"Standing in the fog always gives me strange feelings." "Yeah." "This is something that only really happens in winter." "But, I wonder if Saho can knows this place." "Ah." "Maybe the fog isn't a good thing if you are waiting to meet someone." "Nice to meet you all." "My name is Katsuragi Saho." "She's really pretty." "I met Saho-san at her high school's culture festival." "Fumi-chan came to see us about how my club uses tarot cards." "Yeah!" "She is like my teacher!" "Saho-san knows so much!" "I even learned how to use tarot cards!" "Look!" "I have my cards!" "Does anyone want me to tell the future?" "!" "I always get these things right!" "No thanks." "Yeah, no thanks." "But, I really can tell the future!" "Right, Saho?" "!" "You smell nice, Saho-san." "Ah!" "That smell is incense." "I love it." "The smell is great, and it is interesting to watch the smoke rise." "It makes me feel really relaxed." "Yeah!" "I have been getting into incense lately myself!" "Incense is great!" "Okay!" "Okay!" "Oh man, Fumi!" "You really are doing whatever your teacher does!" "Of course I am!" "By the way, Hibara-san." "Hm?" "Actually, I have a favor to ask you." "Smoke?" "I heard about your grandfather." "I heard that he deals with things from the other side." "Fumi-chan!" "Sorry!" "Saho-san was looking up things like that!" "There are... a lot of things that I want to know." "Is it possible for me to talk to him?" "Sorry for visiting you at such a busy time." "Don't worry about it." "Do you work here?" "I work here part-time as a consultant." "Well..." "They let me use this place to look up things when I need to." "So, just what do you want to ask me?" "Well..." "If I may, I would like to ask about spiritual abilities." "I don't do things for people I am well acquainted with." "If you want me to get rid of a spirit, I am going to have to say no." "That's not it." "I wanted to talked about beings from the other world." "I would like to know how to deal with things that don't have any substance or shape." "I believe in these things I cannot see." "I want to understand something about them." "That is what I really want." "But, studying about these things by myself is just making everything more complicated." "That is why I want to hear the truth and theories about them... from someone that has actually seen them." "For someone so young, you are way too into these things." "This is nothing that I can really talk about with you." "But..." "It is not a bad thing that you are interested." "You can always listen to the stuff I talk about in the study groups here if it is good enough." "I would love to!" "So..." "The advance of the populous as a whole has, in modern times, been moving back towards the primordial forest." "That is why they developed that means of survival." "Could you give a concrete example?" "For example, going to visit the so called kasumiba and dannaba..." "Seeing Buddhist statues not usually shown to the public, and objects of worship at Shinto shrines." "The result will be that these places of worship will prosper like never before." "Sorry." "What do you mean by kasumiba and dannaba?" "Well, in the past, the places where these religions were practiced was strictly assigned." "Every year, they would pass out their almanac and charms." "They would also call for their people to stay at the temple so they can receive teachings." "I see..." "Thank you for what you told me today." "We have study groups every so often." "If you are interested, you can come to them." "Thank you." "I will show Saho-san off and go home." "Okay." "I still have business to attend to here." "Eat dinner without me." "Good bye." "Is Saho-san possessed with that smoke?" "I think that is from something else." "Really?" "Ever since then, I meet up with Saho-san every so often." "It has been really foggy lately." "Yeah, but I like fog and mist." "I thought so." "Hibara-san, have you ever heard of The Letters of The Marquis de Selvigne?" "No, I haven't." "It is a book of letters that were written at the end of the 17th century in France." "In the book, there is a story of the execution of a marchioness... who was infamous as being a noble that killed using poison." "Execution?" "Yeah." "In the town where she was executed, that marchioness' body was thrown into a fire and her ashes were spread upon the wind." "Those ashes moved about in the air like this fog." "The people there were worried because they were breathing in that marchioness." "They thought that maybe they would turn into murderers as well." "I would have never seen it like that." "In other words, her aura spread into the atmosphere." "We are surrounded by a fog that is composed of a mixture of many different types of auras." "What your granfather says is always so interesting." "I feel like I am looking for the roots of my own soul." "It is really fun." "How did you ever get interested in things like this, Saho-san?" "The first time I remember being interested was about four years ago." "Four years ago?" "Yeah." "An old lady that was a friend of the family died." "During the wake, in a room that was filled with smoke, everyone was talking about the person who passed away." "That is when it hit me..." "Maybe there is a way to see something that we normally cannot see..." "Like that old lady's will." "I wondered how I could do that, and if I could, how much I could see." "That is why I am interested in things like this." "But, the other world gets further and further away the more we try to learn about it." "I would really like to see it." "I would really love to see the air-flow in a way I have never seen before." "Something like this fog." "Do you really want to see the other world?" "Yes, I do." "If it is possible to see." "Saho-san is like no one else I have ever met before." "I'm home!" "Ah!" "Sis!" "What are you doing with all of those books?" "!" "Ah!" "Mizuki..." "Welcome home." "All of them look hard!" "There isn't even one manga in there!" "They are books that Saho-san said I should try to read, but I don't know if I can read them all." "Saho-san is that girl who always goes to talk to Grampy, right?" "Yeah." "Saho-san knows a lot of things." "She has been thinking about God and what happens after death since jr. high school." "Since jr. high school!" "She read all of these books here." "She is a great person." "She is not just good at studying..." "What are you laughing at?" "You are acting funny, Sis!" "Funny?" "You're really getting serious!" "It's like you're Saho-san!" "What are you talking about?" "!" "Sorry!" "Sorry!" "Oh!" "Shut up!" "I'm really sorry!" "Where is Shizuru?" "No idea..." "What's wrong?" "Sis won't even talk to me!" "All she does is read hard books." "Books?" "Yeah." "Books that Saho-san suggested for her to read." "Lately, she has even been coming home late." "I really wonder if she is meeting Saho-san a lot." "I became wrapped up in the world Saho-san taught me about." "Shizuru!" "What are you reading?" "Oh..." "Familiar Loneliness." "You really are showing off!" "Now, now..." "What kind of book is it?" "Sevigne de..." "You have to read it the other way!" "Oh, yeah!" "Um..." "The Letters od The Marquis de Sevigne!" "It really seems like an old book, Shizuru!" "Yeah." "Shizuru, did you always read that type of book?" "Oh yeah, Shizuru!" "You went to the library with Saho-san, didn't you?" "Eh?" "You're still meeting up with Saho-san, Shizuru?" "!" "You are the one that introduced them!" "Yeah!" "That's true, but just listening to Saho-san makes me tired!" "It's so hard that I just can't keep up." "You are too good, Shizuru." "Fumi!" "You called her your teacher!" "That was then!" "I just want her to calm down a little!" "Oh, man..." "Shizuru!" "What?" "Has something happened lately?" "Eh?" "No, nothing." "Yeah, but you are acting a little weird." "And so!" "Because our class has not been on the ball lately, the teacher chose a new motto for our class!" "What do you think it is?" "Sis!" "Eh?" "What do you think?" "What do you mean?" "What are you talking about?" "Man..." "You just don't listen to what anyone else says!" "I'm sorry!" "Say it again!" "I don't want to!" "Please!" "I will listen this time!" "Please!" "What I was saying was..." "My class has not been doing well so my teacher choose the motto Everyone has kibi kibi kibi-dango!" "Sis has been acting like that for a long time." "G-Grampy?" "You are acting like you are in a haze." "What, did you get some of that Katsuragi-kid's smoke?" "I admire her desire to search for anwsers, but the thing she wants to know about is so vast and vague, that she is struggling." "She is like a small bird caught in a net." "A net?" "It is a trifling thing gor someone like you who can see those things." "That's... not true." "Really?" "It is really bothering you, you should talk about it." "If you say something, it might become a form of wind for her." "Saho-san!" "Do you go out shopping with your friends much, Saho-san?" "Ah, not... not really." "I went shopping with Fumi-chan and the others just a few days ago!" "We found a shop that sells handmade trinkets!" "If you want to see it, we can go together Saho-san!" "Wow." "Handmade things seems to have a little bit of the spirit of the person who made them." "I wonder if spirits can actually take up the residence in certain vessels." "I have a feeling that spirits can stay in specific items." "I will have to think this over." "Saho-san..." "You once said that you wanted to see things from the other world." "But, how do you think you would feel if you could actually see something like that?" "You really are an interesting person, Hibara-san." "Well, I guess I would be confused as to what I should do at first." "In the end, I think I would be happy, because I found a whole new world and would be excited to explore it." "But, you might learn about sad events and terrible things that will happen in the future." "And, you might also learn what other people don't want anyone else to know." "I wonder about that." "I should be able to think of some sort of way to cope with the situation with the new information I get." "I have to continue my learning without being afraid." "What if there is nothing you can do?" "I think the way you view this is correct, Saho-san." "But..." "If I was put in the same situation..." "I don't think it would end up like that." "Sorry." "I have to go." "Hibara-san?" "Now I get it!" "It's not possessing her!" "It's coming out of her!" "There was a monster calledEnenra that Sekien made prints of." "Something coming up from the poor mas's house like smoke to rid the air of mosquitos..." "It twists and becomes a suspicious shape." "If it is something that is opaque and easily destroyed by the wind, it is called Enenra." "What that means is that shabby houses were made to smolder." "The fire and smoke would twist around each other and produce strange shapes." "But that smoke was like a thin cloth that could easily be torn apart." "If the wind blows, it was blown away." "It was something that was very fleeting." "Is that the smoke that I see around Saho-san?" "The ra of Enenra can mean net." "If she simply keeps thinking about the fact that she cannot get the answers to her questions, it is like her vision is obstructed by smoke." "It is like she's caught in a net because she can't even see the things that occur around in her daily life." "It is just like the description of an Enenra." "Enenra..." "It is not a good thing." "If it were a little smoke there might be some benefit to it, but that much smoke makes it hard to breathe around her." "The only way to get rid of the smoke is to give her some wind." "Wind?" "Don't you think she wants some form of wind?" "Sis..." "Are you thinking about Saho-san?" "Yeah, I was." "I was thinking about the fact that Saho-san wants to see the other side." "I don't know what to do since she has so much interest in that stuff." "Maybe that is just because I am still immature." "Mizuki..." "You aren't wrong, Sis." "I'm sorry about before." "It was no problem." "To tell you the truth, I don't know why you got angry." "Did I say something wrong?" "Hibara-san, you are the only one that I can really talk to." "Please!" "Let's be friends." "I am always surprised by your interest and knowledge about the other side." "It sometimes even makes me a litlle embarrassed." "But, I don't think that people actually seeing that stuff can really be that positive." "And, I really want to talk to you about different things, Saho-san." "When you talk about ghosts and other things like that, Saho-san, it is like..." "Like...?" "Enenra!" "Eh?" "No..." "Um..." "It is like the more that you try to look to the other side, the more you get caught by a net of smoke, Saho-san." "You can't see what is really around you, right?" "But, if you can't see what is going on here, you will never be able to see what is happening on the other side." "Please pay attention to what is happening around you from now on." "I will help you along!" "It's gone!" "That's funny!" "Eh?" "I'm so jealous of your way of looking at things!" "You are so funny, Hibara-san!" "I am so happy I got to know you!" "Y-Yeah!" "I wonder if she is really praising me." "But, it has been a long time since I have had a conversation like that." "Sis!" "Look!" "You're right!" "It's really beautiful!" "It's been a while since you have looked like this, Sis!" "Really?" "Yeah!" "You looked like this for a long time!" "Was it really like that?" "It looks lke you became her wind." "Eh?" "To that kid, your point of view is like a wind to the fog around her." "Sorry for keeping you waiting." "Don't worry about it." "More importantly, did you bring what you wrote?" "Yeah, I did." "I am still good friends with Saho-san." "Saho-san's smoke will never vanish." "It only disappears for a little while." "It's weird, but I really feel like I understand your stories, Hibara-san." "Thank you." "When we talk, Saho-san's smoke sometimes vanishes." "I am happy even if I can only become Saho-san's wind every so often." "I really don't like when the seasons change, because they start to come out." "HA HA HA!" "I'm not worried about it!" "What's with that weird confidence you have?" "!" "Could it be that it happened again, Mizuki?" "!" "Yeah!" "But this time..." "Yes, this time it will be something I can count on!" "With this guy around, no matter what tries to attack me, I don't have to worry!" "Next time!" "Kama-itachi!" "But, are you really going to be okay?" "Yeah!" "I will be fine!" "Ah!" "Welcome home Grampy!"