WEBVTT 00:00.020 --> 00:02.750 The Tale of the Merfolk 00:01.430 --> 00:02.750 Once upon a time, 00:02.750 --> 00:09.080 a beautiful woman and an infant washed up on an island called Sameshima. 00:10.010 --> 00:12.070 Considerably weakened, 00:12.070 --> 00:16.760 the village chief and his son did their best to nurse them back to health. 00:17.720 --> 00:21.270 The woman said she had come from across the sea. 00:21.890 --> 00:25.160 The woman, who worked at a bean confectionery in town, 00:25.160 --> 00:29.520 fell in love with the young shopkeeper and gave birth to a baby. 00:29.830 --> 00:34.600 However, she was cast out and even had brigands set upon her. 00:35.670 --> 00:37.910 2 Years Later 00:36.200 --> 00:41.510 Two years later, the confectioner's men came to the island. 00:41.510 --> 00:44.790 The shopkeeper and his wife couldn't conceive, 00:45.290 --> 00:49.610 so they demanded the woman's child and took it from her. 00:49.610 --> 00:55.300 They cut the woman down with swords and threw her into the sea. 00:55.650 --> 00:59.600 As the men cast off to return home, the seas grew rough, 00:59.600 --> 01:05.020 a storm descended upon them, and a horrifying merfolk appeared. 01:05.310 --> 01:08.810 They abandoned the child and attempted to flee, 01:08.810 --> 01:11.480 but they were eventually swallowed by the waves. 01:12.030 --> 01:15.110 The merfolk's face was that of the woman, 01:15.410 --> 01:20.620 but there was no trace of her beauty, as she'd become an unsightly malevolent spirit. 01:21.560 --> 01:25.210 Following the instructions of Koetsu, 01:25.210 --> 01:28.620 the priest who came to the island, the village chief's son said a prayer. 01:30.330 --> 01:37.070 When they mummified the child's body and presented it as an offering, the storms calmed. 01:37.930 --> 01:43.470 This is how Sameshima came to be known as Merfolk Island. 01:45.760 --> 01:48.390 Don't move a millimeter! 01:59.150 --> 02:00.820 The island's... 02:00.820 --> 02:03.200 Our ancestors'... 02:03.570 --> 02:07.490 Mother's... sacred festival... 02:07.490 --> 02:09.210 That arrow... 02:09.520 --> 02:12.340 Sir, you can't do this. 02:12.340 --> 02:15.500 I've been watching you since you're so suspicious. 02:15.840 --> 02:20.060 Is that what Mama told you to do, sonny? 02:20.060 --> 02:22.640 Not only am I suspicious, I know everything. 02:22.640 --> 02:26.520 An Oedipus complex fogey, an evil little girl, and a monstrous hag. 02:26.520 --> 02:30.510 I doubt it'll do any good, but let me say the decent thing anyway. 02:30.510 --> 02:32.560 You call yourself a company president, you fogey? 02:33.570 --> 02:35.320 Who are you? 02:35.320 --> 02:36.880 What did you do with the arrow? 02:36.880 --> 02:38.570 What is that lamp? 02:39.200 --> 02:41.310 Did you do something to the Moris' boy? 02:41.310 --> 02:43.310 Why is the other one uninjured? 02:43.310 --> 02:44.370 It doesn't make sense! 02:44.370 --> 02:47.370 You think pretty clearly for a puppet. 02:47.990 --> 02:49.640 You're wasting your potential. 02:49.640 --> 02:51.820 You've got a way with words, and you're quick-witted. 02:51.820 --> 02:55.200 Careful with that. Is that a knife for butchering fish? 02:55.200 --> 02:56.950 You don't have many openings. 02:56.950 --> 02:59.130 You practice a martial art, don't you? 02:59.130 --> 03:00.950 You must've been raised well. 03:00.950 --> 03:03.800 You even look pretty good for your age. 03:04.060 --> 03:07.310 You'd be a desirable man if you were weaned. 03:07.310 --> 03:11.810 Anyway, nobody wants to see a fight between a middle-aged man and an old-timer. 03:12.100 --> 03:13.600 Let's not do this. 03:13.600 --> 03:17.230 On top of that, you've got that boss hag and minefield girl behind you. 03:17.230 --> 03:21.160 If this were a manga or anime, you wouldn't have any fans. 03:21.160 --> 03:24.700 You gotta at least have a young handsome boss. 03:25.110 --> 03:27.510 Don't insult my family! 03:27.510 --> 03:28.950 Your family, huh? 03:28.950 --> 03:30.450 About This Shrine The merfolk of the island's merfolk legend is enshrined on the reef on the north side of Masago Bay. With a head resembling an infant and the body of a woman, it lures men into the sea with its voice. Originally a human girl, its life was filled with grief. When its child was taken by humans, it became a malicious spirit, and its beautiful form transformed into an unsightly merfolk, causing rough seas, and the surrounding eight islands are said to have been destroyed in a single night. In the third year of the Keicho era, Koetsu the priest dedicated a child's mummy to Sakazukiyama Watatsumi Shrine (present day Samejima Shrine), sparing the island from disaster. During the annual Spring festival, the islanders perform a ritual using arrows and flames to quell the malicious spirit and pray for safety on the sea. While feared as a source of calamity, the shrine has also been used for many years as a landmark for those returning to the mainland. 03:30.450 --> 03:32.960 Isn't this what it said? 03:30.450 --> 03:32.960 With a head resembling an infant and the body of a woman, it lures men into the sea with its voice. 03:32.960 --> 03:35.960 Goo-goo ga-ga. 03:33.530 --> 03:35.330 "With a head resembling an infant 03:37.310 --> 03:38.800 and the body of a woman, 03:37.930 --> 03:39.640 Yes, yes! 03:40.970 --> 03:44.310 it lures men into the sea with its voice." 03:42.990 --> 03:45.680 Shriek Shriek Shriek Shriek 03:46.080 --> 03:48.650 The unsightly merfolk 03:48.650 --> 03:51.060 is your family! 05:21.500 --> 05:27.360 Episode 11 "The Merfolk and the Bakeneko" 05:23.480 --> 05:26.440 Anyone who mocks my family is a bad person! 05:26.440 --> 05:27.360 Apologize! 05:27.590 --> 05:29.050 Are you throwing a tantrum now? 05:29.050 --> 05:30.870 You're a child in every way! 05:34.700 --> 05:36.910 Wh-Whoa! That was close. 05:36.910 --> 05:38.120 That thing is sharp. 05:38.490 --> 05:41.340 Anyone who offers an opinion is an enemy of peace. 05:41.560 --> 05:43.210 Mother was right. 05:43.210 --> 05:45.710 Kirihara brought calamity to the island. 05:45.710 --> 05:49.160 Calamity is a monster that arrives in human form. 05:49.160 --> 05:52.110 That's how it works in the fairy tales Mother tells me. 05:52.110 --> 05:56.030 And though his form was derivative, his bow skills were exceptional. 05:56.030 --> 05:57.480 He's a true monster. 05:57.950 --> 06:00.790 Everything Mama says is always right. 06:00.790 --> 06:03.240 Our peace is being tested. 06:05.150 --> 06:08.900 Do you have a mother? A family? 06:09.750 --> 06:11.820 What? No. 06:11.820 --> 06:14.170 I didn't think so. 06:14.170 --> 06:18.660 You grew up to be a bad boy because you don't know a family's—a mother's love. 06:18.900 --> 06:21.310 You're jealous of our family. 06:21.310 --> 06:22.960 Poor thing. 06:24.090 --> 06:28.110 Children who don't know the warmth of a family turn out wrong. 06:28.110 --> 06:29.840 You don't realize that's you, do you? 06:29.840 --> 06:31.360 You poor thing. 06:31.360 --> 06:34.830 Mother always tells me that I know love. 06:34.830 --> 06:36.770 That's important for human beings. 06:36.770 --> 06:39.060 You don't understand? Poor thing. 06:40.520 --> 06:43.810 I'm sorry to say it, but that means you're a bad person. 06:43.810 --> 06:48.940 In the stories I love, those who don't know love are always bad people. 06:50.670 --> 06:55.490 And bad people must always be defeated. 06:55.710 --> 07:00.970 Everyone's always waiting for the moment the bad guys are defeated. 07:00.970 --> 07:02.840 Defeating them makes me a hero. 07:02.840 --> 07:05.530 I've been defeating the bad people on the island. 07:05.870 --> 07:09.970 Mother always praises me, which makes me even stronger. 07:10.600 --> 07:14.000 It's all about doing what Mama taught me. 07:16.510 --> 07:18.180 You're the one who's crazy! 07:18.180 --> 07:20.760 Thank you for saying something a bad guy would say. 07:20.760 --> 07:23.230 I can defeat you now, right? 07:33.280 --> 07:35.240 I cut through the bow so easily. 07:35.240 --> 07:36.160 How? 07:36.160 --> 07:40.000 In Japan, when people die, they're sent to one of the Six Paths or paradise. 07:40.000 --> 07:43.400 The Hell Path, the harshest of all paths, 07:43.400 --> 07:47.240 is divided into the Eight Greater Hells and the Eight Cold Hells, each with eight realms. 07:47.240 --> 07:48.190 Additionally... 07:48.670 --> 07:50.630 Actually, that's enough about that. 07:51.960 --> 07:57.450 In the Black Thread Hell, one of the Eight Greater Hells, the dead are tied up with ropes. 07:57.450 --> 08:00.040 This is one of the ropes they use there. 08:00.040 --> 08:03.020 It's stained red with blood, but it was originally black. 08:03.020 --> 08:05.940 It's not easily cut by objects of this world. 08:05.940 --> 08:08.690 You really are crazy. 08:09.000 --> 08:11.080 By the way, I've got a question for you. 08:11.080 --> 08:14.040 Did your Mama not teach you the incredibly basic lesson 08:14.040 --> 08:16.780 of not pointing sharp objects at people? 08:16.780 --> 08:19.720 That sounds way worse than whatever she taught you about love. 08:19.720 --> 08:21.960 Don't insult Mama, you monster! 08:21.960 --> 08:23.870 I only know what I've been taught! 08:23.870 --> 08:25.620 What kind of logic is that?! 08:26.580 --> 08:27.880 Would you just... 08:30.380 --> 08:32.970 ...think for yourself for once?! 08:33.890 --> 08:36.470 Mama... 08:38.680 --> 08:40.310 Poor kid. 08:40.560 --> 08:43.550 I'm glad I'm in my 30s right now. 08:43.550 --> 08:46.800 If I were his age, that could have taken forever. 08:48.810 --> 08:51.020 FWAP FWAP 08:53.710 --> 08:54.990 Magi! Mori-kun! 08:54.990 --> 08:56.740 Magi-kun! Mori-kun! 08:56.740 --> 08:58.810 Even if I fired an arrow of this world, 08:58.810 --> 09:03.950 I lack the power to exorcise an otherworldly creature like that merfolk. 09:03.950 --> 09:04.790 Damn it! 09:09.880 --> 09:13.010 Nice, boss! You got here in time! 09:20.120 --> 09:20.800 Meow 09:32.210 --> 09:33.320 Waaah 09:35.470 --> 09:38.860 In that moment, it was clearer than it had ever been to me 09:39.190 --> 09:43.200 why Ikebukuro-san deserved to be referred to as Ikebukuro-san. 09:43.200 --> 09:47.080 I'd better not fail any of the professor's classes. 09:49.920 --> 09:51.170 Sir! Kyo-chan! 09:51.170 --> 09:52.920 Thank you for coming! 09:53.400 --> 09:56.490 "Why is that thing shaped like a merfolk?" 09:56.490 --> 10:01.490 How it became a mass of spirits aside, that was my biggest question. 10:01.490 --> 10:02.260 Right. 10:02.260 --> 10:04.970 In other words, this is its true identity. 10:04.970 --> 10:09.520 Ikebukuro, I'll buy you a squid spinner later, so pull on the merfolk's head! 10:06.540 --> 10:09.250 Squid Spinner 10:10.620 --> 10:11.730 Motivated By Food 10:12.030 --> 10:14.120 Nabeshima, don't let me down! 10:14.120 --> 10:17.320 You're the coolest one here, so pull on the merfolk's tail! 10:18.170 --> 10:19.570 Motivated By Coolness 10:57.320 --> 11:01.820 Eek 10:57.640 --> 11:01.820 Eek! The merfolk split into a human and a fish! 11:02.640 --> 11:03.700 It's a shark! 11:05.950 --> 11:09.200 Shark attacks have occurred in this area for a long time. 11:09.480 --> 11:13.520 But around here, great whites and tiger sharks do occasionally appear. 11:13.520 --> 11:16.210 There are even records from the Edo period. 11:16.210 --> 11:20.470 Apparently the island itself used to be called Sameshima, or Shark Island. 11:20.470 --> 11:21.430 What? 11:21.790 --> 11:24.670 This describes the origins of the merfolk legend. 11:24.670 --> 11:28.310 Since you grew up on the island, perhaps you've heard it. 11:28.310 --> 11:32.430 It's a genuine folktale. There's even a priest who suddenly shows up. 11:33.060 --> 11:36.020 And this was written by Kirihara Yutaro-san. 11:36.020 --> 11:39.460 In other words, Yuhachi-san's father. 11:39.460 --> 11:41.610 Great-grandpa's dad? 11:41.610 --> 11:44.360 Yes. The contents were quite interesting. 11:46.890 --> 11:50.670 Old Man Hanada got drunk and told me this story. 11:48.370 --> 11:59.150 Old Man Hanada got drunk and told me this story. Generations before he was a child, the Samejimas' ancestors came to this island. 11:50.670 --> 11:58.190 Generations before he was a child, the Samejimas' ancestors came to this island. 11:59.030 --> 12:02.870 Apparently the island's legend is half-true. 12:02.870 --> 12:07.020 The Samejima ancestor who was village chief sold the woman's 12:07.020 --> 12:08.770 child to the confectioner's men. 12:08.200 --> 12:22.170 The woman became distraught and chased after the boat, but she was attacked by a shark. The islanders struck the shark with harpoons, but they died along with the shark. The woman and her child died as well. 12:09.190 --> 12:14.030 The woman became distraught and chased after the boat, but she was attacked by a shark. 12:14.030 --> 12:18.950 The islanders struck the shark with harpoons, but they died along with the shark. 12:18.950 --> 12:22.000 The woman and her child died as well. 12:22.000 --> 12:27.160 Their dead bodies washed up on what's now known as Merfolk Rock. 12:24.150 --> 12:27.160 Their dead bodies washed up on what's now known as Merfolk Rock. After my son Yuhachi was discharged, he remarked that he saw a merfolk. 12:27.640 --> 12:32.660 After my son Yuhachi was discharged, he remarked that he saw a merfolk. 12:35.040 --> 12:37.170 To summarize, 12:37.170 --> 12:41.670 the island's dark history caused a part-human and part-fish mass of spirits to form, 12:41.670 --> 12:46.430 and years of growth turned it into a minefield of a monster. 12:46.430 --> 12:48.410 You see it often in fairy tales, 12:48.410 --> 12:51.790 but when animals are near humans who die while experiencing powerful emotions, 12:52.120 --> 12:56.140 the human's spirit possesses the animal and turns it into a monster. 12:56.140 --> 12:58.440 Bakeneko are one such example. 12:58.750 --> 13:02.110 Or like in Santo Kyoden's "Baika Hyoretsu". 13:02.110 --> 13:03.570 That was a goldfish. 13:03.570 --> 13:07.070 The warning about not eating beans in the old woman's presence 13:07.070 --> 13:09.210 likely comes from that story as well. 13:09.210 --> 13:10.280 Sir. 13:10.280 --> 13:13.100 Let me pay for the exorcism. 13:13.100 --> 13:16.960 I only work part-time now, but I promise I'll pay once I get a proper job. 13:18.000 --> 13:20.290 Thank you, but I've already been paid. 13:20.530 --> 13:21.250 What? 13:21.250 --> 13:25.140 In addition to those, we found a first edition of 13:25.140 --> 13:28.080 "The Restaurant of Many Orders" in the Kirihara family storehouse. 13:28.080 --> 13:32.120 Look it up. It's quite valuable. 13:32.120 --> 13:37.470 Your great-grandfather gave it to me for looking after you. 13:41.230 --> 13:44.370 Mogura, he wants you to have his moth-eaten rucksack. 13:44.370 --> 13:45.490 I don't want it! 13:47.120 --> 13:48.320 Mr. Professor from Tokyo! 13:48.560 --> 13:51.410 Can you believe this? He hit me in the head! 13:51.410 --> 13:53.510 It was a metal lamp or something! 13:53.510 --> 13:55.000 Look at this wound! 13:55.000 --> 13:56.870 What wound? 13:56.870 --> 13:58.160 Huh? What? 13:58.160 --> 13:59.620 It's not there? Did it heal? 14:00.190 --> 14:02.930 You slipped on your own and knocked yourself out. 14:02.930 --> 14:04.670 Maybe you hallucinated. 14:04.670 --> 14:06.550 There's no way. 14:06.550 --> 14:08.690 There's even a pool of blood here! 14:08.690 --> 14:11.320 That must've come from a butchered fish. 14:11.320 --> 14:12.300 Impossible! 14:12.300 --> 14:15.810 By the way, can you see things now? 14:15.810 --> 14:17.730 This one's no hallucination. 14:28.740 --> 14:34.240 I wouldn't say we're close now, but there's definitely a deep bond between us. 14:29.870 --> 14:31.630 Mama! 14:34.480 --> 14:36.640 This is the price you pay for all you've done. 14:36.640 --> 14:37.700 Take a good look. 14:38.040 --> 14:40.710 Mama! Mama! 14:40.710 --> 14:43.170 Mama! 14:43.650 --> 14:48.130 I mentioned before that Magi and Yae-chan's brains and eyes adjust quickly, 14:48.130 --> 14:50.760 but this is how stubborn people react. 14:51.390 --> 14:54.330 I wonder when he'll return to his senses. 14:54.330 --> 14:56.790 So that's what happens when your SAN hits zero. 14:56.790 --> 14:57.890 Mama! 14:57.890 --> 15:01.770 Mama! Mama! 14:57.990 --> 15:00.020 Nom nom nom nom 15:00.020 --> 15:01.770 Nom nom nom 15:01.770 --> 15:04.520 Mama! 15:05.390 --> 15:08.280 Sorry, Shio-chan. Give me a minute. 15:09.560 --> 15:12.760 You two take the motorbikes to Mogura-chan. 15:12.760 --> 15:16.630 We'll go down to the sea and see if there's anything we can do to help. 15:17.040 --> 15:22.280 That said, walking downhill on foot is harder on the knees than I thought. 15:17.100 --> 15:18.010 Pant 15:18.140 --> 15:18.970 Pant 15:19.140 --> 15:19.970 Pant 15:20.140 --> 15:20.930 Pant 15:21.100 --> 15:22.020 Pant 15:22.100 --> 15:23.020 Pant 15:22.910 --> 15:24.630 You can barely stand. 15:23.140 --> 15:23.980 Pant 15:24.150 --> 15:24.940 Pant 15:25.100 --> 15:26.020 Pant 15:25.510 --> 15:29.550 Once you're over 30, your body starts falling apart from the inside. 15:26.150 --> 15:27.020 Pant 15:27.150 --> 15:27.980 Pant 15:28.150 --> 15:28.940 Pant 15:29.550 --> 15:33.850 But I bet you'll be fine even in your 50s. 15:33.850 --> 15:38.440 Probably. My 80-year-old grandma competes in triathlons! 15:38.440 --> 15:39.600 I'll carry you. 15:39.880 --> 15:42.840 Oh, perhaps I'll take you up on that. 15:46.230 --> 15:48.730 Wow! My knees are so unbothered! 15:51.740 --> 15:52.880 Oh? 15:55.510 --> 15:57.240 What are you doing? 15:57.240 --> 16:01.220 We were in a hurry to reach the sea, but my knees gave out. 16:01.220 --> 16:02.330 Are you going there, too? 16:02.330 --> 16:07.170 Yes. An islander fell into the sea, so I need to go check on him. 16:07.170 --> 16:09.920 But from what I've heard, he's okay. 16:09.920 --> 16:11.930 Great. What a miracle. 16:11.930 --> 16:13.970 Oh, hop in. 16:18.190 --> 16:20.850 Yui-chan, have you ever left the island? 16:21.810 --> 16:24.150 I think it might be a good idea. 16:24.150 --> 16:29.320 That sounds fun, but I have to work for the island. 16:29.320 --> 16:32.820 I think there are plenty of jobs you could do there. 16:32.820 --> 16:35.560 It'd be a good idea to experience more things. 16:35.920 --> 16:37.090 For example... 16:37.450 --> 16:39.360 Being a dominatrix. 16:39.360 --> 16:40.160 What? 16:41.200 --> 16:42.660 Nothing. 16:45.170 --> 16:48.540 Um, what did you mean by that? 16:48.790 --> 16:50.210 We think that's a great idea! 16:50.530 --> 16:52.090 Don't suddenly express your own opinions! 16:52.350 --> 16:53.910 We'd patronize your business! 16:53.910 --> 16:56.170 We'd love to be filleted by you! 16:56.170 --> 16:58.720 Don't make such islander suggestions! 16:58.720 --> 17:00.680 And stop shouting in unison inside the car! 17:00.900 --> 17:03.070 I think there's demand for it. 17:03.070 --> 17:06.110 After all, you're that genre of person. 17:06.110 --> 17:07.570 What does that mean? 17:07.970 --> 17:10.440 Tokyo is a terrifyin' city! 17:10.440 --> 17:12.230 A professor's wife, huh? 17:12.230 --> 17:15.240 You're a bit of an oddball, aren't you? 17:16.490 --> 17:17.490 I'm sorry. 17:18.050 --> 17:22.200 But what you did to Mori-kun is far stranger, don't you think? 17:24.350 --> 17:25.880 Where did that come from? 17:25.880 --> 17:27.790 Evil deeds always come to light. 17:28.390 --> 17:31.290 Please don't insult me based on conjecture. 17:31.530 --> 17:33.180 You're smart. 17:33.180 --> 17:36.730 Even when caught off guard, you don't panic and dig yourself deeper. 17:36.730 --> 17:38.850 You're definitely competent. 17:39.310 --> 17:42.600 That's why I recommend you leave the island at least once. 17:42.600 --> 17:44.140 Especially since you're young. 17:44.140 --> 17:46.600 I've heard enough, old woman. 17:46.600 --> 17:49.690 It's good to listen to older women once in a while. 17:50.170 --> 17:52.870 You're scaring me. What's your problem? 17:52.870 --> 17:57.320 I don't know what you think you heard, but please stop. 17:57.750 --> 17:59.990 You don't need to worry about me. 17:59.990 --> 18:04.310 What are the islanders to you? What about Mori-kun? 18:04.310 --> 18:06.660 Are those two important colleagues to you? 18:08.160 --> 18:10.880 Oh, please. They're servants. 18:11.200 --> 18:14.130 We have helpers, too, but they're all important to us. 18:14.470 --> 18:17.200 What is this about? Servants are servants! 18:15.270 --> 18:18.590 Graaah 18:17.200 --> 18:18.590 They exist to be commanded! 18:18.590 --> 18:20.890 Reeeaaah 18:18.590 --> 18:20.890 You've revealed how you truly feel! 18:21.230 --> 18:26.700 I heard your family eliminates everyone who isn't of your bloodline! 18:26.700 --> 18:29.680 I don't wish to criticize other families, 18:29.680 --> 18:34.400 but you even eliminate spouses and trust nothing but your blood! 18:34.680 --> 18:36.820 How do you know about my family structure? 18:36.820 --> 18:41.320 Furthermore, you don't have an independent male role model. 18:41.430 --> 18:43.280 Roll Model? 18:41.870 --> 18:43.280 Roll model? 18:43.500 --> 18:47.660 And you're obsessed with forcing others to obey you. 18:48.970 --> 18:53.920 That's why you became excessively angry with Mori-kun when he didn't obey you. 18:54.250 --> 18:55.520 Shut up, shut up! 18:55.520 --> 18:56.880 Who do you think you are?! 18:56.880 --> 19:00.260 An adult responsible for guiding children! 19:00.260 --> 19:03.210 Shut up! I'm 20 years old! 19:03.210 --> 19:07.410 Go cling to your husband with that empty head of yours! 19:07.410 --> 19:09.760 I'll command the island with my own strength! 19:09.760 --> 19:12.150 Spouses are all outsiders anyway! 19:12.150 --> 19:14.810 There's no point in trusting fake intimacy! 19:17.650 --> 19:19.650 Forbidden technique unleashed. 19:17.920 --> 19:18.550 Shoof 19:18.920 --> 19:19.550 Hummm 19:19.650 --> 19:20.610 Activate ultimate ability. 19:19.920 --> 19:21.610 Kapwing 19:21.610 --> 19:27.590 When I was 18, Toshiro-san said this to me when he gave me this ring— 19:31.360 --> 19:33.510 Magi-kun! Mori-kun! 19:33.510 --> 19:34.750 You're okay! 19:36.200 --> 19:37.150 Ah. 19:37.490 --> 19:39.650 You two got here, too? 19:40.230 --> 19:41.720 Kyoko, what is it? 19:42.030 --> 19:44.680 Shut Down by Guilt 19:44.930 --> 19:46.850 I don't believe you! 19:46.850 --> 19:49.520 Nobody really talks like that! 19:49.520 --> 19:50.960 It's not possible! 19:50.960 --> 19:54.550 I'll become a great person all on my own! 19:54.550 --> 19:56.190 We'd talk like that if you wanted! 19:56.190 --> 19:57.190 Not you! 19:57.190 --> 20:00.650 You're just saying that out of obedience! 20:00.650 --> 20:03.700 But we would say anything you told us to say! 20:03.700 --> 20:06.230 Something seems to have happened, but I won't ask. 20:07.090 --> 20:09.170 Did Ikebukuro-chan do a good job? 20:09.170 --> 20:12.580 Ikebukuro is currently eating the "folk" half of the merfolk. 20:22.170 --> 20:24.430 It's the merfolk's last gasp! 20:24.430 --> 20:27.100 It went after her because she's disheartened for some reason! 20:29.130 --> 20:31.560 Something's holding me down! 20:31.560 --> 20:33.080 The Samejima girl! 20:33.080 --> 20:34.850 She's drifting away! 20:35.170 --> 20:36.670 I've got this! 20:39.290 --> 20:41.320 Shio-chan?! Wait, wait, wait! 20:43.750 --> 20:45.360 You wore that under your clothes?! 20:45.360 --> 20:48.050 Shio-chan, you were planning to swim? 20:45.360 --> 20:52.250 Ta-dah 20:48.050 --> 20:52.250 I thought it'd be an island with a beach, so I wore this instead of underwear. 20:52.250 --> 20:55.840 Why would you wear that to a beach? 20:55.840 --> 20:58.030 Maybe she planned on doing a long-distance swim. 20:58.030 --> 21:02.010 And if you wore that instead of underwear, what were you going to do after you swam? 21:02.840 --> 21:04.030 It's too dangerous! 21:04.030 --> 21:06.430 Didn't I tell you the currents are unique? 21:07.410 --> 21:08.590 It's me! 21:09.330 --> 21:10.370 Oh... 21:16.560 --> 21:19.930 Maggie-kun and I struggled desperately in those waters. 21:24.310 --> 21:27.950 And so, a new merfolk legend was born. 21:27.950 --> 21:35.780 They say a young woman appeared and swam like a fish to rescue the village chief's daughter. 21:35.780 --> 21:38.790 As her speed was superhuman, 21:38.790 --> 21:43.460 she must have been the merfolk described in the island's legend. 21:43.760 --> 21:47.470 That was how Grandma Hanada described the event later. 21:48.400 --> 21:50.470 I forgot to bring a change of underwear. 21:51.250 --> 21:54.100 President Samejima still isn't here? 21:59.050 --> 22:03.370 Merfolk. Merfolk are terrifying. 23:35.180 --> 23:40.270 Episode 12 "During the Rainy Season"