Is this Ryota's brother?
Has something happened to Ryota?!
Please try to calm down.
Ryota's condition has taken a sudden turn for the worse.
Because you were traveling outside of the country, we couldn't get in contact with you, and...
It's finally...
...my turn, huh?
There are those who would examine claims of holy miracles from around the world,
and verify a miracle has indeed occurred.
Please show them the way, O Lord, the Vatican Miracle Examiners!
Ikeru mono tsumibukaki kakugo de The living reach out their hands
Ataerareta fukashigi ni te wo nobasu yo With sinful resolve to the mysteries they've been given
Itami ga yobu negai wo tokiakashite The pain calls for resolution of their wish
Hikari yo ashiki tamashii sukuitamae to For the light to save their sinful souls
Koe dake ja tarinainda My voice isn't enough
Kiseki no nai jinsei iranai I don't need a life without miracles
Abunai jounetsu ga miseta akenai yoru no naka de A dangerous passion showed me a vision in an endless night
Dare no yume ga hiraku darou Whose dream will be opened?
Yami to boku wa niteru kai Do I resemble the darkness?
Abunai jounetsu o kaketa kore ga key ad mysterium I took the risk with that dangerous passion for this key ad mysterium
Ima wa semete shinjitetai I want to at least believe now
Dakedo nanimo wakaranai But I don't know anything
Hey, why do the stars follow us?
Well, you see, the Earth and the stars are very, very far away from us.
The next closest star to us, other than the sun, is Proxima Centauri,
and it's 4.243 light years away from us.
Oh, so basically, when you're on a train and looking at trees real close to you,
I loved... Oh, so basically, when you're on a train and looking at trees real close to you,
they pass by really fast, but things really far away from you...
my big brother. they pass by really fast, but things really far away from you...
He was warm, and always really nice to me, but then...
Take care.
Have fun at college!
Thank you, Mom and Dad.
Make sure you eat, okay?
Don't worry.
Ryota, I'll be back during breaks, okay?
Okay.
I couldn't tell him I'd miss him.
Because if I did, I knew he'd worry about me.
One day, a long while after that, my whole life changed.
Welcome, Mrs. Glasen.
Hello, Ada.
I made too many cookies. Please have some if you'd like.
Oh, my!
Hi, Ryota! Oh, my!
Hi, Danny!
I brought a board game! They smell so good. Let me get some tea started.
Alright! Let's play! They smell so good. Let me get some tea started.
Alright! Let's play!
That boy will die soon.
It seems so.
May God bless and forgive him.
Who are you?!
Huh?
Hey Mom, who are these people?
Who? They are Danny and Danny's mother!
You're so silly.
They can't see them?
Danny has died.
Wake up.
You must make a pilgrimage.
God, please brighten my way to Danny with Your holy light.
Please make this lantern into a lamp for Danny,
so Danny doesn't lose his way through the valley of death.
The Lord has answered.
It is done.
No, he can't...
I'm so sorry. I don't know what to say...
Mom?
Ryota...
Danny's...
Danny's gone to be with God.
I didn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it.
I thought it had to be a coincidence.
I did, but then...
Are you not going to board the ship to Salvation?
Why are you here if you are not going to board?
Then someone will go in your stead.
Your mother.
Ada.
Please, wait!
I'll go on it! I'll board the ship!
So please, please don't take my mom away!
Please, please!
I'm begging you!
Please...
Don't be so sad, Ryota.
Okay.
I'll get through this.
I'm sorry, I've had to work out of the country so often, I've been kept away from home...
It's alright, don't worry about it.
Mom, I'm...
I'm gonna try asking them!
I'm gonna keep asking them!
So don't...
Ryota...
There's something I need to ask of you.
Just as mom asked, I didn't tell my brother about her illness.
Just when I thought it was time and told him about it, it was too late.
We entrust our sister, Ada Hiraga, to our Almighty God,
with the hope that she is reborn into eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
My brother didn't make it in time for our mother's final moments. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
I didn't cry, either.
There was no way I could cry before my brother did.
What could I say to apologize for not telling him about our mother?
What are you?!
Why did you take my mom?!
Why do you follow me around?!
Why do you show me all this death?!
Why...
Why do people die?!
Why are we born if we're just going to die?!
Why do we live if we're just going to die?!
Ryota!
I'm sorry!
I didn't know anything, and you had to face everything all by yourself.
You had to take on all these horrible, distraught, lonely feelings, all by yourself...
Please forgive me, Ryota!
While my brother held me in his arms, I made my decision.
I would never tell anyone about them.
Especially not my brother.
I would never make my brother worry about me because of them.
When my brother graduated from college,
he ended up going to a place in the Vatican called the Seat of the Disciple.
Brother?
Wow...!
God, please, protect my brother from them.
Many years later,
I was diagnosed with high-grade osteosarcoma and was admitted to Baden Hospital.
It's a pediatrics hospital famous in Germany.
It's a place where children with untreatable diseases...
see their short lives come to an end.
Maybe this was what I needed to do in the time I had left.
Pray for the ones who were going to die.
Then, before I knew it,
I started thinking to myself,
"I wonder if it'll be my turn soon."
I found a notebook hidden between two books that had a gold bookmark in it.
The words written in Italian inside said...
"My dear friend, with what emotions are you spending your days now?"
A fated book.
The door has been opened.
It cannot be closed.
I hope...
...you're happy.
Who are you?
Another one of you.
A future me.
I'm going to tell you about the flower of sacrament.
"The flower of sacrament"?
Are you feeling hopeless about your fate?
Have you given up on life?
Just like I was when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor?
But God has shown you the path, too.
That's him.
"Him"?
Yes. His name is Roberto Nicolas.
Roberto! Roberto!
What's wrong, Hiraga?!
I'm heading to Germany.
Please tell Archbishop Saul I'll be away from work for a while.
Wait, Hiraga, did something happen with Ryota?
Please take care of things while I'm away.
Hiraga, you're just going to make Ryota worry about you.
Roberto!
I'll go with you.
When I was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, I felt strangely calm.
I think it was because I couldn't handle the fear and hopelessness,
so I just slammed down a lid on all my emotions.
I did, too...
I shut my heart away and wallowed in my own loneliness.
Of course, I never showed that to anyone.
I heard about him through a rumor.
That he'd lost both parents in an accident or something, and didn't talk to anyone...
Roberto Nicolas.
The barren desert made its appearance, and the jackal bared its fangs.
I groped around looking for you in the rolling waves of the gentle night.
Even if fear is born within me, I will not give up.
Where are you? Where are you now?
Come, I want to talk to you.
If you're not good at talking with people, why don't you try talking to books?
Huh?
Books aren't as annoying as people.
You can talk with them when you want, and if you ask them questions, they'll always answer.
Look, everyone's your friend.
I'm Joseph Lucolas Bartrich.
I work in the library. I'm always at the reception desk.
I thought I wanted to help him.
I wanted to be of use to someone before I died.
I wanted to save him from the edge of despair.
But that was just me being selfish.
More than that, I was being vain.
I was really the one who wanted friends.
Someone to lick the wounds of loneliness with.
But I was the only one who was lonely.
"The Wilsons," huh?
Yeah, but I don't get why the children are so sad when their father dies in the war.
Why does his youngest child want to kill themselves because of it,
and why does the eldest think he has to fill his role?
Try putting yourself in his children's shoes.
If your father had died in a war...
I don't remember them.
Your father or your mother?
I can't remember who they were.
Whenever I try to remember...
I'd never seen such angelic tears before.
There was no way for me to compare our two very different feelings of despair.
All I can say is that right then, the lies following me around were opened up, judged,
and... forgiven by his tears.
Huh?
Thank you.
Maybe I was really the one crying back then.
You're giving this to me?
Yes, I've always had it on me.
My grandmother gave it to me when I was young.
Why are you giving something so important to me?
I'm being admitted to the hospital.
Huh?
Roberto, I won't see you again.
I don't have long left to live.
That can't be true!
You're just sixteen years-
It's true! It's a miracle I've even lived to be sixteen!
No...
It's okay, Roberto.
I'm not afraid of dying at all.
Because I got to meet you.
May the blessings of God be with you.
You haven't met him since then.
That's right. That was the last time I spoke with Roberto.
But inside that library, I left bookmarks inside every book I loved, that I wanted Roberto to read.
I wrote to him in a code only we understand, along with my thoughts on the book.
One day, he'll find one of those books.
When he finished reading it, he'll see my thoughts written on the bookmark.
Then he'll look for another book with a bookmark.
That's how we'll meet again, and our conversations will continue... through the books.
The flower of sacrament...
Shining the tiniest light in the dark.
Sacrament in Christianity means "the hidden grace of God."
I know without a doubt that that's what Roberto was to me.
He was the one who helped me overcome my fear and despair.
If you are reading this book, please find your own sacrament.
Then I'm sure that you will have a rich life, no matter what moment you find yourself in.
"My own sacrament..."
That's...
That has to be...
Blood pressure dropping!
His pulse is growing weak!
Prep the defibrillator and the ventilator!
Doctor, it may be too late...
Bro...ther...
The priest is here!
Don't fall asleep!
Just in time!
Ryota! You fought your way through!
Brother...?
Thank the Lord...
Brother, I missed you.
I missed you so much.
Me too, Ryota!
What happened last night was truly a miracle.
If your friend from the Vatican hadn't arrived...
My... friend?
Yes, his name was Julia.
Julia Michael Borje!
I've brought the new drug.
Can it really save him?
It's not in clinical trials yet.
I understand that consent from the patient or their family is required, but this is an emergency.
Will you allow me take care of him?
He said that you'd asked him to come... was that not true?
Ah, um...
Brother?
Oh, I'm... alright.
Roberto, Ryota's woken up.
Thank goodness.
He's being moved to a hospital room, so let's join him together.
Yeah.
What is it?
Oh, nothing.
Go ahead and say hello to Ryota.
Sure.
Ryota.
Nice to meet you, Ryota. I'm your brother's friend...
That's yours.
Huh?
That belongs to you.
This notebook, too.
Sorry, I've gotta step out for a second.
Roberto?
Brother.
Now I finally know.
My purpose wasn't to pray for those who are dying.
It was to deliver prayers from the dying to the living.
I need to find not just my own sacrament,
but the many flowers of sacrament for others,
and give them to those many people.
That's my purpose...
The person who gave me that purpose was...
Roberto, you are my flower of sacrament.
I pray that you are happy.
I am always watching over you.
May I sit next to you?
Yeah, of course.
Umm... what is that notebook?
A miracle.
It's a miracle.
Maybe it was a miracle that saved Ryota, too.
Should we ask the Vatican to investigate it?
What would you do?
I wouldn't.
I don't want to put a blessed miracle from God through such a strict examination.
I agree.
Besides, the one thing we can do right now,
is offer our thanks to the Lord God.