"Good-bye." "Reki..." "Reki's World Prayer Epilogue" "Reki?" "what are you doing here?" "I'm sorry for letting myself in." "aren't you?" "what's...?" "This is my cocoon dream." "I was walking on this path." "I remember cold winds stinging my cheeks wet from the tears." "I heard a sound far away." "But I was too tired to think." "I wanted to become a stone." "A simple stone that doesn't feel pain or sorrow." "The Haibane Renmei wanted me to give this to you." "Your true name." "I don't want it." "There probably isn't any salvation in there." "even if that's the case... you have to end this nightmare of yours now." "REKI" " Small Stone" "This is a story about a girl named Reki." "She was doomed by an unfortunate fate... and even lost the people that she could share her sorrow with." "Feeling herself worthless... using the letters which meant "small stone."" "the letter that expresses her true name means..." ""The one who was run over and torn apart."" "Reki?" "No." "REKI" " To Be Run Over" "Re..." "I remember." "Re..." "The one who was run over and torn apart." "I was run over." "This is not a path." "It's an iron rail that carries something." "This is where..." "I abandoned myself." "I..." "Rakka." "I believed that if I stayed a good Haibane..." "I would someday be able to shed off this sense of guilt." "What a joke." "This town is my prison." "What the walls signify is death!" "This world is separated by death!" "And this room...!" "This room is a cocoon." "after all." "For seven long years..." "I kept looking for salvation which didn't exist to begin with." "I always ended up being betrayed." "I stopped trusting everybody." "I became a stone." "isn't it?" "If only I close my heart and pretend to be nice... everyone says I'm a good Haibane." "They just don't know how dark and impure my heart is." "That's not true!" "You were always kind!" "I believe in you!" "Rakka." "did you?" "How jealous I was of you." "You weren't." "but only you were forgiven." "Everyone leaves me." "some part of me was jealous of her and I absolutely despised myself for that." "That's not true!" "You came to look for me when I fell into the well!" "You took care of me and went to get the medicine for me!" "you were always there for me!" "That's right!" "And why do you think I did that?" "!" "I was only looking for salvation!" "then I could forget about my sin!" "And the only thing I was thinking was... that maybe God would come and forgive me someday!" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "it didn't have to be you." "Stop it!" "I made a bet." "I forced myself to believe that if this Haibane trusted me..." "I would be forgiven." "That's why I acted so kind." "It didn't matter who was born in the cocoon." "It was all a lie." "I didn't care about anything as long as I was forgiven." "It was a mistake for you to trust me." "so get out!" "Get out!" "There was no salvation for me from the beginning." "Not true..." "Not true... right?" "Rakka came to help you." "I don't deserve to be saved." "I..." "Can't I even ask for help?" "Stop it!" "Are you so afraid of trusting someone?" "I don't want to be betrayed ever again!" "and in this town... no matter how much I wished for it no salvation has ever come to me!" "Because..." "You never actually asked for help." "The only thing you did was to wait." "I was afraid." "What if I ask for help from the bottom of my heart and nobody answers?" "What if I really am completely alone?" "I wish I didn't know anything." "Then I could have continued loving Reki." "I want to believe in Reki." "But..." "I'm sorry." "I wasn't forgiven." "Her diary?" "like Kuramori." "it was Reki..." "Can you hear me?" "My name is Reki." "so I'm very happy and excited." "A Haibane inevitably loses their name and their past." "you may feel lonely and apprehensive." "But I will always be by your side." "no matter what." "So please let me trust my last hope with you." "I was protected by Reki from the beginning." "Reki." "I will be the bird who saves Reki." "Reki!" "Reki!" "Let me go!" "Reki can't hear you anymore." "Why?" "!" "Reki!" "Reki!" "Reki chose to vanish here." "No!" "She was asking me for help!" "Reki!" "Reki!" "Call my name!" "Say you need me!" "Rakka." "Help me." "Reki!" "Rakka..." "Rakka..." "Rakka!" "Reki..." "You're safe." "Rakka..." "Rakka... thank you." "Have I been... forgiven?" "REKI" " Small Stone I saw this break." "REKI" " Small Stone" "The name!" "the name Reki will disappear... and the Reki that means stone will become your true name." "With the belief that it will come true... that is stone." "won't we?" "I believe so." "too." "Close your eyes." "It's custom for a Haibane to disappear without notice... when their Day of Flight comes." "aren't you?" "She freed herself from the curse... by choosing a difficult path and by being kind to the weak." "in order to attain salvation... yet it became her true nature." "There exists an ancient staircase... that serves as a stepping stone for the Haibane when they take the Day of Flight." ""Reki" is that stepping stone." "The one who guides the weak." "So she's gone?" "I'm glad." "Reki!" "right?" "she received the blessing." "The western sky looks really nice." "Don't you want to see?" "I already have her reply." "You sure?" "Want some cake?" "right?" "Lemon soufflé." "Reki made it." "I said no." "How thick can you get?" "What's the color of a lemon?" "all of us went to the Western Woods together." "everyone knew it was going to happen... so all of us were able to say goodbye with a smile." "we returned to Old Home..." "which we set with one empty chair." "Reki left many paintings behind for us." "I was a little relieved to know that... aside from the paintings of her dark dream... she was able to produce such bright and beautiful works." "Those paintings told me how much Reki truly loved this town and Old Home." "winter will come to an end." "Will a new cocoon arrive when spring comes?" "Then it will be my turn to be a reliable senior Haibane." "Twins!" "This is big!" "Oh!" "This is big!" "I will never forget Reki." "Why do you want to forget?" "Please try to remember" "Wishes of tears that pour on your warm cheeks" "Why do you want each other now?" "Even when you are shaking" "Just want to hold you" "Over and over again" "The ocean of the blue planet The feathers drifting in the waves" "The sorrow that is fading away is a prayer for tomorrow" "Blue Flow"