01x07 - Episode 7

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In 1522.

Erhard Brenz, who was a favorite

of his Uncle Nikola,

started living in Wittenberg

as a Latin teacher.

This is Erhard.

He's very talented.

Nikola offered to take care of Erhard

in all aspects of his life

and introduced him to everything.

One day, as Erhard was walking

along a road,

he discovered a hole floating in the air.

What is this?

Uncle Nikola!

What's wrong?

Right away,

Erhard told his uncle about

the floating hole and took him there.

However, he was unable

to find the hole again.

I swear there was a hole here.

The change in environment

must be making you tired.

Let me know if there's

anything you want me to do.

That night, Erhard wrote

a letter and left.

I will find out what

that mysterious hole was.

When I figure it out,

I want to let everyone know the details

through letterpress printing.

Since this event is not recorded

in any official documents

and due to the lack of a clear source,

it is not widely known.

Ms. Iguchi and Mr. Okamoto are

the only ones left now.

Do you know anyone

who entered the orifices

without telling anyone they were going to?

The people I knew mostly even

held their own farewell parties.

I don't know anyone

who entered the orifices.

Some people might've

just contacted a select few.

Some might've entered without me knowing.

Yes, maybe.

Can I go get some more food?

Or are you starting already?

-Go ahead.

-Thanks.

Can I make some soup too?

Oh.

Could you bring me some too?

Okay.

Should we make soup for everyone?

Who wants soup?

-I'll have some.

-Me too.

-Okay, let's make soup for everyone.

-Sounds good.

When I was in elementary school,

I used to challenge myself

with all sorts of things.

That's putting it positively.

How would you put it negatively?

I was acting without thinking.

-Oh.

-I see.

Everyone has moments like that.

At times, I've even thought to myself

that it might not be good.

There was a somewhat notorious lady

living on the lower floors

of the same apartment building as me.

She would shout out apartment numbers

from the first floor.

And Ms. Umemoto was this girl

who lived in the same apartment building

and was one year younger than me.

She and I would reply to that lady,

who would then chase after us.

Ms. Umemoto's parents were

good friends with my parents.

When Ms. Umemoto

entered elementary school,

her parents asked me

to walk to school with her.

I would tell her to move away

when a car came from behind,

and would act like an older sibling.

Once, I suggested a shortcut home and

we got lost in unfamiliar narrow streets.

Apartment number 813!

Apartment number 813!

Apartment number 813!

Don't you look down on me!

Did you hear that?

Uh-huh.

Yes?

You wait there!

Stay there! I'm coming up!

Don't move!

I'm taking the elevator!

I said don't move!

Don't move!

Hey!

It's that lady.

Just ignore her.

What's the matter?

Can you take out my trash?

What do you mean?

I have a bag of trash,

so can you take it out?

The trash disposal is on the first floor.

I want you to take it.

But

Your room is closer

to the trash disposal, Ms. Kobuchi.

Why don't you throw it away

on the way back to your room?

Don't answer the door when you're alone.

Okay.

From that day on,

Ms. Kobuchi started coming every day

to ask us to take out her trash.

Iguchi hadn't forgotten the promise

she'd made to her parents.

It was just that she was drawn

to the person standing in front of her.

Yes?

My phone's not working,

so I want you to take a look.

Can you take a look at it?

If you hadn't answered your door,

I would have set fire

to that kerosene heater.

This here isn't working.

Who do you want to call?

What do you care?

Then

Why are you always shouting out

apartment numbers?

I'm not interested in your curiosity.

I wonder why your phone isn't working.

If you don't know what's wrong, go home.

She was quiet today, wasn't she?

Yeah.

Although she knew she would get scolded,

Iguchi told her parents

about what had happened that day.

Why won't you listen to what I tell you?

I hope you didn't take

Ms. Umemoto with you.

A few days later,

the lady jumped from the building.

At first, my parents

didn't tell me about it.

I don't remember who told me

but I found out,

and I went with Ms. Umemoto

to see the place where she was found.

The place had indeed been cleaned.

But

Ms. Umemoto found

something resembling a stain.

We couldn't tell

if it was the lady's blood, though.

This was the first time I regretted it.

It was hard to forget, to say the least.

Was the stain clearly a bloodstain?

It wasn't exactly clear

but it was distinct.

It was blurred, though.

Because it was smudged.

That's why from then on,

I decided to not meddle in strange things.

Most people wouldn't want

to see the location it happened.

We'd never seen a dead body before,

so we just wanted to see one at that time.

Ms. Umemoto and I,

we wanted to see the corpse so badly.

Looking for body parts and stuff?

Exactly.

Want to go to karaoke?

Sure.

When Iguchi was

in her second year of high school,

there was a group she hung out with

almost every day.

They were a close-knit group.

At times, they dated within the group,

and at times, they dated people

outside the group.

Iguchi was no exception.

Where's Miki? Did you come alone?

Hm? Yeah

Today, I will start by explaining

what "isolationism" is.

First, take a look at the kanji.

"Closed country"

Did he reply?

Nope. Nothing.

From this day on,

Miki stopped coming to school.

A week passed,

and a rumor began spreading

among the students.

The rumor was that Miki had gone missing.

I don't know who started the rumor.

But my texts to him

didn't show any read receipts.

Ms. Iguchi

Is your son there?

We don't know where he is either.

Did he really disappear?

We don't know.

Sorry.

It wasn't like he'd moved away.

But I got the vibe

that I shouldn't ask any further.

From then on,

my group of friends expressed

feelings of sadness for a while.

But with time, we started to forget.

It took a year.

Since we'd been dating,

his disappearance did make me sad.

Sometimes, we remembered him

and shared the sadness together.

We wondered aloud what he was doing

and if he was well.

But I

I just assumed that he hadn't gone missing

and that he actually was at home.

What?

The mind.

-Oh, the mind.

-Right.

Whose?

Mine.

What I'm saying is,

I made up my mind.

Will you go out with me?

What?

I've thought it over,

considering the situation and all.

Don't you think it's pointless

to wait for him?

He doesn't get back to you,

he's not at his house

I think it'd be better for you to forget

and move on to the next relationship.

But we haven't talked yet

about breaking up or anything.

The current situation

doesn't really seem like

you're in a relationship, don't you think?

It's about the two of us,

so I can't just decide on my own

that we've broken up, right?

What are your feelings towards me?

Well

But

It was neither a yes nor a no.

Right away, Iguchi confided in Umemoto,

who was a year younger than her.

I think you should wait for Miki.

Umemoto had grown into someone

who could provide incredibly calm advice

in situations like these.

But if we go on like this without meeting,

I'm just going to be

in a one-sided relationship forever.

Hm

Want me to find out

if he has a student job?

She could say things like this too.

Leave it all to me.

Thank you, that would be great.

But if it turns out

that he considers us broken up,

maybe I should say "yes" to Yamashita.

You said you weren't that into him.

However, time passed by

without Iguchi and Umemoto

being able to gather any information.

There was only so much we could do.

Wait!

What is it?

Oh, nothing.

I thought I'd booked a shift

at my student job today.

Turns out it wasn't the case.

Where are we going to celebrate?

How about karaoke, bowling,

then all-you-can-eat?

-Cool.

-Sounds good.

Karaoke first.

What? Karaoke first?

Miki texted me

asking if we could meet

for the first time in a while.

Since I had been putting off

giving Yamashita an answer

Hey, Iguchi.

Here.

I replied to Miki with the location

of my favorite café.

She made a note of the things she wanted

to ask Miki, so she wouldn't forget.

Where had he been all this time?

What had he been doing?

Iguchi and Miki stayed in touch

until the day they were going to meet.

Although Miki stopped responding at times.

In the end,

he never showed up

no matter how many hours I waited.

Five hours after the time we'd set,

Miki sent me one text message.

"It sucks that you had

your friend look into me."

That's what his text said.

It turned out he got involved

in some shady work

and ended up doing some time

in a juvenile detention center.

-Oh

-Okay

When he found out that Ms. Umemoto

and I had been looking into him,

he thought we'd found out

about his shady part-time job.

We had no idea, though.

I guess he wanted to know

if I'd mentioned it to our other friends.

Of course, I haven't seen Miki since.

That's it.

How should I write that?

I'll write it later.

I realized you can't be

with the person you love forever.

I never thought I'd get dumped like that.

Well, as long as you have

the wish to see a corpse

Oh, that wish is already gone.

Now it's your turn, Mr. Okamoto.

Yes.

Iguchi knew from Umemoto

that Miki had entered the orifices

but there was no record of it.

However, it was recorded

that Umemoto followed suit

after Iguchi entered the orifices.

Subtitle translation by:

Mariko Yasuoka-Sator

I still remember a dream I had

when I was in elementary school.

Ever since that dream,

I've been living with

a feeling of constant mental fog.

You're not entering

the orifices, Mr. Ozawa?