"It's so refreshing." "This is definitely a necessity for summer." "Refreshing!" "Well, I'm burning up." "It's a human-powered shower!" "Oi, Watanuki, the pressure is dropping!" "Put your back into it!" "Into it!" "Into!" "Oh my, you're the cat-girl, aren't you?" "Doesn't this kind of thing happen to me a little too often?" "It's a life of being stepped on." "She must be burning up in this heat!" "Water!" "Water!" "Maru, Moro, don't do that." "Cats don't like being sprayed with water." "This always happens to me..." "It's a life of always being caught up." "So, didn't you come here on some sort of business?" "Yeah." "I'll give this to you." "Oh my." "In exchange, I'd like to collect the water from a certain mansion's well." "Since you're a cat-girl who hates water, what's this about?" "I can't say yet." "Well, that's fine too." "In that case..." "Watanuki, good luck!" "I knew it would end like this!" "It's a life of being asked to do things!" "Yuuko-san's place has a well, so why do we have to go out of our way?" "And, if you wanted it that much, couldn't you have gathered it yourself?" "Weren't you listening back there?" "I hate water." "It's here." "By "here," you mean behind this wall?" "Yeah." ""Yeah?"" "Are you asking me to trespass illegally?" "Yeah." "I'm telling you, saying "Yeah" isn't..." "If I get caught, this is going to be pretty bad." "I guess there's no choice but to hurry up and start." "We were found out!" "What?" "Did she not notice, by some chance?" "Aren't you going to gather up the water?" "Ah, yes." "I'm getting chills." "The sun's going down soon, so let's just get this water quickly and go back." "For some reason, this water was extremely heavy." "It took all I had just to get this one container." "Hm." "I see, so that's what it is." "What are you comprehending all by yourself?" "Go again and get some more." "What?" "Again?" "I think you'll probably have to go quite a few times." "What's with the obscurity of that statement?" "If that was going to be the case, you should have told me from the start!" "Either way, you could only take one bottle at a time, no?" "Well, that's true..." "You seem to be quite resistant." "Did something happen?" "Ah, it's just that there was a person at the second floor window." "I could have been seen gathering the water." "Did they call out to you?" "No, but to go multiple times would definitely be risky." "I see." "So in other words, you want to decrease the number of times you have to go, right, Watanuki?" "Ah, more than the number of times, I'd like to decline from going at" "Maru, Moro." "Yes, Mistress?" "If you take two at once, you'll decrease the number of times you have to go by half!" "So there really is no option of not going at all." "But it'll be impossible for me to take two at once." "I won't carry one." "I didn't think you would." "Mokona will go with you!" "Really?" "Yeah!" "Wait, I'll pass on that, since all you're going to do is come with me, right?" "Pretty much." "I knew it." "But even so, there's no way I could ask Himawari-chan to carry something heavy like this." "Even more importantly, she would become an illegal trespasser as well." "There's someone else, isn't there?" "Huh?" "Someone perfectly suited to going with you, Watanuki-kun." "I'll say it now:" "I was completely against this!" "However, if by chance we do actually get caught, reported, and treated like criminals, since it's you, I won't feel guilty at all!" "By the way, how come you have to tag along when I already know the way?" "You don't feel like taking one of these, do you?" "There's just something that has piqued my interest." "What's wrong?" "That person was there yesterday as well." "Just like that, sitting by the window." "She's wearing the same Western clothes?" "{Youfuku = western clothes}" "When it's this hot, would a woman really wear the same clothes for two days in a row?" "Hey, Doumeki." "That window..." "She's sitting." "Can you still see that woman like this?" "Yeah." "The fact that he can see her with only his left eye means she must really be there." "Did you feel something?" "Just a chill, kind of." "Well, I guess it was just my imagination." "Let's get this water quickly and head back." "Is something the matter?" "No, it's nothing." "Let's head back." "Gathering water from a well?" "That's right." "As usual, Yuuko-san's treatment of people is extremely rough." "I'll have to keep going back to a stranger's house who knows how many times!" "And it's with him, too." "Hey!" "Don't ignore me!" "What's wrong, Doumeki-kun?" "Is something on your mind?" "Ah!" "Himawari-chan is worrying about Doumeki-kun!" "What a disaster!" "I worry about a Himawari-chan who does that!" "{TC:" "Can't hear it properly, was that shinpai or some other kind of *inpai.}" "No, it's just that yesterday, at the window of the mansion..." "What's this?" "You're not telling me that we were actually discovered yesterday, but you kept quiet about it, are you?" "It's not that." "Then what is it?" "That woman seems kind of familiar, somehow." "Oh?" "Is she an acquaintance of yours or something?" "No, not familiar in that kind of way." "She just seems similar to something I've seen before." "Huh?" "Say it clearly." "This is rare for you, Doumeki-kun." "With this amount, we only need a little more." "What the heck could the cat-girl be intending to use this much gathered water for?" "You see, the meaning could be hidden within the act of gathering water itself." "Eh?" "What do you mean?" "Well, you'll understand soon enough." "Is there something that's still bothering you?" "Actually, that woman was at the window again today, and in the same clothes." "Even though it's this hot?" "Ah, but maybe the clothes just looked the same." "Doumeki saw it too, so it's not a spirit." "I'll fry some tempura today, and we can have some tempura soba." "For the alcohol, I guess that Soba Shouchu would be best." "Watanuki-kun, are you free to go home together today?" "Ah, sorry." "I have to go gather some more water today." "I see." "Hey, should I come with you?" "Those containers are heavy, right?" "I'll help you out." "Ah, no, no." "It's fine." "There's no way I could make Himawari-chan carry something like that." "Also, Doumeki has club practice, so he'll probably be late." "Really, he's so cheeky, making me wait like this." "Are you sure you don't want any help?" "Well, then promise me." "That you won't overdo it." "Yeah." "Huh?" "I'll be heading home first, then." "Ah, okay." "Bye bye." "Jeez, it's gotten completely dark!" "And how long is this water gathering going to continue?" "Today I even got a great chance to go home with Himawari-chan." "I think today will probably be the end of it." "Can you tell?" "Well, whatever." "Let's just get this over with quickly." "Heave-ho." "Actually, this well is almost dried out." "If we're found out, they'll definitely get mad." "Well, if it comes down to it, I'll leave this guy and make a dash for it." "Ow." "The wrapping cloth, it flew in..." "What should I do?" "It's important, right?" "I don't know, but the containers were in that from the beginning." "Also, it's Yuuko-san's, so it might have some kind of meaning." "I guess you have no choice but to go and get it, then?" "The buzzer isn't ringing." "Is no one home?" "{He could mean does noone live here?" "}" "But that woman on the second floor should be here." "I'll go and see." "What?" "I'll go and get it." "It was my fault it flew away, so I'll get it." "You wait here." "No, you  wait here, with that cry-baby face!" "I said I'd go and get it!" "It's open." "Um, excuse me." "Shall we go?" "Y-Yeah..." "It's like I thought." "Does someone really live here?" "There are no stairs." "Oh, it was just a painting." "What's wrong?" "Nothing!" "Let's go in." "Y-Yeah..." "It's so dark I can't see a thing." "What's this?" "Huh?" "Doumeki?" "Doumeki!" "Hey, don't try to scare me." "Where are you?" "Hey, wait up." "This kitchen has no plates, or pots, or cookware anywhere..." "How is anyone able to live in this place?" "Don't scare me." "That's my line!" "Look." "It's a staircase." "It's here." "This is" "I see." "Every day without moving, and wearing the same clothes..." "So it was a mannequin." "I wonder about that." "Yuuko-san, why are you here?" "There was something I wanted to confirm, so I came." "Doumeki, you have a slightly different opinion from Watanuki's, right?" "I thought I knew it." "The feeling of this skin and hair." "It doesn't move or talk." "I've seen it many times since I was a child." "This is a corpse." "There's no way." "Is there any corpse that would look as pretty as this?" "It's been here like this in the heat for at least a week!" "It would smell or rot, wouldn't it?" "Corpses these days don't rot as much." "What?" "It's something I've heard from my grandfather." "In the old days, when the temples took in the corpses, especially in summer and the rainy season, preserving them was difficult." "But corpses these days stay the same, no matter how many days pass." "Why?" "People these days eat a lot of food with coloring, additives, and especially preservatives." "Those accumulate, and they preserve the body itself." "People these days don't die, rot, and return to the earth easily." "This is a corpse?" "Watanuki." "Take a look." "Thanks to your gathering efforts, all the water dried out, and she was able to pull out the corpse of a kitten that had drowned in the well." "A kitten?" "Here." "That person was waiting for the kitten every day by the window, wasn't she?" "At that place." "Yuuko-san, I put them away in the storage room like you told me, but..." "Is it fine to leave that water there?" "Until that kitten is allowed to rest, the water that carries those feelings cannot be spread to this world. {That's why she gives it to the tsubasa kids!" "}" "I see." "What's wrong, Watanuki?" "Is something still bothering you?" "Just that woman, who was sitting there dead like that..." "Compared to meeting a ghost or spirit, it was much more..." "After that, I contacted the police, and the corpse was taken away properly." "It should be fine now." "That might be true, but..." "What happened to that kitten was also so pitiful." "I've been having this horrible feeling all day today." "Watanuki, why did you think of going into the mansion in the first place?" "If you hadn't gone in, you wouldn't have seen that corpse, right?" "Eh?" "That's because the wrapping cloth I used to wrap the container flew away in the wind." "Because of the wind?" "Ah, that's right." "My little finger started hurting all of a sudden." "Did you do something with that little finger?" "No, nothing." "Really?" "Now that you mention it, I did do a pinky-promise with Himawari-chan, but..." "But that didn't have anything to do with today's events!" "Himawari-chan was just worried about me, and today was just a coincedence or something..." "Hey!" "Watanuki!" "Written as the first of April, it's Watanuki!" "Stop it!" "I'm in no mood to be teased by you today!" "Mokona's Soba Shochu is nowhere to be found!" "Where is it?" "There were ten of them, weren't there?" "You were the one who drunk them just a while ago!" "Watanuki, look for them!" "Go look for them properly!" "I get it, I get it!" "There definitely aren't any left, though..." "Yes there are!" "No there aren't!" "Yes there are!" "No there aren't!" "No, no, no." "Yes, yes, yes." "Thank you for the kitten." "I always saw him when I passed that mansion, so it bothered me." "I've already taken the compensation for that." "That egg will have to be used when the time for it comes." "That's what I told you!" "There are no more, none." "No way!" "If I don't have some, Mokona can't sleep!" "Hmph, then don't sleep!" "Just go buy some!" "Like anywhere would be open for business at this time of night!" "Why?" "You cheapass!" "It's nothing like that!" "That's just the way it..." "Hey, what's wrong with his little finger?" "The fact that she entered this shop means she must have some kind of wish." "If your house becomes less scary, that's what you want, right?" "It really does seem like a poltergeist." "Is there really no other way?" "Shall we take a look?" "Dreams are connected, after all." "Haruka-san?" "Everything ends today." "Next time, on holic Kei:" "Whisper."