YuYuYui - Apocrypha - 2

Hitch your wagon to a star - 1

Yuz: (The sky is blue.)

Yuz: (This is the 29th year since the monsters known as Stardust and Vertexes have brought ruin to the world.)

Yuz: (And the 29th year since a "wall" encompassing Shikoku has been erected in order to protect it from this threat.)

Yuz: (We humanity, although not many of us are left, diligently strive to live, every day, under Shikoku's narrow sky.)

[Mountains]

Fuy: Haa, haa... Not enough, I need more, more! I have money! Please! Give me more, Yuzuki-kun!

Fuy: Give me more helium. There's not enough to inflate those balloons!

Yuz: (We diligently strive... Except her, Fuyou Lilienthal Yuuna.)

Yuz: Yeah, wait a second. I'm putting in the helium.

Fuy: Good, it's inflating, it's inflating!

Fuy: According to my plans, 10 jumbo balloons filled with helium have enough buoyancy to counter my body weight!

Fuy: I'll fly in the sky with balloons! Go over the wall, and see the world beyond Shikoku with my own eyes!

Yuz: Haaa...

Fuy: Ooooh, my body's lifting up! It's finally time! Just a little more, Yuzuki-kun!

Yuz: Aah, okay, okay.

Fuy: During the previous era, people flew around with balloons for over a thousand kilometers! And the time has come to do it again!

Fuy: Uwaaaah! Flying is really scary! I can't do this, get me down, Yuzuki-kun!!

Yuz: Aah, okay, okay.

Fuy: Haa, haa... Back on the ground... So scary... Let's forget about flying with balloons...

Yuz: I guessed as much...

Fuy: But I won't give up!! I will keep the Hero Club activities going! Until the day we can finally go over the wall around Shikoku!

Yuz: Making it sound cool doesn't change that the Hero Club is just an unofficial association. And you're the only member.

Fuy: You're one too!

Yuz: I just help out. I'm not a member.

Fuy: Mgggh... I'm hoping you'll become a true member one day.

Yuz: You can keep on dreaming.

Yuz: (The objective of Lily's "Hero Club" is to go over Shikoku's wall and see the outside world for herself... I guess.)

Yuz: (She doesn't believe the real reason for the world's destruction to be the Vertexes.)


Hitch your wagon to a star - 2

[Kanonji city]

Fuy: Unfortunately, today's plan failed, but I have other ideas to fly over the wall!

Fuy: Never leave business unfinished. Let's do it again tomorrow. All right? Yuzuki-kun.

Yuz: I'm bored during summer vacation anyway, I don't mind.

Fuy: Hmhm, you act cold and disinterested but you always follow me. What a tsundere.

Yuz: Can it and go home.

Fuy: Ah, I almost forgot, your pay for helping out today.

Yuz: I already told you I don't need a pay. Even if I did, you could give me less.

Fuy: That's just easy money I made back when I was in show business. I want you to use it on something meaningful to you.

Yuz: ...

Fuy: (Yuzuki-kun is someone who's willing to help me with my impossible task of "going over Shikoku's wall", and those people are hard to come by.)

Fuy: (We first met just before summer vacation.)

Fuy: (That day, I was giving away a ton of fliers at school so I could recruit people who wanted to go over the wall to the "Hero Club".)

Fuy: (And the only one who called me as a result of this was Yuzuki Yuuna-kun.)

Fuy: (I made her go through a test to see if she was fit to join the Hero Club.)

Fuy: (As her test, she had to decipher a code I gave her to finally find where I was.)

Fuy: (I went to where the code was hinting at in advance, then waited for Yuzuki-kun.)

[Mountains]

Fuy: Waaaaah! Climbing this mountain was good and all, but the cliffs on the way back scare me and I can't go down!!

Fuy: Why did I have to make this code say to come here!?

Fuy: (What now, what now, what now...? If the sun sets, I'll be stuck here for sure...)

Fuy: (Aaaah, help meeeee!)

Yuz: ...Hey.

Fuy: !

Fuy: (Is she... Yuzuki Yuuna-san?)

Yuz: ...

Fuy: I've been waiting. I'm impressed that you figured out what my words meant and got all the way here.

Fuy: (I wished for her to come and save me, and she did. Ever since that day, Yuzuki-kun has been like a hero to me.)

Fuy: See you tomorrow, Yuzuki-kun.

Yuz: Yeah, later.


Hitch your wagon to a star - 3

[Kanonji Middle school - Hallway]

Yuz: (Mh? There's something on the school's bulletin board...)

Yuz: ("People who have an unflinching conviction that we are unaware of the truth of this world, come join me"...)

Yuz: That's Lily...

Yuz: No wonder people treat her as a weirdo if she makes fishy posters like this...

Female student 1: What's this weird poster? Some dubious stuff?

Female student 2: Ah, this, that's probably Fuyou Yuuna-san.

Female student 2: We don't talk often, but she's always saying strange stuff like the truth's hidden from us.

Female student 1: Eeh, she's pretty cringy.

Female student 2: Right. She's small and cute so she's treated as a mascot, but people actually avoid her.

Female student 2: Even though she's called "Yuuna", that's a shame.

Yuz: ...

Yuz: ("Yuuna" is a special name. It comes from a hero of the previous era, "Takashima Yuuna".)

Yuz: (Without the name "Yuuna", we would just be regular weirdos, "Even though she's called Yuuna", is a common line in our lives.)

[Rooftop]

Fuy: The plan to use balloons to fly didn't end well!

Fuy: That's why this time, we'll do it again but with a glider.

Yuz: A glider?

Fuy: It's something people get inside and jump from a high place to glide.

Fuy: You can fly for tens or even hundreds of kilometers with this, making it possible to fly over the Seto Inland Sea and the wall!

Yuz: ...

Yuz: I just checked it on my phone, gliders sell for tens up to hundreds million yens.

Fuy: W-We can make one ourselves!

Yuz: With absolute determination and a couple of years, we may be able to build it...

Yuz: But that's unreasonable, let's stop.

Fuy: I won't, I'm not stopping! No one will break my resolve!

Yuz: Haa...

Yuz: (If she was more normal, Lily would live much happier.)

Yuz: (If only she didn't dream of seeing what's beyond the wall.)


Hitch your wagon to a star - 4

[Ariake beach]

Fuy: 3... 2... 1... Start!

Fuy: Wooooh...! Taaaaah!

Fuy: Gyaaaah! It hurts!

Yuz: ...That was an impressive head slide... Are you hurt?

Fuy: Uuh... I'm okay... I just scratched my knee a little...

Fuy: Aaah!? The hang glider is broken! I worked so hard to make this!

Yuz: That's not something fixing will help with.

Yuz: By the way, if you didn't fly, does it mean it wasn't even well made?

Fuy: Hmm, I guess...

Fuy: I thought making a simple hang glider would be easier than buying or making a glider...

Fuy: Not anyone can just make one from following an example...

Yuz: But I feel that realistically speaking, the possibility of going over the wall is greater than with a glider.

Fuy: ...! Yes, yes! Just gotta do it again.

Fuy: It was common for even hang gliders to fly for over 100 kilometers.

Fuy: That should be more than enough to fly over the Seto Inland Sea!

Yuz: Aah, guess so.

Fuy: Then we'll have the proof! That Vertexes and Stardust don't exist outside the wall!

Yuz: (People like us born during the Divine era never saw what the world on the other side of the wall was like.)

Yuz: (Lily insists Vertexes and Stardust don't exist outside the wall.)

Yuz: (I don't believe Lily is capable of going over Shikoku's wall...)

Fuy: Let's resume tomorrow, Yuzuki-kun!

Yuz: Aah, sure.

Yuz: (I'll stay with her a little while longer.)

Yuz: (But one day, she'll have to give up on that reckless dream.)