01x16 - I want to talk about now.

[bunniefuu]

Listen up, Erika-chan.

This is a secret mission.

Roger.

Detectives Erika and Sachi!

Move out!

Nikoniko Market

There she is.

Why is she buying so much food?

Suspicious.

Hiro-chan said she makes her own lunches.

She picked it up.

Suspicious.

Thanks for that.

Wasn't it a lot of work?

No, I'm sure someone's looking for it.

Higashieki Police Box

She's meeting up with a guy.

And he's hot!

I figured it was something like that.

I guess he was just hitting on her.

Please take me

See that? She abandons it.

So cute!

I'm so moved!

Mandarins

Why?

How?

She buys her own supplies for

lunch and cooks for herself.

She delivers a lost 100-yen coin to the police.

She turns down a good-looking guy.

She saves abandoned cats,

and she's even nice to kids.

What

Who is she?

Something's wrong with her.

This can't be real.

Hey, Sachi-chan

She's way too good.

Just throwing this out there

Perhaps we aren't detectives so much as stalkers.

St—

No, I'm not.

You totally look like a

stalker right now, though.

You look suspicious.

I tagged along because you said

we were going to play detective.

This isn't anything like that.

Bye, now.

Th-That's because

You don't have to do this.

You could just go talk to her.

I don't want to do that.

I just want to know what

kind of person she is.

Is that because she's the one Nagi-kun likes?

A-As his sister, I have to know these things.

What if she turns out to be a weirdo?

Hiro-chan is a good person.

I've always been treated

like a spoiled rich girl.

I've always been alone.

People would sometimes talk to me,

but they just wanted to get on my good side.

It's really obvious when they do that.

But Hiro-chan wasn't like that.

She treated me the same way

she treats everyone else.

She's studious, athletic, and cute.

She's kind to everyone, and she's popular.

I couldn't believe we had

someone like her in our class.

I was really surprised at first.

I always look forward to going

to school and seeing Hiro-chan.

I guess it's what you call being friends.

And I like Hiro-chan even more after today.

You're taking her side, too?

I'm going home.

W-Wait Sachi-chan!

What do you mean?

Like I said

That Segawa-san person

I met at the festival

She's a perfect superhuman!

Yeah, I know.

She's super pretty!

She's super nice!

She can do anything!

Someone like her is way beyond you!

How do you know her so well?

Ow, ow, ow!

I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Wait, what did I even d—

She's the reason you're trying to

place first in your year, isn't she?

I've made up my mind.

I'm going to your high school.

Come again?

I can't leave the Umino family in the

hands of a sloppy creeper like you.

Huh?

Open campus?

Yeah.

I'm thinking of checking

out you guys' school soon.

That's great. You should come.

Get a good look around.

This is silly.

It's the only school you're interested in,

so why do you need to visit?

It's a waste of time.

That's not true.

What's true, then?

I'm going to picture myself a student at

Megurogawa to prepare myself for it.

Walking to school with my kid sister!

Dumbass sisters.

Although I guess it means I have to

see Onii's high school loner life.

So gross.

Shut up.

Now that I'm pumped, I'm going to go study.

I swear, that Sachi Is she seriously coming?

Why not?

She's enthusiastic about

going to high school.

That's a good thing.

I don't mean that.

I just feel weird about this.

Calling her my "sister"

doesn't feel right lately.

What do you mean by that?

Have you noticed how she's

been acting out lately?

She wasn't like that before.

Does this mean the time has come when

we have to admit that she's my sister?

That's not the point!

I heard there's a really cute

girl here for orientation.

I saw her. An insanely pretty

girl in a sailor uniform.

Open

Campus

Is she a celebrity?

I hope she comes to our

high school next year.

Look at that crowd.

That's my Sachi-chan.

She's definitely my sister.

I'm so in love!

Who is she?!

She's so adorbs!

Wait, but I have Erika-chan

I feel like I've seen him somewhere.

Have we?

Shion-san.

Shion-san.

Shion-san.

Shion-san.

Wait, is it me or do those two look alike?

Are they sisters?

Creepy how perceptive he is.

Scary.

Anyway, is Sachi okay?

She's been standing there this whole time.

She must be waiting for someone.

Like a guide or something.

A guide?

I-I have a bad feeling about this.

I'm here.

Sorry I'm late.

You're Umino Sachi-san, right?

Yes.

Nice to meet you again.

I'm Segawa Hiro,

and I'm going to be your guide.

I look forward to it.

I look forward to it, too.

No!

What's your problem?

This can't happen! Don't let this happen!

It's better than someone

we don't know at all, isn't it?

Sachi-chan must be nervous, too.

That's not it.

That's not the point.

Sachi's definitely gonna talk about my

private life for her own amusement!

Blah Blah Blah

About how I grind my teeth in my sleep,

or how I sing really loud in the bath

Blah, blah

No, there are plenty of worse

things she could be saying.

What? No way!

There are.

Either way, I need to stop

her before she talks.

After them!

Wait, Nagi-kun!

Library

Okay, next, let's go here.

This is our library.

The library at our high

school is always available.

I heard about it from Onii.

He said the library's comfortable.

Yeah.

It's a good place to focus. I like it, too.

Our school's pretty liberal, but it's

really strict when it comes to academics.

I guess you've heard that

from your brother, too.

I see it every day.

Those two seem to get

along surprisingly well.

Yup, yup.

Like a senpai and her underclassman?

Or more like big sister and little sister.

Congratulations, Onee-san.

Thank you, Sachi-chan.

Big sister and little sister

Right! I never thought of it that way!

All good, then!

Good how?

I was just making stuff up.

Huh?

Hey, where did they go?

sh**t, we lost them!

Nagi-kun, over there.

The courtyard?

Huh

So you can eat lunch here?

Yeah. And we chat and stuff.

It's so nice.

It gets my imagination going.

Well, that's it for the tour.

Do you have any questions?

Yes.

Yes, Sachi-san? What is it?

What are they talking about?

I can't hear them at all.

What do you think of Onii?

Oh, it's a personal question about me, huh?

I'm engaged, actually.

But I'm curious about Umino-kun, I guess.

I don't think that's good.

What are they saying?

I can't tell.

But it doesn't seem like it's very good.

Wait, Nagi-kun!

Segawa-san! Sachi!

Umino-kun?

Onii.

What were you two talking about?

None of your business.

I have a feeling we're going to

get along really well, though.

Right?

Why don't you have lunch with us?

Really?

It's on me.

Yay!

What just happened?

What's this?

What's this? What am I seeing?

Isn't that Mr. Umino?

What treachery!

He's having lunch with three girls!

In the courtyard, where all

the popular people go, no less!

I thought he was one of us! That traitor!

This situation

Here we go.

Who's taking the stage after

Icarus and Akechi Mitsuhide?

He's the harem protagonist!

I'm so jealous!

However

You know what he's faced

with in this situation.

Turmoil upon turmoil.

It's not all happy days for him.

Will their future be spent

in heaven or in hell?

Nagi-kun, I brought those for all of us to eat.

Huh?

He knows not that he will someday be

forced to make the ultimate decision.

That's a boy for you. They're all big eaters.

Still, you're eating way too much.

Hey! I was going to eat

the one with the truffles!

Where did you get such an

expensive rice ball, anyway?

Dinner's ready.

Hey, Sachi.

We're having mapo tofu and crab omelet.

I'll eat later.

Later? What?

You always say Chinese isn't

good unless it's served hot.

Reheat it for me later, then.

Why me?

Shut up. Jeez.

Sachi-chan's started studying?

Looks like she's serious

about coming to our school.

Yup, yup.

Having a goal makes it

easy to stay motivated.

Yum!

I know, but

You know, Nagi-kun

I know you're worried about her

being too focused on studying to eat.

But maybe you should wean yourself

off your sister already.

She's not a kid anymore.

Hey, that was mine!

I mean, that's not really the point.

The thing with Sachi is that when she decides

she's doing something, she gets it done.

Wh-What are you saying?

I was in fourth grade.

Onii, you got an award in swimming?

Award

Umino Nagi

8th Swimming Competition

Boys' individual medley

1st Place

In recognition of your excellence

in the swimming competition

I want one, too.

I want first place.

She couldn't swim before then, but she

started going to the pool every day.

Splash

Hmrghhh

Splash

The next year, she actually got first place.

Award

Umino Sachi

9th Swimming Competition

1st Place

In recognition of your excellence

in the swimming competition

That's not all.

When I got an award in a reading

competition, she won it the next year, too.

When I won in the marathon, she won, too.

Really? Wow!

You have to give me some of that ability.

She's kind of odd, don't you think?

How come?

What's there to worry about?

Sachi-chan will be fine.

That's not the point.

I want to cheer her on this time, too, but

Umino-tei Diner

I see.

Problems at home.

Exactly.

Our school is a private college prep school.

Frankly, it's really expensive.

Even if she got a scholarship like I did,

the uniform cost, the transit cost,

the learning materials

She'll have to save up for events, too.

Realistically speaking, our parents

aren't going to agree to it.

In other words, the problem is

how we're going to convince them.

Let's go, Sachi.

Who cares?

Why do we need to tell them?

I'll tell them if they ask.

It's not going to work out that way.

It'll be all right.

Let's go.

Sounds great! Give it your best!

What?!

What's wrong with you?

Why are you screaming like that?

You sure are loud, Nagi.

No, um

You don't get it, do you?

She's saying she's going to the same

private college prep school as me!

I know that.

I'm not that old.

Sachi always goes full throttle when

she decides she's doing something.

I'm less worried about her

than about you, honestly.

That's not what I'm talking about.

Don't worry about the money.

We have that much saved up?!

You could say that.

We just have to sell this shop.

It's tiny, but it's in a shopping

district near a station in Tokyo.

Paper money isn't the only kind of

wealth in this world. Remember that!

Are you being serious?

Of course I am.

How else would we have that much money?

Wait, did you win the

lottery or something?!

O-Of course not!

Why

Why would you do that?

Mom, you said work's more

important to you than your life!

I don't want you to do that.

If we lose the shop, what's the point?

I'll just go to a cheaper high school.

Hey, Sachi.

Is that as far as you're willing to go?

That's not the point.

All I'm saying is that I don't want

to have to sell the shop to go.

What, then? Are we going to

pawn off Dad's fishing rods?

Those aren't worth anything!

It'll buy you your uniform!

Stay out of this, Dad!

It's all over!

This is ridiculous.

Would you stop already?

Now Amano-san's getting in on it, too.

You're all good people.

Why are you having such

a stupid conversation?

It's too early to make

any decisions, isn't it?

Sachi-chan's going to work toward

getting into her preferred high school.

Mom and Dad will look for ways

to not have to sell the shop.

I don't want to talk about a

future where we're all sad.

I want to talk about now,

when we're all happy.

The whole family's here right now, after all.

Sachi-chan said she's going

to get her studying supplies.

Okay.

You're totally her big sister.

Thanks for earlier.

There was nothing even I

could do in that situation.

I've always wanted to get

into a fight with the family.

It's a game to you?!

Of course not.

Remember what you said?

You said you're going to change fate.

So I figured I'll change it, too.

I don't think that's quite the same.

What? Sure it is.

Thanks for waiting.

Let's go home.

You're taking all that?!

I have to make up for all that lost time.

Just having a lot of reference

books isn't going to cut it!

I never asked you.

Yup, yup.

I'm rooting for you.

Um

Er

Thanks, Onee-chan.

You're welcome.

Wait, Sachi, what about Onii-chan?!

Aren't you grateful to your brother?!

Sachi-san!

I don't care.

Have you decided what

you're doing after school?

Not yet.

The future plans survey is due today.

What should I do?

What about you, Sachi?

Where are you going after school?

I already submitted mine.

Huh? Where are you going?

Future Plans Survey

Umino Sachi

Please write down your wishes

following middle school.

First choice: Megurogawa Private Academy

Second choice: None

Third choice: None

It's a secret.