"The sugar gelatin here is really great, isn't it?" "Yeah, I could really get addicted to it." "...and steadily with a distant, gentle flame." "Salt-grilled Ayu!" "Dancing!" "Watanuki, isn't it ready yet?" "I'm starving over here!" "Still not?" "Starving!" "Please wait a little longer." "Salt-grilled Ayu!" "Salt-grilled Ayu!" "Salt-grilled Ayu!" "Salt-grilled Ayu!" "Dancing!" "Aren't the tastes of summer great?" "Okay!" "The salt-grilled Ayu is done." "Yuuko-san, you surf the net as well?" "I don't." "Okay, I'm done here too." "What the heck is that?" "Ascii art!" "A lazy Watanuki!" "The art of summer." "And then comes the autumn of appetite!" "Wow..." "But if she was gonna do something this diligently, couldn't she have given it a better face?" "Do I really make faces like this?" "That kind of face!" "Lazy face!" "Whatever, so I have a lazy face." "Hey, hey, hey!" "The Ayu got burnt!" "Excuse me!" "It seems that we have a customer." "Um..." "That's our uniform." "Good day." "Pardon me for intruding like this." "Ah, no, I doubt that it was your fault." "That's right, since your coming here is, once again, an inevitability." "Can you tell?" "The fact that you have entered this shop means that you must have some kind of wish." "That is because this is a shop that grants wishes." "I'm scared of my house." "House?" "I hear noises inside my house." "Even though no one is there..." "Also, things that I leave somewhere tend to move around." "And there are also times when I can feel someone's presence." "Is this a spirit or ghost?" "Every day?" "Yes." "You said that it happens even when no one is there." "Yes." "You are always alone when things move and you hear sounds?" "Yes." "So then, your wish is..." "For my house..." "To not scare you anymore?" "Would that be acceptable?" "Yes." "So Yuuko-san gave her a bell?" "She told her to put it on whenever she was in the house." "And that'll stop the sounds and stuff?" "Yuuko-san told her it was fine to pay the price after the wish had been granted, so I guess." "A charm?" "What do you want?" "Using instruments that ring, like a bell, seems to be a common practice in many places." "That's from the bentou!" "It's not for tea!" "And bears avoid them too." "Really?" "Bears?" "Bells are amazing!" "Are you an encyclopedia of your grandfather's knowledge or something?" "Yeah." "It's probably that, you know..." "It's that paranormal thing that moves objects and makes footstep sounds in a house." "If I remember correctly, it's called a..." "Poltergeist." "This isn't a rapid-fire quiz!" "Class is starting." "Let's go, Watanuki-kun." "Oh, yeah, about today's bentou, Himawari-chan." "A friend of mine made us sandwiches today, so how about next time?" "Sandwiches, huh?" "If she had told me, I could have made them..." "Ow, what the heck?" "Today I'll make grilled eel with Sunomono and some five-grain rice." "Excuse me, is anybody here?" "Somebody!" "Is something the matter?" "I put on this bell, but..." "But..." "But what?" "The sounds in the house got louder than before." "And also, stuff I leave around keeps moving, and I still hear footsteps." "I'm so scared, I..." "I see." "Then here." "Keep it on whenever you're home." "I kept it on..." "But when I put on this bell you gave me, it got even worse than before!" "However, your wish was for you to lose your fear of your house, correct?" "Um, Yuuko-san?" "Take this." "Another bell?" "Yeah, Yuuko-san gave her another bell." "So then, did that girl take it and go home?" "Yeah, but she had a displeased look on her face." "Ah, that's her." "She's the one who came to Yuuko-san's shop, the one with only one side of her hair tied." "She's a first year right?" "I was right, she's a student here." "I wonder if the noises in her house have stopped." "I hope so..." "Ah, we have to get to the classroom quickly!" "Oh yeah!" "Thanks for bringing the printouts." "You're more than welcome." "How splendidly cute you are, Himawari-chan." "Well then, let's go." "Ah, Himawari-chan." "Um, do you want to go somewhere on the way home today?" "How about that place with the delicious cakes you were telling me about?" "Sorry, I have some things to take care of today." "Ah, then I'll invite you again some other time!" "If you're going to that sweet shop, I'll come along." "What kind of horrendous tragedy has happened that would possess me to go a sweet shop with you?" "Good evening, I brought some treats!" "This Kuromitsu Kanten is supposed to be great!" "Yay, Kuromitsu Kanten!" "Kuromitsu Kanten!" "Oh, how wonderful." "From a date with Himawari-chan?" "I was with Doumeki." "Is that a problem?" "I see." "Then let's get straight to it." "Together with some sake!" "Sake, sake!" "Go bring the sake!" "You'd normally have tea with it!" "Never mind, leave it until later." "Isn't anyone here?" "Ah, sorry." "Ah, you are..." "They were absolutely useless!" "Hey, calm down." "The sounds and presence didn't go away!" "In fact, they got even worse!" "Just before, when I was in my room, it felt like someone touched my shoulder!" "Touched your shoulder and then?" "I'm telling you, these bells are utterly useless!" "Really?" "These, then." "If they're no good, then just come back again." "Just like I thought, they were no good." "Oh?" "These, then." "I wonder if she'll come again today." "Hey!" "Are you trying to make a fool out of me?" "Every time I come, you just give me more bells!" "Cut it out already!" "Wasn't your wish for you to lose your fear of your house?" "That's right." "I've been saying that from the beginning!" "Then take these and stay in your house." "If you do that, your wish will be granted." "She was extremely frightened." "Yes, she was." "Is there no other method?" "Like going to her house or something?" "This is the best way to deal with the situation." "And I think it will all end tonight." "End?" "Does that mean she won't have to be afraid anymore?" "Yes, because everything will end today." "That's quite the depressed face." "Doumeki..." "No." "You're Doumeki's grandfather, right?" "I'm glad that you can tell straight away." "Being called a grandfather isn't bad, but if you're going to address me, then you might as well use my name." "Oh, that's right." "I still haven't introduced myself properly, have I?" "I haven't learned your name either." "Watanuki Kimihiro-kun." "Ah, yes." "My name is Doumeki Haruka." "If you're going to call us by our family name, then it'd be the same as Shizuka's, so please call me by my given name." "Haruka-san..." "Haruka-san..." "Her house is frightening?" "Yuuko-san gave that girl several more bells again." "Even though she seemed to be at her wit's end." "Just like every other day, the bells..." "Shall we go take a look at that girl's house?" "This is..." "This girl!" "It's fine, because this is a dream." "This is a dream too?" "Dreams are connected, so through your dream and into hers, we came out here." "What a weird dream." "Geez." "Footsteps?" "It was no good after all!" "It's true." "In this room alone, the lights don't work." "We are beings from a dream, so they can't see or hear us." "But what is occurring in front of us is reality." "Reality?" "The bell!" "There really is no one..." "You can hear it too, right?" "The bell sound." "It wasn't my imagination, right?" "Yeah." "Disappear!" "Disappear!" "If we're in a dream, and that's reality..." "In other words, she's the one..." "That shouldn't be in that place." "I definitely do hear the sound of bells, but being touched by something..." "There really was something here!" "Just a while ago, around this desk." "Around here?" "There really is something there!" "The bells!" "The bells!" "What's going on?" "!" "Because everything will end today." "No more!" "Are you really going to get this room exorcised?" "I got a call from the TV show today." "They're sending a spirit medium here tomorrow." "Just bear with it for tonight." "If it's no good..." "If they can't exorcise it, we're definitely moving, okay?" "An exorcism?" "Watanuki-kun, good morning." "Ah, Himawari-chan, good morning." "What's wrong?" "That girl diagonally behind you, the one with the bells I told you about yesterday..." "The girl Yuuko-san gave the bells to?" "Yeah, the long-haired..." "There isn't a long-haired girl, though..." "Eh?" "The one you saw when we were talking in the hall!" "It's straight and goes down to about here." "See, she's there." "The one who came to Yuuko-san's shop was that one with her hair tied on one side." "Eh?" "The one with her hair tied on one side was a girl with a short hair cut to about here." "She's a first year, right?" "I was right, she is a student here." "I wonder if the noises in her house stopped." "So then, since only I can see her..." "She really is..." "Watanuki-kun?" "It looks like they're doing another Kohane program again!" "The one where that medium exorcises spirits?" "They wrote it on the net too, but it looks like she's a fake." "Really?" "Kohane-chan." "The program that Kohane-chan is on became the subject of bashing in a weekly newspaper, and it seems to have spread around to websites and blogs." "Didn't you know, Watanuki-kun?" "How terrible..." "Watanuki!" "I feel like having some Ayu with seasoned rice." "Buy some more Ayu again!" "Yuuko-san, today, did that girl..." "She won't come anymore." "It says she'll be exorcised tonight, right?" "Then it was really the girl who shouldn't have been there." "Yes." "Then..." "If you knew that, why didn't you tell her sooner?" "That girl's wish was to become less afraid of the house." "But..." "If she's out of the house, she won't fear it any longer, will she?" "That's why, Yuuko-san, without taking compensation, you..." "Watanuki, you've changed just a little recently." "Huh?" "Have you become just a bit more of an adult?" "Are you teasing me again?" "Just now..." "She just parted. {Fix by DS}" "It seems you'll have to keep doing your best from here on out, Watanuki." "You can't use the phrase "the same" lightly, nor the word "different."" "People's feelings change easily." "They get swept up with no trouble at all." "I'll go with you." "I'm not okay." "If a person I like is injured, then I'm not okay at all." "You have to see it!" "It's because malevolence is way more exciting than benevolence." "Next time, on holic Kei:" "Disgrace."