"Thanks for the food!" "Bye!" "Hm?" "She has a marathon coming up." "She's excited that the practice starts today." "Yeah?" "Mizuki is really good at running." "She really wants to get first place." "Oh yeah?" "Oh, Mizuki-chan!" "Have a good day at school!" "See you later!" "You're always smiling and so full of energy." "Everyone always says that you're always smiling, Mizuki." "I wonder if I am." "I can never tell." "(laughingdarkness)" "Good morning!" "Hibara!" "You were supposed to clean the classroom yesterday!" "But you just went home!" "Oh man!" "Did you forget!" "?" "Did you guys clean for me?" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "I'm sorry!" "I'm really sorry!" "Next time, don't forget!" "I'll clean the next time it's your turn, Takatsu and Kasama!" "Okay?" "Okay!" "?" "I'm really sorry!" "You really are good at this!" "It really doesn't matter." "Just be careful from now on." "But I wonder why I forgot..." "Could it be because you're stupid?" "I don't want to hear that from you, Takatsu!" "Ha!" "Hibara got it right there!" "Hey!" "Kasama!" "Why are you agreeing with her!" "?" "Hibara-san!" "Ah!" "Good morning, Iida-san!" "Hibara-san, you always try to laugh things off like that, don't you?" "!" "What's with her?" "No idea..." "Iida-san is really mean." "Don't worry about her, Mizuki." "Okay." "I really like this!" "Me too!" "The pose they use for this gag is great!" "They raise both arms and both legs at the same time!" "It's so funny!" "What's wrong?" "Ah!" "Nothing!" "Hm?" "Huh?" "What's wrong, Mizuki?" "It's okay." "I don't see a thing." "Really?" "Yeah." "You thought you were possessed, so you didn't go inside, right?" "Yeah." "That's great!" "I could've sworn I was possessed." "But, if you don't see anything, it should be fine!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "What's for dinner?" "Hmm..." "What should we have?" "I want curry!" "Curry!" "Mizuki, show me your protective charm." "Hm?" "Ah!" "It's torn." "I guess so..." "These charms wear down every time they prevent a disaster." "That means you have to pay close attention to them." "You understand?" "Y-Yeah..." "But this means that that was torn when it saved Mizuki." "It's great that nothing actually possessed you, Mizuki." "I wonder about that..." "Grampy!" "You both have to live your lives protected by these charms." "That isn't anything too big." "Figure out how to fix it yourself." "There is no marathon practice this morning?" "I'll go check on her." "Mizuki!" "If you don't get up, you'll be late!" "I'm already awake..." "I never got to sleep at all..." "Oh!" "You two are together this morning?" "Have a good day!" "See you later!" "See you later..." "Ah!" "Mizuki-chan, are you sick?" "Did you oversleep?" "Nah, that can't be right!" "Ha!" "It was just a joke!" "If you think this over, you should come up with the following three topics:" "eating, sleeping, and playing." "Hm?" "Eh?" "Shut up!" "That's enough!" "Mizuki?" "Hey, you!" "I gave you so much advice!" "Why don't you have any ink?" "I'm sorry!" "Not funny..." "I can't hear it, so I don't know, but it really looks like they're laughing at you a lot." "It also looks like there are more of them." "Yeah." "I can't see them, so it's really annoying me!" "Have you ever heard of the laugh of the tengu(Japanese long-nosed goblin)." "Laugh of the tengu?" "There are stories of people in the mountains hearing a really loud laugh all of the sudden." "I wonder if this is something like that." "No idea..." "Well, this isn't the mountains, so that means... this is like the sky laughing." "I wonder if it'll ever go away." "Ah!" "Now that I'm always getting laughed at..." "I don't know if I can ever laugh again." "Eh..." "Tomorrow is the marathon." "I'm so depressed." "I hope that it rains or something, though I don't think anything will happen." "You don't have to worry about anything, Mizuki." "You're so fast that you'll probably take first place." "I wonder." "I won't let that happen!" "Eh?" "I don't want to lose to you, Hibara-san!" "Iida-san!" "Let's do our best, okay?" "Laughing things off doesn't work on me!" "What the hell?" "What?" "It was them?" "I thought they were laughing at me." "They shouldn't laugh so loudly!" "They are grating on my nerves!" "You shouldn't really worry about what Iida-san said." "Oh, I'm not worrying." "Lately..." "It looks like you've been in a bad mood." "Really?" "Mizuki, you should be laughing so loud that you drown them out!" "At this rate, you will get depressed, and you won't be able to run tomorrow." "It looks like you're having a spasm." "I just can't laugh anymore." "I wonder... whether or not they'll go away if I laugh at someone really hard." "Mizuki!" "That would be a terrible thing to do!" "I-It was a joke!" "This is annoying me so much that it's driving me to think that way, but I already know how bad it feels to be laughed at." "I always thought laughing was supposed to be a fun thing." "You have only laughed when something fun was happening, Mizuki?" "Yeah." "It's not like that for you, Sis?" "Yeah, I guess it's not like that for me." "There are many different types of laughs." "When I'm sad or when the going gets hard," "I sometimes laugh without thinking about it." "I even laugh some problems away." "Oh yeah..." "Some people at school say I laugh my problems away as well." "Laugh your problems away, huh?" "Maybe the thing that is possessing you in the same, Mizuki." "Eh?" "What do you mean?" "Maybe something bad happened to it, and it's trying to feel better by laughing at another person." "I wonder..." "It would be really sad if it only existed to laugh at other people." "It would be really sad if it only existed to laugh at other people." "But..." "I just can't feel sorry for it." "Damn it!" "It didn't rain..." "Are you okay?" "You don't look very well, Mizuki." "No!" "I'm just a little nervous." "Hibara-san!" "I'll not lose today's race!" "I don't want to lose either!" "Iida-san, let's do our best!" "On your marks..." "Get set..." "It has to be grief." "Grief?" "Mizuki is possessed with grief?" "It is something that attracts anxiety, worry, and hard times." "When a person laughs, they do it because they don't want to be laughed at." "People worry that they will have a hard time." "They worry about themselves and laugh." "As people continue to do that, things like that continue to get bigger." "So that thing is just a bunch of worries?" "Probably." "There is an old story that goes this way:" "In the olden days in China, there was a man named Butei." "One day, he saw a strange bug(reffering to monster), but no one knew what it was." "So Butei... went to ask a wise man named Tohosaku about it." "The answer he got was," "That is something that was born from a collection of worries." "The remains in this place are probably ones of a jail in which innocent people were held." "If you want to get rid of it, you should really use sake." "Sake is used in a lot of exorcisms, but, in this case, te sake was used to relieve the worries and make people forget." "Relieve worries with sake?" "How will Mizuki relieve her worries?" "Iida-san!" "Man..." "It's hard to run when she is right next to me!" "If you work that hard, you will tire out quickly!" "Well... that's why I'm running close to her after all." "Why did it get so loud all of a sudden?" "Hey, be quiet!" "She slowed down!" "Okay!" "Ah, damn it!" "Stop laughing!" "Eh?" "Damn it!" "What the heck?" "I will not lose!" "I will not lose!" "I will not lose!" "Eh?" "The wind... feels so good..." "I want to go on like this forever..." "Now that I think about it, wasn't something making me mad?" "It doesn't matter anymore." "There are many different types of worries." "If the worry that is possessing the person is the correct type, it can be cleared up just by having the person that is possessed drink some alcohol." "Hibara-san." "Next year, I'll win this!" "Eh?" "What?" "What did you say, Iida-san?" "You're a little strange, Hibara-san." "This daifuku(soft rice cake stuffed with red bean) is great!" "Can I have one more, Sis?" "Yeah." "So you don't hear the laughing anymore?" "Yeah." "It stopped some time while I was running but it's not like Mizuki got drunk or anything." "Why did they leave?" "How did you feel when you were running?" "It felt really good!" "She felt so good when she was runnning that the worry disappeared?" "The runner's high that people feel when they're running is a type of drunkenness." "Runner's high?" "Dunkenness?" "I have no idea what you are talking about." "I am just happy that those voices are gone." "You're right." "But... can I have one more?" "It's okay, but you won't be able to eat dinner." "No problem!" "The daifuku that you make are so good that I can eat lots of them!" "It makes me smile when you smile and say the food that I make is good." "The smile I give you then is one that means, I'm so happy that you said my food is good." "Ah, sorry." "I can' really explain it well." "There are so many types of laughs and smiles out there." "I just want to say that you shouldn't think about them in a bad light, but..." "It's so funny to see you think like this!" "That's terrible!" "You really hurt me!" "Sis says there are so many types of laughs, but it is best to laugh when you want to." "I wish it would stop raining soon!" "Hey, Mizuki!" "Don't make such a thoughtless wish." "Why not?" "My classmate, Takanashi-kun, said he wanted it to keep raining, but" "Fumi-chan said she wanted it to be sunny." "Huh?" "Which way do you want it to go, Sis?" "Next time, Hiyorimoushi" "Maybe it should rain..." "Maybe it should be sunny..." "It has started again!" "Sis's famous uncertainty!" "The more she thinks, the longer it takes to get to a conclusion!"