"I do." "So she led us... to the back of her apartment building." "Oh?" "They're all used to people." "black cat..." "Oh well." "Let's go with this one." "She changed the setting again." "but we'll have to make do." "this is your partner." "Be sure to get along!" "43)}The Sigh of Suzumiya Haruhi V and it seemed the location no longer mattered. {XMtS: changed it from present tense to past tense since it sounded really weird} attack Mikuru-chan!" "Take this." "cut!" "Nice!" "Let's have the cat talk." "It's a witch's cat after all." "It should say something sarcastic." "No way!" "Your name is Shamisen." "say something!" "As if it would talk." "please don't talk!" "Shamisen?" "also called a sangen." "this is good." "you can take care of the cat." "Take it home and teach it a trick or two for tomorrow." "Like jumping through flaming hoops or something." "that's it for today!" "Tomorrow is the long-awaited climax!" "The filming is going perfectly!" "{XMtS: orig. line "The filming is in great shape!" "It's going perfectly!" there was no reason for it to be that long and the first sentence just sounded weird}" "Get some good rest and prepare for tomorrow!" "Bro}" "Good work." "I'll buy you some cat food later." "Or maybe you'd prefer dried sardines?" "I'd be fine with either." "Nagato?" "{dropped the 1st "now" that was after "Hey" since it seems weird to use "now" twice like that" "Nazo}" "I was asking the cat." "and so I answered." "Did I say something wrong?" "How shocking." "A greeting from a tortoise-shell cat." "No." "That's not what you should be surprised about." "I'm surprised." "A cat is talking." "I don't know why you're all so surprised." "Is it a demon cat or a Nekomata?" "Note:" "A Nekomata is a mythical two-tailed monster cat." "It's true that I may be making sounds which you perceive to be human speech." "how are you certain I'm making these sounds intending the meaning you think they imply?" "That's obvious." "You're answering my questions." "It could just be that the sounds I'm making coincidentally sound like answers to your questions." "then even the validity of human conversation comes into question." "That is absolutely true." "Even supposing you were performing some action that appears to be a conversation there's no way for you to confirm that your will is being communicated through it." "Everyone does have a social mask hiding their true feelings." "You shut up!" "it makes sense..." "Right?" "but could you also be quiet please?" "The current situation isn't good." "It seems we were still underestimating Suzumiya-san." "what do you mean?" "It's possible that Suzumiya-san's movie setting will become reality." "If she decides to film a scene where a meteorite falls it might actually happen." "So what should we do?" "we must prevent the invasion of reality by fiction." "she is subconsciously mixing reality and fiction." "She's really getting carried away now." "Suzumiya-san's abilities are manifesting themselves through the making of this film." "we must make her realize that the film is nothing more than fiction and guide her to end the film in a logical manner." "How do we legitimize a talking cat?" "We won't be legitimizing it." "That would mean a world where cats can speak would be created. {XMtS: changed "constructed" to "created"}" "But that's impossible in our world." "So what about you guys?" "Right." "We exist thanks to Suzumiya-san." "Same with that talking cat." "Can't we do something about it?" "no explanation is needed." "But the moment talking cats and Mikuru-beams are proven to be real our world will transform from a world without the supernatural to one where supernatural occurrences happen often and are considered normal. {XMtS: this is a little long}" "So what should we do?" "We just have to come up with a movie-like ending that she can accept." "Does such a thing exist?" "It does." "everything that's happened can be concluded logically with a certain ending." "Say it." ""It was all a dream." "That's not meant to be a joke." "Do you really think Haruhi will accept that?" "It may be difficult." "or a mistake is the best solution." "maybe." "It might even be good from my standpoint too." "But what about Haruhi?" "Nazo}" "Make sure you act cat-like." "I'll cooperate. {Added comma after 'cat-like'" "Nazo}" "Don't talk!" "Just reply with "nyaa" "Nyao." "cat!" "Nyao." "Whoopsie daisy." "Sure is wet." "See you later then." "Very well." "Our school is now only days away from the culture festival." "the aura of enthusiasm has risen steadily." "Hurry!" "We must find the legendary crystal crescent!" "What?" "W-W-What?" "it wouldn't surprise me if there were a few people around from an alternate universe." "Kyon-kun!" "Mikuru says she has something to tell you!" "give it to him." "Um... this is a... {Added 'a' to make the sentence make sense" "Nazo}" "D-Dis..." "Discount coupon!" "It's for the Yakisoba café our class is doing." "Thank you very much." "Please invite your friends to come too." "see ya!" "Kyon-kun." "What is it?" "it'll sound like I dislike Koizumi-kun so I didn't want to say it." "Okay... um..." "I have a different opinion than him. {added comma" "Nazo} it's... a different interpretation than Koizumi-kun." "About Haruhi being God and such?" "Suzumiya-san definitely has the ability to change the present but I don't think she is able to change the way the world works. {Added "she"" "Nazo}" "The world was like this from the start." "that's totally different from Koizumi's explanation." "I believe Nagato-san thinks differently as well." "Um... saying this might be quite offensive to him. {Changed "Koizumi" to "him" since she doesn't say "Koizumi"" "Nazo}" "Koizumi-kun... um..." "Don't trust him too much." "Um..." "I didn't mean to say it that way." "Um..." "Sorry." "and there are restrictions on me." "Um..." "But!" "I understand." "right?" "I find your explanation easier to understand than Koizumi's." "Thank you." "But I can't say this to Koizumi-kun." "Please understand that." "I believe Asahina Mikuru is stating the following:" "The world was not created by Suzumiya Haruhi but has existed as it is presently since the beginning." "and other such supernatural anomalies existed from the beginning." "and this ability manifested itself three years ago." "she can never recognize them." "This is because of an existence which prevents her from doing so." "That existence is us." "different from Koizumi's that would make it inconvenient if Haruhi were to discover these strange phenomena?" "Correct." "She is here to protect the future she wants to return to." "I have a feeling I was just casually told something really important." "Koizumi Itsuki and Asahina Mikuru will never accept each other's interpretations." "each side's theories shake the foundations of the other's existence." "Wait a second." "Koizumi said he gained esper abilities three years ago. {XMtS: changed "esper powers" to "ESP"}" "There is no guarantee that Koizumi Itsuki is speaking the truth." "It's true there's no guarantee." "His explanations have just been plausible based on what I've experienced." "Who knows if that's correct?" "The same goes for Asahina-san's logic." "Who can guarantee Asahina-san's side is right?" "What do you think?" "Who is right?" "What was that self-evolution stuff you were talking about before?" "you will be unable to confirm them." "W-Why?" "Because there's also no guarantee that what I say is true." "for you." "I don't get it." "Is it even normal to understand?" "I wish Koizumi and Nagato would explain things in easier terms." "The only one who thinks that filming is going well is Haruhi." "and my faces have become progressively colored with despair." "the model guns have changed from shooting BBs to pressurized water." "{Changed "lenses" to "lens" since singular makes more sense here" "Nazo} more and more frightening things were fired." "she ended up being bitten by Nagato." "they all fell in a few days!" "The white pigeons from the temple turned into supposedly extinct passenger pigeons." "And apparently the Earth's precession shifted slightly. {Capitalized "Earth"" "Nazo}" "Kyon-kun!" "Your friend's here!" "Hey." "the fine details and subplots don't really matter." "she hasn't even thought up an ending." "It's quite possible she'll leave it incomplete." "That'd be troublesome." "It's our theory that we would be in trouble if the world became fiction." "of the people whose philosophies revolve around Suzumiya-san my organization and Asahina-san's faction aren't the only ones." "There are many others." "the countless conspiracies and blood-stained struggles are all things I'd love to tell you about." "Alliances and betrayal interference and deception destruction and killings." "Every faction has poured all their resources into this battle for survival." "all this doesn't have much to do with you." "Or Suzumiya-san." "Especially Suzumiya-san" "I'd rather she never find out about this." "I don't want to darken her heart." "Suzumiya-san has a likable personality." "Of course you too." "Why are you telling me all of this?" "Slip of the tongue." "There's no particular reason." "it's nothing interesting." "You're right." "It isn't interesting at all." "Let me tell you one more uninteresting thing." "Why does Asahina-san cooperate with you and me?" "Have you ever thought about the reason?" "Her mission is to get close to you." "to any extent." "Thus it is imperative that she grab your attention." "along with her cutesy actions." "It's all so you'll look at her instead." "I'm tired of your jokes." "I'm sorry." "It seems I don't know how to make good jokes." "I made that up." "Did you take me seriously?" "and my class's play the pressure on me is pretty rough." "I'm not confident I'd be able to handle it." "That's why I came to ask for your help." "Please think of some way to stop Suzumiya-san's film from generating these supernatural events." "right?" "She must be made clearly aware of it." "before we finish filming." "We're counting on you." "What's with him?" "Did he come here just to shove all the responsibility on me?" "But..." "I guess I can't just leave things as they are anymore." "Damn it." "This is so troublesome." "Film is film." "Reality is reality." "Whatever you think is up to you." "How do I make her accept something that's so obvious?" "but isn't there something else?" "{Added "but"" "Nazo}" "I offered my suggestion to Haruhi." "she approved." "okay!" "{alright - all right" "Nazo}" "Good work!" "We're done with all the filming now." "Everyone worked hard." "Let's meet in the club room first thing tomorrow and have a preview screening!" "it's too early to be crying!" "Save your tears for when we receive the Palme d'Or or the Oscar!" "Let's be happy with this!" "to send Yuki flying to the other side of the universe. {Removed comma after "who" and after "reason" and added commas." "Maybe dashes might work better..." "Nazo} the curtains dropped!" "That's it!" "Have we finally finished?" "it feels like it all happened in an instant." "They say time flies when you're having fun who was it that had the most fun?" "Mikuru-chan!" "But Suzumiya-san..." "That's dangerous..." "Who knows." "Can I leave the rest to you?" "Right now my head is full with the rehearsals for my class' play." "you can't redo lines in a play." "and one more thing." "I'd like to thank you on behalf of us and myself." "All right!" "Loudly now!" "{alright-all right" "Nazo} the singlur-plural thing would make it wrong... and perhaps it sbould be "Our goal is to be a Hollywood blockbuster!"" "Nazo}" "We will grab the Golden Bear Best Motion Picture award!" "That's it!" "point towards the future!" "Good grief." "I still had no idea what kind of movie Haruhi was making." "not to mention we have no idea how to do it." "Haruhi pouts." "We can't show something that isn't even complete!" "Do something about it!" "you know. {since we've been using "culture festival"..." "Nazo}" "We're at our limit already." "Couldn't you make it on time if you don't sleep?" "{changed "didn't" to "don't"" "Nazo}" "Just stay here overnight." "I'll help out too." "Haruhi didn't help at all." "It seems after a while I fell asleep too." "Kyon!" "I said!" "How did it go?" "There was no point in staying overnight." "The movie was still incomplete." "Wow." "This isn't bad." "but it's pretty good for you." "It wasn't me." "Who could have done this besides me?" "Principle suspect:" "Nagato." "Alternative:" "Koizumi." "Out of the question:" "Asahina-san." "Long shot:" "Mysterious person who has yet to appear." "Something like that." "Good morning." "How did it turn out?" "Good morning." "Morning!" "of course!" "a full-length spectacle!" "really?" "That's good to hear." "Let's watch it together then!" "Mikuru-chan!" "We'll win the hearts of the viewers with this for sure!" "Mikuru-chan!" "all my duties disappeared. {since we've been using "culture festival"..." "Nazo}" "All those changes to reality that occurred seem to have resolved." "I just noticed that Shamisen couldn't talk anymore. {re-ordered to make it less Japanglish." "Orig: "Shamisen couldn't talk anymore I just noticed"" "Nazo}" "{WHERE IS DISAPPEARANCE}" "Nazo} didn't seem to show up during the festival itself." "I wonder what they were anyway." "339)}Movie Screening in Progress" "The movie finished with a narration by Haruhi." "and had to be done by the director herself." "It was a magical spell that would cancel all the previous problems." "This story is fictional." "or any names and phenomena." "It's all made up." "Any resemblances are purely coincidental." "besides the CM scenes!" "A big thanks to Oomori Electronics and the Yamatsuchi Model Store!" "Give them lots of business!" "Huh?" "You want me to repeat it?" "This story is fictional." "organiza..." "Hey Kyon why do I have to say this?" "Haruhi seems like the kind of person who shouldn't have any worries." "her one worry is that the world is too normal." "So what does she really mean when she talks things that aren't normal?" "she's often thinking along the lines of "I can't believe not a single ghost has appeared in front of me!" and sulking. {The double negative sounds awkward." "Perhaps "I can't believe a single ghost has yet to appear in front of me!"?" "Nazo} so listen up." "What is it?" "{I raabu you} right?" "That's right." "What about it?" "and espers closer to you than you'd expect." "Really?" "Where and who?" "and Koizumi-kun." "it's hardly unexpected." "Eh...." "Actually..." "That's what I was going to say." "What?" "Are you an idiot?" "There's no way it's that easy." "that's true... which one's which?" "You're going to love this." "That Nagato Yuki is an alien." "Integrated Data something or other." "Some sort of lifeform like that." "Oh right!" "She's a humanoid interface!" "That's it!" "And what's Mikuru-chan?" "easy to explain." "She's a time traveler." "right?" "How many years ahead is she from?" "I don't know that much." "She never told me." "I get it now." "You get it?" "So that means Koizumi-kun is an esper." "right?" "Yes!" "That's exactly it!" "{^_^}" "Don't screw with me!" "This stupid girl." "Why does she only use her common sense in the strangest places?" "everything would be so much simpler." "Thank you very much!" "what would happen to this world would be anyone's guess." "Good grief."