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CHITOSE IS IN THE RAMUNE BOTTLE
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What is wrong with you? That's a crime!
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Hey, I got your mom's permission.
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Sorry to put you through that, buddy.
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Don't be so on edge, man.
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Let's have a heart-to-heart, Kenta.
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Calling me by first name already?
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Whatever you've got to say, spit it all out.
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I know you've got a lot on your mind.
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Fine, you asked for it.
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You popular kids look down on us losers.
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You think you're hot shit because you
happen to be attractive or athletic.
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If you wanna reject us, do it after you talk
to us and learn who we are as people!
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Sure, maybe we were born with some
advantages, but that's not the whole story.
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For instance, Yuko always takes
exemplary care of her skin and hair.
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The athletes spend the majority
of their youths in practice.
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Yua pulls many late nights
studying before exams, too.
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You can only say that because you're winners.
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If we can't beat the gifted kids no matter
how hard we try, then why try at all?
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Putting aside how far you can make it,
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the more time and energy
you put into something,
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the more knowledge and skill
you start to accumulate.
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That's why you gotta believe
in yourself and put in the work.
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Also, like, you became a winner just
by getting into our school, y'know?
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In Fukui, its name might hold more value
than the big national universities.
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L-Look, I get what you're saying
about drive and effort,
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but there's nothing we can do
about people skills.
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Listen, man. Communicating with people
isn't as hard as you think it is.
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Say what?
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All you need is three magic phrases:
"Why?" "I think," and "Me too."
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Man, I've been so sleepy all day!
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Why?
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I've been up late reading
light novels all week.
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Me too... I like them too.
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You do? What've you been reading?
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I think... I'm into stories about
losers making their way up.
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There you go. Way to hold a conversation.
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Are you messing with me?!
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Of course not. I thought those
LNs I read were pretty cool.
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I can see why you get hooked.
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Yeah, right. Like you'd ever read LNs.
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Is a Loser Allowed to Love?
by Shuhei Kobayashi.
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I'm an Otaku, but a Gyaru Floozy's
After My D! by Manato Himura.
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My Youth as the Biggest Loser in the
Destroy Happy People Club! by Kaze Aoi.
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Anybody could rattle off a few titles!
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How about telling me
what Loser Love's about?!
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You got it.
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The protagonist, Sho Goto,
is considered a loser by all...
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Will this really work?
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It will! This is Saku we're talking about!
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By the way, this tea is really good.
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Oh, yeah. What were you like
back in high school?
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That...
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That was perfect.
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Believe it or not, I'm an avid reader.
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Man, reading those ten series
took me a whole week.
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Wh-Why would you do that?
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Because I despise people who shit on others
without knowing anything about them.
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The basic essence of communication
is a desire to get to know each other better.
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You play a game of catch with that desire.
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Yua and Yuko tried to get a rally going by
asking why and saying what they thought, right?
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If you don't understand the topic, just listen.
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And then say what you think about it.
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What was that you said? Reject us
after you learn who we are as people?
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Who was it that made an enemy of
a group he never tried to learn about?
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There's this story about
a great man's childhood.
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As a boy with natural-born good looks,
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he put lots of effort into his studies
and sports and quickly outshone others.
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What's more, he was nice to everybody.
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Where the heck did that come from?
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Just hear me out.
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But the other kids put him
under the microscope—
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maybe because he was too perfect.
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Even the smallest mistakes he made
were blown up and criticized.
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I kind of get wanting to find his flaws.
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After thinking about it,
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the boy started slipping up
in his studies and sports on purpose.
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He thought people would like him
if he was average and unremarkable.
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So did that make the haters go away?
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Nope. After he put on a show
of having shortcomings,
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the hate only got worse.
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What the hell?
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That's when a teacher talked to him.
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"People who are born with
plenty of gifts from the gods
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have a duty to take charge
and lead the people."
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After that, the boy stopped
hiding his abilities
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and went on to better himself
with no reservations.
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Yeah, the boy had a realization.
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All he had to do was fly higher and further.
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He could live a beautiful life in a place
where nobody could ever touch him.
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Like the pale blue moon in the night sky—
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like a dazzling glass marble
in a bottle of ramune.
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So who's this story about, anyway?
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The great man was named Saku Chitose.
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Way to toot your own horn!
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Also, I just made up, like,
90 percent of that on the spot.
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Now I wanna know what part of it was true!
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But yeah, okay, I'll admit it.
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I really was making you out to be
the bad guys without knowing you.
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Speaking in the language of the LNs you read,
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they over-idolize popularity
and also demonize it.
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But you guys are winners in life.
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You're playing life on easy mode.
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Just checking, but do I fall under
that "winner in life" category?
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I think anybody would say you do.
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It's not as easy mode as you think.
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People I've never even talked to
call me an asshole or manslut on the daily.
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My bad.
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But there are popular jerks out there
who try to put us down.
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Sure, but my friend group
is full of good people.
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Yeah, Hiiragi and Uchida
talked to me like normal.
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Getting one up on others
isn't going to make you a better person.
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Screw everyone else. All that matters
is being comfortable in your own skin.
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But hey, your dating life
actually is on easy mode, right?
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Yep, I definitely am hot stuff.
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On the flip side, I have to deal with
people catching feelings for me.
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They try to get with me, and when I turn
them down, they paint me as the bad guy.
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Stuff like that.
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Just imagine someone you thought of
as a good friend asking you out
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and having to turn them down.
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It's not fun, you know?
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Hey, uh...
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Will you listen to what happened to me?
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Now we're finally getting somewhere.
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You see, actually...
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Oh, I think I know already.
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Huh?
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You fell for the lone girl in an otaku group
out of school after she was nice to you,
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but she had her eyes on another, cooler guy.
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That got you afraid of being around people
at all, and you stopped coming to school.
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H-How'd you know?!
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Anything you wanna add to that?
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When I asked her out, she said,
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"Wha? Are you delusional?
I would never go out with someone like you."
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Straight to my face.
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Oh, wow! I'm amazed you can
go out in public after that!
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I'm literally not going out in public!
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You're kinda funny, man.
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Your jokes hit too close to home!
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How'd it look?
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Like, they were really hitting it off!
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So, do you still care about her?
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My feelings for the girl, Miki-chan,
are completely gone.
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3D girls are just garbage.
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What about school?
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Um, I think I'll go back if you'll promise
to teach me how to become popular.
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No way. I don't wanna hang out
with you every day to begin with.
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What?!
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Grow up! Take responsibility for your own story
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and write it how you want it!
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But, in keeping with my own life philosophy,
I don't mind getting you back on your feet.
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What say you?
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Help me! I-I feel like I can trust you, Chitose.
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I'm not gonna be your mentor forever.
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Three weeks, tops.
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All I can do is give you pointers on how
to live with your head held high.
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But we'll need a goal to work toward.
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Well, uh, I do want to show Miki-chan
and the others who's boss.
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Oh, nice and simple.
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Let's show her she missed out on a great guy.
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But you need to stop saying that crap
about "3D girls" or whatever.
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But I have no idea what they're thinking.
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Trying to look cool in front of
his girl is what makes a man.
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Nuh-uh, no. 3D girls are scary.
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Don't you wanna know how soft
boobies are in real life?!
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If you better yourself, you might even be
able to get down and dirty with Yuko!
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- Are you serious?
- I'm seriously serious.
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Do you wanna motorboat?
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I wanna motorboat!
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- Do you like real, live boobies?
- I love 'em!
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Call me King!
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Long live the king!
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Louder! From the gut!
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I wanna motorboat real boobies!
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Sell your soul to me!
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Grawr! Boobies!
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Screw you. Those are my boobies.
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Get your own.
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What?!
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Mom, I'm sorry for worrying you for so long.
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Oh, hey there, you two.
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My, you're finally out.
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Some girl broke your heart, I hear?
Better start going to school again tomorrow.
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Y-Yeah.
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H-Hiiragi-san, sorry about earlier.
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Just call me Yuko, Kentacchi.
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If you said sorry to Saku, we're all good.
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You should really take a shower first, though.
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I should, huh?
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I'll cut your hair for you!
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Here we go! Snippity-snip!
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There are two things we need to focus on.
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One, improving your communication skills.
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R-Right.
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The other is to fix up how you look.
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First, you need to lose weight.
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I-I'll do my best.
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Can you give me your phone?
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You're banned from using social media
or anonymous message boards for a while.
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Huh? For how long?
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Hey, don't move.
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Until you realize how stupid it is
to hate on people you don't know.
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Hey!
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It was a strange little time.
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If we'd pressed even one button wrong,
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I don't think we would've ever
come across this moment.
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Or maybe it's because we pressed
all the wrong buttons
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that the three of us are here right now.
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How'd you convince him?
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I just told him to get over it
and find another girl already.
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Well, I know how offhanded
you can be with people you've just met.
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Besides, even if you make
the worst first impression,
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some people will come
to love you because of it!
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Just like me.
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Can you please stop reminding me
of my cringe past?
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If the day comes when you
truly open your heart to me,
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there's so much I wanna talk about.
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Things I wanna say, things I wanna ask,
and even things I wanna complain about.
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There's so much, you have no idea.
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Let's take it slow and steady, yeah?
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Hey, man, try getting out of the house,
getting in fights like today,
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getting in heated discussions
about the girls you like,
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or getting rejected and feeling
down in the dumps again.
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Apparently, people say
that's all part of growing up.
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K-King, my tummy legit hurts.
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C-Can we call it quits for today?
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Listen to me. Real change happens in an instant.
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The moment someone makes up their mind
to take the first step, it's already begun.
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D-Does that mean I've started to change too?
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Exactly.
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C'mon, let's go.
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Morning!
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Kenta Yamazaki, who wasn't coming
to school, is now back with us!
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Give him a big hand!
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By the way, the cause was being rejected
by a girl in a group outside of school.
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K-King, did you really have to mention that?
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I'm gonna be a laughingstock!
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- Yep, make people laugh.
- Wha?
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He probably doesn't want anyone
to know, so keep it between us!
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Please, you just went
and told the world yourself.
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Saku's kind of a moron,
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so take your seat before
he runs his mouth even more.
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Wait, did the girl cosplay for you and stuff?
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Don't be stupid. Yamazaki,
eat some katsudon and cheer up!
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King, what's going on?
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Like I said, make people laugh at you.
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The more you try to hide these things,
the more people will pry into it.
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So make fun of yourself.
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But do it casually,
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like it's no big deal.
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Uh, she was seriously super cute.
I thought we had a good thing going.
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She always shared her McD's fries with me,
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and when she let me use her hanky,
she told me to keep it.
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I hear ya, Kenta.
That'd give anyone the wrong idea.
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How low is your dating IQ?
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If I lent you my towel, Kaito,
I wouldn't want it back either.
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Why?
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It'd probably reek from all your sweat.
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- I thought girls were into that stuff!
- What's up?
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- I thought girls were into that stuff!
- Do I, uh...
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Do I look like I stink, then?
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That was just some light banter between friends.
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But...
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What's the basic essence of communication?
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A desire to get to know
each other better, right?
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Yep. There's a fine line
between banter and bullying.
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You find it together through
mutual trust and understanding.
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If you get to know them, you'll be able
to tell if they're trying to put you down
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or if they're just lovingly teasing you.
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What if they're really trying to be mean?
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Then go all-out and destroy them.
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I'll watch your back when it happens.
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What's that?
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Uh, tofu noodles with chicken and veggie soup.
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Are you a girl?!
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I'm actually on a diet.
King said I have to eat this.
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I have a hard enough time maintainin' my
weight. Losin' it's a whole diff'rent story.
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We need ta step up our game, too.
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Ah, I see we're bringing
the Fukui dialect back today.
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Why are you on a diet, anyway?
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Well, since I got rejected, I figured...
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Okay, tell us everything. Let it all out.
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Well, I was in this otaku hobbyist group.
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It was three guys and one girl.
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And you fell for the girl?
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Yep. Miki-chan was her name.
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D-Does she cosplay?!
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Occasionally, for events.
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Seriously? Hang on, let me picture
Yuzuki and Ucchi doing it!
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Pass on already.
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Is that "move on already" in Fukui dialect,
or are they just telling him to die? Scary!
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Miki-chan and I weren't close at first,
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but she suddenly started talking to me more,
offering me sips of her drink, and stuff.
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It does sound like you had
something going on.
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I thought the same thing and worked up
the courage to ask her out.
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But then...
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She said, "Wha? Are you delusional?
I would never go out with someone like you."
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What the hell, man?
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She was into the group's leader
and just wanted to make him jealous.
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After they started dating, they were
laughing at me spinning my wheels.
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So you want to stick it to them.
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I know it's not very manly, but yeah.
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He'll be fine.
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People who can face up to their
weaknesses will only grow tougher.
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Yamazaki, you went and told her how you felt!
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That's very manly of you!
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Agreed. If you're doing this,
become the best version of yourself, okay?
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You can talk to me if anything comes up,
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Kenta.
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And me!
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Believe in Saku until the end,
and you'll be fine!
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But don't take his jokes seriously, okay?
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See?
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They're good people, yeah? Your turn.
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That, by the way,
is called hook, line, and sinker.
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What was that whole song and dance about?
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Damn, you got me.
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Yeesh, man.
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You act like you only look out for number one,
but you're just a plain old good guy.
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Wrong. I'm doing this to impress myself, too.
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Anyway, what do you make of Kenta?
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I don't discriminate, but I do
know where to draw the line.
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He didn't seem like the type of guy
who doesn't make excuses in life.
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Someone like that can't change so easily.
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You're right about who he was before.
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Oh? So you believe in who he can become?
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Staking it all on things that make no sense
to anybody else is what makes a man.
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The way you went about it is very you, Chitose.
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What's that mean?
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Needlessly over-the-top and dramatic.
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Not efficient enough, then?
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Please. Heroes are meant to be bound
by meaningless philosophies.
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Meaningless philosophies, eh?
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I'm not saying that's wrong.
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Taking the scenic route
is what makes life worth living.
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Mind if I ask you something?
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Four days until payday.
I'm down to my last 1,200 yen.
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I have no money to lend you.
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Kura-sen...
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What do you think it means
to live life true to yourself?
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Unusual question, coming from you.
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It's flowery rhetoric that sounds great,
but not many of us have accurate compasses
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that show us exactly where we are
and where we're headed.
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That's why we'll look at others
and wonder if they're doing it better,
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or drag them down to where we are
because misery loves company.
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I feel like your compass is tuned
better than most other adults, though.
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Perish the thought.
Nobody's got a perfect compass.
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Only difference is...
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whether we can fully believe in
our own compass.
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That's all we have to go on.
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Is the compass in my hand
still pointing up at the sky?
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Pointing at the moon I longingly
reached out toward that night?
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All said and done,
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good job, kid.
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As for my reward...
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Whoa, almost time to hit the gentleman's club!
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Get back here, old fart!
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Hello? Nine o'clock, four days from now.
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Are you seriously making a booking right now?!
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Translation: Sriram Gurunathan
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Subtitle Editing: Geoff Mazzolini
Subtitle Timing: Krzysztof Kunc
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Translation Check: Rei Miyasaka
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A LONESOME HERO
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"A Lonesome Hero."