Kafu!
Let's go to the big hill!
Okay!
Don't worry, don't worry,
I'll always have faith
How beautiful, how beautiful
the world that blooms before my eyes...
Don't worry, don't worry,
I'll always be here, singing...
I'm singing...
No... Mom!
Dad...
That was how the disaster, the Blackout, happened for me.
I remember your warmth...
Your hand in mine, the touch of your shoulder...
I remember your smile, too...
Dad... Mom...
Why did you leave me here alone?
Kafu!
You lost your parents too, Erika?
Yes.
The Morisaki family also lost both parents...
Their little girl was so young, wasn't she?
Eight years old.
She's living with me right now.
If you need anything, please, just ask!
Though I'm sure there's not much we can do...
Kamitsubaki City Aid Resources
I appreciate the thought.
Sorry, I'm being a bother.
Not at all. I appreciate it.
The mayor has lifted the State of Emergency,
but the full scale of damage from the Blackout remains unknown.
Disruptions to travel and communication continue.
We also remind our viewers that
I'm back!
searching for missing persons is dangerous, both in and out of the city.
Man, I had to wait so long!
I think everyone in Area 0 was there, not just people from this apartment complex!
It is also impossible for Kamitsubaki City to handle individual inquiries—
Just a crazy amount of people!
Hey, curry!
Mrs. Yamashiro was there, too. She said Rei wouldn't eat canned stuff.
I get how he feels, but what choice do we have?
Oh, the lady from the building across the way talked to me, too.
She wanted to know if you were doing okay.
But she lost her husband, too...
Get back here, brat!
Don't run away from us!
That's enough for today.
I wanna sleep in bed with Papa!
Your father won't be back tonight.
He's at the lab?
City Hall, he says.
The city needs your father's work right now.
We need to do all we can to help him.
How beautiful, how beautiful
the world that blooms...
Hey, Kafu!
You're sounding great today!
No, don't stop!
The laundry'll go faster if I can hear you sing.
Don't worry, don't worry...
You're always singing, aren't you?
Something about your song is just so mysterious.
It's like I can feel your determination to stay strong and keep going.
It helps me to feel the same way.
Okay, I'm gonna stay strong and keep going!
I'm gonna ace the teacher's exam too! Just watch me!
Speaking of that song of yours,
I've never heard it before.
Where did you learn it?
I-It's like it just...
comes to me, I guess.
K-Kafu?
Kafu... You spoke!
Kafu!
Erry...
7 Years Later
I've got a staff meeting, so I'm heading out.
Have a good day!
What would you like for dinner?
That's right. It's your turn to cook!
Yakisoba, please!
Come on, Erry. That's all you ever ask for.
Is it? Then you decide!
And don't be late!
Okay.
The smell of ramen from an exhaust fan
Have you noticed the unusual things happening recently?
A stop by the candy shop on the way back from school
Online, this series of strange phenomena has been named "Q."
Nothing special about the scenery
I'm just a normal girl!
The seasons change, the rain turns to snow,
For commentary, please—
then it all dries up
It's the age for making connections with people I don't know
The spring winds come, and my song becomes someone's breeze
Being able to change someone's scenery
made me so happy!
Things like my life, like my youth...
I've never found them unreasonable
The only reason I've ever had to sing
is because I love to sing
The things I love, the feeling of love
I don't need a reason for—
Continue.
Continue... what?
Your song.
Was I singing?
Yes. Quite earnestly.
Who... and what... are you?
Laplace.
Go on. Keep going.
I'm not sure what I was singing.
It was kind of an unconscious thing.
Sing anything.
Um...
The only reason I've ever had to sing
is because I love to sing
The things I love, the feeling of love
I don't need a reason for being in love!
Soon, a time will come when no one will be able to defy your song.
That's why I'll keep singing
A nameless flower that—
In this world gone mad.
What do you...?
Though this world's madness is the only reason I exist here.
Madness?
Erry
I got through! Kafu—
Erry?
Ka—sorry—
What was that? It's hard to hear...
Don't think... I'll make it home.
Sorry to leave you... on your own...
Try to hang in there, okay?
Erry?
Erry?!
It's not safe! This area's off-limits!
Please, let me through!
Erika's in there!
She's like a sister to me!
I'm afraid we can't allow that.
But—
Come on, now!
I'm sorry!
Hey!
What?
What's going on...
Erry?
Erry!
Kafu! No!
Erry!
Run away... Kafu...
No... Erry!
Ka—
Erry!
I'm scared... I'm scared!
I'm sorry...
I'm scared...
Sing.
How can I sing... at a time like this?
That won't be the last tesseractor.
The fears and desires of those locked in this Region
will run rampant, turning them into tesseractors.
This one, too, was once human.
Then, that voice I heard...
You heard its voice?
Miss Erika... I'm sorry...
I woke up with wet cheeks
A moment's dream and the scent of death
Erry...
What are you?
Why did Erry...
Laplace.
If you hadn't come here... why...
They're hiding all over this irrational town.
They're tesseractors— distortions in this world.
But... she was...
That girl was...
was human...
Tesseractors can't die under normal circumstances.
Your song is the only thing that kills them.
Kills...?
I don't want to kill anything!
My... My song?
Something about your song is just so mysterious.
It's like I can feel your determination to stay strong and keep going.
It helps me to feel the same way.
My song can't have...
If you hadn't sung, nothing would have changed.
I could also say you saved her.
Who are you?
The one who walks with you.
Walks with...?
I offer everything I am to you.
What is it you wish for?
I... What I wish for...
As a witchling, your song is the sole known means of purifying tesseractors
and what they create, the areas we refer to as Incomprehensible Regions.
Witchling? Like a witch?
Are you aware of the primary energy source currently in use in Kamitsubaki City?
Um—
It is known as Fragments.
Based on a theory that information and energy are equivalent,
Section Chief Tanioki successfully harnessed the energy from human thoughts.
This is a major reason Kamitsubaki City
has recovered so much in the seven years since the Blackout.
Are you with me so far?
Yeah.
The thought information—rather, the power of the feelings contained in your song
is far stronger than that of most people.
This is likely the reason you were capable of purifying the Incomprehensible Region.
The power of... feelings?
Area 0 City Hall Roof
The information density in the Song of Purification is indeed high.
But is that all it is?
I sense in it the power to overwrite the very existence of tesseractors like us.
Overwrite...
Area 0 Municipal Apartment Complex
Kafu! Wake up!
You were up late last night, huh?
Hey, fried eggs!
We had to use them up.
Sorry, it's pretty plain.
Do we have any eggs left?
That's the last of them.
Did you want something else?
No, it's fine.
If we had any, I thought I'd offer to make egg-over-rice.
Too bad. It's fried eggs.
Want anything on them?
Salt, please.
Sure thing.
Need anything from the store?
Not that I can think of now. I'll text you later.
It's half-off after five, so I'll head there right after school.
Last time, you got distracted and missed the sale.
I'll make it this time!
You sure?
You got club today?
This is the 82 bus to the Schild via Kamitsubaki Academy.
Nah, gotta study for the test.
Yeah? Me too.
Orders for angina medicine can be picked up at the pharmacy catercorner to—
As you can see, physics before the Blackout
did not see the law of conservation of mass
and the theory of relativity to be in contradiction.
They were considered all but proven.
Pool Cleaning Regarding pool cleaning: Each class will appoint four representatives. The representatives should discuss together and divide up cleaning duties. Thanks in advance to our volunteers. Kafu Morisaki Shiori Inamizu Gakutaro Miyata Akio Shimezawa
The primary energy source for this era was fossil fuels.
Currently in use but still being studied
Before Blackout
Electrical Power
Thermal Generation (Fossil Fuels) Hydroelectric Generation Geothermal Generation
Utilization and theory directly connected
After Blackout
Electrical Power
Fragments
Right now, we're relying on the power generated from Fragments.
But when you were all little,
thermal generation—caused by the direct oxidization and burning of fossil fuels
formed from the buildup of organic matter, creating steam to spin turbines—
was the primary power source.
There were other methods of power generation as well,
including hydroelectric, geothermal, and nuclear.
The Fragments we use are still in the experimental stages,
a rare example of utilization coming before proof...
Kafu, bye-bye!
Bye-bye.
We're gonna do karaoke. Wanna come?
Sorry, there's a sale today.
I can't miss it!
At the supermarket?
You've got plenty of time for that.
Well... I know, but...
Kamitsubaki City will be reborn!
Regularly Scheduled Press Conference
Mayor of Kamitsubaki Masao Katakiri
The world is recovering strongly from the unprecedented disaster of the Blackout.
We of Kamitsubaki City won't be left behind.
In anticipation of future disasters,
Kamitsubaki City has been reorganized as the world's first large-scale terrarium city.
Built around Area 0, which contains the Schild,
It includes special subregions, such as an urban subcenter, shopping sector,
farming sector, technological sector, industrial sector,
and the defense sector in Area 6...
Area 6 Submerged Sector
What are you looking at?
I wanted to confirm that the world was still round.
It's changed so much since then.
It's hard for us to tell sometimes what has changed and how much.
That made me curious to see it.
One day you become a witchling, one day you defeat a tesseractor,
then you learn they were once human?
Yeah.
What we're doing isn't wrong... is it?
We don't even have proof of that.
But I'm not always stewing about it, okay?
I sometimes just catch myself thinking...
So you decided to sulk here instead of going to the sale?
Laplace! Hurry!
The sale's gonna start soon!
Witchling: Part 1
Witchling: Part 2