Am I the only one who thinks this is weird?
Welcome everyone--
And just like that, Shirogane Sara left our regular triangle.
That's a miserable story, Lala-chan.
That's a miserable story, Lulu-chan.
How touching!
And then, during those two days,
the two of us swung between reality and illusion like y violent pendulum,
constantly going back and forth.
Welcome.
Hey!
Yeah?
You're thinking we shouldn't be upset about this, right?
I guess so.
You're thinking that it we're depressed, it'd wasted Sara-chan's efforts, right?
I guess so.
So... let's buy plenty of things!
Yeah.
In short...
Yes?
Let's have lots and lots of fun!
That probably might be a...
Very good idea!
That is probably correct!
Hey, Soujyu!
Do you know anything fun?
Yes!
Like what?
Like what, you say!
Like... like riding a shopping cart!
All right!
Or clattering noisily up the escalators!
All right!
Or sweeping past the cashiers!
All right!
Wait! Wait!
Having secruity guards hot on your heels!
All right!
Not... enough... strength... Recharge... in... elevator...
Recharge...
A-all right...
There are people here.
Hey, Soujyu!
Yeah!
Life is wonderful!
The world is beautiful!
It's so intense!
Definitely, we're so satisfied that it's as if we could fly through the sky!
Yes, even above that high sky.
Ready...
GO!
LET'S GO!!!
'If'... this is what I hypothesized.
If we flew through the sky...
Would we be able to be happy?
If... if, back then, I had made love to Sara and Soujyu,
would we have been able to become happy?
There are no "if"s.
There is only the assumption of "what if" and the wish that "it had turned out like that".
There is no absolute truth which supports this.
There is no preparation to accept what is there,
only tightfisted sentiment and bitter illusion.
That's something that elementary school brats know very well of.
It's just, even if they say they understand it,
they can't possibly understand things that they haven't done or experienced.
Ah... I get the feeling that this is all useless.
The harsh reality.
For example, spending a month recovering after a traffic accident...
Nidaime!!!
He's not stopping?
Gen-san!
Nidaime!
For example, having your house completely razed by a fire.
It's dangerous, so don't try and come any closer!
I'll rip ya bastards apart!
There, get back, get back!
Get back, please get back!
Re-Rentarou?
We'll start over again, start over!
Start over, gosh-darnit!
We definitely can't go on like this!
Rather than leaving it as it is...
We'll just keep starting all over again!
We will just rebuild!
Re-Rentarou!
Stop!!
I'm asking you, Nidaime.
Like I said, we have confirmed the presence of gasoline....
We know that it wasn't because you smoked.
You're not trying to hide the culprit, are you?
I know nothing about it.
Don't say such things.
It's not like you're the only one affected by this.
That also would also be cruel to Gen-san from the first floor.
Not only did his house get burnt down,
but Gen-san himself needs a month to recover.
Though it was really his own fault that he fell and hurt himself.
I'm definitely not involved.
THAT'S ENOUGHT!
You're like those brats who don't know anything, dammit.
Just hurry up and tell us and you can hurry up and go freakin' home!
That's already the third time for this month, the third time!
Bastard, I don't know what's happened, but people in this town have been attacked without reason.
Us investigating here and there have made us freakin' freakin' freakin' freakin' busy!
But still we have to deal with you, a freakin' brat who knows nothing?!
If you keep not cooperating with our investigation,
I am just gonna have to whoop your--
I'm like that too.
I'm freakin' suffering as well.
N-Nidaime.
Translator's Note: Katsudon = pork on rice.
Wanna eat some Katsudon?
Yes.
Geez. Where so I put this coal?
We, put it over there please.
Even so, I just can't reach Nidaime at all.
Yeah.
There are no "if "s.
We won't be able to regain those days ever again.
The burned-down office won't return to its state anymore.
All right, it's over!
What?
Somehow, I feel relieved.
Laughing and crying with all my might, eating carelessly,
it feels like I've just let it all out.
What good timing.
When something new is started, this is the way to do it.
More like, there's no choice but to start over.
In other worlds, pleased to meet you all over gain!
Right?
There are no "if"s.
Back then, I didn't fly through the sky.
I didn't hold on tightly to Sara and Soujyu.
I wasn't able to stop the gas-wielding pyromaniac.
There are no "if"s.
There is only the present.
You can go first.
Back then, I wasn't able to make love to Sara and Soujyu.
That's why...
I wanted to star over.
Dammit!
We demand to start over again.
We...
Even so, I...
If I think about it...
If we were able to fly through the sky, would we have become happy?
If... I had made love to Sara and Soujyu that time...would we have become happy?
Inside my memories,
there was a happy moment
within the light.
It overflowed in this place.
For example, 3 years later,
would you be able
to remember our time?
Ah*c the days gone by
always wrench my heart.
Hey, more than before,
understand the feeling of love.
I won't say goodbye. Always from now on,
the days of no return
will leave your heart behind.
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