WEBVTT 00:17.920 --> 00:19.120 Kafu! 00:20.360 --> 00:21.690 Let's go to the big hill! 00:22.460 --> 00:23.200 Okay! 00:56.640 --> 00:59.120 Don't worry, don't worry, 00:59.120 --> 01:04.540 I'll always have faith 01:04.540 --> 01:07.230 How beautiful, how beautiful 01:07.230 --> 01:12.210 the world that blooms before my eyes... 01:13.020 --> 01:15.500 Don't worry, don't worry, 01:15.500 --> 01:20.640 I'll always be here, singing... 01:21.270 --> 01:24.510 I'm singing... 01:31.830 --> 01:34.540 No... Mom! 01:59.850 --> 02:01.320 Dad... 02:23.850 --> 02:29.650 That was how the disaster, the Blackout, happened for me. 04:01.990 --> 04:09.030 I remember your warmth... 04:10.760 --> 04:20.130 Your hand in mine, the touch of your shoulder... 04:20.660 --> 04:28.800 I remember your smile, too... 04:32.790 --> 04:36.420 Dad... Mom... 04:37.280 --> 04:38.910 Why did you leave me here alone? 04:38.910 --> 04:39.770 Kafu! 04:40.210 --> 04:41.060 Kafu! 04:41.760 --> 04:42.900 Kafu! 04:51.830 --> 04:54.620 You lost your parents too, Erika? 04:54.620 --> 04:55.510 Yes. 04:55.510 --> 04:58.360 The Morisaki family also lost both parents... 04:58.360 --> 05:01.630 Their little girl was so young, wasn't she? 05:01.630 --> 05:03.260 Eight years old. 05:03.260 --> 05:05.690 She's living with me right now. 05:05.690 --> 05:08.910 If you need anything, please, just ask! 05:09.330 --> 05:11.580 Though I'm sure there's not much we can do... 05:11.600 --> 05:14.100 Kamitsubaki City Aid Resources 05:12.030 --> 05:13.760 I appreciate the thought. 05:14.480 --> 05:16.350 Sorry, I'm being a bother. 05:16.720 --> 05:18.800 Not at all. I appreciate it. 05:20.040 --> 05:23.430 The mayor has lifted the State of Emergency, 05:23.430 --> 05:26.990 but the full scale of damage from the Blackout remains unknown. 05:26.990 --> 05:29.860 Disruptions to travel and communication continue. 05:30.380 --> 05:32.270 We also remind our viewers that 05:31.530 --> 05:33.240 I'm back! 05:32.270 --> 05:38.770 searching for missing persons is dangerous, both in and out of the city. 05:33.240 --> 05:35.410 Man, I had to wait so long! 05:35.410 --> 05:40.210 I think everyone in Area 0 was there, not just people from this apartment complex! 05:39.180 --> 05:43.490 It is also impossible for Kamitsubaki City to handle individual inquiries— 05:45.970 --> 05:48.100 Just a crazy amount of people! 05:48.100 --> 05:49.470 Hey, curry! 05:49.750 --> 05:54.470 Mrs. Yamashiro was there, too. She said Rei wouldn't eat canned stuff. 05:54.960 --> 05:58.690 I get how he feels, but what choice do we have? 05:58.690 --> 06:02.240 Oh, the lady from the building across the way talked to me, too. 06:02.240 --> 06:04.060 She wanted to know if you were doing okay. 06:04.790 --> 06:08.400 But she lost her husband, too... 06:11.160 --> 06:12.910 Get back here, brat! 06:13.430 --> 06:14.790 Don't run away from us! 06:27.020 --> 06:28.550 That's enough for today. 06:28.550 --> 06:30.060 I wanna sleep in bed with Papa! 06:30.060 --> 06:32.190 Your father won't be back tonight. 06:32.190 --> 06:33.240 He's at the lab? 06:33.240 --> 06:34.760 City Hall, he says. 06:34.760 --> 06:37.950 The city needs your father's work right now. 06:37.950 --> 06:40.320 We need to do all we can to help him. 06:43.930 --> 06:52.170 How beautiful, how beautiful 06:52.750 --> 06:56.180 the world that blooms... 06:53.680 --> 06:55.150 Hey, Kafu! 06:55.150 --> 06:57.070 You're sounding great today! 06:57.640 --> 06:59.110 No, don't stop! 06:59.110 --> 07:02.420 The laundry'll go faster if I can hear you sing. 07:06.080 --> 07:11.910 Don't worry, don't worry... 07:08.920 --> 07:11.540 You're always singing, aren't you? 07:11.910 --> 07:14.250 Something about your song is just so mysterious. 07:14.250 --> 07:18.310 It's like I can feel your determination to stay strong and keep going. 07:18.690 --> 07:21.000 It helps me to feel the same way. 07:22.110 --> 07:25.550 Okay, I'm gonna stay strong and keep going! 07:25.550 --> 07:28.150 I'm gonna ace the teacher's exam too! Just watch me! 07:28.550 --> 07:30.710 Speaking of that song of yours, 07:30.710 --> 07:32.490 I've never heard it before. 07:32.860 --> 07:34.140 Where did you learn it? 07:34.930 --> 07:38.050 I-It's like it just... 07:39.120 --> 07:42.960 comes to me, I guess. 07:44.010 --> 07:45.970 K-Kafu? 07:48.360 --> 07:51.130 Kafu... You spoke! 07:54.990 --> 07:56.510 Kafu! 07:59.070 --> 08:01.120 Erry... 08:03.190 --> 08:07.270 7 Years Later 08:03.230 --> 08:07.270 7 Years Later 08:03.440 --> 08:05.480 I've got a staff meeting, so I'm heading out. 08:05.480 --> 08:06.810 Have a good day! 08:06.810 --> 08:08.190 What would you like for dinner? 08:08.190 --> 08:10.480 That's right. It's your turn to cook! 08:10.480 --> 08:11.690 Yakisoba, please! 08:11.690 --> 08:14.400 Come on, Erry. That's all you ever ask for. 08:14.700 --> 08:17.200 Is it? Then you decide! 08:17.200 --> 08:18.660 And don't be late! 08:18.990 --> 08:20.240 Okay. 08:21.910 --> 08:24.920 The smell of ramen from an exhaust fan 08:21.910 --> 08:26.830 Have you noticed the unusual things happening recently? 08:24.920 --> 08:27.920 A stop by the candy shop on the way back from school 08:26.830 --> 08:32.710 Online, this series of strange phenomena has been named "Q." 08:27.920 --> 08:30.090 Nothing special about the scenery 08:30.090 --> 08:32.210 I'm just a normal girl! 08:32.590 --> 08:35.840 The seasons change, the rain turns to snow, 08:32.710 --> 08:34.260 For commentary, please— 08:35.840 --> 08:37.140 then it all dries up 08:37.140 --> 08:41.770 It's the age for making connections with people I don't know 08:43.060 --> 08:47.440 The spring winds come, and my song becomes someone's breeze 08:47.440 --> 08:50.150 Being able to change someone's scenery 08:50.150 --> 08:52.690 made me so happy! 08:52.690 --> 08:57.740 Things like my life, like my youth... 08:58.320 --> 09:01.950 I've never found them unreasonable 09:03.080 --> 09:05.620 The only reason I've ever had to sing 09:05.620 --> 09:08.080 is because I love to sing 09:08.080 --> 09:10.670 The things I love, the feeling of love 09:10.670 --> 09:12.460 I don't need a reason for— 09:14.340 --> 09:15.590 Continue. 09:18.970 --> 09:21.680 Continue... what? 09:21.680 --> 09:23.100 Your song. 09:23.770 --> 09:25.640 Was I singing? 09:25.640 --> 09:27.390 Yes. Quite earnestly. 09:29.230 --> 09:32.480 Who... and what... are you? 09:32.770 --> 09:33.780 Laplace. 09:34.360 --> 09:35.610 Go on. Keep going. 09:35.610 --> 09:37.610 I'm not sure what I was singing. 09:37.610 --> 09:39.530 It was kind of an unconscious thing. 09:39.530 --> 09:40.700 Sing anything. 09:41.370 --> 09:42.700 Um... 09:45.290 --> 09:48.580 The only reason I've ever had to sing 09:48.580 --> 09:51.540 is because I love to sing 09:51.540 --> 09:54.500 The things I love, the feeling of love 09:54.500 --> 09:57.510 I don't need a reason for being in love! 09:57.260 --> 10:02.890 Soon, a time will come when no one will be able to defy your song. 09:57.510 --> 10:00.260 That's why I'll keep singing 10:00.260 --> 10:02.890 A nameless flower that— 10:03.760 --> 10:05.640 In this world gone mad. 10:06.480 --> 10:07.890 What do you...? 10:08.270 --> 10:13.360 Though this world's madness is the only reason I exist here. 10:13.690 --> 10:14.940 Madness? 10:17.650 --> 10:18.740 Erry 10:19.450 --> 10:22.700 I got through! Kafu— 10:22.700 --> 10:23.780 Erry? 10:23.780 --> 10:25.540 Ka—sorry— 10:25.540 --> 10:28.250 What was that? It's hard to hear... 10:28.250 --> 10:30.620 Don't think... I'll make it home. 10:31.920 --> 10:34.920 Sorry to leave you... on your own... 10:34.920 --> 10:36.760 Try to hang in there, okay? 10:37.090 --> 10:38.050 Erry? 10:38.670 --> 10:40.050 Erry?! 10:55.150 --> 10:57.400 It's not safe! This area's off-limits! 10:57.400 --> 10:59.860 Please, let me through! 10:59.860 --> 11:01.150 Erika's in there! 11:01.150 --> 11:03.030 She's like a sister to me! 11:03.030 --> 11:04.450 I'm afraid we can't allow that. 11:04.450 --> 11:05.330 But— 11:05.330 --> 11:06.620 Come on, now! 11:07.120 --> 11:08.410 I'm sorry! 11:11.080 --> 11:12.040 Hey! 11:22.180 --> 11:24.180 What? 11:24.180 --> 11:25.720 What's going on... 11:27.180 --> 11:28.640 Erry? 11:56.710 --> 11:58.040 Erry! 11:59.050 --> 12:00.510 Kafu! No! 12:03.800 --> 12:05.430 Erry! 12:07.640 --> 12:09.680 Run away... Kafu... 12:10.770 --> 12:13.980 No... Erry! 12:15.150 --> 12:15.940 Ka— 12:28.120 --> 12:29.620 Erry! 12:29.620 --> 12:31.960 I'm scared... I'm scared! 12:35.460 --> 12:36.860 I'm sorry... 12:38.000 --> 12:39.180 I'm scared... 12:44.010 --> 12:45.130 Sing. 12:49.350 --> 12:53.600 How can I sing... at a time like this? 12:53.600 --> 12:55.690 That won't be the last tesseractor. 12:57.060 --> 13:00.770 The fears and desires of those locked in this Region 13:00.770 --> 13:03.820 will run rampant, turning them into tesseractors. 13:04.400 --> 13:06.360 This one, too, was once human. 13:07.570 --> 13:10.450 Then, that voice I heard... 13:10.450 --> 13:12.160 You heard its voice? 13:15.650 --> 13:19.130 Miss Erika... I'm sorry... 13:24.130 --> 13:28.760 I woke up with wet cheeks 13:28.760 --> 13:34.140 A moment's dream and the scent of death 13:43.980 --> 13:45.760 Erry... 13:46.620 --> 13:48.450 Erry... 13:50.030 --> 13:51.490 What are you? 13:52.010 --> 13:54.750 Why did Erry... 13:54.750 --> 13:55.870 Laplace. 13:56.140 --> 13:59.270 If you hadn't come here... why... 13:59.270 --> 14:02.080 They're hiding all over this irrational town. 14:03.560 --> 14:07.050 They're tesseractors— distortions in this world. 14:07.050 --> 14:09.050 But... she was... 14:10.010 --> 14:11.300 That girl was... 14:11.710 --> 14:13.250 was human... 14:13.510 --> 14:16.520 Tesseractors can't die under normal circumstances. 14:16.520 --> 14:18.520 Your song is the only thing that kills them. 14:18.940 --> 14:20.370 Kills...? 14:21.230 --> 14:24.030 I don't want to kill anything! 14:24.600 --> 14:27.240 My... My song? 14:27.980 --> 14:30.290 Something about your song is just so mysterious. 14:30.290 --> 14:34.370 It's like I can feel your determination to stay strong and keep going. 14:34.770 --> 14:37.070 It helps me to feel the same way. 14:38.280 --> 14:40.340 My song can't have... 14:40.340 --> 14:44.830 If you hadn't sung, nothing would have changed. 14:46.500 --> 14:48.520 I could also say you saved her. 14:49.520 --> 14:51.100 Who are you? 14:51.100 --> 14:53.260 The one who walks with you. 14:53.870 --> 14:55.090 Walks with...? 15:05.640 --> 15:08.090 I offer everything I am to you. 15:08.530 --> 15:10.530 What is it you wish for? 15:11.100 --> 15:15.180 I... What I wish for... 15:16.740 --> 15:23.000 As a witchling, your song is the sole known means of purifying tesseractors 15:23.000 --> 15:28.380 and what they create, the areas we refer to as Incomprehensible Regions. 15:28.880 --> 15:32.840 Witchling? Like a witch? 15:32.840 --> 15:37.470 Are you aware of the primary energy source currently in use in Kamitsubaki City? 15:37.760 --> 15:38.220 Um— 15:38.220 --> 15:40.850 It is known as Fragments. 15:40.850 --> 15:43.850 Based on a theory that information and energy are equivalent, 15:43.850 --> 15:48.780 Section Chief Tanioki successfully harnessed the energy from human thoughts. 15:48.780 --> 15:50.610 This is a major reason Kamitsubaki City 15:50.610 --> 15:53.700 has recovered so much in the seven years since the Blackout. 15:54.110 --> 15:55.910 Are you with me so far? 15:57.780 --> 15:58.660 Yeah. 15:58.660 --> 16:03.550 The thought information—rather, the power of the feelings contained in your song 16:03.560 --> 16:06.370 is far stronger than that of most people. 16:06.370 --> 16:10.550 This is likely the reason you were capable of purifying the Incomprehensible Region. 16:13.600 --> 16:16.590 The power of... feelings? 16:41.910 --> 16:46.250 Area 0 City Hall Roof 16:42.970 --> 16:46.830 The information density in the Song of Purification is indeed high. 16:48.200 --> 16:50.750 But is that all it is? 16:51.840 --> 16:57.140 I sense in it the power to overwrite the very existence of tesseractors like us. 16:58.810 --> 17:00.270 Overwrite... 17:19.210 --> 17:22.130 Area 0 Municipal Apartment Complex 17:22.540 --> 17:24.840 Kafu! Wake up! 17:27.960 --> 17:29.930 You were up late last night, huh? 17:31.660 --> 17:33.470 Hey, fried eggs! 17:33.470 --> 17:36.310 We had to use them up. 17:36.310 --> 17:37.640 Sorry, it's pretty plain. 17:37.640 --> 17:38.890 Do we have any eggs left? 17:38.890 --> 17:40.890 That's the last of them. 17:40.890 --> 17:42.230 Did you want something else? 17:42.230 --> 17:43.150 No, it's fine. 17:43.150 --> 17:46.780 If we had any, I thought I'd offer to make egg-over-rice. 17:46.780 --> 17:49.190 Too bad. It's fried eggs. 17:49.190 --> 17:50.310 Want anything on them? 17:50.310 --> 17:51.490 Salt, please. 17:51.490 --> 17:52.410 Sure thing. 17:53.370 --> 17:54.910 Need anything from the store? 17:56.010 --> 17:58.390 Not that I can think of now. I'll text you later. 17:58.390 --> 18:01.630 It's half-off after five, so I'll head there right after school. 18:01.630 --> 18:04.950 Last time, you got distracted and missed the sale. 18:04.950 --> 18:06.770 I'll make it this time! 18:06.770 --> 18:07.710 You sure? 18:15.320 --> 18:17.060 You got club today? 18:16.060 --> 18:23.090 This is the 82 bus to the Schild via Kamitsubaki Academy. 18:17.060 --> 18:19.850 Nah, gotta study for the test. 18:20.430 --> 18:23.800 Yeah? Me too. 18:26.930 --> 18:31.440 Orders for angina medicine can be picked up at the pharmacy catercorner to— 18:32.110 --> 18:35.780 As you can see, physics before the Blackout 18:35.780 --> 18:37.660 did not see the law of conservation of mass 18:37.660 --> 18:40.370 and the theory of relativity to be in contradiction. 18:40.370 --> 18:44.240 They were considered all but proven. 18:44.240 --> 18:49.080 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 18:44.620 --> 18:49.080 The primary energy source for this era was fossil fuels. 18:49.080 --> 18:55.340 Currently in use but still being studied 18:49.080 --> 18:55.340 Before Blackout 18:49.080 --> 18:55.340 Electrical Power 18:49.080 --> 18:55.340 Thermal Generation (Fossil Fuels) Hydroelectric Generation Geothermal Generation 18:49.080 --> 18:55.340 Utilization and theory directly connected 18:49.080 --> 18:55.340 After Blackout 18:49.080 --> 18:55.340 Electrical Power 18:49.080 --> 18:55.340 Fragments 18:49.420 --> 18:53.510 Right now, we're relying on the power generated from Fragments. 18:53.510 --> 18:55.340 But when you were all little, 18:55.340 --> 19:01.970 thermal generation—caused by the direct oxidization and burning of fossil fuels 19:01.970 --> 19:07.980 formed from the buildup of organic matter, creating steam to spin turbines— 19:07.980 --> 19:10.270 was the primary power source. 19:10.610 --> 19:17.200 There were other methods of power generation as well, 19:17.200 --> 19:20.360 including hydroelectric, geothermal, and nuclear. 19:20.370 --> 19:25.040 The Fragments we use are still in the experimental stages, 19:25.040 --> 19:29.420 a rare example of utilization coming before proof... 19:31.840 --> 19:33.300 Kafu, bye-bye! 19:33.300 --> 19:34.050 Bye-bye. 19:34.050 --> 19:36.300 We're gonna do karaoke. Wanna come? 19:36.300 --> 19:38.380 Sorry, there's a sale today. 19:38.380 --> 19:39.430 I can't miss it! 19:39.430 --> 19:40.510 At the supermarket? 19:40.510 --> 19:42.180 You've got plenty of time for that. 19:42.510 --> 19:44.720 Well... I know, but... 19:49.480 --> 19:52.100 Kamitsubaki City will be reborn! 19:52.110 --> 19:55.030 Regularly Scheduled Press Conference 19:52.110 --> 19:55.030 Mayor of Kamitsubaki Masao Katakiri 19:52.610 --> 19:57.690 The world is recovering strongly from the unprecedented disaster of the Blackout. 19:58.190 --> 20:01.280 We of Kamitsubaki City won't be left behind. 20:01.280 --> 20:04.490 In anticipation of future disasters, 20:04.490 --> 20:08.710 Kamitsubaki City has been reorganized as the world's first large-scale terrarium city. 20:09.410 --> 20:14.460 Built around Area 0, which contains the Schild, 20:14.460 --> 20:17.960 It includes special subregions, such as an urban subcenter, shopping sector, 20:17.960 --> 20:21.560 farming sector, technological sector, industrial sector, 20:21.560 --> 20:23.260 and the defense sector in Area 6... 20:43.610 --> 20:47.280 Area 6 Submerged Sector 20:53.560 --> 20:54.930 What are you looking at? 20:57.290 --> 21:01.880 I wanted to confirm that the world was still round. 21:02.880 --> 21:05.680 It's changed so much since then. 21:05.980 --> 21:12.280 It's hard for us to tell sometimes what has changed and how much. 21:13.570 --> 21:15.690 That made me curious to see it. 21:16.250 --> 21:20.600 One day you become a witchling, one day you defeat a tesseractor, 21:21.030 --> 21:23.900 then you learn they were once human? 21:26.120 --> 21:27.020 Yeah. 21:27.980 --> 21:31.780 What we're doing isn't wrong... is it? 21:32.770 --> 21:35.580 We don't even have proof of that. 21:36.380 --> 21:39.270 But I'm not always stewing about it, okay? 21:39.270 --> 21:42.370 I sometimes just catch myself thinking... 21:43.310 --> 21:47.050 So you decided to sulk here instead of going to the sale? 21:47.800 --> 21:49.350 Laplace! Hurry! 21:49.350 --> 21:50.760 The sale's gonna start soon! 21:50.760 --> 21:55.020 Witchling: Part 1 23:25.020 --> 23:40.040 Witchling: Part 2