WEBVTT 00:27.900 --> 00:30.110 CHITOSE IS IN THE RAMUNE BOTTLE 01:35.670 --> 01:39.300 Do you think those guys from yesterday are the type to stalk someone? 01:42.930 --> 01:46.880 If anything, they'd be more likely to resort to brute force. 01:46.880 --> 01:49.280 But they may have a specific kink 01:49.280 --> 01:51.660 or just be trying to gather information. 01:51.660 --> 01:54.940 By "kink," I mean they might get off on following a girl around 01:54.940 --> 01:58.900 or feel pleasure at seeing her fear at being stalked. 01:58.900 --> 01:59.610 Dude... 01:59.610 --> 02:03.000 How can you even hit upon those creepy, scary ideas? 02:03.000 --> 02:05.400 Well, I do read a lot. 02:05.400 --> 02:09.460 For the "gathering info" part, they could be looking for a weakness to exploit. 02:11.200 --> 02:13.510 When you have dirt on someone, 02:13.510 --> 02:17.090 blackmailing them is a safer option than violence. 02:17.090 --> 02:18.620 I see... 02:20.010 --> 02:22.300 Chitose-kun, right? 02:23.690 --> 02:26.660 I'm Tomoya Naruse from Class 7. 02:26.660 --> 02:28.310 Can I call you Saku? 02:28.310 --> 02:31.380 Sure. This is Kenta Yamazaki. 02:31.380 --> 02:32.520 Hey. 02:33.550 --> 02:35.860 Do you mind giving us a moment? 02:36.890 --> 02:38.440 O-Of course. 02:38.720 --> 02:39.680 Kenta! 02:40.390 --> 02:42.570 I'm eating with him right now. 02:43.050 --> 02:46.080 If you don't want him hearing it, come back some other time. 02:48.240 --> 02:50.420 Yeah, that was my bad. 02:50.860 --> 02:52.800 I'm sorry, Yamazaki-kun. 02:53.790 --> 02:55.270 I-It's okay. 02:55.270 --> 02:58.880 So, I know this is out of nowhere and rude... 02:59.160 --> 03:02.340 But is it true that you're dating Nanase-san? 03:02.600 --> 03:04.220 Yeah, it's true. 03:04.780 --> 03:08.280 And you're not just pretending to be together? 03:08.280 --> 03:12.940 She didn't seem like the type to randomly start dating a guy one day. 03:13.300 --> 03:16.360 So, Tomoya, can I assume you have a thing for Yuzuki? 03:18.850 --> 03:22.480 I saw her during our entrance ceremony last year, and it was love at first sight. 03:24.880 --> 03:27.510 Can you keep a secret? 03:27.510 --> 03:31.740 And are you prepared for the consequences if you spread it around? 03:32.520 --> 03:33.580 Of course. 03:33.860 --> 03:35.660 This doesn't leave this group. 03:36.380 --> 03:40.060 You're right. Yuzuki and I are pretending to be a couple. 03:40.060 --> 03:41.760 But I can't tell you why. 03:42.030 --> 03:43.260 Really? 03:43.670 --> 03:45.280 Whew! 03:46.180 --> 03:49.380 In that case, there's something else I'd like your help with! 03:49.380 --> 03:52.320 You're awfully demanding for a guy with such a cutesy face. 03:52.320 --> 03:55.350 Please tell me stuff about Nanase-san? 03:55.350 --> 03:58.360 This escalated quickly, you smug ass! 03:58.360 --> 04:01.070 You don't have to tell me anything you don't want to! 04:01.070 --> 04:02.860 And while you're at it, 04:02.860 --> 04:06.970 I'd like some dating advice too. 04:07.990 --> 04:12.980 Listen, even if I do give you advice, I'm still gonna go on dates with Yuzuki, 04:12.980 --> 04:15.560 and if I fall for her, I'm gonna go out with her for real. 04:15.560 --> 04:16.830 That's too bad. 04:17.260 --> 04:19.590 But I'm okay with that. 04:21.600 --> 04:24.090 Fine, you got me. 04:40.930 --> 04:43.780 King, could you come with me for a sec? 04:43.780 --> 04:46.090 I left something in that room there. 04:47.110 --> 04:55.500 BIOLOGY LAB 04:47.510 --> 04:49.730 Did we even go to the biology lab today? 04:49.730 --> 04:51.360 Don't worry about that. 04:51.360 --> 04:53.390 Just open the door, King. 04:54.720 --> 04:56.390 What's gotten into you? 05:00.460 --> 05:02.170 Hey, what are you playing— 05:16.380 --> 05:18.770 You set me up, you asshole! 05:18.770 --> 05:20.550 Saku. 05:20.550 --> 05:21.820 Saku-kun. 05:24.840 --> 05:26.820 Sit down. 05:28.800 --> 05:29.730 Okay. 05:33.080 --> 05:33.550 Hup! 05:33.550 --> 05:34.120 Ow! 05:34.400 --> 05:37.960 Who said you were allowed to sit on a chair? 05:37.960 --> 05:39.080 Huh? 05:39.080 --> 05:40.170 Get your ass on your knees. 05:40.170 --> 05:41.140 Yes, ma'am! 05:42.720 --> 05:47.570 I deeply apologize for what happened yesterday. 05:47.570 --> 05:50.630 Now, what did I tell you on the roof? 05:50.630 --> 05:57.090 Er... You disapproved of me being okay with getting targeted in Yuzuki's place. 05:57.090 --> 06:00.350 We were super-duper worried, okay? 06:00.670 --> 06:02.360 I'm really sorry. 06:02.360 --> 06:03.890 Listen here, Saku. 06:05.110 --> 06:10.420 I get that sometimes words won't get through to people like that. 06:12.120 --> 06:13.630 That! Said! 06:13.630 --> 06:17.830 If you must put yourself in danger, know that what you're doing is serious! 06:17.830 --> 06:21.380 Have the mindset of only doing it to protect yourself and loved ones! 06:21.380 --> 06:24.630 "Eh, it'll work out if I do this" isn't going to cut it! You hear me? 06:26.870 --> 06:30.090 We want to help Yuzuki-chan too. 06:30.540 --> 06:34.940 But that doesn't make it okay for you to get hurt instead. 06:35.670 --> 06:40.310 Please talk to us when you feel you're really out of options. 06:40.310 --> 06:47.030 Knowing that will help us deal with the pain of being unable to do anything but watch. 06:49.290 --> 06:51.740 Got it. I promise. 06:56.080 --> 06:57.660 Moving on... 06:57.660 --> 06:59.710 I've been able to see up your skirts this whole— 07:01.420 --> 07:03.920 Sorry, Yua-chan! No choky! 07:04.380 --> 07:07.410 Sheesh. Why are you like this? 07:07.410 --> 07:09.920 Saku, pinky promise. 07:10.260 --> 07:13.300 Break it, and I'll hate you forever! 07:38.670 --> 07:40.290 Can I get an encore? 07:42.240 --> 07:46.290 Students aren't allowed to be up here without permission. 07:46.610 --> 07:51.050 Didn't you know? I'm the Number Two Rooftop Cleaning Officer. 07:53.080 --> 07:54.770 Damn that Kura-sen. 07:54.770 --> 07:56.880 He kept it from me on purpose. 08:01.230 --> 08:03.940 Asu-nee, can I ask for the usual? 08:05.510 --> 08:07.560 You want some counseling, do you? 08:15.340 --> 08:18.450 There are a couple of things that make you so enigmatic and so lovely. 08:18.930 --> 08:22.590 For one, you assume you can do it all, 08:22.590 --> 08:25.210 and you haven't been proven wrong yet. 08:26.160 --> 08:29.790 Next, you act like you have people to lean on, 08:29.790 --> 08:31.720 but in reality, it's just you. 08:32.230 --> 08:35.110 And yet, even if you act like you're all you've got, 08:35.110 --> 08:36.890 the truth is that you always have someone. 08:39.260 --> 08:44.430 Just like a wind chime out on the veranda tinkling in the breeze of a hot summer day. 08:49.350 --> 08:50.690 Saku? 08:52.120 --> 08:54.400 That's it for this counseling session. 08:55.600 --> 08:56.490 Yuzuki. 08:57.760 --> 08:59.830 Sorry, am I interrupting? 08:59.830 --> 09:02.590 Nah, we just finished. 09:03.770 --> 09:07.160 Let me introduce you. This is Asuka Nishino, a third-year. 09:07.750 --> 09:10.610 Asu-nee, this is who I was talking about. Yuzuki Nanase. 09:11.550 --> 09:13.710 Nice to meet you. I'm Nanase. 09:14.270 --> 09:15.800 The pleasure's all mine. 09:15.800 --> 09:19.490 I don't want to offer unwanted sympathy when we've only just met, 09:19.490 --> 09:20.570 so I'll just say this: 09:21.360 --> 09:23.220 Please don't look away. 09:23.810 --> 09:25.600 What do you mean? 09:26.410 --> 09:28.680 From what I've heard, Nanase-san is just like you. 09:30.510 --> 09:31.610 Hey, uh... 09:32.130 --> 09:35.730 Nishino-senpai, what kind of relationship do you and Saku have? 09:36.810 --> 09:37.860 Ah. 09:38.310 --> 09:40.510 So you want my answer? 09:41.470 --> 09:42.690 Well... 09:43.110 --> 09:46.370 Whatever you're picturing our relationship to be, Nanase-san, 09:46.860 --> 09:48.500 it's a little more complicated 09:48.850 --> 09:50.880 and a little more tasteful than that. 09:50.880 --> 09:52.290 What else? 09:53.010 --> 09:57.960 An older girl and younger boy whose dynamic you should be a little more wary of, 09:57.960 --> 09:59.010 maybe? 09:59.010 --> 10:00.170 Wha? 10:19.200 --> 10:23.580 I'm a bit surprised to learn you have someone like that in your life. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.330 What do you mean, "someone like that"? 10:26.610 --> 10:28.760 Someone who's special to you 10:28.760 --> 10:35.500 and considers you special, too. That kind of relationship. 10:35.910 --> 10:41.130 She just sees it as messing around with a younger boy she meets now and then. 10:42.670 --> 10:44.390 There's no way you haven't noticed. 10:44.750 --> 10:48.460 Nishino-senpai called me by my last name, 10:48.460 --> 10:51.260 but she only ever addressed you directly as "you." 10:52.370 --> 10:55.090 Getting jealous over the sudden appearance of a rival? 10:55.090 --> 10:57.150 You're starting to get into that girlfriend mode. 10:57.680 --> 11:01.540 I kind of assumed that was my role. 11:01.540 --> 11:05.910 That the only one who knew the real you and spoke to you on a similar wavelength 11:05.910 --> 11:07.660 was me, Yuzuki Nanase. 11:08.050 --> 11:12.250 Well, you are more like me than anybody else I can think of. 11:12.640 --> 11:16.340 Turns out, I'm more girly than I thought. 11:18.280 --> 11:19.790 Listen, Nanase. 11:21.010 --> 11:24.930 Exactly. I'm "Nanase," and you're "Chitose." 11:24.930 --> 11:27.510 We're less than friends and not yet lovers. 11:27.510 --> 11:31.990 I may see you as special, but the feeling might not be mutual. 11:31.990 --> 11:34.670 It was just a shallow assumption I'd made. 11:35.800 --> 11:40.780 A tiny blow to the ego of a girl who thought she alone was special. 11:41.850 --> 11:46.120 I wanted to brush it off with a light joke, but I couldn't bring myself to 11:46.970 --> 11:50.380 because I realized that I was thinking the same thing. 11:56.760 --> 11:58.300 You shall not pass? 11:58.300 --> 12:02.540 Look, if you see this as anything but the universal gesture for "let's hold hands," 12:02.540 --> 12:06.340 I think you have serious issues in life. 12:06.630 --> 12:08.140 What brought this on? 12:08.470 --> 12:11.660 I thought that maybe it'd make me just a little bit special. 12:15.480 --> 12:17.690 Cut it out before it becomes a habit. 12:17.690 --> 12:18.610 Bah. 12:20.520 --> 12:21.950 Okay, I'll head home. 12:21.950 --> 12:24.150 Sure. Thanks again. 12:25.110 --> 12:26.240 Wait, Saku! 12:28.140 --> 12:29.080 Look at this. 12:29.550 --> 12:30.830 What do you think it is? 12:32.350 --> 12:35.620 No stamp, no address, and no sender. 12:36.040 --> 12:37.280 I'm taking a look inside. 12:39.870 --> 12:41.210 Photos? 12:41.680 --> 12:42.800 Show me. 12:44.010 --> 12:46.620 I wanna say you shouldn't, but that won't stop you, huh? 12:52.790 --> 12:55.170 Pics of me and you? 12:55.170 --> 12:58.020 Looks like you weren't imagining things. 12:59.160 --> 13:00.270 Damn it. 13:01.660 --> 13:03.730 Way to ruin a guy's photogenic good looks. 13:04.030 --> 13:08.030 BREAK.UP.NOW 13:05.180 --> 13:08.030 Hmm... "BREAK.UP.NOW," huh? 13:08.590 --> 13:11.080 That's probably a link you don't wanna click on. 13:12.470 --> 13:18.080 You have a real talent for turning serious situations into stupid jokes. 13:18.790 --> 13:21.420 This confirms that there really is a stalker. 13:21.800 --> 13:26.450 And unfortunately, it looks like he won't stop just because she got a boyfriend. 13:27.160 --> 13:29.100 You okay, Yuzuki? 13:29.100 --> 13:33.740 Shouldn't that have been the first question you asked, Mr. White Knight? 13:33.740 --> 13:35.230 Right you are. 13:35.980 --> 13:38.990 I'm not okay. This is creepy as hell. 13:39.670 --> 13:43.360 But I guess I am calmer than you'd expect someone in this situation to be. 13:43.970 --> 13:46.600 Looks like you're the one in the crosshairs, anyway. 13:47.670 --> 13:50.060 Okay, she's putting on a brave face. 13:50.790 --> 13:52.120 Real talk, 13:52.120 --> 13:56.210 installing security cameras would be the most effective solution. 13:56.210 --> 13:59.180 Sorry, I don't want to involve my parents just yet. 13:59.180 --> 14:00.920 Figures. Got it. 14:02.050 --> 14:07.500 I need to end this before she can't even keep that brave face up anymore. 14:10.730 --> 14:15.900 Huh, so Nanase-san's a high school girl like any other. 14:15.900 --> 14:17.330 I mean, duh? 14:17.960 --> 14:21.440 I just saw her as being on a different plane of existence. 14:21.810 --> 14:23.240 So I wanna know. 14:23.240 --> 14:25.860 What about Yuzuki made you fall for her? 14:27.110 --> 14:29.540 It was honestly just her looks at first. 14:29.540 --> 14:32.870 I only truly fell for her a little while after school started. 14:37.330 --> 14:42.640 Oh, so she stopped, turned on her phone's flashlight, and helped? 14:43.440 --> 14:47.240 I have a feeling she wasn't just "being nice" like you thought. 14:47.900 --> 14:51.930 She just didn't want to be the version of herself who'd walk past that without helping. 14:52.220 --> 14:54.480 I'm not sure I understand. 14:55.070 --> 15:00.360 Drop the image of her you've built up in your head and look at Yuzuki the person. 15:02.030 --> 15:04.070 I know this probably won't sound cool, 15:04.070 --> 15:08.300 but what ultimately moves a person is plain and simple, straightforward passion. 15:09.480 --> 15:12.420 Not the words I pictured coming from you. 15:12.420 --> 15:17.370 So if you actually wanna date Yuzuki, talk to her and build a rapport first. 15:17.720 --> 15:22.510 Get to know her better, see your illusions crash and burn, 15:22.510 --> 15:26.460 and if you still love her then, tell her how you feel. 15:26.750 --> 15:31.620 Thanks. I'm going to try to learn more about her. 15:31.620 --> 15:32.730 Good luck. 15:41.660 --> 15:44.710 Tomoya kept calling me like that every night, 15:44.710 --> 15:47.290 and I gave him whatever advice I could. 15:48.430 --> 15:52.320 Two more envelopes were delivered to Yuzuki's place. 15:52.320 --> 15:56.160 One of them included photos of her as a first-year. 15:56.880 --> 15:59.360 Things were getting nastier by the day. 16:14.260 --> 16:15.430 Heya, Saku. 16:15.430 --> 16:18.030 Heya. You came to watch too? 16:22.050 --> 16:26.030 They're clearly not the type to go catch a game on a date. 16:26.030 --> 16:27.340 How unusual. 16:35.320 --> 16:36.830 What's up? You need to take a dump? 16:36.830 --> 16:37.760 Come with me! 16:37.760 --> 16:39.160 Huh? O-Okay. 16:41.550 --> 16:45.290 What do you want, Chitose and Asano? Spectators go to the balcony. 16:45.290 --> 16:47.840 Did something happen, Misaki-sensei? 16:47.840 --> 16:50.100 Yuzuki's basketball shoes are gone. 16:51.550 --> 16:55.260 Was the clubroom ever left unlocked with nobody inside? 16:55.760 --> 16:57.470 During our team meeting. 16:58.050 --> 17:01.770 If they were stolen, that must've been when it happened. 17:05.960 --> 17:08.400 It's okay. I still have my indoor shoes. 17:08.400 --> 17:11.030 Like hell it is! Kaito! 17:11.030 --> 17:11.740 Right! 17:12.540 --> 17:13.360 Saku? 17:13.360 --> 17:17.160 You better not come back empty-handed, bossman! 17:17.500 --> 17:18.660 You betcha! 17:18.660 --> 17:20.660 Yuzuki, you just focus on the game and our bet! 17:21.040 --> 17:23.720 You get nothing if you don't win! 17:25.710 --> 17:27.310 I'll go look outside. 17:27.310 --> 17:31.040 Kaito, you check all the garbage bins around here. 17:31.040 --> 17:32.920 Roger that! 17:34.530 --> 17:37.010 You're on, you stupid stalker! 17:37.640 --> 17:42.030 I'll make you regret picking a fight with Saku Chitose until the day you die! 17:42.390 --> 17:45.390 FUJI - AIMEI 17:46.230 --> 17:49.650 There's a 50 percent chance I find the shoes. 17:50.110 --> 17:54.870 They're long gone if the stalker just wanted something of Yuzuki's. 17:54.870 --> 17:59.240 But if he just wanted to mess with her, then there's still a chance. 18:02.180 --> 18:05.880 If he just wanted to mess with her, then he'd want to keep this low-key— 18:05.880 --> 18:09.740 leave her without shoes for the game but have them found soon after. 18:10.990 --> 18:13.450 Hey, there is one place I haven't looked! 18:19.510 --> 18:21.550 FUJI - AIMEI 18:24.760 --> 18:25.880 Yuzuki! 18:35.560 --> 18:36.610 Timeout! 18:41.900 --> 18:43.690 Hey, you're losing. 18:42.410 --> 18:44.120 FUJI - AIMEI 18:44.120 --> 18:45.690 You're all talk, huh? 18:49.910 --> 18:52.330 Saku, you've got leaves in your hair. 18:52.880 --> 18:54.960 And you scraped your elbow. 18:56.650 --> 19:02.180 Thought I'd switch it up and go with the dirty-and-wild vibe. 19:02.180 --> 19:04.560 If you've got the shoes, put them on already. 19:04.560 --> 19:05.720 Oh, right. 19:14.600 --> 19:16.940 Nana, Umi, are you ready? 19:17.240 --> 19:19.320 Make sure this fool's effort wasn't wasted. 19:21.140 --> 19:22.040 Right! 19:22.820 --> 19:25.330 FUJI - AIMEI 19:28.490 --> 19:30.520 Watch this, Saku. 19:30.520 --> 19:34.450 I'm probably about to put on a real show for you. 19:39.360 --> 19:40.870 You can watch from our bench. 19:40.870 --> 19:42.750 I appreciate it. 19:42.750 --> 19:47.220 By the way, do you think you could spare some team budget for hedge repairs? 19:47.220 --> 19:48.220 Hedge? 19:48.530 --> 19:50.520 Yeah, by the archery range. 19:59.410 --> 20:01.580 I'll pretend I didn't hear that. 20:02.020 --> 20:04.070 So, which one is it? Nana or Umi? 20:04.070 --> 20:06.440 Even you get curious, huh? 20:08.790 --> 20:11.360 Is this your first time watching Nana play? 20:11.360 --> 20:13.430 Nah, I've seen it a few times. 20:13.430 --> 20:17.340 She's always cool and precise, just like she is right now. 20:17.650 --> 20:20.380 Then you don't know the first thing about her. 20:20.790 --> 20:23.670 Unlike Umi, who's full pedal to the metal, 20:23.670 --> 20:25.930 Nana stays in control of herself. 20:26.480 --> 20:33.130 She's always thinking about how to bring the best out of Umi and the team. 20:33.130 --> 20:36.020 But every now and then, she goes wild. 20:36.690 --> 20:37.840 Nana! 20:40.980 --> 20:42.740 FUJI - AIMEI 20:51.660 --> 20:53.500 FUJI - AIMEI 21:15.270 --> 21:18.100 Hit the dagger, Nana! 21:22.540 --> 21:23.940 In that moment, 21:24.720 --> 21:28.130 Yuzuki looked like a lonesome weeping sakura tree in full bloom. 21:28.610 --> 21:32.360 Elegant and beautiful, ethereal and fleeting. 21:33.270 --> 21:34.370 Showy yet dignified, 21:35.400 --> 21:37.320 methodical and cold. 21:38.350 --> 21:42.340 The arc she painted in the air was so perfect, 21:43.240 --> 21:45.130 nobody here could touch it. 21:46.380 --> 21:48.130 FUJI - AIMEI 22:06.820 --> 22:09.030 Translation: Sriram Gurunathan 22:09.030 --> 22:12.780 Subtitle Editing: Geoff Mazzolini Subtitle Timing: Krzysztof Kunc 22:13.660 --> 22:16.540 Quality Check: Riley Dalton Translation Check: Rei Miyasaka 23:35.620 --> 23:40.040 NEXT TIME UPS AND DOWNS 23:38.090 --> 23:39.770 "Ups and Downs."