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- Another Me
- 1.1
- [in the abandoned museum]
- Mifuyu: "The nameless AI has disappeared."
- "We must be more careful with the other rumors."
- Tsukuyo: "I beg you for your forgiveness!"
- Tsukasa: "Everything we've done has been worthless!"
- Mifuyu: "I thought you did well with the website, though."
- "I won't blame you for what happened."
- "In fact, I'm glad you've been working so hard."
- Tsukuyo: "But I wonder..."
- "Why are those people so fixated on rumors?"
- Tsukasa: "If they just left well enough alone, they would be eventually be freed."
- Tsukuyo: "Right?"
- Mifuyu: "Iroha, for one, is looking for her younger sister."
- "It seems she found a lead in the rumors."
- Tsukuyo: "Looking for her younger sister?"
- Mifuyu: "Yes."
- "Lately, she's become aware of the existence of a younger sister and she has been continually searching for her."
- Tsukuyo: "That... reminds me of us."
- Tsukasa: "Right?"
- Mifuyu: "Indeed, it does."
- "It does remind me of how the two of you used to be."
- Tsukasa: "How nostalgic, Tsukuyo-chan."
- Tsukuyo: "I agree, Tsukasa-chan."
- Tsukasa: "Yeah, we didn't know about each other."
- Tsukuyo: "Right?"
- Alina: "What, are we talking about the twins?"
- Tsukuyo: "A-Alina-san!"
- Alina: "I'm a bit curious, you see."
- "I don't know about your past or about your wishes."
- Tsukasa: "B-but we can't just tell you so easily..."
- Alina: "If you tell me, I'll let you off easy this time."
- Tsukasa: "Ueh... Tsukuyo-chan..."
- Tsukuyo: "Tsukasa-chan..."
- Alina: "All of a sudden, your flutes..."
- "Might become my favorite pigment..."
- Tsukuyo: "!?"
- "A-alright, we understand!"
- Tsukasa: "Nothing we can do, Tsukuyo-chan."
- Tsukuyo: "Yeah..."
- "Then, I will speak about my past."
- Tsukasa: "I'll tell my story too..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *It might be a bit long, but may I start with my life story? If I don't, the story won't come across properly...*
- 1.2
- [gray screen]
- Tsukasa: *This is something that happened quite a while ago.*
- *Before I met Tsukuyo-chan for the first time, I was far busier doing errands and chores for the workshop.*
- [in a classroom]
- Tsukasa: "..."
- [gray screen]
- Tsukasa: *5... 4... 3... 2...*
- *1!*
- [back to the classroom]
- teacher: "Well then, supplementary lessons are over for today."
- Tsukasa: "Alright!"
- [she dashes away]
- teacher: "Amane!"
- "Don't run in the hallways!"
- [on a busy street]
- Tsukasa: (No matter how much you tell me, I have to handle my family finances.)
- (I can't stop just because you tell me not to run!)
- "Alright, let's go, Granny Bike No. 10!"
- "Today we're aiming for the Mizuna Ward supermarket!"
- girl: "Hey, Tsukasa!"
- Tsukasa: "Oh!"
- "What's up?"
- girl: "I waited for your supplementary lessons to be over. Want to come hang out?"
- Tsukasa: "Uhh..."
- "I'm glad you're always inviting me, but I can't go today either..."
- "I have to go pretty far for an errand today..."
- girl: "Even today? You really are pretty boring..."
- Tsukasa: "I have to take care of all our live-in apprentices, you know..."
- "So I live a much tougher home life than normal."
- girl: "Is that really something for a kid to be doing? Isn't that wrong?"
- Tsukasa: "The guys don't help out at all, so if I don't do it, nobody will."
- "If I don't do this, there won't be anywhere for me."
- girl: "I don't really get it, but why don't you just run away?"
- Tsukasa: "I can't do that."
- girl: "This can't be good for you..."
- Tsukasa: "I'm fine, don't worry."
- "I can overcome anything with just a smile!"
- girl: "..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *In the workshops of the Artisan Ward, the men do the work and in exchange the women must keep house.*
- *That's the outdated tradition my family's Amane Bamboo Workshop has always gone by.*
- [At a street in Mizuna Ward]
- Tsukasa: "pant... pant..."
- "Even I want to go hang out too..."
- "...Really, what am I doing..."
- 1.3
- [gray screen]
- Tsukasa: *In the workshops of the Artisan Ward, the men do the work and in exchange the women must keep house.*
- *That outdated tradition was driven bit by bit into my mind and body.*
- [in the kitchen]
- Tsukasa: "Alright..."
- "For the time being, I won't have to worry about having enough ingredients."
- "Next, I have to do the laundry and prepare dinner."
- "If I hang it up while dinner is stewing... Yeah, I should be able to do my assignments!"
- [insert picture of Tsukasa hanging up laundry with a big smile]
- Tsukasa: "Someone left change in their pockets? It's gotta be Take-san..."
- "And this has tissues left in it? Probably Ryou-san..."
- "Couldn't they be a little more considerate of me..."
- "Ahh... it pisses me off..."
- "Weather it with a smile, Tsukasa! Alright, last one!"
- [back to the kitchen]
- Tsukasa: "Alright, everything's going well."
- "Now, I have to do my homework before the guys finish their work..."
- Tsukasa's father: "We're back!"
- apprentice: "Coming through."
- Tsukasa: "Huh!? Aren't you early?"
- Tsukasa's father: "Everyone was cutting really well today, so I decided to let them eat earlier."
- "We'll do the rest later."
- Tsukasa: "But... dinner isn't ready yet..."
- Tsukasa's father: "sigh..."
- "As the daughter of this house, shouldn't you be able to foresee this?"
- Tsukasa: "Wha—"
- (What!? Nobody told me anything!)
- (No way I can meet every one of their whims.)
- (I do respect my father, though, of course...)
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *Ah, it's no good...*
- *snap*
- [back to the kitchen]
- Tsukasa: "Why don't you help out around the house a little then!?"
- Tsukasa's father: "That's a woman's job!"
- Tsukasa: "There it is! You always say that!"
- "Isn't that why mom left you!?"
- Tsukasa's father: "Don't talk about that woman!"
- apprentice: "Um, Tsukasa-chan... I'll help out if you need it..."
- Tsukasa: "This has nothing to do with you, Take-san!"
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *Every day, every day, chores all the time... And a ridiculous amount too, because of how many people there are...*
- *Working like this all the time, a smile alone can't keep me going, and I start to lose a sense of myself.*
- [insert image of Tsukasa's flute laying across its bag]
- Tsukasa: *At times like this, I'm always saved by the bamboo flute that I received when I was little.*
- *When I'm sad or feeling down, or feeling angry, I go to play my flute.*
- *Since I don't have time to hang out with friends, this is my greatest source of relief.*
- [battle]
- [gray screen]
- Tsukasa: *Somehow, playing the flute would bring me warmth and comfort.*
- *I always went to the same place, a shrine a ways off.*
- [fade in an image of the shrine]
- Tsukasa: *What am I anyway? Am I a maid for the workshop?*
- *In order to forget my anger and sadness, when my heart is utterly empty, I go to that shrine, and once more I can recover my sense of self.*
- *That shrine is special, because it is the place where I was named...*
- *Also, on the way to that shrine is when I met that person.*
- *She saved me, and one reason why I reunited with Tsukuyo-chan.*
- [nighttime street scene]
- Tsukasa: "sigh... I should have ridden my bike..."
- ???: "Excuse me, that girl over there."
- Tsukasa: "..."
- ???: "Um, you over there."
- Tsukasa: "Huh... me?"
- [A girl with white hair and a black uniform shows up]
- ???: "Yes, you."
- Tsukasa: "What do you need from me?"
- ???: "You're looking pretty down, so you'd better be careful."
- Tsukasa: "...?"
- ???: "In the twilight hours, when the sky grows dark..."
- "If you're too depressed, you'll be eaten by a witch."
- Tsukasa: "Huh?"
- ???: "Basically, cheer up."
- [scene change to the shrine]
- Tsukasa: (Who was that person?)
- (I'll be eaten by a witch?)
- "How strange."
- [screen wipe]
- [We see a girl who looks awfully similar, in a purple and white outfit...]
- [screen wipe again]
- Tsukasa: "Well, I probably shouldn't worry about it."
- "..."
- (Mm, what a nice wind.)
- (All these dark feelings will flow away with the sound of my flute.)
- "...?"
- [flashback to the girl in purple and white]
- Tsukasa: "Huh?"
- "Did I... just pass by myself?"
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *That was probably the first time I met Tsukuyo-chan.*
- *And the beginning of what led to our wishes.*
- Tsukasa (aloud): "Who was that? She looked just like me."
- That Scary Girl
- 2.1
- [flashback showing the girl in purple and white]
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *At the shrine, I passed by a girl who looked just like me.*
- *Before I found out that it was Tsukuyo-chan, I was lost in thought about it.*
- [switch to a classroom scene]
- Tsukasa: (That girl looked just like me. It was like looking in a mirror...)
- "Hm..."
- girl: "Tsukkasa~, something's on your mind?"
- Tsukasa: "Huh?"
- girl: "Normally you dash off right after school, so I was surprised to see you still here."
- Tsukasa: "Ah, I screwed up..."
- girl: "Are you getting sick or something?"
- Tsukasa: "I was just thinking about something..."
- girl: "About your family?"
- Tsukasa: "No, yesterday, something strange happened to me."
- girl: "Something strange?"
- [screen wipe]
- Tsukasa: "And so..."
- "I was shocked because she looked entirely too much like me..."
- "It was night, so I thought it might be a ghost or just some kind of misunderstanding..."
- girl: "A ghost, huh..."
- "If so, it might be a doppelgänger."
- Tsukasa: "Oh, I've heard of those."
- girl: "If you see another copy of yourself, you'll die..."
- Tsukasa: "Wha?"
- girl: "Well, it's just a joke."
- Tsukasa: "...you'll die?"
- girl: "I-I'm sorry! You don't have to believe it!"
- Tsukasa: "..."
- "I'm going home..."
- girl: "What about supplementary lessons!?"
- Tsukasa: "Hmm..."
- 2.2
- [on the street]
- Tsukasa: "..."
- [flashback to the girl in purple in white]
- Tsukasa: (There's no way there'd be someone else who looks that much like me...)
- (It's gotta be a doppelgänger... I might... die...)
- "What should I do..."
- (Dad and the apprentices can't do any housework...)
- (Before I die, I need to tell them where I keep the emergency food...)
- "In the first place, I don't wanna die..."
- [the white-haired girl shows up]
- ???: "You're looking just as down as you were last night, huh."
- Tsukasa: "Huh?"
- "You're the one... from yesterday..."
- ???: "Yes, the one from yesterday."
- Tsukasa: "Again, what do you need?"
- ???: "I don't need anything, I was just concerned about you."
- "After all, if you worry too much..."
- "When dusk falls, you'll be eaten by a witch."
- Tsukasa: "You told me that yesterday... What do you mean by that?"
- "Are you recruiting for some kind of cult?"
- ???: "Oh, is that what it looks like?"
- "Alright, there are no witches, please forget I said it."
- Tsukasa: "Huh?"
- ???: "Whatever the case, it's not good to worry too much."
- "The burden on your mind will have an effect on your body as well."
- Tsukasa: "...If I could solve my problems that easily, I wouldn't be worrying..."
- ???: "Hm."
- "Then why don't we go have tea together?"
- "I'm sure if we talked it through, we could come up with an answer."
- Tsukasa: "Wait!"
- "But I don't even know you yet."
- ???: "My name is Izumi Kanagi. Now you know me."
- Tsukasa: "I don't have any money either!"
- Kanagi: "What a coincidence, I don't have any either."
- Tsukasa: "Huh!?"
- Kanagi: "But I have enough for some juice from a vending machine."
- [scene change to a park]
- Kanagi: "Ohh, a doppelgänger... What a fascinating experience."
- Tsukasa: "It may be impressive, but I might die here..."
- Kanagi: "Well then, why don't you go meet her again?"
- Tsukasa: "Huh?"
- Kanagi: "Apparently, in the world there are three people who look just like you."
- "She might be one of them, you know."
- Tsukasa: "But..."
- Kanagi: "If you're going to die anyway, why not go out fighting back?"
- Tsukasa: "You might be right."
- Kanagi: "Yep."
- "If it really is a doppelgänger, then just beat it up!"
- "You'll be fine with all the housework you've done."
- "You're probably stronger than the average girl."
- Tsukasa: "What a strange way of encouraging me."
- Kanagi: "You think so?"
- "If you say so, maybe it is."
- "Well, what will you do?"
- Tsukasa: "I'll go to see her once more."
- Kanagi: "That's good conviction. It's best for people not to worry."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *And so, while talking with Kanagi-san, I decided to once more go to the shrine.*
- *To ascertain its true form...*
- 2.3
- [gray screen]
- Tsukasa: *Although I made up my mind while talking to Kanagi-san, my heart was beating so hard it felt like it would leap out of my throat...*
- [at the shrine, with the wind blowing]
- Tsukasa: "sigh... Will it be okay?"
- (I ended up coming...)
- (If we meet again, will I die immediately?)
- (Ah, my legs are shaking...)
- [the screen darkens, but we still see Tsukasa]
- Tsukasa: *That's right, look at your feet and walk. Even if we meet, I don't have to see her face when we talk...*
- *...*
- [she bumps into someone]
- [back to the shrine, with Tsukasa and the girl in purple and white]
- Tsukasa: "Ah, sorr—"
- ???: "..."
- Tsukasa: "..."
- both: "It appeared!!!"
- both: "I'm so sorry!"
- both: "Please don't kill me!"
- both: "We're saying the same things!?"
- both: "I knew it, it's my doppelgänger!"
- both: "sob sob sob"
- Tsukasa: (Now I've gotta pull myself together...)
- (If we both have the same name, then I'll be in a pinch!)
- "Hey, are you also... Amane Tsukasa?"
- ???: "Huh?"
- "..."
- "My name is Akidzuki Tsukuyo..."
- Tsukasa: (It's different...)
- [screen wipe]
- Tsukuyo: "To think that not just our appearances but our names are so similar, it's marvelous!"
- Tsukasa: "That's right!"
- Tsukuyo: "Amane-san, why do you come here?"
- Tsukasa: "I come here often when I'm tired."
- Tsukuyo: "The same is true with me!"
- Tsukasa: "Really!?"
- "Strange things happen in the shrine at night, huh."
- Tsukuyo: "Actually, I was named at this shrine."
- Tsukasa: "Huh? I was also named here!"
- Tsukuyo: "Are you serious!?"
- "..."
- Tsukasa: (To think we were this similar... this is weird...)
- (She's probably my doppelgänger...)
- Tsukuyo: "U-um..."
- Tsukasa: (Uwah, she's saying something...)
- (Tsukasa, make a fist... And then plant your feet...)
- (Ueh, but I won't stop shaking... for now I'll just answer...)
- "Y-yeah..."
- Tsukuyo: "What did you come here to do..."
- Tsukasa: "Should we say it on a count of three?"
- Tsukuyo: "Sure..."
- "Three, two, one..."
- both: "To play flute!"
- both: "!?"
- Tsukasa: (I knew it, she's my doppelgänger!?)
- (Now I gotta do this sharply...)
- (No, she's definitely gonna kill me...)
- (Then I need a way to distract her...)
- Tsukasa: "Aah, look, there's a Tasmanian Devil!" [Tsukuyo says something too]
- (With the same speed as dashing away after school!)
- [they bump into each other]
- both: "Ouch! My forehead..."
- Tsukuyo: "Ah, I dropped my flute..."
- Tsukasa: "Huh? That flute..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *At that time, we realized it.*
- *The flutes we dropped were the same, but with a small difference.*
- [insert image of Tsukasa's flute laying across its bag]
- Tsukasa: *The design of the flutes was the same, and they both had Dad's inscription on them.*
- *But just the half-moon marks painted on the flutes were drawn facing in opposite directions.*
- *I had always wondered if it was supposed to be a pickled radish, or a fish paste strip, or something else.*
- *But when we lined Tsukuyo-chan's flute up with mine, I finally realized its true form.*
- [back to the shrine]
- Tsukuyo: "A full moon..."
- Tsukasa: "You are Tsukuyo..." [月夜, the first character is moon]
- Tsukuyo: "And you are Tsukasa..." [月咲, the first character is moon]
- Tsukasa: "Two moons..."
- Tsukuyo: "No way... Are we... twins?"
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *And finally, my wariness of Tsukuyo-chan was dispelled.*
- [battle]
- [gray screen]
- Tsukasa: *After that, I talked with Tsukuyo-chan and learned that my mother is a Mizuna woman...*
- *And that Tsukuyo-chan's grandmother forbid her from coming to the Artisan Ward.*
- *We were probably twins hidden from each other.*
- *As we talked more, we both ended up exchanging our complaints about our families.*
- [back to the shrine]
- Tsukasa: "Isn't that crazy!? Coking, laundry, cleaning, managing money."
- "It's so old-fashioned!"
- "And yet nobody ever wants to help out!!"
- "Of course, I respect my father."
- "It's important and difficult work, and and I get that he has to support the apprentices."
- "But that doesn't have to do with me, does it!?"
- "All he ever says is 'That's a woman's job'. There's a limit to how backwards you can be!"
- Tsukuyo: "That's right."
- Tsukasa: "So even though I get invited to hang out with people, I can never go."
- "Even if I discuss with the people around me, nobody understands."
- "I do know that I'm the weird circumstances though."
- "Do you get it? This empty misery?"
- Tsukuyo: "Of course, I understand completely."
- "It seems we are even alike in our environments, to the point that we're like twins."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *Unlike the people at school, it really seemed like I was getting across to Tsukuyo-chan.*
- *I don't know why, but maybe we somehow thought that we were twins.*
- [back to the shrine]
- Tsukuyo: "Amane-san..."
- "Someday could we meet up again to talk?"
- Tsukasa: "You don't need to speak so formally to me."
- Tsukuyo: "Huh?"
- Tsukasa: "Right, Tsukuyo-chan?"
- Tsukuyo: "Ah..."
- "Yes, Tsukasa-chan!"
- [switch to overlooking view of the nighttime skyline]
- Tsukasa: *And so, we became friends in just one day, and exchanged contact information so we could meet again.*
- *Of course, I was afraid that my dad would notice if I put her name in, so I used a different name.*
- *Just like the flutes, together as one...*
- *I saved her as the symbol of a full moon, "●".*
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *However, this period of friendliness between us didn't last long...*
- *To the point that we made that wish...*
- [screen wipe]
- Tsukasa (aloud): "Dad, you should have told me..."
- And Then We Will Become Blank White
- 3.1
- [gray screen]
- Tsukasa: *After Tsukuyo-chan and I exchanged contact information, we would send each other messages and meet up every once in a while.*
- *When we would meet, we would bond over complaining about our families, a happy time in which we could clear our hearts.*
- *However, that did not continue for long...*
- *The more we met up and hung out, the more I began to notice parts of Tsukuyo-chan that I didn't like...*
- [in a restaurant]
- Tsukasa: "What's this tea, it's really tasty!!"
- Tsukuyo: "Your voice is too loud..."
- Tsukasa: "I-I'm sorry. By the way, how much does it cost?"
- Tsukuyo: "It's a thousand yen per cup."
- Tsukasa: "A thousand!? Just for putting leaves in hot water!?"
- Tsukuyo: "Come on, Tsukasa-chan!"
- "The employees can hear you, you know?"
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *I started to grow tired of Tsukuyo-chan's perfect manners and lack of flaws...*
- [On the street in a shopping district]
- Tsukuyo: "Shall we head over to that shop?"
- Tsukasa: "We're still students, you know? It's really expensive..."
- Tsukuyo: "You don't have to worry about that."
- Tsukasa: "It'd be like pearls before swine for students like us..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: "*And I started to feel like Tsukuyo-chan's excessive attention to her appearance was like boasting...*
- [in the train station]
- girl: "Ah, Akidzuki-senpai."
- "Is that girl with you perhaps a sibling of yours?"
- Tsukuyo: "No, she's a relative that I am close with."
- girl: "I see."
- "She has a very different feel compared to you, after all."
- Tsukuyo: "Yes, that is true."
- Tsukasa: (...What does she mean by 'after all'?)
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *When I saw Tsukuyo-chan talking with her acquaintances, I felt like I was just being used as a foil...*
- [switch to a street scene with small shops]
- Tsukasa: *The more we met up, the more noticeable our differences became.*
- *In hindsight, I was probably just feeling jealous.*
- *Even though the difference in status between our families was obvious, I was just being intolerant when I couldn't accept it.8
- *But at the time, I was growing to dislike Tsukuyo-chan, the only person I could tell my true feelings to, more and more.*
- *And in step with that, my dissatisfaction and anger kept gradually growing as well.*
- [In her kitchen]
- Tsukasa: "I'm home..."
- Tsukasa's father: "Lately, you've been coming home late. What's going on?"
- Tsukasa: "I've made a friend, that's all."
- Tsukasa's father: "I see, that's nice."
- Tsukasa: "Yeah, she lives somewhat far, so that's why I get back later."
- Tsukasa's father: "And even so, you still finish the chores. Not bad!"
- Tsukasa: "You think so?"
- Tsukasa's father: "However... Is that girl from Mizuna?"
- Tsukasa: "!?"
- "W-wh-how did you know?"
- Tsukasa's father: "If so, you should give up on it... Otherwise, you'll be on the same track I was..."
- Tsukasa: "W-wait a minute!"
- "This shouldn't have anything to do with you and mom!"
- Tsukasa's father: "It does."
- "We couldn't so easily bury the decades of differences in our upbringings."
- "It's too hard to cover it up with just affection."
- Tsukasa: "..."
- Tsukasa's father: "If you want to make friends from outside, think it over carefully."
- "Once your relationship gets warped, it will break and never be fixed again..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *When my dad told me that, my dissatisfaction and anger towards Tsukuyo-chan had already warped me.*
- *So my dad's words really hit close to home...*
- 3.2
- [gray screen]
- Tsukasa's father: "We couldn't so easily bury the decades of differences in our upbringings."
- "It's too hard to cover it up with just affection."
- "If you're going to make friends from outside, think it over carefully."
- "Once your relationship gets warped, it will break and never be fixed again..."
- [screen wipe]
- Tsukasa: *By that time, our relationship was already broken.*
- *So, my dissatisfaction and anger just built up over time...*
- *To the point where even the lightest pull of the trigger could make it all explode...*
- [fade in a scene at the base of the radio tower in the evening]
- Tsukasa: *So in the end, I wasn't able to hold it back.*
- [flashback to the scene with Tsukuyo and the girl]
- Tsukasa: *From the beginning, I was just a foil for Tsukuyo-chan. She showed off all these fancy places, just to increase my persecution complex.*
- *That led to me being the one to pull the trigger...*
- [back to the base of the radio tower]
- Tsukasa: "Hey, Tsukuyo-chan, I have something I want to ask you."
- Tsukuyo: "I also have something I would like to ask you too, Tsukasa-chan."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *And then once we pulled each other's trigger...*
- [back to the street]
- Tsukasa: "You've been giving me a strange look."
- Tsukuyo: "And you've been awfully mean, Tsukasa-chan."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *Tsukuyo-chan thought I was impolite.*
- *She thought I didn't pay enough attention to my appearance, and that I was a rough and violent person.*
- *Once our feelings became known, we had an intense argument.*
- *Bringing up the feelings that we had bottled up inside, saying everything without thinking of the consequences...*
- [back to the street]
- Tsukasa: "You're always so prim and proper and concerned with formality!"
- "Why don't you take a chill pill and relax once in a while!?"
- "It's stifling being around you!"
- Tsukuyo: "What you consider relaxed is no more than vulgarity!"
- "I've never asked for you to pay for any of this!"
- "At the very least, you could stand to reform your manners!"
- Tsukasa: "Reform!?"
- "If anything, your isolated lifestyle is farther from normal, Tsukuyo-chan."
- "Your behavior is the one that's more different from a normal girl!"
- "If you're so formal all the time, of course you'll have no friends!"
- Tsukuyo: "You say you have friends, Tsukasa-chan..."
- "But they're only friends on the surface, yoeu can't even tell them your true feelings!"
- Tsukasa: "Obviously, because there's no way they could understand what I've been going through!"
- Tsukuyo: "Then you should understand that I feel exactly the same way!"
- "I have my grandmother to deal with!"
- Tsukasa: "And I have my father and all the apprentices!"
- Tsukuyo: "pant... pant..."
- Tsukasa: "pant... pant..."
- Tsukuyo: "I don't want to see you anymore, Tsukasa-chan..."
- Tsukasa: "I've had enough too..."
- Tsukuyo: "In the end..."
- Tsukasa: "We're probably not twins after all..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *And thus, my time with Tsukuyo-chan ended, and the sympathy we felt for each other disappeared so quickly that it felt like it had been a lie...*
- [her father appears]
- Tsukasa's father: "We couldn't so easily bury the decades of differences in our upbringings."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *Just like dad said...*
- 3.3
- [gray screen]
- Tsukasa: *After parting with Tsukuyo-chan, we really did not contact each other or meet up...*
- *However, in exchange, my pent-up anger at my family began piling up again...*
- [in the kitchen]
- Tsukasa's father: "Oi, Tsukasa!"
- "This month we're over budget! What are you doing!?"
- Tsukasa: "..."
- apprentice: "Calm down, Master. Lately, vegetables have been expensive..."
- Tsukasa's father: "Then you should have said something beforehand! I can't take you shutting up like this!"
- Tsukasa: "..."
- apprentice: "See, take a look at the budget log. It's balanced properly."
- Tsukasa's father: "You butt out of this!"
- Tsukasa: "..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *snap*
- [back to the kitchen]
- Tsukasa: "Then, do whatever you want! Jeez!"
- [out on the street]
- Tsukasa: "..."
- (Let's skip the chores and go play flute...)
- "If I don't... I won't be able to keep up a smile..."
- (Ah, but Tsukuyo-chan might be at the shrine...)
- (Where else should I play...)
- [in front of a lake with a ferris wheel on the other side]
- "~~♪~~♪"
- "♪~~♪~~"
- "Ueh... It's no good..."
- "Why... Why is it!?"
- "..."
- "sniff..."
- "Tsukuyo-chan... I want to talk with you..."
- [flashback to her father in the kitchen]
- Tsukasa's father: "We couldn't so easily bury the decades of differences in our upbringings."
- [back to the lake]
- Tsukasa: (Like this, we won't be able to bury our differences...)
- (But if this continues, I'm going to die...)
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *Even though I was playing my flute, my heart would not be soothed...*
- *I knew the reason...*
- *It was because Tsukuyo-chan, the only person who ever understood me, was gone...*
- *I still yearned for the outlet to my frustrations, which I had already found once...*
- *And lost in my melancholy, I heard a voice...*
- *"You can't go back anymore."*
- *"You mustn't let yourself be killed."*
- *"Just take it easy."*
- *"You might as well die instead of being a slave."*
- [back to the lake]
- Tsukasa: "Yeah... That's right..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *Now that I think about it, that was definitely the voice of a witch...*
- *And then I woke up...*
- [a witch barrier dispelling]
- [We see Kanagi, in a fancy outfit]
- Kanagi: "Hmm, are you alright?"
- Tsukasa: "Huh? I..."
- Kanagi: "I see, you don't remember."
- "You were lured in by a witch and tried to throw yourself into the lake."
- Tsukasa: "A witch?"
- Kanagi: "Hm. Witches were from some religion."
- "Then, that wasn't it."
- "Yes, it was a monster, yeah."
- Tsukasa: "How strange..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *At the time, I suddenly became lightheaded, and I felt the sensation of falling over.*
- *The last thing I heard was Kanagi's voice saying, "I give up."*
- *Until I woke up, I was deep in the world of dreams...*
- [battle]
- [in her kitchen, in her dreams]
- Tsukasa's father: "Hey, Tsukasa, hurry up and get the food ready."
- Tsukasa: "..."
- apprentice: "Tsukasa-chan, sorry, I got my clothes all dirty."
- Tsukasa: "Please stop..."
- Tsukasa's father: "I know we're barely making it, but please fit this in."
- Tsukasa: "There's obviously no way I can do that..."
- apprentice: "Huh? Sorry, was that the backup food? I was kinda hungry so I ate it."
- Tsukasa: "Don't screw with me..."
- Tsukasa's father: "Women in an artisan workshop..."
- Tsukasa: "Shut up!"
- "I can't take it anymore!"
- "Someone save me... save me!"
- [Tsukuyo appears]
- Tsukuyo: "Tsukasa-chan!"
- Tsukasa: "Tsukuyo-chan..."
- Tsukuyo: "Here, take my hand!"
- Tsukasa: "...Okay."
- [the dream world changes to the shrine]
- Tsukuyo: "Are you alright, Tsukasa-chan?"
- Tsukasa: "..."
- Tsukuyo: "Tsukasa-chan?"
- "You're fine now. You can let go of my hand."
- Tsukasa: "..."
- "This is so nostalgic..."
- [the background disappears]
- Tsukasa: "Huh? A... dream?"
- [fade to gray]
- someone: *"The first childbirth he was in charge of was you two."*
- someone: *"Apparently, when you were first born, you held each other's hands, and that left a big impression on the doctor..."*
- [Tsukasa shows up]
- Tsukasa: "Huh?"
- "Is that... true?"
- [fade to gray again]
- someone: *"When I was first born... I held Tsukasa-chan's hand..."*
- [Tsukasa reappears]
- Tsukasa: "This voice... Tsukuyo-chan..."
- "That's right..."
- "That's gotta be right, Tsukuyo-chan..."
- "In my dream, I was holding your hand, Tsukuyo-chan..."
- "It was so comfortable..."
- (I'm sorry, Tsukuyo-chan...)
- (I got angry at such trivial things...)
- (Even though back then, we accepted each other...)
- (And now, if we don't accept each other, we can't survive...)
- "Ah, I..."
- "I want to become blank white..."
- [in the hospital]
- Tsukasa: "..."
- "Tsukuyo-chan..."
- Tsukuyo: "Tsukasa-chan..."
- Tsukasa: "I think I heard..."
- "We're actually... twins..."
- Tsukuyo: "Yeah..."
- Tsukasa: "Hey, Tsukuyo-chan, why don't we just throw everything away..."
- Tsukuyo: "Huh?"
- Tsukasa: "Our status and our upbringing, get rid of it all."
- "Start with a blank white page, and once more, support each other..."
- "If we don't, then we'll both be crushed by adults..."
- Tsukuyo: "Yeah... I was thinking the same thing."
- "Start over from before we received our names at the shrine..."
- "From the moment we were born, brand new, when we held each other's hands."
- "I want to start over again."
- (I've talked with her more than anyone else, and right now my heart is at peace...)
- (It must be because she's my only twin in the whole world...)
- Tsukasa: "Then, once more, will you be my big sister?"
- Tsukuyo: "Yes..."
- "Will you once more become my little sister?"
- Tsukasa: "Yeah..."
- [fade to gray, and her father]
- Tsukasa's father: "We couldn't so easily bury the decades of differences in our upbringings."
- [back to the hospital]
- Tsukuyo: "But, no matter what we pledge..."
- "We might come to a point in time where we hate each other again..."
- "I don't think my heart..."
- Tsukasa: "Could take it anymore..."
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *And when my father's words began to make my conviction waver, it appeared.*
- [back to hospital]
- Kyubey: "Then why not have your pledge granted as a wish?"
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa: *And so, we changed our pledges turned into a wish: "I want us to never hate each other."*
- [back to the abandoned museum]
- Tsukuyo: "And that's the details of up until we made our wishes."
- Tsukasa: "Thinking back makes me feel nostalgic."
- Tsukuyo: "Right?"
- Mifuyu: "Really, I was quite surprised when I came back..."
- Alina: "Hmmmm. So that's what happened."
- "...I'm leaving."
- Tsukuyo: "You didn't like it!?"
- Tsukasa: "Forgive us for letting the rumor get beaten!"
- Alina: "I'm not going to do anything to you."
- "It's just that hearing your story made me want to make some artwork."
- "See you."
- Tsukasa: "sigh... Thank goodness..."
- Tsukuyo: "That's right..."
- Mifuyu: "Well then, why don't we leave then?"
- Tsukasa: "Alright."
- Tsukuyo: "Ah, Tsukasa-chan."
- Tsukasa: "What?"
- Tsukuyo: "It's been a while, so why don't we go play flute at the shrine on our way back?"
- Tsukasa: "Ah, great idea! Let's do it!"
- Tsukasa: "..."
- [insert image of Tsukasa's flute laying across its bag]
- Tsukasa: *I become sad whenever I'm away from you, so you're always by my side.*
- *No matter how long I stare at the scenery, you're still just a flute.*
- *O flute, what are you?*
- *A bridge connecting me to my distant sister.*
- [fade to gray]
- Tsukasa (aloud): "My only ally is Tsukuyo-chan. We'll always be together."
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